BSC Skin Care & Renewal System –

Step 2 -Learn to choose products that will benefit your specific skin characteristics and problems.

Being aware of your specific skin characteristics is the next step in selecting anti-aging skin care products that will work for you. Your skin’s characteristics depend upon your own distinctive genetic profile and the daily environmental factors you face.

Skin characteristics can be:

• Normal – neither too dry or too oily
• Oily – skin produces sebum all the time
• Dry – skin can be dry from lack of sebum production or environmental factors
• Combination – parts of skin can be dry, parts normal, parts oily
• Sensitive – can be any of the above characteristics along with being susceptible to redness, itching and inflammation

Time to determine your unique skin characteristics.

Please answer the following questions in our quick quiz.

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Skin Characteristic Quiz

1) After cleansing your face, leave it free of

any products for a few hours. Then look in the mirror with plenty of light.

How does your skin look?

Scaly and rough
Tight
Feels moist and hydrated buy NOT shiny
Shiney

2) If you use a foundation, what does your face look like a few hours later?

Cakey and wrinkled
Smooth
Reflective - a little oily
Shiney and Blotchy

3) Does your skin feel tight if you do not moisturize?

Always
Sometimes
Hardly ever
Never

4) How many large pores do you see on your face?

Take a real good look before you answer.

None
In my T-Zone (nose and forehead)
Numerous
Heaps

5) Is your T-Zone (nose & forehead) oily?

Never
From time to time
Repeatedly
Always

6) You would characterize your skin as:

Dry
Normal
Combination
Oily

7) When you use a bubbly soap to cleanse yourface, does your skin feel:

Dry and cracks
Somewhat dry
Comfortable and smooth
Oily

8) Do you have whiteheads and/or blackheads?

Never
Hardly ever
From time to time
Always

9) A few hours after applying a moisturizer, how do your cheeks feel/look?

Very rough
Soft
A little shiney
Lots of shine

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Sensitive Skin

People of all skin colors can have sensitive skin. However people with lighter complexions,
although not always, are more proned to sensitive skin.

Let’s see if you have sensitive or hardy skin.
This will make a big difference in the product strengths you will choose.

Ask yourself these questions?

• Do sunscreens irritate my skin?
• Do skin care products irritate my skin or cause me to breakout?
• Have you ever had rosacea?
• Does costume jewelry bother my skin?
• Do you get rashes?
• Do fragranced lotions, bath or laundry products annoy my skin?
• Do you often get red or flushed?
• Do make-ups irritate my skin?
• Do you looked red in photos?
• Do you get red bumps on your face?

If you answered yes to most of these questions,
then you have very sensitive skin.

If you answered yes to around ½ of these questions,
then you have, to some extent, sensitive skin.

If you answered yes to none or one to these questions,
then you have a more hardy, resistant skin.

Keep track of your results as you will use them when selecting the correct skin care products.

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Here are some other things to look at
to establish your skin characteristics.

Just remember – no skin characteristic is bad, we are all unique!

Normal Skin will have the following characteristics:

• Mostly medium sized pores
• More pores on your nose, chin and mid forehead with these areas being just a bit oily
• You are not trouble with blackheads or blemishes
• Overall, a balanced oil (sebum) production
• Smooth to the touch
• Even skin color and tone
• Make up stays where you put it
• Your skin tolerates extreme temperature changes without much chapping or irritation

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Oily Skin will have the following characteristics:

• Pores are larger and  more visible
• Uneven texture
• Skin looks shiny and feels oily
• Prone to blackheads and blemishes
• Minimal lines and wrinkles
• Skin tone may be ashen
• Your skin tolerates cold and wind very well
• Hot humid weather makes you oiler
• Moisturizers absorb slowly

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Dry skin will have the following characteristics:

• Your pores are small and fine even on nose and chin
• You have flaky areas of skin
• Skin may be transparent
• Overall dry tight feeling
• Visible surface lines before moisturization
• Rough texture
• Cold and windy weather make skin much worse

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Combination skin will have the following characteristics:

• Oiliness on the nose, chin and middle forehead
• Normal in other areas
• Medium sized pores
• Possible uneven skin tone and texture
• Occasional blemishes
• Fines lines around eyes
• May or may not react to weather changes

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Special Skin Characteristic Concerns

Skin Pigmentation

You should consider the amount of pigment your skin has when choosing products. Darker pigmented skin tones need to be careful with any skin lightening products and exfoliation methods. When darker pigmented skin is irritated, it can react by making more pigment leaving dark blotches. Not what you want!

Freckles are not the same as brown spots from age or the sun. Lighter skinned people with lots of freckles should not try to erase freckles with over the counter bleaching products or acids. You should consult a dermatologist for your specific options.

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Other factors that may affect your skin’s state:

• Hormonal changes (Pregnancy, Menopause, Thyroid)
• Internal Stress (Worry and Anxiety)
• Environmental Stress (Urban living in a high air pollution area)

Your skin can react to all of these conditions in negative ways.
If you have a rather sudden change in your skin, you should consider if hormones or stress could be the problem.

Depending on what the hormonal change in your skin is, some products may help with the symptoms. The underlying cause of course will remain until something changes internally.
Skin care products will not help internal stress reactive skin conditions,
but can help negative conditions brought on by environmental stress.

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Next - let’s identify your specific skin problems and concerns.  In other words, what do you want to improve about your skin?

What concerns you?

Your Specific Skin Problems

• I want to reduce fine lines.
• I want to reduce wrinkles.
• I want to get rid of brown spots.
• I want smoother, younger looking skin.
• I want to keep my skin healthy.
• I want stop breaking out.
• I want my skin to glow.
• I want better looking pores.
• I want my dry skin to feel comfortable.
• I want my oily skin to not to look so shiny.
• I want to find the right products to work with my sensitive skin.

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Great, you are finished with Step 2.

Lets move on and learn what anti-aging skin care ingredients
will renew and care for you skin.

Go to Step 3

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