Concerns about beauty and health during the hot season are fundamentally different in a number of points from similar concerns during the cold season. For example, the summer sun, especially the southern one, is so energetic that the face under its rays begins to actively gleam with excess lipids. Only dry skin avoids such an attack – it does not lose its matte nobility all year round, and in any climatic zone.
But do not get discouraged because of the overactive sebaceous glands.
Skin prone to oily content also has a number of advantages: it is dense, elastic, resistant to climatic aggression, including ultraviolet, so all sorts of wrinkles, vascular networks and other age-related troubles overtake it much later than the more refined and refined integuments.
And there are a great many opportunities to control the activity of the sebaceous glands.
Let’s start with taking care from the inside: an excess of fatty, sweet, fried, smoked, salty and spicy will not lead to anything good, but a lot of fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs, low-fat sour milk products, green and mint tea, mineral water (at least 1, 5 liters per day), brewer’s yeast and B vitamins will give the most positive results.
In the friendly list, you can safely include the healthy habit of eating animal proteins (meat, fish, poultry) with green vegetables: green beans, lettuce, broccoli, etc., and not with potatoes. Moreover, these preferences will have a positive effect not only on the skin, but also on the silhouette and mood.
Cosmetic care products are selected taking into account the solution to the main problems of skin with excess fatty mantle: unattractive shine, enlarged pores, comedones and acne. Preference is given to “fluid” and a light gel texture, not thick creams, be sure to include in the program tonics or lotions and exfoliants .
All preparations should contain components that suppress the activity of the sebaceous glands (matting), cleanse the skin surface and pores from the remnants of their hyper-activity , neutralize inflammation and moisturize.
Traditionally, these include essential oils of tea tree, sage, mint (T- zone , Guam ); plant extracts: citrus fruits ( Mia , Herbina ), cucumbers and tomatoes ( Faberlic ), green tea (Mirra Lux), aloe vera ( Tom Robinn ), fucus ( Green Mama ), witch hazel ( Biotherm ); salicylic acid ( L`Oreal ); zinc compounds ( Payot ); cereal bran ( Kholinka ); vegetable acids ( Nuxe ).
Separately, I would like to sing a laudatory ode to the seemingly base, but irreplaceable gifts of nature in the fight against oily sheen and pimples: clay and mud. They loyally and selflessly cleanse the skin from excess fat to the entire depth of the pores, prevent the formation of new lipid surpluses,
soothe inflammation, revitalize the metabolism, accelerate redox processes, and dissolve scars and wrinkles. Here!
Of all the varieties of clays, the activity of the sebaceous glands is best controlled by green ( Decleor ), white Chinese or kaolin ( Manhattan , Cellcosmet ), blue or bentonite and black ( PolyService- M). Almost all of the therapeutic muds are suitable: thermal or peloid ( Styx ), sea ( Doctor Natur , Ahava ), lake ( Florizel ), etc.
Masks from these worthy earthly components are applied 1-2 times a week on previously cleansed skin of the face, excluding the eye area, which is also better not to be left unattended and used with applications from cotton pads soaked in mineral water or weak black tea.
The mask is left on the face for 15-20 minutes, as it dries, it must be moistened (either with wet hands
or with water using a spray) so that it does not draw moisture directly from the skin.
The main danger that lies in wait for the fighter with lipid problems is the reckless use of matting and drying capabilities. Abuse in this area leads to dehydration of the skin, which provokes even greater activity of its sebaceous glands.
Here’s a list of unfriendly grooming practices:
Excessive exposure to direct sunlight, especially in the middle of the day.
too frequent washing;
too hard scrubs;
cosmetic preparations containing alcohol.
But skin moisturizing is allowed without restrictions. Having intimate knowledge, you can keep your beauty image pure and immaculate – all year round.