Care for dry skin. Dry skin has a great advantage: it is particularly tender and finely. With proper care, it seems amazing pink and healthy. However, the slightest error in the care of the skin condition is rapidly deteriorating: it shrinks and flakes, loses shine and looks like “crumpled”. To get rid of unpleasant feelings, it must constantly lubricate the cream.

Causes of dry skin.

For dry skin causes disruption of the sebaceous glands. They produce less fat than is necessary for the formation of the skin the natural protective film. This film of sebum and sweat makes the elastic upper layer of the epidermis and protects skin from harmful environmental exposures.

When the glands produce little fat, the horny layer is loosened and the skin loses moisture quickly. The lack of fat and moisture promotes the appearance of a skin and body wrinkles and scales. The fact that the sebaceous glands with age slower – it is normal.

Many people in middle age the skin becomes dry. However, dermatologists are concerned that the dry skin more often appears in young people, even in five or ten. They blame the deterioration of the environment.

What are we doing wrong for dry skin?

Error 1: the use of low-fat cream.

Polls showed that most women prefer to use low-fat or fat-free cream that is easily absorbed and well moisturized. However, people with dry skin can not refuse fatty creams. Dry skin needs moisture and fat, in sufficient quantity.

If you use cream, which are low in fat, you have dry skin and damage it even more. Non-greasy cream is easily absorbed, but evaporate quickly, not having enough time to provide your skin with moisture. It remains a bit of fat and emulsifier, linked the water in the cream and fat. Once the surface of the skin evaporates moisture, emulsifier takes her inside. Thus, non-greasy cream desiccate the skin.

Advice. For dry skin need a rich fat cosmetics. Before you use cream, check it out on the fat content: a little cream, mix in a small glass of warm water. If water becomes quickly dark., cream contains little fat. If the water becomes dark only after vigorous mixing, the average fat content of cream, but still not enough fat for your skin. If the cream does not dissolve in water, it contains a lot of fat and is ideal for dry skin.

Error 2: swimming in a pool with chlorinated water.

This procedure affects the skin. Securities protective substances, providing a good condition of the epidermis, under the influence of chlorine are destroyed and washed away from the skin. As a result, the skin becomes more dry, appear reddened and irritated areas.

Swim in the pool no more than once a week and in any case not longer than half an hour. Under the shower wash the area thoroughly with the remnants of chlorine. Then spread the body nutritious moisturizing cream.

Error 3: frequent reception of a soul.

Daily washing in the shower with soap or gel interferes with the normal condition of the skin and makes it more dry. Shower gel and soaps contain so-called active detergents, destroying any form of dirt and grease, including the sebum. Yet it is, it forms on the skin surface protective film.

Council. Do not spend much time in the shower. If you can not give up soap, better buy synthetic soap with pH values close to the natural value of the skin. It does not affect the acid mantle of the skin. It contains fatty substances, which soften the skin. For the person you are best to use a cleansing oil.

Error 4: Part peeling.

For dry skin often appear ugly horny scales. If you are trying to remove them by peeling (ie, apply a gentle exfoliating cream), you often get the opposite effect. The natural protective film on the skin becomes more thin and your skin – even more dry. In some cases, the skin responds to these mechanical stimuli, even redness and eczema.

Advice. Dry skin usually does not require peeling. However, if you think that it is indispensable, try to clean the skin of Japanese recipe. For this half-cup of rice bran, mix with warm water in a creamy paste. Pasta apply on your face with a thick layer. After 10 minutes of gentle, circular motions massage your face, then rinse the mask with warm water. Rice bran is rich in skin with vitamins B and E. In addition, they contain essential minerals and rice oil. After this peeling skin becomes very soft and elastic.

Error 5: excess sun.

Experts believe that among the many factors leading to the shrinking and aging of the skin, the most harmful – the sun. Basically it is the rays of UVA and UVB. They bends deeply into the skin and destroy an important part of cells. Collagen and elastic fibers in the skin dries out, hardens and no longer bind moisture. In skin cells appear so-called free radicals that destroy proteins and enzymes of the skin and negatively affect cell division. Currently, it is proved that they influence the cells even at the gene level. Excessive sun exposure causes skin drying and early formation of wrinkles.

Advice. Never go out in the sun, on a greased UV-tool. It is best to use nourishing cream with UV protection. It contains more fat and moisture than in milk or liquid cream. Buy creams with a protective factor not less than 8. On the beach, in water or in the mountains use the cream with protection factor 18-20.

Rules for dry skin.

In the morning, do not use cleaning agents. Any of them at some time destroys the natural protective film, which leads to drying of the skin. People with dry skin simply wash with warm tap water. If you have to massage the skin with a clean cloth, it will be your soft peeling.

In the evening, empty skin with oil. Actors remove makeup with baby or cooking oil. Young Japanese women are extremely popular, and sesame oil that  perfectly clean the skin from dirt and makeup. It dissolves fat. Special cosmetic cleansing oils contain up to 50% moisture. They almost never foams, but very well cleaned. They can completely wipe out, not at all irritating dry skin.

Use nourishing day cream. A suitable day cream you can find the instructions on the pack: cream for dry or very dry skin, nourishing, rich cream. Pay attention to the consistency of cream. If it looks easy and like milk, it certainly little fat. Apply a day cream to the face after washing. Wait 5 minutes. The remaining dry areas of Spread cream again. Only then you can apply makeup. For dry skin, perfect food additives in silicon will be gamma-linoleic acid (which helps the skin to better retain moisture and fat) and urea, which in its natural form found in the epidermis and promotes the alignment of the rough and peeling areas.

Do not give up a night cream. Polls showed that many women do not enjoy the night cream. Most young women prefer light cream for any time of day. However, if you have dry skin, do not use the same cream in the morning and evening. In the night cream, usually contain a lot of fat. Night is the process of restoring the skin and formation of many new cells. To do this, your skin may need support in the form of food a night cream.

Make a face mask. Masks smooth surface skin, leaving it supple and beautiful. Muskie in the form of creams you can buy ready-made or make your own. A lot of recipes for making masks at home are on the pages of our site.

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