A ‘beauty scientist’ has revealed the five skincare myths which are secretly ‘ruining’ your complexion.
Michelle Wong from Lab Muffin Beauty Science explained exfoliating flakey skin, using products with a high percentage of active ingredients and failing to take a break from your skincare regime are common mistakes.
She starts the video with the most common myth: ‘High concentrations are better’.
‘It makes sense that we feel like this,’ she said.’If five percent of something is good then ten percent must be twice is good.’
Michelle Wong from Lab Muffin Beauty Science explained exfoliating flakey skin, programul c9 de detoxifiere using products with a high percentage of active ingredients and failing to take a break from your skincare regime were common mistakes
Only it isn’t, she explained, and all too often leads to the skin reacting negatively.
To make it easier for forever clean detox her followers to understand Michelle compared it to eating burgers.
‘It is about hitting the sweet spot, if you don’t have enough of something it has no effect, too much and you are in side-effect territory,’ she explained.
Michelle said the most common sign you have gone too hard with the active ingredients is when your skin begins to sting when you splash water on it.
The second myth is that you should exfoliate flaky skin.
‘This feels like it makes sense, your skin wants to come off so you help it off,’ she said.
But it should be left to fall off on its own.
Instead people should try drinking more water and adding something soothing like Vaseline.
If you have to remove some because you need to put some makeup on, c9 forever living uk Michelle says the best way is to ‘very gently’ exfoliate using a damp towel.
Michelle says most active ingredients don’t have to be used every day to be effective
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