Face skin care in the spring

Over the long winter, we get tired of frost, cold and snow, and look forward to the most beautiful time of the year - spring. It is so pleasant to change heavy clothes to lighter and more elegant, to substitute a face for the tender spring sun, to rejoice insanely and enjoy the bright colors of nature. During this period, along with nature, I want to bloom myself, but after winter winds, temperature changes and a lack of vitamins, the body requires enhanced protection and recovery. That's why facial skin care in spring should be especially gentle and balanced.

After winter, the protective layer of the skin becomes thinner, it looks dull, gray, dry skin becomes rough, and oily - becomes inflamed. An active spring sun makes wrinkles and emerging freckles more visible. To meet the spring rays fully equipped, we will consider in more detail all the stages of face care and draw up a full-fledged spring diet for skin tissues.

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The main stages of facial care in the spring

The spring period, like any other season, requires regular and proper skin care from us. The process itself consists of 4 stages:

1. Cleaning up.
2. Moisturizing.
3. Food.
4. Protection.

For each of these procedures, you can choose not only the most suitable products for the price and effect on your skin, but also care methods.

Stage number 1. Skin cleansing

The first stage is the most important process, especially in the spring, due to the fact that after winter colds, depleted, dry, rough skin tissues must be cleaned of a layer of dead cells. Only after the cleansing procedure, you can proceed to the next stages of facial skin care in the spring.

To restore the skin velvety and smoothness will help these methods of exposure.

Deep cleansing of the epidermis

Carrying out skin care in the spring, choose a deep cleanser in accordance with the type of your skin and its condition. In beauty salons or cosmetic clinic offer two types of cleansing:

1. Ultrasonic Includes skin resurfacing and is used for surface cleansing.
2. Mechanical Aimed at a deeper effect, removes subcutaneous comedones and acne.

At home, you can do:

1. Peeling. Helps restore skin by removing dead cells and skin pores. Peeling can be different: most often resort to the procedure using fruit acids. The duration of this procedure is 20 minutes. After peeling, the skin is covered with a cream with a high coefficient of protection. We recommend peeling before the active sun (until mid-March).
2. Scrub. To avoid injury to the skin, very carefully pick up scrubs. Owners of normal or dry skin can apply scrub only after applying a moisturizing and nourishing mask. Ideally, it should look like this: a nourishing mask in the evening - cleansing in the morning. In order to establish proper facial care in the spring, you need to use a scrub no more than 2 times a week.
3. Gommage is a procedure for removing the upper layer of skin in order to improve the structure and appearance of tissues. This is one of the types of peeling, but since the gommage does not contain solid particles, it treats the skin much more carefully, without subjecting it to mechanical stress. Cleansing occurs due to chemical active substances (fruit acids), which are part of the product. This facial treatment is ideal in spring for thin, sensitive, dry, aging skin.Frequency of use: with combination and oily skin - up to 3 times a week, with normal and dry skin - no more than 1-2 times a week.

Important! All procedures for cleansing the upper layer of the skin lead to the launch of regenerative intracellular tissue processes. With dry skin, it is recommended to exfoliate twice a month, and with normal combination and oily - weekly.

Cleansing in the morning and before bedtime

It is better to wash yourself with boiled water or cooked decoctions and infusions of herbs. You can prepare infusions or decoctions of mint, chamomile, parsley. You can also use ice cubes made from decoctions. Wipe your face with massage cubes.

In the morning, be sure to include toning in your facial skin care. Tonics should not contain alcohol. In the evening, be sure to remove makeup, to cleanse the face, use cosmetics that exclude alcohol.

For owners of dry skin, we recommend using cosmetic milk for cleansing, and after each interaction with water, apply a nourishing cream. If the skin is combination, then use gels or cleansing foams to cleanse.

Important! The cleansing stage in the spring should be especially delicate, since any skin, even oily, is very sensitive during this period. Therefore, give preference to natural, non-aggressive cosmetics. Well-established home cosmetics, which we will discuss below.

Stage number 2. Moisturizing

Change a thick winter cream to light moisturizing cosmetics. These products should be in the form of a gel, contain fruit acids, proteins, vitamins, as well as minerals. Along with industrial creams, incorporate homemade face masks into spring skin care.

