The most important thing about skin care is to change your skin care habits

Many people think that only by buying the right skin care products, buying good products, and buying expensive products, can they change their skin color and play a good protective role. In fact, this only plays a small role. The most important thing to do to achieve good skin care is to change your skin care habits. Only by developing good skin care habits can you completely change your skin. Sometimes the things you buy are too good and if you don’t pay attention to them they won’t work but instead have the opposite effect. Let’s take a look at some of the more important skin care tips.

Skin care habit 1: Don’t rub makeup remover on your face for too long, 40 seconds is just right

Regardless of the dosage form, for the purpose of emulsification, makeup removers contain more or less "surfactants". It is like a star-absorbing method, dissolving the key to maintaining skin moisture - "intercorneocyte lipids". 40 seconds is enough to remove residual makeup and dirt. Rubbing for too long is like washing your face directly with detergent, and you can imagine how dry your skin will be.

Skin care habit 2: The most suitable temperature for washing your face is lukewarm water at 38-40°C

In cooking shows, people often use the trick of "chilling" meat and noodles to maintain the texture, but this method does not work on living and delicate skin. The firming feeling brought by washing your face with cold water can only last for 30 minutes at most, and the sudden cooling stimulation will make your face flush, and in the long run it will cause the capillaries to dilate and become thicker.

Skin care habit three: Stop patting your skin with cotton pads because they are so soaked in water that they become stiff.

When cotton pads absorb water, they become thinner and harder. Using them to pat your face is like hitting it with a thin bamboo stick. It is particularly irritating to the cheekbones because there are bones under the skin, which will cause the capillaries to dilate in the long term. To use toner correctly, you can choose to apply it wet or gently press it with a cotton pad.

Skin care habit 4: To prevent spots from appearing, rely on whitening and maintenance to prevent them

God is fair in some things. No matter what kind of skin you have, everyone will get freckles at some point. For prevention purposes, using whitening care products every day can indeed delay the formation of new spots. Remember, effectiveness is related to the "ingredient concentration". Japanese products labeled "medicinal" usually have a certain concentration. If it is a European or American product, you may wish to read the product label more or ask the counter service staff.

Skin care habit 5: Use your fingertips to push gently, and don’t over-massage or pull the skin

Imagine the "fibrous network" composed of collagen and elastin as an "elastic band" built into the skin. The pulling caused by excessive massage will accelerate the relaxation of the elastic band. But there is no need to completely abandon massage. Moderate massage can activate the transfer of nutrients from blood vessels to the skin. When massaging, a layer of "lubricant" (essence or cream) must be applied on the face, and then use the middle finger and ring finger to gently slide the fingertips.

These may seem insignificant at ordinary times, but these habits have already affected our skin. If we are not careful, all our previous efforts may be wasted. Moreover, it doesn’t take too long to develop these habits. As long as you persist, you will achieve success.