Going to the mirror and notice age-related changes is a nightmare for any girl. Cosmetics manufacturers are aware of this, and therefore our dressing tables are filled with the latest innovations that preserve youth. Can you hurt yourself if you choose the wrong cream? What beauty products should you be more careful with? Anna Savina, Director of the University of Permanent Makeup Biotek, President of the Russian Society of Specialists in Aesthetic Dermopigmentation, tells about what experiments our skin does not forgive.
Many girls fight skin imperfections such as acne and acne with highly alkaline products or lotions that contain large amounts of alcohol. They dry well! Why not wipe the problem skin every day, maybe all the troubles will disappear? They will not disappear, but will appear in double size.
Let’s deal with each liquid in order. Alkaline solutions lead to dehydration, flaking and possible further skin inflammation. They simply disrupt the acid-base balance. The use of products with alcohol is fraught with the same consequences, but it is advisable in some cases, for example, to locally cauterize a small area of the skin after removing the comedones.
Lotions containing alkali or alcohol should never be used around the eyes, as the skin is especially thin there and you can cause irreparable harm to it.
The new cream turned out to be too greasy, but do you use it anyway? Do not think that since it does not dry out the skin, it does not harm it at all. Using overly oily creams on normal or combination skin leads to blockage of the sebaceous glands and further inflammation. In other words, from such experiments you will have acne!
The self-enrichment of the cream with active ingredients, for example, concentrated essential oils, will turn out to be nothing good. It is fashionable to create your own cosmetics now, but this can lead to an allergic reaction or dermatitis. Do you need it?
These cosmetics should not be carried away. The scrub causes inevitable trauma to the stratum corneum, and the stratum corneum responds with more intensive recovery to excessive exposure. What’s bad about it? You will get a gray complexion! Pores from too persistent cleansing will begin to protect against drying out of the skin, this will lead to more active production of sebum. And as a result, the pores will be constantly enlarged and clogged. If your beautician or dermatologist doesn’t tell you to use a scrub once a week, don’t do it.
Now it is very fashionable to talk about the benefits of tonics. You simply cannot live without them! But are you sure that you really need this tool? Yes, the toner removes the oily layer from the skin, the layer that it specifically develops to protect it from the environment. By degreasing your skin day after day, you force it to produce sebum with triple power. And as a result, you get not velvety skin instead of oily, but even more oily.
In order not to create such problems for yourself, you need to be very careful when choosing cosmetics for care. Before you spend crazy money on a lot of tubes, it is better to go for one consultation with a professional.