Why is skincare for your face separate from skincare for your body? Why do you need separate products for your face and body? Is facial skincare actually important/necessary?
*third attempt at this post, I’ve tried searching online with no luck so please help me learn*
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I don’t think it is. The face does have oil glands, but so does your back. The skin around the eyes is thin and delicate, but so is the skin on the backs of your hands.
The difference, I suspect, is marketing. Why sell us *one* cleanser when they can sell us four? One for the face, one for body, one for feet, one for intimate bits?
I use products intended for the body on my face all the time, and vice versa, and I can’t tell any difference. I either like a product or I don’t, but it doesn’t really matter which skin I use it on. Body lotion on the face, facial lotion on the heels of the feet, serum wherever I feel like putting it, whatever.
Also there’s emphasis on facial skin because humans spend a lot more time looking at each other’s faces than, say, shoulder blades, knee backs, or heels.
Money makes a difference, though: there *are* some very expensive products that give really great results—I got a sample of an expensive serum last year and it was spectacular—but eh, I ain’t paying $80 for a quarter of an ounce of cream that only I can tell I’m using.
That said, I’m not in the industry, nor am I a doctor or scientist. I’m just a person who has skin and buys products. So what do I know.
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