The most important step in figuring out the best way to achieve healthy and spotless skin is to understand your skin type. While high-quality products like cleansers and toners from trusted brands like Zali Cosmetics benefit almost everyone out there, knowing your skin type will help you narrow down your options and pick products specifically designed to fulfill your precise skincare goals.
While it’s true we all have our unique skin, most skin types can be classified into five main types – Oily, Dry, Normal, Sensitive, and Combination. If you understand your skin type well, it can help you discover the best products to meet your skincare needs.
However, if you’re clueless about how to find your skin type, Zali’s skincare experts are here to guide you on identifying different skin types. This will help you craft a skincare routine depending on your skin.
Zali’s Ultimate Guide to Skin Types
1. Oily skin
As the name suggests, this skin type refers to excessively oily skin. Common oily areas include the t-zone (forehead, chin, and nose). Oily skin usually looks shiny and feels greasy. Due to overactive sebum glands, this skin type is prone to acne, breakouts, and blemishes.
2. Dry skin
Dry skin type is characterized by rough, flaky, scaly, irritated, or itchy skin that looks and feels extremely dehydrated at most times.
3. Normal skin
Normal skin is properly balanced skin. It’s not too oily or dry. If you’ve normal skin, you may not be prone to flakiness (associated with dry skin) or breakouts (associated with oily skin). People with normal skin are blessed with a perfectly balanced t-zone.
4. Sensitive skin
This skin type can vary from person to person, but some of the most common traits include dryness, irritation, and redness. Many times, signs of sensitive skin may not be visible at all, but sensitive skin may still feel irritated and painful.
5. Combination skin
The combination skin is a mix of both oily and dry skin -with some areas that are too oily and others too dry. For instance, this skin type is generally oily on areas like the nose, chin, and forehead, but it appears normal or dry on the cheeks.
Identifying your exact skin type may seem difficult for inexperienced skincare enthusiasts. Well, fret not! Our experts are here to help.
We have created this short and interesting skin type quiz that will help you understand your skin better than ever before so that you can choose the best skin care products for your unique skin. So, without further ado, let’s get started.
1. How Would You Describe Your Pores?
- Medium Sized All Over
(Correlates to: You have dry skin)
- Large And Visible All Over
(Correlates to: You have oily skin)
- Small And Not Visible
(Correlates to: You have normal skin)
- Large Or Medium Sized And Only Visible in T zone
(Correlates to: You have combination skin)
2. How Does Your Skin Feel?
- Oily In Some Places but Dry In Others
(Correlates to: You have combination skin)
- Slick And Greasy
(Correlates to: You have oily skin)
- Healthy and smooth
You have normal skin
- Rough and scaly
(Correlates to: You have dry skin)
3. How Does Your Skin Feel After Washing It?
- Clean, Even, and healthy
(Correlates to: You have normal skin)
- Itchy And Dry
(Correlates to: You have dry skin)
- Clean But Becomes Oily Soon
(Correlates to: You have oily skin
- Dry On The Cheeks But Clean In The T Zone
(Correlates to: You have combination skin)
4. How Would You Describe Your Skin Health?
- Dull
(Correlates to: You have dry skin)
- Bright With Diamond Like Shine
(Correlates to: You have oily skin)
- Radiant
- Oily in the T-Zone
(Correlates to: You have combination skin)
5. What Is The Texture Of Your Skin?
- Shines and prone to acne
- Cool, and supple, and fresh
- Thin and Dehydrated
- Shiny on the “T” zone
6. How Often Do You Get Acne?
- Very seldom
- Never
- Sometimes
- Very often
7. How Does Sun Exposure Affect Your Skin?
- Tans
- Tans very well
- Burns
- Reddens
The Best Care for Your Skin Type: Our Top Tips
Zali’s skincare products are scientifically formulated to strengthen and replenish your skin barrier for smoother, more radiant, and plumper skin. Infused with nature’s most potent plant extracts like Kalanchoe along with advanced exfoliating ingredients like AHAs and BHAs, all our products are highly effective yet safe formulations that are designed to treat and address your specific skincare needs.
1. Zali’s Tips for Oily Skin
You need to detoxify and exfoliate your oily skin regularly to remove excess oil from the pores so that they won’t clog up with dirt and bacteria and cause acne issues. Try including Zali’s Deep Facial foaming cleanser and AHA & BHA Daily Clean toner in your daily skincare routine.
2. Zali’s Tips for Dry Skin
Invest in skincare products containing Kalanchoe extract – one of the key ingredients in all of Zali’s products. Also known as Mother of thousands, Kalanchoe is a incredibly potent plant-based ingredient that can help maintain optimum moisture levels in your skin by stabilizing and strengthening your skin’s barrier. Incorporating Kalanchoe-containing products in your skincare routine can help replenish your dry skin for a healthy, smooth, and radiant complexion.
3. Zali’s Tips for Normal Skin
Fortunately, people with normal skin have to deal with minimal skin problems. So, their routines tend to be simpler. However, to ensure healthy-looking and well balanced, skin, it’s still important to follow a good skincare routine using a mild cleanser, toner, and moisturizer every day.
4. Zali’s Tips for Sensitive Skin
Some of the telltale signs of sensitive skin include tight, uncomfortable, and visibly red skin. The best way to care for your sensitive skin is to choose mild products that can protect your skin’s natural barrier. Use products that contain soothing ingredients like Kalanchoe extract to help reduce discomfort.
5. Zali’s Tip for Combination Skin
The fact that combination skin has both dry and oily areas makes it a bit challenging to find the perfect skincare for this skin type. Fortunately, the easiest way to choose effective skincare for combination skin is to simply pick products that are designed for all skin types.
In general, these products, like Zali’s skincare range, are designed to balance skin without increasing oil production in the skin or stripping it off its natural oils. Maintaining well-balanced skin is the right way to care for your combination skin!
We hope that this brief guide on taking care of your skin type will help you achieve healthy and flawless skin. Be sure to check our range of skincare products here.
