Dry skin care

No matter what type of skin you are, it’s worth properly and skillfully caring for it. This article will tell you how to properly care for dry skin.

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Correctly determine the type of skin

Depending on the secretion of the sebaceous glands, there are 3 main types of skin: oily, dry and combination. In order to determine your type, we suggest making simple tests.

Test 1

Try pressing your fingers hard on different areas of the skin:

• if you see the remaining traces, then most likely you are the owner of dry skin, which is less elastic than other types;
• if you did not find any traces, then your skin is of the oily type;
• if on some areas after pressing there were traces, but on others there are none at all, then most likely you have a combination skin type.

Test 2

Take a thin napkin or mirror and touch alternately several parts of the face:

• if there are oily traces on the paper, then your skin is of the oily type;
• if no traces of contact were found at all - your skin is dry;
• if the trace is noticeable after touching one area, but it is completely gone when touching another area, then your skin is combination.

Test 3

To determine whether your skin is sensitive, use a simple, non-sharp pencil. Draw them a line from the forehead to the chin. If a pencil leaves a mark, then your skin is sensitive and requires special attention to the selection of funds for caring for it.

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What do the results of the tests say?

If, after passing such simple tests, you determined that your skin type is dry, then the information below will be very useful for you.

So what is dry skin? This, at first glance, is beautiful and soft skin, which does not cause absolutely any problems in adolescence and up to 25 years. It is always clean, without blackheads. But with age, due to dryness, facial wrinkles become more noticeable and clearly expressed.

Important! The first wrinkles, as a rule, appear in the area of ​​the eyes and lips. If you did not always have such skin, then you need to know and, if possible, eliminate the factors that contributed to its transformation.

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Factors that provoke dry skin:

• Heredity. If your mother, grandmother, had a dry type of skin at a young age, then most likely he came to you at the genetic level.
• Diseases of the body. Most often, such problems provoke disorders of the gastrointestinal tract or nervous system. To exclude this factor, it is necessary to undergo a medical examination and improve your health.
• Age-related changes. As a rule, after 30 years, due to irreversible changes, the skin quickly begins to lose moisture. For those with a fat type, this is, in a way, a gift. But the owners of a less elastic face are very unsweetened. Therefore, you need to be able to properly care for dry skin.
• Weather. Excessive exposure to the sun or frost can cause the fabric to “dry out”. You also need to be careful with the solarium.
• Dehydration For normal moisture circulation, the body needs to constantly eat quality water. Lack of water can immediately affect your face.
• Avitaminosis.A lack of vitamins in the body causes moisture loss. In this case, the skin may become dry.
• Wrong selection of cosmetics for skin care.

Important! If you still have dry skin, then be you 25, 30, or 45 years old, the rules for caring for it are the same. A healthy way of life and regularity of care for dry skin are the main rules that will make it healthy, and the beauty of your entire look is more perfect.

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Dry skin care at home

To properly care for dry skin, you must adhere to a certain frequency and sequence of procedures. About them further in detail.

Face wash

Some experts advise washing the owners of such a cover only in the evenings, so as not to wash off the fat layer produced by the skin during the night in the morning. Others advise you to do this process twice a day, since clean skin assimilates nutrients better - it is not clogged and gives a feeling of freshness. Which option to give preference to - proceed from personal observations of the state of your health and face, but be sure to consider these rules:

1. You need to wash only with warm or room temperature water. Do not expose dry skin to hot or cold water, as this will make it drier.
2. Running water is not of the best quality now, it is saturated with chlorine, which negatively affects the condition of our skin. Therefore, it is advisable to wash with mineral water without gas, which is useful, in fact, for everyone. Filtered, settled or chilled boiled water is also suitable for washing.
3. Ideal for washing decoctions of herbs that you can easily prepare at home. Here is a simple recipe for herbal decoction: 0.5 tbsp. pharmacy chamomile, 0.5 tbsp. dry currant leaves, 0.5 tbsp dry dill pour 1 cup boiling water. Give the broth insist.

Important! Decoctions of herbs for morning washing are best prepared in the evening. So the herbs are better infused, and the broth will be more saturated and useful. You can also prepare such face care products with a margin and store in the refrigerator for up to three days. In this case, they should be warmed to room temperature before use.

4. Great for washing milk. Mixing it in equal volume with water, you make your skin a soothing mixture that will have a beneficial effect on it when washing.
5. For women aged who have a dry skin type, washing with ice is perfect. Decoctions for ice are well prepared from sage, chamomile, linden blossom, mint, lemon balm or a combination of these herbs. The proportion for such decoctions should be 1 tbsp. l herbs for 1 cup boiling water. Insist infusion should be at least an hour. Pour the finished broth into an ice mold and place in the freezer. Every morning, use one ice cube instead of washing, rubbing it on your face for 2-3 minutes.

Important! Soap can be washed no more than 1 time per week. Soap for this is best suited milk, baby with herbs, or spermaceti.

