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In adolescence and young adulthood, oily skin causes a lot of problems. This skin type is characterized by enlarged pores, black sebaceous plugs, oily shine on the face and many other cosmetic troubles. The interesting thing is that at a more mature age it retains its freshness and youth much longer. Signs of aging and wrinkles appear much later than in people with other skin types.
If you choose the right methods of care, then there will be no problems with it. An excellent solution would be creams, tonics and masks against oily facial skin. It’s another matter if the skin has increased oil content. This is a pathology. The sebaceous glands intensively produce sebum (sebum), which reduces the protective functions and leads to the development of bacterial rashes (seborrhea, acne, etc.). In this case, in addition to cosmetic care, treatment will be required.
Oily type - principles of daily care
The most common type is a mixed type, when the skin is oily on the forehead, nose, and chin; this is the so-called T-zone. Truly oily skin has clearly noticeable wide pores, is shiny and its color is yellowish, even a little earthy. It peels off, if you wash with tap water and soap, rashes and irritation appear. In summer, makeup does not stay on the face: it simply runs off due to the abundance of secreted fat. People with this type of epidermis are forced to constantly struggle with acne, comedones, and pimples, but it is precisely due to increased oiliness that the face ages much more slowly than those with dry and normal skin.
But masks for oily skin, which can be made at home, can significantly reduce all negative manifestations, and numerous positive reviews confirm this. I know this firsthand - my son has a mixed skin type, and during his teenage years he had problems familiar to many: pimples, blackheads, but proper systematic care did its good work.
The basis of proper facial care is cleansing. This way we remove excess sebum, makeup residues and dirt that has settled on the face throughout the day. If your sebaceous glands work excessively, then you need to cleanse your face more often. In the morning and before going to bed, you need to wash your face with water at a comfortable temperature, or mineral water, using a suitable non-aggressive product - gel, foam, milk. To cleanse the pores, I recommend washing your face using a face brush, which should be soft and always clean.
You have almost everything for proper skin care at home
There is an opinion that this type of epidermis should be cleansed more often with scrubs, supposedly this will make it fresher and cleaner. Should not be doing that. Several times a week you can use oatmeal or rolled oats ground into flour - pour a small amount onto a saucer, take it with wet fingers and do a light facial massage, and then rinse with water. After washing your face this way, it becomes softer and less shiny.
After washing, the skin needs to be toned; for this, use lotion or tonic. Choose products with AHA acids (fruit, glycolic, lactic, malic, salicylic), which affect the functioning of the sebaceous glands, moisturize, and help exfoliate dead cells. You can wipe your face with herbal decoctions or ice cubes from the same decoctions or juice of berries and fruits mixed with water. Remember that all tonics, creams, masks should be applied along massage lines - from the center to the ears. Contrary to advertising, you should not use products containing alcohol, as they, if used constantly, excessively dry out even oily skin.
We complete our daily care by applying a light, moisturizing cream. In the morning it is better to use a product with a sun filter, and an evening cream can be nourishing. If the skin is very problematic, then you should apply the healing cream both in the morning and in the evening. It’s good if the gel or cream contains zinc, sulfur, the same AHA acids, vitamins A and B.
For oily skin, choose products with fruit acids
Advice: limit yourself to flour and sweets, as this provokes excessive secretion of sebum. In addition, it will have a good effect on your figure.
Causes
If oiliness is accompanied by active acne, then this indicates obvious problems. A careful selection of care products is required. In advanced cases, you will need treatment from a professional cosmetologist. Problematic skin is characterized not only by the presence of inflammation, acne and increased oiliness, but also by an earthy tone and unhealthy appearance.
It is important to note that all of the above problems are not always acquired, with an unknown etiology. Problematic skin often occurs due to an unhealthy lifestyle. With frequent consumption of alcoholic beverages, dehydration, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking and poor nutrition, the upper layer of the epidermis suffers greatly.
