It’s green tea.

Green tea is derived from the leaves and buds of the Camellia Sinensis plant. This same plant is also used in Oolong and black teas, but green tea does not go through the same withering and oxidation process, which is why green tea has superpowers.

Green Tea’s Superpowers

The magic component of green tea is the polyphenols (also called catechins). These potent powerhouses have anti-microbial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties that can transform your skin.

Scientific studies in 2016 and 2018 proved that these polyphenols were effective at treating acne-prone and oily skin, and delivered powerful anti-aging benefits as well.

Green tea has been used for centuries on both hair and skin, because of its multifaceted nature. It’s been studied as a treatment for a variety of conditions, like acne, rosacea, psoriasis, viral warts, and even skin cancer.

Some of green tea’s superpowers are quite impressive.

Minimizes Signs of Aging

As an antioxidant, green tea scavenges free radicals caused by environmental stressors like UV radiation and pollution. Free radicals damage skin cells causing DNA damage to them, which prematurely ages your skin. Polyphenols fight this damage by promoting DNA repair.

When used topically, green tea can make a difference in the presence of acne and blackheads. Research has shown that a lotion made with a two percent concentration of green tea extract can eliminate close to half of all acne when used twice a day.

Soothes Your Skin

Green tea can reduce inflammation in skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and dandruff. This means less irritation, puffiness, and itch.

Its anti-inflammatory properties are not only good for healing skin, but they help reduce puffiness under your eyes.

Cows munch on it, honey bees love it, and people have used it in any number of beauty and medicinal potions for ages.

These round, reddish, porcupine-petaled flowers cover most meadows from May through September.​

Do you know what it is?

It’s red clover.

And red clover, or Trifolium Pratense as it’s formally known, has some amazing abilities when it comes to winding back the hands of time for your skin.

What Makes Red Clover Great

Red clover is a wonder nutrient for your skin. It contains calcium, chromium, magnesium, niacin, phosphorus, potassium, thiamine, and vitamin C.

It’s also rich in isoflavones, which stimulate your skin’s natural collagen production, improve your skin’s moisture levels, and increase the thickness of your skin.

In “what does it do for me” terms, that means it nourishes your skin so that it can grow (think “new skin”). It minimizes lines, plumps up wrinkles so they disappear, and increases your skin’s elasticity, making it softer and more youthful looking.

Red clover is particularly useful as a remedy for eczema and psoriasis because it contains powerful antioxidants and isoflavones. These wonder compounds regenerate and stimulate the cellular metabolism of the skin.

…That’s an added bonus for dry and mature skin!

The flowers taste a little like raw green beans with just a hint of sweetness. The leaves are often added to salads or spinach and used when cooking with lamb, amaranth, collards, or other wilted greens.

It’s also a favorite food of many animals, though game birds and furry friends are probably its most frequent diners. Quail, wild turkey, marmot, and woodchucks prefer the leaves and seeds of red clover. On a farm, cows, horses, and sheep will spend a lot of time grazing in red clover fields. 😊

And speaking of farms, red clover is becoming a go-to for farmers. As a legume, red clover is able to take nitrogen from the air and bind it in nodules on their roots, called “nitrogen fixing.” This provides the plant with more than enough of the nitrogen it needs to grow. Leftover nitrogen is left in the soil fertilizing it organically and with more abundance than chemical fertilizers. This allows farmers to quickly restore depleted nutrients without the use of chemicals. It’s so effective that red clover has become essential in true organic farming.

WOW!

Your skin, chefs, animals, and the Earth love this little plant. Can it help banish wrinkles? We think so. That’s why we’ve used organic red clover in our Remarkably Clean Purifying Facial Cleanser.

This anti-aging powerhouse plant works wonders on wrinkles, sagging skin, and fine lines while keeping your skin calm, supple, and itch-free.

We think you’ll love it, too. 💖

Purifying Facial Cleanser

Why?

