Why You Need to Reconsider How You Wash Your Face

If you want amazing skin like this beauty has, read today's post.

Everyone has their own routine for removing makeup and washing their face.  Perhaps, you find no problem with your method.  However, tweaking your routine just slightly could be all it takes to help your complexion flourish.

Maybe you are one that just rushes in to grab your waterproof makeup remover and a cotton ball or pad to take off your eye makeup.  Before you touch the bottle, cotton or your face, wash your hands first.  Otherwise, you could be transferring bacteria to the bottle and your stash of cotton balls or pads, not to mention your sensitive eyes.

Taking off your eye makeup and the rest of your cosmetics with another form of makeup remover like a cleansing oil is the first step before washing.  This is because waterproof makeup remover or cleansing oils are geared to totally dislodge hard to remove polymers that were formulated to hold up against moisture.  Soaps and the foaming facial cleansers won’t be totally able to penetrate the skin until this first barrier is breached.

Once you finish that initial cleansing, wash your hands again before testing the water temperature because you want it to be lukewarm, not hot before you finally wash with your favorite cleansing bar or a foaming cleanser. The problem with using too hot of water is that it harshly strips your skin’s natural oils, resulting in dryness or even broken capillaries, especially near the nose.  

If you are ready to suds up with a foaming cleanser, you don’t want to overload your face with too much.  One-half teaspoon of the cleanser is sufficient to guard from recklessly stripping your complexion’s natural oils when you take it to your damp skin.  The important thing to remember is technique matters. Instead of just vigorously lathering with your hands, use circular motions while you work, keeping it up for no longer than 20-25 seconds.  The assumption that longer lathering time or more lather will improve your complexion is simply wrong.  All that you’re doing is causing irritation and redness to the skin.

Give the skin a thorough rinsing with cool, not cold water.  A quick splash is not good enough.  After all, you don’t want to leave a residue that can further alter your pH level. 

Check your hairline because grime could get pushed in far corners in spots on the face that you might have missed.  If so, you might want to go over and wash that section again to avoid a possible breakout.

Pat dry with a fresh towel or wash cloth.  Resist the urge to reuse a towel that has made contact with your face and especially your body since it can be a breeding ground for bacteria.  

As I constantly mention, I’m a strong believer in exfoliation because it is the step that catches imbedded makeup and grime from deep within the pores that daily cleansing misses while helping shed old cells to encourage fresh ones to surface.  Still, you don’t want to be excessive by exfoliating too often.  Once or twice a week is a safer way to do the deep cleaning and resurfacing and still get great results.

I hope you try what I suggest because the littlest changes can often make the biggest differences in what you’ll see in your mirror.  Trust me, but once you do that I promise that you will like what you see!

Why You May Want to Reconsider How You Wash Your Face When Striving for a Lovelier Complexion!

This beauty doesn't have to hide her face now that she knows this skin saving tip!

Though you go through all the motions of cleansing your face properly, if your complexion keeps breaking out, the reason could be more than just diet, hormones, stress, or workouts.   The method of how you wash your face can also contribute.

Fingers are not the best tools when it comes to cleansing.  Despite how well you wash your hands first, the nails can harbor bacteria that you may not see.  If trusting them to do the job, you could be introducing fresh bacteria, aggravating your skin problem.  

A better solution is using a fresh washcloth or a cotton square and gently exfoliating instead of using your hands each time you cleanse. This can help lessen the risk on piling on bacteria so your complexion may stand a better fighting chance.  

How You Cleanse Your Face Matters Just As Much As Product If You’re Longing for a More Beautiful Complexion!

This beauty knows a bit of  knowledge makes the difference for glowing, flawless skin.

No matter how much you pay for your facial cleanser, you are shortchanging your complexion if you are cleansing in the wrong way.  In order to help your skin thrive, you should keep a few things in mind first. These few changes can improve the look and health of your complexion more than you may realize.

Regardless of the formula of your cleanser, you need to remember that piling it on to dislodge your grime and makeup is never a good idea.  The less concentrated those ingredients, the better off your skin will be.   

For your skin’s optimal health, get into the habit of always diluting a small amount of your liquid cleanser with some water first instead of applying too much of the product.  By doing so, you treat your complexion more gently and help the pores breathe instead of possibly risk suffocating them with any remaining product residue, grime, and makeup that could linger and cause any adverse reaction.

Cleansing your complexion too often is a big mistake.  If you have dry skin, it can add to the dryness. If you have an oily complexion and are under the impression that cleansing your face often is going to help, then what you are doing is stimulating your skin’s oil production instead, only to make your complexion greasier. Your goal is cleansing your face no more than twice a day.

Something else that is equally important is the way you rinse that cleanser off.  One quick splash of water to rinse after cleansing is hardly enough.  You need to rinse the cleanser thoroughly.  Give yourself at least 10-15 splashes to help break those ingredients down with the final splash of cool water to close the pores.  

I hope that you try these recommendations because they will help your complexion  and pave a path to true beauty! 

How to Prepare for a Facial to Get Better Complexion Results

This post will make your facial work harder.

You may believe washing your face first with a mild soap or a gentle cleanser is enough to get your skin ready for a facial, but it is just the first step. If you intend to harvest the most beauty power out of that treatment, you need to do a bit more first to prepare the skin. Afterwards, you will be surprised at the difference in your complexion in how your skin responds to those beneficial ingredients.

Just as important to that initial cleansing, you have to follow up with an astringent or your toner. This will additionally clean any remaining soap, cleansing residue, or dead skin that had lingered.

