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Skin cleaning

Proper care of your skin requires its depuration as the major and requisite condition.

The dermatologists raise the alarm: half the problems concerning our skin are caused by wrong application of detergent facilities or their absence. Many women use day creams and make up for their faces. But a rare one of them applies special detergent facilities. As a result there appear red spots, irritated areas, pimples, blackheads. Sometimes it becomes necessary to consult the specialist.

Just imagine what your skin endures during a day! Two millions of sweat-glands excrete at least 500gr.of water, urea, lactic acid, salt and carbonic gas daily. From outside your skin is applied with dirt, dust, sulphury anhydride and carbon monoxide. In addition there are nourishing creams, make-up and compact powder. This mixture can break up the skin balance. So don’t forget about thorough depuration of skin!

What are the methods of skin depuration? Does every type of skin demand the special preparation? How to apply it? Is one cosmetic product enough for your skin or it needs more than one? What small ruses should you be aware of – that depend on the type of your skin – to clean it softly or extremely effectively?

This page of our site introduces 20 useful recommendations concerning the methods of skin depuration. Here you are sure to find small highly productive ruses that have been carefully tested.

1. Greasy or mixed type of skin is better cleaned by foamy facilities like creams, gels and lotions for face. These clearing products contain approximately 10% of tansieds – actively clearing agents. They destroy fat very actively. They dissolve and remove sweat and skin fat, which cork up the pores on the fevered skin.
   
   
2. Syndet – synthesized soap fits fat skin to perfection. This name means synthetically active agents. Synthesized soap is sold in firm and liquid consistence (in flasks, bottles and compact blocks). It has neutral or soft acid medium, not alkaline one that is normal for usual soap. This facility cleanses the pores deeply without destroying the natural acid cloak of skin (you can read about it in the section ‘structure of skin’ of our site). But look over your shoulder when you use syndets; they damage fats very effectively.
   
   
3. Cleansing milk is the best fitted product for dry and sensitive skin. It’s the neutral mixture of fat and water. It dissolves dirt and sweat rather effectively; however it reacts on skin in merciful way. Cleansing milk contains 25% of fat. It holds special oils, for example, the calendula, avocado or lanoline oil that supply skin with fat. Its advantage is: due to it dry skin loses no moisture after wash but even acquires it. Your skin is gently purified and nourished with various useful agents. If your skin is sensitive try to purchase the cleansing milk with calendula or mallow. The mentioned plants have a relaxing and emollient effect.
   
   
4. Purifying oils get its popularity (in glass or plastic flasks). They turned out to be the rescue for extremely dry, shaggy or peeling skin. High content of fat makes it possible to wipe out the skin fats, dirt and make-up applying soft methods without peeling effect. Even the driest skin seems to be soaked in cream after this procedure.
   
   
5. For mature skin the best variant is soft, nourishing cleansing milk. Mature skin is usually dry. That’s why it needs product, containing much fat. You’d better buy some special facilities for cleansing mature skin.
   
   
6. Cleansing toilet water isn’t widely known to customers (don’t confuse it with toilet water for skin). After its usage small wrinkles (the result of lack of skin moisture) are smoothed out. Except purifying agents this nonalcoholic clear liquid contains sugar and almond oil derivatives that promote keeping the moisture on the skin surface.
   
   
7. Purifying by means of soap is quite enough for normal skin. Usual soap basically consists of fats and alkali (caustic and potassium alkaline solution), as well as nourishing, aromatic and coloring agents. Their PH level is above 7. They have weak alkaline reaction and when you wash they damage the natural acid cloak of your skin for several hours. But that’s not so frightening. Normal healthy skin restores its medium very quickly and independently. If your skin is dry and sensitive you need to avoid using soap. People with irritated skin are recommended to use soap with caution.
   
   
8. With the help of purifying tampons which are impregnated with disinfectant and taking away dirt liquid (for example, the oaken bark extract), you can cleanse your face when you have a free minute. They are perfect for fat and inclined to irritation skin. You need to rub off your face with circular motions.
   
   
9. If you use preparations dissolved in water you should take them off very thoroughly from your skin. They can cork up the pores and result in constantly irritated areas on skin. It would be better for you to wash away the foam and after that take water in hands and rinse the face for 8-10 times. If during the described procedure you try to cool water it makes a lot of good for blood circulation. Your skin acquires pink and fresh shade. But if your blood vessels are apt to distension you’d better refuse from irritating your skin with cold water.
   
   
10. For thorough depuration of skin pores after rich make-up soap is insufficient. Synthesized soap isn’t fitted here either. To remove such make-up (no matter what type of skin you have) you’ll succeed most of all if you use cleansing milk. Do it like this: a large amount of milk is applied on skin and surface dirt is taken away by means of absorbent paper. Take special care about the sides of your face. Then wash with water and additionally purify skin with toilet water for face.
    
