Is skin care just for beauty? Not exactly. In fact, it is more to improve skin health. I have always believed what roald dahl, an outstanding British children's literature writer, said in his book Fools: "A kind-hearted person will never be ugly. You may have a flat nose, crooked mouth, double chin and big teeth, but as long as you are always kind, they will shine on your face like sunshine and make you loved. "
How to clean face and body
It is important to know the nature of your skin. Your skin care depends on whether the facial skin is oily, dry or sensitive.
Here are some tips for washing your face:
If the facial skin is dry or sensitive, avoid using cream containing alcohol or essence, and choose products containing moisturizing ingredients. Dry and sensitive skin must also avoid frequent use of scrub to prevent skin irritation; Once or twice a week at most if the skin can bear it.
For oily skin, foam cleansing cream is more suitable. You can also use ordinary facial cleanser, and then use emulsion or degreasing agent to remove excess oil.
Dry your face after washing it. Don't wipe your face hard, but pat your face with a towel to absorb water droplets. Don't wash your face more than twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. If you wash your face too often, dry skin will become drier. Oily skin will also become more greasy, because oily skin will replenish oil every time it washes its face, so oily skin will get oily more and more.
You should get into the habit of washing your face after exercise to prevent oil and sweat from clogging your pores.
After washing your face, let's talk about how to take a bath and shower. The bath water should not be overheated. Although taking a hot bath is very comfortable, it is easy to dry the skin. Warm water or room temperature water should be used. Old people also have the habit of taking a long bath, sometimes even for half an hour! Taking a bath for too long is also easy to make the skin lose moisture. Try to control the bathing time within five minutes, which saves water and hurts the skin, killing two birds with one stone. Another common misunderstanding is that antibacterial soap is clean, so many people like to use it, especially the elderly. In fact, these soaps are relatively strong in nature and are more likely to cause dry skin, especially for the elderly and even eczema.
How to moisturize the skin
Skin of any age and nature needs moisturizing. Cleaning should be carried out after the moisturizing step.
Fresh washed skin with a little moisture is the most effective way to moisturize. A touch of moisturizer is equivalent to "shrinking" the moisture in the skin. Especially for people with eczema, I would recommend applying moisturizing cream all over the body immediately after taking a shower.
As long as the time point of moisturizing skin is slightly adjusted, the moisturizing effect of moisturizing cream can be fully exerted with half the effort, which will play a significant role in improving the skin condition.
In addition, if you have acne on your face, you should choose "non-acne" (which will not block pores) or "non-acne" (which will not cause acne) when choosing moisturizing cream. This important word is usually marked on the product label.
How to protect skin from the sun?
Regardless of men, women and children, sun protection is an important step that can not be ignored in skin care and should be included in the basic rules of daily skin care. This is the third step after cleaning and moisturizing. You must do these three steps well every morning before you can go out to work with confidence. One thing to know is that most of the ultraviolet rays absorbed by the skin come from the sunlight that the skin is exposed to during the young period of 13 to 35. However, because the damage caused by sunlight to the skin often does not appear until the skin is older (about thirty or forty years old), most people will not pay attention to sun protection from the beginning. However, before the sun damage appears, it is too late to try to "reverse the trend" and the cost is often too high. Prevention is always better than cure. Excessive exposure can also cause a variety of skin cancers, so it is more and more important to do a good job of sun protection from an early age.
Remember, sunscreen should have both UVA and UVB protection functions. The ideal SPF sun protection index of the product should reach at least 30. Many patients are asking, is the higher the sun protection index of the product, the better? Do you need to use products above SPF30, such as SPF50 sunscreen? No matter how high SPF30 is, there is little difference in sunscreen function. If SPF is higher than SPF50, it is not necessary at all.
It is also important to learn to use sunscreen correctly. There are some "rules" to remember:
Use sunscreen every day as much as possible;
During the period from 10 to 4 pm, the sun is the most poisonous;
Apply sunscreen 15 30 minutes before exposure. Then reapply it every two to four hours to enhance the protection effect;
Not only should we prevent direct sunlight, but we should also be careful to reflect light, such as the beam reflected from the beach or the sunlight reflected from the floor of an outdoor cafe;
Get into the habit of shading, wear an umbrella or a hat, or choose a covered walkway to walk;
Don't sunbathe;
Oral sunscreen products can assist the sunscreen function, but they cannot replace any of the above suggestions. It is still necessary to stick to sun protection. The above suggestions apply to ordinary people. But if you have any special considerations or concerns, it is recommended to consult a dermatologist.