There are often sisters who say, "This used to be fine, but now it is suddenly inappropriate?" Or "My face suddenly stinks after using it." Skin care products are really easy to recite. During the damage of the barrier, there are indeed many places to pay attention to. Otherwise, many good skin care products are wasted at the wrong time and cost money.
The following is my experience to share with you.
What is the barrier?
1 Your oil? Sweating? "Lipid" (lipid produced by epidermal cells: containing ceramide, sterol and free fatty acid) * * * forms a film (sebum film) on the skin surface.
2 keratinocytes, intercellular lipids
① and ② * * * together form your skin barrier.
What is the function of skin barrier?
This barrier locks in moisture and lipids in the skin and helps you resist bacteria on the skin surface. It plays an important protective role.
Why is your barrier broken?
In fact, there are many reasons for damaging the protective layer of skin.
On the one hand, due to heredity and improper use of drugs, some skin diseases will lead to fragile skin barrier function. In addition, some factors will also damage skin barrier function, such as cold winter, dry environment, sun exposure and ultraviolet rays. For example, the plateau red of Tibetan compatriots is caused by the thinning of keratin and the damage of skin barrier function after long-term ultraviolet irradiation.
But! ! ! Most girls care too much about their skin, spend so much money on maintenance, and don't want to expose themselves to the sun. How can the skin barrier be destroyed? In fact, this is often related to bad skin care habits such as repeated rubbing, exfoliation and excessive cleaning. Everyone must be careful.
Once the barrier function of the skin is destroyed, the direct manifestation is that the skin will become very dry, because the water will be easily lost. In addition to the fact that the cheeks are easy to dry and desquamate, the oil secretion on many people's faces will be more vigorous, leading to closed acne and acne problems caused by pore blockage.
On the other hand, the destruction of skin barrier will lead to the decrease of skin tolerance or defensiveness, which is manifested as intolerance to various physical or chemical factors. For example, some people think that wind blowing, sunlight exposure, too cold and too hot ambient temperature will make the skin red and stinging. Some people even used products that had no problems before, and suddenly they felt stinging and even broke out in a rash. These manifestations indicate that the skin barrier function is impaired.
You can know from experience that barrier damage is the result of manufacturing. In essence, they all belong to "destroying cutin and weakening barriers", such as wet compress, deep cleaning, hot water washing, exfoliation, fruit acid skin changing, acidic products, excessive sun exposure, frequent makeup removal, and severe friction with cotton pads. These can't be done often, baby!
The daily reasons are as follows:
1 High-frequency makeup, wrong makeup removal, too rough makeup removal (resulting in damage to the barrier).
2 there is no good sun protection (it is impossible to replace sun protection products with isolation only)
Rub and massage the skin frequently.
Like soap-based cleaning and scrub products.
5 Excessive cleaning and exfoliation, excessive brush acid (originally wanted to get rid of acne, but the barrier was destroyed)
6 like wet compress, like to stick masks, and apply masks too frequently.
7 Little friends who like to eat milk tea, desserts and milk.
8 friends who stay up late and have great emotional pressure.
9 excessive washing, excessive use of washing equipment often wash your face.
Possible skin problems after barrier damage
1 dry and tight skin, peeling, itching and dry lines after use.
Acne, large area silence, seborrheic dermatitis, etc. Long-term incurable.
3 the external oil is dry inside, the skin is sensitive, the pores are thick, and it is easy to get oil.
4 The skin is in a state of inflammation for a long time, and it is older than its peers.
5 skin aging is accelerating, and red blood appears on the face.
Skin care products are not easy to absorb and are easy to rub mud.
7 red blood, telangiectasia, looks thin cuticle. 8 It is easy to grow acne and the barrier is damaged, resulting in uneven face.
Focus.
How to repair the barrier?
clean
Wash your face with water in the morning and evening.
If you want to use facial cleanser, dry skin: no foam/gel emulsion for cleansing.
Oily skin: amino acid cleansing products
Try to choose mild cleaning products, such as amino acid surface active facial cleanser. There should be no milder and safer surface activity than amino acids in the world. Avoid using foam facial cleanser with strong oil control and cleanliness, and use soap-based facial cleanser as little as possible. Including many handmade soaps that girls think are mild!
In the meantime, stick to no makeup and hard sun protection.
Hard sun protection during sensitive explosion: wide-brimmed hat+big sunglasses+umbrella
Conditions do not allow hard sun protection: use pure physical sun protection.
You know, no matter what period and state of skin care, sun protection is one of the essential themes. When the skin is fragile, you can choose a mild physical sunscreen, even if it is not waterproof and has poor durability-it doesn't matter, it is mainly mild enough; Or go out with an umbrella and big hat sunglasses, so that the traditional sun protection method can put an end to the situation that may irritate U's injured skin.
Use repair skin care products.
During the period of barrier damage, a good repair product can play a good auxiliary role in your skin repair, such as products containing natural moisturizing factors-hyaluronic acid, ceramide, natural vegetable oil and so on. For people with damaged skin barrier, natural vegetable oil contains no essence and preservatives. The power from herbs can not only lock the skin moisture, but also provide active ingredients such as fatty acids and vitamins, and improve the repair rate of skin barrier, so it is a safe companion for skin care problems. In short, it is mainly based on Bai Wen's repaired products.
During this period, do not wet compress, let alone use products containing too much alcohol, do not use patch mask, and try not to wet compress mask. Due to the complex composition of patch mask, it usually contains high doses of preservatives, which will breed bacteria if it is in direct contact with the skin surface for a long time.
No brush acid, no exfoliation, no blackheads.
Ingredients containing "acid", such as acid and salicylic acid, have exfoliating effect. And if the barrier itself is damaged, it will be further damaged.
Don't use over-functional skin care products during this period.
Including whitening essence, anti-wrinkle essence and cream with very high nutrition and heavy weight, should be suspended. And streamline the skin care process: proper cleaning+moisturizing+proper repair is enough.
In general, it is to streamline skin care! Stay away from soap-based facial cleanser, high-concentration whitening products (after skin repair), high-concentration alcohol emulsion, no brush acid, no exfoliation, no wet compress, no mask, no toner every day, try not to make up, and hard sunscreen.
Skin care products can only choose the effect of hydrating and moisturizing, and it is enough to do basic moisturizing and sunscreen.