Every day, people want to look great. But only a few are able to correctly select and use personal care products.
Below is a list of the most common mistakes in using cosmetics. Knowing these mistakes will help you properly care for your appearance, as well as preserve beauty and health for many years to come.
10. Use face scrubs
Facial scrub is a cosmetic containing small hard particles. They cleanse the face of dirt mechanically. But despite all the ease of use, it is better not to use this tool.
In fact, scrub is not suitable for any type of skin. It is contraindicated in sensitive and dry skin, as it severely injures it. Inflamed, he damages all the more.
Scrub is not suitable for oily or combination skin. In it, as a rule, quite large pores. Small particles of the agent get stuck in them, clog and cause rashes on the face.
Instead of scrubs, it is better to use chemical or enzyme peels. They do not tear off, but dissolve dead skin cells.
9. Treat the whole face with an alcohol solution.
Alcohol is an excellent tool for disinfecting and drying acne and relieving inflammation. However, in addition to the advantages, ethanol has serious drawbacks: it destroys the natural skin protection. Alcohol makes it vulnerable to factors such as ultraviolet, wind, and temperature changes.
If you treat the whole face with alcohol, then it will dry not only acne, but also healthy cells. Therefore, ethanol and alcohol-containing cosmetics can be used only to owners of oily or mixed skin from two to five times a week, but not more often.
In the fight against inflammation, alcohol should be applied directly to the problem area of the face - to the pimple itself and the area around it to reduce the risk of infection.
8. Do not remove makeup before bedtime
If you do not wash off your makeup before bedtime, then decorative cosmetics will clog the pores on the face. This will lead to inflammation and acne. Night is the time when the skin is actively restored.
If you leave makeup overnight, the skin will not be able to regenerate, and collagen will collapse. The skin cannot breathe; it will become dry and dull.
It is especially important to remove makeup from the eyes. Otherwise, there is a risk of infection and wake up with swollen and red eyes, brittle eyelashes and eczema.
7. Too early use of anti-aging cosmetics
The first small wrinkles may occur from fatigue or lack of moisture. But this is not a reason to use anti-aging cosmetics, if the time is not right for her.
Such funds will not solve the problem, but the skin will get used to them. She will stop producing collagen on her own, which will lead to early aging.
6. Too late use of anti-aging cosmetics
At the same time, the delayed use of anti-aging products is a mistake. At 30-35 years old, the skin needs to be helped with regeneration - for this purpose there are special products for this age.
Cream for 40 years and above contains hyaluronic acid, antioxidants, collagen and elastin. These substances are necessary for the skin to maintain youthfulness.
If tightened using anti-aging cosmetics, the skin will look worse than it could.
5. Use a cleanser once a day
Many girls, especially those who do not use decorative cosmetics, think that washing only once a day is enough. But this is not so. It is necessary to wash twice - in the morning and in the evening. In the morning, we wash off particles of dust and dead cells of the epidermis, as well as toxins removed by the skin overnight.
In the evening, it is necessary to remove dust and other pollution accumulated during the day from the face.
In addition, you can not wash your face with hot water - it breaks the lipid barrier and causes peeling. It is ideal to start the procedure with lukewarm water and end with cool.
Also, care products should be appropriate for your skin type, so as not to negate the entire effect of washing.
4. The use of soap with soap
Due to its properties, soap perfectly cleanses the skin from any impurities.
But it has an alkaline environment, so it dries the skin very much. This affects the condition of any part of the body, but is especially dangerous for the face. That's why for washing you should not use substances containing soap. This will cause the destruction of the natural microflora of the skin and peeling.
For owners of oily skin type, there are special gels for washing. For sensitive skin, foams and substances with a creamy texture are created, acting more gently.
3. Ignoring skin type when choosing cosmetics
Beauticians divide the skin into four types: normal, oily, dry and mixed. Different types of skin have different physiological characteristics and microflora. Therefore, the approach to each skin is different.
Means with alcohol or soap help oily skin, but they will destroy sensitive and dry skin. And vice versa - people with dry skin are recommended substances with oils, and oil for oily skin is useless.
Careless attitude to the type of skin is a wide step towards problems with it.
To choose cosmetics correctly, it is worth consulting with a cosmetologist. This is not so expensive, but even a visit to a specialist will help to avoid serious mistakes.
2. Wash off the clay after drying
Clay needs to be washed off while it is still viscous and wet. If the clay has managed to dry - you are late. Such care is rather harmful - dried clay takes away moisture from the face and dries the skin, leaving a feeling of tightness.
Therefore, clay and face masks can not be left for a long time, they must be washed off while they still contain moisture.
1. Do not wash off micellar water
Micellar water contains surfactants; they collect particles of dust and other substances from the skin. If the product is not washed off, all contamination will remain on the face in addition to surfactants.
Also, with prolonged contact with the skin, micellar water begins to show the properties of soap and irritate the skin.