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Cleaning the face with soda
Last reviewed: 17.10.2021
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The desire to remain beautiful is inherent in women of any age. That's why experiments and search for new recipes never stop. Already no one remembers how ordinary baking soda came into the recipes of home cosmetics, but rave reviews will not let her leave this field of application. Soda is used for face cleaning, has bleaching properties and cares for the skin. The variety of recipes from everyday product is fascinating. As it turned out, to make the skin clean and white, just make a few masks or use a scrub of soda. How to properly clean the face with soda?
Indications and contraindications for cleaning the face with soda
The use of cleansing masks is recommended to combat the following skin imperfections:
- excess fat production;
- expanded pores;
- comedones;
- acne;
- significant pollution.
Soda masks can not be used if:
- skin of the face is very thin, tender, with increased sensitivity;
- there are wounds, scratches, inflammations, dermatitis;
- the skin is dry. You can add fatty components to the mask (cream, olive oil). But often use this method of cleaning is still not recommended.
Skin Preparation
Cleaning the face with soda is done exclusively on cleaned skin. From the person before wash off cosmetics.
The procedure will be more effective if the skin is previously well steam. You can take a shower before cleaning, or even better - make a steam bath with medicinal herbs. Then the removal of accumulated particles of dirt and grease from the pores will be easy, and the active components of the cream used after the procedure will instantly absorb.
The steam bath is prepared as follows: a handful of dried chamomile flowers are added to the pan with water, brought to a boil, left on fire for another two minutes. To steaming gave the maximum effect, the head should be covered with a cloth, remove the container from the fire and bend over it for a few minutes.
Advantages and disadvantages of using soda in cosmetic procedures
Soda is a natural antiseptic, it is often used for disinfection and cleansing of oily and acne prone skin. It creates an alkaline environment on the surface of the epidermis, because of which the fat gloss disappears, and the enlarged pores become smaller.
Soda also removes inflammation and has a softening effect. She is also known for anti-allergic action: soda effectively eliminates irritation and redness.
Nevertheless, cleaning the face with soda should be done very carefully, as it has a high level of abrasiveness, and this, if misused, will inevitably damage the delicate skin and strengthen those problems that have already occurred.
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Simple rules
Everyone knows how soda acts on dishes or tiles - it practically eats away particles of dirt, making the surface flawless. In the same way, the soda-based mask works on the skin, and its too strong effect can be softened by other ingredients. When deciding to use recipes with soda in your home, you should always follow simple rules:
- Do not resort to scrub or a mask based on soda on thin and sensitive skin prone to dryness.
- Before using a new recipe, you should make a test by applying a mask on your wrist. If the skin in this place has not occurred any changes in the form of spots or itching, then you can safely proceed to apply the composition on the face.
- Take care not to over-restrain the mask. Sodium acts instantly, because 10 minutes is enough to get the result.
- Cleaning of the face with soda is carried out not more often than once in five-seven days. But the duration of use of cosmeticians is not limited: you can use soda until the final solution to problems with the skin.
- Do not resort to soda for the purpose of prevention, when there are no obvious problems with the skin, cleaning the face with soda can be replaced by other means, with softer action.
- The result will be more impressive if you clean your skin with a soda before steam.
In no case is it necessary to apply soda on the skin in the eye area. It will damage the delicate and tender skin, leaving for a long time swelling and redness. - After washing off the mask with soda on the skin you need to apply a good nourishing cream.
Cleaning technology
There is nothing complicated. To cleanse the face with soda, you need to prepare a scrub, diluting the soda powder with warm water to the density of sour cream, and apply it with massage movements.
This scrub eliminates the keratinized skin particles, opens the pores well, which will help the cells breathe and improve metabolism in the epidermis. The use of soda in home beauty recipes is not limited to this recipe: the addition of other ingredients, for example, oatmeal, soap, honey, activates the action of soda and at the same time provides more gentle grooming.
Going through the recipes, first of all, assess the health of your skin and its susceptibility to the ingredients of scrub. Soda will show a good result if you do a cleansing of oily and combination skin. If the skin is thin, be careful not to overdo it during the procedure.
- Prescription number 1. Cleaning your face with soda and soap
Take 1 teaspoon of soda powder. Mix it with an equal volume of shavings of baby soap, diluted in a small amount of water. Soap can be replaced with a means for washing. Massage the massage on the face and gently massage for 1 - 2 minutes. Wash off with water at room temperature. With oily skin, the procedure can be performed weekly, with combined and normal skin - 2 times a month, with atopic skin it is not recommended to clean more often than once a month.
- Recipe # 2. Cleaning the face with soda and salt
Wash off with water, but wipe the skin with a towel. Gently rub the pads of fingers alternately wipe your face with salt, and then soda. Wash off with water at room temperature and complete the procedure with an active nourishing cream. This procedure is recognized as very effective, but for the susceptible skin, it can be unnecessarily aggressive. Do not resort to this prescription if the skin is damaged and inflamed.
- Recipe # 3. Cleaning the face with shaving foam and soda
Before steaming the face, the soda is mixed with shaving foam and allowed to stand for a while. Pre-steaming the skin, begin to cleanse. To do this, take a toothbrush with a soft bristle. The brush must first be held under a hot water jet. After this, apply the prepared composition and carefully, but at the same time carefully treat the skin in the area of the T-zone and chin, where you can often see clogged pores. The whole procedure will take no more than 5 minutes. After this, the person should be washed with water at room temperature.
- Recipe # 4. Cleaning the face with soda and peroxide
Before the procedure, wipe the skin with a tonic with alcohol. Wadded disk, soaked in a 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide, dip in salt of the type "Extra", and then - in soda powder. Then gently work the skin, concentrating the area where the black dots are concentrated. This procedure will help whiten the skin and relieve inflammation.
- Recipe number 5. For gentle cleansing
This recipe is recommended for women with receptive skin that is prone to atopy. For the procedure mix in the same proportions salt, soda and oat flakes, softened with milk. After application, the skin should be gently massaged with fingertips. To enhance the effect, the mask can be left for a few minutes, and then washed off with warm water.
- Recipe # 6. Cleaning with soda, salt and olive oil
In mixed in equal proportions of soda and salt, add a little olive oil. Make the composition on the face and massage gently. Olive oil will make cleaning not so aggressive and safer.
- Recipe 7. Cleaning for problem skin
This procedure is suitable for cleaning the skin on which rashes often occur. Soda should be mixed with flour in a ratio of 1: 5 and add a little water. The resulting composition should be applied to the face and carefully massage with fingertips. To get the best result, after the massage the composition is left for a few more minutes.
Skin care after the procedure
To get the maximum effect, after cleaning, you can make a mask of clay. In it before application on the face add chlorhexidine or other antiseptic agent. After the clay dries, the mask is rinsed off with water, and the procedure is completed by applying a nourishing cream.
If the cleaning procedure was sufficiently aggressive, it is recommended that a soothing mask be used after it. You can use the recipe from oat flakes, honey and olive oil. An excellent result will give yogurt mixed with a crushed apple. You can also use the finished mask.
After cleaning, it is advisable to avoid using alcohol-containing lotions. After waking cosmetologists are advised to wash with mineral water. You can add a little clay to it. This composition will resemble milk. This washing perfectly cleanses and prevents the contamination of pores and inflammations.
In soda there are no vitamins, but the effect of periodic cleaning of the face with soda does not take long: the skin will become soft, the pores are less noticeable, and inflammations can be forgotten.