Skincare routines are self-love rituals. Every drop, every dab, and every dollop of your favorite skincare products is like a hug for your skin. And every swipe and swirl of your fingertips as you massage your precious skin brings a little more of that love to the surface. Skincare is a gentle process, but it can also be a powerful force, healing more than just imbalances in your complexion. Thoughtful and well-rounded skincare practices can revitalize your confidence and self-esteem as you get to know yourself a little more intimately with each application. This is why it’s important to embrace intuitive, wild-crafted skincare products, and to build your perfect skincare routine with healing in mind.
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Three Steps to Building an Intuitive Skincare Routine
Release, Restore, Receive. Those are the three principal pillars of intuitive skincare. Slow, thoughtful and patient skincare routines are the ones that heal your skin from the inside out, bringing your skin’s healing to a whole new level. By incorporating these three core pillars into your regimen, you can create an intentional and intuitive process as special as you are.
Release
The first step to intuitive skincare, and the best place to start when creating your perfect skincare routine, is called Release. This step is about finding products and processes to help your skin release toxins, dead skin buildup, bacteria, and any other contaminants that detract from your skin’s health.
Products like Ashes Reincarnation Cleansing Grains are made for Release.
Ashes is a gentle yet powerful blend of potato powder, citric acid, coconut milk, and more. These soft, pillowy grains are activated with water, bringing your skin a gentle, foaming exfoliation that rids the skin of dirt, daily pollution, and bacteria. Soft, supple, and balanced skin awaits.
Releasing contaminants with products like Ashes helps to avoid dull and rough-looking skin. It also protects against excess oil buildup, clogged pores, blemishes, and acne. Most importantly, this step removes the barrier of dead skin cells that naturally build up, allowing your skin to better absorb your other skincare products. This leads us to the next step of your perfect skincare ritual.
Restore
After releasing dead skin buildup and other contaminants, your skin is ready for the next step of your skincare ritual: Restore. This step is all about removing excess residue from the cleansing and clearing process of Release and preparing the skin to fully embrace healing.
Rich, luxurious, and moisturizing products like Honey Bee Revelation Mask are perfect for the Restore step in your skincare ritual.
With raw, wild honey, age-defying essential oils, and other potent botanical ingredients, the luscious Honey Bee facemask is perfect for restoration. Products like this help clear the skin of bacteria growth, revealing fresh, new cells and amplified hydration. As the skin becomes restored to its fresh, bright, and moisturized state, your following skincare potions can penetrate deeper for intense healing.
Restoring draws the skin’s own moisturizing fluids and oils outward to replenish the surface with the right nourishing products. This improves the moisture barrier of the skin, leaving it absorbent and ready to accept healing nutrients in any following treatments like never before.
Receive
After Release and Restore, Receive is the third and last step of the perfect, intuitive skincare ritual. During this step, nutrient-rich products like serums and moisturizers can enhance your skin’s health and help you achieve a soft, smooth, glowing complexion by delivering nutrients deep into the skin.
Serums like Honey Dew Youth Nectar are perfect for Receive. Serums are highly concentrated treatments that can help boost the results of your skincare due to their richness in nutrients and healing properties.
Honey Dew is packed with skin-healing magic from prickly pear, cucumber, and even snow mushroom extract. It also boasts the beautifully vibrant aromas of freshly squeezed limes and grapefruit. This powerhouse serum not only provides nature’s finest moisturizing and healing qualities to your skin, but it also delivers anti-aging ingredients that protect against damage. Serums like this are highly potent and effective, and their magic is heightened when applied after the Release and Restore steps.
The Perfect Skincare Routine Is Yours to Create
Our three steps to building an intuitive skincare ritual are essential in helping you get the most out of your skincare products. When using products that follow the order of Release, Restore, and Receive, you can provide your skin the nutrients and healing it deserves.
The three steps to building the perfect skincare routine are a great place to start and this structure can be followed to further expand your skincare ritual for more robust and intricate healing magic. For example, you might decide to incorporate Rain Replenishing Oil Cleanser into the first step of your skincare routine for cleaner, clearer skin. You can also add Breeze Revival Mist to refresh, calm, and tone the skin in preparation for receiving more nutrients during Restore. Or, you might include Clarity Awakening Face Cream for deep moisture with potent, clarifying ingredients in the Receive phase.
All of our products are handcrafted and all-natural, with no toxic additives or fillers, making for healthy, well-rounded combinations when using multiple products in your routine. Building upon ancient wisdom, our formulas are tried and true and can be combined to bring their powerful ingredients together however you please.
Your Skin, Your Health, Your Ritual
However you choose to build upon your core routine, the most important thing is you. Listen to your skin and focus on the products it yearns for. These three steps to building your perfect skincare ritual can be expanded upon to meet your specific needs and they can apply to anyone, no matter the skin mood. With Good Medicine’s wildcrafted products, Releasing, Restoring, and Receiving can come with confidence in your skincare ingredients.
Learn more about which step your Good Medicine products are perfect for on their label or in our online shop, and remember: skincare is self-care, so take care!
