How to improve the cause of excessive oil secretion

Have you or someone around you ever had this problem: your face is prone to oiliness, especially in a high temperature environment, when the oiliness becomes more severe? Why are these people particularly prone to oily skin? We believe that in order to reasonably improve the problem of oily face, we need to first understand the reasons for excessive oil secretion. Only by finding the reasons for personal oily secretion can we prescribe the right remedy and improve it.

1. Hereditary congenital well-developed sebaceous glands and strong oil secretion function, which is more common in men.

2. Endocrine imbalance, mainly due to increased secretion of male hormones, which leads to increased oil secretion by sebaceous glands.

3. Age factor. Age is a key factor that directly affects sebum levels. The sebum secretion of sebaceous glands decreases with age. It is for this reason that skin care products suitable for mature skin are usually thick and mellow.

4. External influences: When the temperature is high in summer, it stimulates the sebaceous glands to secrete oil, but in the cold winter, oily skin rarely occurs.

But oil is not completely useless. Skin with strong oil secretion often looks younger than other skin types, so you can relax and don’t have too many concerns. As long as you master the correct oil control method, oily skin will no longer be a burden.

1. Clean appropriately

You should not increase the frequency of face washing just because your face produces too much oil, nor should you use soap-based cleansing products, as this will damage the sebum film on the surface of the skin, which will often make your face more oily the more you wash. Just clean your face with warm water twice a day, and when it comes to product selection, amino acid cleansing products are the most ideal. When cleansing your face, you can extend the massage time in areas with large pores or in the T-zone, and make circles from bottom to top and from inside to outside to thoroughly remove surface oil and dirt in the pores.

2. Keep moisturized

Oil-absorbing facial tissues, oil-control skin care products, etc. are must-have items in every girl's makeup bag. However, if you simply prevent oil secretion from the skin surface, the skin will become too dry. Therefore, we should pay more attention to skin hydration and moisturizing in the hot summer, give the skin enough moisture, so as to control the oil secretion in the T-zone.

3. Shrink pores

The amount of oil produced can be reduced by closing the pores or reducing the size of the pores through which oil is produced. However, some ingredients, if used excessively (such as aluminum salts), can cause pores to become clogged. Masks that control oil and deep clean pores can absorb the oil on the skin's surface and the debris inside the pores, balance the skin's acidity and alkalinity, and tighten the pores. You can also use astringent lotion to help shrink the pores.

4. Exfoliate

You can choose products containing salicylic acid and its derivatives. This type of acidic skin-exfoliating ingredient can also effectively clean the garbage in the pores and the old dead skin cells accumulated around the pores. At the same time, it can restrain the sebaceous glands and inhibit sebum from the source of the skin.