Harmful tip №1. Wipe problem skin with alcohol-and more often

A great idea if you want to add oily shine, dryness and peeling to pimples and blackheads. Alcohol in high concentrations dries the skin too much and causes dehydration. The hydro-lipid balance is disturbed, it starts to feel “thirsty” and tries to compensate for the lack of moisture through the intensive work of the sebaceous glands. You end up with more problems.

Harmful Tip № 2. Flaky skin? Scrub!

Flaking is the ultimate in skin dehydration. The only way to get your skin back to normal is to moisturize it. Toners, moisturizing serums, masks, and creams can help. But not scrubs!

Scrubs have a different purpose: to exfoliate the stratum corneum and remove dead skin cells. It is better to use peeling pads, special discs with acids, delicate peels and scrubs with tiny particles resembling sand. Common scrubs with coarse abrasive particles scratch and traumatize the skin. Save them for exfoliating other parts of the body-legs, arms, and torso.

Harmful Tip №3. Wipe your face with micellar water and your skin will be clean

Micellar water is designed to remove makeup from your eyes, eyebrows and lips. No more than that. It is unable to dissolve tonal and powder products as only hydrophilic oils, creams and balms based on oils can do it. So it is hard to call your skin clean after micellar water alone. In addition, it is absolutely necessary to rinse the micellar water. If you use “micellar water,” you should always wash your face with foam or gel and only then go on to the main care.

By the way, South Korean cosmetics manufacturers rarely make micellar water – they just don’t see the point in it. The Korean system is based on a two-step skin cleansing system: demake-up with hydrophilic oil or removers and washing. Micellar water is not necessary here.

Harmful Tip №4. Give your skin a break from creams

This is a common sin for owners of oily and sensitive skin. It seems to them that their skin feels better without cream and other caring cosmetics. This is totally untrue.

Grooming products help your skin “work” properly, improve the metabolic process and cell regeneration. Without proper care, your skin will have to cope with everything on its own. At a young age, your skin can still put up with it, but after 25-30 years of age, help is REALLY needed. If makeup only makes you uncomfortable, it’s probably not the right cosmetic for your skin type or condition.

Harmful Tip №5. Found your perfect cream? Stay true to it for life!

No matter how much you like a certain product, don’t get attached to it. After a few months of using it regularly, it won’t have that magical effect. And it’s not just cosmetics. Your skin gets used to the same ingredients and gradually stops responding to them. That is why cosmetologists strongly recommend changing your entire skincare routine every three months. In addition, today there is such a huge range of cosmetics! Don’t you want to try something new?

Harmful Tip №6. Don’t use sunscreen-it’s bad for you!

Some of the chemical filters in sunscreens are understudied and can negatively affect your skin. It’s true. But the harm from ultraviolet radiation is still greater! The sun causes many times faster aging of the skin, pigment spots, and in some cases, cell mutations and melanoma. This, too, is true and has been proven many times by scientists. If you don’t believe it, read the article on the effects of UV rays on the skin.

Especially since there are mineral-based physical SPF filters available. They are perfectly safe for the skin and can be used even by children. The most common are titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. These substances do not penetrate the skin structure, and play the role of a kind of shield. Mineral filters create an invisible barrier on your skin that the sun’s rays cannot penetrate.

If you want to protect your skin from wrinkles and age spots, make sure you apply sunscreen before going out every day. In the winter and in cloudy weather, too!

Harmful Tip №7. Wipe sensitive skin with ice cubes

A pleasant coolness refreshes the skin and creates a natural blush. Except that for thin, sensitive skin (which is usually the target of this “valuable” tip), ice can give you a bright vascular network and red “stars. And it is much more difficult to fight the manifestations of couperose than to cause them.

Hazardous Tip №8. Cosmetics from the fridge according to grandma’s recipe – the best thing that can happen to your skin

After all, everything here is natural, and in the bottles from the store is only chemicals! And I don’t care if cosmetics are developed by professional chemists and dermatologists. Just put a cucumber on your face and that’s the result!

But seriously, these products are made to be eaten. But not to smear them on your face. At best, it will only have a short-term moisturizing effect. No fruit or vegetable, even crushed into a “mush”, will not penetrate into the deeper layers of the skin, but will simply lie on the surface. Usually this brings absolutely no result. Some products can easily cause irritation and itching. Among them, mustard, mayonnaise, and vegetable oil are especially popular

Harmful Tip №. 9. Do you want to grow your hair out? Put a lot of mustard and pepper on your head!

If it stings and burns, then it’s working! And burns on the scalp and hair loss – well, just a nuisance. Beauty requires sacrifice…

Remember, only products that have been specifically designed for it can be applied to your scalp, just like on your face. Save the products for dinner.

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