When the sun goes down, this signals your skin’s repair mechanism to kick into high gear, allowing it to heal itself and reverse damage. To maximize the benefits during this reparative phase, a dedicated evening skincare regimen right before bed, levels up your skin care health, to an even greater degree.
Since sensitive skin is highly unpredictable, an evening regimen slowly trains your skin for long-term calming benefits. Our Pitta Evening Regimen is formularized to provide proven results in just 1-2 skin cycles. Our @PVO’s simplified regimen for PM calms inflammation, restores the skin’s microbiome, and strengthens the very important pH barrier.
Here’s how your personalized SBR evening skincare set works:
Healing Sensitive Skin During Sleep
The role of a daytime regimen is different from that of a nighttime formula. While daytime skincare is mostly preventive, our Pitta evening skincare regimen for sensitive skin is ‘healing and restorative’.
So what exactly happens to your skin when you sleep? –
- The skin experiences a reparative spike during the sleep cycle.
- Surroundings are cleaner (with fewer pollutants, environmental stressors, toxic chemicals, and sun damage), which allows the pores to breathe and allows better absorption of the active ingredients.
- More blood flows to neutralize free radicals(literally ‘cellular rust’ responsible for a great deal of the signs of aging), reduce microbial/toxin overload, boost collagen production and repair DNA.
Night-time repair with a synchronized formula/ regimen highly benefits sensitive skin or rosacea patients where even the slightest trigger such as body temperature fluctuation, microbial overload, exposure to allergic ingredients, or vascular hyperactivity can cause an inflammatory reaction overnight.
Step 1: Cleansing
Cleansing effectively removes dirt, oil, environmental debris, oil, makeup, and other products from the day.
Start off your evening regimen with our gentle, non-foaming, No-detergent: SBR Cleanser that freshens and removes accumulated grime without your skin feeling stripped.
Our SBR Cleanser has a sustainably sourced Black African Soap base with organic and healing Helichrysum, Honey, Aloe Vera, Calendula, Vitamin C bioflavonoids, and other organic botanicals that quickly halts a skin flare in its tracks and detoxes the skin.
Step 2: Hydrating
Our Nighttime Hydrating/Toning removes any leftover makeup or toxins after cleansing, while improving product retention.
Our Hydrator/Toner acts by soothing, refreshing, and facilitating healing from the inside out. Neem and Salicylic Acid (from White Willow Bark) reduce skin redness. Aloe Vera, Slippery Elm, Vitamin E, and other natural botanicals optimize the hydration-balance of the skin.
Unlike occlusives and drying alcohols in toners, this product won’t clog pores, while ensuring your skin retains moisture and it’s pH skin barrier repair process.
Step 3: Serum Action for PM
Serums are the most important part of an evening skincare regimen for sensitive skin. A nighttime serum should ideally be formulated with richer and concentrated active ingredients that nourish and strengthen a compromised protective pH barrier.
Note: The components of a serum should be very wisely selected, especially when you have sensitive skin. Apart from common toxins in beauty products, avoid using concentrated ingredients like retinols, synthetically derived Vitamin C, caffeine, etc… These can sensitize the skin and further damage the compromised barrier.
Dermatologically-approved, our multitasking SBR Serum has a plethora of gentle yet clinically proven effective botanical skin-active ingredients. It absorbs quickly into your skin, not only eliminating the underlying cause of redness, but also restoring damaged tissues to combat the signs of aging.
Our SBR Serum combines Gotu Kola, Green Tea, Hawthorn Berry, Sea Buckthorn Oil, and 25+ other concentrated botanicals to provide visible skin improvement in 2-4 weeks. For the best results (especially for skin over 35), apply SBR serum after applying BioScience Peptide Complex Anti-Aging Serum.
Step 4 (Twice Weekly): Nighttime Exfoliation
When the pores are blocked or clogged, there is a much lower possibility for your skin to properly carry out the processes of repairing, breathing, and detoxing. Unclean pores/skin provide a perfect opportunity for Demodex mites or other microbes to proliferate. Thus, even with predominantly Pitta Dosha skin type, you should regularly exfoliate as directed.
Besides cleaning pores and removing cellular turnover build-up, our exfoliation mask helps mitigate rosacea/acne flares and speeds cellular turnover.
Here’s your brief guide on exfoliation for sensitive skin (learn more):
- Frequency: 2X times a week (preferably at night, post-cleansing your skin).
- Recommended product: SBR Papaya & Honey Facial Mask – made with fruit enzyme exfoliating actives.
- Products to follow: SBR Hydrator/Toner, BioScience Peptide Complex, and SBR Serum. In the next part of this series, we will guide you through the Morning Skincare Regimen for Sensitive Skin and how to get started with your personalized Pitta Dosha skincare.
In the next part of this series, we will guide you through the Morning Skincare Regimen for Sensitive Skin and how to get started with your personalized Pitta Dosha skincare.
