The harm of washing your face with cold water for a long time

Many people are not familiar with the harm of washing your face with cold water for a long time. Washing your face is a very simple thing, we do it every day. Some people wash their faces with cold water for a long time, and some even think that this is good for the body and can increase the body's resistance. In fact, washing your face with cold water for a long time has many harmful effects. It can cause blood vessels to constrict, making it difficult for metabolic products in the skin to be discharged, especially for oily skin.

Washing your face is a very common thing in daily life. Just wash your face when it is dirty. For girls who love beauty, choosing what kind of facial cleanser to use for washing face is what they care about most. But do you know? Whether you use cold or hot water to wash your face will also affect the skin quality on your face!

Everyone's skin type is different and their tolerance to the outside world is different. Washing your face with cold water may not be suitable for everyone's physical condition. Some people like to wash their faces with cold water, which is convenient and refreshing. Washing your face with cold water frequently can enhance skin resistance, but it is best not to use it for a long time. Washing your face with cold water frequently can also have some adverse effects.

Especially for oily skin, if you use cold water to wash your face for a long time, the "cold nature" will shrink the pores and make it impossible to wash away the sebum, dust, cosmetic residues and other dirt accumulated on the face. Not only will it fail to achieve a beauty effect, but it will easily cause skin diseases such as acne, affecting beauty.

So how can we achieve the goal of cleaning our face without damaging our skin?

1. Appropriate water temperature is an important condition for skin cleansing. Water temperature that is too cold or too hot is not good for skin nourishment. Water that is too cold (below 20°C) has an astringent effect on the skin, can exercise the skin and invigorate the spirit. However, long-term use of too cold water to cleanse the skin will cause skin blood vessels to constrict, making the skin pale and withered, reduce the secretion of sebaceous glands and sweat glands, lose elasticity, and cause premature aging, which is not conducive to skin nourishment.

2. Excessively hot water (above 38°C) can relieve pain and dilate capillaries on the skin, but frequent use will cause the skin to defat, weaken the vitality of the blood vessel walls, and cause the skin pores to dilate, making the skin more likely to become loose and weak and develop wrinkles.

3. The appropriate water temperature should be around 34°C, slightly higher than the skin temperature but lower than the body temperature. Try it with your hand and it will feel warm but not hot. This warm water can not only cleanse the skin, but also has a calming effect on the skin, which is conducive to skin rest and fatigue relief without causing any harm to the skin.

4. The correct way to wash your face is to use alternating warm and cold water, that is: wash your face with warm water → apply cleanser (facial cleanser or soap, etc.) along the facial muscle texture. The time should not be too long, 3-4 minutes is appropriate → wash off the cleanser with warm water → rinse your face with cold water.