    
11. The cosmetologists recommend washing off products containing cleansing oils with water and soap. It doesn’t hurt even dry skin because the fat film left on its surface protects it. Dissoluble in water oils are very practical. These preparations hold emulsion which makes the fats dissolve in water and are washed off with its help.
    
    
12. The dermatic tests found out: cleansing facilities should cover your face no longer than 20sec. it’s the time of their highest effectiveness. The prolonging of their appliance can dry skin and only hurts it.
    
    
13. It’s a frequent case when dermatologists prescribe synthesized soap with neutral level PH to the patients with eczemas and fungoid diseases. These methods don’t destroy the natural acid cloak of skin. They keep up and even restore its balance. For irritated and fevered skin no alkaline soap is fitted to perfection. It’s created in the method fluid crystallization. It holds no fat and aromatic agents. It doesn’t change the natural skin level PH and prevents the formation of new centers of irritation (pustules and blackheads). Unfortunately these products are pretty expensive.
    
    
14. Cosmetic ads are capable to bring us home that you can’t purify your skin well enough without toilet water for skin and that every female has to use it. But the majority of dermatologists have the other point of view on their mind. They often recommend dropping the application of toilet water. You need to use the least possible amount of products. Each of them includes potential allergic agents that can result to new centers of irritation. In this relation the most dangerous toilet water is the one that holds alcohol (sometimes up to 20%). It destroys the protective acid cloak of skin very actively and leads to its reddening. Toilet water that contains little amount of alcohol, which disinfects the irritated areas and promotes quick healing of spots and blackheads, is only for use when your skin is irritated.
    
    
15. When you apply the cleansing products you need to follow the recommendations in dosage. When using cleansing milk one teaspoonful of it is quite enough in most cases. In the case of liquid creams the portion of the size of a pea is normal. Larger doses can be excess or even do harm to your skin.
    
    
16. After you used soap, milk or gel you should wash your face with cool or warm water, not hot. Those who suffer from blood vessels distention have to be very careful with hot water and contrasting temperatures. They are expected to use warm water of body temperature.
17. First you need to remove the make-up in the area of eyes. You’d better use a special cleansing product. There’re fat products and those deprived of fat. You need to find out the one that makes you feel comfy. Their effect is very delicate. Some women clear the area near the eyes only by children’s oils and absorbent cotton. It’s quite sufficient, especially if it’s not too sensitive and it doesn’t irritate the skin of eyelids.
    
    
18. To remove ineffaceable lipstick it won’t be enough for you to apply foamy cleansing facilities (gel, soap or liquid cream). To move it away you ought to acquire such products as oil (purifying or just for kids) or some special cosmetic for cleansing the lips. It usually consists of purifying and nourishing phases. So you need to shake it up to combine the phases. Then impregnate the cotton tampon with liquid cream and press to lips for 5sec. Remove the lipstick from your lips with gentle motions and then rinse with water.
    
    
19. For normal, mature and slowly circulating skin you need to take deep peeling once a week, for grease and fevered skin – every 2-3 days. For this procedure you should purchase peeling products. They usually have loads of names but the only purpose unites them: peeling off the upper horny layer of skin. There is much dirt cluttered between the horned scales. Ordinary purifying is incapable of removing it completely. The tiny ‘grinding’ grains of peeling product remove the grime from the skin surface very gently with necrotic horny scales. The grains can be of ground apricot pits, bran, ground nuts, curative dirt, sea sand or artificial granules. After the procedure of peeling your skin becomes clean, rosy and smooth. Simultaneously it grows thinner and seems to have the smaller pores. Peeling products are produced like creams, gels, milks or liquid creams. Bear in mind: they aren’t for purifying your make-up. You need to purify your skin as usually and then apply peeling cosmetic on clean skin. The peeling creams need to be carefully rubbed into the moisturized skin and then thoroughly washed off. The remnants can cause the irritation and reddening of skin. If your skin isn’t very sensitive and has a fat horny layer you can apply the peeling product right on the dry skin, rub it in gently and then wash off. Thus you achieve the maximum peeling effect. Keep in your mind: sensitive skin can’t bear peeling products at all. If you have spots, irritated or fevered areas on your skin you also have to refuse to deal with peeling products. The grains that these products contain can worsen the condition of skin.
    
    
20. If your skin is fat but you can’t use the peeling cosmetic regularly try to purify the pores of skin with a massage brush in the evenings. Its nylon bristle which has various lengths with rounded tips is located in such a way that it reaches the grime and removes horny cells with it. First you need to moisturize the skin of your face, then foam using the brush the dose of cleansing liquid cream on the plate. After that it’s up to you to clean the dirt by heliciform motions and wash your face with cool water.