Start With a Clean Face - Types of Skin Cleansers, Techniques and Tools

A clean face is a beautiful face, and using the right type of skin cleanser can help maintain that beautiful face. Whether you have oily, dry, or combination skin, there's a product out there just for you. When reading the following, keep in mind that Dermatologists recommend avoiding using bar soap on any skin type.

1. Dry skin:

a. Try using a mild, soap-free cleanser with moisturizer. 
b. Look for Lipid-free cleansers that contain glycerin, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, sodium laurel and sulfate. 
c. Cleansing creams containing water, mineral oil, petrolatum and waxes not only cleanse the face but also help remove makeup. 
d.Cleansing milk gently cleanses the skin and helps to restore and replace lost moisture and natural oils.

2. Oily skin:

a. A foaming wash cleans the skin without stripping the natural and essential oils from your face. 
b. Use products with mild ph-neutral or acidic syndets (synthetic detergent-based bars or liquids).

3. Combination skin:

a. A gel-based cleanser helps to gently cleanse the skin without having a harsh, drying effect. 
b. Use products that contain glycerin, which draws moisture to the skin.

After you have found the perfect cleanser, follow these tips for a healthy, glowing face:

1. Use warm water to cleanse your face. Avoid too hot or too cold of water as they irritate the skin. Then rinse your face with cool water to help tighten your pores.

2. Exfoliate your skin to remove dead skin cells. 
- Oily or combination skin: 4 or 5 times a week, after you cleanse. 
- Dry skin or sensitive skin: exfoliate once or twice a week. 
- Mature or sun-damaged skin: use hydroxies 
- Exfoliate more in the summer as your dead skin cells stick together and coat your skin.

3. Moisturize: Even if you have oily skin, it's important to moisturize daily.

Aside from finding the right cleanser, and cleansing properly, there are cleansing tools to help make the process easier along the way.

1. Skin brushes: Stimulate the lymphatic system to eliminate toxins through the skin, improve circulation and remove dead skin cells and debris that clog pores.

2. Contrast shower: Helps bring nutrients, oxygen and immune cells to damaged and stressed tissues, and carries away metabolic waste, inflammatory by-products and other toxic substances. Begin your contrast shower with three minutes of hot water followed by a little under one minute of cold water. Repeat at least once, always finishing with cold.

3. Scrubs: Cleanses and exfoliates. People with sensitive skin should not use harsh, abrasive scrubs containing aluminum oxide particles and ground fruit pits. Try using a mild facial scrub that contains polyethylene beads or sodium tetraborate decahydrate granules.

4. Face cloths: You've got to love the latest way to cleanse your face with these ever-handy cloths that cleanse and exfoliate. For sensitive skin use loose, open-weave. For oily skin use tight or closed-weave cloths.

5. Peels: First applied to the face and neck and left to dry, peels are then rubbed or peeled gently off the skin. Some peels now contain an enzyme, which is beneficial to people with sensitive skin.

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