As is known, in many women between the ages of 20 and 45 years, facial skin is classified as combined. This, as a rule, is dry in some places, and in some places it is a fatty skin. Observe the very easy and affordable rules for the proper care of combination skin. This will help you to have a beautiful and well-groomed face.
Proper care for this type of skin? must necessarily include thorough cleansing of the skin. First and foremost, this means that your facial skin care should include daily cleansing of the skin from secretions of sebum and dust, which per day falls on your face and settles there. To do this, you need to wash every evening with special cosmetic products, which are designed to care for combination skin. It is necessary to wash yourself with cool water, as it refreshes the skin of the face and gives it a noticeable elasticity. Strongly it is not recommended for washing to use hard water. To avoid contact of hard water with your skin, it must first boil or simply pour into it one-fourth of a spoon of conventional baking soda.
By the way, combined skin is also not recommended to wash with normal soap. This can lead to an unpleasant feeling of dryness, burning or tightness. The best way out of this situation is if you start to wash with baby soap. Believe me, you will certainly feel a positive result. Immediately after you have washed your face and, while your skin is still slightly damp, use your fingertips, lightly massage your face with a small amount of cream to care for the combination skin. So you will compensate your skin for the natural grease lost to it during washing.
In addition to children's soaps and cosmetics, we recommend that you prepare special solutions for effective skin cleansing. Their recipes are very simple and do not require the use of huge efforts in cooking. These compounds will provide a gentle and decent care for your skin.
1. Cucumber infusion.
We take one fresh cucumber and rub it on a very small grater, after which the resulting gruel is poured with an equal amount of alcohol. The resulting solution is put to infuse, for about fourteen days. After this period we take already a fixed solution and wring out the pulp, and let the liquid pass through a fine sieve. Even before use, this solution is recommended to dilute with an equal amount of boiled water. The last step in preparing this infusion will be adding to it five grams of glycerin, about 100 grams of this infusion.
2. A solution of lemon juice.
Take the lemon and cut it into two equal parts, then squeeze out the juice from one half and let it through a fine sieve. Then mix the lemon juice with 50 grams of boiled water and one teaspoon of glycerin. That's all, our cleanser is ready for use.
3. A solution of honey.
Take one tablespoon of honey and one teaspoon of glycerin and fill these two ingredients with one third of the boiled water, mix thoroughly. Then add one tablespoon of 40% vodka to the resulting solution and put it for a couple of hours. Our solution is ready for use.
These solutions need to wipe the face every day, before going to bed.
Every morning, try to wash your face with cold water, this will create an astringent effect and strengthen, making the skin more hardy. Before leaving the house, be sure to apply a powder or foundation on the skin, which will protect the skin from the adverse effects of the environment.
Also, the proper care for this type of skin includes special masks. So, masks for the care of combination skin.
1. Mask made of food gelatin.
Take one teaspoon of gelatin and mix it with two teaspoons of boiled water. After that, we wait, when gelatin swells, getting the expected result, put our already swollen gelatin on the steam bath and begin adding ingredients such as fresh milk (one tablespoon) and talc (one teaspoon) into it. Then we mix everything very carefully until we get a monotonous liquid mass. Our mask is ready for use. Before applying it on your face, it is recommended to lubricate the face with a noticeable layer of a nutritious cream. Then you can safely proceed with the application of the mask. This mask should not be kept for a long time, therefore, as soon as you feel that it has begun to dry up, immediately remove it from your face with a cotton swab dipped in hot water. After that, wash the face of the person initially warm, and then with cold water, and wipe dry with a towel.
2. Mask of horseradish and yeast.
We take one tablespoon of fresh yeast, pre-very carefully kneading them. And pour these yeast with two teaspoons of fresh milk, begin to diligently mix until you get a monotonous mass, resembling sour cream. After that, take the root of the horse-radish and rub it on a very small grater, from the resulting gruel we collect one tablespoon of already grated horseradish and add to yeast and milk. The final stage in the preparation of this mask will be its careful mixing. After that, you can safely proceed with the application of the mask. This mask should be kept on the face for about 15 minutes, after which it is recommended to wash it off with water at room temperature. The horseradish and yeast mask is a very effective tonic for the combined skin type.
These two face masks are recommended to be done once a week, on the previously cleaned skin of the face.