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Many people will encounter this situation: after washing their face with facial cleanser, their face becomes tight or even peeling. Why do I feel tight after washing my face? This situation is certainly not normal.
If you observe carefully, you will find that when you wash your face with clean water, the skin generally does not become tight and peeling. This may happen when using certain facial cleansers. In fact, there are two reasons: the facial cleanser and the skin.
1. Reasons for using facial cleanser
That's because facial cleansers remove the oil from the surface of the skin.
There are two types of grease that are washed off:
The first is the sebum film on the skin surface. The sebum film is an oil film formed by the oil secreted by the skin mixed with sweat, which has a moisturizing effect.
The second type is the structural oils of the stratum corneum. These oils are embedded between the keratinocytes and can stick to each keratinocyte to keep the stratum corneum intact.
The stronger the degreasing power of the facial cleanser, the more oil will be washed away.
Under normal circumstances, the sebum film can be restored quickly after the oil on the skin surface is removed. Because when the skin feels dry, it will reactively secrete oil to avoid water loss, so the sebum film can be re-formed. Therefore, the skin tightness can be relieved after a while.
However, if the structural oil is washed off, it will not be formed quickly, so at this time, the stratum corneum on the surface of the skin becomes loose and peeling occurs.
Therefore, it is recommended to choose a mild facial cleanser, such as amino acid facial cleanser or glucoside facial cleanser. Stronger facial cleansers, such as soap-based ones, are not suitable.
There are some facial cleansers with stronger oil-removing ability. In order to relieve this tightness and peeling, some moisturizing ingredients are used to provide a buffer.
But does this buffering effect actually buffer the feeling of tightness after washing, or does it buffer the oil-removing power of the facial cleanser?
If it is the former, it is actually equivalent to destroying first and then soothing, that is, taking away the oil first and then using moisturizing ingredients to buffer the tightness. What’s the difference between this and using a soap base and then applying a face cream?
Therefore, the editor still recommends not using a facial cleanser with too strong a cleaning power.
2. Skin causes
If you observe carefully, you will find that a facial cleanser may cause skin tightness and peeling on you, but not on others.
Why is this happening? It all depends on your individual skin.
Some people actually have a problem with their skin: oil imbalance. What exactly does lipid imbalance mean? You can simply understand it as abnormal oil content.
This oil imbalance will make the skin oilier on the one hand, and on the other hand it will also cause abnormal keratinization and produce more cuticles. At this time, a lot of cuticles are not shed in time and remain on the face, in a state of being about to fall off but not yet fallen off. Therefore, once the structural oil is washed away by the facial cleanser, it is easy to become loose and peel off.
For this type of skin, peeling will occur even if you use a very mild facial cleanser.
For this type of skin, the editor recommends that you temporarily stop using facial cleanser for a period of time, and then strengthen moisturizing, such as using facial cream at night.
I especially recommend the ingredient urea. I found that urea is very suitable for this type of skin because urea can moisturize on the one hand and promote the renewal of keratin on the other hand, and it has a relatively mild exfoliating effect.
Many people may feel that their skin is very oily, they have blackheads, and large pores. Wouldn’t stopping using facial cleansers aggravate these problems?
However, for oily skin in this situation, it is not recommended to remove oil crazily, because even if you use a soap-based facial cleanser and wash it crazily, the blackheads and enlarged pores will not change, and it may even cause damage to the skin barrier, making the skin more oily, and aggravating the blackheads and enlarged pores.
Why does the skin become oilier? It is related to dry skin and damaged skin barrier.
Some people may say that oily skin has nothing to do with dry skin. But in fact, when the skin is dry, especially when the skin barrier is damaged, the skin will reactively secrete more oil to avoid water loss. So the skin is more prone to oiliness, which can aggravate blackhead and pore problems.
Everyone should pay attention to one thing: oil control does not mean crazy oil removal, which cannot control oil at all. The purpose of stopping using facial cleanser is to slowly adjust the skin's oil imbalance.
So if you have skin that peels easily, I think the most important thing is moisturizing. At night, you can use facial cream to enhance moisturizing, especially those containing urea, and then stop using facial cleanser.
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