Spring skin care for face

Each of the seasons makes its own imprint on the condition of our facial skin. Negative factors affect not only its appearance, but also affect the internal structure. Therefore, in order to eliminate the effects of negative factors, careful and regular skin care is required. Spring skin care has a number of features. About them and will be discussed in this article.

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Face skin condition in the spring

Strange as it may seem, but in spring, when the nature begins to come to life, the skin of the face is going through far from the best times:

• After a cold and gloomy winter, when the sun is practically absent, it becomesinanimate and dull. In addition, it increases sensitivity, as a result of which the first sun rays for it become a real blow, because of which small cracks appear on it.
• After winter, an ugly greasy shine often appears, because the skin has not been properly cleaned, the pores in it are clogged. Because of this, inflammation, dryness and tiredness can also occur.
• Even a slight impact of the spring wind can aggravate the situation, causing irritation and peeling.

Important! It should be remembered that in winter, the person, like no other part of the body, was exposed to temperature changes( from home to street, and vice versa), and this is a very serious stress.

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Basic stages of facial care

The spring season, like any other period, requires us to have regular and regular skin care. To properly care for the skin in the spring, you should divide everything into 4 stages:

1. Cleansing.
2. Humidification.
3. Power.
4. Protection.

For each of these stages you can choose not only the most suitable for the effect and price means, but also ways of leaving.

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The first stage. Skin cleansing

The first stage is the most important process, especially in the spring, and this is due to the fact that after winter cold, depleted, rough, dry skin tissues should be cleaned of a layer of keratinized cells. Only after the cleaning procedure can begin the next stages of skin care in the spring. Returning to the skin tenderness, smoothness and velvety will help the following ways of impact.

Deep cleansing

Carrying out the spring skin care for the face, select the means for deep cleansing according to the type of your skin, as well as its condition. In cosmetic clinics or beauty salons you can be offered two types of cleaning:

• Ultrasound, which involves polishing the skin - it is carried out for surface cleaning.
• Mechanical, aimed at a deeper effect - it removes acne and subcutaneous comedones.

At home, you can do:

• Peeling - helps to restore the skin, removing dead cells and the contents of skin pores. Peeling can be different: often girls resort to a procedure with the use of fruit acids. The duration of such a session, as a rule, is 20 minutes. After the procedure, a cream with a high protection factor is applied to the skin. It is recommended to conduct it before the advent of the active sun( until mid-March).
• Scrub - to avoid injury to the epidermis, select scrubs should be very carefully. Holders of dry or normal skin can apply scrubs only after applying a nutrient and moisturizing mask. Ideally, everything should be like this: a nutritious mask in the evening - cleaning in the morning.

Important! To establish the correct spring care for the skin of the face, you should use the scrub not more than once a week.

• Gommage - this procedure helps to remove the top layer of the skin to improve the appearance and structure of the tissue. This - one of the types of peeling, but since the gommage does not contain solid particles, it turns with the epidermis much more carefully, but exposing it to chemical attack. Cleaning is due to the constituent chemicals( fruit acids).Such care ideally approaches or suits in the spring for sensitive, thin, withering and dry skin. Frequency of application: with dry and normal skin - no more than a couple of times a week, with oily and combination - can be 3 times a week.

Important! Any of the procedures for cleaning the upper layer of the epidermis leads to the launch of restoration of intracellular tissue processes. If you have dry skin, then it is recommended to do exfoliation twice a month, and if combined, normal and oily, every week.

Cleaning in the morning and before going to bed

In the morning, wash your face with preferably boiled water or pre-prepared infusions and herbal decoctions. Prepare these infusions or decoctions can be made from parsley, chamomile, mint. You can also use ice cubes that are made from these same broths. Wipe your face with dice massage.

In the morning in spring skin care, turn on toning. Tonics should not contain alcohol. In the evening, make sure to remove makeup, using for cleansing cosmetics, also excluding alcohol.

Dry type skin dryers are recommended to use cosmetic milk for cleansing, and after each washing apply a nourishing cream. If you have combined skin, then to clean it, use foam or gels for washing.

