What do women usually do if they feel that their skin is tightening, if they are bothered by a feeling of tightness and dryness? That's right, 90% of them are trying to make it fresher and more elastic by smearing with a fat cream. However, a reasonable question arises with an analogy: if you try to grease a raisin, will it become a grape? Alas. What if you throw it into the water? Will not become grapes at least, will swell and become more juicy. Here is the answer to your question. But if everything was that simple
You may not know that 70% of skin is water. The reserves are taken from food and drink and lie in the deep layer of the dermis, from where they are still released into the upper layers. The workflow keeps the skin smooth and fresh, however when it breaks down, perhaps right now with heat, sun and air conditioning, the skin dries out and loses comfort. This will improve the supply of water in the form of drinks and cosmetic care.
The skin tells you how much water it needs. For each positive answer, add one dot. After the evening cleansing, the skin is stretched. Dry scalping is done on your face. The surface of the skin is uneven and rough. Small wrinkles appear, disappearing after shooting.
Oily cream is not the way to moisturize at all
The problem of skin hydration is still not fully understood. Perhaps this was the reason that for a long time there have been many well-established and often not entirely correct opinions on this subject, such as restoring dehydrated skin with oily creams and freezing it in winter after applying moisturizers.In fact, everything is far from being so clear-cut. Take, for example, the last point. In our country, for many years, most women have been convinced that in winter it is necessary to use only oily creams. Therefore, many domestic creams were and remain so greasy that the excess was removed only with a napkin, and there was no question of quick absorption.
Regardless of the season, it is enough to moisturize your skin. Moisturizing care will also appreciate the thin skin around the eyes, where water quickly disappears. Put the cream in the refrigerator, the coolness during application strikes the eyes. Don't expect anything but in the morning cosmetic care puts a specialist who not only adds water, but also maintains it in the skin. Proven ingredients include, for example, hyaluronic acid. The cream is also suitable for night care when the skin naturally regenerates and a good sip will make it useful.
Too much water will make the skin look out of place. Repair it with cream detergent that cleans makeup but cares at the same time. The skin shows that you really want to drink. Start by caring for your Hydrating Serum after your morning cleansing. Don't skip neck and neck. By applying a serum, you are giving water to your skin, but also creating an environment that makes it easier to apply cream afterwards. Choose it according to your skin type, you may be surprised that even oily skin may suffer from dehydration.
As for moisturizers, their use in winter is just more relevant than in summer, because we stay in heated rooms for a long time, and the skin simply dries out. Naturally, it needs to be moisturized somehow. The only thing we can agree with the established opinion is the need to apply such creams in advance, about an hour before going out into the cold.
Now let's pay attention to such an argument as the freezing of the skin after applying moisturizers. Yes, this could happen if you were splashed with water on your face in the cold, or if you applied an oil-in-water product a minute before going out. But with proper use, the water in the skin itself cannot freeze, because it is in a bound form and, rather, resembles a gel, if you like, a paste. It's very well described in the book. "New Cosmetology" publishing house "Cosmetics and Medicine".
Where is moisture located?
To make it easier to understand, imagine the skin as a rubber mattress filled with water and upholstered on the outside with a durable cloth. What will be responsible for the elasticity of the mattress? The amount of water in it, right? And the safety of the mattress itself, protection from cuts, minor damage is provided by the top layer of protective material. So is the skin. The main moisture (and then - in a bound form) is located inside - in dermis(middle layer of skin). Moreover, the amount of this "water" depends on how many specific water-binding compounds are in the dermis. It is clear that the more of them, the more water they can "lasso".In the upper layer of the skin epidermis, very little moisture. But so that she does not leave the skin, the latter protects protective layer, which can be compared to a brick wall, in which the bricks are dead cells, and the cement is fat ( lipids).
Now you see that the elasticity of the skin depends on how much water we have inside the skin, and how strong the protective wall is.
Types of moisturizers
Further already and it is easier to argue. Based on the foregoing, it turns out that moisturizers can be different: some - they deliver substances inside the skin (into the dermis) that capture more water (the same hyaluronic acid); others strengthen the upper protective layer so that water is simply not lost by the skin, but is retained in it. Moreover, the latter, perhaps, is more important, because it has long been proven that it is almost impossible to moisturize the skin well from the outside for a long time, the main thing is to do it from the inside. It is not for nothing that in all books devoted to beauty it is recommended to drink more water. Of course, if there are not enough skin-binding substances, you can drink water even in buckets, but there will be no more of it in the skin - it will simply be excreted by the body. But this only applies to older women. They, of course, need to provide complex hydration with a serious intake of active substances into the skin from the outside. By the way, this is why young girls are not recommended to use creams with hyaluronic acid and other strong moisturizers. They need a light moisturizer. Which is better to use, a competent specialist will always tell you. In particular, the consultants of the well-known Internet magazine Beautytime.ru, responding to similar questions, it is not advised to use products containing immunomodulators (for example, coenzyme Q10), phytohormones (or phytoestrogens), amniotic components, nucleic acids, enzymes, collagen, collagenase, hyaluronic acid, arachidonic acid, placenta and its components.So what conclusion can we draw? To keep the skin supple for as long as possible, or to restore the freshness of dehydrated mature skin, you need to remember:
- Each age has its own approach, its own cosmetics.
