How to take care of your skin at home?
Visits to the beautician are good (important and necessary). But this is 2-4 times a month. The rest of the 26-28 days, our skin is provided to us.
How to take care of the skin?
Let's figure out the basics.
There are four main stages for daily routines - morning and evening.
Stage one: cleansing
Yes, in the morning you need to cleanse your skin - not just wash your face with water, but use a cleanser (foam, gel for washing). Choose a milder cleanser for your morning cleanse. For example, if you have combination skin and have a “problem skin” product on your bathroom shelf, it’s better to use an all-purpose product (no special purpose) or a gentle cleanser for your morning cleanse.
Why do you need to cleanse the skin in the morning?
During the night, metabolic products accumulated on the surface of the skin, the remnants of the products that you applied at night, as well as dust, keratinized particles, microfibers from your pillowcase.
All this must be removed
delicately, to awaken the skin and prepare it for further procedures.
You should wash your face with warm water (not cold and not too hot).
After washing your face with cleanser, gently pat your face dry with a cotton towel (no rubbing).
Evening cleansing can consist of several components: make-up removal, washing.
To remove makeup, you can use micellar water, milk, hydrophilic oil, then rinse off the remnants of the product in the usual way - with a gel or foam for washing.
For example, our Cleansing Gel, foam for makeup remover Make-up remover or SkinMag Makeup remover balm.
To improve the cleansing (make-up removal) effect, you can use sponge konnyaku or reusable sponge. Perfect cleansing works in tandem with washing brush.
The tonic helps to prepare the skin for further treatments.
The main task of the tonic is to restore the acid-base balance of the skin.
Modern products for the toning stage have a much broader function, they depending on the needs of the skin and the type of product, so they moisturize, nourish, brighten, help deliver nutrients to the deeper layers of the skin, improve the protective functions of the skin, tighten pores, and keep youth.
Our tonics Revitalizing Tonic and Balancing Toner just like that.
It is imperative to use a tonic.
Second step: care for the skin around the eyes
Did you know that the skin around the eyes is very special?
Its thickness is only half a millimeter. It has no subcutaneous fat and is almost devoid of sebaceous glands.
Therefore, caring for this area is an important step in daily self-care.
For makeup remover, you can use special eye makeup removers. There are also delicate universal products (our micellar water SkinMag Micellar Water).
The most common mistake in the care of this part (except the sleeping with yesterday's makeup) is the use of a face product for the skin under the eyes. The skin of the eyelids has its own very special needs.
Apply moisturizer with your ring finger (or a stylus with a metal ball), moving from the outer edge to the inner edge along the lower eyelid, and vice versa along the upper eyelid.
If you use patches, they can be applied immediately after the serum - before the cream, or just before the cream.
If patches have a lifting effect (like Hydrogel Patch) it's better to lie down with patches.
Stage three: activation
For the third stage, we use serums.
It is a concentrated product with amazing weightless texture, ease of application and delicious properties. Serums almost never contain fats (they are present only in some oil anti-aging serums) and are enriched with many useful components. At the same time, 5-7 active substances in a serious concentration help moisturize (and retain moisture), improve complexion, carry nutrients into the deep layers of the skin, improve the skin's protective barrier, and promote regeneration - depending on the purpose of the product.
How to apply the serum?
On a cleansed and toned face, apply a few drops of the serum using light strokes of your fingers. Wait until the serum is completely absorbed. Then apply the cream according to your skin type.
Our serums are based on low molecular weight hyaluronic acid. Due to the small size of the molecule and the specific properties of interaction with serum components, they are absorbed very quickly and help the active ingredients to penetrate into the deeper layers of the skin.
Activator serum SkinMag Serum helps to penetrate and enhances the action of the components of the next stage of care.
Some serums can also be applied to the area around the eyes - on the lower and upper eyelids. For example, Serum Anti-Age.For maximum effect from the product, use stylus for the area around the eyes.
After using the serum, be sure to cover it with a cream - this way we prevent the evaporation of valuable nutrients from the skin surface and do not allow everyday pollution to be “drawn in” with the product.
In the cold season, use serum at least 40 minutes before going out.
Stage four: hydration, nutrition
After the serum is completely absorbed, you can apply the cream according to the needs of the skin. Cream with vitamin C, agent with spf factor(Anti-stress Fluid spf 35). Moisturizer or Nourishing Cream Moisturizing cream in the morning and in the evening. Revitalizing, retinol cream (Skinmag Biolifting with retinol) only in the evening.
Distribute the required amount of cream in the palms of your hands, apply on the face (and neck) with gentle applicative movements. No need to rub.
Wait until the cream is completely absorbed.
For the neck and décolleté area, it is better to use a special product - for the needs of the skin. On the neck, the skin also does not have a full-fledged fat layer and is not sufficiently moisturized in a natural way.
Our cream Neck and Decollete Correcting Cream cares for the skin delicately and effectively.
Apply makeup no earlier than 20 minutes after the cream.
Evening procedures - also 30-40 minutes before going to bed.
But what about scrub, exfoliating gel, masks and other beauty products?
These are additional steps, not for daily use - with a regularity of 1-2 times every 7-10 days. We love, appreciate, use them and we will definitely talk about it in the material.