One other important point: The skin-care products you use can influence your skin type. Judging skin type simply by looking at your face and feeling your skin won’t necessarily identify the underlying situation. For example, if you use an emollient cleanser and follow it with a drying, alcohol-laden toner, and then an emollient moisturizer with a serum underneath, that could very well be causing you to have noticeably combination skin. Using a moisturizer that is too emollient for your skin could be causing breakouts. Using skin-care products that contain irritating ingredients could cause dryness, irritation, and redness. You may think you have a particular skin type, but you may be looking at your skin’s reaction to the products you are using.