Sensitive skin needs special care and attention. If your face flushes easily, stings after new products, or reacts to weather and stress, the goal is the same: calm the skin, protect its barrier, and avoid treatments that ask more of it than it can give.
What sensitive skin looks like
Sensitivity shows up as redness, tightness, stinging, or small rough patches — often triggered by fragrance, strong actives, hot water, or sun. Some people have sensitive skin all their lives; for others it arrives with rosacea, over-exfoliation, or a damaged moisture barrier.
Daily care that helps
- Cleanse gently. A cream cleanser with soothing ingredients like aloe and chamomile removes makeup and oil without stripping. Skip foaming cleansers that leave skin squeaky-tight.
- Slow down on actives. Retinoids and acid exfoliants have their place, but sensitive skin does better with less, spaced further apart.
- Protect every day. A mineral SPF protects healing skin and prevents the sun from undoing your progress. Tinted mineral sunscreens do double duty as light coverage.
- Watch the water temperature. Hot water dilates vessels and worsens redness — lukewarm is kinder.
Treatments that soothe rather than aggravate
The right professional treatment for sensitive skin exfoliates or hydrates gently:
- An enzyme facial uses fruit enzymes to lift dull surface cells without the stronger action of an acid peel — a good fit for skin that reacts to stronger exfoliation.
- A Cold Oxygen Treatment cools and hydrates with an oxygen infusion — calming redness with no exfoliation at all.
- Red light therapy calms inflammation and supports healing — often the gentlest option of all.
Every facial at Uneka begins with a skin analysis, so sensitivity isn’t a surprise mid-treatment — it shapes the treatment from the start. If your skin is reactive, say so when you book and Traci will plan around it.
Ready to give your skin some calm? Request an appointment or call the studio.