Navigating skin care during menopause and perimenopause can feel like a daunting journey, but understanding the underlying changes can empower you to make the best decisions to maintain your glow and vitality. As we age, our skin undergoes significant transformations, largely due to declining hormone levels which accelerate dermal thinning – the process where the skin’s regenerating layer becomes thinner over time. This thinning can not only decrease glow but also make our skin more susceptible to dryness, fine lines, and textural issues. However, by embracing a proactive skin care approach that provides dermal nourishment rather than corrosive treatments, you can effectively delay and minimize these changes.
In this blog, we’ll explore how menopause and perimenopause affect your skin, offer tailored advice for common skin concerns during this phase, and provide practical tips to support and enhance your skin’s health.
How Menopause & Perimenopause Affect Skin
The main cause of aging for menopausal skin is dermal thinning triggered by declining hormones. Our dermal layer thins 1% a year past the age of 25. Our dermal layer is responsible for making new skin cells and when this layer thins so does its capacity to produce these new skin cells. Yet, there is a way to delay and minimize dermal thinning and achieve continued glow by feeding our skin topical Dermal Nutrients. Depleting our skin from the over-exercise of exfoliating will lead to accelerated dermal thinning and diminished glow. We must outgrow the impulse to inflame our skin with high-anxiety conventional procedures that accelerate dermal thinning.
In addition, the cumulative lifetime exposure to UV rays that decrease our collagen and elastin fibers will begin to show on our faces about the same time of these hormonal changes.
As if this wasn’t all enough, textural disruptions are rampant when skin gunk has been building up under the surface over a lifetime due to the many skin deficiencies imparted by conventional skin care.
How To Care For Skin Concerns During Menopause & Perimenopause
- Dermal Thinning: Topical Dermal Nutrients. Apply the right dosages for morning and evenings.
- Breakouts: A daily skin care routine that activates our skin’s self-purifying mechanism and annual Deep Pore Cleansing Sessions.
- Fine Lines & Dryness: A daily skin care routine that optimizes hydration, plumps fine lines and eliminates dryness altogether.
- Facial Hair: Some tweezers and/or possible hormone therapy.
- Wrinkles: Religious SPF use to prevent further collagen atrophy
- Discoloration: Adding some select specialty serums the basic daily skin routine that targets discoloration without more exfoliation that risks rebound hyperpigmentation.
Skin Care Routine For Menopausal & Perimenopausal Skin
Menopausal & Perimenopausal skin is extremely hungry and requires Dermal Nutrients to sustain longevity resurfacing and preserve dermal vitality.
The basic Skin Harmonics layering skin routine that creates self-purifying skin and age delaying skin.
- Wash your face with simple warm water so you don’t strip precious natural oils or use a gentle cleanser at night only if you have stubborn make-up or sunscreen.
- Use Devote Oxygenated Bulgarian Rose Water or plain spring water.
- Use a Dermal Nutrient Serum such as Fortify, Feast, or Super Feast.
- Apply Unity, Lamina, Nomad, or a clean unscented dense moisturizer.
Beneficial Skin Practices For Menopausal & Perimenopausal Skin
Skin care tools are another nourishing way to give your skin some TLC. Here are the most effective to use:
- Face Yoga: actively builds muscle for increased volume, increases blood flow, and activates lymph nodes
- Microcurrent: actively builds muscle for increasing volume, increases blood flow, and activates lymph nodes
- Gua Sha & Jade Rolling: increases blood flow and activates lymph nodes
- Red Light: increases blood flow
Things To Keep In Mind
Learn how to shift away from “Harm to Heal” skin strategies and towards the “Nourish to Heal” way that will provide a timeless and beautiful glow.
Calling in Timeless Radiance: Tailoring Skin Care for Menopause & Perimenopause
Lean into your intuition and wisdom. This is the time to feed, detox, protect and TRUST your own skin. The game is preservation and fortification.
About the author
I took many wrong turns when I started learning about skin at 19. The more I spent on skincare, equipment, and training, the further I felt from actually helping skin. I was frustrated with only being able to offer temporary and superficial solutions at best. What emerged from the disappointment and turmoil, I now call, The Regenerative Skin Process. Skin Harmonics is a dedicated medical fusion holistic skincare clinic that provides a root cause approach delivering lifetime skin health through medical grade skin care products, new learning, and Deep Pore Cleansing Facials.
