Do you often use facial masks or your skin becomes dry?

Nowadays, people often care a lot about their skin problems, especially when they touch their faces with their hands, they find that their faces are dry, itchy, and a little stinging, and not as smooth and tender as other people's skin. This is caused by dehydration of the skin. After using facial masks frequently, they find that their skin is still dry around the mouth and easy to peel off. If they are not careful, it will cause symptoms of peeling or stinging. So what is going on?

Five-step skin care

Symptoms and causes of dry skin

Dry skin refers to the discomfort caused by lack of moisture in the skin due to seasonal changes. The symptoms are: tight skin, local dryness and peeling, itchy feeling all over the body after bathing, and no feeling of moisture when touched with the palm of the hand. Aging, climate change, lack of sleep, excessive fatigue, bathing with too hot water or using detergents with too strong alkaline properties can all lead to dry skin. So how should we solve the problem of dry skin during the change of seasons? The following editor will teach you a five-step skin care method to help you face the problem of dry skin calmly.

Step 1: Cleansing the skin

The first step in skin care is cleansing. Cleansing the skin can promote skin metabolism, increase skin absorption capacity, prevent skin diseases, delay skin aging, and prevent the formation of wrinkles. In autumn and winter, when using facial cleanser to wash your face, people with neutral skin can use it once in the morning and once in the evening. People with dry skin should use it the same as neutral skin and should not use it too frequently. People with oily skin should use it three times a day.

In short, the purpose is to keep the skin clean. The temperature of the water for washing your face should be kept at about 36 degrees. For dry skin, it can be a little lower, around 34 degrees; for oily skin, it can be a little higher, around 38 degrees.

The correct way to wash your face is to first wash away the oil and facial cleanser with warm water, and finally wash the skin with running cold water, which can effectively shrink the pores and tighten the skin. However, people with sensitive skin or dry skin are not suitable for washing their face with cold water alone. In autumn and winter, you don't need to take a bath too frequently. Once or twice a week is best. Washing too frequently will damage the sebum film that protects the skin. The water temperature for bathing should not be too high. Do not rub your skin too hard when bathing to avoid rubbing the surrounding skin.

Step 2: Choose the right moisturizing products

The weather is extremely dry in autumn and winter, and the temperature drops. The skin's metabolism has not fully adapted to the changes in climate, which reduces the secretion of the skin's sweat glands and makes the skin appear very dry. Therefore, it is necessary to choose skin care products with good moisturizing and strong nourishing effects. Natural and non-irritating skin care products are the first choice in autumn and winter. They can prevent skin sensitivity and replenish abundant moisture at the same time. In autumn and winter, you should increase the use of skin care products appropriately to ensure that your skin is adequately nourished and maintained. For the skin of the limbs and torso, you can choose a highly moisturizing and well-absorbed moisturizer, which can keep the skin soft, smooth and elastic, and can also prevent and assist in the treatment of certain skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, winter pruritus or ichthyosis, etc.

Step 3: Sun protection cannot be ignored

In autumn and winter, although the ultraviolet rays in the sun are not as strong as in summer, and the medium-wave and long-wave ultraviolet rays are also weakened, ultraviolet rays can still cause skin aging and darkening. Therefore, you should also pay attention to sun protection in autumn and winter, and you can choose a sunscreen with a sun protection factor that is not too high.

Step 4: Replenish moisture and prevent the invasion of wrinkles

The weather is dry in autumn and winter. If you do not pay attention to nourishing your skin, a large amount of water will be lost from the skin, which can easily lead to false wrinkles. Don’t worry too much about the appearance of false wrinkles. Get enough sleep, eat a proper amount of nutrition, choose suitable skin care products, and insist on daily facial massage. These can promote blood circulation in the face and reduce false wrinkles.

Step 5: Proper eating habits

In order to cope with the dry weather in autumn and winter, you should drink more water to replenish the water loss in your body and skin. In addition, a reasonable diet structure can improve people's physical fitness and help delay aging. Since human body fluids are weakly alkaline, consuming more alkaline foods such as vegetables, fruits, and soy products can make the skin delicate and smooth.