Friday, April 20, 2007

Choose the Proper Skin Care Product to Clean Your Skin

Recently, many skin care products are found in the market. According to the expert, there are many ways to clean face from dirt and oil. But the best way to choose skin care product is based on skin type and your life style.

  • Face cleanser soap
    Many expert suggest to not using soap to clean face. Cleanser without soap or soap free may used to clean face, depend on skin sensitivity, called syndet. Beauty soap (beauty bar), mild cleansing bar and sensitive skin bar are examples of syndet. Also syntetic detergent that has pH more low. Cleanser with pH more high, more alkaline, maybe will break natural protector layer of face skin. This product can’t lift oil and dirt from very oily skin. Most liquid face cleanser include in this kind.
  • Free oil cleanser
    Liquid free oil cleanser is liquid product that clean without use oil or fat. Best for very dry skin or sensitive skin. But not very effective to lift environment dirt and oil and only suggested for get minimal cleansing.
    Ingredients that found in this skin care product are glycerin, cetyl alcohol, steary alcohol, sodium laurel and sulfate.
    Leave thin moist layer so it isn’t appropriate for acne skin.
  • Cream cleanser
    Cream cleanser is very popular among advance age when this cream was the only alternative in the past. Most of cleanser cream contain water, mineral oil, petrolatum and wax so it is appropriate for dry skin. Cream cleanser is one pleasant step to lift cosmetics with clean face.
  • Abbrasive scrub
    Abbrasive scrub contain variety ingredients that not only will clean face but also give exfoliate until certain level. Exfoliate will make skin more soft. But the problem is big scrub grains can cause irritation, reddish or small wound at face. The most abbrasive scrub contain ingredients like aluminium oxide particles and fruit seeds. This particle with coarse edge isn’t appropriate for sensitive skin. But, most skin type can accept light face scrub that contain polyethylene that smooth and round or sodium tetraborate decahydrate, grains that smooth and dissolve when used.

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