Hygiene Beaute

How to have the good hygiene gestures in your beauty routine?

Often when you start to be interested in cosmetics, you tend to buy and test several types of cosmetic care, under different categories and formats. We build up a first routine with care more or less suited to our skin. Indeed, when you are a beginner in the field, it will generally need several trials in order to find the cosmetics routine that will suit you in terms of efficiency, use and budget. Once installed in your bathroom, so you end up with care that you are not necessarily used to using, this is where is the problem: it is not enough to have A miracle product but also to know how to apply it.

Of the steps basic are to know and follow when it comes to using cosmetic products that will be in direct contact with your epidermis. This will avoid all types of inconvenience such as irritation, redness, allergies.

The base: clean hands

We will never repeat it enough, even outside the pandemic period, it is crucial before starting its routine (morning or evening) wash your hands. It is not a question of depositing additional bacteria on your skin, or decrease The action of care under your dirty hands. Rinse, clean and rub your hands, from wrist to palms to nails, this is often where the bacteria.

A detail that may seem trivial for some, but however very important: to remove your rings! Like your nails, rings hold back Bacteria and soap will not be able to do anything, so it is preferable that you remove them before any manipulation of your face.

Clean your face & body accessories

It may be that during your routine you use washable cottons (or not), face and body brushes, a jade roll-on or a Gua Sha for the most experienced.

First of all, with regard to cottons, we advise you to get reusable cottons that will be more eco-friendly when you know that on average a Frenchwoman would use more than 160,000 disposable cotton during his life ([Match] Washable cotton vs disposable cotton: the big comparison). Cotton cleansing wipes or Oeko Tex sponge fabric will do the trick. At Melāhuac, we are committed to reducing unnecessary waste in Washable wipes Bathrooms, which is why we offer washable multi-purpose wipes made by a team of Senegalese sewing paid at fair price in addition to having certification B-Corp (compliance with social and environmental standards). If you want to pass the milestone of reusable cottons, you will have to buy about 5 to be able to easily wash them and dry before reuse.

2 methods are available to you:

• Handwashing
  Moisten your cotton, use a Marseille soap before rubbing to leave various makeup and dirt stations. Rinse, redo the operation until no more tasks. Write down and allow to dry.

• Machine wash
  Machine washing with your conventional laundry, and for even more practicality you can store your cottons in washing nets so as not to lose them between sweaters and jeans.

Then you may have joined the face accessories; You know them Gua Sha What about the roll-on in jade? This is what we are referring to. Beyond bringing flexibility And freshness To your skin, it is above all necessary that these accessories are well washed before being used. Indeed, creams or serum of the day before is still present on the stone and therefore that you should clean this.

Ditto for body brushes, these are used to reactivate blood circulation thanks to massages on the legs in particular. So take care to wash them with clear water regularly because the dead skins raised do not mix with your lifestyle.

Finally, to wipe your face, as many you use a towel, you should take care not to use the same as the one you use for the body and to change it very regularly so as not to accumulate impurities on it.

A harmless but useful gesture

Once your hands are clean and your accessories were washed, you can start your routine with a simple step: the humidification of your face. Whether it is to wake up in the morning or make up your cleansing in the evening, think about moistening your face well before applying care containing active ingredients.

This simple action will allow active ingredients to more easily penetrate the layer of your epidermis, water therefore facilitates access to them. Your treatments will be more effective than on completely dry skin.

Stop touching everything

We often see in television advertisements or on Instagram of pretty videos with models holding pipettes of serum against their face: we say no! The serums and hydrosol contain assets not to be in contact only with your skin, so it is not not recommended for to touch The tip of the pipette with her fingers and even less to stick it to her face; The assets could be altered.

It is therefore enough to place 2 to 3 drops on your palms, rub them and then tap your face gently for a few seconds before continuing in light massage to have the entire serum absorb.

Good cosmetic routine hygiene gestures are the same bases as those we learn for our body hygiene: cleaning, washing, reuse. Within everyone's reach, these small gestures will greatly improve the effectiveness of your cosmetic care.