Men need their skin to look and feel healthy just like women. They equally deal with issues like skin sensitivity, acne and ageing, skin however varies according to gender. Male skin has some features that differ from female skin and, with regular shaving, it is often treated differently too.

The hormone testosterone determines the masculine characteristics of male skin and gives it a different structure to female skin. While every man’s skin is unique, in general male skin is thicker, oilier and ages differently. Men have larger and more active pores than women and since sebum production is double that of women, the pH is lower, and the skin is prone to impurities and acne. Signs of ageing appear later in male skin, but changes occur more quickly once they start. However, men are most affected by sagging skin combined with puffy eyes and dark circles. What is more, regular shaving makes male skin more stressed. Their skin becomes more sensitive and reacts faster, since it removes the uppermost layer of skin cells exposing immature skin.

DÉCAAR embraces all the differences and provides formulas equally effective for both genders. We have put together basic guidelines that will help any man incorporate the essential steps for a clean and healthy skin.

Know your skin type

This is the first step to schedule your skincare routine. Take a tissue test and see if you have dry, oily or combination skin. Generally, people with oily skin tend to have oil on their t-zone (forehead, nose, and chin). Check this using a tissue paper and get to know your skin type.

Cleanse

Men should wash their face at least twice a day using a mild cleanser that suits their skin. As the skin tends to get oily throughout the day and block the pores, it is important to follow a regular cleansing routine.

Exfoliate

All that dirt and oil accumulated on the face results in blackheads or whiteheads and forms a layer of dead skin. Exfoliation sheds off this layer and brings out a smooth, healthy skin. Scrubbing (exfoliating) should be done 1 – 3 times a week after cleansing, depending on your skin type. Men with oily-type skin should exfoliate more often, while men with sensitive/dry skin should do it less often.

Hydrate

Moisturizing delivers hydration and essential nutrients to skin cells, so they can continue to look full, delivering a youthful, healthy face. It offers a plethora of benefits: it makes the skin firmer, prevents water loss, and has an anti-aging effect.

Prevent

Nothing will age and damage your skin faster than the sun. If you will be in the sun for longer than 30 minutes, use sunscreen on all exposed parts of your skin. For men, a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 is a great option and should be used daily.

Within your DNA, skin type is defined from birth and can’t be changed. Managing resulting skin conditions however can be changed, and for that DÉCAAR is here to help.

Unpredictable, oily and combination skin can be a tough skin type to care for, with its oily T-Zone, large open pores, dehydrated cheeks and eyes, and sensitivity to certain products.

Making your days easier and more predictable, we’ve designed the following special products to help aid you to calmer, clearer, more even skin you can rely on.

Cleanse

Gently removing excess oil and purifying pores is of the utmost importance, therefore choosing a cleansing milk such as our Cleansing Milk or the gentle Purifying Cleansing gel, will work deeply into your pores, easing congestion and helping to balance natural oils.

Mask

A combination must, once to twice a week use a mask to balance the complexion. We recommend DÉCAAR Calming Mask for 10-15 minutes on the face, neck and décolleté to clear excess oil and congestion and nourish areas of dryness.

DÉCAAR Calming Mask removes dead cells, invigorates the skin and leaves it with a replenished, clean and radiant complexion. It reduces inflammation and improves the blood circulation of the skin. The advanced formula revitalizes the skin from all sorts of damage including sun damage, excoriation, inflammatory dermatosis, including rosacea. This perfectly balanced mask even has calming effects on problematic skin types with eczemas or rashes, so it is suitable for the most sensitive skins.

Moisturize

Although you may not feel you need it, a light moisturizer will help balance natural oils while also hydrating and soothing. DÉCAAR Rebalancing Cream 24hr is great for congested skin types with its Coconut oil, Algelica Gigas and Epigallocatechin Gallate to help protect, moisturize, comfort and clear skin. Its biopolymers convert effectively sebum into invisible micro granules to ensure an anti-shine effect. This special moisturizer works perfectly as a supplement for an acne treatment, performed by your DÉCAAR skincare professional.

As with most things in life, you need to ensure you’re excelling at the basics before acing the advanced, and your skincare is no different. Cleansing your face is the most basic and essential step of any routine.

