What’s The Deal With Using Natural Ingredients To Treat Sensitive Skin?

So this rule is true: When your skin is forced to deal with too much, it will become irritated. (Perhaps you, too, become agitated when overwhelmed? Well, your skin is the same.) The increased attention we place on our skin care routine and bloated product lineup is perhaps starting to backfire.

“I believe that in this new way of consuming beauty, where a lot of us are told to have a beauty routine that it’s composed of 30 different hero products from 30 different lines, we’re doing some same,” she says. “Like who’s really telling us that we’re able to layer all those things together? I think that it’s really important to be cognizant of those things. It’s wreaking havoc on the barrier in greater ways than ever before.” Your skin wasn’t built to withstand constant scrubbing, peeling, prodding, and disrupting. 

What’s more, Harper says, is so much of our overdoing it was unfortunately focused on the wrong areas: “I think that over-exfoliation is definitely a big thing. I hope that more people would talk about over-moisturizing, then we wouldn’t be having this problem,” she says, noting that exfoliants aren’t the only route to a bright complexion. “You can get glowing skin with a lot of moisturization.”