In recent years, when the Internet has become popular, the term "skincare" has also become a very familiar phrase in daily life, especially with women's associations. Skincare simply understands skin care, but hidden deep inside it is a complex process that requires the performer to be extremely understanding of his skin. In this article, we will learn more about what is skincare? What does a skincare routine include?
What is Skincare?
Skincare is an English term, it means "skin care", usually mainly facial skin so in this article, we will only talk about facial skin care. Skincare can be understood simply as a general name for the human impact on the skin to make the skin beautiful from deep within with skin care products. Skincare is usually carried out according to specific steps and procedures (also known as skincare routine) to help keep skin healthy, acne-free, freckle-free, small pores, not sagging and finally new is bright white. Therefore, everyone's skincare motto is different and so is the skincare routine. Depending on what the end goal is, each person will choose for themselves the method as well as the appropriate skin care products.
What is a Skincare Routine?
Skincare routine means skin care process, this term refers to how you will take care of your face, including how many steps, which steps to use which skin care products... Because in the past, when it comes to Skin care, we often only think of applying lotion at night before going to bed and in the morning before going out. Those who are very careful, add one more step of sun protection and you're done.
However, the cosmetic industry today has been developing rapidly, brands have focused on researching and producing products that have a deeper impact on skin cells, helping you to care more deeply. Therefore, a skincare routine also appears to specify a skin care routine to help achieve high efficiency.
Usually, a basic skin care routine will include 3 steps
Cleaning
Cleansing in skincare routine is understood as all activities that act on the skin to remove dirt, bacteria, cosmetic residues, dead skin... We often think of cleansing as washing our face with a cleanser. face but in skincare, things are not so simple. Cleansing step in skincare can include many other small steps such as makeup removal, face wash, exfoliation, facial steaming, toner... Depending on each skin type and each person's skin care purposes, the steps do Clean skin every day will have different changes.
Intensive care
In basic skincare, the intensive care step will usually only include the use of serums and moisturizers. However, with different skin conditions, the products used in this step will also have many differences.
For example, people with normal, acne-free skin who just need a simple moisturizer can just use a moisturizer. But people with dry to extremely dry skin, who want to deeply moisturize so that the skin does not become dull, they also need to use a moisturizing serum, a moisturizer. If anyone has dark circles under their eyes, they also need to use eye cream...
In general, at this step, each person will also have their own skincare routine depending on their characteristics and skin problems.
Sun protection
If the above two skin care steps, each person will have their own skincare routine, then in this step, surely those who have been and are currently skincare cannot be ignored. Sunscreen is an extremely important step in skincare, it determines whether you perform the previous skin care steps effectively or not. Because the sun is the "hero" of the skin, it will destroy skin cells, causing the skin to darken, wrinkle and easily suffer from skin diseases, including skin cancer.
Skin care is when you are nurturing and cherishing your skin cells, but then if you do not sunscreen, protect that carefully cared for skin, the sun will once again hurt them. And this time, the weak skin cells that are used to being "cuddled" will definitely be damaged more severely and make your skin condition much worse than before.
Reading this far, there will be many of you wondering if such complicated and confusing skincare steps follow certain principles? Yes of course. Skincare wants to be effective, there must be certain principles. If you want to know what those principles are, follow us in the next part of the article!