Well, let’s start with a quick anatomy lesson…

Your skin is made of layers of cells, each specialized in what they do. Skin cells are produced at the innermost layer. They rise to the surface (the outermost layer) and some specialize as they do. Skin cells do not last forever. They live for about two or three weeks. When they die, they are replaced by younger cells. This process causes the dead cells to be pushed to the surface of your skin where they can fall off.

You lose 30,000 – 40,000 dead skin cells each minute. (That’s about 50 million cells per day!)

If these cells do not fall off of the top layer of skin, it can cause problems like dull flakey skin, acne, dry patches, and wrinkles. Clogged pores may also prevent some of your skincare products from actually helping your skin.

Your Products Are Specific

Each type of product, from your cleanser to your moisturizer, is formulated differently. You probably notice this with the thickness of the product, known as viscosity. Some products are much thicker, right?

This is because your products are created to penetrate your skin, and each other, differently. Some products are made to go deep into the layers of the skin, and others are meant to be closer to the surface. 

The level of penetration largely depends on what the product is supposed to do. For example, products that block the sun, like sunscreen, remain close to the surface of your skin, while products that brighten the color of your skin are intended to sink deeper into your skin. This is why some products are made to be thick, and others to be looser.

Thicker, more viscose products will be stopped closer to the top layer of your skin. That topmost layer acts as your skin’s primary barrier. Not much gets in to the layers below it. That sunscreen, for example… It won’t make it much deeper.

But serum is typically less viscose than sunscreen, so it can penetrate deeper into your skin. If you apply your sunscreen first, however, you will block any other product from sinking into your skin. A product with less viscosity cannot penetrate easily a product with a higher viscosity.

The order you use products really does have an impact.

What’s the correct order for using your products?

The basic rule of thumb is to apply the lightest viscosity products first and the heaviest last. Remember, thinner products cannot penetrate thicker products.

In general, you do not need an eight-step (or even a six-step) skincare routine. Most people do better with fewer products, so keep it simple: cleanser, serum, eye cream, moisturizer. 

That’s it. Four simple products. Seriously. This works for everyone.

First

First, and this is more important than knowing your way to work (we all have Google Maps, right?) — Remove your makeup and wash your face before you use any other products.

For ingredients to absorb properly, you need clean skin. (That dirt you don’t see might be enough to keep your moisturizer from penetrating!)

Which means. if you want to do things right, use a proper cleanser.

In the Morning

Wash your face with a good cleanser, like our Remarkably Clean Purifying Facial Cleanser. It will help clean your skin and wake it up for your daily routine. The activated bamboo charcoal helps draw out any impurities that are lurking in your pores. A good cleanser is always the perfect start to your skincare.

Makeup wipes might seem like a fast solution, especially if you’re at the gym, but they leave behind a layer of residue that can irritate your skin. If you’re using these before you put your makeup on, you’re just adding makeup to sweat, dirt, and residue. Yuck. Take a moment and use a good cleanser.

At Night

Cleaning your skin at night is even more important than in the morning! A full day’s worth of grime and pollutions (and we’re not even talking about makeup) from everything you did is sitting on and in your pores. You’ve got to clean this out, especially before bed. Nighttime is when your skin works to produce more skin cells, and make you look your best. It cannot do its best when it’s burdened down with dirt, germs, and grime.

Bonus!

Remember those dead cells? You can help them leave your skin surface sooner (and keep your complexion clear) if you use an exfoliator a few times each week. Make it part of your nighttime routine and you’ll be amazed at the skin you wake up with! Our ReNew Exfoliating Face Mask Polishing Scrub is perfect for this. It contains AHA glycolic acid, bamboo, and walnut for the ideal exfoliating blend of small and large grit to instantly polish away dull, dry skin, blemishes, and dead skin cells.

Daily use of an exfoliator, for most people, is too much. But two or three times a week is perfect. Use it after your cleanser and before you apply anything else.

Second

Serum, we love you! This is the one product you likely never use because you don’t know you need it.  Serums are extremely concentrated nutrients, hydrating ingredients, and antioxidants that power up your skin’s health almost as soon as you use it. Honestly, these silky little gems are the heavy lifters of any skincare routine. Although serums are optional, they are amazing for boosting your overall skin health.

