Today, as we pay more and more attention to functional skin care products, simple moisturizing products are receiving less and less attention and are easily overlooked. For example, when you wake up late in the morning and rush out to work, or work overtime to go home late at night and wash your face and collapse on the bed, these scenes may be the moment when you ignore applying cream or lotion.
But whether it is early or late, moisturizing products should be an indispensable part of your daily skin care plan, and are in an equally important position as cleaning and sun protection .
Benefits of moisturizing products
Maintain normal hydration of the skin. Taking cleansing as an example, no matter how gentle the cleansing product is, it will rinse the sebum film on the surface of the skin to varying degrees. One of the most important functions of the sebum film is to prevent the loss of skin moisture. Therefore, after cleansing, the skin's water retention ability is often reduced. Applying moisturizing cream at this time will help quickly restore the skin's water retention ability, keep the skin cells in a normal hydration state, and perform their functions normally.
Improve peeling, tightening and other conditions
For dry skin , even without cleansing products, the skin itself has relatively weak water retention ability. Therefore, the skin often has dryness, tightness, scaling and makeup powder. Applying moisturizer can directly moisturize the skin and improve the above problems.
maintains normal skin barrier function
The barrier function of the skin does not only depend on keratinocytes, but also plays a great role in the large number of lipids and natural moisturizing factors between cells. However, due to the complex external environment, the skin is often easily damaged by factors such as pollutants and ultraviolet rays. Sebum and natural moisturizing factors are very easy to be lost, and moisturizers can play a good supplement role to maintain the normal barrier function of the skin.
Reduce "dry lines"
Take the eyes as an example. Due to the weak skin, moisture is very easy to lose when moisturizing is not done properly. "dry lines" appear around the eyes of many young women who have just entered university campuses. But in fact, dry lines at this age are often not real wrinkles. As long as you rely on moisturizing products to provide sufficient moisturizing, these "dry lines" will be reduced or eliminated. How to choose
moisturizing product?
has many moisturizing products, and common products include moisturizing gels, moisturizing gels, moisturizing lotions, moisturizing creams, moisturizing creams, etc.
Generally speaking, you can judge the ability to retain moisture and lock water by the thinness or viscosity of the product. Generally, the more viscous the product and the oilier the skin feel, the higher the content of sealant in the product will be, so the moisturizing and water-locking ability will be stronger.
moisturizing gel, gel
Usually, there is no sealant added to the moisturizing gel and gel with thin texture. The ingredients are generally water + hygroscopic , which has a strong hygroscopic effect. After applying, it can continue to bring a moisturizing feeling and will not feel sticky. However, if the product with a blocking effect is not used in the future, the moisture "pulled up" by the hygroscopic agent will evaporate quickly and the skin will still feel dry. Therefore, moisturizing gels and gels are suitable as moisturizing options for oily skin in summer (the sebum secreted by oily skin itself is a good sealant), and are also suitable for basement for neutral/dry skin before using moisturizing cream.
moisturizing lotion
In the formula, the ratio of moisture absorbent and sealant in moisturizing lotion is moderate, so it will not be as thin as a moisturizing gel or as thick as a moisturizing cream, and it will be accepted by most people. Because of this formula, moisturizing lotion has good moisturizing, moisture absorption and a certain degree of sealing effect. However, if the water locking ability in an environment with too low humidity, it may be lacking. Therefore, moisturizing lotion is mainly suitable as a moisturizing choice for oily skin in winter and neutral/dry skin in summer, and can also be used as a strengthening moisturizing product for neutral/dry skin before using moisturizing cream in winter.
Moisturizer
Compared with the above product categories, the sealant content in moisturizer is significantly higher, so the water locking ability will be much higher, but the skin feeling will also be much sticky when used. Moisturizer is especially suitable for use in especially dry skin all year round, neutral/dry skin in spring, autumn and winter, and skin with damaged barrier function.
content comes from the book "Dermatologist's Skin Care Class"
