Facial cleansers have one key job; to remove oil, makeup, dirt, pollutants, and any other substances that may have accumulated on your skin throughout the day or night. One of the most common mistakes when it comes to facial cleansers is people believing that any cleanser will ‘do the job’ and therefore, find themselves either using a variety of cleansers or whatever they find that will ‘cleanse’, as well as using the wrong type of cleanser for their skin type.
Whilst the main purpose of cleansers is to cleanse the skin, their features and benefits can go far beyond simply ‘cleansing’, and choosing the right cleanser for you is the key to healthy and balanced skin. By choosing the correct cleanser for your skin type, you are ensuring that the skin’s natural barrier is not affected or harshly impacted. In many instances, the result of choosing the wrong cleanser, kick-starts an unbalanced skin barrier, resulting in a range of issues from dryness, flakiness, breakouts, excess oil, oily patches, and many more.
So the question is... How to Tell if Your Face Cleanser is Right for You?
Here are 4 questions to consider if your cleanser is right for you.
Does your skin feel ‘squeaky clean’ after you wash your face?
Many of us are guilty of thinking that after we wash our face, it should feel squeaky clean and sometimes it even has a shine to it. A sure tell sign is a very shiny nose. If your skin feels squeaky clean and looks ‘shiny’ after you cleanse, it is likely that this is not the right cleanser for you and you are disrupting your skin’s natural barrier.
Does your skin feel ‘tight’ after you wash your face?
Clients complain of extremely dry, tight, and stretchy feeling skin after they cleanse. If this is you, your cleanser has most likely stripped oils and moisture out of your skin leaving it susceptible to an unbalanced and impaired skin barrier which will lead to breakouts, unbalanced and excess oil production as well as an overall dry and sometimes itchy feeling.
Does your skin feel oily after you cleanse?
Your skin should feel light, fresh, and bright after cleansing. If your skin feels heavy after cleansing, it is likely that your cleanser has not adequately done its job which is to remove excess oil, dirt, and pollutants.
If you naturally have an oilier skin type, choosing a cleanser that will brighten and freshen up the skin will help with removing excess oil and if you’ve chosen correctly, hopefully, features some antioxidants and acne-fighting and skin-brightening ingredients.
Does your skin look bright and clean after you wash your face?
The purpose of cleansing correctly is to ensure that the skin is adequately prepared to be able to effectively absorb treatment products and allow your skincare products to treat and feed the skin with all the nutrients and goodies it needs. If your skin looks bright, fresh, and clean without feeling tight, stretchy, oily, or itchy, you can rest assured that you are using the right cleanser for you.
In order to maintain a healthy skin barrier, always cleanse morning and night with the right cleanser and always follow cleansing with your treatment products. Don’t forget your SPF every morning.
We’ve made choosing a cleanser easy for you by putting all of the features and benefits of an effective cleanser into 2 cleansers. The Gentle Clean is designed for ‘normal’, dry, sensitive, or combination skin that prefers a lightweight milky cleanser and perhaps only has very slight excess oil in the T-Zone. The Radiance Clean is a lightweight antioxidant gel cleanser that has been designed to brighten ‘normal’, oily, acne-prone, dull/ polluted, or sun-damaged skin.
Always wash your face by adding water and cleansing in circular motions, and remove using an antibacterial and antimicrobial Face Chamois to ensure that you are adequately removing any nasties from your skin and leaving it well prepared to absorb any treatment products that you apply.
By choosing the right cleanser with the right ingredients, you will successfully complement the features and benefits of all of your treatment products as they work towards giving you brighter, glowing skin.
Are you using the right cleanser for you?
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