What if an ultra easy to reproduce gesture could increase the effectiveness of your facial care? Explanations.
Each morning, it’s the same routine: after scrupulously cleaned the face, you apply your care. Serum, eye contour, moisturizer… everything goes! On a daily basis, some gestures can help improve the efficiency of these products: massages, gua sha, jade roll-on or technological tools. But another essential factor could considerably improve the effects of this treatments on the skin. Worse still, without him, the effectiveness of the ingredients could be compromised. Rest assured, nothing convoluted or very complicated.
According to several experts, the little thing that is missing a lot of people when it comes to a care routine in several stages is none other than … time! Indeed, it is essential to wait a moment between the application of a serum and a moisturizer. The goal? Make sure that the skin has had something to assimilate the assets and absorb them. “”The risks of not giving enough time to each product to be absorbed include the bubbling and dilution of the products used“, explains Dr. Kaywaan Khan, doctor and aesthetician, to the British version of Glamor. As a reminder, the bubbling describes this phenomenon where the products form small balls and peel in contact with the skin. In addition to being very unpleasant, It compromises the rest of the care routine and reduces the efficiency of the products.It is not only a waste of good products, but it also means that the benefits of your care routine are not brought“, Continue the expert. To wait and ensure that the serum is indeed assimilated by the skin, do not hesitate to make it penetrate with small massages that will also lift the face.
Where the experts of the experts diverge is on the waiting time between the serum and the cream. The figures put forward by professionals vary from a few seconds to twenty minutes. It all also depends on the active ingredients contained in the serum: if we speak of a product with hyaluronic acid (to hydrate the skin) then thirty seconds at one minute is enough. For vitamin C, it is imperative to wait at least two minutes since it is a very unstable ingredient. Then give the epidermis of assimilating it completely: “With vitamin C, you want to get the most out of the product by not diluting it. A few minutes should be enough for the dry product before going to the next step“For its part, the retinol is a somewhat special case since it can be very irritating. In addition to applying it only in the evening, wait between ten and twenty minutes so that it is well absorbed and does not mix With the moisturizer that you will put in. of all virtues.
