Intolerances and allergies
Whatever your skin type, specific factors might trigger or lead to oversensitivity: Your skin reacts strongly when you’d rather it didn’t…

Sensitivity, intolerance, allergy ?
Many of you have sensitive skin, but in varying degrees. It is, however, important to make a difference between sensitive and sensitized (or allergic) skin.
SENSITIVE SKIN AND INTOLERANT SKIN
Sensitive skin
- Fine, light, often a little dry, gets red easily.
- It itches, feels tight, gets hot…
- The sun is a known aggressor for the skin, specially light skin.
- Cold and wind are also difficult on light skin.
- Cleansers that include irritating surfactants
- Acne treatments with a gentle peeling effect
The skin doesn’t feel any relief, on the contrary, it is traumatized by these ill-suited products.
Sometimes, your skin reacts excessively to the slightest aggression; it cannot stand anything and becomes intolerant. It itches, feels tight, gets red, scaly. In this case, it is time to choose products containing very few ingredients.
Sensitized or allergic skin
- An allergy is caused by an immunological response (to an allergen).
- Obvious clinical symptoms can be observed on the skin: Red patches with small eczema bumps, strong itching, swelling and oozing along with more or less intense pruritus.
- If you experience allergic reactions, consult your physician without delay; Through allergy testing, he will look for and find the substance that causes your reaction.