As a result, the body accumulates a large amount of toxins. Since the skin also performs an excretory function, some of the harmful substances are excreted through sweat. If your health is severely deteriorated, this is reflected in the appearance of your face. The sebaceous ducts become clogged, a sallow skin tone appears, the face becomes oily, comedones, papules, and inflammation appear.
Before purchasing an arsenal of care products, it is important to normalize your lifestyle - set up the correct daily routine, give up bad habits and eat right. To eliminate excess oily skin and acne, you need to give up all dairy products, gluten and sweets. For sweets, you can only have one fruit or 100 grams of berries per day. No cakes, chocolate, sweets or anything else. If you want to have beautiful skin, then you need to give up this. Chances are good that once you improve your diet, you won't have to spend money on cosmetics.
Masks for oily skin at home - recipes and general rules
The best time to apply a mask is in the evening, and on weekends you can pamper yourself at any time. The main thing is to remember and follow the basic rules:
- We put our hair under a bandage, put on clothes with a neckline to apply the mask and not get dirty
- Wash your hands
- Cleansing the face, neck, décolleté
- We make a mask from fresh products and use it immediately
- Apply the mixture, avoiding the area around the eyes. Here you can lubricate your delicate skin with cream or oil
- When the mask is on your face, it is better to relax and lie down
Honey has a calming effect on inflammation, so homemade masks for oily facial skin made from honey are very popular.
Grind the white of one egg, a teaspoon of honey and a dessert spoon of chopped oatmeal until smooth. Add a couple of drops of almond oil into it. After fifteen to twenty minutes, wash off the mask with warm water.
Steam a tablespoon of a mixture of herbs with a glass of boiling water: chamomile, St. John's wort, nettle, mint, calendula (take what you have), filter the solution after half an hour. Add a tablespoon of natural honey and the same crushed oatmeal, stir until it becomes a paste. Apply a thick layer to your face and lie down. After twenty minutes, rinse with warm water.
Homemade masks based on honey and lemon work great
They perfectly cleanse, moisturize and nourish the skin and masks for oily skin can be easily made at home from eggs. Together with lemon, such masks help tighten pores and whiten your face a little. Such remedies should not be used only for rosacea and inflammation.
A nourishing mask made from eggs and potatoes helps nourish the skin with vitamins A, B, D, E, enrich it with useful substances and remove shine. Grate the potatoes into a paste on a fine grater, mix with the egg and keep the mixture for fifteen minutes. Rinse off with water.
And if you mix protein with a spoon of oatmeal, you will get a good exfoliating mask - all dead particles will be removed and your face will become fresh, soft, smooth. Keep this mask on for 20 minutes and rinse off with cool water.
Review of cosmetics
A homemade mask against oily skin is suitable for girls who have a lot of free time and have a strong desire to test folk recipes on themselves. For those who do not consider themselves one of those, there is a whole sea of various products for problematic and oily dermis, the composition of which is not very different from natural ones.
Avon's soothing mask is suitable for daily use. It eliminates excess shine and gives the skin a pleasant velvety feel. It is worth noting that the price is not bad either.
Christina's Porcelain tightening porcelain mask is a well-known remedy for problematic skin and earthy complexions. The result is visible immediately after the procedure, suitable for frequent use, hypoallergenic. It is especially effective if you use a scrub from the same company in parallel.
Porcelan by Christina
One of the favorites of many women over 40 is the super moisturizing mask from Mary Kay Botanical Effects. This drug is made entirely from natural ingredients and is most effective when used in combination.
Mary Kay
How not to remember about the alginate face mask, because it is simply a panacea that reduces redness in a matter of minutes. Indian mass is created specifically for teenage skin.
Phytomask Gittin with geranium essential oil is a balancing mixture that is used both to treat young skin from acne and acne, and mature skin.
Korff natural dry mask with a sebum-regulating effect is suitable for eliminating pimples and acne, as well as for treating the scalp. You can use it once a week.
