As a girl pursuing beauty, she must know the correct procedure for skin care. The proper process can save twists and turns and effectively care for the skin.
The daily essential skin care procedure:
Facial Cleanser--Toner--Eye Cream--Facial Essence--Lotion—Sunblock
[Facial Cleanser]
Skin cleansing is the first step of skin care. Do not overlook the importance of the cleanliness of the skin. If face cleansing is not in place, the pore will be clogged, and the skin is easy to have acne. Therefore, we have to use a facial cleanser to clean the skin every day. A facial cleanser can cleanse the facial skin, care for and moisturize the skin, and provide nutrition. After using it, the facial skin turns soft, tender, shiny, clean, and smooth. Washing the face or removing makeup with a facial cleanser has a good effect on skin cleaning and health care.
It’s advised to use different facial cleansers for different seasons. For summer, we can choose some refreshing and foaming facial cleansers. For winter, we can select hydrating and lotion-type facial cleansers.
To use it in the morning and at night every day. But the facial cleanser can not leave on the face for over 2 minutes. To massage it gently with the finger pulp, especially to massage the T area and the two sides of the nose. And don’t forget the neck. To rinse it with flowing water. If permits, it’s better to use mineral water or electrolyzed water. But the best water is the one with weak acid. After cleaning, do not wipe it forcedly with a towel. It's better to use a facial sponge to dry the water on the face gently. (The facial skin is also very fragile.)
[Toner]
To use different toners per skin type. And it’s better to change it per the change of the season.
Oily Skin--Hydrating Toner(Do hydrate first and then oil-control.)
The function of a toner:
Balance the pH value of the skin.
Supplement moisture.
Shrink pores.
Do cleansing again.
Help with skincare products absorption.
When using a toner, it’s advised to use cotton pads. And try to buy some good cotton pads(A poor quality one may absorb more toner than the face does.). Avoid the periphery of the eyes. After cleaning it with a cotton pad(do not forget the neck), gently pad the skin with the fingers to better absorb the toner. (Cells are like human beings, they sleep sometimes. If you pat them, they wake up, and the nutrition can be better absorbed.)
[Eye Cream]
This step is very vital.
It’s advised to use it per the age and the skin conditions. For those younger than 25 years old, try to use a light and hydrating eye cream, which is usually gel-shaped. After 25 years old, the skin becomes aging gradually. Try to give the nourishing eye cream up step by step. Please do not use the very nutritional ones at once but change them with age increasing.
How to use:
Get 1 to 2 drops of eye cream the same size as a soybean.
Pat it around the eyes with the finger pulp of the ring fingers.
Massage it until it’s absorbed.
[Essence]
The molecule of the serum is thinner than that of the ordinary lotion, which is one of the reasons that it’s expensive. The lotion can be used per skin type.
Oily Skin--Oil-control or pore shrinking lotion
How to use:
Get 1 to 2 drops of eye cream the same size as a soybean.
Pat it evenly on the face with the five-point method until it’s absorbed(The five-point: forehead, cheeks, chin, nasal tip, and neck.)
[Lotion]
Oily Skin--Water-balanced lotion(Do not choose cream products since they are too oily, suitable for dry or hydroponic skin.)
[Sunblock]
1. The classification of UV
(1) UVA: Long Wave. It can reach beneath the dermis and accounts for 98% of the UV. It’s of strong penetrating power and can cause the skin to be aged earlier.
(2) UVB: Medium Wave. It can reach the epidermis and causes sunburn and sun damage. And it at its strongest between 11 am and 3 pm. Therefore, we must protect ourselves from the sun or try to go out as few times as possible.
(3) UVC: Short Wave. It can cause skin cancer.
2. UV has strong penetrating power and can even penetrate glasses. Thus, we have to do sun protection outdoors.
3. SPF
(1) SPF: SPF*15/60=time duration for sun protection
(2) PA: + low 2 to 4 hours; ++ medium 4 to 6 hours; +++ high above 6 hours.
(3) It’s not that the higher the protection factor, the better. The higher the factor, the heavier the burden it exerts on the skin. Some of the SPF will be absorbed by the skin, and some will evaporate. Therefore, we have to supplement moisture every 3 to 4 hours.
4. The other cautions
After applying sunblock, you can wear sunglasses, use a sunshade, and reapply the sunblock timely. And do not eat photosensitive food(celery, leek, and carrot.)
UV may cause senile of the skin, sunburn, and sun damage.
If you are oily skin, you can buy spray-type sun protection products since they make you fresh and cool. For SPA, it depends on how long time you will stay outdoors. The precise computing method is as above.
Next, let’s discuss the other care.
Facial mask: It's better to apply the facial mask 1 to 2 times a week.
Keratin removal: it should be based on age. It’s better to remove them after 18 years old and do it 1 to 2 times a month. Select the mild ones.
Acne removal: If there is acne on the skin, do not squeeze it yourself. It causes scars if it hurts the dermis, and it’s hard to repair them. So go to a beauty salon to fix it with the help of a beautician. After squeezing the acne, you must use pore-shrinking products, such as lavender essential oil. Typically, the beauty salon has it.
Acne: There are whiteheads and blackheads. You can use nasal strips for the blackhead on the nose or go to a beauty salon to have them removed. The blackhead is the over secretion of the sebaceous gland, which can be discharged and accumulated inside the hair follicle. Sebum outside the hair follicle, dust, the aged dead cells are mixed and coagulate as small fat embolus that becomes a blackhead.
Precautions:
Clean the skin before sleep every day and prevent the occurrence of blackheads and acne.
Remove the keratin regularly.
Last, it takes a long time to nourish the skin. Before 18 years old, the metabolic cycle of the skin is 28 days. While after 18 years old, the cycle is the actual age plus ten days. Therefore, don’t be in a rush.
Although you think your skin is oily, do not blindly choose oil-control products. Normal skin has both water and oil. When the water and oil are in balance, the skin is at its best, namely, the normal skin. When it is out of balance, such as it lacks water, the skin tends to be more oily. Oil-control products are dry, which makes your skin more oily. Therefore, oily skin also should start with hydrating. After that, to decide whether the skin needs oil control per skin conditions.