Important! The cleansing stage in the spring should be particularly delicate, since any type of skin, even fatty skin, is very sensitive during this period. Therefore, it is better to give preference to non-aggressive, natural cosmetic products. Not badly recommended home cosmetics, which we will talk about a little lower.

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Second stage. Moisturizing

To properly care for the face skin in the spring, you need to replace a dense winter cream with light moisturizing cosmetic products. These drugs should be in the form of a gel containing minerals, vitamins, proteins, as well as fruit acids. Together with purchased creams include home-made masks.

Important! Moisturizing cream for oily skin should be water-based, and for dry-on oily.

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Third stage. Power

At this stage it is desirable to use homemade fruit, vegetable, honey, sour-milk masks for the face. If you apply this cosmetics regularly, your facial skin will quickly fill with nutrients and recover from the inside.

Important! These masks apply in the evening, after a deep cleansing of the skin, to increase the permeability and concentration of beneficial nutrients in the skin.

For the skin to glow with health during the day, at night she needs peace and good food. Therefore, choosing a night cream, be sure to carefully study its composition and applicability specifically to your skin type. For example:

• Night cream for dry skin type in its composition must have vegetable oils: jojoba, avocado, apricot, almond.
• For a fatty type, night remedies should contain a minimum amount of fat, so it is better to use gels that include soothing ingredients, such as allantoin, bisabolol, calendula.
• For a normal type, select a liquid moisturizer.

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Fourth stage. Restoration and protection of

The first spring sun rays can provoke rashes, cracks on the skin, so for proper care it is necessary to use cosmetic products that contain ascorbic and nicotinic acids, vitamin C. And in order to protect the gentle face from exposure to ultraviolet rays, cosmetics need to be selectedone that has high sun filters with an index of at least 25.

Important! If the sun has already left a "mark" on your face, then to wipe your face, use cosmetics made with lemon, birch or cucumber juice. Then you can get rid of unwanted pigmentation in a short time.

Protection and restoration of the epidermis includes not only superficial moisturizing and nutrition, but also restoring your whole body from the inside. It is achieved by a balanced diet, as well as a correctly calculated drinking regimen. In the diet should certainly include:

• More fresh fruits and vegetables. Nuts, greens.
• Natural vegetable oils and sour-milk products.

In the spring it is very good to take a vitamin complex, while it is desirable to reduce the consumption of sweet, fatty and floury.

Important! Adhere to the correct drinking regime: during the day try to drink at least two liters of liquid. Only in this way you will be able to establish the correct spring care for the skin of the face, and also to improve the body in general.

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Home cosmetic products

The modern store range of cosmetics is very rich, but, unfortunately, not always purchased cosmetics consists only of natural ingredients. Therefore, in the spring for especially sensitive skin care is better spent with use of house cosmetics which, as a rule, consists of the checked up products safe for an unprotected skin. We offer you some simple and effective recipes.

Exfoliating Vitamin Mask

You will need:

• ½ pulp of grapefruit.
• 20 ml of olive oil.

How to use:

1. Whisk the ingredients with a blender until a uniform mash.
2. Apply mass to the skin of the face.
3. Leave the mask on for 15-20 minutes.
4. Rinse the mask with massage using water at room temperature.

Gommage for sensitive and dry skin

You will need:

• Kefir.
• Sour cream.

Important! Products should be used in equal proportions - the fatter, the better.

Method of use:

1. Kefir and sour cream whisk until smooth.
2. Apply mask on face evenly.
3. Allow it to dry.
4. Rinse gommage with massaging movements.

Mask for oily skin

You will need:

• 2 tablespoons oat flakes.
• 10 g of white cosmetic clay.
• 10 grams of chamomile flowers.
• Hydrogen peroxide solution in the ratio 1: 3.

How to use:

1. Crush oatmeal into large crumbs.
2. Mix chopped flakes with chamomile and clay.
3. Pour the mixture with a prepared solution of hydrogen peroxide, mix thoroughly.
4. Apply face mask on face.
5. Leave the mask for 10-15 minutes.
6. Flush the face with massage.

Whitening mask

You will need:

• 2 tablespoons of potato starch.
• ½ medium-sized pulp of lemon.

Mix the ingredients, apply the product on the skin for 10 minutes. Then rinse the product, apply a moisturizer on your face.

