Washing a face is not only a matter of face, but also the most basic step of skin care.
However, many people have done something wrong every day.
Rub your face with a towel, alternate hot and cold water, and exfoliate frequently … These wrong ways of washing your face may bring us many skin problems!
We may have stepped on the following 8 misconceptions about washing our faces.
Myth 1: Rubbing Face with Towel
It is a habit of many people since childhood to wet the towel and wipe it on their faces. It seems that only in this way can their faces be washed clean.
But the face is not an elbow, can’t stand the great force of pulling and rubbing.
Always rub your face with a towel, the skin will become thinner and thinner and more sensitive over time. Especially cheekbones, which are prominent parts, are likely to cause stabbing pain and even long color spots.
Similarly, tools such as face washing sponges and face washing brushes that use friction to clean face are best not often used.
Myth 2: Alternating cold and hot water can shrink pores,
Everyone knows the principle of expansion with heat and contraction with cold, so there is such a seemingly reasonable statement:
Hot water can expand pores, while cold water can shrink pores. Wash your face alternately with hot and cold water, which can wash you cleaner and shrink your pores.
Come on! Alternating hot and cold water can really make the skin look firmer for the time being, but it is the blood vessels on the face that are more affected by the water temperature.
Washing your face with superheated and supercooled water will excessively stimulate blood vessels and is detrimental to the skin.
Especially for people with sensitive skin, cold and hot stimulation is likely to aggravate skin sensitivity.
Myth 3: Remove makeup every day without makeup,
Some businesses, when promoting makeup remover, will say:
After a whole day of dust, sunshine, sunscreen and other stimulation, pores will accumulate a lot of dirty things, no matter whether you wear makeup or not, you have to remove makeup to clean thoroughly.
Let’s listen to this, don’t take it seriously.
Without makeup, you don’t need to remove makeup. Ordinary facial cleanser can effectively clean these dirty things.
Moreover, many makeup removal products should be used in conjunction with cosmetic cotton. During makeup removal, the skin should be rubbed repeatedly, which may damage the stratum corneum and skin barrier.
Myth 4: The more foam the cleanser, the better
I don’t know when what started, there is such a saying:
The more foam there is in facial cleanser, the stronger the cleaning ability. Buy facial cleanser with rich foam.
It is better to cover your wallet and don’t buy it indiscriminately.
Foamy facial cleanser, indeed generally will wash cleaner. However, it is good to use what facial cleanser. You can’t just look at the cleansing power, but the most important thing is to look at the skin quality.
For people with oily skin, it is more suitable to use facial cleanser with more foam, which is clean and comfortable.
However, people with dry skin or sensitive skin do not have much grease to wash. Using facial cleanser with more foam will cause excessive cleaning, making skin tight and uncomfortable.
Myth 5: Frequent [Deep Cleaning]
You may have heard that facial cleanser and water can only clean the surface, and only deep cleaning can really clean the depths of pores.
But in fact, our skin has a cycle of growth and aging, and the aging stratum corneum will naturally fall off.
Most people’s skin is quite healthy and does not need so-called [deep cleaning].
If the skin is rough, it is enough to remove cutin once a week.
If you use deep cleaning products such as scrub cream and tear mask too frequently, it will destroy the normal stratum corneum and damage the skin.
Especially for people with dry skin and sensitive skin, if deep cleaning products are not used well, it is likely to ruin their faces.
Myth 6: Rubbing with Salt or White Sugar Can Remove Blackheads
There is such a saying:
Use salt or white sugar to rub and massage on the nose to rub blackheads out.
However, salt and white sugar have uneven particle sizes. In the process of rubbing the skin, it is easy to draw some tiny wounds. Frequent use will damage the skin barrier and make the skin thinner and more sensitive.
The friction is cool for a while, and the skin damage is really painful.
Myth 7: Face Washing Water and Vinegar Can Whiten and Rejuvenate Skin
Similarly, there is also such a saying:
Acid can promote the regeneration of skin cells. Washing face with vinegar-added water has whitening and freckle removing effects.
Indeed, some people will feel their skin whitening and smoothing after washing their faces with white vinegar. This is because acetic acid has the effect of softening and removing some cutin.
But! Washing your face with vinegar-added water for a long time is likely to destroy the skin barrier function. The skin is becoming more and more sensitive, causing itching, stabbing pain, red blood streaks and peeling.
Apart from vinegar, milk, rice washing water, lemon juice… don’t wipe any food on your face.
Myth 8: After washing your face, air-dry naturally and keep it moist.
Natural air drying can make water stay on the face longer, as if it were more hydrating and moisturizing.
Good boy, let’s go wipe your face.
When air-dried, water evaporation will take away heat, reduce temperature, stimulate skin vasoconstriction, slow blood flow and reduce skin support.
In short, the slow evaporation of water will make the face drier.
Under the guidance of these misunderstandings, our skin is thinner and thinner, more painful and drier.
Eight misunderstandings, we have been more or less pit, it is time to let go of their faces!
Washing a face is really exquisite, but it is really not so complicated. The correct way to open a face is here:
Everyone has a love of beauty, but if they are trapped by unreliable statements and are excessively pursued [washed clean], the skin will be damaged, stabbing pain, peeling and red blood streaks will be light…
In case [friction] becomes sensitive skin, it is really too late to cry.
If you want to have healthy skin, start with washing your face correctly.