Important! Moisturizing cream for dry skin should be made on an oil basis, and for oily - on a water basis.

Stage number 3. Food

At this stage, we recommend using homemade vegetable, fruit, sour milk, honey face masks. With the regular use of such cosmetics, the skin of the face will quickly replenish with nutrients and recover from the inside.

Important! Apply such masks in the evening, after deep cleansing of the skin, in order to maximize the permeability and concentration of nutrients in the skin.

For the skin to shine with health during the day, at night it needs peace and good nutrition. Therefore, when choosing a night cream, be sure to study its composition and applicability to a particular skin type. For example:

• night cream for dry skin should contain vegetable oils: almond, apricot, avocado, jojoba;
• for oily skin, the night cream should contain a minimum of fat, so it is better to use a gel-based cosmetic product that includes soothing components, such as calendula, bisabolol, alantonin.
• For normal skin, choose liquid moisturizers.

Stage number 4. Restoration and protection of skin tissues

The first autumn rays of the sun can cause cracks in the skin, rashes, therefore, in the spring, use cosmetic products containing nicotinic and ascorbic acids, Vitamin C to care for your skin. And to protect a tender face from ultraviolet radiation, choose cosmetics that have high sunscreens with an index not less than 25.

Important! If the “sun marks” have already settled on your face, then to wipe the skin, use homemade cosmetics prepared on cucumber, birch, lemon juice. Then in a short time you will get rid of unwanted pigmentation on the face.

Protection and restoration of the skin includes not only external hydration and tissue nutrition, but also the restoration of the entire body from the inside. It is achieved by a balanced diet, as well as the correct drinking regimen. Be sure to include in the diet:

• more fresh vegetables and fruits;
• greens, nuts;
• dairy products and natural vegetable oils.

In the spring it is advisable to take a vitamin-mineral complex, while do not get carried away with sweet, fatty and flour products.

Important! Stick to the drinking regime: try to drink at least 2 liters of liquid, preferably water, compotes, during the day. Only in this way will you be able to establish proper facial skin care in spring and improve your body as a whole.

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Home cosmetics

To date, the store's assortment of cosmetics is replete with variety, but, unfortunately, not all means of industrial production consist only of natural components. Therefore, in the spring for especially sensitive skin, face care is best done using home cosmetics consisting of proven products that are safe for delicate, unprotected skin. We offer you some effective and simple recipes.

Exfoliating Vitamin Mask

Ingredients:

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

Method of preparation and use:

1. Beat the ingredients with a blender until gruel forms.
2. Apply the prepared mask to the skin of the face.
3. Leave the mask for 15 minutes.
4. Rinse with cleaned water at room temperature.

Gommage for dry and sensitive skin

Ingredients:

• Sour cream.
• Kefir.

Use foods in equal proportions, the fatter the better.

Mode of application:

1. Beat sour cream and kefir until smooth.
2. Apply the product evenly on your face.
3. Let the mask dry.
4. Wash the gommage from the skin with massaging movements.

Mask for oily skin

Ingredients:

1. Oatmeal (2 tbsp. L.).
2. White cosmetic clay - 10 g.
3. Chamomile flowers - 10 g.
4. A solution of hydrogen peroxide in a ratio of 1: 3.

Mode of application:

1. Grind oatmeal into large crumbs.
2. Combine the crushed cereal with clay and chamomile.
3. Pour the dry mixture with the prepared hydrogen peroxide solution.
4. Stir the composition to the consistency of thick sour cream.
5. Apply the mask to your face.
6. Leave the mask for 10 minutes.
7. Wash the product from the skin with massaging movements.

Whitening face mask

Ingredients:

• Lemon - ½ pulp of fruit.
• Potato starch - 2 tbsp. l

Mix the ingredients and apply the mask on the skin. After 10 minutes, rinse and moisturize your face with cream.

Mask for whitening freckles and skin nourishment

Ingredients:

• Banana - ½.
• Fresh milk - 1 tbsp. l
• Lemon juice - 4 drops.

Mash a half of a banana and mix with a tablespoon of milk. Add 4 drops of lemon juice to the prepared mixture. Apply the mask on the face and leave for 15 minutes. Rinse with boiled water.

