Skin Beauty

Sensitive Skin

Sensitive skin is really a lay term, not a medical term. It has come to mean persons who have allergic or irritant reactions to products mostly, but can also mean every now and then people who develop rashes in response to external environmental things such as plants or foods.

56% of Canadian women suffer from sensitive skin

24% report having had a reaction to cosmetics products

46.4% of women with sensitive skin also have dry skin

46.3% of women with sensitive skin have consulted a dermatologist

Tingling, tightening, cutaneous distress without visible signs.
Definitely reacts to products
Overreaction to outside factors: shaving, stress, aesthetic procedures,…
Diffuse redness, drying, recurrent irritation of the skin

Sensitive skin is often a sign for extra skin conditions. Here are 3 profiles of intolerant or sensitive skin:

Skin altered briefly because to aesthetic or dermatological procedures
Mechanical procedures: shaving, waxing, medications (accutane, retin-a type creams)
Environment: heat, cold, wind, pollution,...
Aesthetic procedures: laser, chemical peels, dermabrasion
Contact dermatitis: Impulsive appearance of erythema and edema (redness and swelling), accompanied by itchiness.
Atopic Ezema- a very usual cause



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