In the Morning

A vitamin C serum, like our Kakadu Vitamin C Brightening Serum, actually protects your skin from inflammation and damage caused by the environment. Things like sunshine, wind, and pollution wreak havoc on your skin. The vitamin C will help brighten your skin and lighten dark spots over time. It’s really the MVP of skincare.

At Night

A serum filled with hyaluronic acid is great for nighttime use. Hyaluronic acid actually pulls water from the air into your skin to plump it up and keep it hydrated. The Kakadu serum is loaded with hyaluronic acid and organic Reishi mushrooms. This power-duo holds moisture, reduces inflammation, puffiness, wrinkles & free radical damage, while also promoting cell regeneration. Just because you’re asleep doesn’t mean your skin is! It works overtime to repair damage and give you a beautiful glow.

Third

Use an eye cream. Consider using one even if you don’t have dark circles, fine lines, or wrinkles… An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Eye creams tend to be lighter and thinner than face moisturizers, so make sure to apply them before you use your moisturizer. It’s crazy how much this all makes sense now, isn’t it?

In the Morning

If you wake up with puffy eyes, our Brilliant Eyes eye cream can help! It’s made with Aloe Vera, Vitamin E, and Witch Hazel – all of which help reduce swelling, puffiness, fine lines, and under-eye bags. This mighty formula uses other natural ingredients, like eyebright, to reduce discoloration under your eyes and on your lids. 

At Night

Most people think their night eye cream has to be super thick and include some sort of retinol to help with fine lines. The reality is that your eye area is delicate, so you need to be gentle, both with your technique and your products. Brilliant Eyes is a gentle, soothing, lightweight moisturizer that delivers an amazing number of nutrients. It helps keep your eye area tight and bright for a more youthful appearance.

Fourth

This is your last step, before using any makeup!

Moisturize.

Everyone needs to use a moisturizer. Always. Twice a day. No matter what. Even if your skin is oily or struggles with breakouts. 

Moisturizer is the only thing that keeps your skin’s natural barrier—which is the very thing responsible for making your skin look good—healthy and happy. Moisturizers hydrate your skin and also help lock in all of the products that lie beneath it.

In the Morning

A lightweight moisturizer, like our Vitamin C Moisturizer, will keep your skin hydrated without feeling heavy or greasy. For an added boost, let it sink in for a full five minutes before applying your makeup.

At Night

Your skin is in full repair mode at night. It’s working extra hard to fix any damage and boost skin cell regeneration. Your nighttime moisturizer should be filled with all the things your body naturally produces and can use more of, like peptides, lipids, and proteins. You can find all of this (and more!) in our Vitamin C Moisturizer.

One Last Thought

We mentioned sunscreen earlier, and it’s worth a bit more detail… Sunscreen isn’t trying to penetrate your skin—it’s designed to sit on top and protect your face from UV rays.

Medical and skin care professionals say that you need to use sunscreen daily. If It’s part of your daily routine, great! Use it after your moisturizer and before your makeup for optimal benefits.

And that’s it!

Cleanser – Serum – Eye Cream – Moisturizer

Four easy skin care steps!

Kakadu Vitamin C Hyaluronic Serum

When Too Much Sun Causes Problems

It’s important to note that ALL skin types — white, olive, brown, black, and everything in between — all skin burns when overexposed to UV rays.

Damage to your skin occurs when ultraviolet (UV) light penetrates unprotected skin, causing changes to your inner layers of skin. Dermatologists refer to this damage as photoaging, photodamage, solar damage, or sun damage.

Because this UV damage happens in the deeper layers of your skin—the dermis—it can take years before it becomes visible.

With sun damage being largely invisible for a long time, we continue to romp in the sun and forget about protecting ourselves from it. Years of damage can build up and cause scaly and rough patches of skin, skin cancer, or even changes to your DNA.

Have you ever seen older, very tanned people with skin like leather?

That’s extreme sun damage. It doesn’t happen overnight, it accumulates…

Dermatologists recommend retinol as one of the top solutions for sun-damaged skin.

