Most extended erroneous ideas about skin care

The specific methods of the solution of problems with the skin passed the test of time and they are used from generation to generation - however this does not guarantee their effectiveness. Some of these methods in reality not only are not useful, but even they are harmful for the skin.

They enter into the number of most extended erroneous ideas about skin care:


Tooth paste helps to get rid of the pimples

Many people think that the tooth paste helps to more rapidly dry rising - however in reality its action is directly opposite. As dermatologists assert, tooth paste causes irritation and appearance of new pimples. Contemporary tooth pastes especially irritatingly act on the skin because of the entering their composition bleaching ingredients.

How to replace: Forget about the tooth paste and use the traditional methods of treatment to acne. One of the optimum methods more rapidly to get rid of the pimples - to use the special point means, into composition of which enters the salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide. If your skin is subjected to acne, acquire the cleaning lotions with such ingredients. Furthermore, it is not worthwhile to forget about the regular exfoliation in order to in time get rid of the layer of the extinct cells, which drive in times and leading to the appearance acne.

Vitamin E heals the scars  

Idea about the fact that the vitamin E contributes to healing scars, departs by roots to the distant past. In reality, however, vitamin E not only is not effective in the treatment of scars, but, on the contrary, it can cause the irritation of the skin and allergic reaction. For example, still in 1999 the scientists of the university of Miami explained that the allergic reaction appears with the use of a vitamin E in the recovery of scars in third of patients.

How to replace: In order to avoid the appearance of scars and scars, it is necessary to clean burn or cut daily with the aid of the soft cleaning lotion or by ordinary water with the soap, to and then bring to the skin the damping cream. The injections of steroids will approach for the deliverance from the old scars, and laser therapy will help to get rid of the reddening, connected with the formation of scars.

Washing contributes to treatment to acne

Very many people consider that the reason for appearance to acne, dirty skin, and in the appearance of blackheads it is necessary to blame the exclusively contaminated times. In fact reason to acne is complex: this and dirty skin, and bacterium, and the secretion of sebaceous glands. For this very reason even regular washing and use of scrub will not help to avoid acne.

Moreover, abuse of washing and use of rough scrub can lead to the fact that the skin will become dry and dim,  in the final analysis, still and it will suffer from the irritation. When the skin loses moisture, sebaceous glands begin to manufacture more than secretion, as a result of which the skin it becomes fatty and it appears to acne. But the irritation of the already inflamed skin in the majority of the cases leads to the formation of scars.

How to replace: as dermatologists assert, acne indicates the surplus of bacteria, skin fat or the contaminated times; therefore for the effective purification of the skin it is necessary to use the means, which contain salicylic acid. This ingredient effectively cleans times, moving away the extinct particles of the skin.

Optimum method to preserve the skin of healthy - to use soft scrubs somewhat once a week. But if the skin is subjected to appearance to acne, it is necessary to select special cosmetic for the treatment acne, which corresponds to the type of the skin.