Published: September 15, 2025
Is your skin looking stressed and haggard? You’ve come to the right place. Keep reading as Avinichi shares some pro tips to help you quickly soothe skin that’s feeling agitated – you’ll be rocking a beautifully balanced and renewed complexion in minutes!
Go Easy on Your Skin
Before we start talking about what you should be doing for your skin, let’s go over what you shouldn’t be doing. If your skin is looking stressed, now is not the time to bombard it with aggressive ingredients that will only leave it feeling further compromised. Instead, anything that you apply to your skin should be gentle, so as not to make things worse.
There are a few skincare products that are notorious for being overly harsh on the skin. Skin-stripping cleansers, for instance, will only cause more stress to your complexion. Meanwhile, barrier-damaging exfoliants will leave your skin cells in turmoil at an even deeper level.
This doesn’t mean that you should completely skip these products. While it’s a good idea to put exfoliation on hold until your skin is happier, cleansing is essential, especially if you plan on applying other products to your skin. Keep things gentle with a formula like the Avinichi Noni Mousse Cleanser, and you’ll be able to moisturize and condition your skin while you cleanse it.
Seek Out Ingredients Proven to Soothe the Complexion
Certain skincare ingredients are revered for having a soothing effect on the complexion. Whether your stressed-out skin is due to sensitivities, weather changes, mental stress, or anything else, the right ingredients will be able to quickly calm your complexion. They’ll give you some breathing room to make longer-term plans for stress prevention.
Which ingredients do this best? Here are some of our favorites:
Aloe Vera
Perhaps one of the most famous skincare ingredients for calming the complexion, aloe vera is a favorite among those who are trying to soothe skin and lower the feeling of inflammation. Numerous studies confirm these actions, showing that aloe vera is very capable of alleviating the appearance of inflammatory reactions in the skin.
Aloe vera is also known for its humectant properties. It binds moisture to the skin, making it incredibly hydrating. Extra hydration is a great way to soothe skin and counter the irritation that a lack of sufficient moisture causes.
While you’ll find aloe vera in several Avinichi products, the Noni Pore Purifying Toner will work in seconds to leave your skin feeling quenched and calm. In this formula, aloe vera is combined with extracts from cucumber, chamomile, and noni fruit. All of these ingredients will give your skin a stronger and more balanced finish.
Green Tea
Green tea is another ingredient that experts often recommend turning to if you’re trying to calm and soothe skin. Why? Because its unique antioxidants are excellent at reducing the appearance of redness, irritation, inflammation, and other signs of skin stress.
Of course, green tea extract offers a plethora of other skin benefits too. It tackles the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, lightens the look of dark spots, repairs visible UV damage, and gives the skin a more radiant glow.
Want to pamper your stressed-out skin with this botanical? Give the Spirulina Renewal Serum from the Avinichi Spirulina Collection a try. The whole collection has been designed with stressed-looking skin in mind, and this serum exemplifies that. It will immediately leave your skin feeling cooler and calmer, dealing with the appearance of inflammation from multiple angles.
Peptides
If your skin is looking stressed, this is a sign that your skin barrier is struggling. With your skin barrier being your skin’s first line of defense against environmental damage, it’s hardly surprising that this layer is the first part of the skin to display problems when stress takes its toll.
Peptides are ingredients that not only give the skin barrier a stronger finish, but also counter the look of irritation and inflammation. Like aloe vera, peptides function as humectants too, meaning that they’ll hydrate your skin.
The best way to apply peptides to your skin is with a serum or a moisturizer that contains at least two different peptides. You’ll find a selection of three different peptides in the Hydrating Antioxidant Serum from Avinichi’s Phyto Thermal Collection. With several complexion-calming plant extracts in this formula as well, your skin will feel rested and revived soon after application.
Cool Down and Refresh With a Face Mist
Face mists can be a great way to quickly refresh and soothe skin. They’re easy to use, only taking seconds to apply, making them a useful product to turn to if your skin is feeling stressed while you’re on the go.
Most face mists are designed to provide a surge of hydration. However, some have also been formulated to offer other benefits as well. Find a face mist that also tackles the visible signs of skin stress, and you’ll have found a winner!
