Autumn Skin Update

1. Hydrate – Inside & Out

As the weather gets cooler and less humid, and heaters start drying out indoor air, ensure you are keeping up your hydration to help prevent facial dryness and breakouts. This means drinking enough water, and consuming nutritious and hydrating foods. Claudia also suggests reassessing your intake of essential fatty acids (or even better, getting them assessed by a Nutritionist!). This may lead to supplements or consuming more walnuts, chia seeds, sardines, linseed etc. The skin must also be hydrated topically. Hyaluronic acid in its various forms, is ideal as this is considered a humectant which attracts moisture to the skin like a magnet.

If you add one product to your Autumn skincare routine, make it the KOSHO Full Hydration Serum which combines FOUR types of hyaluronic acid with hydrating prickly pear extract for the ultimate skin-hydration and -plumping boost. TIP: apply it to still slightly damp skin for best results!

3. Add Eye & Lip Cream

If it's not already a part of your skincare ritual, then now is the time to (re-)introduce an eye cream. This will not only add necessary moisture and protection against cooler, drier weather around the sensitive eye area, but can give an added skin-rejuvenation boost. For example skin-smoothing spilanthol (paracress extract), rejuvenating matcha extract and balancing tsubaki oil as in the KOSHO Eye Lifting Serum (TIP: this cream is also ideal to use on nasolabial lines). Or with ingredients such as anti-inflammatory hemp seed oil as in the Biotulin eyeMATRIX Eye Cream to reduce puffiness and redness around the eyes.

The lips are obviously part of your face, and chapped, dry lips are uncomfortable. The naturally effective Spirularin HS Lip/Cold Sore Cream is gentle enough to be used by anybody (even children) as daily lip care. 

5. Exfoliate Less – Mask More

While KOSHO Multi-Effect Peeling has an "oil-gel" consistency which nourishes the skin, and is suitable even for sensitive skin, Autumn should be more about keeping the skin balanced and improving the skin protection barrier. So instead of a "mechanical" exfoliation like the peeling, try the deeply nourishing and healing skinicer Repair Mask with the unique Spiralin microalgae extract. Natural astringents such as organic willow bark and witch hazel extract gently exfoliate without rubbing, and grape seed and organic apricot kernel oil deeply nourish, leaving skin soft and saturated.