Hello everyone, I am Dr. Yuan, a professional dermatologist, guarding the beauty and health of your skin ~
I often hear some beautiful women complain: apply all kinds of big-name skin care products to my face, but how do I feel that it is not effective?
Because it is very likely that your first step was wrong!
To properly care for facial skin, the most basic thing is to wash your face well.
In other words, it is to clean carefully and scientifically.
Dr Yuan hopes that everyone can understand the correct posture of washing your face and learn to choose suitable cleansing products.
First, wash your face correctly, the first step of scientific skin care
Seemingly simple, in fact [washing face] this trivial matter cannot be careless!
1. Is it what who washes his face?
It is the cells, sebum, sweat or so on that fall off the surface of our daily skin.
Washing a face can not only clean these secretions, but also properly clean microorganisms on the skin surface to maintain the healthy physiological barrier of the skin.
2. What happens if you wash your face in the wrong way?
If the cleaning is not in place, the [dirty things] on the skin will block pores, then even if you use the most expensive skin care products, it is useless!
If excessive cleaning, especially frequent use of soap-based products, excessive degreasing, thus damaging the cuticle of the skin, then skin tolerance will deteriorate and various sensitive symptoms will occur…
In short, just as building a house requires laying a good foundation, [scientific cleansing] is definitely an important foundation for caring for skin!
Second, how to choose cleaning products to ensure that they do not fall into the pit.
Dr. Yuan often sees a lot of messages about facial cleansing products. I picked out the 3 questions with the highest number of votes and had a good talk with you ~
1. The more foam, the stronger the cleaning power?
Does the little sister who guides the shopping at the counter often say this to you:
Our XX facial cleanser is rich in foam and dense, so it is cleaner than ordinary facial cleanser.
This is not the case!
Foam in cleaning products is a mixture of surfactant + air + water.
The abundance of foam is related to the type, dosage, foaming mode and overall formula of surfactant, but it has nothing to do with cleaning power.
Many facial cleansers on the market actually have no foam at all, but they can also be washed very clean.
If the guide does this again next time, you can give her a smile of fans!
2. Only with compound functions can we get twice the result with half the effort?
There are many cleaning products on the market, known as “three in one”, “five in one” and even “nine in one”.
This can remove spots, whiten and moisturize, that can repair anti-aging lifting, and that can do anything [all-round].
What surprises Dr Yuan most is that there is a facial cleanser on the market whose publicity effect is acne removal. Can we have dermatologists in the eyes of acne removal facial cleanser manufacturers?
My little sisters must remember that cleaning is cleaning! Facial cleanser does not need to consider other functions!
Do you think that facial cleansers are all instant washing products, and the residence time on the skin surface is generally not more than 2 minutes, so can these active substances enter the skin in time to exert their effects?
Freckle removal and whitening are not the work of one day, and they will not gain miraculous effects because of facial cleansing products that stay on the skin surface for several minutes.
Besides, when acne reaches a certain level, it requires formal medical treatment and related scientific skin care.
Can acne be removed with a simple wash? The facial cleanser you bought is the IQ tax you pay!
Dr Yuan would like to tell you that the more you boast about products with multiple effects, the more you should pay attention to stay away from them.
3. Exaggerate oil control and cleaning power?
In the acne treatment guidelines, we do emphasize the importance of cleaning products for scientific care of acne skin.
However, oil control cannot rely solely on facial cleanser. When washing a face, you can only wash off the oil on the skin surface for a short time. The cleaning process itself cannot affect the speed of oil production on your skin.
Many acne monarch themselves are the skin of large oil fields, and then they wash their faces desperately or use soap-based facial cleanser, which damages the already fragile skin.
Dr Yuan would like to tell everyone that facial cleansers containing nicotinamide, tretinol/aldehyde, salicylic acid and other ingredients have certain oil control effects.
As for acne monarch with especially oily face, remember to go to a dermatologist for symptomatic treatment and give some oil control drugs, such as tretinoin, spironolactone, etc.
In short, cleaning is a process, don’t ignore it, but don’t deify it!
Three, how to correctly clean the skin
1. Face washing frequency
Under normal circumstances, just one time in the morning and one time in the evening.
Wake up in the morning and wash away facial secretions and some residues of skin care products used the day before.
Night facial cleaning is more important. During the long day, the skin surface is piled up with various environmental attachments, plus skin care products or makeup smeared on the face, so it is more necessary to clean the face at night. It is recommended to use it with facial cleanser.
2. Water temperature selection
Warm water is suitable, the water temperature is about 25 ℃.
If you have sensitive skin or aged skin, you should pay more attention to the water temperature!
The water temperature cannot be too high or too low, because temperature is one of the important factors that increase the skin burden.
3. Auxiliary materials
For normal skin, it is actually possible to wash your face with hands, towels and facial cleansers.
If you choose towels, it is recommended to change them frequently, which is soft, warm and pleasant. Remember not to use facial cleanser too frequently. After all, facial cleanser is repeated physical friction, and no matter how good the skin is, it cannot stand the ordeal every day.
Step 4: Facial Cleanser Choice
Soap-based cleansing or other cleansing products that will excessively rub the skin are not recommended.
At present, there are some suitable safety ingredients on the market, such as amino acid surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, glucoside surfactants…
These ingredients are not only clean in place but also mild and not stimulating. They can definitely meet our daily cleaning needs!
Among them, amino acid facial cleanser, with its mild and skin-friendly characteristics, has a very good effect on sensitive muscles and acne skin, and can greatly improve sebum secretion balance.