FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT SKIN TYPES ANSWERED
Preferentially you should always choose skin care that matches both your specific needs and skin type – no matter your age, gender or ethnicity. For example, if you have dry skin you need to have a richer formula to strengthen the skin barrier that easily gets disrupted as your skin gets dry. If you tend to have oily skin you will need a lighter texture to avoid shine and further clogging of pores that may cause acne and blemishes.
Usually we talk about dry skin, sensitive skin, normal skin and oily skin. But all complexions are unique and there are of course combinations and intermediates.
Your skin type and conditions may change over time and over season due to hormonal changes and extrinsic (external) factors such as pollution and lifestyle (diet, stress etc.) and climate changes. Therefore, it could be relevant to adapt your products from time to time to meet these changed needs. For example, to choose a richer moisturizing cream in winter time when the air is dryer, or adding extra UV protection during the summer.
No, we would say that a good skin care routine is important for all skin types. This includes cleansing, rehydration, daily protection, together with skin rejuvenation and soothing night treatments. It is also important to include serums targeting specific ageing needs. However, the formulas should be adapted to meet the needs of the different skin types.
We recommend adapting the routine to your individual needs, and it is fine to add on or exchange products if you during some periods have dryer or more oily skin.
We have launched the novAge quiz on our website. https://ng.oriflame.com/novage-quiz
The quiz is designed to give your customers the best recommendation of the NovAge set based on their skin concern and priorities.
SKINCARE CLAIMS: FACT OR MYTH?
FACT OR MYTH?
#1 YOU CAN INFLUENCE 80% OF YOUR SKIN AGEING
FACT! Of course, we inherit certain skin characteristics genetically but as much as 80% of skin ageing is actually down to lifestyle and environmental factors like UV radiation, pollution, smoking. The moral? Take good care of your skin by following a Skin Care Routine morning and evening and you can write your own skin story!
FACT OR MYTH?
#2 DRINK LOTS OF WATER FOR BEAUTIFUL SKIN
MYTH! Of course, you should drink plenty of water for your overall health and wellbeing but as far as your skin goes, if you need extra skin hydration it has to be applied topically through skin care products. The only time you might see a difference in your skin from drinking water is if your body was really dehydrated to begin with. The moral? Use serum and moisturizer morning and evening to make sure your skin gets plenty of hydration.
FACT OR MYTH?
#3 YOU CAN SHRINK ENLARGED PORES
MYTH! Enlarged pores can be genetic, or be caused by an accumulation of excess oil or impurities clogging them, which makes them stretch. Deeply cleaning and purifying the pores will make them appear smaller. Just like the rest of your skin, the ability of stretched pores to bounce back diminishes with age so pores can look larger the older you get. The moral? Cleanse and tone morning and evening to keep your pores clean and clear.
FACT OR MYTH?
#4 AGE IS IRRELEVANT IN ANTI-AGEING SKIN CARE
FACT! Everyone’s skin is unique! Skin ageing signs appear at different times depending on your ethnicity, genetics, environmental factors and lifestyle choices. So while age can be used as a useful reference point you should try and choose your anti-ageing skin care based on your ageing signs.
FACT OR MYTH?
#5MOISTURISERS MAKE OILY SKIN OILIER
MYTH! All skin needs to be moisturized! Oily skin can still be dry or dehydrated – imbalance of oil and moisture. Choose skin care that addresses this imbalance, delivering deep hydration and helping to eliminate excess oil. The moral? Use skin care suited for your skin type and need.
Your Questions About Ultimate Lift Answered
Novage Ultimate Lift is unique because of Oriflame’s patented technology, AspartoLift, delivering 70% skin bounce in 12 weeks.
A patented technology is a way to protect the uniqueness of a discovery against others copying it. Patents often add value to a discovery, proving it is a true innovation.
AspartoLift, is a cosmetic active ingredient, named Acetyl aspartic acid. AspartoLift acts on the skin’s dermal layer. It rejuvenates the fibroblasts by reducing their cellular rigidity, which is known to increase with age. It also stimulates the production of elastic fibers that also decrease as we age.
