Sensitive small time, give you 10,000 reasons to be sensitive
Sensitivity is not something you are born with, it is something you “develop” later in life! A decade or so ago, there were few cosmetic products that claimed to be “hypoallergenic” or “anti-allergenic”, but with the aging of the skincare population and the increasing number of skincare items, people were “tossing” their skin too much and even layering too many care products on it. “The skin is not only a good place to be, but also a good place to be. These wrong ways of maintenance and intense means of maintenance, so that the skin to bear the uncertainty of risk is also increasing, the skin becomes sensitive more and more people.
Skin sensitivity is often just a condition where the skin is in a temporary state of instability, and this instability is often a condition where the skin stratum corneum is thin, the cuticle barrier is incomplete, or the skin is broken. When cosmetic ingredients are applied to the skin, the ingredients penetrate the skin through the keratin gap and direct sensory nerves to produce an immediate tingling hot and itchy sensation. Sensitive skin is clinically characterized by subjective sensory symptoms of facial discomfort including tingling, burning, tightness, and itching. Three major categories of factors have been identified.
1. environmental factors: wind, sunlight, colder weather, rapid changes in temperature.
2. local factors: hard water, cosmetics.
3. internal factors: life stress, menstrual periods, spicy foods.
The occurrence of allergic contact dermatitis is mainly attributed to the immune system of the skin. When the skin perceives an invasion of a foreign object, the immune system of the skin then performs the identification of the invader. After the first contact with an invader, the immune system generates an “immune memory” and when the same substance invades again, the immune system quickly recognizes it and fights back, thus repeatedly triggering an excessive immune inflammatory response and causing the skin to suffer.
Sensitive skin ≠ allergic skin
Sensitive skin is a phenomenon of temporary skin damage. By avoiding irritants and doing a good job of repairing the stratum corneum, skin discomfort can be improved.
There are many kinds of allergens that cause allergic skin to react immunologically, and this has a great relationship with each person’s constitution and genetics, and there is also variability of allergens between individuals, which cannot be cured. Allergy is a genetic or cellular resistance to a certain type of substance in the body, and it is a phenomenon that occurs only in people with specific physical characteristics. Therefore, skin allergy and skin sensitivity are two different things and cannot be equated.
Maintenance points
The main point of skin care for sensitive skin is to repair the damaged skin barrier and strengthen the intercellular lipids, which are used to reduce the loss of water from the epidermis and prevent the invasion of external substances, and to strengthen its structure with ceramides, lecithin and unsaturated fatty acids. When the skin is in a fragile state, the best way to maintain it is to let the skin rest and let the stratum corneum barrier return to its normal state, and should avoid.
1. Skincare products with high or low pH value
2.Solvent-based products
3.Exfoliating products
4.High performance functional products
5.Care products mixed with ointment together
6.Cleaning power of washing and removing products
7, a variety of products or multi-brand products overlapping use, etc.
Daily maintenance should pay attention to.
1, cleaning: use mild cleansing products, the water temperature should not be too low or too high, as gentle as possible.
2, skin care: dry sensitive skin after cleaning, will be anti-allergic moisturizing water lightly wiped on the face; and oily sensitive skin can choose to control the oil moisturizing water. After applying the moisturizing water use a moisturizing milk or moisturizing cream containing ingredients that repair the keratin barrier efficacy (ceramides, lecithin, unsaturated fatty acids) to better retain moisture and repair the skin.
3, sun protection: some sensitive skin is sensitive to UV rays, so sun protection is also particularly important for sensitive skin. Dry sensitive skin is appropriate to use physical, physical-chemical sunscreen products. Oily sensitive skin because the skin is more greasy, physical sunscreen is easy to clog pores, so you can choose physical chemical sunscreen cream or sunscreen spray. Be aware that when the skin is in the acute phase and the inflammatory reaction is heavy, sunscreens can be temporarily not used, and sun protection can be provided by means of umbrellas and hats.
4. cope with windy, dry and cold weather: try to use scarves, masks and other good face protection measures to relieve the skin from discomfort caused by windy, cold air, etc..
5, eat less spicy food and food that can easily induce sensitivity, and stay away from smoking and alcohol.
As mentioned at the beginning, sensitivity is not innate, the more you blindly toss the skin, the more the skin does not improve, this is because all the way to the “heavy” maintenance will only make the skin barrier more and more fragile, choose the right mild maintenance, in order to slowly repair damaged skin, and keep a distance from the sensitive.