Retinol is a derivative of vitamin A. It works by encouraging cell turnover and increasing collagen production, both of which help fight almost all signs of sun damage. Retinol can even out pigmentation issues and fade brown spots.

The problem with retinol is that it can dry out your skin and irritate sensitive skin.

Bakuchiol, a plant-based retinol alternative may be a better solution.

This natural ingredient doesn’t dry out or irritate skin like retinol, so it’s safe to use for those with sensitive skin (and it’s even encouraged by dermatologists).

Like retinol, bakuchiol helps the skin turn over quicker and boosts collagen production resulting in plumper, brighter skin, reduced fine lines, faded discolorations, and fewer wrinkles.

That’s why we use this amazing plant-powered miracle worker in LuxeOrganix Kakadu Vitamin C Brightening Serum and our Brilliant Eyes Daily Eye Cream.

Microdermabrasion is recommended for renewing skin tone and texture.

Microdermabrasion can improve the appearance of sun damage, wrinkles, fine lines, age spots, acne scarring, melasma, and other skin-related issues.

The process sprays fine particles of aluminum oxide or sodium bicarbonate onto your skin to blast away the topmost layers. Blasted layers are quickly suctioned up leaving soft, smooth, clear skin.

You can accomplish similar results by adding exfoliation to your skincare routine once or twice each week.

Exfoliation removes the top layers of dry, dead skin at home, without needing any expensive machinery.

LuxeOrganix ReNew Exfoliating Face Mask Polishing Scrub uses fine grit from walnut and bamboo plus glycolic acid, to gently reveal your younger skin. It’s also loaded with botanicals like Turmeric and Australian Kakadu Plum to brighten and balance your skin, without stripping moisture and essential oils.

Moisturizing is the key to younger skin.

Once your younger skin begins to appear, you need to keep it moisturized. These products help skin absorb and retain moisture, which softens the skin and reduces the appearance of fine lines. Moisture also helps your skin maintain its health, which gives your body a strong barrier against environmental pollution, germs, and dirt.

Start by using a moisturizer specifically created for your eye area. This area tends to show age and sun damage easily, in the form of crow’s feet, fine lines, puffiness, and discoloration.

LuxeOrganix Brilliant Eyes Daily Eye Cream gently firms, hydrates, and tightens the delicate skin around your eyes. It’s packed with natural anti-aging ingredients that don’t strip, dry, or leave any build-up. Its botanical beauty enhancers include Aloe Vera, Witch Hazel, and Sea Fennel — all of which leave your eye area smooth, soft, and brighter. Combined with Matrixyl 3000, this formulation will help you turn back the hands of time (and sun damage) on your peepers.

For your face, neck, and decollete, LuxeOrganix Vitamin C Moisturizer is a daily lotion that hydrates, nourishes, and firms sagging skin. Vitamins C, B5, and E work together with Green Tea, Aloe Vera, Gotu Kola, Sunflower, and Jojoba oils to reinvigorate parched skin and reduce the appearance of wrinkles, age spots, and skin blotches.

It’s loaded with penetrating antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients that stimulate new cell growth, promote skin elasticity, and lock in long-lasting essential moisture to keep your skin soft and smooth, and protected from harsh environments and climate trauma.

Vitamin C Daily Moisturizer

The process of replacing older skin cells goes on without any effort or thought on our part. But as we age, the process of shedding older skin cells slows down a bit. This causes the older skin cells to accumulate on the topmost layers, causing wrinkles, dullness, uneven tone, and sagging.

Just below the surface of your skin are millions of YOUNGER skin cells!

When you’re young, your skin naturally sloughs away the dead skin cells that build up. This process happens much faster when you’re younger and keeps revealing smooth, youthful skin.

For babies, cellular turnover happens about every 3-5 days. This constant turnover keeps young skin looking plump, radiant, even-toned, and wrinkle-free.

As you age, cellular turnover slows down.

In your teens, it takes 10-21 days for your younger cells to reach the topmost layer of your skin and by your 30s, it’s 28-45 days. In your 40s, it takes 45-60 days for those younger cells to appear, and 60-90 days when you’re in your 50s!

