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Summary: Picking the best facial cleanser for combination skin depends on how dry or how oily the skin is. Choose a cream cleanser for dryer skin and a gel cleanser for oily skin with advice from a professional makeup artist in this free video on skin care.
Kimberly Haertl has worked and been trained as a makeup artist and skincare consultant by major cosmetic brands such as Chanel, LancĂ´me, Shisedio, La Parire and Dior. Haertl has been a...read more
"Hi I'm Kim with Simply Beautiful in Austin, Texas. Let's talk about how to pick the right cleanser for normal combination skin. It is really important that you do know your skin is normal combination and when we are talking about normal combination we are talking about normal being the middle oily to one side and dry to the other so normal combination skin generally looks like this, there is no shine on the cheeks, there is a shine on the forehead, the nose and the chin. You have larger pores in the T zone area and you have more of a tendency to break out in that same area. That is normal combination. If you do have some oiliness on the cheek area then you are combination towards oily. So how to get the best cleanser for that is to determine how normal and how oily you are. So there are all kinds of cleansers on the market. Here are two of my favorites. Lancomme has a cleanser. It is a cream to foam cleanser, great on the skin. It goes on as a cream and turns into a foam. It is luxurious, it is lovely. It gets the skin really really clean without overdrying the normal areas. The Loreal Ideal Balance is also for combination skin. It has a little clay in it so it has absorbed the oil in the T Zone without overdrying the areas that aren't oily. If you do find that you are more oily than you are normal so if you are on the upper scale of the normal combination then I want you to look for a gel cleanser, a cleanser that says on it gel or for normal combination skin. I applaud you for knowing that you have normal combination skin and knowing that a great cleanser, the right one for you is critical."
eHow Article: How to Pick the Best Facial Cleanser for Combination Skin