- Hey everyone.
And welcome back to the Adore YouTube channel.
My name is Amelia, if you are new.
In today's video, I'm gonna be taking you through actives
and how to fit them all in your skincare routine.
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Be all of actives and the effects
that they can have on our skin.
They make us smoother, more glowy.
They can soften the appearance of violence and wrinkles.
So it's only natural to want to smother our face in them
and use them every single day and night
in the hopes that it'll make magic on our face.
But what you might notice if you do that
is you'll end up with an impaired barrier
and you'll waste your products.
So don't do that.
Let's do a quick run through
on how to layer your skincare in general.
So first you wanna start with a cleanser.
If you are a fan of double cleansing, I am,
then you wanna do a Bum or an oil cleanser first
or my cell water followed by a gel,
a foam or a milk cleanser.
Then you wanna go in with an exfoliant.
If you are gonna use that, then you would use a mask,
like a clay mask to decongest the skin
or a moisturising mask.
Then you wanna go in
with your treatment products and your moisturisers.
And when it comes to layering those,
you wanna go from the thinnest texture to the thickest.
So you were going with a Mist, a Toner,
because they're generally more watery in texture.
Then you could go in with a Serum, then a Moisturiser
and then an oil, because it's gonna be the thickest.
And that is how to lay your skincare.
So now let's get into some active ingredients
and which ones work well and not so well together.
First up is retinol.
Typically with retinol, you want it to be
your one and only in the evenings.
And you also don't wanna be using it every single night.
If you are thinking of using an AHA with a retinol,
error on the side of caution
both ingredients increase cell turnover.
So if you combine them
then you might end up with an impaired barrier.
Some skin types can tolerate this
but generally speaking, you don't really wanna combine them.
So just alternate nights.
Use your retinol on one night
and then your AHA on the other.
Niacinamide and retinol, however,
do work quite beautifully together.
Niacinamide is a great all round ingredient
and is gonna help with calming sensitivity in the skin.
So it does really well with retinol
because it does help to buffer the skin.
Vitamin C and AHAs are a match made in heaven.
They're the same pH, so they can be layered together.
However, AHAs are best used in the evenings.
Now we have vitamin C and retinol.
When you combine them, the pH of vitamin C
actually increases and the pH of retinol decreases.
So they don't work as effectively.
But if you use vitamin C in the daytime
and retinol in the evening, then that's amazing.
And then we have vitamin C and niacinamide.
So we know that niacinamide is a great ingredient
for reducing the appearance of fine lines in wrinkles.
It helps with texture, pores
and helps with calming the skin.
And vitamin C is obviously a really powerful antioxidant
that protects from environmental damage
and also helps to brighten this skin.
There are some studies that go back to the 1960s,
that show if you combine vitamin C and niacinamide
it created a substance that led to redness in the skin.
However, that only applies to pure vitamin C
and niacinamide.
And also those substances have to be sitting out in the sun
so that they get to a certain heat to create
that irritation on the skin.
So if you combine your vitamin C product
and your niacinamide product,
then they work really well together.
Now how to use all your active ingredients.
So, as I mentioned before, using your retinol
on alternate days to your AHAs is the best idea.
Then using a vitamin C the in AM
and using a retinol in the evenings is also really great.
And then with retinol, you wanna make sure
that you are using it on clean, dry skin.
So on that night, skip the mist, go in with a retinol
and then you can follow it with a moisturiser
to help hydrate the skin.
With your AHA products,
I like to do that also on clean, dry skin
and then follow it with a moisturiser.
However, there are some products like Alphas liquid gold
where you would just use that alone
and then you can just go to bed.
After cleansing,
I will go in with my hydrating mist or toner.
I'll follow it with my vitamin C product,
layer my niacinamide
and then go in with my more moisturiser and SPF.
And then there's also the option
of just using one ingredient at a time
and not combining them at all, if you don't want to.
If you're short on time in the mornings
you can cleanse your face with water or a cleanser,
go on with your vitamin C and then use your moisturiser
and an SPF and just keep it really simple.
Okay. That that's it for me.
I hope this video was informative and you enjoyed it.
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