This slowdown in turnover isn’t the kiss of death (or a lifetime sentence to endless wrinkles) that it sounds like. You can help to speed this up a bit.

So, what can you do? How do you help your skin shed those older, dead cells sooner?

Exfoliate.

Exfoliation is magic. It helps rid your skin of older cells so that the newer, younger cells are visible.

Gently removing these layers of old cells will also help your skincare products by allowing them easier access to the deeper layers of your skin.

And it will keep your pores from becoming clogged, which leads to blackheads, breakouts, and bigger looking pores.

Exfoliation Is Misunderstood

Because many exfoliating products use harsh ingredients and some exfoliating methods are just rough on your skin, exfoliation is typically recommended for occasional use only. Some experts encourage you to exfoliate once per week, or less.

To reap the benefit of younger looking skin, exfoliation needs to be a nightly ritual.

Gentle exfoliators, like the LuxeOrganix  ReNew Exfoliating Face Mask Polishing Scrub, are uniquely positioned to deliver dramatic results.

Exfoliating with gentle products nightly, allows the dead cells to be whisked away and the nightly repair that your skin undergoes will push your younger cells to the surface of your skin as you sleep. Nightly exfoliation speeds up the regular turnover of your cells.

It’s called Beauty Sleep for a reason!

ReNew Face Mask Polishing scrub is made with organic and natural ingredients that actually help your skin reveal its youthful glow.

As a polishing scrub, the AHA glycolic acid works on the surface of the skin to reduce the appearance of uneven texture, while bamboo and walnut create the ideal blend of small and large grit to instantly polish away dull, dry skin, blemishes, and dead skin cells.

Yess!

And as a face mask, powerhouse ingredients like Turmeric and Australian Kakadu Plum with Vitamin C brighten and balance your skin, without stripping moisture and essential oils. Brightening means those age spots and uneven tones will fade, and not stripping essential oils means your skin will be soft and smooth, naturally.

ReNew Exfoliating Face Mask Polishing Scrub is

GENTLE and POWERFUL so you can exfoliate every day for a dramatic change in your skin.

It’s no surprise to us that milk was her beauty secret… Milk contains an alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) called lactic acid, which exfoliates the skin.

Cleopatra used milk, we use glycolic acid — another AHA. Both AHAs leave your skin soft, beautiful, glowing, and younger looking.

Don’t you deserve to treat yourself like a Queen? Exfoliate more and leave your kingdom whispering about your beauty.

We won’t tell your secrets!

When it comes to a healthy complexion, skin hydration is incredibly important. And while it might seem like keeping your skin hydrated is easy enough, many people don’t even know where to start.

And hydration is not moisture…

​Does Hydration Really Matter?

Hydration affects the texture and appearance of your skin, helping it become softer and smoother. Your skin thrives when it’s hydrated.

Hydrated skin looks and acts like younger skin.

Hydration adds water to the skin.

Moisturizing helps keep water in the skin.

How Does Skin Become Dehydrated?

There are so many things that can cause dehydrated skin. Your face gets stripped of moisture by things like stress, air conditioning, the weather, lack of sleep, not drinking enough water, caffeine, showering with really hot water, and skipping your regular skincare routine.

Dehydrated (or dry) skin makes less sebum. Sebum is the oily, waxy substance produced by your sebaceous glands. It’s the main ingredient in your skin’s natural oils. Sebum moisturizes, coats, and protects your skin.

Sebum helps form the protective layer on your skin that keeps harmful things, like pollution, free radicals, dirt, and harmful UV rays out of your pores. It also keeps moisture in.

With little sebum to protect it, your skin’s barrier allows the bad things in, and lets the good things out, further dehydrating your skin.

When your skin is dehydrated, it might look dull, feel tighter, and be more prone to inflammation, congestion, and breakouts. It will also show more fine lines and wrinkles.

