People with red acne scars on the skin of the face often encounter such a problem: just get up in the morning, the color of the acne marks on the face is relatively light, only slightly red, but after washing the face, or after a morning, not only the face will become dull, the color of the acne marks will also be aggravated and become more red.
Usually, I tried various acne scar skin care methods, but the red acne scars still did not fade, but the color became darker and darker. Acne scars are severe and last a long time, how can this skin problem be improved? Today we will talk about this topic in detail.
Why are the color of acne scars so varied?
When we wake up in the morning, not only are the acne scars light, but this is also the time when our skin is in the best condition. For a period of time when I first got up, the surface of the skin was balanced, the skin was smooth and translucent, and the texture was also very delicate.
This is because after a whole night of repair and adjustment, at this time, the human body temperature is low, the skin humidity is suitable, the sebaceous film covered by the surface layer is very complete, and the skin state is naturally moist and bright.
With the occurrence of actions such as getting up and washing our faces, our body temperature has increased, and blood circulation on our face has accelerated, because the skin is likely to be reddened because of the stimulation of the water temperature.
In addition, throughout the day our skin is exposed to the external environment, it is easy to cause skin cuticle moisture loss, skin smoothness decreases, transparency and gloss decrease, and there is also the possibility of oily surface.
How to fade red acne scars through skin care?
On the one hand, to avoid irritating the skin as much as possible, causing the color of the acne scar to increase immediately, on the other hand, it is to use the corresponding skin care products to gradually condition and help the acne skin return to normal skin tone.
1) Avoid irritating acne skin
The first is the most basic cleaning step, and the most problematic step. Cleaning and washing your face in the morning is actually something to pay special attention to. In autumn and winter, in addition to large oily skin, you can clean up in the morning with water, and you do not need to use facial cleanser. Especially for dry skin, using facial cleanser in the morning will aggravate the problem of dry and tight skin, and skin redness will be more serious.
Secondly, the temperature of the face wash water should not be overheated. Although the temperature is lower in the morning, it is more comfortable to wash your face with warm hot water, but the water temperature is too hot, which will directly stimulate the telangiectasia of the skin, causing the skin to immediately become red, and the acne location will also become significantly red. Usually wash your face at a water temperature, close to the body temperature or a little cooler.
Finally, in the face washing technique, during the cleaning process, you must gently rub, do not rub your face vigorously, and do not use a cleansing tool in the morning, you only need to splash water a few times.
After the cleansing is complete, it is time for the morning skincare step. The facial skin has red acne marks and it is necessary to avoid irritating skin care products. Such as whitening, acid products, try to be gentle moisturizing skin care products.
In addition, you can try a less irritating antioxidant serum to improve the dullness of the skin. If it is oily skin, you can moderately stack oil control essence to reduce the amount of oil on the surface of the skin and avoid the recurrence of acne caused by oil factors.
The final step in daytime skincare is to protect against the sun and avoid UV light irritation, which leads to overactive inflammatory factors in the skin, resulting in worsening of acne skin. The way of sun protection is as mainly isolated as possible, and there is a real need to reapply sunscreen.
2) Skin care lightly fade acne marks
In fact, after avoiding irritation to the acne skin, the acne marks on the surface of the skin will gradually fade. However, this takes a long time, and during this time, there may be problems with repeated acne. Therefore, we need to take corresponding skin care measures to accelerate the fading of red acne scars and more thoroughly smooth the acne skin.
To deal with this red acne scar, it is more effective to use a soothing and calming serum. The reason why the skin is still red after the redness, swelling and acne have subsided is because the inflammation in the deep layers of the skin has not faded. In this state, not only is the skin complexion abnormal, but it will also be very easy to repeatedly grow acne, and serious cysts and acne may be formed, and acne skin care is more difficult.
Therefore, for the red acne marks left over from acne skin, it is necessary to insist on using a serum with calming and fading effects and do a good job of moisturizing skin care. After 1-2 weeks, the new red acne marks will gradually fade and the skin color will return to normal.
The skin condition after acne is actually very fragile. Even if the bulging acne flattens, the damage to the tissues in the skin, as well as the possible residual inflammatory factors, will make the skin different. Therefore, after acne on the face, we must deal with it in time, apply acne products, and cannot let it develop, causing more serious consequences.