Skin Care Treatments To Keep You Looking Young
When it comes to naming the best skin care, there are as many different opinions as there are products and treatments. The truth is there is no single skincare product or treatment plan that is best or that works for everyone. You see, different people have different skins that don’t respond the same to the exact skin care product. When you are caring for your skin, the best product or treatment is the one that makes your skin look and feel better. Whichever skin care product you decide to use, the product should do three main things for your skin in order to improve your appearance and to assure yourself of having beautiful skin. The three things a skin care product should do well for your skin is to cleanse, to moisturize, and to exfoliate.
Cleansing
Keeping our skin clear, especially the face, is probably the one area of skincare that is most obsessed by people obsessed with cleansing their skin. But like most things in life, simplicity is the best route to take to cleanse your skin. Just because some supermodel or actress on television endorses a skin care product does not mean that the product is going to work just as well for you. You can read all the print advertisements and watch all the TV ads on skin care products, but the bottom line is that you will have to try different products before you will find one that works well for your skin. In all honesty, you are going to go through some trial and error here until you find the right product.
When you are cleaning your face, you generally don’t need to use harsh soaps or chemicals, which can dry out your skin by removing too much of the skin’s natural oils. Usually, washing your face twice a day once in the morning and once before bedtime, is enough to cleanse the skin of dirt and excess oil. Always use lukewarm and never hot water to wash your face, since hot water can burn your skin and strip your face of some much-needed natural oil that keeps your skin moist and soft. If you have oily skin or sweat a lot, you will want to clean more than a couple of times a day, but that is the only time that you should clean your skin more than usual.
Exfoliation
This step is probably the most essential to giving your face that fresh and vibrant look. Most people confuse vigorous scrubbing with exfoliation and rarely do it properly.
In exfoliation, only the top layers of dead skin that give your face that dull, lifeless appearance are removed, exposing the new skin underneath without damaging it.
If you are not experienced at exfoliation or do not take the time to learn how to do it properly, you can seriously damage your skin. But exfoliation is not that hard to learn to do and you shouldn’t be imitated from giving your skin the proper treatment it needs to look its best.
Using an over-the-counter microdermabrasion kit once a week is probably the easiest way to exfoliate the skin on your face. One thing that you want to make sure of is that before trying out a new over-the-counter product on your face, test out the product on a less noticeable part of your body to make sure you don’t have an allergic reaction to the chemicals in that product.
Moisturizing
The issue of moisturizing the skin is still subject to debate, but the general consensus seems to be that most skin types will benefit from some moisturizing. One of the easiest ways to make sure that your skin is properly moisturized is to make sure your body is properly hydrated, by drinking enough water or liquids every day. If your body is dehydrated, chances are that the condition will show up on your skin.
If you have naturally oily skin, you will want to use oil-free moisturizers. You don’t want to use a moisturizer that adds more oil onto your face which can worsen conditions caused by having oily skin. If you have sensitive skin, you want to stay away from moisturizers that are made with a lot of chemicals that can do damage to your sensitive skin.
What ever your skin type, using a moisturizer can be beneficial in improving the way your skin looks and feel, as the moisturizer will help keep in the moisture to your skin to prevent it from drying out. Don’t over moisturize and make sure that you find a product that works for you, not one that is popular with other people or because of who uses it.
