And all of a sudden… you’re thirty. After quickly sliding through your teen years, your twenties also have flown by. Whether you’re building your career at full speed, traveling the world, or being busy generating and raising little humans, it doesn’t do much for your energy… except consuming it. You may start noticing your skin changing, and you may want to do something about it. If that’s your case, you may like to embrace a skincare routine for your 30s.
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Why is my skin changing?
By now, we are pretty sure you have already noticed a few changes on your skin. You look as good as always, and you can already spot a few lines on the forehead, and the skin around the eyes may reveal that you smile a lot. Skin cell turnover slows down its pace and the skin starts to lose elastin and collagen. Looking forward to guiding you, and knowing how your skin is behaving, we gathered the fundamentals to integrate your anti-aging routine! Grab a pen—or take a screenshot!
The basics for an anti-aging routine
To begin with, let us introduce you to your lifetime basic skincare rules: protect your skin in the morning and repair your skin in the evening. Even if you’re not fully committed, there are two things that you kind of owe to your skin: applying SPF daily (like in every single day, 365 days of the year), and washing your face at night. If you’re not doing it, your skin may silently resent you. It is never too early to start protecting your skin from external damage, and SPF should be your skin’s best friend for life. The sooner, the better! Now is the time to replenish your skin with a tailored skincare routine for 30s.
In this post, we’re suggesting a simple, 4-step skincare routine that goes about cleansing, mild exfoliation (with a toner), a serum, and sunscreen. It would be ideal to go with different products for morning and evening, so we’re suggesting the steps as well as our suggestions of products for each step. We just want to make it simple for you: a skincare routine for 30s doesn’t need to be complicated.
Morning skincare routine
We want to make sure our skin is protected to resist all the aggressions it’s going to suffer: pollution, UVA and UVB rays as well as Infrared radiation, to mention a few. You are in a hurry, no time to lose! So here are the basics for an anti-aging routine: a good cleanser, an exfoliating toner, an antioxidant serum and a high SPF to further protect the skin. If you are invested in the skincare project and willing to do it all, we also recommend you to add an eye cream to brighten your look, like the Filorga NCEF-Reverse Eyes, and a comforting and hydrating moisturizer such as Clarins Multi-Active Glow Boosting Day Cream, especially if you have dry skin.
Let’s see the basics, step by step:
Step 1: Cleanser
Gentle and thorough are the keywords for this step! A rinse-off product is always a good way to wake up and say good morning to the skin. The mild formula suggested below, suitable even for sensitive and delicate skin, allows an ultra-gentle cleanse that leaves your skin fresh and comfortable. Make sure to pick a cleanser that matches your skin needs!
Step 2: Toner
The toner helps to balance your skin after cleansing and this one, particularly, helps to hydrate the skin while gently exfoliating. We suggest that you pick a lightly exfoliating product, as it helps keep the skin texture smooth while being gentle.
Step 3: Serum
Try an antioxidant concentrate that protects the skin from pollution and harmful free radicals that want to attack your delicate skin. You are shielding your face for the day, and this is the base layer!
Step 4: Sunscreen
The one and only, the powerful warrior that fights anything that dares to threaten your skin: the sunscreen. We cannot stress enough the importance of this step. Don’t forget to apply it on your ears and eyes; the formula we’re suggesting doesn’t sting the eyes as is perfect for every day!
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Evening anti-aging routine
The skin surface is a professional hoarder—it keeps everything just in case: pollution particles, impurities, free radicals, your once-fresh makeup look, the SPF you applied in the morning, and so on. You have to rinse your day off the skin and, equally important, provide it with repairing actives to enhance the natural overnight renewal process. In the evening, the skin deserves an invaluable gift: a deep cleanse and powerful skincare!
Step 1: Double Cleanse
In order to efficiently cleanse, you must break down everything that the skin decided to keep. Firstly, you need to use an oil-based cleanser to dissolve your makeup and your sunscreen—along with all the impurities.
Secondly, you need a light water-based cleanser to efficiently cleanse and purify the skin—you can use your morning gentle foaming cleanser we’ve already suggested above. Lastly, refresh your skin with a splash of water, and your double cleansing is done!
Step 2: Anti-Aging Serum
Have you ever heard of retinol? No, you are not too young for it. Retinol helps to stimulate collagen production while accelerating cellular turnover. We chose a retinol concentrate that is gentle and provides the skin with comfort at the same time.
Even though the skin of the body is more resistant, it also deserves to be pampered. Here’s an extra tip: don’t forget your full body skincare routine; that should be a natural extention of your skincare routine for 30s! If you’re curious about the next decade, you may like to check our post about skincare for women in their 40s!
