Beautiful skin, a healthy complexion and a fresh, natural look, who does not want that? Here you will find many small tips and tricks to improve and maintain your appearance. Because a well-groomed appearance starts with skin care.
1. regular cleaning
Morning and evening cleansing removes not only creams and makeup, but also skin oil and sweat. Pores will not clog and bacteria will not be able to multiply.
2. cleansing milk instead of water
Water alone is not able to remove the greasy mix of sebum, cream and makeup from the skin. For this, you need lipophilic (fat-dissolving) substances, such as those contained in cleansing milk.
The cleansing milk is best massaged in with fingertips or a sponge and left to act briefly, then rinsed off with plenty of warm water.
3. facial toner builds
Facial toner helps speed up the rebuilding phase of the acid mantle, which usually takes 20 to 30 minutes after cleansing. In addition, facial toner removes the calcium deposits from tap water and cleansing residues that can clog pores in the long run, causing blemishes.
4. cleaning mature skin
For cleansing mature skin, water-in-oil emulsions are best suited, as they preserve the skin’s protective acid mantle. Equally suitable are cleansing creams that are enriched, for example, with valuable vegetable oils such as jojoba, soy or sweet almond.
5. soap only for robust, oily skin.
Since soap belongs to the alkaline cleansing agents and thus attacks the acid mantle, soap should only be used on very robust, rather oily skin. For all other skin types, regular soap should be avoided.
6. for sensitive or dry skin facial toner without alcohol.
In order not to further burden the oil and moisture balance of a sensitive or dry skin, facial toners with alcohol should not be used, but only alcohol-free tonics or thermal water sprays. Redness, inflammation and itching are thus avoided.
7. fine pored, rosy complexion through peeling.
Horny flakes make the skin look colorless and dull. Exfoliation tailored to the skin type removes these flakes without irritating the skin and stimulates blood circulation. Tiny synthetic beads or natural granules of ground apricot kernels, bran or sea sand act like ultra-fine sandpaper.
8. masks – quick beautifiers
The effect of masks is visible immediately, so masks are also called the fast beautifiers of cosmetics. Masks with a high moisture content allow the skin cells to swell, making the skin plumper, fresher and smoother, wrinkles are reduced.
For tired skin there are special moisturizing masks with herbal extracts such as menthol, mint, camphor etc.. They have a refreshing and cooling effect, redness and swelling disappear. Moisturizing masks with extracts of chamomile, lemon balm and hops soothe sensitive, irritated skin.
9. night creams support regeneration
At night, the cell division rate is eight times higher than during the day, which means that the regeneration process is in full swing. You can tell from slight swelling in the morning that the removal of lymph fluid and waste products does not work as well at night. Night creams with active ingredient complexes from ginkgo, pro-vitamin E, amino acids from wheat proteins, etc. support the regeneration of the skin.
10. observe limited shelf life of creams.
Printed best before dates apply to unopened jars and tubes. Opened creams should always be well sealed and used within 3 months if possible, especially if stored at room temperature.
The warmer, the faster the oils contained can become rancid or bacteria can form in the jar. This is even more true for natural cosmetics. Self-prepared creams without preservatives should be used immediately or frozen.
