Published: January 30, 2025
Wondering why your skincare routine isn’t producing the dramatic results that you were hoping to see? Keep reading as Avinichi explains everything you need to know to ensure that your skincare is as effective as possible.
Understanding Your Skin’s Needs
Your skincare efforts should be focused on providing your skin with what it needs. However, if you don’t know what those needs are, your skincare routine will quickly veer off course.
The best way to gain a basic understanding of your skin’s needs is to identify your skin type. Wash your face, leave it bare for half an hour, and then decide which of the following it best resembles:
- Dry skin – will feel dry, rough, and possibly tight. This skin type doesn’t produce enough sebum, so your skincare routine needs to be gentle while also compensating for this lack of natural oil.
- Oily skin – will feel greasy and look shiny. This skin type produces too much oil, so your skincare routine will need to focus on rebalancing your complexion while also preventing the clogged pores and acne breakouts that oily skin is notorious for developing.
- Combination skin – features elements of both dry skin and oily skin. Therefore, your skincare routine will also need to target the varying needs that your skin has on different parts of your face.
- Sensitive skin – will feel irritated and inflamed while looking red and blotchy. This skin type has a damaged skin barrier, which a gentle and supportive skincare routine can help with.
- Normal skin – has none, or very few, of the above issues!
Once you understand your skin’s basic needs, you can then focus on creating a skincare routine that meets these requirements.
Building an Effective Skincare Routine
While it’s easy enough to throw a few products together and call that a skincare routine, ‘effective’ skincare is the key word here. If you want to see a proper improvement in your skin, there are a few factors to keep in mind when putting your routine together:
Cleansers Are More Important Than You’d Think
While most people are aware that a cleanser should always be the first step of skincare, they often don’t realize just how important it is to pick the right cleanser. Get your choice wrong and you could end up irritating your skin. Your skincare will then need to put its efforts into soothing the feeling of irritation, as opposed to improving your complexion.
So, how do you pick the right cleanser? It all comes down to your skin type. If this is oily or combination, meaning that your skin is producing more oil than necessary, you’ll need a more powerful cleanser than someone with dry or sensitive skin. With the latter having a damaged skin barrier, a gentle and moisturizing cleanser is key.
Our top choice for dealing with excess oil when cleansing is the Avinichi Noni Clarifying Lather Purifier. It’s a foaming cleanser, making it great at tackling sebum. However, unlike many other foaming cleansers, it doesn’t dehydrate the skin, which is key.
Meanwhile, if you have dry or sensitive skin, your cleanser needs to be gentle. The Avinichi Noni Mousse Cleanser would be ideal. It moisturizes while it cleanses and also provides a plant oil blend that your skin will love.
Understanding Toners, Essences, and Serums
While starting your skincare routine with a cleanse is non-negotiable, the next few steps are where things can get a little confusing. Do you need to use a toner? What’s the difference between an essence and a serum? Which should you actually be using?
Let’s start with toners. No, you don’t need to use them…but they can be very beneficial. Understanding what toners do will help you to make the right decision. The main purpose of a toner is to rebalance the pH of the skin’s surface, which can fall out of whack after cleansing. Some toners, like Avinichi’s Noni Pore Purifying Toner, provide additional benefits too, including hydrating the skin, soothing the feeling of inflammation, and refreshing the complexion. If any of those properties helps to meet the needs of your skin, it’s a formula that would be worth adding to your skincare routine.
What about essences and serums? In terms of consistency, essences are more similar to toners than serums. The main difference is that essences provide more benefits than traditional pH-balancing toners. However, some toners, like Avinichi’s, overlap into this category too.
Meanwhile, serums are much more concentrated than both toners and essences. This makes them great for targeting the specific needs of your skin. The Hydrating Multifruit C-Serum from Avinichi, for example, is packed with vitamins that will smooth away the look of wrinkles and lighten the visibility of discoloration. Alternatively, the Radiant Renew Serum Capsules focus on hydrating the skin and giving it an illuminated glow.
Picking the Right Moisturizers
Some people find one moisturizer that they love and use it day and night. So long as it’s moisturizing your skin properly, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s far better than not moisturizing at all!
