Dry skin of face

It's good to be young.When you're young, you can forget to wash off your makeup at night, go to bed late, and look fresh and rested in the morning. Over the years, every carelessness of ours is mercilessly reflected on your face, figure, and skin condition. Couldn't fall asleep for a long time? Get dark circles under your eyes the next morning. Couldn't resist and ate an extra piece of cake? Meet new folds on your sides. And the main thing is that the reflection in the mirror absolutely does not correspond to the inner state of the soul. Others see a plump figure and new wrinkles under the eyes, but we would easily play hopscotch with our daughter or eat five packs of ice cream on a dare. Moreover, over the years, this discrepancy becomes more acute, and the methods of fighting time become more radical. There comes a time when regular cream does not save the situation. Remember how Makarevich wrote? "... Our mothers in helmets and armor beat their blood against iron old age ...". Before you know it, you inherited armor and immortal lines are sung in your honor. What to do? Make an elephant cemetery at home? Not at all. A real woman does not cover her mirrors. She learns to be beautiful at any age. And what gives her the most trouble? Of course, caring for dry skin. The one that ages the fastest, cracks in the wind, peels in the cold and gives its owner a bunch of fine wrinkles. Is it possible to turn your main enemy - your skin - into your ally? Easily. We will need a little knowledge, patience and improvised cosmetics that can be bought at any store or pharmacy. So, arm yourself with notebooks and pens. Let's begin our journey into the world of beauty and brilliant, well-groomed women.

Determine the type of skin

Do you know what is the most important thing in daily care?yourself? Not an abundance of time or a foreign cream on the shelf in the bathroom. And by no means the number of procedures that you carry out, trying to cheat old age. The most important thing is to correctly determine your skin type and the causes of all the identified flaws. Are you sure that peeling is not caused by too frequent facial peeling? And that wrinkles under the eyes are not a sign of a negligent attitude towards yourself, but the tricks of time and skin type? Let's agree: before you implement all the knowledge gained in our article into life, will you once again determine your skin type? Moreover, it will be very easy to do. There are three methods:

Spend a napkin on the nose, forehead, cheeks (onlydo it a few hours after washing). You can replace the napkin on a mirror or a tissue paper. If on a napkin (or any chosen remedy) there is a fat trace, then the skin on the face is oily. If there is a trace on some sites, but there are not any on some sites, then you have a combination of skin. By the way, do not apply the cream on your face before deciding to do skin diagnostics. He will change the testimony and make your research biased.
With force, press your fingers on the skin of the face in differentplaces. If the skin is not visible trace by hand, then you have oily, supple skin. If not, then the skin is dry. It happens that in some areas the fingerprint remains, and on some it disappears immediately. This means that you are the owner of combined skin.
Swipe the face with an unread pencil. If there is a trace, then we are dealing with sensitive skin.

Care for dry skin: general recommendations

So, the skin type is determined, and we are ready to fight all its shortcomings. First, let's get acquainted with the subtleties that owners of dry skin need to follow:

No soap. Wash only with cosmetic milk or special products for dry skin. The fact is that the alkali contained in many types of soap is the main cause of skin tightening. Be sure to wipe the face with a tonic after washing. Just make sure that it does not contain alcohol. It dries the skin.

Do not wash in hot water for longer than 20 minutes. Contrary to popular belief, the bath does not fill the skin with moisture, but drains it. Reduce the time of taking the bathroom to five to ten minutes, and make the water cool.

After taking a shower, be sure to apply the cream on both the face and the body. Particular attention is paid to the neck area, since it is she who grows old before other parts of the body.

Be sure to get enough sleep. After all, the skin is best restored in a dream. Do not forget to apply moisturizing cream on the skin from the evening, then nature will work to preserve your beauty together with the cosmetic industry.

Very often the causes of excessive dryness of the skinlie in the unrequited love of a woman for the sun. Why unrequited? Yes, because we give sunlight all our love and free time, and they in return only burn and dry the skin. Of course, it is not necessary to pass permits to hot countries only because the sun is aging us. Just before each exit to the beach, apply a face and body sunscreen. It is better if it is two types of sunscreen - face cream and for the body separately.

The best care for dry skin is,of course, professional. If you feel that you are no longer able to cope with age-related changes, seek help from a cosmetologist. He will tell you the cream and the right one, and hold a series of massages that restore the structure of the skin. In addition, for each woman at a certain age will not be superfluous ampoules biogialuronic acid. Calm down! Nobody will prick you anything. The acid must be applied to the skin after washing.

Often, the causes of dry skin are covered in batteriescentral heating, heaters and .... computers. All these devices with prolonged exposure to the skin cause dryness, flaking and redness. How to be? Humidify the room in which the heater is turned on, and use thermal water while working at the computer. And better - after a hard day's work, do not lock yourself in a cramped room with a heater, and walk along the quiet, frosty streets. Oxygen will restore all those destruction, which, without knowing it, caused a computer.

By the way, about walks. Many women use the same cream in winter and summer, motivating their choice by the fact that it suits them. And this is a big mistake. You do not go to frost in a summer shirt, although it saved you so well from the heat a few months ago? Everything has its time. Also, the skin in winter requires a completely different approach than in the summer. In cold weather, a thicker, heavier cream is needed, which will lie on the skin in a dense layer and protect against the negative effects of low temperature.

