The importance of effectively cleansing your skin morning and night is often overlooked by many of us. But little did you know that not washing your face is doing 10x more harm than good. The benefits of spending less than 5 minutes a day to wash your face has enormous benefits including:
1. Research shows cleansing your face before bed is essential to looking younger and fighting against aging. Certain physiological changes occur overnight and the skin needs oxygen to repair itself. This process cannot occur if you are sleeping with your makeup on, as it blocks the natural exfoliating process.
2. By not washing your face regularly, pore sizes enlarge. All the excess sebum, dead skin cells and pollution sit on the surface of your face. The longer makeup is left on your skin, the deeper it seeps into your pores thus clogging them. Also leaving makeup on leads to inflammation and collagen breakdown, causing quicker aging. An effective cleanser will remove all to these unhealthy elements from your skin.
3. Exfoliation should be a part of your cleansing routine. While it does not need to be done everyday, exfoliation rids your skin of excess dead and dull skin cells, revealing brighter more radiant skin. Using a Clarisonic for skin cleansing should not replace your exfoliation, exfoliation still needs to be done in addition to it.
Healthy body, healthy mind, happy soul.