Written by Your skincare routine should be different in the morning than at night, or at least for a few products such as face washes and moisturizer. The reason why you need to use a different skincare routine in the morning than at night is because your skin has other needs during the day than when you are asleep at night.
During the day, your skin is in a higher level of stress. It is exposed to makeup, excessive oil production, dirt, bacteria (from touching your skin all day with or without realizing it), UV exposure, pollutants, and other environmental elements. Because of this stress, harmful free radicals are hurting your skin cells and causing wear and tear to your skin’s collagen and the cells’ DNA. Because of this, it is vital to use skincare products that will provide proper defense for your skin to control the stress and help prevent damage to your skin.
During the day, because of the environmental stresses on the skin, your skin requires a lot of antioxidant vitamins to not only suppress free radicals, but also to boost skin protection. You also need a good sun block moisturizer to protect your skin from harmful UV rays.
In the morning, wash your skin with a mild, sulfate-free cleansing gel to wash away the skin of your previous nighttime skincare products, as well as any sebum residue that was unleashed on the skin while you slept. Apply an alcohol-free toner to the skin to cleanse away cleanser residue and provide hydration and nourishment to the skin cells. Apply mineral-based makeup to give you some added sun-protecting benefits to the skin.
At night, your skin is in its reparative state, because while you’re sleeping, your skin is at rest and isn’t being exposed to the environmental stressors that age the skin. By washing your skin at night and doing a nighttime specific ritual, you can really help repair your skin and help to control how fast your skin ages. Since your skin isn’t exposed to the environment, the focus has to be on providing hydration and nourishment to the skin cells to help keep your skin’s moisture barrier in place to retain proper moisture levels in the skin. Your skin cells are like fish, they have to have water to survive, and when they don’t have the hydration they so desperately need to maintain health, your skin will not look its best – and won’t act its best either.
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