Our lives are inseparable from reference books, and when we learn Chinese characters at a very young age, we have our first reference book: Xinhua Dictionary. It allows us to learn to read more books by using dictionaries while knowing a limited number of Chinese characters.
With the rapid development of age and technology, we are required to do effective things in a limited time, so we rely on a variety of reference books to help us. As women in the age of high-tech learning, we need a skincare guide to get out of the awkward position of making ourselves a skincare "testing ground."
As we all know, medical beauty can now be said to be everywhere, and many friends around them use medical beauty to keep their young time. Not only the external beauty, but also the inner health. With the help of aesthetics, the knowledge of nutrition combined with exercise allows us to achieve a satisfactory physical state. So how to achieve scientific nursing and health?
Today, I recommend this "Deep Skin Care" to you, and you may be able to find your own methods or suggestions in this book. The book is written by two authors: Satoko Takase and Momo Hosokawa.
The two are from dermatologists and preventive medicine consultants. They teach us how to improve our skin holistically so that our daily skincare routine is no longer superficial.
01 Our natural barrier: the skin
First of all, we need to understand the structure and working principle of our own skin. The skin as the largest organ in the human body, but it is because of the different parts, the tissue structure is slightly different, such as our hands and feet, but their primary role is as a barrier, playing a protective role for our body, followed by metabolism, regulation of body temperature and sensation. In order to get healthy skin, we need to understand the tissue structure of the skin.
The outermost layer of the skin is the epidermal layer, followed by the dermis layer and the subcutaneous tissue. Most of the problems of the epidermis layer can be solved by nursing, such as dry skin, lack of water, sensitivity, etc., the problem of the dermis layer is more difficult to solve than the epidermis layer, but after a good skin care habit and a healthy diet, it is generally possible to get good results, and the problem of subcutaneous tissue is generally irreversible, such as aging, aging is the rupture of elastin fibers, unless we use scientific and technological means such as medical beauty.
These three organizations are layered on top of each other. Externally, we can only take the first step of scientific skin care if we do a good job in the care of the epidermis. Keeping the skin moist is the first condition for healthy metabolism of the skin. Just like the body, we have to give the skin enough water.
So how do you get your skin to drink enough water? The authors tell us that the moisturizing of the skin is not only to replenish moisture, but also to replenish intercellular lipids and cover with oil. In layman's terms, it is to wipe the water first and then the lotion or cream, which is the basic step, if you go out during the day, you should pay attention to the sunscreen. So have you done it all the time?
Our daily care is the epidermis. The book shows us the process of healthy skin metabolism, which makes us intuitively understand that skin care is not as complicated as imagined.
So the characteristics of a good barrier are first and foremost health.
02 External protection and care essential for healthy skin
The right skin knowledge and the right care method is the shortcut to getting the best skin. What kind of skin the best skin is, the author made a detailed elaboration from 5 aspects: water and oil balance, smooth texture, elasticity, normal metabolism, and comprehensive nutrition. Maybe you think these words are too professional and abstract, so imagine baby skin, yes, blown bullets and broken baby muscles are the healthiest and best skin.
Do you think that when the seasons change or the weather gets cold, etc., the face always feels wrinkled, and sometimes after we wash our face, we don't immediately wipe water and cream and other skin care products will feel very tight? But some people don't, and some people will soon feel greasy and uncomfortable on their faces after wiping the oil.
These feelings stem from the fact that we have different skin types. For different skin types, we have to use different skin care methods. So learning to identify your skin type is the first step to proper skincare. You may wonder: Is our skin texture the same? The authors have found that skin texture can be changed through daily skin care.
In addition to the genetic influence of our skin, but that is not the main factor that determines our skin type, age, diet, skin care habits of the acquired factors also have a lot to do with skin type.
Since the skin is easily affected by external factors such as temperature and humidity, the skin texture changes slightly depending on the season. There are two factors that affect our own skin type: sebum volume and moisturizing ability. Therefore, according to different external conditions and their own skin type, choose skin care products that suit you.
One thing that is particularly important is that the skin is sensitive, especially when changing seasons, we must improve the barrier function beforehand. In the structure of the skin in the previous point, we know that the skin can protect the body from external temperature and humidity changes, atmospheric pollution and ultraviolet damage, but in our skin sensitivity period these factors are easy for our skin to cope with, coupled with the change of seasons, it is easy to make the skin dry and inflamed and other symptoms. So in the book the author clearly lists the allergic reactions with different symptoms caused by different seasons.
For example, when dealing with summer skin sunburn, the most important thing is to cool the skin in advance, suppress inflammation, and then take vitamin C-containing health products to suppress inflammation from within the body. In the book, the author shows us in detail each step of skin care, many of these methods are fast and practical, think of the convenience of having this book at hand, you can play happily in an instant.
In short, to get a good skin condition, care from the inside out is essential.
03 The most important thing is to lay a good foundation for the diet
The autumn breeze is cold, but the appetite is wide open, especially as the autumn and winter cool down, our bodies always need some desserts to comfort. But eating too much of these highly sugary foods not only adds a burden to the body, but also makes our skin saccharify and thus become dull. So how to eat can not only increase the nutrition of our body, but also let our skin not be plagued by high sugar and high oil.
The authors recommend a "rainbow color" diet. She advocates the goal of a "rainbow color" diet, which is to choose food through color, and each meal must consume at least five colors of organisms in order to obtain a relatively balanced diet, so as to obtain a healthy body and skin.
We all know that ultraviolet rays are extremely harmful to our skin, and it is also the culprit of skin aging. We must not only do our external homework: serious sun protection to develop a good habit of going out every day to apply sun protection, but also work hard from diet to achieve a two-pronged approach.
The so-called healthy body to have healthy skin, in the modern conditions of thin beauty, how many people in order to cut off sugar and salt cut off carbs, in fact, a healthy diet will not only not increase obesity, but also make our body more young and energetic.
So the authors list for us the three nutrients necessary for healthy skin carbohydrates, lipids and proteins, as well as the paranutrients vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. Only by being nutritionally balanced can we radically improve the condition of our bodies and skin.
With the development of technology, our skincare methods have more choices. Many of the previous irreversible skincare methods, such as long spots and aging, can be solved by medical cosmetology in modern times.
At the end of the book, the author proposes many physical problems faced by modern women, such as menstrual syndrome, easy anxiety and hair loss, etc., which are closely related to hormones, and guide women how to get along with hormones. For hair loss, earlier, scalp and hair growth care was considered to be exclusive to men's care methods, and now it has become a topic of concern for many women, and the author has also given a method of nursing.
Overall, this book is not an exaggeration to serve as a guide to healthy living for women. This is an era of lifelong learning, especially for women, how to better change their identities in different life stages to play different life roles, the use of the tools around them is particularly important. Is that right?