While a heatwave tends to have us changing up all of our routines - from how we sleep to what we make for dinner and even the journey we take for our commute (AC only please) - there's one area we tend to forget about that definitely needs some attention: our skincare routines.
The best vitamin C serums, AHA exfoliants and retinol creams and serums are the backbone of most modern routines, and rightly so. But carrying on with a winter skincare routine straight through a heatwave can be damaging, and using these hardworking actives in a certain way when the sun is at its strongest, can be doing more harm than good, leaving you with the dark patches and uneven tone you were trying to treat in the first place.
