How do I create the perfect skincare routine for my skin?

Building the right skincare routine is the most important aspect of maintaining the health and radiance of your skin. By following a well-established routine, you help your skin protect itself from external aggressors while addressing skin concerns. If your skin is fragile, including a moisturizer for sensitive skin in your routine can provide much-needed hydration while respecting its delicate balance. But what exactly should you do? Whether you have the basics or are starting from scratch, it’s important to build your beauty routine with the best cosmetics. From cleanser to moisturizer, discover how to create the perfect skincare routine for your skin.

Your daytime skincare routine

In the morning, your skincare routine should accomplish two goals: refresh your skin after waking up and prepare it to handle the day’s daily microaggressions (pollution, excess sebum, UV rays, etc.). Whether you have combination, oily, or dry skin, it’s possible to customize an anti-aging routine tailored to your skin type to maximize its benefits.

Here’s a look at a simple morning skincare routine , including the order in which you should use your skincare products:

• Step 1: Cleanse the skin
• Step 2: Tone the skin
• Step 3: Apply a serum
• Step 4: Apply eye contour
• Step 5: Moisturize with a day cream
• Step 6: Apply sunscreen

Cleanse the face

There’s a wide range of facial cleansers to choose from, and there’s bound to be a cleanser for your skin type. For dry and sensitive skin, choose Galatée Confort Cleansing Milk, a soothing cleansing milk that removes impurities without stripping the skin. To enhance this effect, adding a moisturizer for dry skin after cleansing helps restore and maintain moisture in your skin. Combination skin? Try a moisturizer for combination skin, or the Radiance Gel, a foam cleanser with a fine, soft texture. Try the Radiance Gel, a foam cleanser with a fine, soft texture. As for Clarifique Cleansing Foam, it’s used on blemish-prone skin to tighten pores and deeply cleanse your skin.

Tone the skin

After cleansing your face, it’s time to tone it with a toner. There are a plethora of them, both spray and bottle, and they’re essential for helping you maintain beautiful skin. Toners don’t need to dry (unlike cleansers), and the best toners preserve your skin’s natural moisture.

For a nourishing toner, choose our best-selling Tonique Confort moisturizing and comforting toner, which soothes and protects the skin. To strengthen your skin against the signs of aging, choose the Absolue Rose 80 brightening and revitalizing toner .

Apply a serum according to your skin problem

Now that your skin is perfectly clean and ready to receive care, it’s time to get to work. To target your specific skin concerns, it’s best to opt for a facial serum . Here are serums for every skin concern, from dark spots and wrinkles to redness, dehydration, and blemishes.

Our best-selling Advanced Génifique is an anti-aging facial serum that contains pre- and probiotic fractions to help your skin maintain its youthful appearance. The secret to seeing visible results fast? Use it daily!

Use eye cream

The skin around the eyes is very thin and delicate, which is why it is one of the first areas to show signs of aging, such as wrinkles. Therefore, you must always use proper care when using a dedicated eye cream.

Taking care of this area also helps combat puffiness and dark circles. As this area is very fragile, it’s important to apply your eye cream with a light patting motion. Among our favorite eye treatments, we recommend the Absolute Revitalizing Eye Cream, which helps combat signs of fatigue and wrinkles and restores radiant eyes.

Apply a day cream

It’s time to move on to one of the key steps in your routine: applying a moisturizing day cream. Indeed, moisturizing your face is essential for maintaining beautiful skin. Remember to adapt your cream according to your skin type: a cream for dry skin, for example, is more nourishing than a cream for combination or oily skin. To fight the signs of aging, we recommend Crème Fondante Absolue, an exceptional anti-aging cream that hydrates, regenerates, and illuminates the skin.

Protect your skin with sunscreen

O.vercast? Bright sunshine? No matter the weather, sun protection should always be part of a skincare routine, as studies show that sun exposure is responsible for 80% of the signs of aging, including wrinkles, sagging skin, and dark spots. The same goes if you’re indoors, as windows generally don’t offer enough protection against UV rays, especially UVA rays, which are responsible for the premature appearance of signs of aging. It’s therefore strongly recommended to follow your daily skincare with a facial sunscreen.

Your nighttime skincare routine

Adopting a nighttime skincare routine is essential for maintaining beautiful skin for several reasons. First, at night, the skin barrier is more permeable, which means formulas can optimally work on the skin’s surface. Second, nighttime is when the skin is most active: it repairs cells damaged during the day and creates new cells, produces more collagen and elastin, responsible for its firmness and elasticity, but also becomes dehydrated.

• Step 1: Use makeup remover and cleanser
• Step 2: Exfoliate the skin
• Step 3: Tone the skin
• Step 4: Apply a mask
• Step 5: Apply a serum
• Step 6: Use an eye cream
• Step 7: Finish with a night cream

Cleanse and remove makeup from your skin perfectly

Removing makeup and cleansing your skin is essential to allow the epidermis to breathe, better absorb care products, a nd, above all, to avoid the appearance of imperfections, redness, and signs of aging.

First, remove facial makeup with a cleansing milk like Galatée Confort or a micellar water like Eau Micellaire Douceur. For the eyes, unless you want to wake up with raccoon eyes, opt for a makeup remover specially designed for this delicate area, like our Bi-Facil Eye Makeup Remover. Not only do makeup removers like this one effectively remove all types of makeup, including waterproof makeup, but they do so without harming thin skin, sensitive eyes, or contact lens wearers. And this is very important, because pulling and rubbing the eye area to clean it can damage the epidermis around the eyes over time.

Then, cleanse your skin with a gentle cleanser that leaves skin soft and perfectly clean, without feeling tight.

Exfoliate the skin

After cleansing, exfoliate your skin. Exfoliation involves removing dead skin cells from the skin’s surface to promote skin renewal. A common method is to use a scrub, also known as mechanical exfoliation. Our rose sugar scrub gently removes dead skin cells and impurities with real sugar grains. How often you use it depends on your skin type: dry or sensitive skin should exfoliate once every two weeks, those with oily skin can exfoliate once or twice a week, and those with normal skin can exfoliate once a week.

Just like you do in the morning, reapply your toner to complete makeup removal and cleansing while also comforting your skin. The order in which you apply your skincare products is always important, even for your evening routine.

Apply a face mask

A one-time treatment to be applied once or twice a week after toner, target your skin concerns with a mask. The mask allows the active ingredients to diffuse deep into the skin while acting on the surface. Hydrating, purifying, anti-aging, radiance… thTherere a multitude of masks for every need. You can opt for a sheet mask to leave on for a few minutes for convenience or a classic cream mask to leave on for fifteen to twenty minutes.

Apply a serum according to your skin type.

Serums are designed to deliver effective formulas that work quickly and deeply. For this reason, this treatment should be a mainstay in your nighttime skincare routine. Apply Advanced Génifique Serum to your face and neck to enjoy its anti-aging benefits and give meaning to the phrase “beauty sleep.”

Use an eye cream

Take care of your eye area while you sleep, too. Gently pat on your eye cream to wake up with fresh, bright eyes. You can use your morning eye cream or switch to a different eye cream to target other eye concerns.

Apply a night cream

Night cream is your last beauty step before bed. It tends to be richer than your day cream to help truly nourish your skin while you sleep. Wake up to fresh, hydrated skin with a rich night cream like our Rénergie Multi-Lift Night Cream. It’s enriched with anti-aging ingredients to hydrate skin, reduce the appearance of wrinkles, and tighten skin texture. Looking for a more soothing nighttime treatment? Then Hydra Zen Nuit Night Cream is for you!