Is it better to wash your face with cold water or hot water?

Maybe many of us wash our faces every morning, but we don’t pay too much attention to the question of whether it is better to wash your face with cold water or hot water. Try to wash your face with cold water. Washing your face with cold water can effectively help us better expel toxins remaining on the face and can help us achieve a deep cleansing effect. Let’s popularize whether it is better to wash your face with cold water or hot water.

1. Water temperature that is too cold (below 20℃) has an astringent effect on the skin, can exercise the skin and make people feel refreshed. However, long-term use of too cold water to cleanse the skin will cause skin blood vessels to contract, making the skin pale and withered, the secretion of sebaceous glands and sweat glands to decrease, elasticity to be lost, premature aging to occur, and it is not good for skin nourishment.

2. Excessively hot water (above 38°C) can relieve pain and dilate capillaries on the skin, but frequent use will cause the skin to defat, weaken the vitality of the blood vessel walls, cause the skin pores to dilate, and the skin will easily become loose and weak, and wrinkles will appear.

3. The appropriate water temperature should be around 34°C, slightly higher than the skin temperature but lower than the body temperature. Try it with your hand and it will feel warm but not hot. This warm water can not only cleanse the skin, but also has a calming effect on the skin, which is conducive to skin rest and fatigue relief without causing any harm to the skin.

4. The correct way to wash your face is to use alternating warm and cold water, that is: wash your face with warm water → apply cleanser (facial cleanser or soap, etc.) along the facial muscle texture. The time should not be too long, 3-4 minutes is appropriate → wash off the cleanser with warm water → rinse your face with cold water. Using this method of alternating warm and cold water can not only achieve the purpose of cleansing the skin, but also through the hot and cold temperature changes of the water, it can make the superficial blood vessels of the skin expand and contract, enhance the breathing of the skin, promote blood circulation in the face, and achieve a beauty effect.

We must pay special attention to the choice of hot and cold water when washing our faces in the future. Cold water can effectively help us achieve the effect of removing acne more effectively, and can also effectively help us revitalize our skin and achieve the effect of refreshing the mind. Washing your face with cold water every morning is very effective.