Your skin’s needs can shift throughout your menstrual cycle! From dealing with breakouts during your luteal phase to needing extra hydration while menstruating, your skin’s condition can change significantly depending on where you are in your cycle.
Comfort Zone has cleansers, toners, serums, and more to help adjust your skin care routine to your hormone levels throughout your menstrual cycle. Read on to discover how to sync your skin care routine with your cycle, so you can maintain a balanced, glowing complexion all month long!
Menstrual Phase
Your hormone levels are at their lowest while menstruating, so your skin may feel drier and sensitive. Soothe your skin and protect its barrier with these products:
Remedy Serum: This fast-absorbing serum instantly soothes and comforts red, sensitive skin. Its marula oil strengthens your skin’s barrier as it deeply moisturizes, softens, and hydrates your skin. After cleansing, apply this serum to your face before your moisturizer each morning and night.
Essential Milk: This delicate, non-stripping milk cleanser removes your skin’s impurities and make-up. Because milky cleansers have a low pH to match your skin’s natural pH, this cleanser doesn’t irritate your skin barrier, and it protects it against environmental stressors and bacteria. After massaging this cleanser into dry skin and rinsing well with warm water, you’re left with silky, luminous skin.
Follicular Phase
Your skin often looks its best during this phase — your estrogen levels are rising, so there is more collagen production and skin cell turnover. Support your skin’s radiance and hydration during your follicular phase with these products:
Hydramemory Water Source Serum: This light, hydrating serum immediately smooths and brightens your skin with its prickly pear extract and hyaluronic acid. Apply this serum each morning and night before your moisturizer.
Hydramemory Face Mist: This alcohol-free, ultra-fine mist makes it easy to refresh your skin on the go with an immediate hydration boost. Whenever your skin feels dry or tight, spray this mist onto your face and neck.
Ovulatory Phase
Your estrogen levels are at their peak, so your skin may be overproducing oil, making you prone to breakouts, especially along your chin and jawline. Combat oily skin while ovulating with these products:
Active Pureness Fluid: This moisturizer hydrates and mattifies your skin with Vitamin c. After cleansing, massage this moisturizer into your skin — you can even use it as a primer before applying your makeup.
Essential Scrub: Remove impurities with this gentle, creamy scrub suitable for all skin types. Twice a week, massage this scrub in circular motions across damp skin and rinse with warm water for a smooth, clarified complexion.
Luteal Phase
After ovulating, your estrogen levels begin to drop as you produce more progesterone, a hormone that thickens your uterus’ lining to help prepare your body for pregnancy. This can increase your skin’s oil production, and your skin may also feel swollen and puffy as you’re retaining more fluids. Combat breakouts, clogged pores, and red, sensitive skin during your luteal phase with these products:
Active Pureness Mask: This creamy clay mask absorbs excess sebum for more radiant skin while minimizing your pores’ appearance. Twice a week, apply an even layer of the mask to cleansed, dry skin. Leave on for 10 minutes, and then rinse well with room-temperature water.
Essential Toner: This toning lotion’s niacinamide soothes your skin, reduces redness, and helps support your skin barrier. After cleansing, apply this alcohol-free toner to a cotton pad and swipe all over your skin to restore its hydration and radiance.
What skin issues do you experience throughout your menstrual cycle? Share them in the comments below — our estheticians are here to help with their skin care advice and product recommendations!
Nicole Thomas is the marketing manager for Tyler Mason Salon & Spa. She is also a passionate writer and digital marketer for several Indiana-based publications. When she isn’t at TM, she loves cozying up with a book and cup of coffee or crocheting a new cardigan for her wardrobe.