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Even if you won the genetic lottery, healthy skin is necessary to support the special procedures. If it's not about you, meticulous care is particularly necessary. Especially in such a severe season - the off-season, when the temperature difference between outside and indoors can exceed 20 degrees. We tell what you need to your skin - today and always.
Suffering from what your skin in cold
And biting November wind, and dry air in the room make the skin particularly vulnerable. It seems as if she is suffering from dry, although in reality the problem is its dehydration. These terms are often used interchangeably, although there is a significant difference between them. dry skin - is the lack of natural fats and dehydration - the lack of moisture.
Our skin has a lipid barrier, which traps harmful substances and slows down the evaporation of water. When the lipid barrier is damaged, and this can happen due to the very dry air, moisture from the skin evaporates more quickly, and you feel tightness. Foundations to the middle of the day "roll", and a person acquires dull color, and flaking may appear on the skin. To cope with this problem, you need to nourish the skin with moisture and help to keep it in the lipid barrier. Most importantly, what it is necessary to pay attention to during the cold season, without missing and other basic procedures of skin care.
How to properly care for the skin: the three main stages
1. gentle cleansing
It is necessary to wash the skin with sweat, dust, remnants of cosmetics and excess fat. Cleansing must be thorough, but gentle. It is not necessary to wash "squeaky": it violates the protective barrier of the skin, and it quickly loses moisture.
To cleanse is best to choose cosmetics with a mild non-aggressive formulations, typically in the names used the word "delicate", "moisturizing", "nutritious". vehicle type - gel, foam or jelly - it does not matter and it depends on your preference.
If you use makeup, first dissolve its makeup remover: micellar water, the hydrophilic oil, ointment or jelly. Means oils composed well with the dissolution and not the skin dry. Using foam or gel for washing rinse residues cosmetics and means for its removal. Do not use hot water cleansing the face, especially in the off season: it washes well fat from the skin and makes cleansing more aggressive.
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Those who want to raise the care of the skin in the cold to a new level, should pay attention to the cleaning brushes for the face, which thoroughly but not aggressively help to cleanse the skin and remove dead cells.
Leading the YouTube-channel Layfhakera Irina Rogava test in a beauty-assistant - brush FOREO LUNA 3. As it turned out, in addition to cleansing, this gadget has another important function that helps save on beauty salons. With this brush you can make different facial massage area, neck and décolleté. In general, the use of such gadgets promotes better penetration means's Skin. About Irina impressions of unusual devices learn from this video.
Use FOREO LUNA 3 very simple: apply on face soft means to cleanse, moisten the brush and turn on the cleaning mode. Within a minute circular movements move a device face. Rinse your face with water, pat gently with a soft towel and move on to the next stage - hydration.
Impressed and want a gadget? Look for it in "Rive Gauche" in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as to order the magazine online.
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2. gentle exfoliation
This step is necessary in order to remove dead cells from the skin surface. If peeling skip all subsequent's Skin treatments are useless: the nutrients of cosmetics will simply be absorbed into the stratum corneum.
There are two basic ways to exfoliate:
- mechanical - means with abrasive elements (e.g., cream cleanser with peach pits)
- chemical - cosmetics with special substances (e.g., peeling with fruit acids).
How often should exfoliation procedure in cold, depending on your skin type. If it is oily or combination, you can use soft peeling with a small or average concentration of acids almost daily. If the skin is dry, then these funds should be applied no more than twice a week. In cold weather, it is better not to get involved agents with abrasive particles. So easy to overdo it and break the lipid barrier of the skin.
3. intense hydration
Dehydrated skin must be intensively moisturise. Immediately after washing, use tools with water retention components. Such means typically liquid and are available in the form of a tonic, lotion, serum, toner or essences. Apply them to wet skin, so they help retain water. Then the moisture must «seal» layer that will prevent rapid evaporation: use a moisturizer appropriate for your skin type. Creams that help operate the natural lipid barrier, can be found on the label on the packaging barrier repair.
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Take care of moisture from the inside: watch out for the water-salt balance, drink enough clean water and do not suffer thirst. It is important not to overdo it: too much water at night trigger a swelling in the morning.
Help your skin, often including a humidifier. Modern devices are available in different sizes. Thus, indoor humidity necessary support overnight and compact humectants compensate office air dry.
Morning and evening skin care takes less time than reading this article. A moisture deficit, discomfort and a feeling of tightness will no longer bother you, even if the weather app promises "-5 feels like an ice storm in the Arctic."
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