What To Expect When You Start Using 
O COSMEDICS

When it comes to your skin, knowledge is power. Understanding your unique skin type and current skin condition is the first step toward long-term skin health and the difference between treating symptoms and transforming your skin from within.

When it comes to truly healthy skin there are three vitamins that form the backbone of almost every effective skincare routine. In professional skincare circles they’re widely known as the ABCs of skincare: Vitamin A, Vitamin B and Vitamin C.

These vitamins aren’t trending ingredients or passing fads, they are fundamental to how the skin functions, repairs and protects itself on a daily basis. Each plays a distinct and powerful role within the skin working both independently and synergistically to maintain balance, resilience and long-term skin health.

Together they support everything from cellular renewal and barrier strength to collagen production, pigment regulation and protection from environmental stress. When these vitamins are present in the skin in the right forms and delivered correctly they help create the conditions for skin to behave optimally.

Understanding what each vitamin does allows you to see why they are considered the ultimate foundation of corrective skincare.

Finding out that you are growing a baby can be one of the greatest feelings you can experience. With the sheer excitement and joy comes the primal instinct to protect and, before you know it, you find yourself reading the label of everything you eat and every product you use in your home, as well as on your face and body.

With just a click of a button you will discover that you can, and will, find an extraordinary amount of information online of all the things you should and shouldn’t do during these delicate and divine months ahead. While this can be helpful, it can also feel suffocating and overwhelming leaving you not wanting to leave the confines of your home in fear of the soft cheese, sushi and caffeine you most desire… Not to mention all the mothers before you telling you how ‘back in their day’ they ate and did it all! Confusion. Overload.

In this time, it’s not uncommon to experience a temporarily substantial and sometimes unwanted change in your skin condition as the rush of hormones drastically alter, drop and elevate all with the one goal in mind; to give your baby all that it needs to grow and develop into their unique self. Some women experience acne, breakouts and melasma as a result of this hormone fluctuation and therefore seek out skin care to correct this issue to then be presented with all the reasons why they cannot in fact use the same products and ingredients they once did. Whether you have the mythical glowing unicorn skin during your pregnancy or you suffer from any of the above skin conditions, it is important to be educated on what is suitable for use and what is best to avoid.

So, let’s break down the list of ingredients and products in O COSMEDICS that you should avoid during pregnancy and introduce some brilliant alternatives which will quickly become your skins best friend in this time instead.