What is the effect of washing your face with cold water?

Now many people have started winter swimming. It looks cold to see people swimming in icy water in the middle of winter. Some people like to take cold showers, and some people often wash their hair with cold water. Of course, washing the face with cold water is commonplace. More and more people wash their faces with cold water. What is the difference between cold water and hot water? Washing your face with hot water is more comfortable, while cold water feels too cold. So what is the purpose of washing your face with cold water? Let’s take a look together!

1. Insist on washing your face with cold water: Washing your face with cold water can refresh your mind and exercise your ability to withstand cold. It can not only prevent colds but also have the effect of facial beauty. It can also treat chronic rhinitis. If combined with massaging the auricle, Yingtang, Taiyang, Cheek Cartilage and other acupoints, the effect will be better.

2. Drink warm water in the morning: Drink a glass of warm water after washing your face and brushing your teeth. On the one hand, it can warm the body and clean the gastrointestinal tract; on the other hand, it can dilute the blood, prevent cerebral thrombosis and myocardial ischemia, while maintaining cell permeability and promoting cell metabolism.

3. Appropriate outdoor activities: Outdoor activities are very important in winter to prevent frostbite. Doing exercises or breathing outdoors 15-20 times can help enhance lung function and prevent and treat bronchitis and asthma. The lungs open to the skin. Through outdoor activities, the body's oxygen supply can be increased and disease resistance can be improved.

4. Rub the chest and back while taking a bath: Medical scientists have studied that rubbing the chest and back can improve the body's immune function, which is beneficial for strengthening the body and preventing diseases.

5. Do waist exercises in the evening: Research by Japanese experts has shown that pressing the waist with both hands and doing waist exercises can stimulate the acupoints on the waist, which helps to strengthen the functions of internal organs and maintain normal metabolism. Obese people can also lose weight by doing waist exercises.

6. Hot water foot bath and foot protection: There are many acupuncture points on the soles of the feet, such as Yongquan acupoint. Hot water penetrating the acupuncture points can increase body temperature by 0.2℃, improve the function of capillaries throughout the body, and have the effect of keeping warm and helping sleep. The feet are known as the second heart. Foot protection can strengthen the heart, and the expansion and congestion of capillaries will promote stronger heart activity. It can also prevent the occurrence of frostbite on the feet and reduce skin itching.

7. Diet and medicinal food for nourishment: Winter is the season for nourishing the body. It is very beneficial to choose medicinal food for nourishment according to your own conditions. It can increase calories to resist cold, enhance nutrient absorption and promote health.

Now we understand the effects of washing your face with cold water. It seems that we really need to wash our face with some cold water appropriately, because we all want our facial skin to get better. If washing your face with cold water really has so many effects, that would be great, because these are the effects we need most. So sisters, let’s get moving and start washing your face with cold water!