Many beauty specialists support that, if you’re wearing a full face of make-up each day, work in a polluted area or have oily/combination skin, double–cleansing should be an essential part of your evening routine. The first cleanse removes makeup, pollutants and dirt from the day. The second cleanse removes dead skin cells, meaning the products you apply afterwards can work effectively.

DÉCAAR offers the ultimate treatment for skin exhibiting pore congestion and toxic build-up, through the following unique cleansers.

Cleansing milk

This special milk suitable for all skin types. Dry skin lacks oil and moisture so with the wrong product, irritation can occur, or small scales can even start to form. Therefore, a gentle cleansing milk with moisturizing ingredients is suitable for dry skin types, as well as for sensitive ones, since they get easily irritated.This special milk assimilates water in the skin and prevents excessive evaporation. It also contains Wheat Germ Extract, a skin-softening and protecting agent with various antioxidants. For sensitive skin types we recommend avoid rubbing vigorously with a towel or using water that is too hot. Instead, remove mascara and other make-up slowly and gently with a cotton pad.

Purifying Cleansing gel

This gentle cleanser is suitable for oily skin types, since it cleans greasy irritated skins with clogged pores or signs of acne. Its active ingredients, Yakon and Aloe, are rich in antibacterial and antioxidant properties. The miracle ingredient, Aloe, is full of vitamins as well as healing, anti-aging and moisturising properties.

Make-up remover Micellar lotion

This all-in-one smart cleansing product is suitable for all skin types and all skin areas, including the most delicate ones, such as the eye contour. The lotion does not contain irritating soap substances or alcohol. Eye makeup is easily removed, the skin is toned and moisturized without causing any irritation. One of its active ingredients, Biotin, nourishes the skin to maintain a clear complexion. It assists in the production of new cells and helps oil glands function properly, resulting in the healthy condition of skin.

PH Balancing lotion

This soothing lotion brightens the skin tone leaving it soft and radiant. It helps to maintain skin’s optimal pH and restores its natural defences. This makes the skin more resilient, less sensitive and better able to carry out its vital function of self-defense. Along with other natural ingredients, Arnica Montana Flower Extract enhances the appearance of dry or damaged skin, by reducing flaking and restoring suppleness. Therefore, this lotion is suitable for all skin types.

Phyto lotion

Based on natural botanical extracts, this expert formula is suitable for oily and irritated skin with acne breakouts. This refreshing lotion reduces the appearance of enlarged pores, it balances overactive sebaceous glands and delivers a matte finish. Peppermint Leaf Extract and Eucalyptus Oil used in this formula, help speed up healing and treat acne, eczema, sun spots, blemishes, aging, and pimples. These natural ingredients help you get that smooth and shiny skin and maintain it as well.

If you don’t wear a face sun cream all year round, now is probably the time to think about adding one into your daily routine. The sun is the No. 1 cause of ageing, so it is vital to protect your skin with an SPF during the daytime. While the best sun cream is a no-brainer for hot holidays, ultraviolet rays can be damaging on even the cloudiest of days.

The sun emits two types of UV rays that are particularly harmful to your skin: UVA and UVB rays. UVA rays penetrate deep into the skin, causing long-term damage like aging and wrinkles. UVB rays, on the other hand, are shorter than UVA rays. They burn the surface of your skin, causing immediate damage like sunburns and skin cancer in the long run.

The everyday SPF you choose, should be down to what suits your specific skin best. Many people don’t want to wear SPF, in case it ruins the finished look of their makeup and we see that point. The consistency of your SPF is important, so DÉCAAR cosmetics offer different options for each skin.

Brightening Cream SPF50

Brightening Cream SPF50 is a lightweight protective cream with innovative filters, light-activated vitamin D3 precursor, Ectoine and wide range of protection against UV. It moisturizes perfectly, eliminates dark spots, prevents photo aging and damage of cell membranes and DNA.

BB Oxygen Cream SPF50

BB Oxygen Cream SPF50 is a long-lasting colored sun cream, quickly absorbed without any greasiness, leaving a refreshing smooth skin. It lightens up freckles, blackheads, and dark skin. It offers strong UV protection and wrinkles reduction.

Oxygen Cream SPF30

Oxygen Cream SPF30 is a high protective cream with UV filters that keeps the skin feeling hydrated and radiant. Its active ingredients deliver Oxygen to the skin and provide aging resistance.

