Following a beauty routine is a great way to look after your skin and make yourself feel good. You’re paying attention to the largest organ in the body, keeping it smooth and supple and staying in touch with how it’s working, and you’ll reap the rewards of this day in and day out!
However, some beauty routines are a little too extensive, invasive, and could be doing more damage than you realize. Is your beauty routine really bad for you? It depends on what you do, how much, and how well you know your ingredients.
Breakouts May Be More Likely
If you’re repeatedly stripping your skin of its natural oils, you’re going to break out in spots more often. Why? Because you’re over cleansing, which then leads your face to try and balance out what’s going on, meaning your pores start overproducing. It’s a vicious cycle that’s quite hard to, ironically, break out of when it gets going.
So think about what you’re using in your current beauty routine, in comparison to your natural skin type. If you do have naturally oily skin, it’s perfectly OK to use a heavy cleanser and exfoliate more than once or twice a week. However, if your skin type is normal or even dry, this is going to have a seriously dramatic effect on how clear your skin looks day by day.
Some Ingredients May Be Toxic
Toxic ingredients are common in beauty products, even if we don’t know about them. With more and more research being done on the products behind the standard beauty routine, we’re seeing an upwards trend in harmful substances being used on the skin on a regular basis.
Of course, we still need to do more research to find out whether or not potentially toxic ingredients are mixed into common beauty products, but it’s good to keep early test and screening results in mind. Toxicity varies, and you should know about it.
Follow Beauty Treatment Aftercare Strictly
A final note, but an important one to finish on: if your beauty routine contains actual beauty treatments administered by a medical professional, make sure you follow their aftercare instructions to the letter. When you do, your results are far more likely to be what you’re after, and you’re less likely to go through side effects like bruising, bleeding, and blotchiness.
You should also listen to their advice pre-treatment as well, as you could avoid bad allergic reactions to filler dissolver by investigating with an open mind. Indeed, when the practitioner asks questions, such as if you’re allergic to anything, be honest and provide as much detail as possible. It’ll make your beauty routine much more beneficial in the long run!
Is your beauty routine doing more harm than good? It’s possible. Keep an eye on what you’re using and how often you’re using it. You don’t want to undo all of your hard work and make your skin work overtime to try and right what’s going on!
