Sandwich Skincare is the Hottest Beauty Trend for Dry Skin

A normal skincare routine will include the basic steps: cleansing, hydrating, and locking in moisture. But with sandwich skincare, this method adds additional nutrients between the primary care steps, the same way you add ingredients between bread to create a delicious sandwich.

You have a variety of options for this extra step, but the denominator should still be products with a light texture, fast absorbency, and adequate moisture content. Hence, moisturizer and toner are the two most popular options you can try with a sandwich skincare method. Accordingly, your skincare cycle will change as follows: cleanse, moisturize, tone, moisturize, serum, moisturize, then lotion.

Moisturizers themselves have at least one humectant like glycerin, hyaluronic acid, or urea. These ingredients have a special job of attracting water molecules in the air to replenish the skin's epidermis. However, if you are living in an environment with low humidity, these desiccants will react, absorb moisture from the skin, and cause the skin to lose water unexpectedly. Therefore, moisturizing sprays can re-establish the moist environment around the skin to prevent these ingredients from having the opposite effect.

With this principle, nourishing sprays/toners that are "sandwiched" between the skincare steps will strongly support the moisture-locking effect thanks to the film-forming agents and emollients available in those skincare products. As a result, the skin can store the maximum amount of moisture, which is why sandwich skincare is a method for skin severely lacking in moisture and living in dry environments like heavily air-conditioned rooms or cold weather.

This is an extra step to get your skincare regimen optimal. Therefore, sandwich skincare is not a must for all of us. Depending on your skin type and personal moisturizing needs, you can choose to use this method or skip it. If you need to rescue dry, dehydrated skin with sandwich skincare, L'OFFICIEL recommends choosing products with simple formulas and benign ingredients such as green tea, licorice, and grapes in order not to make your routine too cumbersome and overload the skin.