How to protect sensitive muscles？

In winter, many people’s faces begin to turn red, dry and tight. In fact, these are all caused by sensitive muscles. So, as a sensitive muscle group, how to protect skin?

Know yourself and your sensitive muscles.

First of all, we must first understand what sensitive muscles are. If the skin has the following conditions, it means that it has been targeted by sensitive muscles: the stratum corneum becomes thinner, and it is easy to dry, tighten and redden; When using cosmetics, it is easy to itch or even tingle, and its tolerance is poor; The water and oil of the skin are unbalanced, and the external oil is dry inside, resulting in acne and acne.

If you are not sure whether it is a sensitive muscle, it is recommended to go to the hospital for a "lactic acid stimulation test"-apply 10% lactic acid to the nasolabial groove and cheeks, evaluate the tingling degree at two and a half minutes and five minutes respectively, and check whether there is erythema. According to the degree of tingling and erythema, sensitive muscles are usually divided into four grades: the first grade, insensitive, and the skin does not respond to external stimuli; The second degree is mild sensitivity, and the skin reacts to external stimuli, but it can be tolerated and can heal itself in a short time; The third grade is moderately sensitive, and the skin is not tolerant to external stimuli and cannot heal itself in a short period of time, but skin diseases such as eczema rarely occur; The fourth level is highly sensitive, and the skin reacts obviously to external stimuli, which is prone to skin diseases such as contact dermatitis and eczema.

Secondly, it is necessary to find out how the sensitive muscles come from. Except for a few people whose skin is naturally sensitive, the stratum corneum is thin and sensitive to light, most people’s sensitive muscles are artificially caused. The natural protective barrier of skin is composed of stratum corneum cells, intercellular lipids and sebum membrane covering the skin surface. Among them, intercellular lipid plays an important role in preventing external stimulation and preventing water volatilization. In a healthy state, this protective barrier is like a city wall, which is used to resist external toxic and harmful substances and various chemical and physical stimuli, such as resisting ultraviolet rays and self-regulating and moisturizing. However, the skin protection barrier is not indestructible, and improper skin care behavior can easily lead to the damage of the skin protection barrier, and sensitive muscles are one of the manifestations of the damage of the skin protection barrier.

What improper skin care behaviors will damage the natural protective barrier of the skin and lead to sensitive muscles? First, improper cleaning. Because of the exuberant sebum secretion, some people always give people a feeling of "shiny face", so they frequently use soap-based cleansing products to wash their faces, and as a result, the sebum brought by the skin is also washed away, resulting in sebaceous glands secreting more sebum. Although the face still looks oily, it is actually very dry, which is what is commonly called "external oil is dry inside", which is also called "oily sensitive muscle". Others often wear scrubs, exfoliates and blackheads when washing their faces, or excessively remove makeup, which will damage the skin protection barrier. In addition, washing your face with overheated water will also lead to the hydrolysis of sebum membrane, resulting in the damage of skin protection barrier. Second, improper skin care. Frequent use of masks will also soften the stratum corneum of the skin by a lot of water, and the skin will become more and more fragile. Others always regard the skin as a test field, indulge in trying the effects of various cosmetics, or use brush acid, alcohol and other irritating cosmetics, which will also damage the protective barrier of the skin.

Targeted repair of skin barrier

The key to repair the skin barrier is to repair the intercellular lipid. The products for repairing the skin barrier on the market, whether it is essence, cream, milk, oil, etc., all rely on supplementing the components of intercellular lipid-ceramide, fatty acid and cholesterol. Among them, ceramide has a good effect on skin moisturizing repair. Now most repair products contain ceramide, which can directly supplement the missing ceramide to the skin. Some skin care products contain vegetable oils (avocado oil, almond oil, etc.), which can provide needed fatty acids for the skin; Cholesterol is cholesterol. Adding cholesterol to skin care products can also repair the skin barrier.

In order to avoid aggravating sensitive muscles, correct skin care behavior is needed during the period of repairing skin barrier. The first is moderate cleaning. Avoid using cleansing products with strong irritation such as soap base, and choose mild cleansing products with low irritation once a day; The water temperature is close to human body temperature. The second is reasonable moisturizing. Moisturizing is the key to skin care, so to do a good job of basic skin moisturizing, you can choose skin care products such as emulsion, cream and cream with safe ingredients and good moisturizing effect. For example, the ingredients list contains good sealing oils (jojoba oil, squalane, shea butter, shea butter, etc.) and natural moisturizing factors (glycerin, hyaluronic acid, allantoin, PCA sodium, etc.). The third is to strengthen sun protection. No matter whether the skin is damaged or not, we must do a good job of sun protection, such as traditional sun protection tools: sun hat, sunglasses, etc. If the damage is not serious, you can choose some physical sunscreen products. The fourth is to try not to wear makeup. Repeated makeup removal will increase the burden on the skin, which is not conducive to the repair of skin protection barrier. The fifth is to stop using hormones, acids and skin care products containing irritating ingredients.

Only by adhering to the correct way of skin care can sensitive muscles get better. Of course, if the skin problem is urgent, then you must go to a regular hospital for medical examination and receive regular medical treatment.