What does anti-aging skin care include?

To put it bluntly, anti-aging skin care has never been a pile of one, two or three steps listed on the Internet. The core is to do these three things: "prevent additional damage, repair existing defects, and slow down natural degradation." It is not at all what everyone thinks that only applying expensive anti-aging essence counts.

A while ago, I helped my best friend of almost 10 years adjust her skin care regimen. At that time, she saved two months’ salary to buy a bottle of anti-aging cream worth 10,000 yuan. She applied a thick layer of it every night. As a result, she didn’t even bother to put on sunscreen when she went out. She rode an electric bike for 20 minutes in the summer, and her face turned red before she remembered to spray some moisturizing spray. After using it for three months, she came to me and complained that anti-aging products are all IQ taxes, and she has two dry lines at the corners of her eyes that cannot be eliminated. The first adjustment I made to her was to put on sunscreen first. She didn’t have to worry about the debate on the Internet about whether “hard sunscreen is better than sunscreen” or “chemical sunscreen is only effective for full-band protection.” Every day when she is in the office, she closes the curtains by the window and wears a wide-brimmed hat. When she goes out to run business, she wears sunscreen. Stacking sun cream, parasol and mask first blocks 80% of the light damage that causes aging. In addition, it also prevents glycation and oxidative damage caused by high-sugar diet and staying up late. These habits of not applying it to the face are actually the most cost-effective part of anti-aging.

After you have prevented additional damage, the next thing to repair is what has been quietly lost by the skin. Many people rush to take strong medicines such as A alcohol and peptides when they turn 25 years old, but they ignore that the first things to be lost are basic moisturizing and barrier ingredients such as ceramide and hyaluronic acid. If your face always feels tight after washing, is still dry after applying ordinary lotion for a long time, or is prone to redness when the season changes, then you must first do a solid job in basic repair and moisturizing, and then add functional ingredients to prevent your face from being ruined. There is a lot of debate on the Internet right now about whether "you should start anti-aging at the age of 20" or "you don't have to touch the functional ingredients if you don't have wrinkles or wrinkles". There is really no need to take sides. There is a 22-year-old girl next to me who directly applied 0.5% alcohol A after watching a blogger grow grass. She had an acne breakout for less than half a month, and she didn't know until she went to the hospital. She said that she has thin and sensitive skin, but the blind use of strong medicines has damaged the barrier. She really doesn’t need to worry about the first signs of aging. Whenever your face feels loose when you touch it, dry lines cannot be removed even after applying a mask, or dullness cannot be relieved after staying up late for two or three days, it is completely late to start adding functional ingredients.

Once the first two steps are done solidly, all that's left is to follow the skin's natural rhythm and slow down its degradation. There is no standard answer here. Some people think that applying skin care products is enough, while others think that it will be more effective when combined with medical beauty treatments. There is no conflict between the two. Just like raising a potted plant, it can survive just by watering it, but it will definitely grow more vigorously if you fertilize it occasionally. But if you only fertilize without watering, no matter how expensive the fertilizer is, it will be useless. I am now over 30 years old. I always wear a hat when I go out, apply sunscreen when the ultraviolet rays are strong, use a face cream containing Bose at night, and go for photorejuvenation every autumn and winter when my skin condition is stable. The nasolabial folds have not deepened in the past two years, and friends around me always ask me if I have done any big projects secretly. In fact, I have just followed these few steps, and there is no fancy operation.

To be honest, anti-aging is not as complicated as the merchants make it out to be. You don’t have to chase after limited editions or expensive products, and you don’t have to copy other people’s skin care routines. The plan that suits your current skin condition and can be adhered to is the best.