Can Washing Face with Soap Hurt Skin?

Wash your face with soap and hurt your skin? Yes! 

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Facial cleanser Vs soap?

Every time I go to buy a facial cleanser, my mother always says: "Ah, it's really not worth it to spend so much money on that gadget! We used to wash our face with soap, it was clean, and the price was affordable! 

It’s so expensive, in fact, it’s no different from soap, so why do you pay so much attention!”

Washing your face like your mother was young, right?

Facial cleanser is of course more suitable for facial skin cleansing than soap.

Since urea, uric acid, salt and other acidic substances remain on the surface of human skin, the skin surface is often weakly acidic.

In other words, the weakly acidic state is the best state for the skin to absorb nutrients. 

At this time, the skin's ability to resist external erosion, elasticity, gloss, and water content are the best.

Generally, the pH of soap is greater than 7, obviously, it is not appropriate to clean the face with soap.

Soap is not only not suitable for face washing, but also causes damage to the skin barrier function after long-term use, which in turn causes various skin diseases.

If a person wash his face with soap sooner or later, not only will the skin become rough over time, but also the skin will become sensitive.

Of course, cleansing soap is different from toilet soap, it is a product specially designed for cleansing, and can be used for facial cleansing with confidence.

The key to a good facial cleanser is that after washing, you must feel that your skin is clean without feeling tight, dry, tingling, itching, or redness. 

Some people describe this comfortable feeling as if they can feel the skin breathing healthily.

It can be seen that the choice of facial cleanser must be based on the criteria of suiting oneself, and blindly pursuing the brand or the price is incorrect.

Misunderstanding of scrub to remove dead skin

Too thick keratin can indeed cause local yellowish skin. The common "T" area or dark yellow skin tone around the mouth can be properly exfoliated to improve local skin tone. 

Available methods, in addition to using scrub facial cleanser, you can also use fruit acid or other treatments with micro exfoliation. But be careful not to overdo it. 

Excessive exfoliation can cause huge damage to the skin barrier function and is not recommended.

As far as matte products are concerned, if they are not overused, and are only limited to the dark yellow areas with thicker cuticles, they can be used appropriately. 

However, many people do not use it locally when washing their face, but directly extend the use of scrub products to the entire part. 

For areas with less "dead skin" such as cheeks, the scrub will exfoliate excessively and easily cause sensitive skin.

Is deep Skin Cleaning really good?

If you "favored" the advertisement of over-cleaning products, buy some powerful "cleansing" products, this over-cleaning will cause excessive consumption of lipids in the "sebum depot" in the skin (degreasing effect), forcing the sebaceous glands to "work overtime "To produce more sebum, the sebaceous glands will be" exercised "to enhance their function and become hypertrophic. 

As a result, the pores become larger and the skin becomes thicker and thicker.

At this point you will say, "My skin is very strange, dry and wet outside."

Outer trunk: The moisturizing function is weakened due to degreasing of the stratum corneum;

Internal dampness: The strong secretion function of sebaceous glands continuously secretes "watery" sebum.

Various face wash formulas

Because food can be preserved for a long time by pickling, many people think that salt water can be disinfected, or think that it can be used as a scrub to clean the skin and remove dead skin. However, this is not the case.

1. Salt

First of all, physiological saline does not have any bactericidal effect. On the contrary, physiological saline is also a growth environment for bacteria. 

To be sure, in order to achieve the effect of inhibiting bacteria, it must be a high-concentration salt solution. But although a high-concentration salt solution (high osmotic pressure) may have a certain decontamination and bacteriostatic effect. 

You can wash your face with salt for long periods. This can damage the skin barrier, bring tightness, dryness, and even cause more severe skin inflammation.

 In addition, exfoliating dead skin itself can easily damage the skin, and more and more dermatologists are opposed to excessive exfoliation.

2. Honey

Honey itself does not have any cleaning function, it can not take away the oil from the skin, and its ingredients cannot be absorbed through the stratum corneum, which can be said to be useless. 

Of course, some proteins and amino acids in honey may bring a little moisturizing effect, so it will simulate the effects of some mild cleansing products. 

But it is not recommended to do so, because some people are likely to have allergic reactions to the ingredients contained in honey. Once the allergic reaction occurs, it is more difficult to care for.

3. Vinegar

The main ingredient of vinegar is acetic acid, which can whiten the skin by promoting exfoliation. The whitening effect is extremely weak, but improper use or a little carelessness may risk skin injury. We all know that the sebum film of healthy skin is weakly acidic. 
In the case of strong acids or alkaline substances, the skin barrier may be damaged, resulting in skin sensitivity, allergies, infections, etc. For those who are already sensitive skin, this This washing method is more risky.

4. Tea

Tea contains tea polyphenols, tea polysaccharides, flavonoid glycosides, alkaloids, etc. It does have theoretical anti-oxidation and certain anti-radiation effects, but tea water washing face basically has no such effect, because the purpose of cleaning is to remove some dirt, Even if there are antioxidants in the tea water, short-term exposure is impossible to absorb.

The right way to wash your face

How to clean the skin is reliable. Here are some suggestions for your reference:

1. If you do not put on makeup, it is recommended that you cleanse with clean water. If you don't have washing conditions while traveling, you can also use a moisturizing mask, because the mask has a certain cleansing effect.

2. If you use some cosmetics that are difficult to clean, you can choose the appropriate cleansing products, such as makeup remover / milk, or cleansing milk, etc., and then rinse thoroughly with clean water.

3. To choose the right product according to the skin type, the ideal product is: not irritating, gentle, has a good cleansing effect, and does not cause the skin to feel too tight and dry, the contained functional ingredients must be targeted at you Skin characteristics.

4. Recommended when you need a thorough cleansing: Cleansing milk, cleansing cream, cleansing oil, etc.

If you feel that such cleansing is not "addictive", it is still not recommended to buy scrubs.

At this time, you can choose a facial cleanser, but you should also pay attention not to use it excessively. If the skin is not very dirty, it is generally not necessary to use it frequently.

5. Sensitive skin is recommended to use mild, soothing, low-foam products. Oily skin is recommended to use products that control oil, foam and balance oil secretion. 

For dry skin, it is recommended to use mild, soothing, low foaming, moisturizing products.