Here are five reasons why you should
wash your face at night:
1.
Touching your face all day long, without intentionally doing so, is making your
face one of the dirtiest parts on your body. It’s important to clean the skin
to avoid the spread of acne bacteria that can cause increased blemishes.
2.
Cleansing your skin at night will reduce oil and the ability for acne-causing
bacteria to thrive inside the pores. This means less break outs!
3.
Your skin repairs itself at night, so removing makeup gives your skin a clean
palette for applying your night time performance products for maximum
absorption.
4.
While you sleep, your skin is at rest allowing regeneration to occur. For the
best anti-aging results, clean your skin with a gentle sulfate-free cleanser
and use a high
performance serum and moisturizer.
5.
Moisturizers evaporate when on the skin all day, so washing your skin and
applying moisturizer at night ensures it will stay moist and hydrated.
Most
"toners" are made up of water, skin soothers like aloe or chamomile, plant
oils, ingredients to cleanse or draw moisture to the skin, and preservatives. There
is a debate whether or not to add a toner to your skin regimen routine. When toners first came out, they were needed
because people were using regular soap for their face, their facial cleanser left
a residue, or the cleanser didn’t wash everything off of their skin. Our skin is acidic and soap is alkaline. So, a toner balances the PH level. It also removes what the cleanser didn’t
remove from your skin. Nowadays, most
women use a facial cleanser and they don’t usually leave a residue. So, a toner is not really needed.
Here are a few reasons to incorporate
a toner into your daily skincare routine.
- Additional
Rinse
Toner is like the “additional rinse” cycle on a washing machine. Using a toner can capture any dirt, oils and dead cells that your cleanser missed and properly prep the skin for moisturizer. - pH Balance
The pH scale ranges from 1 to 14 (7 is neutral. 1-6.9 is acidic. 7.1-14 is alkaline). Our skin is most comfortable and able to fight off bacteria at a pH level between 4.0 and 6.0. Cleansers typically have a pH level between 6.5 and 8.0 which helps it cut through oil and dirt, but can strip the skin of moisture and leave your with a skin high in alkaline. Toner can assist the skin in getting back to a comfortable pH level. - Dry skin?
After cleansing, your skin is left with a high pH level and will have to work at restoring the pH balance. Applying moisturizer directly after cleansing may limit the skin’s ability to absorb the moisturizer because it’s preoccupied in restoring the pH balance. By using toner and restoring the pH balance before applying moisture… your skin will be ready to concentrate on absorbing the moisturizer! - Blackheads
or Oily skin?
Do you have oily skin or blackheads around the nose? If so, I would absolutely recommend the use of toners. Oil on the skin can oxidize and turn black when the pH balance of your skin is off. Pores are generally larger around the nose, so the oxidized black oils get trapped in the pores and you’re left with blackheads. Toners will help thoroughly clean your pores and help with minimizing blackheads!
Young Living has a wonderful product line of skin care products. It’s called ART, Age Refining Technology.
It has frankincense and
sandalwood oils to help repair your DNA.
Click
here for more information on the ART Gentle Foaming Cleanser.
Click
here for more information on the ART Toner.
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