Many male friends will ignore the care of facial skin, and washing face every day is also careless, which is not conducive to the health of facial skin. Many male friends have some misunderstandings when washing their faces. Let's take a look!
Five misunderstandings of men's face washing
1. Wash your face with soap, soap and other alkaline cleansers
Error result: The oily face is more oily and the pores are thicker.
Error correction principle: The skin has sebaceous glands and sweat glands, which are a natural protective film, slightly acidic, and have strong sterilization and skin care effects. Alkaline cleansers will destroy it and stimulate the sebaceous glands to produce more oil.
Expert advice: men who don't care about skin care should at least use facial cleanser when washing their faces. They can choose their own facial cleanser according to the different skin types. If they want to use foam facial cleanser with strong cleaning ability, they can use it. General products have instructions.
2. The more times you wash it, the cleaner it will be. The more times you wash it in hot weather
Wrong result: The skin gets dry after washing, without moisture, and is tight all day long.
Error correction principle: Too much washing will take away too much water from your face, leaving the skin in a state of increasing water shortage, which will increase the oil output of oily skin, dry skin will be drier, and more dry lines will appear.
Expert advice: usually one day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Whether to wash at noon depends on different situations. It should be increased appropriately when it is hot, but not more than three times a day.
3. Wash your face with a towel
Wrong result: The towel is wet for a long time, which is easy to cause various microorganisms to breed, causing skin acne, acne and other problems.
Error correction principle: towel loop is tens to hundreds of times larger than pores. It is difficult to go deep into pores to remove dirt and grease from deep pores. Washing your face with a wet towel is equivalent to smearing various bacteria on your face. It is best to use a soft cleaning sponge and often dry it for disinfection.
Experts suggest that even if you don't use a facial sponge to wash your face for fear of trouble, don't use a towel to wash your face. The role of towel in facial cleaning is to wash your face with facial cleanser and then dry it with a towel.
The correct way for men to wash their faces
1. Wet your face with warm water, take a proper amount of facial cleanser, warm it in the palm of your hand and knead it with both hands to form rich foam.
2. Apply foam on your face and gently massage. Gently massage the face from bottom to top, from inside to outside, and do not rub back and forth with great force, so as to avoid skin relaxation.
3. It is best to wash with the belly of the "beauty finger" (middle finger and index finger).
4. For places that are difficult to wash, such as both sides of the nose, the middle finger of both hands can be used to focus on cleaning.
5. Rinse the skin cleanser thoroughly with running water.
Precautions for men's face washing
Number of washes
Some people may think that to achieve the purpose of cleaning the skin, the more times you wash your face, the better, so that you can keep your skin bright and clean. In fact, it is not. The imperceptible fat film on the surface of human skin is used to protect the skin from external stimulation, inhibit bacterial growth and reduce skin desquamation. If this layer of fat film is polluted by air, it will affect the health of the skin and make the skin dry and dirty. You can wash away the dirt by washing your face.
If you wash your face too many times, the fat film on your face will be washed away, and your skin's defense ability will be weakened. Moreover, if the skin is often stimulated, it will lose its elasticity and luster and damage the skin, making it very dry, so that the skin is prone to wrinkles. Therefore, the number of washings should not be too much. Face washing also depends on the time and place of the person. In hot summer, there is more sweat. The number of times to wash face can be determined according to the situation. Generally, it is appropriate to wash face two to three times a day in winter and spring and autumn. People with oily skin can have a little more than one or two times.
Washcloth
The towel used for washing face is soft and thick. Choosing this towel to wash face is not only beneficial to wipe off the dirt on the face, but also has the function of massage and blood circulation. Washing face with a thin old towel has an uncomfortable feeling of only having water to wipe face, just as someone said: washing face itself should also be a kind of enjoyment.
Hand movements when washing face
The direction of hand movement when washing face is basically the same as that of massage. Its main points are: from the bottom to the top, from the inside to the outside, along the muscle lines, and with balanced force.
Water for washing face
Effective face washing is also related to water quality and water temperature. Generally speaking, water quality refers to hard water and soft water. Hard water, such as well water and water containing calcium salt, light salt and minerals, is not easy to bubble because of the role of minerals, so hard water should not be used for direct face washing. If the conditions are limited, the hard water can be boiled for several minutes to fully precipitate the minerals in the water before use. Soft water refers to water without or containing a small amount of calcium and magnesium salts, such as rainwater and tap water. Soft water is the ideal thing for washing face.
After selecting soft water, pay attention to the water temperature of facial wash. The water temperature for washing face can be divided into two types: one is warm water, that is, water at 40 to 42 degrees Celsius, which is not hot, and too hot water is not suitable for washing face. The other is cold water, that is, water below body temperature, but it should not be too cold, such as ice water, which is also bad for skin. Warm water can also be called hot water here. It can dissolve sebum, relax skin, expand blood vessels, open pores, promote the excretion of metabolites, and has strong skin cleaning ability. However, if you use hot water to wash your face, it will easily cause too little sebum and dry skin.
Cold water can make skin blood vessels shrink and pores close. One of the most popular facial washing methods in beauty since then is alternating hot and cold water. This method advocates using or not using soap as much as possible when washing your face, and using cold and hot water alternately. First wash it with hot water. For people with oily skin, the water temperature should be around 42 degrees Celsius. For people with neutral skin and strong skin resistance, it is better to use 40 degrees lower hot water. For people with dry skin and allergies, it is better to use 37 degrees Celsius water close to the temperature. After washing with hot water, wash it again with cold water. Alternate use of hot and cold water can activate the blood circulation of the skin and delay the aging of the skin.
Male friends, as long as you insist on such meticulous and serious washing, your skin will gradually improve, and you will be very proud to go out.