The minute you dry up excess oil on your skin your body responds by producing more oil to compensate for the dryness. You apply more drying products, and the cycle continues. Soon you have created a hard, dry surface which traps the oil underneath where it clogs pores and causes blackheads. Bacteria thrive here and cause breakouts. The constant over-stimulation of the oil glands and the daily irritation and drying of the skin cause a pink coloration which is often misdiagnosed as sensitive skin or rosacea.

Most skin care regimens have no exfoliation, or too much. If you never exfoliate, you will never have a fresh, dewy, young-looking skin because old skin cells and impurities will continue to accumulate on your face.

If you think you need to be aggressive in fighting aging, you might use harsh chemicals like Retin-A and glycolics, which dry, irritate and sensitize the skin over time. And letting everything build up for a month or two or six and then doing a drastic method like microdermabrasion or medical peels only makes your skin cry out for help.

What you need is a mild, daily exfoliation with no harsh ingredients that works in harmony with the skin’s natural process, like The Simone France Sandwich®.

The beauty industry goes in pendulum swings. Something is found to be good for the skin, and if a little bit is good the assumption is that more is better. Soon that good ingredient or procedure is overused, and skin reacts badly to the overdose, so it is jettisoned as “bad” or “old-fashioned” and we deprive our skin of something really good.

A great example of this is soap. It is the world’s best cleansing agent. True, using just soap and water will dry your skin. But when used in a common sense method like The Simone France Sandwich®, this fantastic cleanser will never dry your skin and you will be amazed at how fresh and glowing your skin will be every day.