Skincare During COVID-19: Beauty Rituals for New Routines

How has your skin been during the lockdown period?

Many of us are experiencing breakouts, oily skin, and dullness we wouldn’t usually have. Top that off with many of us needing to or choosing to wear PPE and masks, it’s little wonder our skin isn’t happy. 

Taking care of your skin is an essential task, especially during such stressful times.

Healthy Skin in Stressful Times

Healthcare workers who routinely wear PPE experience skincare conditions like acne, dermatitis, and facial itching. In fact, more than one-third of healthcare workers complained of increases in these skin conditions in one study. Many of our front line heroes use their skincare rituals as a method of staving off these skin issues - as well as a way to stay happy and cope with the uncertainty and stress.

There's a lot of unknowns and dangers that can make us feel uncomfortable, but we should be able to find comfort in skincare rituals.

Skincare is Self-Care during COVID-19

The benefits of maintaining routines have been highly publicized during the pandemic. Skin barriers and moisturizers are going to be your saving grace when it comes to dryness and irritation, while your cleansers and sloughing mechanisms will help stave off those pesky spots!

You want to harness all the super-ingredients you can in your skincare to nourish and repair your stressed out skin.

5 Tips to Calm Your Stressed Out Skin 

1. Moisturize. Moisturize. Moisturize!

Is there anything better than that freshly moisturized feeling?

Moisturizer is the key to balanced skin. Oily skin needs moisturizer just as much as dry skin. Combination skin can be tamed by lightweight hydration. There is no skin type that won’t benefit from the hydrating goodness that quality moisturizers offer.

Since your skin is so reliant on hydration for balance, you deserve products that are good for you. Your moisturizer should kindly and gently protect and nourish with powerful antioxidants and ingredients that boost and rejuvenate.

You want to harness all the super-ingredients you can in your skincare to nourish and repair your stressed out skin.

2. Treat yourself to a quality cleanser

Your cleanser is tasked with the difficult job of removing all the dead skin, sweat, salt, and other unwanted debris without damaging the delicate ecosystem of beneficial bacteria and oils that protect you.

Depending on your skin concerns, you can achieve that with oil cleanser, enzymes, or a gentle formula that focuses on hydration and purification.

3. Kill your spots (with kindness)

Stress - physical and emotional - can cause acne. So, what can you do?

Treat them kindly. Don’t squeeze them. Don’t overdo treatments - you’ll dry yourself out, which may cause more spots. Do - be kind to yourself. Spots don’t define you. They don’t make you less.

They’re just spots. And being kind to yourself (while nourishing your skin with beautifully natural goodies) might just reduce your stress enough to reduce those spots!

4. There’s no excuse to not wear sunscreen

Sunscreen protects your skin from the sun’s damaging rays. These rays contribute to signs of aging, uneven skin tone, changes in pigmentation, and cancer. But not all sunscreens are created equal.

The EWG notes that “several common chemical filters [used in sunscreen] appear to be endocrine disruptors.” Ethical sunscreen has come a long way in recent years.

You no longer have to commit to thick creams that clog your pores if you want to go the more natural route. Today, you can easily find tinted moisturizers with significant sun protection that are as beautiful as they are natural. Suntegrity’s Impeccable Skin Matte Tinted Face Moisturizer made the EWG'S "Best Moisturizers With SPF" list.

The luxurious cream is packed full of antioxidants that nourish the skin, alongside smoothing peptides, and a powerful environmental shield.

There's no reasonable excuse for not wearing sunscreen. Keep your skin healthy & safe.

5. Skincare products with petrolatum are not your friend

Petrolatum, also known as mineral oil and paraffin oil, are processed from petroleum and petroleum by-products. The ingredient (if used in skincare) is highly regulated in the EU, since improperly refined petrolatum products can generate 1,4 Dioxane.

This is a known carcinogenic and is also a kidney, neuro and respiratory toxicant. Oh - and petroleum products greatly contaminate groundwater

It's easy to feel more relaxed and happy when you know exactly what you're putting on your body.

Feel Good About Your Self Care

Self-care during times of high stress and uncertainty plays an important role in your wellbeing. Now - more than ever - we all need to focus on positive routines to maintain our mental health and happiness.

Relying on ethical, natural, and sustainable products for your self care rituals keeps your skin healthy and your heart happy. View our ethical range of luxurious skincare and makeup on our website. Or reach out with your skincare concerns and queries so we can help you!

Stay beautiful x