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With the advent of night, the skin begins an active life. While we sleep, it works on itself: it is updated, restores moisture, energy, and radiance. And we can help her with this.
Why you need night care
Yes, it’s a dream. If you stay awake at night, instead of stimulating these important processes of melatonin, the skin will receive harmful cortisol.
Does your skin get sleepy? Answer our quiz to find out.
Evening skincare rules
The nightly beauty ritual involves three mandatory steps.
Purification
Even if you are very tired, take off your makeup. Do not forget to wash your face after removing make-up – use a gentle cream cleanser to remove any remaining impurities.
Toning
After cleansing, refresh your face with tonic. It will increase the effectiveness of subsequent care.
Food
This problem is solved by night creams. As a rule, they are denser in consistency than daytime ones. Manufacturers try to put in them a maximum of active components, because it is night time that is the hottest for the regeneration processes of the skin and the body as a whole. Here are some tips.
- Whether it’s a cream or serum, night care products should only be applied to clean skin and at least one hour before bedtime.
- If you are under 25 and your skin is not dry, night cream is optional. You can use a tonic and just “let your skin breathe” while you sleep. Dry skin will need a nourishing cream, irritated skin – soothing. After a 30-night cream, any type of skin needs it, and after another ten years, it’s good to add serum to the evening care.
- Apply night cream in a small amount: excess will provoke morning swelling. In any case, after 15 minutes after application, it is useful to blot your face with a napkin.
- Day cream as an alternative to night cream is not suitable, it has the wrong composition. Yes, moisturizing ingredients are present in day and night products. But, say, SPF, tinting, matting or protective ingredients are not needed at night, and the retinol contained in the night cream, concentrated AHA acids and drainage components (caffeine) are very useful.
Vichy brand experts advise: “It’s good if there are exfoliating ingredients in the night cream. At night, the processes of desquamation (exfoliation) are most effective, and the skin needs to be helped in this.
- Evening care will not work without a full-fledged 7-8 hours of sleep. By the way, the processes of recovery, detox and regeneration of the skin are actively going on not just in sleep, but in its deep (slow) phase.
- Concerning eye cream, We advise you to apply it 1,5 hours before bedtime.
- Peeling – also the procedure of an evening beauty ritual, but it is carried out no more than once a week.
Night care product should be applied only to clean skin and no less than an hour before bedtime.
7 night skin care products
Oil for removing make-up and cleansing the skin of the face, Kiehl’s
Contains Evening Primrose & Lavender Oils & Squalane. Perfectly copes even with persistent makeup and prepares the skin for the application of other evening care.
Micellar water “Clean skin”, Garnier
The product for oily skin effectively removes makeup, excess sebum and other impurities.
Night mask-serum Hydra Zen Masque Nuit, Lancôme
Hyaluronic acid, natural oils and plant extracts, lipid microcapsules and a detox complex provide the skin with hydration, nourishment and relieve stress.
Night soothing care Toleriane Ultra Nuit, La Roche-Posay
Designed for all skin types, contains the soothing component Neurosensin and a detox complex (carnosine + vitamin E).
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Night face cream “Age expert 35+”, L’Oréal Paris
A cream with special deep penetration collagen biospheres fights wrinkles and increases skin turgor.
Night care cream for normal skin during menopause Neovadiol, Vichy
Compensates for the slowdown in skin regeneration due to the active complex. It contains proxylan, which activates collagen synthesis, Hepes and Hydrovance, which accelerate recovery, and moisturizing hyaluronic acid.
Glycolic 10 Renew Overnight, SkinCeuticals
Stimulates cell renewal with glycolic acid at a concentration of 10%. Evens out skin tone, making it smoother and more radiant.