Natural masks for dry skin: from nature with love

Agree that folk remedies alwayswere quite effective in home cosmetology. Especially if a woman did not limit her skin care to one mask, made hastily on poorly cleansed skin. You need to take care of yourself systematically. And the more time you find to take care of your skin, the better it will look in five years. Moisturizing cream does not count. It only helps the basic care products. And the most important work is done by masks. And not store-bought ones, but homemade ones. Don't know how to do it? No problem. We will teach you. Curd mask Ingredients:

cottage cheese - 2 teaspoons;
parsley juice - 1 teaspoon;
fish oil - half a teaspoon;
flaxseed oil - 2 teaspoons.

Mix all ingredients, apply to cleansed skin, wash off with cold parsley decoction after a quarter of an hour. Curd — honey mask Ingredients:

cottage cheese - 2 tablespoons;
honey - 2 teaspoons.

Beat honey with cottage cheese using a blender.Apply the mask to your face and wash it off with cool water after half an hour. Cabbage mask (very useful for dehydrated skin with pigmentation) First, wipe your face and neck with olive oil (you can replace it with corn oil). After that, pamper your skin with a soda compress. To do this, mix a teaspoon of baking soda in a liter of hot water. Soak a piece of gauze in the resulting solution and put it on your face. We hasten to reassure those who have already managed to reread the title, like, they promised a cabbage mask, but you are talking about soda compresses. The mask will be. Just after you remove the compress from steamed skin. Chop the white cabbage and apply the gruel in an even layer on your face. Lie down with your eyes closed for about fifteen minutes, then wash off the cabbage mask with warm water. Apple mask A very simple and effective mask. Grate a small apple (no need to peel the skin, it contains all the vitamins). Mix the pulp with a teaspoon of heavy cream. Apply the mask in a thick layer to the face and neck for 20 minutes. Rinse off the apple mixture thoroughly and wipe the skin with an alcohol-free toner. Yolk-chamomile mask Ingredients:

Vegetable little (any) - 1 teaspoon;
egg yolk - 1 piece;
extract of chamomile - 1 teaspoon.

Mix all ingredients.Apply a thin layer of the mask to your face and neck. Rinse off with a weak solution of black tea after a quarter of an hour. Lubricate your skin with a nourishing cream. Orange mask Squeeze the juice of half an orange, mix it with a tablespoon of vegetable oil (any), an egg yolk and 1 level teaspoon of honey. Apply the mask evenly to your face. Rinse off with warm water after 15 minutes. Honey and milk mask Mix a teaspoon of milk thoroughly with a tablespoon of honey. Apply the mask for 20 minutes. Rinse off with cool water. Wipe your face and neck with a piece of ice. Strawberry mask One of the most beloved women's masks. Choose ripe strawberries, mash them thoroughly with a fork, mix with a tablespoon of cream (preferably homemade) and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Apply an even layer to your face and neck. After the mask dries, apply another layer. Then a third. The main task is not to eat the mask until the third layer is applied to the skin. Sour cream mask Ingredients:

sour cream - 2 tablespoons;
raw yolk - 1 piece;
Freshly squeezed carrot juice - 1 teaspoon.

Mix all ingredients and apply for 20 minutes.on the face. Try not to laugh or talk during the procedure. Rinse the mixture off your face with warm water and apply a moisturizer to your skin. The finished mask can be kept in the refrigerator until next use. Yeast mask Beat the egg white into a strong foam, add 20-25 grams of fresh yeast. Apply the resulting mixture to your face for a quarter of an hour. Rinse with cool water. Potato masks Potato masks moisturize dry skin well, soften and smooth it. There are several recipes for potato masks. In the first case, you will need to boil a potato in its skin, peel it, mash it with a fork, add a raw yolk and a little milk (to bring it to the consistency of thick sour cream). Slightly warm up the resulting puree and apply to your face. The second version of the potato mask is not much different from the previous one. You will need the same boiled potatoes, mashed with a fork. But we will add lemon juice to it instead of the yolk. This mask is perfect for those who have spent a sleepless night, or who urgently need to tidy up their skin after a busy day at work. Tomato mask Grate a large ripe tomato, mix with 2 tablespoons of flour, stir in a teaspoon of strained lemon juice. Carefully apply the mask. Rinse off after 30 minutes. Dill mask Grind a tablespoon of dill, mix the resulting gruel with a teaspoon of vegetable oil and a pinch of oatmeal. Apply the mask to your face and neck. Rinse with warm water and apply a moisturizer to your skin. There can be a great many ways to care for dry skin. Your task is to choose the ones that are right for you. Just don't trust strangers' reviews on the Internet or colorful TV ads. Many of us choose a moisturizer this way, and then are surprised to find that it is not very effective. But the problem is not in the cream, but in the fact that its composition does not suit your skin type. Therefore, it is best to ask a cosmetologist for advice. They will be able to select suitable creams, masks and find the causes of peeling skin. And remember: dry skin does not tolerate neglect. The sooner you start taking care of it, the better. We recommend reading: