15 skinCare Mistakes common for African Skin
If you are not getting the full benefit from your care
routine that you follow, or if you are encountering skin problems that you
never expected, you may be doing some steps wrong or overlooking something. We
have compiled for you the most common mistakes made in skin care and the points
you should pay attention to.
1- When applying your skin care product, you should not be
limited to just your face. Especially the neck and décolleté area are the
places that are exposed to external factors and where signs of aging appear
first. Therefore, add products that target these areas of the skin to your care
routine or use face & body formulations.
2- Being lazy is one of the most common skin care mistakes.
Leaving products designed to stay on the face for a few hours on the skin all
day or overnight can cause many problems, from premature aging to blackheads.
That's why one of the first things you do when you step home should be to take
off your makeup.
3- How do you apply your melanated skin care products and
how do you treat your skin? Many mistakes such as rubbing creams and serums
into the skin, making harsh movements around the eyes, and applying products
that need to be heated by hand to the skin without waiting can cause you to not
get the full effect of the products and damage your skin.
You can apply it to your face and neck with tampon movements
in the opposite direction of gravity, and to your eye area with the tip of your
ring finger and light strokes. You can also get better results from the
formulas by using the massage applicators of the products in your collection.
A small note: Picking products from their packaging with
your fingers can also cause bacterial accumulation and skin problems. The
bacteria in your hands my promote pimples or inflammation as well as clogs. You
can use cleanable spatulas for this. If you see your skin reacting, it may not
be caused by the product you are using.
4- Melanated skin cleansing is one of the steps you should
pay most attention to. You should use a mild cleanser in the morning to clean
the waste from the skin at night, the dirt from the hair and the bacteria from
the pillowcases. The situation is different when you wear make-up. You can
achieve a deeply purified skin by washing your skin after applying
makeup-dissolving cleansers or rose water. We would also like to point out that
at these stages, you should choose products that suit your melanated skin type.
5- It is very important that all the products you use are
compatible with your dark or darker skin type. While some formulas are for all
users, some products may be designed for specific skin characters. You can
choose a product by considering your skin type, oily-combination-normal: and
even the behavior of the areas on your face.
Another thing is to be able to correctly identify your melanated
skin problem and what you expect from a product. Do you want to lighten,
mattify, tighten, even out texture or revitalize your melanated skin? Get the
results you want from your care routine by using the right formulas that do not
deviate from the target.
6- Melanated skin care products also have an application
order. Unfortunately, as the number of products you use increases, this order
can get confused and a formula you apply can eliminate the benefits of the
product in the previous step.
Although not all products are included in your care routine,
you can generally consider the order of use as follows for black skin:
Cleaners; tonics, essences and boosters; nourishing serums or healing,
therapeutic products; care oils; moisturizers.
7- Care products are different from make-up products. Many
formulas are designed to be left on the skin and absorbed, not to be cleaned
from your skin. Therefore, be careful to use quality products that contain
ingredients that you know you are not allergic to. Check the ingredients or
know your skin irritations. Naturel Afrika ensures the best quality ingredients
value for your money.
A quick note: Quality ingredients don't always have to have
the most expensive label. Invest in the right brands and right formulas.
8- Just because your skin is oily doesn't mean it doesn't
need moisture. Even if you complain about pores and a bright skin structure,
you need to replenish your skin's moisture reserves. What you need to pay
attention to at this stage is to choose the products you will use from
light-textured, oil-free-water-based formulas.
9- The peeling/exfoliating step is very important to deeply
purify your skin, cleanse it of dead skin, renew tissue and prevent signs of
aging, you can use Naturel Afrika Exfoliating Cream. However, overdoing this
step, which we can describe as abrasive, can damage the skin and cause
sensitivity and stubborn redness/darkness. Therefore, be careful not to apply
your peeling products more than twice a week and pay attention to the
aggressiveness of the product formulation.
10- Summer, winter, in the shade or under direct sun: You
should definitely use sunscreen. Harmful UV rays from the sun are secret
enemies that damage the skin. Remember, if there is light, there are UV rays.
So never forget to use sunscreen.
11- In these days when we refrain from touching the face
even more, we would like to emphasize once again the importance of this step.
Dirt, bacteria and viruses that accumulate on your hands can cause certain skin
problems such as acne and tissue inequality, as well as health problems. That's
why it's a good idea to keep your hands away from your face.
12- Keeping the amount of a Naturel Afrika product high does
not mean that you will get more efficiency from that formula. On the contrary,
you will waste product and be overloaded on your skin. It is enough to use
moisturizing products the size of a grain of rice for the eye area and the
amount of a pea for the face. Our measure for cleansing products and masks is a
grape.
13- You need to time your care routine correctly before
applying your make-up, before going out or before hitting the pillow at night.
Before applying make-up or going to sleep, give your skin some time both
between application steps and after the care routine for the products to be
thoroughly absorbed into the skin and for your sunscreen to activate.
14- On the packaging of every product you use, a small box
states how many months the product will remain fresh. After this date, the
structure of the product may deteriorate, its effectiveness may decrease, and
it may even damage your skin. So say goodbye to expired products and renew your
maintenance shelf.
15- Perhaps the most common and most ignored skin care
mistake is the products you use without knowing the real cause of your
complaint. For example, the cause of acne that suddenly appears may be
hormonal, not bacteria accumulated on the skin; The dullness of your skin,
weakness in your hair and nails can be attributed to deficiencies in your blood
values or liver problems. For this reason, you should place consulting a
dermatologist at the top of your to-do list before setting up your care
routine. As Naturel Afrika, we always value your health first and beauty
second. Please do not forget that these two will always need to be together in
your life.
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