How you treat your face in the morning will set your skin up for success throughout the day. For high-performance skin care brand SkinCeuticals, your morning skin care routine is all about correction and protection. With the right lineup of skin care products, you can correct existing concerns such as fine lines and dark spots and protect your skin from future damage from environmental factors you’ll face throughout the day, from sun exposure to pollution. Ready for the full rundown on how to start your day with a SkinCeuticals skin care routine? We’ll walk you through the five types of products you’ll want to have on hand, including:

• Cleanser

• Toner

• Antioxidant Serum

• Moisturizer

• Sunscreen

1) Cleanse

To begin your SkinCeuticals skin care routine in the morning, you’ll want to start with a clean slate. SkinCeuticals Purifying Cleanser Gel is a lightweight gel that lathers into a soft foam to gently cleanse your face. It also features glycerin for gentle hydration and glycolic acid, a powerful exfoliator, to improve radiance by clearing away dead skin cells that can lead to dull skin tone and rough texture.

2) Tone

For the next step in your SkinCeuticals skin care routine, grab a cotton round and smooth SkinCeuticals Equalizing Toner onto your skin. This toner helps restore your skin’s equilibrium by balancing its pH level. Witch hazel and rosemary extract help tone skin to minimize the appearance of large pores while fruit-derived alpha hydroxy acids gently exfoliate for softer, smoother texture.

3) Treat

Applying an antioxidant serum is a key part of any SkinCeuticals skin care routine to correct and prevent skin imperfections such as fine lines, wrinkles and discoloration. If fine lines and wrinkles are your primary concern, try SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic Antioxidant Serum. A combination of 15% pure vitamin C (in its most potent form, L-ascorbic acid), 1% vitamin E and 0.5% ferulic acid all work in concert to neutralize free radicals caused by sun exposure and pollution and improve the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and loss of firmness.

If helping correct and prevent discoloration is your focus, reach for SkinCeuticals Phloretin CF Antioxidant Vitamin C Discoloration Serum. With a combination of 10% pure vitamin C, 0.5% ferulic acid and 2% phloretin, this serum helps boost cellular turnover and improve the appearance of discoloration such as dark spots and uneven skin tone.

4) Moisturize

After you’ve cleansed, toned and treated your skin with an antioxidant serum, it’s time to moisturize. SkinCeuticals Daily Moisture Lightweight Moisturizer provides substantial moisture with a feather-light lotion texture that leaves no greasy residue behind. Vitamin E helps heal and hydrate skin while a botanical blend of cinnamon, ginger and burnet work together to minimize pore size.

For daily moisture with a side of anti-aging benefits, SkinCeuticals A.G.E. Interrupter Advanced Corrective Cream is a great option for mature skin. This rich, silky day cream helps improve the appearance of six different types of lines and wrinkles, including global fine lines, crow’s feet, glabellar wrinkles, nasolabial folds, marionette lines and forehead wrinkles. The secret to all of these skin-boosting benefits lies in a unique formula blending 1% niacinamide, 18% Proxylane, 4.25% wild fruit flavonoids, 0.1% glycyrrhetinic acid and 3% HEPES. This innovative formula makes for a beneficial step in your SkinCeuticals anti-aging skin routine.

5) Protect

“No morning skin care routine is complete without a broad-spectrum sunscreen, which helps protect your skin from photoaging as well as cancers such as melanoma,” says board-certified dermatologist and LovelySkin CEO Dr. Joel Schlessinger. “The best sunscreen is one that you will use religiously, and SkinCeuticals has some elegant formulas that wear well and provide excellent protection.”

For sun protection with a brightening boost, you’ll want to make sure SkinCeuticals Daily Brightening UV Defense Sunscreen SPF 30 is part of your SkinCeuticals skin care routine. A blend of 0.3% phenylethyl resorcinol, 1% tranexamic acid and 2% niacinamide team up to reduce discoloration over time for brighter, more even-looking skin. A subtle universal tint helps blur large pores and imperfections while a touch of mica provides a touch of radiant glow.

If you prefer an all-mineral sunscreen—perhaps you are pregnant, have sensitivities to chemical UV filters or headed to a beach where reef-safe sunscreen is required—SkinCeuticals Sheer Physical UV Defense Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 is a great option. This matte-finish sunscreen fluid goes on weightlessly and provides broad-spectrum protection with zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. It also features vitamin E to help protect skin from UV damage and artemia, a form of algae that helps hydrate and condition skin.

Looking to reduce redness after in-office procedures such as a chemical peel or laser treatment? You can learn more about SkinCeuticals’ line of redness relief products on the LovelySkin Blog.