Mask for nourishing skin and whitening freckles

You will need:

• ½ fresh banana.
• 1 tablespoon of fresh milk.
• 4 drops of lemon juice.

How to use:

1. Cut a half of a banana.
2. Mix the mashed banana with milk.
3. Add lemon juice to the mixture.
4. Apply mask to face, leave for 15-20 minutes.
5. Rinse the mixture off the face with warm water.

Important! Spring skin care can mean fighting with freckles. For these purposes, suitable: lemon juice, parsley juice, as well as a mask made from egg white, carrot juice and cucumber. You can cook a parsley broth( pour 1 bundle with boiling water, and after 30 minutes drain), then once a day wipe the skin with an ice cube of decoction or just chilled broth.

Nourishing mask

You will need:

• 2 tablespoons of fatty cottage cheese.
• 2 tablespoons of milk.
• 1 teaspoon of honey.

How to use:

1. Combine warm milk with cottage cheese.
2. Add the honey to the mixture, mix thoroughly.
3. Apply on face, leave for 15 minutes.
4. Wash with warm boiled or filtered water.

Universal nutritional mask

You will need:

• Med.
• Olive oil.
• Ground oatmeal.
• Lemon juice.

How to use:

1. Mix all ingredients until a uniform mash.
2. Apply the mask for 15 minutes on face.
3. Wash off with filtered or boiled warm water.

Mask for problem and inflamed skin

You will need:

• Egg white.
• 1 tablespoon spinach leaves.

How to use:

1. Grind the spinach leaves in a blender.
2. Grind the spinach with the beaten egg whites.
3. Apply mask for 15 minutes on face.
4. Rinse with cool water.

Nettle masks

Nettles are used not only to strengthen and grow hair. Also with the help of nettle it is possible to carry out spring skin care of the face, making it a mask.

Important! Nettle is an excellent multivitamin agent, because it is twice as much ascorbic acid as in black currant and even lemon. In addition, this herb contains vitamins( K, E, B) and trace elements( iron, calcium, copper, magnesium).

To care for the skin in the spring, using nettles, choose one of the options presented:

• Option No. 1: Crush the fresh leaves of the nettle into the slurry, mix them with the liquid honey. Apply mask to face for 20 minutes. Then rinse with warm water.
• Option number 2: Chopped nettle leaves should be poured with warm milk and let stand for 20 minutes. Next, add: for dry skin type - half of the mixed yolk, for fatty - protein. Mix everything well and apply the mask on your face for 20 minutes. Then rinse the product with boiled warm water.

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Useful advices:

• To avoid the appearance of freckles, you should get used to the sun gradually, starting at 15-20 minutes. From the bright spring sun, cover your face with a wide-brimmed hat or umbrella.
• To prevent the occurrence of freckles, you can drink half a glass of freshly squeezed, slightly sweetened cabbage juice every day. If you do not want to squeeze the juice, then you can eat on an empty stomach in the morning and in the evening 2-3 tablespoons of sauerkraut.
• In order to revitalize the skin in the morning, do wipe with an ice cube made from mineral water. Do not make this procedure long. And after the procedure, do not wipe your face with a towel, but gently blot.
• The skin around the eyes also requires attention. To eliminate swelling and bags under the eyes, make compresses from tea bags.
• The best cosmetologist is a healthy dream. Take the time you need to sleep, and your skin will look much better.
• To protect your eyes from the early appearance of wrinkles, and the delicate skin around the eyes from pigmentation, try to put on sunglasses as soon as summer bright sun rays begin to appear.
• Do not forget about the rejuvenating and restoring properties of the bath. Hiking in a Russian sauna on firewood is a wonderful tool for cleaning and restoring the entire body.
• Cleansing, nutrition, and moisturizing are necessary procedures not only for the face, but for the whole body in general. Body care should be comprehensive.
• Do not forget to pay attention to the coarse skin of heels, elbows, and also the state of your hands.

As you may have noticed, taking care of the skin in the spring is not so easy. It takes a lot of time and effort. But this withdrawal is necessary to maintain a good skin condition, thereby, caring for its future, prolonging its health and attractiveness. Therefore, do not treat facial skin care negligently. Carry out daily care, and then it will not only be beautiful, but also healthy for real.