And further down the list, means for regulating the functioning of the sebaceous glands :
- mud anti-toxines mask, helps with dermatological problems of the skin of the hands and face;
- lemon-cranberry cloud is perfect if you urgently need to remove redness and inflammation on teenage skin;
- Doctor Nona products contain nona juice, a rare plant that is suitable for treating almost all known skin problems, including lack of collagen;
- Parisian cream mask Lacrima;
- the famous Salerm Mascarilla Especifica Grasa is especially good in the spring, when the skin lacks vitamins;
- In addition, lately there have been frequent reviews about a mask with diatomaceous earth and calendula produced by Green Mama;
- universal peeling mask with pomegranate and cucumber juice Innisfree Jeju Volcanic Pore Clay Mask Hard is known for its moisturizing and cleansing properties, it is hypoallergenic and has an easy method of application.
Care after 30
As you age, you need to start actively nourishing your skin, even if it is oily, which means that from the age of 30 we get used to preparing masks for ourselves at home for oily skin. The simplest, but no less effective mask, nourishing and softening, removing flaking is an ordinary egg yolk. Beat, spread on your face, and after a quarter of an hour, rinse with warm water.
The persimmon pulp will nourish you with vitamins and significantly refresh you. These are very simple and wonderful masks.
Toning masks with protein, honey and any fermented milk product, for example, kefir or yogurt. To do this, beat the protein into a foam, add honey and kefir in equal quantities. To make the mixture thicker and not run off your face, you can thicken it with oatmeal or bran.
Tip: in summer, use fresh berries and rice flour or ground rolled oats - such masks make the skin matte and tighten pores.
After 30 years, the skin needs more careful care and nutrition
. When the face already needs more serious care, for example, for those 35-36 years old and older, masks for oily facial skin should give a tightening effect, a kind of lifting. Small shallow wrinkles disappear, and the skin regains its former elasticity. As always, consistency is important here. For 30-40 days we do tightening masks two to three times a week:
- Peel the cucumber and remove seeds, grate it, add the beaten egg white and a teaspoon of olive oil. After twenty-five minutes you can wash it off.
- A tablespoon of oatmeal, a fifteen-gram package of dry yeast, half a glass of milk, a teaspoon of honey - mix, apply to the face, hold until dry.
- Mix the yolk with a large spoon of honey and a dessert spoon of corn oil. Wash off after twenty minutes.
Clay masks for oily skin at home
Cosmetic clay also perfectly rejuvenates, tightens, cleanses, moisturizes and makes the skin smooth, evens out its color. A large number of vitamins and microelements contained in this product are simply necessary for health and beauty. Cosmetic clay can be used to make not only masks, but also soft scrubs and peelings that gently remove dead skin particles. After such events, the face becomes younger and simply glows with freshness.
White clay is ideal for oily and combination skin. It cleanses, removes grease, and whitens. Blue is an excellent antiseptic, makes the epidermis elastic, helps fight wrinkles. Green is indispensable for acne, as it soothes irritated skin and cleanses pores well.
Clay-based masks are great for acne and inflammation
Any clay mixed with grape juice (about a dessert spoon) and almond oil (coffee spoon) gives a smoothing effect and tightens aging skin.
Mix two teaspoons of green clay with an activated carbon tablet and add warm milk little by little to make a porridge. Drop a little lemon juice, apply to the skin, after 20 minutes, rinse with a decoction of herbs.
Film mask. A spoonful of blue or green clay, one crushed activated carbon tablet, a teaspoon of gelatin - mix everything, add two tablespoons. spoons of warm milk, mix again until the gelatin dissolves, apply to the face. After hardening, wash off with warm water or chamomile infusion.
Surely you have heard about the favorite mask of Cleopatra, a queen known for her careful attitude to beauty. It is prepared very simply - mix two parts of milk with one part of blue clay, apply to the face, and after thirty minutes wash off with water at a comfortable temperature.
Many recipes for masks for oily skin that can be prepared at home can be found in the video at the end of this article.
