Workout Wednesdays: Skincare Routine

It's been a while, but I thought it might be enough where I should actually start recording what I'm doing since it's different.

Mornings I have to be at the gym before 8 am, so I am up and out of the house as soon as possible.

1. MRCS
2. Sometimes I tone?
3. Sometimes I moisturize?
4. Usually I put on sunscreen and then pop the same tube into my backpack.

Then I sweat and sweat and sweat. Wipe, sweat, repeat. So glad for the gym showers, really.

In the shower I:

1. Use the generic All-in-One soap in the shower stall's soap dispenser. All over this sweaty body.
2. Use Ma Cherie's travel size shampoo of "Air Feel" whatever that's supposed to mean. It smells lovely. You can see the travel kit I use all the way on the right. To be honest, I like it, but I like only using once a week.
3. Wash my body with the travel size that Sephora sells of L’Occitane Cleansing And Softening Shower Oil With Almond Oil. It's weird because, yes, it's an oil, and like cleansing oil that I use for my face, it turns white the second it touches wet skin. Which, obviously I am soaked head to toe. It is softening, but I am also glad I only part take in this luxury about once a week.
4. Put "Air Feel" conditioner on the tips of my hair.
5. Wash my face with Caolion's Pore Blackhead O2 Sparkling Soap, as seen on the left. It is literally just a round piece of bar soap. It foams up very well, but actually has got me on the edge because it gives me a "squeaky clean" feel that I associate with high pH levels (an obvious no-no because high pH disturbs the acid mantle of the face). However, it smells great!! I want to say it's a warm smell, a bit nutty and sweet, shea butter perhaps. It goes on nicely, foams up, then leaves you squeaky, but by the time you have patted dry your face, it feels soft and smooth. It's $5 for the travel size at Sephora and I liked the smell of it so much that I bought one for my sister too. Probably wouldn't use it every day because of the "squeaky clean" factor, but definitely don't mind using it once a week. It's better than the alternative-- trying to pack my MRCS and totally forgetting it because I always put it back in the medicine cabinet on auto-pilot at that time in the morning. Best having something to clean my sweat, grime-layered face than nothing at all. This is surely not the worst and is quite nice.
6. Rinse my face, my body one more time, and then the conditioner out of my hair.
7. Today I brought a toner sample I got with my recent Nature Republic purchase. It's the matching Super Aqua Watery line to that cream I recently revisited and disliked. Usually I just go straight to the moisturizer-- I use the small sample size pot of Ole Henrikson's Sheer Transformation. This is the second sample pot I have since it came with a Sephora Play! box. It's ok, for that price it's not doing any miracles. It sometimes makes my skin tingle, but I am guessing that is a part of the fruit acids that "gently exfoliate," which I see as a red flag to use in the mornings because acids make your skin weaker and more prone to sun damage. But I digress.
8. Take out my little tube of Biore Waterly Essence sunscreen and spread it across my face like melted citrus buttah.


Anyway, that's a look into my Workout Wednesday Skincare Routine. This should probably be more than just Wednesday, but right now, that is what works best into my work/life/school balance.