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Healthy-Food asked the experts how to get the most out of the long weekend for your skin. And we got four program options that can and should be combined to create the most comfortable “intensive therapy” course for skin and hair for the holidays.
Maya Goldobina: walks + home spa
Winter walks are useful for everyone, and reasonable care will help protect the skin from frost.
What is required for the skin:
To prevent facial skin from being affected by low temperatures, wind or snow, do not forget to apply a dense cream with nourishing ingredients before leaving the house. Remember that it is better to do this in advance, for example, an hour before leaving the house. So the product will have time to be absorbed completely, and the effect will be expressed as much as possible.
Don’t ignore products with extra UV protection. The fact is that in winter, UV-A rays continue to have their effect on our skin. They are responsible for premature aging. Therefore, try to choose products with broad spectrum SPF protection.
In winter, you should not refuse tonal means, this is an additional protective layer. And the face in the photo will look more even in tone.
Please remember to protect your skin. It is also advisable to apply a regenerating cream in advance and take care of beautiful and reliable “clothes” for hands. Mittens or gloves – it doesn’t matter, as long as they are on your hands, and not in the car or on the shelf at home.
Walked? Flushed? Excellent! Vessels in the skin began to work more actively, the muscles also received a load. Now it’s time for a relaxing break.
When, if not during the holidays, give yourself a whole series of home spa treatments.
You can take a skin oil bath. Don’t let the water get too hot, as this can cause additional dryness. 10-15 minutes is the optimal time for such a procedure. While your body enjoys the water, pamper your face with a moisturizing mask. The sequence of actions in this case will be as follows:
Cleansing the skin of the face with a special tool. It is important that it is soft in composition and does not dry out the skin. The foam cream or cleansing oil format is ideal for winter time. It is convenient to clean the face before being immersed in water.
Applying a mask. Ready-made gel or cream form is very convenient. Often the composition of such products includes plant extracts, hyaluronic acid, glycerin. The mask is applied to the entire face, excluding the area around the eyes, and the neck area.
After taking a bath, you need to wash off the mask and apply an evening care product. Do not forget to take care of the skin of the body: do not just apply a moisturizer or lotion, but do it with gentle massage movements.
And don’t rush anywhere! Right now you have the time to thoughtfully take care of your skin and thank it for its daily work for the benefit of the whole organism.
What if the holiday weekend turns out to be working days or part-time working days for you? In this case, allow yourself an express program of two points:
once in the first week of January, a warm bath with a facial mask and self-massage;
gentle massage along with cleanser every morning. Massage movements on the face are always performed from the center to the periphery, along the paths of the lymphatic outflow. Small circular movements without excessive skin tension are what you need to get a little more tone in the face in a few minutes.
Start the year with beauty and self-care, and let it last all 365 days!
Selection of suitable products from Healthy-Food
CeraVe Ceramide Hyaluronic Acid Lotion is perfect for winter hydration and sun protection. It has a less dense texture than a cream. Easy to apply and quickly absorbed. The technology of slow release of active ingredients allows you to maintain the necessary level of hydration and protection from external factors (such as low temperatures) throughout the day.
Tonal creams increasingly combine the functions of toning, smoothing skin tone and care. Good skin hydration is the key to a good “work” of makeup. Increasingly, foundation creams, fluids (even tonal serums have appeared) include moisturizing ingredients that we are used to seeing in caring cosmetics. First of all, we are talking about hyaluronic acid.
It is better to have more than one hand cream so that you can use them several times a day. This is especially important in winter. At this time, we give preference to restorative creams, as advised by our expert.
Even if a bubble bath wasn’t your plan, it’s worth switching up to try this new CeraVe bubble bath. It not only combines cleansing and moisturizing the skin in an amazing way, but also suitable for both face and body.
For a real spa effect, you need a pleasant mask. We consider this one the most suitable candidate: color, smell, texture, and most importantly, an anti-stress effect combined with intense skin hydration – everything corresponds to the ideas of a spa.
In winter, as a night cream, I especially want something warming, melting on the skin. So that the cream saturates it with nutrients and energizes for the next day and new experiences.
Altana Bazyleva: time of procedures
What kind of procedure you currently need will help determine the test.
Procedures that stimulate skin renewal include:
chemical peels;
laser resurfacing;
microneedle RF lifting.
