How to know if a SKIN CARE product will be good for your skin? Try Patch Testing

Patch test is a simple DIY (Do It Yourself) process that allows you to monitor your skins response to skin care products. It allows you to carefully test the products effectiveness without risking damage to  your entire face or other sensitive parts of your body.

How does it work?

·         Choose any area on your body for the patch test. 

The neck or back of your fore-arm are preferable

·         Apply the test product on this selected area only

·         Monitor your skins reaction over 24 hours to a few days until you have determined your skins response to the product

·         Analyze the condition of the test area and decide if you would like to continue full use of the product or discard it altogether

·         If you decide to discard then discontinue the process and wash off the product. If the reaction is severe use milk of magnesia, yogurt or any other cleansing treatment to flush the area.

      

      The test can be adjusted to suit your particular circumstances or skin type. I think the inside of the hand is a good test area because it is usually exposed to sunlight which is a factor in determining the safety of your product. This test is import for facial products like day creams, night creams, cleansers and spot creams.

Note* This process is not meant to replicate patch tests which are clinical procedures performed  by dermatologists.