Masks for oily skin with activated carbon
Activated carbon is an excellent absorbent, helps heal, reduce inflammation, cleanse pores, and reduce sebum secretion. If you have acne, blackheads, poor complexion, then this black paste will make your skin radiant and clean. Of course, not immediately, but with regular use the effect will be noticeable.
To cleanse pores and get rid of comedones - blackheads, it is good to make a film mask from activated carbon at least once a week. You can apply it after a bath when the skin is steamed. To do this, take one tablet, grind it, mix it with a teaspoon of gelatin, add a tablespoon of water. Mix, put in the microwave for literally 10-15 seconds. Let it cool a little and kind of drive the mixture into the pores with a brush. Then apply an even layer to the face. After fifteen minutes, the mask will dry, then you need to carefully remove it. More information about the famous black mask can be found in this article.
The famous black mask
After this, it is useful to apply a mixture to the face that closes the pores: beat one egg white, add a teaspoon of lemon juice, mix and apply. After drying, wash off with slightly acidified boiled water.
To relieve inflammation, you need to add a crushed aspirin tablet to gelatin and activated carbon, also heat the mixture, but in a water bath, and when a film forms, wash it off with a decoction of chamomile or calendula.
The elasticity of the skin will be restored with ice cubes made in this way: half a glass of boiled water, a crushed charcoal tablet, a few drops of tea tree essential oil, mix, pour into molds and freeze.
Features of problem skin
The skin is the largest organ of the human body. Its function is to protect the human body from mechanical damage and harmful microorganisms. The skin also plays the role of a thermostat, a regulator of water-salt metabolism (due to the secretion of sweat). Performs respiratory, immune, metabolic, endocrine, receptor, excretory functions.
Most people have skin problems on their face. It’s rare that someone doesn’t experience acne or inflammation throughout their life. Problematic skin is characterized as oily, with abundant secretion of subcutaneous sebum, prone to inflammatory processes and irritation. It is important not to confuse the problematic type with increased production of subcutaneous sebum in areas prone to this phenomenon (chin, nose, forehead). In some cases, the natural reaction is not a sign of oily skin.
Homemade acne masks for oily skin
- Grate a small potato, add about a teaspoon of oatmeal and apply to your face.
- Take two aloe leaves, chop them, squeeze the juice through cheesecloth, stirring, add white clay to make a porridge. Apply to face and leave until dry. Rinse off with water.
- Grind two tablets of activated carbon, add fresh aloe juice, three to four drops of tea tree essential oil, a few grains of sea salt, dilute with a tablespoon of boiled water. Keep the mixture on your face for fifteen minutes, and then rinse with water at a comfortable temperature.
- Beat the powder from two charcoal tablets with egg white, use a brush to spread this foam on your face, and after a quarter of an hour, rinse with water and wipe with a decoction of herbs.
- Dilute green or blue clay to a liquid puree with water, herbal decoction, kefir, yogurt, honey, jojoba or wheat germ oil, cucumber juice, green tea.
Experiment with product compositions
Thanks to daily care and regular cosmetic procedures in the form of different masks, you can always look fresh. The main thing is to find time and desire.
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Precautionary measures
In addition to using cosmetics to care for problem skin, it is important to follow hygiene rules that will prevent the spread of acne:
- It is not recommended to touch your face frequently. Our hands are constantly in contact with contaminated surfaces, especially when we are in public places. Touching your face with dirty hands creates a high risk of microbial infection, which is why acne does not go away. Before applying cosmetics, it is important to wash your hands thoroughly with soap.
- The use of alcohol lotions and tonics, contrary to public opinion, will only worsen the condition of the skin. Despite the antibacterial properties of ethanol, it destroys the natural protective layer of the skin, which allows harmful microorganisms to penetrate the surface.
- Before using caring masks, it is important to adhere to the rules of application - the skin is thoroughly cleansed using an alcohol-free tonic. The products themselves are applied with light movements so as not to injure the face.
- Upon completion of any cosmetic procedure, you should wipe your skin only with paper towels. Fabric products can injure inflamed areas even more.