Cleansing Your Face Based On Your Skin Type


Cleansing your face is the key to glowing skin and the most important step in your beauty routine. It is therefore essential to know its type but also its skin condition to adapt its care and offer the best cleaning to your skin. Discover the different skin conditions and how to clean them for a sparkling face!


Differentiate skin type and condition


Above all, it is important to differentiate the type and condition of the skin. The skin type is a genetic and permanent order. It corresponds to the physiological nature of the skin and can vary depending on the age, health, climate, and ambient pollution in its area. The skin condition is grafted to the skin type, it is a temporary skin surface condition. She may be sensitive, dehydrated, or mature.


Sensitive skin


It is a hyper-reactive skin condition, which has a skin barrier much less prepared for daily attacks. Often subject to tingling, heating, tingling, and itching, the skin is more porous and allows all the molecules, even the most irritating, to which we are exposed to penetrate. It is also characterized by the appearance of redness.


Causes of sensitive skin

If your skin is sensitive, it is because its tolerance threshold is decreasing. Often dry and rough, several factors are involved, such as factors: psychological such as stress, hormonal with the onset of your menstrual cycles or menopause, physical with the changes of the seasons and therefore of temperature, the sun, the wind, air conditioning, heating, pollution, etc.


This sensitization can also be due to irritating chemicals present in unsuitable cosmetic products that you use and that your skin has difficulty tolerating, a soap, or a cream for example.


How to clean sensitive skin

Removing make-up from sensitive skin must rhyme with gentleness and benevolence. Choose very soft, moisturizing, nourishing, and soothing products, and avoid the use of water as much as possible, especially if it is hard, as well as scrubs and masks which, being too abrasive, will attack your skin.


Micellar water or a very gentle cleansing oil or milk will perfectly remove all the impurities accumulated on your skin and soothe your epidermis. However, avoid attacking your skin by rubbing it with a cotton ball, as this will irritate it and make it even more aggressive. Instead, soak your cotton in thermal water and clean it with delicate circular strokes.


Take the time to choose products whose formulation is healthy and natural, composed of moisturizing agents such as glycerin or hyaluronic acid and without perfume, to avoid any irritation or unwanted skin reactions.


Consider after cleaning to apply a moisturizer that will help the skin to protect itself throughout the day!


Dehydrated skin


Having dehydrated skin occurs when the skin tissue is weakened and is no longer able to hold the water it contains. The skin lacks water and therefore, will cause a loss of radiance and comfort. Your skin feels tight, rough, and unpleasant to the touch, and your complexion is dull. It is essential to treat it with appropriate care because, although temporary, this condition

marks the skin with fine lines of unsightly and frustrating dehydration.


Causes of dehydrated skin

As with sensitive skin, dehydrated skin can appear due to cold, UV rays, pollution, alcohol or tobacco, stress, and fatigue, but also medication, anti-acne treatments, or again. , unsuitable, and aggressive cosmetic products. Genes, menopause, and the deterioration of the stratum corneum are also the causes of dehydration of your skin.


How to cleanse dehydrated skin

To cleanse dehydrated skin, use moisturizing cleansers, preferably an oil that acts as a barrier to dehydration and does not attack the epidermis. Avoid treatments containing soap and favor a single make-up removal, the evening one to eliminate all makeup and pollution residues as well as all accumulated impurities.


Mature skin


Mature skin is skin that results from hormonal imbalance. It can be recognized by its level of sagging cheeks and neck and presents a general dryness, linked to the decrease in the secretion of sebum and hyaluronic acid, as well as an accentuation of wrinkles and a loss of tone linked to the decrease in collagen and elastin.


Causes of mature skin

Mature skin is not just wrinkled skin. It lacks tone and experiences relaxation due to the loss of elasticity. This phenomenon is particularly visible at This phenomenon is particularly visible from around 45 years old in women. It is particularly linked to hormonal changes. The secretion of sebum decreases and the growth of cells slows down, which makes the skin thinner. The rate of hyaluronic acid which plays the role of "plumping" also decreases.


How to clean mature skin

The first anti-aging gesture is cleaning. It purifies the skin and rids it of its dead cells, but it also revives the microcirculation and boosts your internal renewal.


Dehydrated, mature skin should as much as possible avoid direct contact with tap water on their face and cotton rubbing.


Choose products concentrated in fruit acids, which will cause a gentle peeling, and cleansers made up of nourishing ingredients such as almond, olive, or camellia oil, gentle on the skin and nourishing. Their assets will effectively eliminate dead cells and restore radiance to your clean skin!




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