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Skin Toning: For Youthful Skin
Skin toners are important part of daily skin care routine. Skin needs to be cleaned regularly. After cleansing, skin toning is the next step. Skin toner removes the extra oil from the skin. It tightens the skin pores and improves the blood circulation. Because of many factors like age, pollution and weather conditions, skin loses its health and glow. Using skin toner, your skin feels freshness and also feels rejuvenated.
What is the need skin toning?
For healthy skin, you need a healthy skin care routine, which involves cleansing, toning and moisturizing. Skin toning keeps the skin healthy, pores clean and let it breathe properly. After toning, skin becomes ready to absorb the nourishing moisturizing creams, applied after toning. Toning is more important for men as they have oilier skin and larger pores.
Benefits of Skin Toning
Skin toning lotions should be as much chemical free as possible. Toning is helpful for many reasons.
Skin toning help prevent the pollutants and other environmental debris to enter the skin. The cleansing and skin toning helps to keep the skin firm, young and fresh. But use these products carefully with proper care to avoid adverse effects.
With growing age, skin gets mature and loses its elasticity and suppleness. This makes you look older than your age, this is called premature aging. Skin toners and astringents come to rescue of your skin. Skin toners, which contain glycolic acid and alpha hydroxy acids, are very beneficial to skin. These skin toners reduced the pore size and also tackle the problem of ingrown skin hair.
Skin toners revitalize the skin by removing all traces of dirt and oil from the pores. It tightens the skin pores by patting it softly with cotton pads. It helps to maintain the youth and glow of skin. It prevents wrinkles to set early.
Tips for Skin toning:
To choose a proper skin toning lotion, you should know your skin type. If you have dry skin, use mild toners and avoid alcohol-based skin toning lotions as they have drying effect over the skin. For oily or greasy skin, you can use astringents to remove the oil from skin.
· To properly apply toning lotion, take a piece of cotton wool and apply lotion with patting movement. To revive a dull skin, use quick slapping movements.
· Apply lotion all over the face and neck.
· For combination and normal skin, do not use harsh astringents; instead use mild lotions, preferably rosewater based lotions.
· For dry skin, do not use strong products. For toning of dry skin, dilute rosewater with mineral water and apply with soft cotton ball but avoid eye area and upper cheek portion. Skin of these areas is very delicate and dry up very fast.
· Special care has to be taken for combination skin. If you have combination skin, you have dry skin areas as well as oily skin patches. For toning, apply a light toner with help of a cotton ball on dry area of skin. After that, apply astringent only over the oily area. But do not apply astringent on eye and cheek skin area.
· If you have oily skin, apply astringent carefully over the oiliest areas like sides of nose, chin and forehead.
· Prepare a toner for combination skin by mixing rose water and witch hazel in 2:1 ratio. Apply with cotton ball.
· Take 2 tbsp of lemon juice, 3 tbsp of rose water and 1 tbsp of glycerin. Mix all the ingredients and rub over the skin. It is a very good toner for dry skin with moisturizing effects.
· If you have oily skin, prepare an effective skin toner. Take one tsp of borax and dissolve it in 150 ml rosewater. After that, add two tbsp of warm olive oil. Beat the mixture till it becomes creamy and thick. In the end, add two tbsp of lavender water and mix well.
· Soak one tbsp of fresh chopped mint leaves in two tbsp of cider vinegar. Put this in fridge for few days. Then add 300 ml of mineral water and strain it. This is a mild, cooling freshener for skin.
· If you have sensitive skin, mash strawberries and apply over skin. Rinse it off after 5 minutes.
· For dry skin, vitamin E and wheat germ oil are very effective toners.
· Take a slice of potato and rub it over oily skin for toning. For dry skin, use it in combination with a moisturizer.
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