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Summer challenges the balance between dry and oily

(July 3, 2006) — As she's gotten older, Julie Gottfried has noticed periodic changes in her skin.

In her teens, she was prone to breakouts. In her early 20s, her breakouts began to lessen and she settled into what she calls combination skin.

No matter the season: "My nose and my chin — what they call the T-zone — it all tends to get oily," the Greece resident says.

The one thing that hasn't changed is that the 27-year-old needs to alter her daily skin-care routine with the seasons.

A change in seasons often — though not always — dictates the need for a change in skin care. In winter, your skin loses moisture to the dry, cold air outside and to the dry, heated air inside.

In summer, the air holds more moisture, and your skin will, too.

The trick to mastering skin care is understanding that there are different solutions for everyone — even people with the same type of skin.

To find out what works best for your skin during warmer weather, you may need to experiment a bit.

If your skin is already oily, you may be more prone to breakouts. If you have normal or dry skin, using less moisturizer could be the key. Exfoliators are commonly used during the summer — for oily or dry skin — to keep the skin free of debris and dirt that are more prevalent in the air.

"A lot of it is just finding products that help your skin be as you'd like it to be," says Dr. Mary Gail Mercurio, associate professor of dermatology at University of Rochester.

Keisha L. Clarke of Rochester has settled into a daily routine that involves two simple components: water and cocoa butter lotion.

The 31-year-old says her skin is dry, no matter the season.

"I wash my face with warm water and then the next step is the lotion," she says. "That's all I put on my face day to day."

Though her skin is drier in the winter, Clarke says she continues to keep it moisturized in the summer. She occasionally will use a pore cleanser and face toner to help keep her skin clean.

Finding the right products and routine takes trial and error, Mercurio says.

Give new products time to work and ease into more frequent use. Aggressively using something can lead to more problems down the road.

The amount of time it takes for someone to see the benefit of a product depends on the individual. A product may be OK for one person to use every day, while another person's skin may be able to tolerate it only every few days.

Overuse, Mercurio says, can lead to skin irritations, which can cause users to think that they're allergic to a product or that a product just isn't right for their skin.

Changing your routine earlier in the season will help you prepare for changes in the weather, Mercurio says. Use less moisturizer earlier, for example, to help your skin adjust to the moisture in the air.

Also use sunscreen earlier than you think you need to.

"If you burn, you peel for weeks," Mercurio says.

The burn also leaves you open to more sun damage — even years down the road. Your skin remembers that you had a sunburn, Mercurio says, meaning the more burns you get, the more damage you're doing to your skin.

Gottfried is particularly careful to apply sunscreen in the summer, even though her make-up provides some sun protection. She has also grown to understand that she needs to use moisturizer every day and relies on an apricot scrub to keep her skin clear.

But finding this routine involved trying a variety of products and seeking advice from co-workers and dermatologists. Along the way, she learned that while she needed deeper cleaning products during breakouts, the benzoyl peroxide she found in some cleansers dried her skin too much.

"I think I have tried everything under the sun that's out on there on the market," Gottfried says. "It was a lot of trial and error."