Your Morning Routine

Step 1: Cleansing Oil

Cleansing oils usually contain an oil base, along with a traditional skin-cleansing ingredient called a surfactant, which helps bind to dirt on the skin and remove it without disrupting the skin barrier." And unlike traditional makeup-removing wipes (or even micellar waters),cleansing oils.

If you’re using oil-based products at night, an oil cleanse in the morning is an absolute must to effectively lift away those products and whatever they have brought to the skin’s surface overnight.

Step 2: Water-Based Cleanser  

Water cleansers are used to remove water-based impurities like sweat and dirt after your oil cleanser removes oil-based impurities like makeup and SPF. Water cleansers come in three main forms: Foam cleansers, gel cleansers, and cleansing waters

Step 3: Toner

Toner is easily the most misunderstood skin care product and way more important than it receives credit for. Facial toner is basically the in-between skincare step. It's meant to be used after washing your face but before using your serum or moisturizer.

Toner is the first barrier product you apply – good toner balances your skin’s PH, and is intended to hydrate – not strip your skin the way your astringent did in middle school.

Step 4: Serum

A serum is usually a liquid or gel containing high concentrations of skin actives, which are able to penetrate deeper than other topicals [like moisturizers] with content occlusives that prevent deeper penetration. The most important (and expensive) step in your morning skincare routine – aside from sun protection – is an antioxidant-rich serum. Your face is up against a lot of agents that wish to do it harm throughout the day. Serums see to it that none of those stressors live eternally as fine lines between your eyebrows.

Step 5: Moisturizer

There is no such thing as skin that is too hydrated, and your sunscreen should not be the stand-in for moisturizer. These two products serve vastly different purposes and are not interchangeable, no matter how moisturizing your sunscreen claims to be. Any decent moisturizer should hydrate skin—but the best ones also soothe, fight free radical damage, protect skin from future damage

Step 6: Sun Protection

Sunscreen, also known as sunblock, is a lotion, spray, gel, foam stick or other topical product that absorbs or reflects some of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

Daily sun protection is as important as drinking water and paying your parking tickets on time, so there are zero excuses for not doing it.