The Ordinary balance set

 The ordinary balance set is a set of skin care products none of which are actually new to the ordinary line but them coming packaged together is something new to the ordinary line. There are four products that come in this pack. The ordinary did a great job with the balance set so the ordinary balance set comes with four products one being the squalane cleanser ,two being the salicylic acid mask, three being the niacinamide ten percent with one percent zinc and the natural moisturizing factor moisturizer.

Squalane Cleanser

Squalane cleanser, this product is a product that a lot of people know and love. The squalene cleanser is within the cleansing step and it's a gentle cleanser that's going to be great for most skin types it's fragrance free it's really gentle on the skin and it's lipophilic meaning that it's able to break down sort of your oil based substances so it's very very good for removing makeup and sunscreen from the skin so this is a product is a great and gentle cleanser. If you wear a light skull screen and no makeup this is going to be a great cleanser for you ,you can use it twice a day but if you're somebody who wears heavy makeup or really heavy caked on sunscreen then you probably need to have this as the first step in your double cleanse routine however it's a great cleanser.

Salicylic acid mask

 Next is salicylic acid mask so this is another product that a lot of people know and love. Salicylic acid is a beta hydroxy acid which means that it's a lipophilic it's able to get into your pores it's the go-to ingredient as far as acids are concerned for acne and oily skin so if you have acne prone skin this is going to be the acid you want to use in your skincare routine. Now this is a mask so this is not something that you leave on your face all day all night and it's not something that you're going to use every single day because you should not be exfoliating every single day of course. Always patch test especially with irritating ingredients like this because you don't want to apply it to your whole face find out that you're allergic to it because people that are allergic to aspirin could potentially be allergic to this product as well ,so you would want a patch test on your inner arm ,you can go to the ordinary's website to figure out how to patch test but ultimately you want to make sure you're not going to have an allergy to any of these products of course. So how do you apply this product? you're going to apply it to dry skin ,not damp skin so this is a product that definitely needs to be applied to dry skin so you're going to cleanse your face this is going to be at night you're going to dry your skin and then you're going to apply this mask for 5 to 10 minutes and then you're going to wash it off and you're going to do this once a week maximum you can do it about twice a week. So salicylic acid is an exfoliating acid which means that it's gonna help to improve skin texture get rid of those tiny little bumps on the skin it's gonna help to improve skin tone so it's gonna get rid of hyperpigmentation, dark spots ,uneven skin pigment. It's going to help with acne so this is very very good for somebody who has acne that also wants to get rid of some post inflammatory hyperpigmentation.

Niacinamide 10% with zinc 1%

The next product is the ordinary's niacinamide 10 with zinc one percent ,so this product is a viral skincare product. It has a lot of beneficial properties it helps to even out sebum production so it helps with oily skin which means that it's going to help with acne, it also helps with rosacea and redness and it also brightens the skin and helps with hyperpigmentation and dark circles. You don't need you don't need percentages that are so high because all the studies showing the benefits of niacinamide have been done in lower percentages. So two to five percent is gonna be good enough for you however a lot of people do tolerate this product well and they love it so niacinamide from the ordinary is an excellent product everyone knows about it it is in the balance set and so like i've said so far all these three products.

Natural moisturizing factor 

And the next product is natural moisturizing factor so this is a really interesting product so this is a moisturizer and natural moisturizing factors are actually produced by our skin and it's not one skincare ingredient. There's no natural moisturizing factor in this well natural moisturizing factor is actually a combination of things like electrolytes amino acids urea things like that form this natural moisturizing factor that our skin naturally produces to help prevent water loss, to help moisturize the skin ,to help protect the skin from the external environment so that's what this is made of it's basically a cocktail of ingredients that are naturally produced by the skin that help to protect the skin. The ordinary tried to recapitulate that into a skincare moisturizer so it's a wonderful job by the ordinary to think of something like this. It's a little bit of a medium weight moisturizer and t's fragrance free so it's going to be gentle on the skin. So all the products in this set are fragrance free.

If you were to buy each of these individual products alone the total cost for you would be about 34 dollars now if you were to buy the ordinary balance set as the set that it is then it will cost you about 29 dollars. So you will save about five dollars if you were to buy this set rather than the individual products which is pretty good. This set could make an entirely perfect skincare routine the only thing is you need to buy sunscreen.