In the cold season and during the heating season, the skin especially needs to be moisturized. Due to the working batteries and heaters, the level of humidity in the air in the rooms drops sharply, and skin cells begin to lose their own moisture. One of the most popular procedures for quick skin revitalization, restoration of its water reserve, as well as stimulation of its own collagen for many years is biorevitalization. This is an intradermal injection of pure hyaluronic acid (or, depending on the preparation, hyaluronic acid with complexes of vitamins, amino acids, peptides). Traces of injections in the form of single bruises will be noticeable within 1-4 days.
Intensive at home from Healthy-Food
For express revitalization of tired and dehydrated skin at home, you need to pay attention to concentrates with low molecular weight hyaluronic acid, antioxidants and vitamins in the composition. These serums can be safely included in the post-New Year intensive.
Effective products with acids that can be used in an express course are also available for home use: the acid content in such serums or ampoule concentrates is quite high, but at the same time they are safe for independent use.
Means with acids are used in the evenings!
Alexander Prokofiev: sleep + ampoule care
Let’s think about what you can do yourself at home. First of all, get enough rest and sleep, because chronic lack of sleep and stress worsen the condition of the skin and reduce collagen synthesis. The best means for intensive exposure are ampoules, which are just designed for a short course. Why exactly them? Packaging in the form of an ampoule eliminates preservatives, flavors and stabilizers, due to this the concentration of active ingredients in the product is maximum. The content of the ampoule is sterile, avoiding contact with oxygen, so the ingredients do not oxidize (this is important, for example, for vitamin C). As a result, we have a monodose of the agent with the maximum intensity of exposure.
The conclusion of serums and concentrates in ampoules allows you to make the composition even more minimalist and accurately dose the product. And they also create a feeling of professional care, which is very nice.
Let’s take a look at the care program for the upcoming holidays. Let your skin take a break from everyday makeup. Make-up removal procedures are not required, and for cleansing it is enough to use a light foam or gel. Since we want an intense effect, it will not be superfluous to tone the skin – the tonic helps the penetration of the active ingredients of the subsequent care. Then apply the concentrate from the ampoule, wait 30 seconds until the product is completely absorbed, then use your usual cream. Repeat the procedure in the morning and evening.
As a result of such an intensive course, elasticity is increased and the skin relief is evened out, wrinkles are reduced, signs of fatigue disappear, the skin acquires a healthy and radiant appearance, and in addition, protection from external aggressive factors is enhanced.
An intensive skin care program even at home for a week can provide visible results.
Selection of suitable products from Healthy-Food
When it comes to gentle cleansing, Healthy-Food editors think of La Roche-Posay products first. They can be used by the whole family, including the smallest members with delicate and vulnerable skin.
We hope that you use the tonic not only in winter. This beauty product, like no other, reconciles the skin with the surrounding reality after washing with hard water and prepares it for the subsequent care. La Roche-Posay Physiological Tonic restores the pH of the skin, which means it helps it to function normally.
The course of HyaluB5 ampoules already during the holidays will allow you to evaluate the result before and after. The updated formula not only perfectly moisturizes the epidermis, but also smoothes wrinkles, makes the skin fresher and more elastic.
Evgeny Sedoy: we will master darsonval
Many of us approach winter with the remnants of seasonal shedding, that is, seasonal hair loss, so in order to maintain hair, I recommend, for example, darsonval.
Darsonval is an excellent cosmetic “physiotherapy” at home for both the face and the scalp.
In any set of darsonval there is a glass comb. It’s just for the scalp.
Turn on the device to the minimum current and power, start moving this comb from the edge line of the forehead and move slowly to the edge line of the back of the head, grab the temples. The average exposure time of darsonval to the scalp is 7-10 minutes.
After that, I recommend opening an ampoule of nicotinic acid for hair and applying it dropwise in the parting to the scalp treated with darsonval. I advise you to do this before going to bed, because darsonval soothes very well. Previously, in Soviet sanatoriums, it was used to treat insomnia.
After a session of darsonval and nicotinic acid, go to bed.
In the morning you can wash your hair, make a nourishing mask in accordance with the type of hair: if it is dyed, then for dyed hair, if dry, then for dry, if normal, then any moisturizing or nourishing mask.
Here are some examples of such masks:
for colored hair;
for dry and very dry hair;
all-in-one hydrating mask.
How to make a mask to get the most out of it:
apply the mask on the hair, stepping back from the roots;
wrap your hair in a hot, damp towel;
cover with a dry towel on top to keep warm for a long time;
wash off the mask after 10 minutes.
Thus, you will receive wonderful care, in my opinion, completely identical to the salon.
The holidays are the perfect time to take time to take care of your skin and hair. This attitude will definitely affect their appearance.
Have fun on winter break and keep your hair healthy.