- To understand the first, you need to at least in general terms study the action of the most famous moisturizing ingredients and choose creams with those that are more consistent individual characteristics your skin.
It remains only to wish you good luck and patience :).
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1. Well-moisturized skin always feels comfortable. Our skin is almost two-thirds water. Its main amount is concentrated in the dermis (about 80%), and there is very little water in top layer, the stratum corneum of the epidermis. When we feel an unpleasant feeling of tightness, dehydration of the skin, this indicates that the moisture reserves in the dermis have reached a critical level (ideally, the dermis acts as a kind of “sponge” that nourishes the epidermis with moisture). And if the use of a moisturizer brings only temporary relief, you need to urgently take action: in the natural moisturizing factor (NMF, or Natural Moisturizing Factor - as scientists call the complex of amino acids, fats, proteins, minerals and other molecules responsible for the skin's ability to retain and retain moisture ) there are serious gaps. To restore the moisture-retaining functions of the skin, thermal sprays and light moisturizing lotions and gels with hyaluronic acid, algae or aloe extracts, glycerin, collagen and other popular moisturizers may no longer be enough. To restore NMF and protective barrier skin dermatocosmetologists usually recommend products that are more saturated and dense in texture with vegetable oils, fatty acids, ceramides, proteins: figuratively speaking, these components will help to “patch up the gaps”.
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Intense Hydrating Mask Hydra Floral Multi-Protection, Decleor with hyaluronic acid and essential oils
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Protective moisturizer to restore skin's natural functions Eight Hour Cream Skin Protectant, Elizabeth Arden
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Intensive hydro-concentrate cream for moisturizing and restoring the skin Hyalyron, Devee with high content hyaluronic acid, squalane and lipids
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A new line of moisturizing creams for different types skin "Revitalizing Hydration", Garnier with 24 hour formula
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Moisturizing mattifying emulsion for oily skin Effaclar Mat, La Roche-Posay
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A mattifying facial hydrating fluid Vinosource Fluide Matifiant Hydratant Caudalie
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Intense Hydrating night cream for face L'Hydro-Active 24 Heures, Methode Jeanne Piaubert 24 hour action
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Multivitamin Moisturizer Nourifusion, Herbalif e with vitamins and vegetable oils
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Easy daily cream for oily and mixed skin "Maximum Hydration", Avon
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2. According to statistics, in 50% of cases, dehydrated skin becomes so due to improper care. And first of all, due to improper cleansing - too frequent (more than twice a day), using cleansers with aggressive surfactants, a lot of alcohol, etc. And especially oily skin suffers from a lack of moisture: sebum-regulating and antiseptic cosmetical tools can have a dehydrating effect and disrupt the NMF of the skin, especially if they are used randomly or incorrectly (for example, applying a gel for local correction of inflammation to large areas, using a scrub on skin with a damaged protective barrier).
3. After tanning, the skin always needs additional hydration. Solar radiation is one of the main factors that cause dehydration (in summer, other serious factors are also added to it - heat and air conditioners: in air-conditioned rooms, the skin loses moisture reserves two to three times faster). Hence the unpleasant feeling of dry skin and extra wrinkles, which we often bring from vacation along with a tan.
David Grishkyan
plastic surgeon, MD
Of course, we love sunbathing very much. But unfortunately it's not very useful. Therefore, try not to overdry the skin, and do not forget that after tanning, the skin needs to be actively moisturized. To prevent photoaging and fight it, there is such a procedure as biorevitalization: the hyaluronic acid used for it has a powerful hydrophilic effect, attracts water, and because of this, the skin is actively moisturized.
4. Skin suffering from a chronic lack of moisture becomes more sensitive, its protective functions are sharply reduced. When the balance of moisture in the dermis and epidermis and NMF are disturbed, the skin immediately becomes defenseless against aggressive environmental influences and becomes prone to irritation.
5. Proper hydration is also always the prevention of skin aging. The first wrinkles on the face most often indicate a decrease in the natural level of skin hydration and the content of hyaluronic acid in it, the production of which by skin cells begins to slow down after 25-27 years. Accordingly, with age, the skin needs more intense hydration. Please note: many moisturizers and anti-aging products contain acid molecules. different size- so that they can work in the skin at different depths.
6. If the body suffers from dehydration, the skin will inevitably suffer from it. And while this is happening - any cosmetic care will be powerless. So in the summer, in the heat, if you are engaged in fitness or active physical labor, and in all other cases, when the body quickly loses moisture, the necessary and minimum two liters of fluid per day will also become a guarantee of skin beauty.