What should you know about sensilis sensitive skin?

Sensilis sensitive skin is a product-style description rather than a medical diagnosis. Reactions may follow fragrance, exfoliating acids, retinoids, shaving, heat, wind, or a damaged skin barrier. Tightness and discomfort can occur even when the skin looks normal.

Ongoing itch, scale, facial rash, flushing, or a rash around the mouth can also occur with atopic dermatitis, rosacea, or perioral dermatitis. The pattern, location, timing, and products used help a clinician work out the cause.

Keep cleansing gentle and brief, use lukewarm water, and apply a fragrance-free moisturiser soon afterwards. Choose one sunscreen and one new product at a time; patch-test on a small area when appropriate. Pause scrubs, strong fragrance, and several active ingredients if they sting.

Record the product, body area, delay before symptoms, and appearance of each reaction. If a prescribed treatment is irritating, ask about its frequency, vehicle, or an alternative rather than repeatedly applying it through worsening discomfort.

Arrange a medical review when redness, itch, scaling, or burning keeps returning, spreads, or interferes with sleep. Seek urgent help for facial swelling, wheezing, trouble breathing, blistering, skin peeling, or a painful rash involving the eyes or mouth.

Ask: Is this irritation, allergy, or a condition such as rosacea? Which ingredients should I avoid? Should I change cleanser or moisturiser? Would patch testing or prescription treatment help?