How many steps do you have in your skin care routine? Beware of "special" care, which may lead you into a "beauty trap"!

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Skin care "misunderstandings"

Daily skin care steps

Easily destroy the skin barrier

Your excessive skin care

May make the skin more sensitive

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If your daily skin care routine exceeds three or more steps, is it really that you are doing your skin care wrong?

Department of Dermatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Deputy Chief Physician: Li Feng

I often see some beauty bloggers’ skin care steps online, which include more than a dozen steps. It is conceivable that if you follow such complicated skin care steps over the years, your skin will become more and more sensitive!

The more you do, the more mistakes you make!

Because they have been "harming" their skin, destroying the skin's most important barrier.

As a dermatologist, I often see many young girls like this in the outpatient clinic. When I ask them, they all say that it is caused by "over-cleaning and over-skin care"...

I spent a lot of money, but my skin is ruined!

For example, use a facial cleanser every day, use makeup + makeup remover oil + facial cleanser + hot and cold water + facial mask + skin care water, etc.

In fact, these girls can solve their skin problems by reducing a few steps, because the main cause of their disease is the damage to the skin barrier.

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What is the skin barrier?

The so-called skin barrier is a protective layer. The function of the skin barrier is to protect the stability of the human body's internal environment.

1 Protect various organs and tissues in our body from invasion by the external environment

2. Protect various nutrients and water in the tissue

For example, our skin barrier is a "Great Wall" that protects the outermost layer of our skin, and this "Great Wall" is composed of a brick wall structure composed of keratinocytes and oils.

Excessive skin care will destroy the "cement" and thus damage the "wall".

I don’t know if you have ever had this feeling: for example, you rest at home for a few days, without washing your face, putting on makeup, or messing with your skin, and your skin becomes better than before because your skin will start a natural repair process. If you want your skin to start this natural repair process, you must ensure that it is in a healthy state.

Dermatologists recommend the following ways to protect the skin barrier:

1. Avoid excessive cleaning. Wash your face with water or only use facial cleanser to clean the T-zone to protect the skin barrier.

2. Use less cosmetics to reduce external irritation to the skin and possible allergens;

3. Reduce invasive medical treatments to reduce skin trauma and protect the skin "brick wall";

4. Get more "beauty sleep" and ensure adequate sleep to improve immunity and reduce skin inflammation.

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