What you using to clean your face?

Most common step of taking care of our face is wash face every day to keep our face clean and healthy. BUT, are you all actually know what ingredients of a face cleanser??



For normal facial cleanser, the ingredients were water, glycerin, potassium cocoyl glycerinate, polyquaternium-6/polyquaternium-10, lauric acid, citric acid, tetrasodium EDTA, BHT, DMDM hydantoin, frangrance, propylene glycol and stearic acid.

What is the use of the ingredients?

• glycerin : act as humectant(to help matain moisture).

Glycerin

• potassium cocoyl glycerinate : act as cleaning agent.


• polyquaternium-6/-10, propylene glycol : provide excellent moistorization.
• lauric acid, stearic acid : act as foam thickener. Lauric acid
  
• citric acid, tetrasodium EDTA, BHT, DMDM hydantoin : act as preservative.
  

  Tetrasodium EDTA
  

DMDM Hydantoin

• frangrance : act as aromatizer.
  

Some of the people face oily skin problem. One of the reason of oily skin is due to the over active of sebaceous glands. The negetive aspects of oily skin are blackheads, clogged pores and result to pimples. To overcome the problem, you need to remove excess sebum of the surface of the skin without complete removal of skin lipids.

A method to clean an oily face is clean the face with natural skin cleanser formulated specially for oily skin. The pH of the cleansers should be between 4.5 to 5.5, since the skin pH is approximately 5.4. Gel type face cleansers work best for oily skin. For oily skin products should not include waxes or other synthetic lipid agent that could aggravated the skin. Some cleansing products have low concentration of hydroxy acids, which remove dead cell from the upper layer of the stratum corneum. People with oily skin should use a moisturizers with humactent to give moisture to the skin.

Skin Structure

hyroxy acids:consists of carboxylic acid substituded the hydroxy group on the adjacent carbon. It is derived from food products including glycolic acid (from sugar cane), malic acids(from apple), citric acid (from fruits), lactic acid (from sour milk) and tartaric acid (from grape wine).

On the other hand, there are some people having dry skin. This may due to over exposure to sunlight, deficiency of vitamin A and vitamin B or wash face too frequently. For dry skin, chossing face cleanser that contains sodium hyaluronate that can hydrate the skin. Besides, cleansers that contains stearic acid that purges the skin from toxins and debris.

Nowadays, different types of cleansers have been developed for people that with different skin types. Strong type cleansers are more suitable for oily skin to prevent the dirt clog in the pores. However, the strong cleansers may be over dry and irritate dry skin. Dry skin may require creamy-lotion type cleansers to prevent the skin become over dry. If you have dry or sensitive skin, it is better to choose alcohol free cleanser.

A good cleanser is neccesary for everyone. Choosing the adequate face cleanser is very important for everyone. Good cleansers help to remove of dirt and debris, eliminates surface bacteria, imparts fresh skin and prevent oil secretion.