Is it good to wash your face with cold water frequently?

To maintain a healthy state of body, we must start from our daily life. Many of the smaller habits in our lives will be very bad if we cannot maintain them well. This may lead to symptoms of some physical illness. Therefore, in normal times, we must take care of our bodies by starting with the smallest living habits. So is there any benefit in washing your face with cold water? Let us introduce it in detail below.

As the weather gets colder, many elderly people have wrapped themselves in thick winter clothes again, trying to prevent disease and stay healthy by keeping warm. In fact, adopting the method of "cooling with cold" is not only harmless to the body, but also has many benefits. When the skin comes into contact with cold water, the brain will immediately become excited and direct all systems in the body to increase activity to adapt to the cold environment; over time, the body's resistance to cold will be improved. Washing your face with cold water can also stimulate the contraction of blood vessels in the facial skin and nasal cavity, which not only increases skin elasticity but also prevents colds. Washing your face and hands with cold water in winter can train children to react sensitively to cold stimuli, improve the body's ability to adapt to cold air, and help prevent colds. This exercise should be done gradually, starting in the summer and continuing to wash your face and hands with water below body temperature until winter. At the beginning, you can use 36°C water for washing, and then reduce it by 1°C after a few days, and the lowest temperature can be reduced to 20°C ~ 18°C. When children are young, the temperature should be higher and the rate of decrease should be slower so that their bodies can gradually adapt. This exercise will not damage children's skin. After washing, dry it with a dry towel and apply some oil to protect the skin. This kind of exercise will only be effective if you persist in it every day, not intermittently. It should be noted that infants and young children should not wash their faces or hands with too cold water.

It is best not to wash your face with cold water in the summer, because when people sweat, the subcutaneous blood vessels expand, the pores enlarge, and the blood circulation speeds up. If you suddenly pour cold water on your body at this time, the subcutaneous blood vessels will immediately contract, the sweat pores will close, and the secretion of the sweat glands will stop immediately. The heat dissipation channels in the body will be blocked, and the heat in the body can no longer be dissipated, making people feel hot on the skin, so it is not cool and it is easy to catch a cold or other diseases.

The question of whether washing your face with cold water has any benefits has been explained very clearly above. If we can actively take care of our bodies starting from washing our faces on a normal basis, then our bodies will be in a healthier state. On the contrary, if you cannot even take good care of your face, your body will be more likely to show symptoms of certain diseases.