Things You'll Need:
- The right cleanser, masque, toner, and lotion.
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Step 1
Step 1: Identify your skin type. If you don’t know your skin type, you’ll treat your skin with the wrong products.
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Step 2
Step 2: Collect your products.
Oily Skin—Olay deep cleansing face wash, $5, drugstores; Pond’s Cool, Calm and perfected Pore shrinking Gel toner, $6, drugstores; St Ives Apricot Face Wash/scrub, $4, drugstores; Purpose Dual Treatment Moisture Lotion with SPF 15, $9, drugstores
Dry Skin—Loreal Paris Nutri-Pure self foaming cleanser, $6, drugstores; Grassroots Perfectly Suited Moisture Infusing face tonic, $10, Kohl’s; Origins Never a dull moment Face polisher, $24, department stores; Almay Daily moisturizer for normal/combo skin SPF 15, $12, drugstores
Acne Prone Skin—Avenda Outer Peace foaming cleanser, $24, avenda.com; Tess This is Your Wake-up call Toner, $14, sephora.com; Dermalogica Anti-Bac Cooling Masque, $34, salons; Vitchy Normaderm Anti-Imperfection Hydrating Care, $18, drugstores
Normal/Combo Skin—Biore Shine control Cream Cleanser, $7, drugstores; Nivea Skin Inspired Toner with Aloe and Chamomile, $8, drugstores; Got2b In your Face Pure Intent Clay Masque, $4, drugstores; Sea Breeze Naturals Hydrating Lotion, $6, drugstores -
Step 3
Step 3: On your stove, heat water just under a boil. Stand over it with your head about a foot away from the water. Place a towel over your head to trap heat. Once you’ve stood there for about 10 minutes and your face feels tingly, put a generous amount of cleanser all over your face and massage it in for about two minutes, still standing over that hot water.
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Step 4
Step 4: Wash of the cleanser with very warm water. Then treat your skin with a scrub or masque
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Step 5
Step 5: Splash ice cold water on your face to close your pores
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Step 6
Step 6: Spray cool water onto your face and slick on a think hydrating cream or lotion. Rub it in well.
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Step 7
Step 7: Do this once every week. If you have acne, use a toner every other day. Have fun!
