How to perform a perfect skin cleansing in 7 steps

To have beautiful and healthy skin, it is It is essential to introduce a facial cleansing ritual into our day-to-day life.

Although we should cleanse our skin twice a day (in the morning and at night), it is also important to perform some kind of somewhat more intensive routine once a week. If you want to know how to do it correctly, we will tell you step by step below.

Skin cleansing in 7 steps

For those days when you have a little more time to dedicate to caring for your face:

1. Remove makeup

We begin our skin cleansing removing any possible remains of makeup, paying special attention to the eyes and lashes, where mascara and eye-liner they tend to show more resistance to leaving.

You can use cleansing wipes that are used for the entire face, including the eye area. Although the most advisable thing is to resort to a make-up remover for eyes with azulene that can be applied with cotton pads, as well as to use a cleansing milk with which to massage the rest of the skin. To remove it you can use a special damp sponge for cleaning the face.

2. Steam your face

The next step is to dilate the pores, in order to continue cleaning the skin in a more thorough way. To do this, we will expose our face to a source of steam.

If we have a vaporizer at home, both those used for cosmetics and those that serve to moisten the environment (but without adding essential oils), great. Pere if this is not the case, don't worry. Simply bring a little water to the boil in a saucepan and then remove it.

Being careful not to burn yourself, position your face so that the steam reaches it and keep it there for about 10 minutes. If you also place an open towel covering your head during that time, you will increase the effects.

3. Blackhead extraction

After the steam bath and with dilated and open pores, it is the ideal time to be able to remove dirt and grease more easily that clogs some pores creating unsightly blackheads.

If we look closely, these are mainly concentrated in the area of ​​the nose and in the center of the forehead and the chin, although you can also find them dotted around the cheeks and some scattered in other areas of the face.

Unclogging pores is essential if you want your beauty treatment to be more effective. All you have to do is apply a little pressure to these points to make them come out, but without insisting too much so as not to cause marks on the skin.

4. Exfoliate the skin by peeling

When we use an exfoliant, we not only manage to unclog the pores that we had managed to dilate with steam, but we also achieve renew the outermost layer of the skin, since dead cells that prevented the regeneration of skin cells are eliminated

To perform the peeling, you can use an exfoliating gel that is suitable for your skin type or prepare it at home. If you opt for the latter, mix a tablespoon of natural yogurt and three tablespoons of sugar equally as full in a small bowl. If your skin is very dry, you can add a dessert teaspoon of olive oil to this mixture.

Mix the ingredients and apply it with the fingertips on the skin, avoiding the area around the eyes and massaging in small circles mainly in the T zone (forehead, nose and chin). If the texture seems not very grainy, you can increase the proportion of sugar to enhance the effect.

Remove the cream with warm water and dry with a soft towel without rubbing, with small pressure on different areas of the face.

5. Intensive mask

When the skin cleansing reaches this point, we could say that with this step we make a parenthesis as regards cleaning and we focus on treating it deeply.

What do we mean by this? That we will take advantage of the fact that the skin is so receptive at this time that, whatever product we use now to treat it, it will act more intensely.

Therefore, we will choose a mask that serves to take care of those peculiarities of our skin; regulate fat production, treat blemishes, nourish it with a revitalizing complex, regenerate ...

Apply it all over the face or in specific areas and let it act for the recommended time according to each case. If it is necessary to remove it, do it as indicated, it is usually enough to rinse the skin well with warm water and dry gently.

So we close this parenthesis to treat the skin and we will continue with the next step of our skin cleansing.

6. Apply a toner

It is a simple but important step, since we have kept our pores open for quite some time. Now is the time to contract them for restore skin tone and prevent them from being exposed to dirt outside and clogging them.

You can apply them by pressing (without dragging) on ​​the skin with a cotton well soaked in a tonic or apply it by spraying it with a spray. Let it air dry before proceeding to the last step.

7. Moisturize the skin

And with this last step of the ritual we proceed to the perfect closing of the skin cleansing: hydration of the face.

We will apply a sufficient amount of moisturizer according to the type of skin that we have; oily, dry, mixed, for mature skin ...

We will massage thoroughly to ensure that the cream is well absorbed while activating circulation. If later we want to start putting on makeup, we will wait about 5 minutes before doing it.

Given how simple it is to follow the 7 steps of our skin cleansing, now you have no excuse not to do this little but essential beauty ritual on regular basis. Surely this way you will be able to keep your skin healthier, cleaner and more beautiful for much longer.