Skin Streaming: How to Simplify Your Skincare Routine

It seems like every other day there’s a new skincare trend popping up, so trying to keep up with all of them can feel complicated. There’s skin slugging, skin cycling, double cleansing and more — all of which have undeniable benefits in their own right. For skincare minimalists looking to infuse their life with more simplicity, though, there’s skin streaming.

The Meaning & Benefits of Skin Streaming

To avoid overcomplicating the definition, skin streaming is simply the process of streamlining your regimen for a less is more approach to skincare. To do so, you focus on three to four essential products, typically a cleanser, serum and moisturizer (SPF for daytime and retinoid for nighttime).

By using fewer products, you minimize the chance of utilizing too many actives that don’t play well together and, in turn, you’re able to destress your skin — and your life. After all, simplicity is key for stress-free everything. Plus, by simplifying your skincare, your regimen becomes easier to maintain and, therefore, gives you a higher chance of achieving the results you’re after.

Your Skincare, Simplified: The Ideal Skin Streaming Regimen

STEP 1 – AM & PM: High Potency Classics Nutritive Cleanser

The first step in even the simplest skincare regimen must always be a cleanser, morning and night. This gentle gel option is a favorite of ours (not to mention a bestseller) for several reasons. Not only does it effectively remove excess oil, debris and impurity buildup, it doesn’t strip the skin while doing so. Instead, powerful ingredients, like our unique firming and hydrating copper complex, help to rejuvenate skin, softening and conditioning it as you wash. Simultaneously, alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs) eliminate dead skin cells to minimize dullness while Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA) helps reduce the appearance of lines, wrinkles and enlarged pores over time. The result is a complexion that’s refreshed and flawlessly prepped for step 2.

STEP 2 – AM & PM: High Potency Intensive Smoothing Serum

Now that you have a clean slate to treat, it’s time for your serum. This skin-smoothing option is a quintessential treatment for skin streaming as it provides a multitude of benefits. For starters, it has a high concentration of niacinamide (also known as vitamin B3) to help visibly renew and restore skin, minimizing the look of imperfections, redness, uneven tone and dullness by supporting the skin’s moisture barrier. In combination with organic olive-oil derived ceramides for additional barrier support, it instantly moisturizes and replenishes skin while DMAE intensely firms. While this makes it ideal for a day of refined, even-looking skin, it also plays incredibly well with retinol, so it’s perfect for nighttime use, too.

STEP 3 – AM: Cold Plasma Plus+ Daily Defense Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 35

Here is the step in which you’ll need to switch up the product between morning and night. For your daytime moisturizer, SPF is critical and this weightless, multi-tasking powerhouse not only protects, but it corrects existing photodamage and prevents future photoaging as well. To start, it is formulated with mineral-based sunscreen for advanced sun protection against aging UVA and burning UVB rays. Combined with a potent yet highly stable form of vitamin C, Vitamin C Ester, it simultaneously delivers supercharged brightening and smoothing benefits to visibly reduce discoloration and uneven tone. These ingredients work in tandem with copper tripeptide to refresh skin through moisturization. As a result, your skin will not only be shielded against sun’s damaging rays but against dullness and dryness, too.

STEP 3 – PM: High Potency Retinol Recovery Overnight Moisturizer

At night, you’ll swap out your SPF for a richer face cream to deliver extra nourishment during your skin’s natural recovery process. This overnight moisturizer is formulated to do just that and more with a Triple Retinol Blend that accelerates surface skin exfoliation and renewal to help you achieve the look of collagen-rich skin while visibly reducing fine lines and wrinkles. Meanwhile, our signature DMAE intensely firms and a nutrient-rich vegetable triglyceride complex (think jojoba, soybean and olive oil lipids) hydrates, smooths and softens skin. Together, they all work overtime so you can wake up to a more rested, youthful-looking complexion.

And there you have it. It can truly be as easy as 1, 2, 3.