However, if you want your skincare to be as effective as possible, making sure that your moisturizer is suitable to not just your skin type, but also the time of day/year is what will bring you the best results.
In terms of skin type, dry skin needs a much richer moisturizer than oily skin. Oily skin requires a hydrating but lightweight blend that isn’t going to clog pores, like the Mulberr-E Moisture Infusion Cream from the Avinichi Phyto Thermal Collection. Meanwhile, dry skin benefits from creams that contain plant butters and oils, such as the Avinichi Noni Morning Glow. It’s a day cream that’s infused with shea butter, plant oils, and vitamins.
Speaking of day creams…
It’s definitely worth investing in separate day and night creams. Your skin functions in different ways during the day vs at night. Therefore, using a dedicated cream to keep your skin feeling supported as it goes about these timely tasks will make your skincare efforts all the more effective. It can also be worth seeking out a day cream that contains SPF. This will save you from having to apply a separate sunscreen.
You’ll also need to switch up your moisturizer as the seasons change. This is down to how the skin produces more sebum in warmer weather. No matter your skin type, your skin will likely appreciate a light and cooling cream, like the Spirulina Cooling Moisturizer, during the summer. In the cold months, a richer blend would be better to counter the harsh effects of the winter weather.
Adding in Extra Steps
While the steps above can be used to put together a daily skincare routine, there are a few extra steps that you may want to add in on a regular basis to boost how effective your overall skincare regimen is:
Exfoliators
Everyone should be exfoliating regularly. However, how often you do so should depend on your skin type. Oily skin needs to be exfoliated two or three times a week to prevent the appearance of clogged pores and acne breakouts. Twice a week tends to suffice for combination skin while dry skin often only requires weekly exfoliation. Sensitive skin needs even less than this.
Your skin type should influence your choice of exfoliator too. However, there are a few formulas out there, like the Avinichi Noni Polishing Peel, that can safely be used on all skin types.
Eye Care Products
Some people swear by eye care products while others feel they’re a waste of time. The opinion that you’ll most align with will, once again, be influenced by your skin’s needs.
If you’re in your 20s, live a healthy lifestyle, and are using your facial skincare products around your eyes, then dedicated eye care products are unlikely to make a huge difference.
However, if you’re a little older and are already noticing issues with the skin around your eyes, eye care products are likely to be exactly what your skincare routine needs. Pick formulas that target your specific concerns. For example, the Avinichi Dark Circle Eye Perfecting Cream will lighten the appearance of dark circles. Meanwhile, the Avinichi Eye Rescue Phyto-Serum will banish the visibility of crow’s feet.
Face Masks
While face masks aren’t essential in the way that some other skincare products are, they can be a great tool for tackling the visible skin concerns you’re dealing with. Face masks tend to be highly concentrated, enabling them to produce real results.
If you have oily or combination skin, clay masks will always be a good way to go. Clay is fantastic for absorbing excess sebum and detoxifying the complexion. The Avinichi CamuGlow Transforming Mask contains a blend of two clays, plus a long list of hydrating plant extracts. The Avinichi Phyto Remedy Thermal Mask is another clay mask that you’ll enjoy. Although this formula contains just one clay, its thermal properties, which cause the mask to heat up on the skin, make the pores feel more pliable. This enables the clay to work extremely effectively.
If you have dry skin, look for face masks that hydrate and moisturize, like the Liquid Lift Overnight Melting Mask. It’s packed with ingredients that will leave your skin feeling deeply quenched. This is enhanced by its leave-on formula, meaning that you won’t need to rinse it off. This gives the mask even more time to work its magic.
Some face masks, like the Noni Advanced Hydro-Gel Face & Eye Mask, can be enjoyed by all skin types. Hydrogel masks are known for being exceptionally hydrating. They also work to soothe the feeling of inflammation and leave the skin looking better balanced.
Summary
Now that you know how to put together an effective skincare routine, it’s time for you to go ahead and do just that! However, it’s important to also remember that consistency and patience are key. If you want your skincare routine to be truly effective, you need to be diligent about following it twice a day. Give those products some time to work – you’ll need to wait for at least three months before you can judge the results that you see.
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