5 Tips To Choose Right Facial Cleanser For Your Skin Type

What we put on our skin plays the major role on what it reflects. Hence a proper skin care routine is vital to have a good skin. A cleaned face protects the skin from the bacterial attacks. Cleansers play significant role in the health of your skin by keeping your skin protected and renewed. Besides, proper cleansing also ensures maximum performance from your other skin care products. Thus investing in a good and appropriate cleanser is as essential as having a proper diet. But choosing a right cleanser might get you perplexed. Let me brief you on how to choose the Right Facial Cleanser for your skin type.

Now before I jump to the right cleanser for your skin type, lets first break down the of types of cleansers available in the market

• Foaming Cleansers: as the word suggests these types of cleansers make the most of the leather and hence they tend to last on your skin for the longest. You need a little drop to make enough leather for cleaning the entire gunk from your face. Foaming cleanser come in gel as well as cream form. They are more suitable to the oil skinned people to get rid of the excess oil.
• Non Foaming: These type falls under the gentle type cleansers mostly comes as gel based or lotion based. Such cleansers are apt for the sensitive skin people as they are not too harsh to the skin thus the possibility of any dryness or allergy is bleak. Due to its mildness this type of cleanser can also fit for dry skin people as well; also it leaves a little shiny layer to your skin which gives the illusion of hydration to drier skin.
• Soap Free Cleanser: Now don’t get confused between none foaming and soap free. Soap-free cleansers are cleansers without sodium lauryl sulfate or sodium laureth sulfate. Cleansers having soap free properties are less gentle and more on a stronger side which are apt for the oil skin to get out the extreme dirt from their face, penetrating deep into their skin working on the excess greasiness on their face. People who tend get excess of oil around their T zone or on all over their face are best with soap free cleansers.
• Medicated: lastly the medicated one they could be in any form -foaming, soap, soap free, non foaming, gel based, cream based or lotion based. They are usually marked for the skin which needs the treatment against pimple, acne, rashes and other skin allergies. The cleansers have either salicylic acid (to help unclog pores) or benzoyl peroxide (to help kill bacteria) as active ingredients.

First up, a Right Facial Cleanser depends upon various things like your skin type, your routine, skin texture and off course the weather and your age as well. Also the cleanser which might me suiting you today may not work just right in future due to many factors. The demand of a good cleanser changes with weather condition and skin condition too. A cleanser should be strong enough to work as a cleanser cleaning the dirt from you face, extracting out the deal cells leaving your face well moisturized pollution free and refreshed. Always look up for the ingredients before buying a cleanser.

Secondly, the face cleanser should be brought considering your skin typ. If you have a dry skin, you should avoid using foaming cleansers and stick to ones that are milder and give hydration and moisture. If you have sensitive skin like mine, you must avoid cleansers containing acids, fragrances, dyes, and other harsh ingredients. Such skin type can also avoid foaming face since they could be drying on the sensitive skin resulting skin irritation. Similarly, if you have acne or pimple prone skin, stay away from drying medicated washes and rather stick to gentle cleansers and choose oil free facial cleanser.

Thirdly, after using any face wash check whether you are feeling comfortable with it or not? If your skin feels oily and dull after the application, or too stretched out then you might be using a wrong cleanser for yourself. To know whether your cleanser is actually cleaning or not? Then do a cotton test by dipping a cotton ball in any oil, toner or rose water and apply gently on your face, if you find any residue, filth or any yellowness on the cotton then for sure your cleanser is too mild to clean hence change to a little stronger cleanser.

Fourthly, Your skin texture varies too and reacts different under different weather condition, so the cleanser you are using in summers might not work in monsoon or winters. The skin tends to keep shifting from dry to combination, so choose the right facial cleanser accordingly.

Lastly, The cleansers today come in tons of variants having different ingredient added like fruits extracts, oil enriched, minerals based, aloe vera, skin brightening gold extracts etc. under such varieties few ingredient might be prone to your skin, in that scenario, avoid the product containing any such ingredient which might put your skin off.

Hope these 5 Tips To Choose Right Facial Cleanser For Your Skin Type helped you.

*Written By Mehvish Rana