Steam baths

Steam bath is another common method of cleaning. It is especially effective for that skin, on which there are a lot of black dots and blackheads. Warm steam softens the skin, cleans it of dust, dissolves sebaceous and sweaty discharge. After the steam bath, the facial skin becomes smoother. In addition, under the influence of steam, seals on the face skin dissolve and inflammatory reactions decrease. But cleaning the pores is a painful procedure and to some extent injures the skin. Not everyone is equally tolerant of this procedure. Softening the skin, steam contributes to the emergence of persistent vasodilation, reduces the tone of the muscles of the skin, so the steam bath is not always useful.

Steam baths should not be used for cleaning if the skin is not greasy and is not particularly contaminated. You quickly and painlessly clean your face in the cosmetic coupon after a preliminary massage: hygienic massage is useful, pleasant and makes it much easier to clean the pores. If necessary, massage can be repeated - it is completely harmless.

The use of a steam bath should be applied with particular caution to dry skin owners. To influence the face of the ferry is recommended as rarely as possible( it is enough once in 3-4 months) and only in case of emergency.

Even if the skin's tendency to dryness is very small, the use of a steam bath is better restricted. The skin needs to be pre-lubricated with a fat cream by rubbing it lightly into the affected areas. This applies to those women whose cheeks even slightly widened blood vessels.

Steam baths are strictly contraindicated for people with sluggish skin, pink acne and enlarged pores on the face. If you have high blood pressure, bronchial asthma, if you suffer from cardiovascular disease, you better replace the steam bath with other cleaning procedures.

After 30 years, naturally, the elasticity of the skin is weakened - this is also important to consider. Even with normal skin with minor black dots on the wings of the nose, the steam bath should not be used more than 2 times a month.

Clean the face of the steam better in the warm season, spring or summer. In winter, with frost more than 15-17 degrees, steam baths should be replaced with paraffin or oil masks, and a dry mask can be used to tighten the expanded pores. In other words, in the cold period, the face is best cleaned by dry methods. You can go out in the street not earlier than 20-30 minutes after dry cleansing of the face.

The duration of the steam bath is affected by the nature and condition of the skin: with dry skin, the face over the steam should be kept for 5-7 minutes, with very dirty skin - 7-10 minutes, with normal skin - 10-12 minutes.

Only in rare cases, with exceptionally coarse and oily skin with heavily soiled pores, with inflammation and seals, the procedure can last for 15 minutes. This is the maximum duration of the steam bath and it is permissible only for oily skin. Such a steam bath can be used once a week.

Thus, the optimum frequency of face steam cleaning: under normal and dry skin of the face, a steam bath is allowed twice a year;with oily skin - is carried out at first once a month, and then it is quite enough once in two months.

So, we have considered the main types of face cleaning, from simple washing to steam trays. But facial skin care includes not only cleansing, but also nutrition, and this can be done with the help of masks.