How to care for dry skin
4hw.org: autumn and winter are already dry. It is undoubtedly worse for students with dry skin. Therefore, it is an urgent task to replenish moisture to the skin in time. How to maintain the dry skin? Let's have a look!
Characteristics of dry skin:
Dry skin refers to delicate and thin skin with no obvious pores, less and even sebum secretion and no greasy feeling. The skin is dry and looks clean, delicate and beautiful. That is to say, dry skin, the water content of cuticle is less than 10%, the amount of sebum secretion is less, and the skin is wrinkled and lusterless.
The most obvious characteristics of dry skin are: less sebum secretion, dry, fair skin, lack of luster, small pores but not obvious, and easy to produce small wrinkles, superficial capillaries, easy to rupture, sensitive to external stimulation, skin prone to erythema, pH value of about 4.5 ~ 5.
This kind of skin in the cold wind and hot sun, dry air environment and continuous air conditioning environment, the skin water shortage situation will be more serious. If you don't take care of it for a long time, it will cause wrinkles. Therefore, dry skin must be restored to normal physiological function through proper skin care to prevent premature aging.
Maintenance basis of dry skin:
The key to the delicate and hydrated skin is the moisture content in the skin.
The skin consists of epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue. There is a layer of cuticle on the outermost side of the epidermis, and the sebum film on the surface can prevent the water loss of the skin. There is also a kind of intercellular lipid in the cuticle to maintain the moisture in the skin. When the metabolism of the skin becomes sluggish, the sebum produced by the sebum film will slowly reduce. In addition to some other external stimulation, the water will be lost, forming a dry.
If you want to have tender skin, first of all, you should drink plenty of warm and cool boiled water with good water quality. Modern people eat a lot of dehydrated and processed delicate food for convenience, which will directly affect the absorption of water, make the body slowly in a state of water shortage and lose luster of skin. We should eat less spicy food, beef and mutton, onion, garlic and other stimulating food. Tomatoes are good for stomach and anti-aging; carrots can reduce dry skin.
In addition, external efforts are also important, such as water loss caused by air conditioning, can be replenish with spray mineral water, and then moisturizer is used to lock the water on the spray.
Key points of dry skin care:
The most important point of dry skin care is to ensure that the skin get enough water.
First of all, when choosing cleaning skin care products, it is advisable to use cream type skin cleanser without alkaline substances. You can choose soap with glycerin, which is less irritating to the skin. Do not use coarse soap to wash your face. Sometimes you can only wash your face with water instead of soap. To avoid inhibiting the secretion of sebum and sweat, making the skin more dry. In the morning, moisturize skin with cold cream or lotion, adjust skin with astringency toner, and apply adequate nourishing cream. In the evening, you should use plenty of lotion, nourishing lotion and nourishing cream.
When cleaning your face, if your cleanser has no moisturizing ingredients, or if you feel dry or tense after washing, you can add 2 drops of moisturizing essential oil (compound essential oil), or add half a basin of hot water in the washbasin, and drop 2-3 drops of rose essential oil or lavender essential oil, and mix the essential oil well. Cover the whole head and washbasin with a large towel, close your eyes, avoid the smell of essential oil and water vapor irritating your eyes, breathe alternately with your mouth and nose for 5 minutes, and then wash your face, the effect will be unexpected.
After thoroughly cleansing the face, moisturizing lotion or lotion should be used immediately to replenish the moisture of the skin. If you have conditions, you can make smoked noodles and nutritious facial mask once a week to promote blood circulation, speed up cell metabolism and increase secretion of sebum and sweat. Warm water can be used to clean the skin before going to bed, and then massage for 3-5 minutes to improve the blood circulation of the face, and appropriate use of night cream The next morning, after cleansing, use cream or nourishing cream to keep the skin moist. The most important thing to treat this kind of skin is to replenish water, but the replenishment should be thorough and cell replenishment should be achieved. In this way, it can have certain effect on skin excretion and nutrition. In the end, if you make up the water, you should be able to lock the water. Don't let the water flow lost!
How does dry skin moisturize?
From a scientific point of view, dry skin is caused by the lack of water in the surface layer of the skin, the incompleteness of the intercellular structure between the epidermal cells and the insufficient secretion of sebaceous glands. There is a protective layer of oil on the skin surface, which can avoid the loss of water. If the sebaceous glands do not make enough oil, it will cause dry skin. In addition, any factor that will damage the intercellular substance, such as the sun or the dry maintenance products, will also cause dry skin.
Generally speaking, in the case of using mild facial products and maintenance products, if the skin still feels dry a few minutes after facial washing, it needs to be moisturized (it can be determined that this dryness is not caused by cleaning products). If the skin feels tight and dehydrated all day long, it is also the time to use moisturizing; small fine lines can be improved after using moisturizing, especially around the eyes The small fine lines around, to improve the small fine lines, the best use of fresh type of moisture.
It should be noted that many dry skin conditions are actually caused by skin diseases, not really dry skin. These skin diseases include eczema, lipoleakage dermatitis, rosacea dermatitis and dry ringworm. At this time, moisturizing is not helpful. Eczema needs steroid ointment, lipoleakage dermatitis, rosacea dermatitis and dry ringworm need other external drugs for treatment, which is excessive Using moisturizing will not only make these problems imperceptible, but also cause acne, dark skin tone, and inhibit the immune and repair functions of the skin.
All round maintenance of dry skin
1. Determine whether to replenish water or oil, or both: according to which dry skin you are, dry skin with water shortage needs to replenish water, while dry skin with oil shortage needs to replenish water and oil at the same time.
2. Gentle cleaning: dry skin needs to be washed with gentle and anti sensitive cleanser containing mild surfactant (concentrated protein fatty acid, huzao alkali, plant essential oil). General soap or cleanser will dry the skin and wrinkle prematurely. If the skin is particularly dry, you can only wash your face with warm water with makeup remover and gentle anti allergy cleanser in the evening, and do not use any cleansing products in the morning only with warm water.
3. Water supplement and maintenance: during the day, the dry skin needs to choose the day cream with sufficient ingredients, good quality, adding moisturizing ingredients and strong protection, while at night, it needs to mainly moisturize and water supplement, and use the night cream with moisturizing and nutrition ingredients.
4, special maintenance: including the use of lip balm, cream before the night cream or rose essential oil, moisturizing mild nourishing facial mask containing natural plant essence.
5. Reasonable diet: for the diet care of dry skin, attention should be paid to select some foods with high fat and vitamin content, such as milk, egg, pig liver, butter and fresh fruit.
How to care for dry skin is a comprehensive problem, not only from skin care, but also from their own health, to maintain the overall health of the body, in order to provide a good foundation and platform for facial health.