Skin Care for Men
By Surfraz
Looking good is not just for women it’s for men too. The days of men not caring for their skin has gone. We find most men making facials for their faces these days. To have a good facial skin just washing your face with soap is not enough.
As men do a lot of activities that are hazardous to skin, like having activities in direct sun light, in dust etc. More over Men’s skin is entirely different form a women’s skin so a daily skin care regime is more important to have a fabulous skin.
1 Cleansing
2 Toning
3 Moisturizing
4 Under eye care.
Why do we have to follow these steps for a good skin?
- As I said men skin porn to hazardous environment.
- Pores in men’s skin are wider.
- It has lot of sebaceous and oil glands.
UV rays from direct sun light causes damage to our skin. Dust from the atmosphere gets accumulated on our skin. As the pores are wider they get accumulated in the pore and hence make them wider. Oil excreted by the gland in our skin makes a greasy effect with dead cells and dust they even make it worse.
Cleansing
Just washing your face by soap will not clean all the dirt and dead cells on your face. Soap always removes moisture from your face and makes its dry where moisture is more important to maintain youngness of your skin. Instead of using soap get a good cleanser or a face wash that suits your skin type well. A cleanser will remove maximum dirt, oil & dead cell from your face without making your skin dry as soap does. Use cleanser instead of soap whenever you wash you face.
How to Use
Wet your face with water then apply it on your face in outward circular motion gently. Then wash thoroughly with water and pat dry your face.
Toning
This will remove all the dirt, oil, dead cells more than this it removes the left of cleanser or soap that you use to cleanse your skin.This prepares your skin for the moisturizer that you are going to apply next.
Moisturizing
Moisturizing is an important step that we shouldn't miss to keep our skin young and healthy. Skin need moisture to look good and young. When we take a shower the acid mantel on the skin breaks and the pores get open which will let moisture to escape from our skin and make the skin dry. To make this moisture stay in you skin apply moisturizer that suits your skin apply every time you wash your face. Nowadays moisturizer are available with SPF called Sun Protection Factor.SPF protects us from sun's UV rays like an umbrella when our skin is exposed to direct sun light. UV rays hurt our skin and makes it dark in shade, sun burns etc. There is a scale for SPF in your moisturizer stroll through the label on the moisturizers bottle you will some thing like this SPF 15 or SPF 30 etc. The number behind the SPF represents the strength and the time that it can protect skin from direct sun light. The scale ranges from 2 till 30. If you are in cool countries then SPF 15 can protect you skin for 30 min of direct sun light, if you are in ht countries like India use higher in number say SPF 30 this will protect for 30 to 1 hour in direct sun. Any how higher the number of SPF better the result.
Under eye care
It is said more than face, eyes says a lot. Its true, unlike women men's signs of aging starts from under their eye. Mild wrinkles starts and aggravates as time passes by. This is because of loss of moisture in the skin. Under eye cream has it apply a little bit below the eye, every day after bath this will help to retain moisture and protects your skin under the eye. This too come with SPF and help in fighting against harsh UV rays of the sun.
Exfoliate
Exfoliate you skin once in a week the reason behind this is to remove all the dirt and oil that has clogged inside the pores of your skin where cleanser and toner couldn't reach. Exfoliaters comes in forms of peel off and scrubs. It contains tiny granules of apricot or even some do have tiny granules of aluminum that will remove all the dirt and smooth you skin. If you get razor bumps you need to exfoliate your skin and then shave you will get a smooth shave.
Tips
These steps may look a time taking one but its actually not. It may take hardly 5 to 10 minutes to complete all these. Don't just leave your skin unattended try this regularly and you will get a good glowing and a healthy skin.
Drink a lot of water this will hydrate your skin.
Avoid alcohol
Drink juices that have antioxidants
Citrus juices will lighten your skin tone.
Avoid direct sunlight.
Reduce fatty diets and use nut like almonds that will give glowing skin.
Do regular work outs for your body.
Kosmo 13 months ago
Thanks for the tips on men's skin care. Since I'm an old guy, I need all the help I can get. What makes my skin look the best is washing it with soap and hot water. Afterwards, it almost looks like I'm wearing makeup. If you don't keep your face clean, you'll get that shiny look, which really looks bad on an old guy. Later!