Types of Skin

I'm sure you have heard of the various types of skin you can havedry, oily or "normal." It seems that wherever we turn, we are accosted by charts describing the characteristics of skin types and what we can do for them. Before embarking on any such analysis, you ought to know that many skin experts, including Aida Thibiant, have found through years of experience that 90 percent of the women they treat have "combination" skin, that is, skin that is somewhat dry around the cheeks and the eyes and oily on the nose, chin and forehead the "T" zone.

There are women who have basically dry skin flaky, thin skin that wrinkles easily and can get dehydrated; or oily skin shiny, greasy looking, characterized by large pores, occasional blackheads and pimples. Women who have oily skin are always trying to dry it out forgetting that oily skin stays young much longer than other types because it lubricates itself naturally.

But most women have a little bit of all of these and none of the extremes. As for so called "normal" skin well, the only people I know with normal skin are babies.

It is important to understand that all the creams and lotions and moisturizers and cleansers in the world will not change the type of skin you have. What they will do is change, through care, the condition and thus the appearance of your skin. But there is at least one thing you can do to beneficially alter the dry or oily characteristics of skin, and that is through your diet.