Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Best Way To Use Moisturizers

Using moisturizers is one of the important routines of skin care to maintain a young and glowing skin, but what is the best way to use moisturizers and which are the areas of primary importance for moisturization. It is important to know why and when to use moisturizer and when using it is prudent to know the quantity and the quality you need to used. Over using moisturizer even on a dry skin often results in dust particles adhering to the skin and clogging the sweat pores resulting in infections.

The areas you need to concentrate while skin care are generally your foreheads, nose, and cheeks. These areas would either be more oily or dry than other parts of your face depending on the skin type you have.

Using body lotions with moisturizing effects to the entire body is okay, but with regards to your face you need to take care of moisturizing it by selecting the suitable type and brand of moisturizer depending on your skin type and your skin condition. For examples there are moisturisers available for red and sensitive skin with soothing effects and ingredients suitable for very sensitive skin. You should also know that you cannot use heavy moisturizer meant for dry skins on sensitive skin type.

You need to know what is the correct quantity of moisturizer to be used as moisturizer usage changes with seasons as oily skin tend to become dry in winter and needs a different moisturizer from that used in summer months. This is true with other type of skins. Even the normal skin becomes dry in winter months.

So the best way to use a moisturizer is to know your skin type first and know how your skin feels in different seasons. Accordingly you can properly use moisturizer depending on what your skin actually demands generally depending on its type and particularly on the seasonal changes.

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