While cleansing is essential, it has to fit in with your busy life. Balance – as in life – is everything. Over-cleanse your skin and you’re stripping skin of its lipids (natural fats) and that means destroying the skin barrier function. Under-clean, and there’s make up, dirt, oil and germs ready to clog your pores, cause breakouts and rob you of your beautiful natural radiance. This can all lead to germs entering your skin, breakouts, redness, irritation, and even less natural resistance to UVA and UVB rays.
Striking the right face washing balance keeps your skin happy – and sets you up properly for an effective skincare regime. Want the rest of your products to work hard for you? Wash your face right.
Here’s how.
Cleansing for Your Skin Type: Say Hello to Ingredients in Formulations
The best way to choose a cleanser that’ll boost the health of your skin, is to go in with your skin type in mind. Ingredient deep dives means not only understanding what’s best used on your skin type but the formulation of the cleanser. Let’s take four skin types and match them with vital ingredients in popular formulations:
Very Oily/Oily Skin:
Nothing harsh should touch this skin type as the build-up of oil (sebum) means skin is inflammatory – cue clogged pores and breakouts. Ingredients, like Salicylic Acid that help decongest pores, control oil and those that hydrate skin are key.
Cleanser Match Up:
Both NIVEA Clear Up Deep Pore Cleanser and NIVEA Perfect & Matte Effect Oil Control Face Wash are wash gels (in other words they need water to gently foam) that work on oil control. Both suitable for oily skins, one is a deep pore cleanser, while the other helps manage shine.
For a convenient solution for oily skin try NIVEA Perfect & Radiant 3-in1 Cleanser - a wash, scrub and mask for normal to oily skin deeply cleans, fights blemishes and reduces shine.
Combination Skin:
Your skin may give you a blemish or two, but it’s largely an unproblematic skin type. Of course, it still needs to be carefully washed with skin savers like Vitamin E, and that means clearing dirt that’s built up on the surface, priming for products to absorb and boosting hydration. Yes, cleansing does that too!
Cleanser Match Up:
NIVEA Refreshing Face Wash with Vitamin E is a refreshing wash gel which deeply cleanse while supporting the skin’s moisture balance.
NIVEA Perfect & Radiant Eventone Cleansing Foam works with an issue many South Africa women experience; dark marks. While it purifies skin to help keep it blemish free, it also doesn’t dry skin out, meaning hydration levels are kept in check.
Sensitive Skin:
Sensitive skin needs extra care when it comes to cleaning it. Over cleansing with products that are highly dosed with soaps and fragrance are a hard no. And because you don’t want to rub or work this skin type too hard (it gets red and irritated quickly), reach for a wash that can remove make up and dirt and oil in one go.
NIVEA Rose Care Micellar Water Face Wash has a gentle, non-drying formula with Organic Rose Water as one of the main ingredients.
Dry Skin:
Try switching texture up here and investing in a creamy or milky cleanser. Enriched with natural oils that nourish dry skin, a creamy cleanser adds hydration and nourishment as well as soothes dry skin types. Remember anything too foamy may simply impact dryness and increase sensitivity. Cream and milk cleansers are usually gentler and calming.
Cleanser Match Up:
NIVEA Gentle Cream Wash contains natural Almond Oil to add that much-need moisture back into skin, all the while cleansing it properly but carefully.
Convenient cleansing solutions
If you’re someone who likes a quick-fix cleanse at the end of a busy day - beauties like cleansing wipes and micellar waters are a convenient go-to solution. Able to sweep off even your make up, they effectively cleanse and moisturise your skin. Micellar Water, like wipes work without water. Molecules in the formula act like magnets, grasping onto make up and impurities and removing them. Applied with a cotton pad and gently swept over your face (and eye area), you’re not only removing make up, but oil and dirt too. This is a great option if your skin needs an extra dose of hydration when cleansing or if you like to double cleanse.
Try any of NIVEA’s Biodegradable Cleansing Wipes for Normal Skin or Dry/Sensitive Skin.
Or try NIVEA Rose Care Micellar Water or Perfect & Radiant Eventone 3 in 1 Micellar Water
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