How to Create a Natural Skincare Routine

Starting a skincare routine can help your skin be happier and healthier, especially a natural skincare routine. With millions of products on the market and thousands of ways to apply skincare products, all skincare products can start to all look the same. You want to create a natural skincare routine that fits your skin, budget, and life.

How do you create the best natural skincare routine that is right for you? 

Skincare Routine Basics

When developing a skincare routine, start with the basics. Knowing the basics helps us to understand what direction to go with our skincare routine. Looking at what products to use on the type of skin a person has or making a skincare routine budget-friendly can be goals that a person may have for their skincare routine.

What is a skincare routine? A skincare routine helps our skin to stay healthy and happy. Each product is created for a specific purpose for your skin. Some of these products are cleanser, toner, mask, serum, eye cream, and moisturizer.

Is there a specific time of day for a skincare routine? Day and night time routines is one of the focuses in the skincare industry. Jaclyn LaBadia mentioned in her post Daytime Vs Night Skincare Routine that a person’s daytime skincare routine is all about protection from the sun, dirt, and pollution. She goes on about how a person’s nighttime routine is about treatment and giving their skin what it needs.

Skincare Routine Based on Your Skin

Skin type can play a large part in what natural skincare products a person uses. The main skin type categories are oily, dry, combination, sensitive, and aging skin.

Many skin care products in the description will list what skin types their products are made for. Using the right products will help a person’s skin strive to be its best.

Oily Skincare Routine

When looking into a skincare routine for oily skin, a person needs to keep in mind that their skin is oily due to having high sebum and larger oil glands. They will be focusing on finding products that lessen the oil on their skin and regulate their sebum production.

Some products in the skincare industry help a person control excess oil production that is on their skin.

Dry Skincare Routine

Individuals with dry skin will want to focus on the products that will give their skin maximum hydration.

Dry skin can develop from weather and the environment that a person lives in. The skin is dry and needs to be hydrated.

A picture of this would be using the image of raisins and grapes. When your skin is dry, it starts to crack and shrivel like a raisin. Adding hydration to your skin will make it plump like a beautiful juicy grape.

Combination Skincare Routine

Combination skin needs skincare that has a variety of purposes. Typically with combination skin, a person will have a combination of oily and dry skin in certain areas.

The skin care products for the combination skin routine need to be between the oily and dry skincare routine. If a person use products that a specifically for oily skin, it could irritate your dry skin. On the other hand if an individual uses products for dry skin it could cause a breakout in the oily area of their skin.

Sensitive Skincare Routine

When working with sensitive skin, a person needs to have a gentle and delicate approach. Sometimes if a person uses a product that does not agree with sensitive skin, it will become red and irritated.

Look for products that are alcohol and scent-free. Natural products are a must for sensitive skin due to not having any harmful toxins in the ingredients.

Aging Skincare Routine

Aging skin focuses on caring for skin that has wrinkles, dark spots, and has some sagging.

Focusing on hydrating the skin will help with aging skin. With aging skin, a person can follow a dry skincare routine. This will help the skin to stay hydrated and form less wrinkles and fine lines.

Skincare Routine Based on Your Budget

For most people, natural seems expensive, but finding natural products within their budget can be easy if they know what brands and products they can trust. 

What are some natural skincare companies that are budget-friendly? Here is a list of the top three companies that offer skincare products committed to making sure their products are natural and non-toxic for skin.

1. Acure

Acure offers so many low-cost, skin-friendly options for a person’s skincare routine.

Many of their skincare products are priced around $10.00 – $25.00.

They have products ranging from cleansers to moisturizers. Their website is built for easy navigation when an individual is looking for skin products based on a collection, category, or skin type. 

On many of their products, they make it consumer-friendly when listing their ingredients.

For example, they will give a technical term for an ingredient followed by a word that the consumer will understand. Looking at the ingredients in their Brightening Glowing Serum, the first three ingredients that are listed are Carthamus Tincroius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil, and Borago Officinalis (Borage) Seed Oil. 

2. Burt’s Bees

Burt’s Bees is another skincare company that focuses on natural products. Their products are budget-friendly, and some of the Burt’s Bees products can be found in stores around the United States.

The product prices range from $5.00 to $30.00. Their products focus on their slogan ‘True to Nature’.

One of the available product lines is the Burt’s Bees CBD products. New to the skincare industry is CBD products and sometimes it is hard to find these products in budget range.

CBD Benefits for Skin and Hair mentions many different ways that CBD skincare products can help an individual with skincare issues or better their skincare routine.

3. Meow Meow Tweet

Meow Meow Tweet is a company that is focused on making vegan products that are always ethical, low-waste, handmade, and cruelty-free.

Their prices range from $10.00 to $30.00.

All of the products are small batches. What this means is they are done by hand creating fresh and high-quality products.

Skincare Routine Based on Your Life

Have you ever had that time in life where you took a shower and crashed into bed right after? When you are at this moment in your life, you do not have time to spend twenty minutes working on a skincare routine.

Life can be busy and crazy at times.  

Then there are other days where you have all the time in the world. In these moments you may be dancing in the bathroom while brushing your hair using your hairbrush as a microphone because, girlfriend, you are a rock star!

After your first act, you have time to do a face mask and relax. Following the mask, you apply your serum, eye cream, and moisturizer. This is all done while waiting the appropriate amount of time between each application. 

After reading each of these life descriptions you resonate with one or both of them. Every life is different, and that is why everyone’s skin routine needs to be different.

Skincare Routine for a Busy Lifestyle

The skin routine for the busy lifestyle wants to focus on the basics. These basics are cleanser first to remove makeup and other environmental build-ups on your skin.

Next, you apply toner to bring your pH level back to normal and remove the rest of the grim that the cleanser may have missed. Following the toner, you apply your serum to moisturize the deep layers of your skin.

Then you can gently dab on eye cream to help those dark puffy circles that sometimes seem to be a permanent fixture due to having a busy crazy life.

Finally, apply moisturizer. Preferably, you should let each product sit for a minute after application. All in all this routine should only take five minutes. 

What about when it comes to shopping?

You don’t have time to read the back of every product to see if it contains any toxic ingredients. The fastest way to determine if you want to try out the product is by quickly looking up the manufacturer’s website. On the website, they will mention to some extent that their products contain no toxic ingredients.

Skincare Routine for a Less Lifestyle

When life slows down and you can take a moment to pause and focus on yourself, your skin routine for the less busy lifestyle can be a little more in-depth.

Yes, you will still do the basics as listed in the busy lifestyle, but you would be taking a little extra time between each step so that the products applied can seep deep into your skin. Also, you can apply a face mask once a week to refresh and rejuvenate your skin.

Conclusion

Creating a natural skincare routine can change your skin’s appearance as well as how your skin feels.

Natural products help a person reach maximum satisfaction with their skin. When pursuing these goals, focusing on skin type helps a person recognize what the best products are for their skin. When a person finds natural skincare products that fits their budget, it helps them to remain consistent with their skincare routine. 

Finally, when a person’s skincare routine fits their skin, budget, and lifestyle they are more likely to do it regularly.