Get To REALLY Know Your Skin Type With Our Advanced Skin Quiz

There are lots of quizzes online that help you determine if you have oily or dry skin, but there’s a lot more to your skin type than just how much oil your skin produces. Skin pigmentation, tightness, and sensitivity also play important roles in what kind of acne you’re likely to experience, and more importantly, what type of acne treatment will work best for you.

To learn more about how these differences affect your skin, watch the video below, and to determine your skin type, take our comprehensive skin quiz.

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In hot and dry weather, or during the winter when you heat your home with a forced-air furnace, if you don’t use moisturizer, the skin of your face:

So shiny that you see glare off your face.

Very shiny, as if you had rubbed oil on the skin of your cheeks and forehead.

Healthy and hydrated.

Just a little tight, with no visible pores.

Flaky, gray, or ash-colored, or rough, red, and irritated.

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Putting It All Together

The skin type quizzes tell you whether your skin has a tendency to be oily or dry, sensitive or resistant, tight or loose, and pigmented or non-pigmented. Knowing your skin type helps you choose products that have the ingredients that are best for your skin. There are some ingredients that are almost always helpful and other ingredients that are almost harmful, but which products are harmful or helpful depends on your skin type.

Here is an overview of product ingredients that can help you choose the right acne care products for your individual skin type. Click the link below describing your skin type to jump directly to  the personalized recommendations:

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Skin Characteristics

Which Skin Types Respond Best to Exposed Skin Care?

If you have read many pages on this site, you know that we often—although not always—recommend Exposed Skin Care for treating acne. They offer a collection of products that work together a lot better than any single treatment for acne for a much smaller expense, for most people.

Who shouldn’t focus on other products instead of Exposed Skin Care? If you have acne, chances are you will get a good response to Exposed Skin Care. And if you happen to have one of the skin types that isn’t an ideal match for Exposed Skin Care (such as oily resistant, loose, pigmented skin), chances are that acne really is not your most important skin problem. If you have acne, try Exposed Skin Care.

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How Understanding Your Skin Leads to Better Acne Treatment

When it comes to acne treatment, it’s important to understand your skin in and out. Is your skin oily or dry? Sensitive, or resistant? Loose, or tight? Heavily pigmented, lightly pigmented, or somewhere in between? All of these properties affect how your skin reacts to various acne treatments, and the better you know your skin, the better it will look.

You can find a wide variety of articles out there discussing the differences between oily skin and dry skin, sensitive skin and resistant skin, and so on, so we’ll only cover those topics briefly before digging into the most important aspect of this article: racial differences in acne skin care. For more information on dry acne-prone skin, sensitive acne-prone skin, and more, check out the video and skin quiz above.

The biggest difference between oily and dry skin is how much oil the skin produces. If you produce more oil, your face is likely shiny and you may have more pimples than blackheads or whiteheads. If you produce less oil, your skin may be flaky and you may have more clogged pores than pimples.

Skin sensitivity is a wide spectrum. Many people fall somewhere in the middle, and their skin improves most when they figure out what products or ingredients irritate their skin, and avoid them. Your may be sensitive to something in your current skin care products if your skin stings or turns red after application.

Finally, it’s important to know whether your skin is tight or loose, because it helps determine which kinds of products you should include in your daily routine. If you have relatively loose skin (take the skin quiz above to find out) you may benefit from adding a toner to your routine, but if you have tight skin, moisturizer would be more helpful.