To make intelligent decisions about your skin care product, it is imperative to know your skin type. What kind of skin type you have determines which soap, makeup, and sunscreen you can use, and which you can’t. Know your biggest organ, and then only you can help it to perform its function.

Four Types Of Skin

Skin can be broadly divided into four types:

Normal Skin

Soft, elastic and firm to the touch, normal skin is characterized by small to meduim sized pores. Needing no special care unless exposed to detrimental environmental factors, it is a standard type of skin that we all should have.
 

Oily Skin

Mostly seen in teenagers, oily skin has a shiny look. Firmer than normal skin, it is marked by more visible and large pores. It is more prone to development of pimples due to excess oil produced by glands.

Dry Skin

This type of skin is less likely to develop pimples due to less secretion of oil. Even though it is firmer than your normal skin, it lacks elasticity. If you do not have dry skin, but you feel the tightenss in it, identifying the source may lead you to the root of the problem. Usually soaps, heating, exposure to wind, or lack of water consumption may contribute to certain disorders and dryness of your skin. Dry skin wrinkles sooner than the other types.

Sensitive Skin

If you have sensitive skin, you know it by now. Rashes on applying cosmetics, burning easily in the sun and wind, irritation by almost anything are all signs that you have sensitive skin.

Combination Skin

Combination skin, as the name says, means that different parts of the same person’s body consists of different skin types. An example is your T-Zone where your forehead, nose and chin forming a T-Zone have oily type skin, while your cheeks are dry or normal.