Fibroblasts are the cells of the dermis. They are responsible for the production of collagen and elastin, which help give the skin its unique mechanical properties of elasticity and resistance.
Elastin is one of the most important elastic fibers in the dermis and helps give skin its elastic properties.
Collagen is the main structural protein in the dermis and helps give skin its strength.
Retinol is an efficient active ingredient. But it’s also known to be an irritant and sometimes creates intolerance to creams containing retinol. AspartoLift is as active as retinol – even more so I would say – while being highly tolerated by the skin.
Yes, AspartoLift is an Oriflame patented technology and is exclusive to Oriflame and Ultimate lift.
The main claim for Ultimate Lift is to give back your skin’s bounce, with a firming and lifting effect. But it also delivers great anti-wrinkle benefits, thanks to plant stem cell technologies.
Sagging skin is a loss of skin elasticity (we lose about 1% each year) combined with the effect of gravity. It appears in your 40s.
The clinical test demonstrated an increase in the skin’s bounce by 70% within 12 weeks, as well as significant wrinkle reduction. Ultimately, you can expect firmer, lifted and younger-looking skin.
You’ll experience great moisturising effects straight away. Then you’ll see more benefits after four weeks and enjoy the full effects after 12 weeks.
You can continue to use your existing products. But we recommend switching to NovAge Ultimate Lift, as it’s designed to be the most effective when following the Youth Enhancing Skin Care Routine.
Your Questions About NovAge Answered
Yes, NovAge is relevant for all skin types.
Your age gives you an indication, but it is more important to identify your main skin concerns and choose a range that targets them.
You can continue to use your existing products, but we recommend switching to NovAge as it is designed to be most effective when using the set of six products, following the Youth Enhancing Skin Care Routine.
The NovAge skin care system targets the 12 skin-ageing signs that matter most – that is the signs that directly correlate to a negative age perception.
Plant stem cells are bio-technology used to produce natural extracts in a very sustainable manner, in a highly concentrated form. Depending on the original plant, they can possess various anti-ageing activities.
A clinical study involves volunteers testing a product for a given period of time. The benefits brought by the product are objectively measured using various technical methods.
Clinically proven means that the claims to substantiate the benefits of the product are coming from a clinical test with objective measurements. Such clinical proof is a guarantee for the consumer that the product is really efficient.
NovAge is powered either by natural plant technologies or nature-inspired technologies. Innovative means that these technologies are the result of ground-breaking research.
Your Questions About Ecollagen Answered
The patented technology behind Ecollagen and the proven clinical results make this range really unique. It’s built around a combination of an patented technology and a plant stem cell extract that together target and fight wrinkles.
This patented technology is a combination of three peptides. It actively inhibits collagen degradation and thus fights wrinkle formation.
Plant stem cells are the immortal source of all plant cells. Using the latest advances in biotechnology, we study the stem cells of thousands of plants to identify those with anti-ageing properties, and then isolate the compounds that deliver the most potent effect. This is plant stem cell extract.
Solanaceae Plant Stem Cell extract boosts the synthesis of new collagen by 200%, in vitro. It re-plumps the skin from within, reducing the appearance of wrinkles.
Yes, as the Tri-Peptide Technology is a patent. No one else has that technology.
NovAge Ecollagen has been clinically proven to reduce wrinkles by 33% after regular use for 12 weeks. It also gives your skin great daily miniaturisation.
Yes, by avoiding excessive sun exposure and following a moisturising daily skin care routine.
The skin is a very dynamic organ. In young skin we have a controlled and balanced production of new collagen and degradation of old collagen. As we age, it becomes unbalanced and collagen production slows while existing levels degrade. The result is a deficit of collagen, which turns into visible wrinkles. Excessive sun exposure and smoking increases wrinkle formation further.
If fine lines become more and more prominent and turn into wrinkles, then Ecollagen is the skin care range for you.
Your skin care problems solved
PROBLEM: DRY & PATCHY SKIN
Solution: “Avoid washing your face with soaps and very hot or cold water. Instead, use a moisturising cleanser that has a milk consistency. Exfoliate twice a week to smooth-over patchiness, preparing your skin for moisturising. And apply a nourishing serum under your day and night cream every day.”
PROBLEM: ADULT ACNE
Solution: “Three tips: cleanse your face with a gentle cleanser; use a lightweight moisturiser; exfoliate regularly.”
PROBLEM: VERY VISIBLE PORES
Solution: “Pores don’t have muscles, so they can’t open and close. But, cleansing twice a day and scrubbing with a cleansing device will free them of impurities, making pores appear smaller. Purifying clay masks are a gentle way to remove oil from clogged pores.”
PROBLEM: UNDER-EYE BAGS
Solution: “The under-eye skin is delicate so a good eye cream is essential. Apply your eye cream with a rollerball or use a light tapping massage to reduce puffiness and dark circles. Don’t wash off makeup with hot water as this can result in irritation. Instead, make sure you use a good eye makeup remover and take off your makeup gently – rubbing at your eyes will cause inflammation and capillary damage.”
PROBLEM: REDNESS
Solution: “Avoid extreme hot and cold water as this can damage capillaries and increase flushing. If you suffer from redness you’re likely to be particularly sensitive to the sun, so wear a day cream with high SPF or try to avoid the sun all together. Easily irritated skin will respond well to a calming mask.”
PROBLEM: SCARS & BROWN SPOTS
Solution: “Sun exposure can lead to brown spots, so a day cream with a high SPF is an essential prevention technique. Treat scars with oils or products that contain Vitamin E.”
PROBLEM: FINE LINES
Solution: “Fine lines are a sign of ageing skin, and UV exposure speeds up the ageing process, so a good day cream with high SPF is key. Use an anti-ageing serum and a specialised day and night cream daily. Make sure your skin is kept hydrated by drinking plenty of water.
Why You Need a Skin Care Routine
Why do you need to follow a skin care routine?
Different products are formulated to address different issues. Following a full routine will ensure that you skin is properly cleansed, moisturized and treated to give you the best results as fast as possible.
What products does a set include?
To ensure that skin is properly treated and to get optimum results, we recommend four steps: cleanser, toner, eye cream, serum, day and night cream.
What’s the difference between a cleanser and a toner
Proper cleansing and toning cleans your face and prepares your skin to absorb the products that follow. Whilst cleansing removes impurities, excess oil and dead skin cells, toning takes-off the final traces of makeup. Toning also tightens the skin to minimize the appearance of pores and balances the skin’s pH levels.
To ensure that skin is properly treated and to get optimum results, we recommend four steps: cleanser, toner, eye cream, serum, day cream and night cream.”
Why is applying eye cream the second step in the routine?
Eye creams have a lighter texture than day or night creams, which are far richer. These heavier products would prevent eye cream from absorbing effectively and giving you the results you desire.
But why do you only apply eye-cream to the under eye area and not the lid?
The truth is, you don’t need to. Your eyelids naturally produce oils that keep them adequately moisturised – plus most of the signs of ageing sit around the eyes and under them.
So, the order in which you apply products is important then?
Yes. You want to clean skin first and then treat it. The general rule is this: the heavier the texture, the later it should be applied.
We shouldn’t skip the serum then?
Definitely not. Serums have a high concentration of active ingredients such as antioxidants, acids and vitamins. Their light texture delivers nutrients faster and deeper into the skin than a moisturiser can.
Why can’t I just use my day cream overnight?
Our skin follows a natural cycle. In the day it’s fighting aggressors and in the night it’s restoring from them. The products you wear need to complement this cycle. Day cream for example normally contains SPF to protect you from the sun’s harmful rays, whilst night cream is richer to nourish the skin while you sleep.
Are all the steps as important as one other?
The products within the routine are formulated to work together, in a specific order, to give you the best results. When we promote claims like “33% wrinkle reduction” in relation to Ecollagen, we are referring to the clinical test results from using our products as part of a daily routine over a three-month period.
How soon should we expect to see results from following a skin care routine?
