Understand your Cleansing Milk
March 12, 2010 by Andrew Wong
Filed under Health & Fitness
If you wish to be beautiful, you will cleanse your face thoroughly every day. Though cleansing milk is not expensive compared to many other skin care products, face cleansing is the most important step among all skin care procedures. Therefore, it is essential to know the proper way to choose your best cleansing milk.
There are many different types of facial cleansing products like cleansing powder, cleansing mousse and non rinse cleansing water, etc. Cleansing milk is one of the various types. When the skin care product companies sell their products on many different functions like whitening, moisturizing and nourishing, you may not expect the strong functional effect. As the cleanser will not stay on your face for a long time, the effect is going to be minimized.
When choose the right cleansing milk, you may consider the different powers including cleansing, moisturizing and foaming power as well as mildness. General speaking, the stronger the foam power is the product, the weaker the moisturizing power is the product. Besides, the strong foaming power usually implies the higher activated ingredients amount. These activated ingredients affect the fat tissue layer in epidermis and cause irritation and dryness to skin.
Many cleansing milks claim that they have whitening and exfoliating function. Such functions usually come from the cleansing milk ingredients like BHA or Tartaric Acid (a type of AHA). BHA and Tartaric acid soften and remove the upper layer of dead skin, but meanwhile cause irritation and allergy to skin. You may also find some cleansing milks that contain hyaluronic acid and butanediol. Hyaluronic acid and butanediol are very powerful moisturizing ingredients. Such products are especially suitable for people having dry or sensitive skin.
Being a consumer, we have the right to choose. We also have the right to switch from brand to brand for cleansing milk. Most of us do not stick to the same cleansing milk for our lifetime. There is no problem with changing cleansing milk. The problem lies with the frequency of change. If you change the cleansing milk too often like once a week, you may find your skin fail to adapt to the different cleansing milk. Different cleansing milks differ in acidity or alkalinity, skin takes time to adjust and adapt to different acidity or alkalinity. It is better to switch brand when you have finished using the existing cleansing milk.
Normally, you do not use your cleansing milk alone. You have to at least use it with water. Water temperature affects the functioning of the cleansing milk, too. If the water is too cold, your pores tights up; if the water is too hot, you skin get irritated. Lukewarm water is the best to cleanse your face. Hard water is less favorable than the soft one as it contains too many minerals.
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