Hydra Refine® cleansing pads for problematic skin

Martina, twenty seven years old, came to see us in March, a week after returning from an audit that had lasted almost three months. She sat in the waiting room with her hood pulled low over her forehead, even though it was already warm outside. She told me she had stopped going to lunch with her colleagues, because she felt embarrassed whenever someone snapped a photo of her at a meeting. At home, in the mirror, all she saw were enlarged pores on her cheeks and small breakouts on her chin that healed slowly and kept coming back. She had tried various drugstore products, but her skin was already oily by midday.

When I looked closely at her skin, I saw the typical picture that follows months of stress and lack of sleep: clogged pores, uneven tone, skin defending itself with excessive oil production. I reached for the Hydra Refine cleansing pads from the Hydra Medic line, designed exactly for oily and acne prone skin, because in a single step they cleanse, tone and tighten pores without unnecessarily pulling at the skin. I recommended she use them twice a day, always after cleansing with the foam. After ten days she wrote to me that her skin had