All of our clinical tests are conducted over a 12week period, so our claims reflect this. But please remember that everyone is different. Genes and lifestyle factors like exposure to the sun, diet and pollution can all impact how fast or slow you show results.
Skin Brightening Explained
Skin lightening creams are designed to reduce skin discolouration caused by sun exposure, age, disease or acne scarring.
Skin colouration is a result of melanin distribution on the skin. Melanin is produced by specialised skin cells called melanocytes; the more melanin produced, the darker your skin tone.
Skin brighteners do the following: They reduce melanin production in melanocytes, correct skin tone and treat visible dark spots. These products target discoloured areas where melanin is more prominent and prevent future dark spot formation.
Skin brighteners can be used by anyone experiencing hyperpigmentation or skin discolouration. You can experience this concern at any age, but as you get older the problem may become more pronounced. As an even skin tone is associated with younger looking skin, skin brightening products may feel of relevance to people with anti-ageing requirements.
“Skin brighteners correct skin tone, target discoloured areas and prevent future dark spot formation”
The Novage Bright Sublime range, as it combines brightening and anti-ageing properties!
SKIN PURGING
When beginning a new product, it’s normal for your skin to have an adverse reaction, but if it doesn’t resolve in six weeks, see a dermatologist.
🎤Skin purging is when a new skincare product causes the skin to break out, flake, or peel.
🎤Skin purging is different from a regular breakout because it will resolve in about six weeks.
🎤To ease skin purging, moisturize, wear SPF, and gradually introduce new products.
When introducing a new skincare product into your routine, you can sometimes experience an adverse reaction like an increase in breakouts or dry, flaky skin. While this may seem like you should stop using a new product, it may actually be a sign that it’s working. This process is known as skin purging.
However, because skin purging has similar symptoms to breakouts, it may be hard to tell the difference. But, examining the duration of the breakouts, where they’re located, and what type of product you’re using can help.
Skin purging occurs because newly introduced skincare ingredients increase the rate at which your skin cells turnover, causing you to shed more dead skin cells than usual. This, in turn, pushes layers of dead skin off and also brings clogged pores to the surface, Chang says, resulting in more breakouts.
Skin purging symptoms
🌹Whiteheads
🌹Blackheads
🌹Papules
🌹Cysts
🌹Dryness
🌹Peeling or flaking
What this means is that Skin Purging is very normal and take about 6 weeks to clear out.
Do not be conclude that this products are not working just because you are having breakouts. A good skincare results involves patient and consistency.
Skin purging may be intense and make you second guess if you should continue using a product, but understand that this process is temporary and a sign that the product is working.
Our Products do not darken people except the person’s skin is undergoing skin purging or she previously lightened her skin with harsh Products.
If our Products ever darkened you, its not our Products fault. 🤷♀️
Let’s always understand that👌
For those of you who usually say this, “when I started using that cream, I darkened”………
(Apparently after you have switched from a bleaching/chemically based cream to a nature-based cream).
Let me explain to you how your bleaching/chemically based creams work!!!
I will do this in very simple/layman’s terms for you to understand it!!!
Those bleaching/chemical creams have chemicals in them that are targeted towards suppressing melanin production!!! Melanin is what gives us the dark pigment on our skin. And this helps to protect us from the harmful effect of the sun. Even the fair ones amongst us have it. It’s only albinos, who don’t, reason they need extra care and are adversely affected by exposure to sun!!!
Now as you rub these creams, melanin is suppressed and:
👉you appear whiter
👉skin more sensitive
👉 you step out under the sun you begin to have burning sensations that eventually leave you with sunburnt skin 🤷♀️
Well, you understood the game and try to stay out of the sun, functioning from air-conditioned House, to air-conditioned car, to air-conditioned office.
Then those who can’t afford this lifestyle yet will still go and join in the bleaching and be jumping bus 😁.
Hello, once you stop that your bleaching cream, the melanin suppressed comes rushing back to the surface of the skin, giving you all the doses of melanin, you had missed, hence the darkening.
I love to call it FACTORY RESET 😁
Well, truth is, try switching from chemically based products, to any safe nature-based brand. Infact, let’s even start with something like (shea butter), or original coconut oil(not organic people’s own 🙄), aunty, you go fes dark.
