Skin Cleansing - How to Cleanse Skin

Skin Cleansing

While Skin cleansing is at the core of a traditional beauty regime, it is also at the heart of the dermatologist-cosmetologist debate. Cleansing is essential to remove makeup, dirt and grime from face. Facial cleansing should be effective without irritating the skin and should suit our skin as well. Washing face with hot or cold water causes broken capillaries. So we should always wash your face with luke warm water. Cleansing is essentilal in the morning if moisturizer ia applied at night. Cleansing too often will take away all precious natural oils from your skin and will only make dry skin drier and oily skin more oily.

Step one in everybody'smake-up regime should be thorough cleansing - let's face it, if you were going to spray-paint your car you would first wash off the grimy bits sticking to its surface. While old-school dermatologists insist that soap with water is the only way to cleanse the skin thoroughly, most women know from bitter experience that this is a sure way to a dry and itchy face.

Although soap is frequently maligned as a surface stripper, many bars contain fats that leave superficial traces, and these can lead to clogged pores and unsightly break-outs. Despite its reputation for harshness, soap is alkaline while the skin itself is acidic- used too frequently, soap can impair the skin's acid mantle (its pH balance) and deplete its defences.

HOW TO USE A CLEANSER

1 WASH YOUR HANDS FIRST. DIRTY PAWS MAKE FOR DIRTY FACES.

2 CLEANSE WELL AROUND THE EDGES OF YOUR FACE - REMEMBER THAT MAKE-UP TRAVELS ROUND YOUR JAW LINE, AND AFTER A GOOD NIGHT OUT MOST HAIR PRODUCTS END UP PAST YOUR HAIRLINE.

3 CHANGE YOUR CLEANSER WITH THE WEATHER - HARSH WINDS IN WINTER AND HOT SUNSHINE IN SUMMER CAN BE DRYING, AND AFFECT THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE EPIDERMIS.

4 IF YOU HAVE SENSITIVE SKIN, USE A MILD CREAM CLEANSER. AVOID ANYTHING THAT CONTAINS LANOLIN OR FRAGRANCE, AS THESE CAN AGGRAVATE THE SKIN AND LEAD TO SORENESS.

5 Do NOT USE THE SAME BOTTLE OF CLEANSER FOR MORE THAN EIGHT TO TEN WEEKS. LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, SKINCARE HAS SELL-BY DATES, AND THESE SHOULD BE RESPECTED IF YOU WANT TO MAXIMIZETHE BENEFITS.

HOW OFTEN TO USE A CLEANSER

Cleansing is essential to remove makeup, dirt and grime from face. Facial cleansing should be effective without irritating the skin and should suit our skin as well. Cleansing should be done atleast once in a day. Unless your skin is exposed to excessive dust, grime or pollution cleansing twice-a-day is enough for any skin type. Cleansing your face doesn't mean you have to clean it every hour of the day......Similarly you don't need to wash your face every hour of the day.

Following steps should be taken while applying cleanser :

• Cleansing cream should be applied in generous quantity on cheeks, chin, neck and forehead.
• You should always tuck your hair before applying the cream to avoid making the hair greasy.
• Cleansing should be dome two times a day, once in the morning and again before going to bed.
• Always use a moist cotton to remove the cream as the dry cotton absorbs the moisture from the skin which should not be lose.
• You should massage the cream into the skin in to upward and outward movement which should be concentrated on the creases near the nose, under the chin area, neck and around the corners of the mouth.
• Cotton wool should come out clean nor do the cleansing twice a day