Important! To combat freckles, parsley juice, lemon juice, as well as a mask made from egg white, lemon, cucumber and carrot juice are suitable. You can prepare a parsley broth (pour 1 bunch of boiling water, and strain after 30 minutes), and then wipe your face several times a day with ice cubes from the broth or chilled broth.

Nourishing mask

Ingredients:

• Fat cottage cheese - 2 tbsp. l
• Milk - 2 tbsp. l
• Honey - 1 tsp

Combine the cottage cheese with warm milk. Add liquid honey to the mixture. Apply the composition on the face, and after 20 minutes, wash in warm filtered or boiled water.

Universal nourishing mask

Ingredients:

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

Using:

1. Mix the prepared ingredients until a paste-like consistency is formed.
2. Apply the mask for 15 minutes on the skin.
3. Rinse with warm, filtered water.

Mask for sore and problem skin

Ingredients:

• Spinach leaves - 1 tbsp. l
• Egg white.

Grind the spinach foxes and stir with beaten egg white. Apply the mask to the skin of the face and leave for 15 minutes, rinse with cool water.

Nettle masks

Nettle is used not only to strengthen and grow hair. In spring, it is necessary to cook cabbage soup and make masks from it. Nettle is a good multivitamin, since there are 2 times more ascorbic acid in it than in lemon and blackcurrant.In addition, such a valuable herb contains vitamins: K, E, B and trace elements: magnesium, copper, calcium, iron and others.

To provide facial skin care in spring with nettles, select one of the following methods:

1. Mask number 1. Pound fresh nettle leaves into pulp and mix with liquid honey. Apply the mask for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
2. Mask number 2. Pour the crushed nettle leaves with warm milk, let it brew for 20 minutes and add: for dry skin - half of the mixed yolk, for oily skin - protein. Mix everything and apply the mask for 20 minutes. Rinse off with warm water.

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Helpful hints:

• To prevent the appearance of freckles, get used to the sun gradually, starting from 15 minutes. From the bright spring sun, cover your face with an umbrella or a wide-brimmed hat.
• To prevent the appearance of freckles, drink ½ cup of freshly squeezed, sweetened cabbage juice every day. If you do not want to squeeze the juice, then eat on an empty stomach in the morning and in the evening 2-3 tbsp. l sauerkraut (or drink cabbage pickle).
• Prevents the appearance of freckles alternating dairy products with cabbage: in the morning, drink ⅓ tbsp. sour cabbage juice, and in the evening - a glass of milk or kefir.
• If you suffer from the appearance of freckles after winter, then in spring and summer peeling will not benefit you, since after the procedure the skin becomes susceptible to sunlight, which means that the opposite effect is possible - there will be more spots.
• To invigorate your skin, wipe in the morning with ice cubes made from mineral water. The procedure should not be long, do not wipe the face after wiping with a towel, but pat it dry.
• Pay attention to the skin around the eyes. To remove bags and swelling under the eyes, make compresses from tea bags.
• To protect your eyes from premature wrinkles, and the delicate skin around your eyes from pigmentation, wear sunglasses as soon as bright spring rays of the sun appear.
• The best beautician is sleep. A sweet and long dream will beautify better than the most refined makeup.
• Do not forget about the restoring and rejuvenating properties of the bath. A Russian wood-burning bath is the oldest folk remedy for cleansing and restoring the body.
• Cleansing, nutrition and hydration are necessary procedures not only for the face, but for the whole body. Body skin care should be comprehensive. Pay special attention to tonic components in cosmetics.
• Spring is the time for tonic and moisturizing baths. Add a few drops of essence or oil of orange, grapefruit to a warm bath. If you like to practice different remedies, use the Cleopatra bath recipe: add 1-1.5 liters of fat milk and 2-3 tbsp. To the bath l honey. After taking a bath, rinse your body with cool water. The skin will become smooth and velvety.
• Be sure to pay attention to the rough skin of the elbows, heels, as well as the condition of the hands. Use the above home cosmetics for the whole body.

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We hope that the tips and recipes from this article will help you look in the spring rejuvenated, rested, beautiful, full of energy. Spring mood for you!