• Add a deep-penetrating serum to your skincare routine. A daily dose of a hydrating serum helps put more water in your skin. Some ingredients actually attract water to the skin!
• Use a moisturizer, day and night. Moisturizing your skin in the morning will give your skin an extra layer of protection from harmful elements (like dirt). And your skin naturally rejuvenates while you sleep, so using one before bed allows your skin to restore its natural balance and heal any damage from the day’s activities.
• Make sure you’re drinking enough water throughout the day. Basic advice from your Mom, right? But having enough water available helps your body distribute it where it’s needed… like deep inside your skin. (Thanks, Mom!)

A Secret Hydrating Ingredient

Walk through any skin care aisle at your local store and you’ll see there’s no shortage of hydrating products vying for your attention. The choice can be overwhelming. How do you know these products will hydrate your skin?

Keep an eye out for one key ingredient — hyaluronic acid.

This naturally occurring substance is already in your body, especially in your skin. How does hyaluronic acid work? It actually attracts and binds with water, keeping it close to the surface of your skin.

Pollution and other environmental stressors can take a toll on your skin, leaving it feeling dry and looking dull. Regular use of a product that includes hyaluronic acid can help keep your skin hydrated so it looks and feels fresh.

Using a moisturizer immediately after a hydrating boost will help lock that moisture into your skin, keeping it there for longer.

Making this part of your routine means fewer (or no) days with dehydrated skin… this is an essential part of eliminating things like dull skin, fine lines, and wrinkles.

So give your skin a refreshing drink of water and a fighting chance at keeping those wrinkles and fine lines away.

Where You Can Find It

We use plant-based hyaluronic acids in our Kakadu Vitamin C Hyaluronic Acid Serum and our Brilliant Eyes day and night eye cream. Our Vitamin C Moisturizer is also chock-full of natural anti-aging ingredients like wild geranium, horsetail, and gotu kola herb.

Brilliant Eyes
Daily Eye Cream

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What is it?

Charcoal is carbon created as a result of burning wood, or another substance, and it has an amazing ability. It can adsorb.

Not absorb, which is the ability to take up something, but adsorb with a “d” – which is the ability to take up AND HOLD onto something. Materials that are adsorbed by the charcoal stick to the surface of the charcoal.

In skincare, the magic ingredient is activated bamboo charcoal, which is burned bamboo.

Because bamboo is more porous than wood, its charcoal is able to adsorb more than that of wood.

Activated bamboo charcoal, which is the trendy type of charcoal we’re talking about today, is charcoal with superpowers.

Activated charcoal has been injected with oxygen to make it even more porous.

While a single gram (roughly equal to the weight of one paper clip) of bamboo charcoal has as much as 717.6 square yards of surface area, a single gram of activated bamboo charcoal has more than 1,425 square yards of surface area.

…That’s more than SEVEN football fields of surface area from less than a teaspoon of activated bamboo charcoal. Think of all of the adsorbing that could happen on seven football fields!

So what does this have to do with skin care?

…and why do you want to put it on your face?

Bye-Bye impurities! And dirt, and makeup, and sweat, and bacteria, and whatever else is hiding in your pores.

This is why we use it in our Remarkably Clean Purifying Face Cleanser. It’s not just about the adsorbing… Activated bamboo charcoal brings a lot of other benefits to the table.

For instance, deep cleaning the impurities from your pores helps to shrink them, and because they’re smaller, your skin will appear tighter.

Firmer skin? Yes, please!

Activated bamboo charcoal is also 100% natural, so you don’t need to worry about any harmful additives or chemicals being used to work this magic.

Nothing for your skin to react to? Bonus!

Who doesn’t want that?

Wait! There’s more…

​Activated bamboo charcoal is able to adsorb toxins, impurities, and free radicals, making it a really potent cleanser. Because activated bamboo charcoal also has anti-fungal, anti-microbial, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral properties, your skin will not just be cleaner, it will also be healthier.

This wonder powder also gently exfoliates the skin with a very fine grit, which can help rid your skin of any dead cells that can block pores. Removing dead cells brightens your skin and evens out your skin tone, too.

