DRY SKIN TEST
Your skin is dehydrated if you answer YES to at least 3 out of 5 questions.
- After washing with water, you immediately need a cream.
- There is a feeling of dryness and tightness.
- At times, the skin becomes sensitive.
- You have reduced skin turgor (saturation of skin cells with water). If you pinch the skin under the cheekbone with your fingers for 2-3 seconds, and then release it, it will not return to its original position instantly, but only after a couple of seconds.
- Oily sheen is present at times or constantly.
Now answer this question: “Given between a rich, thick cream and a light moisturizing fluid, which would your skin prefer?”
- The fattest cream you will find in the store.
- Light texture for immediate hydration.
You definitely have dehydrated skin if you chose answer #2 without hesitation!
10 Causes of Dehydration
- Lack of fluids to drink during the day.
- Improper care – strong degreasing with detergents and too frequent exfoliation.
- Destruction of the lipid barrier, hyaluronic acid and collagen framework by ultraviolet.
- Oxidation of the lipid barrier by smog.
- Poor sleep and stress.
- Lack of essential fatty acids in the diet.
- Lack of vitamins and minerals.
- Lack of estrogen.
- Very low ambient humidity – below 20%.
- Lack of movement and, as a result, a slowdown in overall metabolism.
Proper care for dehydrated skin
“Care” is not only cosmetics. You can achieve a sustainable positive result by applying an integrated approach – connect changes in diet and habits to the right cosmetics.
- We maintain water balance with alginate masks. They themselves give a lot of water to the skin during the plasticization process and help deliver a large amount of hyaluronic acid there if we apply it under the mask.
- Protect your skin from ultraviolet radiation in summer.
- Protect your skin throughout the day with anti-smog antioxidants. Tonics and antioxidant creams will help you – creams with a large list of extracts or with specific antioxidants.
- We begin to feed the skin with creams that contain oils with a high percentage of Omega-3 and-9: evening primrose, blackcurrant seeds, camelina (borage), hemp , etc.
- To quickly restore the lipid barrier, we introduce cosmetics with phospholipid-glycolipid complexes into care .
- We use cosmetics with moisture-retaining components – hyaluronic acid, betaine, chitosan, algae extracts, gums, etc.
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Nutrition
- We begin to monitor the amount of water entering our body with food.
- We eat nuts and add unrefined virgin vegetable oils to the diet to get enough essential fatty acids.
- We eat a lot of vegetables and fruits – this is both the normalization of the vitamin and mineral balance, and the influx of antioxidants into all tissues.
habits
- We move a lot in the fresh air.
- Setting up quality sleep.
- After 30 years, we periodically visit an endocrinologist.
House
- During the heating period, it is useful to acquire a humidifier.
To quickly bring dehydrated skin back to normal, it is important, firstly, to make a “diagnosis” in time, and secondly, to use products suitable for this skin condition. Follow the simple guidelines suggested in this article and your reflection in the mirror will delight you with the smoothness, nourishment and firmness characteristic of healthy skin!
