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It’s pretty easy to figure out if you have dry or oil skin. But what about ‘combination’ skin? What even is that!? And ‘normal’ skin types; what classifies as ‘normal’!? And my partner thinks I can be a little bit ‘sensitive’ sometimes, but does that carry over to my skin type? Let us simplify it all for you with our breakdown of the 5 main skin types so that you can figure out which type you are so you can then make more informed decisions with your skincare purchases.

With Summer coming to an end (sad face) and a change in humidity, now is the time we should be paying a little extra attention to our skincare routine. The warmer seasons tend to spoil our skin with extra humidity, making it naturally more moisturised. But when the seasons change and the cooler weather hits, the air turns drier and so does our skin! We’re more likely to experience dryness and flakiness on your skin, especially if you're prone to eczema or other dry skin conditions.

Put simply: Our skin likes consistency, so when factors change quickly, it's like a shock to the system. It's not the temperature alone that causes these skin woes, either. Coupled with lifestyle changes people make as it gets cooler, such as taking hot showers and switching our air con to heating, that contributes to extra dryness and inflammation.

So Josh (King of Scrubba Body) and I (Hayley) have a podcast. It's called Got a Queery? and each episode we talk to queer entrepreneurs about life, how they got to where they're at and everything in between. Oh and did I mention we're drinking cocktails the whole time?

RECYCLE – PROPERLY! We all have recycling bins at our houses, the thing is that most of us aren’t using them properly. Firstly, NEVER put a plastic bag in your recycling bin. It pretty much renders everything else you’ve sorted redundant. Secondly, make sure you take the caps and rings off plastic bottles (and always cut the rings so they don’t get stuck on some poor unassuming animal). The plastic used for bottle caps is not recyclable, so make sure you put them in the rubbish.

Something that doesn't get talked about very much when we talk about summer and making sure we don't get sunburnt is what are we putting on our bodies when we lather ourselves up with sunscreen. Sunscreen is very important to us Aussies. We should be wearing it every day, on our faces and everywhere that isn't covered by clothes. But are there better types of sunscreen we could be using? Yes.

For first blog for the year and I wanted to keep it fun and summer themed. As the weather has shockingly been turning it on here in Newy over the last week (La Niña who???), indoor activities are out and sunshine, and outdoor fun and in!

However as much as we try our hardest to SLIP, SLOP, SLAP! We can never be too careful with our skin, especially here in Australia with that bloody great big hole in the ozone layer.

Enter Vitamin E.

 

Vitamin E is a tried and true ingredient in body and face moisturisers and there’s a good reason for that. It works. We traditionally know vitamin E as a treatment for scars, skin discolourations and anti-aging but did you know that it helps prevent and heal sunburn? Here are some Vitamin E tidbits to solidify why it really is the queen of ‘must have’ skin care ingredients.