Activated bamboo charcoal can:

• Gently exfoliate without stripping your natural oils.
• Deep cleanse your pores.
• Calm acne and remove blackheads.
• Detoxify and purify your skin.
• Shrink your pores because it’s eliminating the gunk inside of them, and tighten your skin because it’s shrinking the pores.

In Real Life

IRL, this means your skin will look younger, brighter, healthier, and firmer. Just because we decided to use activated bamboo charcoal in our facial cleanser.

Here’s to clean skin!

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What is Maskne?

Simply put, maskne is acne and irritation caused by wearing a facial mask. It can affect anyone, of any age, and both men and women. Women may see it more often than men because they also frequently wear makeup beneath the mask.

When you wear a mask, breathing or talking traps hot air close to your skin.

This trapped air creates a humid environment perfect for yeast, bacteria, and other flora, such as demodex (types of skin mites that naturally live on your skin), to grow.

This bacterial imbalance, combined with friction from your mask, can promote acne, dermatitis, itchy or cracked dry skin, and rosacea flare-ups.

And while most of the country is unmasking, we’re not out of the woods with maskne just yet.

Chances are that you are probably going to continue to need to use a mask periodically, such as if virus surges hit, or when using public transportation like airplanes, rideshare, busses, and trains. Medical professionals and others who wear masks at work are also prone to maskne.

So how do you wear a mask and still have clear, radiant skin?

Disposable masks are a good alternative to fabric. Especially if your skin is sensitive, a disposable mask can be a key part of your mask-wearing skin care. Using fabric masks for more than a day can irritate your skin and create an environment for acne to form and spread.

Why? Because the yeast, bacteria, and germs continue to live in your mask. With disposable masks, you will not be tempted to keep wearing a dirty mask. Plus they are typically made of a lighter weight than fabric masks, so they will not trap as much moisture so close to your skin.

Avoiding (or surviving) maskne is not only about the type of mask you wear. A regular routine of cleansing, exfoliating, and moisturizing your face will also help control it.

A Good Skin Care Routine

A regular routine of cleansing, exfoliating, and moisturizing your face will also help control it.

Cleanse

Every good skin care routine starts by cleaning your skin. The LuxeOrganix Remarkably Clean Purifying Facial Cleanser is your best start. Made with activated bamboo charcoal, it’s designed to pull the impurities lurking deep in your pores out so that bacteria and yeast that were triggered to grow beneath your mask cannot continue to thrive. It’s loaded with natural ingredients that also help minimize your pores. Use it twice a day to keep your skin clean.

Soothe

Many of our customers report that our LuxeOrganix Kakadu Vitamin C Serum is really helpful at soothing irritated skin and healing the acne caused by mask-wearing. We’ve put vitamin E in this serum, which helps heal and minimize acne scarring. The Kakadu plum vitamin C also helps to fade any discoloration caused by acne and gives you a more even skin tone. This serum also hydrates your skin, which is important. Hydrated skin has a strong outer barrier, which helps keep it healthy and works hard at keeping dirt, grime, and bacteria out.

You can do it!

You can control maskne. A solid skin care routine will clean your skin, exfoliate dead cells to keep your pores open, and moisturize to heal it. This, plus a constant supply of good, clean masks will help eliminate the red, irritated, and sometimes cystic acne that constant mask-wearing causes.

You can do it!

If you want to read more, we’ve written a lot about skin care and explain the best way to cleanse, exfoliate, and moisturize in another blog post. Click here to read it now.

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ReNew Exfoliating Face Mask Polishing Scrub

If you’ve been diagnosed with any of these conditions, or even if you just have really dry skin, after consulting with your primary health care provider, our Organic Psoriasis Shampoo + Body Wash might offer some relief and help you manage your skin back to health.

It’s not just for people with psoriasis! It’s for anyone with dry, itching, or sensitive skin.

What is Psoriasis?

Psoriasis is a condition that causes skin cells to grow quickly, producing the build-up and formation of scales (or plaques), and itchy, dry patches on the skin.

The most common symptom of psoriasis is a rash on the skin, but sometimes the rash involves the nails or joints.

Psoriasis can occur anywhere but is most commonly found on the elbows, knees, neck, hands and feet, and scalp. Babies and young children commonly have it and often outgrow it.