Skin nutrition

It is clear to everyone that good washing of dry skin is not enough with one wash. After all, it needs to be cleaned more efficiently, nourish and soften. For this you need to buy special tools. Also, you can make some remedies at home yourself.

Important! Buy masks, creams, tonics and other face care products of the same series and brand. Such products must be marked “for dry skin”, or “moisturizing”.

When choosing a cream, pay attention that it contains moisturizers - hyaluronic acid, milk proteins, vitamins, extracts of wheat, honey, oats, as well as antioxidants. It is not bad if the cream also has sun-protection factors that will protect the skin from negative ultraviolet exposure.

Adjust your lifestyle:

1. Drinking mode. Do not forget about water. With dry skin, it is recommended to drink at least 2 liters of quality water per day.
2. Proper nutrition. Food should be balanced and healthy.Eliminate spices, spicy foods, and salty foods to the maximum. Coffee and alcohol do not contribute to the beauty and health of your face.
3. The number of visits to saunas and pools should be minimized.
4. Protect your skin from prolonged exposure to frost or the sun, in strong winds.
5. Smoking contributes to the rapid aging of the body, especially noticeable on dry skin. Therefore, if you want to look spectacular, you should forget about this habit.

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Dry skin scrubs

Scrubs provide an opportunity to conduct a deeper facial cleansing than you can afford every day. But the procedure needs more time, so it is recommended to use the following recipes once a week.

Recipe 1

You will need: apple, banana, honey, cream, semolina. Apply them like this:

1. Grate half an apple (it does not need to be peeled) and half a banana.
2. Add 2 tbsp. l cream and 1 tbsp. l honey.
3. Mix everything well and immediately before applying the scrub, add 3 tbsp. l decoys.
4. Apply to the skin of the face and décolleté and massage with light movements for 2-3 minutes.
5. Rinse off with water at the end of the procedure.

Important! This scrub will gently cleanse your pores and have a nourishing effect on the skin.

Recipe 2

You will need: sour cream, oatmeal. And you need to use them like this:

1. Mix sour cream and oatmeal in equal proportions and apply on the skin of the face.
2. Massage for 1-2 minutes. then rinse with water.

Important! This scrub gently cleanses pores and moisturizes your skin.

Recipe 3

You will need: sour cream, candied honey. Apply them this way:

1. Mix 1 tbsp. l sour cream and 1 tbsp. l candied honey.
2. Stir well to distribute the honey evenly with sour cream.
3. Apply to face skin and massage gently for 1 min.
4. Rinse with warm water.

Recipe 4

You will need: coffee grounds, milk or cream to cleanse the skin with these actions:

1. Dilute coffee grounds with milk or cream and apply to skin.
2. Massage for a couple of minutes and rinse with water.

Important! This mixture gently cleanses your pores..

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Tonics for dry skin

Many ignore the use of tonic agents in the process of caring for dry skin, and very in vain. It is thanks to them that you can restore the elasticity and firmness of your skin. And it is not necessary to take expensive branded liquids, you can safely use cheap homemade ingredients.

Recipe 1

1. 1 tbsp. l crush strawberries until smooth gruel.
2. Add 200 ml of cold boiled water.
3. Strain the resulting mixture and add 1 tsp. glycerin.

Important! Such a tonic will gently cleanse and moisturize your skin.

Recipe 2

Ingredients: elderberry, linden blossom or chamomile flowers, boiling water. Such a simple composition is used according to this scheme:

1. Pour a handful of any specified dry grass with a glass of boiling water.
2. Insist under the lid for 10 minutes, strain.

Important! Such a tonic will perfectly cleanse and soothe dry skin. Also, this tool relieves irritation well.

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Dry Face Masks

Regular masks are no less important than all of the above tools to establish the right care for dry skin. But for this it is not at all necessary to go to an expensive beauty salon. You are quite capable of preparing an effective restorative product with your own hands.

Recipe 1

Ingredients: sunflower oil, egg yolk, honey, milk.

Instructions for use:

1. Mix 1 tbsp. l sunflower oil, 1 egg yolk, 1 tsp. honey.
2. Apply a uniform consistency on the face and leave for 20 minutes.
3. Rinse off with water half mixed with milk.

Important! This mask perfectly nourishes dry skin and has a rejuvenating effect.

Recipe 2

Ingredients: cottage cheese, apple.

Instructions for use:

1. Finely grate half an apple and mix with 1 tbsp. l cottage cheese.
2. So that the consistency is not so thick, you can add a couple of drops of vegetable or olive oil.
3. Apply the resulting mixture on the face and leave for 15-20 minutes.
4. Remove the mask with a cotton pad and wash.

Important! This mask has a healing effect on weathered dry skin and perfectly moisturizes it.

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As you can see, home care for dry skin is not fiction - all this is completely possible to do. You just need to give yourself a little time every day, for which your skin will be very grateful, and the effect is obvious. Do not wait for the first problems, do not wait for a certain age. Start caring for your skin as soon as possible and inevitable wrinkles will start to upset you much later!