If your skin craves an emergency chill pill, these are your SOS friends
Last week’s column was all about retinol, which commonly causes mild stinging, reddening and increased sensitivity in the first, somewhat grim, fortnight or so. It seemed logical, then, to write this week on how to calm temporarily inflamed, angry skin.
There are, of course, other occasions when your skin may crave an emergency chill pill – hay fever, an attack of rosacea, a reaction to another product, menopause, pregnancy or stress. All can leave skin in urgent need of help from what I call an SOS serum.
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