Hot compress with towel can promote blood circulation, open pores and effectively clean face. And washing your face with cold water after hot compress can tighten your skin. Generally, hot compress is to open the pores of your face, which is beneficial to the absorption of skin care products.
Cold compress can make local capillaries contract, reduce the abandonment of blood in local blood vessels, and has the functions of diminishing inflammation, stopping bleeding, relieving pain, dissipating heat from skin and lowering body temperature.
Cleansing with cold water after hot compress can tighten the skin.
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Matters needing attention in hot compress of face with towel:
Applying a hot towel to your face can effectively protect your skin, but you can't use this method often, and the temperature should not be too high when using it, otherwise it will easily burn the skin cortex, and it will also lead to excessive expansion of pores, difficulty in contraction, and bacteria will easily enter the pores and cause inflammation. Be sure to use cold compress or skin care products to shrink pores after application.
Oily skin should choose a water temperature consistent with body temperature. If the water temperature is too high, the pores will expand excessively, and the dirt and grease on the skin may be sucked back, leading to skin infection and inflammation. The water temperature of dry skin can be slightly higher, but it cannot exceed 40 degrees.
Matters needing attention in cold compress of face with towel:
Pay attention to the local skin color when cold compress, and stop using it immediately when it turns purple and numb. Cold compress time should not be too long, so as not to affect blood circulation. Old, young and weak patients should not be cold compress. When cold compress, the towel or compress will become hot for a long time and lose the therapeutic effect, so it should be replaced frequently. When contusion, muscle laceration, internal bleeding, etc. Start using cold compress. In the recovery period after 2 ~ 3 days, in order to promote blood circulation, use hot compress.
For hot compress and cold compress, we should choose to use them according to different situations, and remember the handling principles of different situations.
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