Out With the Old: Skincare Habits to Break in 2025

Don’t let your skincare habits contribute to bad skin! It’s 2025 and time to evaluate your routine and replace bad habit skincare with a personalized routine that delivers on your skin goals. By this time next year, you can have more vibrant, glowing, and younger-looking skin with just a few tweaks. 

Before you google, “Why is my skin so horrible?” read this article! We’ll dive into the top 5 skincare habits to break for better skin and discuss:

• Why you need sunscreen every day

• Signs of over-exfoliation 

• Can skincare expire? And why replace expired skincare

• DIY skincare – pros and cons

• How to listen to your skin’s needs

Skipping Sunscreen on Cloudy Days

It’s easy to think you only need sunscreen when you’re outside on a hot, sunny day and more prone to sunburn. The truth is that the sun can cause damage and increase cancer risk to your skin even without burning. Over time, UV radiation causes damage that leads to premature skin aging and the rise of fine lines, wrinkles, age spots, and more. 

It’s time to stop skipping sunscreen on cloudy days, in the winter, and even when working indoors by a window. Make sunscreen an everyday habit! 

Wearing sunscreen daily is easy with NassifMD® facial plastic surgeon skincare, expertly formulated by Dr. Nassif with a deep knowledge of skin structure, function, and how sun damage occurs. Wearing sunscreen helps minimize sun damage and skin aging and improves skin health and appearance. Choose from NassifMD® Protect & Hydrate or NassifMD® Simply Hydration.

NassifMD® Protect & Hydrate is a lightweight, tinted sunscreen formula ideal for the face to wear as makeup or under makeup. It features mineral SPF, hyaluronic acid, and vitamin C for skin protection and hydration. 

NassifMD® Simply Hydration is our un-tinted formula, ideal for the face, neck, hands, and any sun-exposed area. It provides broad-spectrum mineral protection with antioxidants and moisturizers to boost skin hydration. 

Over-Exfoliating Your Skin

Exfoliation is an incredible tool for removing dead skin cells, clearing pores, and revealing new skin for more radiance and vibrance. Yet, over-exfoliating can damage the skin barrier, dehydrate the skin, and leave your face looking dull. It may take practice to discover how much and what type of exfoliation works best for your skin. 

How do you know if you have over-exfoliated skin? Signs of over-exfoliation include:

• Redness

• Irritation

• Inflammation

• Dry and flaky skin

• Uneven skin tone

• Over exfoliated skin bumps

• Breakouts

How to fix over exfoliated skin involves adjusting your exfoliating schedule. For example, if you have more sensitive or damaged skin, exfoliate once or twice weekly. Increase frequency as tolerated while monitoring your skin’s health to find the perfect balance. 

NassifMD® Facial Detox Pads are an easy introduction to exfoliating. Use them in the evening a couple of times weekly after cleansing to improve skin health and appearance. They contain several hydroxy acids, including salicylic acid, glycolic acid, and lactic acid, along with vitamin C, bakuchiol, and ectoin. For sensitive skin, use NassifMD® Detox Facial Pads – Gentle instead. 

NassifMD® Even, Correct & Renew Retexturizing Pads are another favorite exfoliating product for smoothing, evening, and brightening the skin. They deliver mandelic acid, niacinamide, and hyaluronic acid to the skin. We recommend using the pads two or three times weekly to avoid over-exfoliation. 

How to heal over-exfoliated skin overnight involves nourishing and protecting the skin barrier. When your skin is damaged from too much exfoliation, we recommend adding NassifMD® Hydro-Screen and NassifMD® Skin Barrier Balm right away. You can also use these products after exfoliating for added comfort and protection. 

Ignoring Product Expiration Dates

Do skincare products expire? Like food products have a best-by or expiration date, you’ll also find a skincare expiration date on your personal care products. 

Skincare ingredients lose strength and potency over time. For example, antioxidant capacity declines and fragile oils can become rancid. Further old products (especially open ones) are more likely to be contaminated. For these reasons, expired skincare products can cause inflammation, skin reactions, and infections. 

You’ll get the best skin results from new products with fresh ingredients. If you have a drawer, cabinet, or counter full of skincare products you haven’t used in a while, the new year is the perfect time to throw out what has expired. Then, replace what you need with new NassifMD® Skincare. 

DIY Skincare Gone Wrong

The fourth old skincare habit to break is rethinking DIY skincare products. It’s fun making face masks and scrubs at home with DIY skincare ingredients and things you have in your kitchen. Many people turn to DIY to save money or control the ingredients in their skincare, but there can be downsides to doing it yourself. 

Your DIY skincare routine may:

• Not match the needs of your skin type

• Contain potentially damaging or unsafe ingredients

• Lack the expert formulation to address skin issues

• Cause allergic reactions or skin irritation 

• Degrade quickly

• Lack concentrated active ingredients

Further, some things you can’t make yourself might bring the skin healing and radiance you desire. Some examples of effective products requiring expert formulation and manufacturing include:

• NassifMD® Dawn to Dusk AM + PM – This cleanser will transform your skin with gentle exfoliation from phytic acid and cleansing power from betaine to reveal clearer pores and prevent long-term damage. 

• NassifMD® Dermaflect Smart Day Therapy Serum – A unique daily moisturizer activated by UV radiation to protect and repair the skin while blurring fine lines and imperfections. You simply can’t get this from something homemade! 

• NassifMD® Night Therapy Serum – With concentrated active ingredients, including retinol, vitamin C, and hyaluronic acid, this serum works to firm, correct, and plump the skin while you sleep. 

Not Adjusting Your Routine to Your Skin’s Needs 

2025 is the year to embrace personalized skincare! The recommendations you get from a friend or online advertisement might not be what your skin truly needs. It’s time to tune into the messages from your skin and adjust your habits to meet your skin goals. 

If your skin is a mess, it’s a message from your body asking for something to change. Redness, acne, and accelerated aging are signs from your skin to put in place new habits to nourish, heal, and protect the skin. Consider lifestyle habits like eating well and staying hydrated as part of this equation, and then add topical NassifMD® Skincare solutions. 

Don’t get too attached to a specific routine, either. Learn to read your skin’s signs and adjust your routine and products to the seasons, weather, or a new life phase. You may even need something different for your morning routine vs. evening. 

If you keep doing the same thing, you won’t get new results! It’s time to adjust your routine to your skin’s changing needs. NassifMD® facial plastic surgeon skincare is here to help you do just that! We offer cost-effective solutions with fast results to visibly improve skin. Let us help you create a daily skin ritual that works in 2025!

References

1. Watson, M., Holman, D. M., & Maguire-Eisen, M. (2016). Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Its Impact on Skin Cancer Risk. Seminars in oncology nursing, 32(3), 241–254.