Humidity does not ruin skin on its own. What it does is change the conditions so that your usual routine starts working against you. Sebum spreads faster, sweat sits longer, and the skin barrier, already stressed by heat, gets confused by moisture it cannot use. The result is a particular kind of monsoon skin: shiny, congested, occasionally itchy, and oddly dehydrated underneath all that surface moisture. The fix is not a lighter moisturiser or a second cleanse. It is choosing ingredients that are built for exactly this environment.
