Hearing someone tell me they don`t cleanse their face before bed is like nails on a chalkboard to me... cringe-worthy.
Anna Pursglove recently wrote an article for Dailymail UKrelating how she bravely decided to challenge herself to not cleanse her face before bed for one month. After one month, her skin specialist announced that her skin had aged by a DECADE!!
So what happens to our skin while we sleep?
Skin regenerates itself while we sleep; dry skin sheds, creates collagen & elastin, elimintes toxins... And as we get older (inevitably every day), our skin needs all the help it can get!
Makeup and external pollutants create a barrier on the skin during the course of the day, and not washing off all the `guk` on a repeated long term basis can cause more damage than we may have thought:
- prevents the production of collagen and elastin (the stuff that makes your skin tight and youthful) therefore causing saggy and wrinkly skin
- prevents old skin shedding to make new for the new younger skin
- cloggs pores, therefore creating larger pores and acne
- irritants get locked in and can cause allergic reactions and redness
- uncleaned eyes can cause infections and lash dandruff
Do I need to continue??
It is hard to offer a suggestion of cleansers, because every skin need is different, but I can tell you that my cleansing routine includes Ponds cold cream with a hot face towel followed by a quick wash with african black soap.
So now that you will all start cleansing before bed, please take the extra 5 seconds to moisturize as well to help keep your face hydrated and healthy. Your future self will thank you for it. :)
