Whether it is summer or winter, one of the most important maxims in beauty is to hydrate your face. Serums, creams, balms, gels… The world of cosmetics is full of moisturizing products, but today we want to highlight among all of them the masks to hydrate the face. Are you up to meet them?
Why you should moisturize your face
As we said, one of the maxims of beauty is skin hydration. Our skin is made up mostly of water, so it is a key ingredient for it to be healthy and, therefore, beautiful. Our epidermis (the outermost layer of the skin) is in constant contact with the outside world, full of pollution, contamination, extreme temperatures, and other factors that damage it.
So that all these factors do not affect the innermost layers of the skin, there is the so-called “barrier function”, which has the sole function of acting as a boundary between the inside and the outside and preventing the dead cells that accumulate daily on it from penetrating and acting on the inner layers of the skin.
This is why moisturizing the face and taking care of it daily with exfoliations and hydrating masks is essential to protect our skin. This barrier is mainly composed of corneocytes, cells made of keratin that capture water and provide flexibility. However, if our skin’s hydration gradually degrades, these cells cannot do their job and the barrier begins to break down. The epidermis accumulates dead cells that damage the stratum corneum and our skin begins to feel tight and dry, this is where masks come into play to hydrate the face.
Don’t you love the feeling of softness that you notice on your skin when you exfoliate and moisturize it? That is, when you free it from all the dead cells that have accumulated on it throughout the day or week. That’s what we should always feel. And one of the key products to achieve this, along with exfoliation, are masks to hydrate the face.
How to use masks to hydrate your face
Masks to hydrate the face are essential to achieve a face full of light, hydrated and good looking. If the skin is made of water, and this active ingredient is missing… you know, we will never be able to have the look we want.
It is possible that your daily routine focuses more on anti-aging, firming or antioxidant active ingredients, which, although they also hydrate, do not do so 100%. That is why it is important that once or twice a week you enrich your skin with a mask to hydrate the face formulated with hyaluronic acid, urea, panthenol or other active ingredients that highly enhance the hydration of your skin.
If you want to enter the world of masks to hydrate your face, the way you should apply them to enhance all their benefits is as follows:
- First you must clean your face thoroughly. Choose a cleanser and toner that is tolerant of your skin and does not damage it. You will know if they are the ones chosen if they leave you with a feeling of comfort at the end. If you notice dry, tight or sticky skin, you should consider choosing another type of cleanser. You can check this article to find out which cleanser is right for you.
- The second step will be to exfoliate your skin. Is it necessary to exfoliate the skin before the mask to hydrate the face? No. Is it highly recommended? Yes. When we exfoliate our skin we open microchannels that favor the penetration of the active ingredients that we apply later. Therefore, if after exfoliation we use masks to hydrate the face, it will act more deeply and, therefore, its benefits will be greater.
- You must clean the skin well and remove all traces of the exfoliating cream. The perfect time has come to apply our masks to hydrate your face. In the market we can find 2 main types of masks: cream or mask. If we use a cream mask, we must make sure that we have covered the entire face well, and if we use a hydrating mask, we must fix it well so that it does not fall while we do other things. Generally, they should be applied for 15-20 minutes, although you should check the application method that usually comes on the packaging. After this time, all that remains is to remove the product with plenty of water and apply our night cream.
This process can be repeated once or twice a week, depending on your skin type. If you have very dry skin, we recommend that you do it twice a week, once with exfoliation and once without exfoliation.
Masks to hydrate the face from Sesderma.
At Sesderma we have two masks to hydrate the face: SESMEDICAL hydrating mask and HIDRADERM TRX mask moisturizing.
- Sesmedical is formulated with liposomal hyaluronic acid and panthenol, making it perfect for deeply hydrating the skin and calming it after hair removal or sun exposure or any factor that has altered the skin. It is a mask and is applied for 20 minutes.
- Hidraderm TRX contains hyaluronic and tranexamic, a highly moisturizing and also clarifying active ingredient, so if in addition to moisturizing you are also looking to unify the skin tone and lighten some spots, it will be a perfect option. This is in cream format, so you must spread it well over the entire face for it to act correctly.
Masks to hydrate the face should be a must in every routine. Start applying them now and notice the change in your skin!
