It is almost impossible to maintain youthfulness and beauty of the skin without regular face cleansing, because it needs a constant oxygen supply, and clogged pores completely lose their ability to pass air. How to do your own facial cleansing at home and not harm your skin?
How to choose the type of procedure
Human skin is penetrated by a huge number of sebaceous ducts, however, not all of them function actively, and therefore need mechanical action to eliminate pollution. Girls with thin and dry skin almost do not have to deal with the problem of acne or comedones, they are not familiar with the oily sheen and the feeling of “uncleanliness”. How to do face cleansing in this case? Scrubbing dry thin epidermis is not difficult and is carried out using cosmetic masks, the last goal of which is sufficient hydration.
Normal skin can respond to seasonal changes and rarely has absolutely stable characteristics, so in some periods of the year it will require serious cleansing procedures, and in others - gentle peeling. For deep cleansing of the face, it is desirable to use a vacuum device or ultrasound, for the surface - soda masks and oat scrubs.
Oily skin requires the most tiring and constant care. Due to the enlarged pore size, the dirt penetrates the epidermis more easily and forms localized foci of inflammation around the follicles - acne. Irregular or carelessly performed procedures for removing sebum and disinfection lead to clogging of the sweat ducts - comedones. How to cleanse your face from black spots and acne with oily skin? Any procedures that affect the deep layers of the epidermis are suitable, these are vacuum, mechanical, ultrasonic procedures.
When you can not apply deep cleaning
When and how to do facial cleansing at home, also determines the condition of a woman. It is undesirable to visit a beauty salon or perform a mechanical procedure at home during a period when a woman feels unwell - she has a cold or is experiencing a seasonal allergy. Taking antibiotics also puts a ban on complex cleaning. Serious actions to eliminate contamination from the pores will be possible only a week after the therapeutic course ends.
Many cosmetologists do not recommend visiting treatment rooms on menstruation days - the pain threshold at this time in women is greatly reduced, and the scars after extrusion take longer. You will have to postpone cleaning until the origin of acne filled with a large amount of pus is ascertained in the presence of boils, scratches or a rash of unknown origin.
So, how to do mechanical cleaning of the face at home and in what sequence to arrange the stages of the procedure?
Skin cleansing
How to clean your face at home without violating the basic rules of the procedure? Wash your face with a gel or cosmetic foam before you start steaming the skin, suitable only for owners of oily or oily prone epidermis. For problematic skin with small pores, it is preferable to use a novelty of our time - micellar water or special milk.
After the remains of cosmetics and dust are removed from the surface of the face (with the capture of the chin and neck), it is time to clean the middle layers of the skin with peeling containing abrasive particles. You can use one of the following recipes:
- Grate in your palms a bit of dried thickened from sleeping coffee with a couple of tablespoons of nutritious milk or natural unsweetened cream. Massage the skin intensively for at least two minutes.
- Take the same amount of sea salt and baking soda and mix them with a small amount of shaving foam squeezed into the palm of your hand. The mixture should be applied with massaging movements, increasing pressure on areas where there are most comedones or acne.
- Prepare a homogeneous mixture of 15 g of ground oatmeal, 1 teaspoon of buckwheat flour, 5-7 drops of hazel oil. The mixture needs to be held a little at room temperature, then, gradually scooping up small portions of the scrub, massage the entire face, neck, and décolleté with it intensively for 3-6 minutes. Then the mass can be left on the skin for 10 minutes, and then rinse well.
- In a container with 5 tablets of aspirin, add a few drops of herbal decoction. When the tablets swell, add to them 10 drops of grape seed oil and half a spoonful of linden honey. Stir everything well and distribute it on the face skin with strong massaging movements.
- 15 g of cane sugar mixed with 1/2 teaspoon mustard powder and a couple drops of peanut butter. The mass is distributed carefully, avoiding the ingestion of an acute composition in the eyes. You need to massage your face for 2 minutes, then rinse off the scrub with running water.
Before you do a deep facial cleansing at home, you need to maximize the pores and soften their contents. A traditional steam bath will help.
Steam bath by all the rules
The classic version of a steam bath for the face is a chamomile decoction, but few know that for these purposes you can use other necessary and useful herbs with no less efficiency:
- Oily, porous skin prone to acne: field horsetail, calendula, celandine, arnica.
- Dry, thinned skin: yarrow, verbena, lime color.
- Normal skin - lovage, plantain, St. John's wort.