One face mist that does this beautifully is the Collagen Plumping Mist from our Collagen Cooling Set. This mist hydrates with a blend of sodium hyaluronate, collagen, and glycerin. It also contains niacinamide, which boasts hydrating properties of its own. However, this form of vitamin B3 is most loved for how it significantly reduces the feeling of inflammation and skin stress, with numerous studies confirming this.
Relax With a Face Mask
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While a face mist can help to soothe skin in just a few seconds, a face mask needs a little longer to work. However, if you have 10-15 minutes to spare, the right face mask could provide longer-lasting results than a face mist would.
The HydroCollagen Lift Mask, for example, which can also be found in our Collagen Cooling Set, will leave your skin feeling ultra-relaxed. This is another formula that contains niacinamide, combining this complexion-soothing compound with the likes of peptides, sodium hyaluronate, and collagen.
Hydrogel sheet masks are also known for feeling luxuriously soothing. While sheet masks are most commonly designed for the face, treat yourself to a box of our GloUp Beautifying Neck, Chest, and Hand Masks, and those other areas of your skin will suddenly find it much easier to de-stress.
Give Jade Rolling a Try
Jade rolling is an ancient skincare technique that has recently witnessed a resurgence in popularity. It’s primarily carried out to boost lymphatic drainage. The massaging action of the roller promotes blood flow, which reduces the appearance of puffiness and facial swelling. This can be particularly useful in the mornings.
However, using a jade roller can be an effective way to quickly soothe skin as well. Jade is naturally a very cool stone, and cool temperatures relax stressed-out skin. This gemstone is also historically loved for its calming and grounding properties, making it a great gemstone to expose your skin to on a regular basis.
Jade rollers are easy to find – we’ve even included one in our Phyto Thermal Collection. They can be used daily, with plenty of tutorials available online. Each session will only take a few minutes, and you should notice a difference in your complexion straight away. Use a jade roller regularly, and your skin won’t feel quite so stressed in the future.
Use Refrigerated Skincare Products
As we mentioned above, cool temperatures always have a soothing effect on the skin. Once your skin comes into contact with cold, blood vessels constrict, meaning that the appearance of redness and inflammation will quickly dissipate. As an added bonus, pore openings also constrict when they’re cold. This gives the skin a tighter and smoother finish.
With cold providing such quick relief to stressed-out skin, it’s worth exploring the various ways in which you can safely expose your skin to cold temperatures for short periods of time. A cold compress is the traditional way to do this, but beauty experts often recommend the more convenient method of simply storing some of your skincare products in the fridge. This way, they’ll be chilled when applied, making them feel so much more refreshing!
This also has the additional bonus of prolonging the shelf life of those products since refrigeration will prevent the deterioration of certain ingredients. With that said, not all skincare products are suitable for refrigeration. Avoid doing this with any oil-based or clay-based products, as well as sunscreens.
Put a Stop to Sun Damage
If you’re trying to soothe skin that’s stressed but, at the same time, your skin is being exposed to UV rays, you’re never going to see any major results. Your skin will be constantly taking a beating from those rays, making recovery very difficult.
This is why sun protection needs to be considered alongside the other tips we’ve shared. By all means, soothe your complexion with the right topical products and skincare tools. However, make sure that you’re also shielding your skin from UV damage.
SPF 30 is usually recommended for most people. However, if you suspect that the sun could be a contributing factor to your skin’s stress, give your skin some extra protection with a product that has a higher SPF rating. Make sure that you pick a broad-spectrum sunscreen. This indicates that it will protect against both UVA and UVB rays.
Of course, a sunscreen that contains some of the complexion-soothing ingredients we’ve talked about above would be appreciated by your skin. You may find that your skin is easily irritated by certain UV filters, and calming ingredients will help to counter this.
Experience Happier Skin With Avinichi
The tips that we’ve talked about above will go a long way in quickly soothing the look of stressed-out skin. However, once you’ve managed to get some relief, don’t move on and forget about it. It’s so important to pinpoint exactly what has caused your skin to feel stressed in the first place. This way, you can work on eliminating those triggers so that your skin always looks healthy and happy.
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