Psoriasis may be an immune system issue and can be triggered by things like infection, stress, cold weather, your diet, trauma to your skin, or weight gain. These triggers can cause a new flare-up, or make an existing outbreak worse.

How Is Psoriasis Treated?

This is where we jump in.

Current treatments might help you manage the condition, whether it’s psoriasis, eczema, or dermatitis, but they often wreak havoc on, or just plain neglect, the health of your skin.

Psoriasis is often treated via topical ointments, light therapy, and medications. The treatments work by removing the scales from the skin, calm itching, and stopping skin cells from growing too quickly.

On Your Scalp

When psoriasis occurs on the scalp, treatment may include a medicated shampoo.

The medicated shampoos used to treat psoriasis are tough. They are meant to treat the scalp, not the hair, and are filled with harsh ingredients that help remove the scales caused by psoriasis. These harsh ingredients are not friendly to your hair. They can be thick with ingredients that leave your hair feeling greasy or that weigh the hair down. They can also irritate the skin that’s not inflicted.

When using a medicated shampoo, you should apply it only to your roots and scalp. Your hair does not have psoriasis, your scalp does. So keep your treatment contained as best you can.

How do you get it off your hair? RINSE. Rinse your hair for a long time (2 minutes) to ensure the medicated shampoo is completely removed.

While medicated shampoos have improved since they were first created, they are really focused on the condition (psoriasis) and not on cleaning your hair or leaving your hair healthy. They very often leave a medicinal smell on your hair, too.

You can follow your medicated shampoo with a non-medicated, gentle shampoo to clean your hair, keeping it away from your scalp. And always follow your shampoo with a gentle, moisturizing conditioner, again, keeping it away from your scalp.

That same gentle shampoo can be used in between the days you use your medicated shampoos.

Choose your shampoo carefully. Most store-bought shampoos are far too harsh for your scalp, even if you do not have psoriasis.

Harsh ingredients strip your hair from everything, including your hair’s all-important natural oils and nutrients. This leaves your hair fragile and damaged — frizzy, dry, dull, and splitting.

That means keeping your skin clean, hydrated, and protected – especially with a condition like psoriasis, eczema, or dermatitis. Avoiding products that contain harsh ingredients, perfumes, and sulfates is part of this care. These ingredients can irritate your already sensitive skin, making your condition more difficult to manage.

This is why we created our Organic Psoriasis Shampoo + Body Wash.

It’s a gentle shampoo and body wash that will not irritate your scalp or skin. It gently cleans your hair and skin, and helps promote a healthy environment for your skin to begin healing.

• It’s perfectly pH balanced at 5.5 to improve absorption and support your skin’s natural barrier.
• Contains no harsh chemicals or fragrances to prevent irritation.

• Contains no sulfates, SLS, sodium chloride, parabens, drying alcohols, gluten, dyes, or phthalates, making it safe for sensitive skin, even for children and babies.

It’s not just for psoriasis. The Psoriasis Shampoo + Body Wash helps with dermatitis, eczema, and dry skin, too. It’s safe for use on adults, children, and babies and is a tear-free formula.

Ingredients like Aloe Vera, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Flour, and Calendula help calm, heal, and hydrate your skin. And the anti-inflammatory properties of these ingredients can help reduce the redness, itching, and puffiness that often accompanies eczema, dry skin, or psoriatic rashes.

Using this shampoo and body wash will help you to clean your skin and hair without irritation, hydrate dry skin, and soothe the irritation caused by the overgrowth of skin cells.

Other Things That May Help

Lifestyle adjustments, like not smoking, managing your stress, taking vitamins, and a healthy diet, may also help heal these conditions and help keep your skin clear. Talk with your health care professional for more tips related to your specific condition.

Our Organic Psoriasis Shampoo + Body Wash is not meant to replace any medicated shampoo or topical ointments you are using. You may find yourself using less of your medicated products, or not — but you will definitely notice a difference in your skin, hair, and scalp.

Be gentle with your skin and it will glow!

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