Cooking the broth does not take much time: you need to boil 1 liter of water in a saucepan, pour a handful of the chosen grass into it and hold the broth for another couple of minutes on the fire under the lid. If desired, an essential oil with a favorite aroma can be dripped into the water, but this supplement will not have a therapeutic effect.
For the procedure, take a thick terry towel, which is thrown over the head, tilted over the container with the liquid. It is necessary to ensure that the steam does not have a way out from under the towel and rises strictly up to the face. The duration of the entire procedure is governed by the characteristics of the woman’s skin: dry - up to five minutes, normal - 4-7 minutes, oily - 8-12 minutes.
Mechanical cleaning procedure
How to do face cleansing at home? First of all, it is necessary to prevent injury to softened skin and the introduction of infection into microdamages that invariably form during extrusion. Hands are thoroughly washed and treated with alcohol, and the index fingers are wrapped with a triple layer of a sterile bandage.
Only after taking these measures can you start mechanical cleaning of the face. Make it easy and after good steaming is almost painless. The place of blockage or purulent pimple is gently squeezed on both sides, and after releasing the pore from the mud plug, the painful area is treated with hydrogen peroxide.
With heavily contaminated facial skin, several stages of cleaning will be required with an exact repetition of the entire algorithm of actions. The frequency of procedures between stages is every three days.
Pore narrowing
How to clean your face? At home, it is preferable to use tonics and masks on a natural basis. The simplest tonic recipe is to squeeze juice from a whole lime or small lemon into a half-liter bottle of mineral water without gas and wipe the face and neck with acidified water. Another time-saving option is to apply gruel on the face from one grated cucumber or puree from several fresh strawberries.
It effectively tightens pores and treats small pimples with a mixture of egg whipped into a steep foam with 10 ml of lime juice. If the mask spreads much, it can be stabilized with a pinch of starch or oatmeal - the positive effect of the composition will only increase. It is not recommended to apply home remedies with lemon juice or sour berries (as well as protein) to girls with thin, dry skin. Owners of a gentle epidermis should try one of the following masks, soothing the skin after mechanical action:
- A third cup of oatmeal coarse steamed with boiling water, and after 10 minutes add half the yolk to the swollen porridge. Stir, apply on face for 20 minutes.
- Heated to 30 ° C, liquid honey mixed with a few drops of apricot or almond cosmetic oil and spread with a brush on the surface of the face. Wash off with water after 20 minutes.
Dry skin is especially in need of nourishment. After deep cleansing of the face is done at home, you need to wait 15 minutes and be sure to prepare a recovery mask.
Nutrition and hydration
How, having done facial cleansing at home, is it more likely to return the skin to a healthy look? Many women perceive the mask, which tightens pores and soothes inflammation, as the final phase of a multilevel procedure, but this is wrong, because the skin still needs nourishment and hydration to accelerate regeneration.
There are many options for restoring masks, so choosing the right one is easy:
- Mash boiled potatoes in mashed potatoes, add a little whey. The mask is applied warm and kept on the face for 15 minutes.
- Crumble a small slice of fresh yeast and dilute with slightly warmed fat cream (unsweetened). The liquid mass is applied with a brush and held until crusted.
- Combine in one non-metallic container: 1 teaspoon of peanut butter, a large pinch of finely ground Hercules flakes, chamomile broth and a third of banana, mashed with 2 drops of essential citrus oil. The whole mass can be crushed in a blender or rubbed through a sieve. The mask is spread with moistened hands and left for a quarter of an hour.
- Mix 25 g of fat cottage cheese with 10 drops of a mixture of cosmetic oils and 0.5 tablespoons of sour milk. Grind the mixture so that there are no lumps, and spread with a thick layer over the face.
Sauerkraut brine is one of the best nourishing tonics for all skin types. They can wipe their face at the end of any cleansing procedures, as well as daily care before bedtime. If you add honey and mashed berries (strawberries, raspberries, cranberries) to the brine, you will get a full-fledged mask that returns a beautiful complexion and evens out the skin relief.
Surface cleaning with masks
How to make facial cleansing at home if the skin has a tendency to form colloidal scars or if the owner of a problematic epidermis has a prejudice against aggressive effects on the foci of inflammation? For these purposes, there are peels with abrasive granules or masks that "pull" the pollution from the depth of the pores.
- Dilute with water 1 tablet of hydroperite and add the concentrate to a mixture of 15 ml of heavy cream and 2 drops of ammonia. Apply the mass for 25 minutes, avoiding contact with the eyebrows and thin skin around the eyes.
