When it’s time to kick us out creams and products during our facial routine We can be generous or stingy. It is normal that you continue to get involved and are not very clear about the quantity of cosmetic that must be applied to the skin to achieve the desired effect.
Surely you have lately seen images on social networks such as Instagram or TikTok in which a hand appears and they indicate the amount of cosmetic that you should apply to the skin of your face. It is true that they serve as an indicator to know the minimum to apply, but, you have to take into account what your skin needs and the size of your face. Because as Carmen Navarro beauty centers point out: “To start taking care of your skin, you must first understand it, which is why it is essential that you know if you have normal, oily, combination or dry skin. “The products you use in your beauty routine and the treatments you should perform will depend on this.”
The amounts in hand, a good start
To start with the amounts of cosmetics to apply during our facial routine, it is good to have as a guideline the images of the hand that are becoming viral lately on social networks. It must also be taken into account that There are products that have greater dependence on quantity that we put on our skin to have an effect or not. That is to say, it is not the same if we run out of serum or of Solar protection.
When applying sunscreen, experts are clear, two fingers of your hand of product so that it protects us well.
Necessary amount of each cosmetic for your routine
We spoke with the medical team at the Mira+Cueto aesthetic clinic in Madrid to give us their expert opinion on the correct amount of product to apply during your daily beauty routine and they affirm that “not only order is important in which we apply each of the cosmetic products (which are placed from the lightest to the densest in texture), but also the amount to apply of each one of them depending on the needs of our skin.
In any good beauty routine you have to start with cleansing, then hydrating and finally applying sun protection. Let’s see how much we need of each product for each of these steps.
1. How much soap do I use to wash my face?
The skin of the face is the most exposed to external agents so you have to look for a product that cleans it without damaging it and the amount of cleanser or makeup remover to be used as instructed by the Mira+Cueto clinic, it would be like the size of a blueberryregardless of the texture (foam, gel, milk, soap, etc.).
2. Hydration. the amount of cream you should use
With it we make the skin more resistant, have a better appearance and prevent wrinkles. In this step we will use the size of a rice grain for the cream eye contourthat we will apply it with little touches.
For the face, we will first apply a drop of the pea size serum and the size of a almond for the moisturizer, whether day or night. Keep in mind that if you also apply it to your neck, you would have to put twice as much product.
3. Sun protection: the trick to knowing how much to apply
Sun protection is very important and this product does depend on the dose to do its job or not, so it is very important that you apply the sun protection daily. amount of the length of your index and middle fingers. If applied to the neck as well, one would have to use a grape size of sunscreen.
The ideal is to apply it 30 minutes before sun exposure and uniformly. We must also put this product on the ears, which is an area that we usually forget.
In addition, cleaning, hydrating and applying sun protection. You can have in your beauty routine, which is not going to be daily, the use of masks and/or scrubs. Of the first, the size of one is recommended nut of product to use on the face, while if you are going to use a mechanical exfoliant (with friction) with the size of a Blackberry It will be more than enough.
As the experts at the Mira+Cueto clinic indicate, when following your facial routine you have to keep in mind that “placing More product does not mean that it will have a better effect.In fact, we run the risk of saturating the skin, causing some pores to close and some acne to occur, or causing the products we put in at the end not to be absorbed in the same way and not to do their job properly.”
In short, like everything in this life, excesses are not good.
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