But with time, your skin begins to be replenished from the nature-based nutrients, then it begins to get healthier and glow. You won’t get white, but you will glow in your own skin and your skin will be brighter too.
Whiter skin can never be equated with a HEALTHY GLOWING SKIN!!!
Remember, your skin is the only thing that starts life with you and stays with you till your dying day and a little beyond, so guard it jealously.
You can’t change it like your clothes or shoes or hair.
🤷♀️
Also, whatever you apply on your skin sips through your pores into your blood stream and is circulated in your internals. So beyond the skin damage, the chemicals can damage your organs!!!
IF YOU CAN’T EAT IT, NEVER PUT IT ON YOUR SKIN!!!👂
SKIN CHALLENGES AND THEIR SOLUTIONS
1️⃣ Pimples and Acne: (Pureskin set, particularly for people with oily skin type)
2️⃣ Dark spots and blemishes: (The Love nature facial set) The complete set is recommended for best results, depending on the skin type). You can also recommend the Novage Clarifying System.
3️⃣ Rashes, fungal infections, Eczema, burns, fresh scars(Tender care balm)
4️⃣ Dark knuckles, knees, elbows, uneven skin, skin discoloration (Milk and Honey body scrub, tender care balm and any of our body cream)
5️⃣ Dark armpit (Milk and honey scrub works with the Activelle Fairness roll-on/spray)
6️⃣ Bumps on the beard area (aftershave balm, can be used anywhere you shave prevents bumps from those shaved areas)
7️⃣ Black spots on the body, legs etc (Loving nature coconut body cream, love nature almond oil and the Milk and Honey body scrub)
8️⃣ Sunburn (Most importantly, the usage of the Novage SPF 50 is crucial in getting rid of sunburn. The Optimals set or any of the Novage skincare range is also a good option to have a complete skin care routine.).
9️⃣ Eyebags, eye wrinkles (any of the eye creams from the NovAge sets)
1️⃣1️⃣ Body lotion for Dry skin (Love nature coconut body cream, milk and honey body scrub and Love Nature hair and body oil)
1️⃣2️⃣ Body cream for sensitive skin or bleached skin, basically to repair the skin (Love Nature coconut body cream, or Glow Essentials body lotion, love nature almond body oil and milk and honey body scrub)
1️⃣3️⃣ All Novage range works on pimples, spots and other advanced skin challenges, just pricier than the basic sets. So always use this first based on their age range before any of the basic sets (Pure Skin set, Love Nature facial set, etc.)
1️⃣4️⃣ Dandruff, itchy scalp, hair loss or other hair challenges (Love nature hair set)
1️⃣5️⃣ Smelly foot (Foot spray deodorant)
1️⃣6️⃣ Cracked and hard feet (The Advanced feet up range and the foot file)
1️⃣7️⃣ Toilet infection, itchy vagina, excessive discharge, foul odour in the vagina (Feminelle cream/ feminelle spray.. )
1️⃣8️⃣ Hard palm (Love nature avocado hand cream, love nature coconut hand cream/ Milk and Honey hand cream)
PLEASE TAKE NOTE
My product does not have a particular cream for a particular skin color.
Either you are fair or black, you can use the same cream.
We don’t have bleaching creams, only creams that brings out your colour and gives you that healthy glow.
That means you can use any cream based on their skin types.
All our products are great and the best way to know is to use them yourself!
The end result is similar; they both lighten your skin colour. But it’s the active ingredient, which causes the whitening effect that differentiates them. There are a number of actives that have been banned from the European Union due to their harshness and unpleasant side effects. The aim of skin brightening products is to create a uniform look via agents that correct skin tone, whilst respecting the skin’s balance.
When you select and use products, it’s always recommended to first establish your main skin care concern. If it’s hyperpigmentation and uneven skin tone, then you should select products that address these concerns. If you have an additional concern that you wish to address, then it’s fine to combine products that target these too. The most important prevention method for discolouration is to avoid sun exposure all together.
