- Materials like wool and latex gloves can cause temporary skin irritation; remove the irritant and the sysmtoms may clear up pretty quickly. However, in some cases these irritants can stimulate a longer lasting allergic reaction.
- Some people may have other factors such as food or environmental allergies that manifest themselves through blotchy skin or hives. This irritanted skin has heightened sensitivity.
- Stress can also cause heightened skin sensitivity.
- Medications can increase skin sensitivity.
- Dry skin cracks and exposes your skin to environmental irritants and even traps these irritants in the fissures.
- Heat, sun and sunburn can irritate the skin.
- Extreme cold and windburn can irritate the skin causing heightened sensitivity.
- Shaving, waxing, laser treatment, chemical peals and dermabrasion irritate the skin.
- Alcohol dries the skin, increasing its sensitivity.
- Fragnances and color additives can irritate sensitive skin. Detergent makers have respondede with versions of their products that are free of these irritants. Also be careful of fabric softeners and dryer sheets that may contain irritating fragnances. Musk is particularly irritating sensitive skin.
- Perservatives: Parabens are one common preservative in skincare products that can irritate your skin Parabens have also been linked to certain skin cancers in laboratory testing.
- Surfactants used to make emulsions (creams and lotions) can irritate the skin.
- Soaps can dry the skin, be sure to use a moistourizing soap.
- Sunscreens containing para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), especially those sunscreens with a high SFT rating (above 20 SFT)
- Intense excersice.
- Rubbing the skin, like when using soap (foaming cleansers require less scrubbing and are therefore recommended for sensitive skin)
- Whitening agents used in laundry soaps and bleaches.
- Heat: hot showers, saunas and jacuzzis (chlorine in pools and jacuzzis can also dry and irritate the skin)
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