Now is the time that your skin is ready to receive the nourishment from your facial mask.  Depending on your complexion issues, there are a variety of wonderful facial masks among my homemade skin care recipes that you may want to try or select the commercial product of your choice.

After you apply the mask, you need to relax with it on for about a half hour.  This bit of “me time” can help smooth the lines caused by tense muscles and revive the face along with the wonders of the ingredients.  

The water temperature of how you rinse your facial mask off is also crucial.  Be sure to use tepid water only because you want to keep your pores open.  Hot water will strip the skin of too much of your remaining natural oil while cold will close the pores.  Keep this in mind.

At this stage, your clean face is ready to receive even deeper cleaning of your pores with steam.  You don’t need any fancy equipment.  All it takes for this home treatment is a pot with boiling water, a towel to tent over that pot, and the right herb to help what your complexion needs.  For example, rosemary is wonderful to steam a dry face with.  On the other hand, chamomile is better for those with normal skin.  Those with oily skin might find peppermint useful.

Other than seeking out the services of a professional, your pores are as clean as you can get them at home.  However, you need to close them the proper way.  Start by rinsing your face with warm water (not hot) and gradually change over to splashing with cold water.  

The final step is remembering to moisturize and allowing the product time to soak in. 

Afterwards, you will see a great complexion and feel better about your appearance than before.

Review: Dial Baby Body + Hair Wash and Kids Foaming Hand Wash

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Dial Baby Body + Hair Wash for Ages 0-2

Babies and small children aren’t the only ones that can have extra sensitive skin, especially if the entire family is prone to allergies.  Our family often uses baby shampoo simply because of how gentle is it. Therefore, I signed us up to review new Dial’s Baby Body + Hair Wash and Kids Foaming Hand Wash as a Purex Insider.

The Dial Baby Body + Hair Wash for ages 0 to 2+ is clear, paraben free, ph balanced, and free of scent.  It is also hypo-allergenic, but nothing can say that for sure–only that the ingredients will have the least chance of causing a possible reaction.  Also, this product was developed with pediatric dermatologists to make it tear-free.

Though we do not have a baby, the product was extremely gentle, rinsed out well, and left hair feeling clean when I quizzed the family. 

The Dial Kids Foaming Hand that arrived was in the Watery Melon scent. This was a big hit at our house. This product has a pump that dispenses a mound of delicious smelling scent that makes washing small hands less of a chore over a bar of soap. With no artificial dyes, no parabens along with its hypo-allergenic ingredients, it did not irritate in the least and left us clean without any leftover sticky feeling.

Dial Kids Foaming Hand Wash in Watery Melon

If you have little ones or have a problem with allergies, do look for these two new additions to Dial’s Baby and Kids lines with their Dial Baby Body + Hair Wash and Dial Kids Foaming Hand Wash the next time you shop.  I know that you will be pleased.

Dial Sugar Cane Husk Scrub Hand Soap Review

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Dial's Sugar Cane Husk Scrub from the new Boutique Collection of Hand Soaps smells like cookies.

A beautiful way to clean your hands arrived with my latest Purex Insider project.  I got to sample one of Dial’s Boutique Collection with their new Sugar Cane Husk Scrub Hand Soap.

This liquid soap has a yummy scent that reminds me of vanilla sugar cookies baking.  And yet, there is more to like. This delicious scented soap thoroughly cleaned with gentle micro scrubbers infused in the formula while being kind to hands.  I noticed this soap had a conditioning sort of feel.  

I do wash my hands a lot.  Therefore, I love that this formula doesn’t strip my often sensitive hands of moisture like some other soaps that I have used.  Discovering no irritation on my hands after going through a day does ranks this soap high on my list.  I have this bottle in my kitchen and plan to pick up more to replace our current soaps because of that fact.

If you are looking for a wonderful family soap, I suggest that you try Dial’s Cane Husk Scrub because it does a nice cleaning job when you look at your hands. 
  

Melvita's Rose Nectar Fresh Micellar Water Review

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Melvita's Rose Nectar Fresh Micellar Water

A cleanser and toner are equally important but have different purposes in your skin care regime.  But what if I told you one product can take off your makeup, gently cleanse your face, and tone it at the same time?  This sounds great to me since I was looking forward to testing micellar water from French brand, Melvita, with their Rose Nectar Fresh Micellar Water for this review.

To use this product, you need to dab a cotton ball with some and start swiping away.  This does dissolves makeup and clean your face without any tightness.  You don't even need to rinse!

For some, the need for water in the equation to feel clean will be surprised at how unbelievably fresh your complexion will look once you check your mirror.  Take it from me, I used to even follow with up with soap and water after using cleansing wipes--that is until working with this Rose Nectar Fresh Micellar Water.  Trust me, but you won't miss the water.

I have been using this micellar water regularly in the mornings than evenings when I have lots of makeup to remove for prepping my skin before I apply cosmetics.  Although this product removes makeup easily enough, I am lazy when it comes to changing cotton balls for stripping a lot of it away.  On the other hand, the morning is perfect to give me a balanced and comfortable clean with a glow to my complexion.

Save yourself some steps in your skin care and look into picking up the Rose Nectar Fresh Micellar Water. This product sells for $22 for the 6.7 oz. size. 

Like everything else from Melvita, I feel good knowing that nothing but the finest certified organic ingredients are in their products to keep me beautiful as well as healthy.  Isn't that what you want also?