With all the various skin care products on the market, it can be confusing to know which to use, and perhaps more importantly, when to use what. This complete guide provides a step-by-step guide to our product line and how and when to use the products for perfect looking skin.
We will look at a typical day of a typical customer and explain when and how to use each product. We have also tried to tie your skin care routine with other habits to get you in the habit of taking care of your skin throughout the day with the correct product.
6:00 AM – Wake up, Shower, and Prep Face for the Day
Your morning shower is the perfect time to prepare your face for the day ahead. The first thing you want to do is to wash your face with a specially formulated facial cleanser. Our Bamboo + Charcoal Facial cleanser is specially formulated for the adult male face providing gentle cleansing for the entire face but won’t leave it feeling dried out. Also, make sure you are hitting your neck and ears.
Most men make the mistake of washing their face with a cleanser not specifically designed as a facial cleanser. All too often, men choose to use a soap that is too harsh for the face which can lead to drying out, break out, and premature wrinkles and lines. Finding a facial cleanser that exfoliates, clears up pore clogging impurities, but is also gentle enough to provide proper hydration will leave your skin looking clean, clear, and younger even without use of additional products.
Another mistake men tend to make is applying any sort of facial moisturizer or anti-aging products without having properly cleaned their face. This can lead to clogged pours and breakouts. Simply put, make sure that any time you apply a facial moisturizer or antiaging product you’re doing so on a cleaned face.
6:30 AM – Brush Teeth and Apply SPF Moisturizer
Once you have washed your face with a specially formulated facial cleanser, it’s now time to moisturize. Applying the right type of moisturizer at the right time is important. In this case, you have two options – a heavy duty moisturizer such as our calming hydration crème or a lightweight moisturizer with SPF 30 broad band protection. So, which one should you choose?
The truth is, you should start your day, especially in the summer months, with our SPF 30 Lightweight Facial Moisturizer. The calming hydration crème, which is a much heavier duty moisturizer, is great to use you if you plan to be indoors, or if you need some additional moisturizing if you’ve had a lot of sun exposure.
Our Complete SPF 30 Lightweight Facial Moisturizer provides the two crucial necessities for daily use during the summer: a light moisturizer and SPF 30 broadband protection. During the summer months, a light moisturizer is going to feel much lighter, less likely to make you sweat, and will provide vital SPF protection.
Applying a facial moisturizer right after you get out of the showers is critical to making your skin appear healthy and reduce lines and wrinkles. Having a broad-based SPF sunscreen is the best thing you can do avoid premature lines and wrinkles, and this is especially true during the summer months when sun exposure – both direct and indirect sunlight – is at its peak.
6:00: Get Ready for Date and to Rehydrate
Our calming hydration crème, one of our original products, now plays an important role when combined with our Complete SPF 30 Lightweight Facial Moisturizer. Understanding the history of our company, and when we released our products, may help you understand how to best use them.
We started our company just before Christmas in Chicago. As anyone will attest in Chicago, winters can be brutal. Our calming hydration crème is designed to give maximum hydration and protection, and is especially popular in the winter months when you need maximum hydration throughout the day. It provides maximum hydration and protection to the skin, but is not just for winter months.
During the summer, apply our calming hydration crème whenever you’ve had significant sun exposure. Additionally, applying our calming hydration crème in the evening hours, when sun exposure is no longer a concern, is the best time to moisturize your skin and keep it looking its best. Our calming hydration crème is a heavy-duty moisturizer, so it should be applied when your face needs some extra care. Also, because it is such a heavy duty moisturizer, you will want to avoid the heat or working out for at least 2 hours as it needs time to be fully absorbed by your skin.
11:00 PM – Rest, Repair, and Rejuvenate
The last step of the evening is to wash your face again with our Bamboo + Charcoal Facial Cleanser and then to take the most important step of the skin care routine: apply our Ultra Night Lift Treatment.
This may be the last step, but it is perhaps the most important. Our Ultra Lift Night Treatment uses peptides, Glycolic and Lactic Acids to stimulate the skin, increase its shed rate, and produce more collagen. All this together results in younger looking skin. To be clear, our Ultra Night Lift Treatment is the product that is going to help reverse aging by decreasing lines and wrinkles over the long term.
You’ll want to make sure you apply our Ultra Night Lift Treatment shortly before you to go bed, and to limit any UV exposure. UV light has been shown to break down the peptides, which can weaken the anti-aging effects of the crème.
Follow this user guide to get the most out of your skin care routine. And if you have any questions about the products please just send us a message at info@evolvemenswellness.com