Monsoon in Pakistan affects your skin a lot. The skin switches between too dry and too oily every hour. Days in extreme humid heat, nights or indoors in drying air conditioner air, unexpected load shedding in summers exposed to congested humidity, and dehydration affect the skin adversely. It makes your regular skincare regimen strange. But keeping your skin healthy starts with the right face wash routine for monsoon season. 

If you begin with the right product, right frequency, and right method, you can keep your skin fresh and healthy throughout the year. In this blog, we will share how Jenpharm has a face wash for every skin requirement in monsoon season, the right skincare routine, the do’s and don’ts, and much more. 

What’s the Best Face Wash Routine for Monsoon in Pakistan?

In short, a good monsoon skincare routine in Pakistan includes double cleansing in the evening. It must contain an oil-free and acne-controlling face wash with salicylic acid or mandelic acid, like Clarevo Salicylic Acid Face Wash or MandelAC Face Wash. Furthermore, the last and most important step is to use sun protection even in humidity to combat UV damage. The core reason to mend your skincare routine in monsoon is to manage sebum production rather than drying out your skin. 

How Monsoon Humidity Actually Affects Skin

In monsoon, humidity prevails, which lets the air carry moisture particles in abundance. The moisture in the environment sounds good for the skin, but it is the main reason behind skin problems in monsoon. In humidity, dry heat is replaced with moisture heat, so when the moisture particles blend with sweat without being able to evaporate, it sits on the skin longer. It leads to clogged pores, excess sebum production, greasy skin, and breakouts. 

Therefore, even people with normal skin suddenly start feeling congestion, blackheads, and breakouts in the humid season. It is not about a change in the skin but the environment. Thus, any change in the environment means you need to tweak a bit with the products you use rather than washing your face repeatedly to avoid oiliness. 

Urban cities like Karachi and Lahore have elevated skin issues in humid months of July, August, and September. Several factors contribute to skin challenges like already warm temperatures, moisture in the air, intermittent rain, and start-stop air conditioning shifts. These factors create an unstable environment for the skin to have balanced adjustment. Therefore, it reacts in the form of breakouts and congestion. 

Why Oilier Skin Needs Salicylic Acid in Monsoon

Most cleansing ingredients just sit on the skin’s surface. But salicylic acid is oil-soluble, which lets it penetrate the pores. Thus, in monsoon, when sebum, sweat, and pollutants are trapped in the pores, it helps in unclogging the pores effectively. 

Jenpharm’s Clarevo Salicylic Acid Face Wash becomes an effective part of the monsoon face wash routine in Pakistan. It has salicylic acid, which breaks down oil and pollutant buildup from the pores and unclogs them for fresher and cleaner skin. It does not simply mattify the skin’s shine; it also cleanses deeply with every wash. 

Along with it, MandelAC Face Wash with mandelic acid offers gentle exfoliating benefits for combination or normal skin in the monsoon. It works gently on the skin to control excess sebum production and congested pores. But you must not use any of these as your everyday gentle cleanser. Though both of them work great against oiliness, overusing these oil-controlling actives can strip off the skin's natural moisture, damage the barrier, and cause sensitivity. Thus, you should use salicylic acid cleansers in monsoon only three to four times a week to control oil and breakouts without overdrying. 

How to Double-Cleanse During Monsoon

Since salicylic acid is only meant to be used three to four times a week rather than twice every day, you need a curated face wash routine for monsoon season to remove all the buildup. Double cleansing helps in removing buildup from sweat, pollution, sunscreen, humidity residue, and makeup from all day. Here is how you can double cleanse while having oily and congested skin:

• Start with a gentle micellar water or cleansing oil to break down sunscreen, sweat, and surface oil. 

• Follow with a regular face wash to clean what is left behind after the first step. It eliminates the need to scrub, which may cause a reaction. 

• Rinse with lukewarm water. Avoid hot water to control excess oil production.

• Pat your skin dry. Avoid rubbing

• Apply a gel-based lightweight moisturizer while your skin is still damp. 

Double cleansing usually works better in the evening routine to clean your skin at the end of the day. For the morning routine, you can simply use a gentle cleanser. 

Matching Your Face Wash to Your Skin Type this Monsoon

Monsoon Skincare: Do’s and Don’ts

In monsoon, if you are following your general skincare routine, your skin is prone to concerns like congested skin and breakouts. But you can avoid it by knowing the do’s and don’ts for a monsoon-adjusted skincare routine. 

Do’s

• Double cleanse in the evening if wearing sunscreen or makeup, or if exposed to an outdoor, polluted environment.

• Introduce salicylic acid wash gradually to your routine by adding it 3-4 times a week according to your skin type.

• Pat skin dry instead of rubbing it aggressively

• Follow with a lightweight gel-based moisturizer like Dermive Oil-Free Moisturizer

Don’ts

• Skip sunscreen even if it is cloudy or raining

• Over-exfoliate daily as it may strip the barrier even further

• Use hot water

• Skipping moisturizer on oily skin

In the monsoon, the sky remains overcast by clouds most of the time. It does not mean that your skin can take a break from sunscreen. UV rays pass through the cloud cover and reach the skin. So, even if the heat from the sun feels less intense, the UV rays are not lower. 

Thus, you must switch to a water-based lightweight sunscreen like Spectra Block Aqua Fluid SPF 60 PA or a mattifying sunscreen like Spectra Matt SPF 60. They do not add oil buildup while protecting from UV rays that can damage the skin even further. 

A Simple Monsoon Face Wash Routine

Keep your routine simple, as the environment can be very unsettling for the skin. 

Morning

• Gentle cleansing with your regular face wash

• Lightweight gel-based moisturizer

• Gel, water-based, or matte-finish SPF every day in the morning

Evening

• Cleansing oil or micellar water to remove buildup from the whole day

• Face wash suited to your skin type, Salicylic acid 3-4 times a week if you have oily or acne-prone skin

• Lightweight night moisturizer

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I wash my face more often in monsoon?

Monsoon does not call for washing your face every hour. Washing it frequently with exfoliating face washes can strip off skin’s natural moisture and lead to excessive oil production. Thus, you should wash your face with a cleanser in the morning and evening. After heavy sweating, you can rinse your face with plain water. 

Can oily skin use a salicylic acid face wash every day in monsoon?

If you have oily skin and you are new to salicylic acid face wash, you don’t need to use it daily. Using it daily will do more damage than good. It can strip skin’s natural moisture and trigger oil production. Dermatologists recommend three to four times a week to avoid breaking out. 

Should I use a moisturizer in the monsoon?

After your face wash routine for monsoon season, do not skip moisturizer. Avoid heavy and comedogenic moisturizers. Rather, stick to a lightweight gel-based moisturizer to compensate for moisture balance. 

Why does my skin break out more in the rainy season?

Sweat and sebum don’t evaporate easily in humid air as they do in dry heat. So, they sit longer and mix with dirt and pollution, which clogs pores and triggers breakouts. 

Final Word

In the monsoon, you cannot follow your year-round routine, nor do you need to change it altogether. All you need is a few adjustments to your cleanser to get fresh and clean skin. So try to gently cleanse every day, use salicylic acid face wash three to four times a week, a lightweight moisturizer, and a lightweight or mattifying SPF. Moreover, double-cleanse in the evening. Following these simple steps will cause fewer breakouts and problem-free skin all monsoon. 

Explore the full range of Jenpharm’s face wash collection to match the right one according to your skin needs.