Christelle Tamundele’s Reviews > The Skincare Bible: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Great Skin > Status Update

Androgen levels (such as testosteron) rise during puberty. It acts on the skins oils and makes your sebaceous glands bigger, especially on areas in wich there is a high density of oil-producing glands (face, back and chest). That can mentally lead to low self esteem and an altered body image. The ignorance of that could be detrimental. You also lose more water through your skin (sweating, look up CAH).

Cleansing: bar soaps (harsh), foaming (oily: lathering, dry: non lathering), cleansing milk (dry: disolve oil) , toner (oily: alcohol can dry tho), micellar water (cleansing oil molecules suspended in water), double cleansing (50/50)
Serums
Moisturizers: humectans (bind), occlusives (prevent), emmolients (replaces)
Eye Cream: just pat
Exfoliation: AHA (food) BHA (oil soluble mol)
Masks: meh
Sunscreen: must

Our skin texture consists of
Epidermis (UVB rays): containing keratinocytes (protection and waterproofing), melanocytes (absorb rays), langerhans cells (immune system) and merkel cells (sensory)
Dermis (UVA rays): papillary (rich in nervendings) and reticular (collagen, Elastin and Hyaluronic acid
Theres intrinsic (telomere shortening, mitochondrial damage, hormones) and extrinsic ageing (UV rays)