Delicate Cream SPF15

Delicate Cream SPF15 is a moisturizer with extra UV protection that conditions your skin surface with Panthenol and Aloe Vera. It helps manage the negative results that oxidative stress can have on the skin, such as redness, fine lines, skin roughness and maintain a fresh, healthy appearance.

Here’s the thing about applying sun creams: just doing it once simply isn’t enough. Reapply your sun cream every 90 minutes on your face, neck and décolletage. If you’ve been doing a lot of physical activity, sweating, swimming, or towel drying yourself, reapply sun cream immediately. Remember to apply your SPF50 sun cream just as regularly as your SPF30 to ensure continuous protection throughout the day.

Every cell in the body breathes, communicates, grows and reproduces regularly which means it needs to consume a vast amount of oxygen to perform effectively. With the external pollutants and environmental stressors nowadays, they become suffocated and struggle to receive enough oxygen from the bloodstream to function properly.

Oxygen not only encourages the skin to produce more collagen and stay looking youthful for longer, but it is also found to possess anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties which could boost the healing process of damaged skin. The preservative free formulations with varying stabilised oxygen strengths and anti-ageing properties can be used on all skin types from the most sensitive to those with severe problem skin such as acne, combination skin, hyperpigmentation and rosacea.

DÉCAAR Oxygen Line offers Oxygenation and Skin Revitalization, with the mixing of the most innovative and effective active ingredients improving skin vitality.

Perfluorodecalin

Perfluorodecalin is used in cosmetics and beauty products to dissolve and deliver oxygen to the skin in formulas. It is also used as a skin conditioning agent, detangler, and solvent. Its ability to dissolve oxygen is thought to revitalize skin and reduce wrinkles, increasing the partial pressure of oxygen.

Allantoin

Allantoin is highly regarded for its skin soothing, healing and ability to remove excess skin properties. It helps shed the outer layer of the skin, promotes healthy tissue formation and softens the skin. It is particularly effective at treating wounds, burns, skin ulcers, eczema, and any other abrasion in the skin.

Horse chestnut

Horse chestnut has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and tonic properties. It helps to tighten tiny blood vessels and reduce cell wall permeability, preventing fluid leakage into surrounding tissue and helping to heal wounds.

The health and radiance of our skin relies on oxygen just like the rest of the body does. The DÉCAAR Oxygen Program makes sure that it is protected, so that it can breathe freely and recover from any externalities.

Plant extracts are an important ingredient in Décaar’s products. They are gentle on the skin and are very efficient at healing certain skin conditions or slowing ageing signs. Here are five extracts that are part of the formulations of our cosmeceuticals.

Horse chestnut

Used in Décaar’s pH Balancing Lotion and the Energizing Eye-Cream. Packed with an abundance of antioxidants, horse chestnut seed extract protects cells and reduces inflammation, which is linked to anti-ageing effects. It also improves microcirculation in the area around the eyes.

Mint

A great natural cure for acne, mint leaf extract is found in Décaar’s Phyto Lotion. Mint is a pimple-fighter thanks to its salicylic acid which also helps with excessive oil. It is also anti-pruritic, meaning mint juice can soothe and calm itchy, infected skin.

Jojoba

Jojoba esters are part of the formulation of Décaar’s Oxygen Scrub. Jojoba oil has been shown to enhance skin’s restorative properties. It also provides topical skin-soothing benefits. Its texture is similar to the oil (sebum) human skin produces, one more reason it’s a brilliant ingredient for dry skin.

Macadamia Oil

Is one of Décaar’s Oxygen Hydro 24hr ingredients. Macadamia oil is extracted from the meat of the nut. It does not clog pores like other oils might do. Your skin happily soaks up the beneficial properties of this oil. Macadamia and Jojoba oils are the closest match to the naturally occurring sebum of the skin. Macadamia oil assists with cell regeneration, contains omega 7 which is beneficial for wound healing and it even has a slight sunscreen effect.

Coconut Oil

Found in Décaar’s Rebalancing Cream 24hr, coconut oil contains caprylic triglyceride, an excellent emollient and skin-replenishing ingredient. It is a gentle oil that moisturises and replenishes the skin.

Five more plant extracts

You can read about the benefits of another five plant extracts found in Décaar products by clicking on this link: https://decaar.com/news/plant-extracts-that-benefit-your-skin/

They include Aloe barbadensis, Swiss apple, bearberry, argan oil and green tea.