Is your skin suffering from cosmetic 'overbooking'?

“Blackheads and whiteheads, milia, clogged pores, zero radiance, uneven texture… This is what skin saturated with unsuitable cosmetics looks like, what experts call suffocated skin.”

More common in oily skin, but not exclusive to it, a suffocated complexion is caused by the use and abuse of active ingredients incompatible with the balance of sebum production. Simply put, suffocated skin is a product of ignorance and information overload. “It reaches this state through the use of unsuitable cosmetics. For example? The use of overly astringent products, which close the pores and alter the composition of sebum, causing it to solidify in the excretory duct. Due to the hypertrophy of the stratum corneum, it has difficulty exiting, leading to the appearance of sebaceous cysts or milia.” To which Mateo González Carrascosa, dermatologist at Clínica Premium Marbella She adds that “the problem is closely linked to oily and dehydrated skin that is treated with excessively oily formulas that tend to clog pores; hence, it is necessary to refrain from using substances that have a high degree of comedogenicity, such as oleic acid present in olive or marula oil, or lauric acid present in coconut oil.”