Balancing Facial

This once-a-week treat intensively tackles both the dry and oily areas of your skin.

1. Cleanse your face using a moisturizing facial bar or a foaming cleanser. This will effectively target the oil on the greasy skin of the t-zone, without removing any of the moisture from the dry skin on your cheeks.

2. Exfoliate to avoid flakes of dry skin clogging pores. Using a gentle facial scrub or a flannel, rub the cheeks lightly. Go more intensely when tackling the greasy areas of the face to help loosen blackheads.

3. Boil a kettle of water and pour some into a large bowl. Add four drops of rosewater to the bowl. This hydrates the skin and will prevent the steam drying out the cheeks while it tackles the nose. After the hot steam has dispersed, lower your face over the bowl, keeping it 10 inches off the water: Put a towel over your head and stay put for up to 10 minutes.
4. On big pamper sessions like this one. Go for the double mask. Shop around for a hydrating moisture mask you apply to your cheeks and throat and a clay-based mask for the oily areas, leave the masks on for 10 minutes and rinse with tepid water before applying your normal light moisturizer:Alternatively, try our mask on page.

Common Tips For Combination Skin

• Don’t scrub oily areas - this irritates the skin and increases oil production.

• Don’t treat your whole face the same your t-zone will require cleansing twice a while the cheeks only need doing once. It’s vice versa with moisturizing.

• After using pore strips, apply tea tree to your nose. It will reduce redness and cut bacteria levels in the pores.

• Avoid leave-in hair conditioners. Ingredients in these block the forehead’s pores making already greasy skin worse.

• Don’t forget eye creams: you may need to avoid rich moisturizers on your cheeks, but you shouldn’t skip them on the delicate skin around your eyes.

Your 5 Key Products

• Cleansing bars
• Pore strips
• Exfoliating scrub
• Oil-free moisturizer
• Eye cream

Make Your Face Mask

A rose-based mask is an excellent balancing treatment for combination skin, use the following ingredients:

• 1 rose
• 1 tbsp rosewater
• 1 tbsp natural yoghurt
• 1 tbsp honey

Wash the rose petals in water. Soak for a few minutes and then crush them in a bowl, add the rosewater, yoghurt and honey.mix well and apply to the skin for five minutes. Rinse off with tepid water.