- Steam a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal and introduce, constantly stirring the mixture, half a spoonful of sea salt, wheat germ oil, linden honey. The mixture is completely applied to the face and washed off after half an hour.
- 1 tbsp. dilute a spoon of bodyagi with peroxide until a semi-liquid mass is obtained and quickly spread the acutely smelling mixture over the face. It is not necessary to pay attention to the unpleasant sensations that arise - itching and burning, since this is a necessary side effect of using bodyagi. For girls with normal skin, the mask can be kept no more than 8 minutes, with oily - 15 minutes.
Clay masks are an unchanging trend at the peak of demand among cosmetic procedures. How to do a deep facial cleansing at home using sachets with colored powder? First, determine the clay that is suitable for the type of skin:
- pink clay - for dry skin;
- white clay - for normal;
- blue - for oily;
- black - for combination;
- green - for skin with obvious signs of wilting.
Using a cosmetic product is simple - dilute the powder with warm water or herbal infusion to a creamy state and distribute on the face for a quarter of an hour. Optionally, cosmetic oils, fruit or vegetable purees, honey, sour milk can be added to the mixture.
Gelatin Cleansing Masks
Having cleansed your face at home, how to restore healthy turgor to your skin as soon as possible? Low-cost edible gelatin has been used in cosmetology for decades as one of the most effective cleansing and regenerating agents. Compositions into which gelatin is introduced have no contraindications, do not injure and do not stretch the skin, in addition, they are a unique and natural source of collagen.
The following are the most popular gelatin masks using just a few components:
- 5 tablets of activated carbon are pulverized, which is mixed with 10 g of gelatin. A tablespoon of water is added to the mixture and the mass is heated in a water bath until the gelatin crystals disappear. The mixture is applied hot, quickly spreading it with a brush. When the mask hardens like latex, it is carefully removed with a movement from the bottom up.
- In 1 tbsp. pour in a spoonful of gelatin 2 tablespoons of fresh milk. Heat the mixture in a water bath until the crystals completely disappear, when the mass cools down a little, introduce half of the egg white whipped to a steep foam. Brush the mixture onto the face and, after setting it into the film, carefully remove the whole.
- Soak 15 g of gelatin in 30 ml of cool water, then add a teaspoon of glycerin and half of the whipped protein into the jelly. The mass is well mixed and applied with a brush by driving movements, and after 20 minutes the film is completely removed.
- A quarter cup of already prepared gelatin jelly (swollen crystals) is diluted with a spoon of honey and the same amount of lime juice. Spread the mixture over the face until solidified, then remove.
If small areas of the film remain on the skin after removing the mask, they can be removed easily with 3% hydrogen peroxide.
Home vacuum cleaning
How to make vacuum facial cleansing at home? First of all, you have to buy a special device that runs on conventional finger batteries and has a traction power of 50 kPa. The standard device is equipped with a two-way removable nozzle - large for processing well-accessible areas of the face and fine for detailed cleaning of especially delicate areas near the lips and nose.
In addition, the device must by default have two operating modes - for wet treatment, which leads to a stronger suction of the nozzle to the face and is recommended for oily, dense skin, and dry - for the gentle effect on thin, sensitive skin.
Having a choice of face cleansing, many girls are inclined towards the vacuum procedure, and here's why:
- After vacuum treatment of the epidermis, a recovery period as long as after mechanical cleaning is not required. A woman can return to her usual lifestyle and even apply makeup after 4-5 hours after manipulating the device.
- Having mechanically cleaned the face at home, you can find complications in the form of bruises and scars, which will never happen with pneumatic exposure.
- The nozzle of the vacuum device has a greater grip of the treated surface and draws out all the contaminants in one session, which cannot be done when extruding blackheads manually.
A big advantage of hardware cleaning is that it combines two cosmetic procedures at once - removal of pollution and tonic massage. The skin after treatment receives a healthy color and firmness.
Before starting the hardware procedure, the person needs to be prepared - steam it on a steam bath with healing herbs. Then you can turn on the device and start cleaning, watching the process in the mirror so as not to miss a centimeter. It is necessary to constantly make sure that the device glides freely on the skin without lingering in one place, otherwise red spots or bruises may appear.
After all the manipulations, the skin is soothing with any non-alcohol tonic or lotion and lubricated with a nourishing cream.
The optimal frequency of procedures is once every 5-7 days for problematic epidermis, three times a month for normal skin and twice a month for dry or sensitive skin.