According to Baidu Encyclopedia:
Toner, toner and make-up water are collectively called cosmetic water, which is a transparent liquid cosmetic. It is applied to the skin surface to clean the skin and keep healthy. Toner, astringent water and toner are not much different. Toner and astringent water are more suitable for hot weather and oily face, and toner is more suitable for dry season. Toner plays a connecting role in basic skin care.
What is emulsion?
The earliest lotion, the type is relatively simple, mainly cleaning and moisturizing. Later, with the reform and opening up and a well-off society, people's needs increased. Therefore, businesses began to add different functional ingredients to lotion, and lotion claimed more and more functions. According to the emphasis of the added ingredients, the names are different.
As for why there are so many complicated names, if I have to ask Big Head to give me a chestnut, which is similar to my name, my nicknames can also be called Dog Leftover, Idiot, Ergouzi and Cui Hua.
But in any case, please remember that they are all bottles of water and cannot replace a complete moisturizing system.
Looking at the ingredient list, basically 99% of cosmetic ingredient lists are ranked first with water, and the water content is generally above 90%.
At the same time, some polyols such as butanediol and dipropylene glycol, glycerol, hyaluronic acid, PCA sodium and so on. It is added as wetting agent, and plant extracts or other functional components are added into high-grade water. Finally, some preservatives, flavors, pigments, thickeners and so on. Will be added to different products as appropriate. So a bottle of emulsion came out.
Of course, there are two brothers in this family who are exceptions, namely Spray and Pure Dew. My sister Hugh once had an in-depth analysis, so I won't explain it any more. Interested babies poke below to have a look!
The media said they were too profiteering and insincere. What's the difference between these big sprays?
Regarding the right or wrong of pure dew, the boat of friendship may turn over?
Is it necessary to use toner?
There has been a discussion about the uselessness of emulsion in the skin care industry. Many students think that since a bottle of emulsion is 90% water, what's the use of it?
The correct way to open moisturizing is to let the skin stick a group of emulsion or cream that can lock moisture when the water content is the highest, so as to reduce the evaporation of skin moisture, instead of using a mask as a water film!
The existence of lotion is reasonable and can play a connecting role. Although our skin is lipophilic, it is not hydrophilic. Using emulsion after facial cleanser can fully penetrate the stratum corneum, which is better than directly applying heavy cream.
Secondly, most lotions use small molecular humectants, which have the function of solvent penetration, so that the follow-up essence can enter better. At the same time, the skin moisture content is high, and the cream can lock more moisture.
Therefore, for an emulsion, there is no need to invest particularly large costs. It can meet the requirements of simple, non-irritating and safe lotion. Big head is a person who uses spray instead of emulsion all the year round. Occasionally, if the skin is in poor condition, it will be conditioned with high-performance water.
But! If you can apply moisturizing cream after washing your face and before drying, or if you have insufficient budget and want to spend more money on essence, you can skip the step of hydrating.
Just like the theory of lotion uselessness, some people will go from one extreme to the other: many girls are brainwashed by the theory of hydrating and loving lotion, and would rather buy a bottle of 800 water than a bottle of 600 essence.
In my understanding, the input-output ratio of general lotion is far less than the essence. If my skin care budget increases, I need to upgrade my products in the following order:
Sunscreen-Essence-Cleanser-Toner
What is a high performance emulsion?
At present, there is no accurate and scientific definition of high-performance emulsion in the industry. Thick and high-functional water and liquid essence are often confused, and the boundary between them is very blurred.
Generally speaking, high-performance water not only has the effect of ordinary emulsion, but also adds various essential ingredients, thus having different nursing effects and helping the skin to be in the best absorption state. It is the leading medium of the follow-up maintenance ingredients, between conditioning and repair, and helps the follow-up maintenance ingredients to be better absorbed. In short, it is a high-concentration essence emulsion.
Make-up water belongs to a cheap big bowl, which is not uncomfortable to use, but the relative capacity of the essence is much smaller. It's a little wasteful to use so much essence to penetrate cutin and condition skin at one time, so many high-performance waters are born, such as healthy water, perilla water and golden water. ...
With a certain concentration of active ingredients and enough dosage, you can also see the effect, especially for oily acne skin, so it has become a necessary product for many people to care for skin. When purchasing related products, you must choose the appropriate high-performance water according to your own demands, and pay attention to the frequency of use.
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I talked a lot. What Big Head wants to express is:
Toner is not an essential product. If your budget is limited or you are lazy, you can omit this step. But if you choose the right emulsion, it is also icing on the cake, and the focus of the big head is on sun protection and essence.
Wrong idea
Q 1: shake it before drinking, take a picture with a highlighter and bake it on the fire. It has been circulating in the market for many years?
Again, aging, brain is a good thing, I hope everyone has it. If we can judge him only by folk testing methods, then the formulator can be laid off and put a lot of energy into studying these things. It is better to consider finding a regular product that matches your skin.
Q2: Is water containing alcohol necessarily bad?
Alcohol is a common ingredient in cosmetic water, especially toner, astringent water and acne muscle cleansing water.
Alcohol is added for three purposes:
Produce a cool feeling, alcohol volatilizes, the skin feeling will be good, and at the same time it has a convergence effect; It has a certain bactericidal effect and cooperates with anti-corrosion; As a penetrant, it helps to metabolize old and waste keratin.
Therefore, low alcohol content is not as terrible as we thought. Dry skin and sensitive muscles can be avoided, and mixed muscles can be used in T area. Others should choose regular products without obvious alcohol smell according to skin attractiveness, and use them in the right way and at the right frequency.
Q3: Do I have to use moisturizing cream after using toner?
Since it is emphasized from the beginning that a complete moisturizing system should not only use emulsion, but also use cream-type closed moisturizing products in the future, should everyone follow this routine? That's not true. If you are a thousand-year-old city wall with big oil skin or you are rich in oil in summer, usually you just need to wash your face and pay attention to sun protection.
Appropriate use of some make-up water to help keratin metabolism or refreshing, subsequent moisturizing cream, mask and the like can be omitted, otherwise eating too much will not cause pore blockage, and then blackheads and closed acne will come to you.
Q4: The stronger the toner, the better?
Thick ≠ high function ≠ essence
This illusion is easy to create, just add some xanthan gum and carbomer to thicken it, so the thicker it is, the better its efficacy does not mean. Of course, some highly functional water will be more concentrated after adding many active ingredients, such as Albin and IPSA.
Q5: Toner can whiten, remove spots and shrink pores?
Don't! But! Use! If make-up water is available, this will make the face of essence and medical beauty instruments disappear! Why can't make-up water reach the essence? First of all, many functional ingredients are fat-soluble. Secondly, the content of functional components in lotion should not be too high. Since the concentration can't be reached, the effect will naturally be discounted. (salicylic acid, etc. It is excluded here, and a certain concentration can be effective. )
Whitening makes essence sunscreen the main force. For all kinds of spots, please see a dermatologist for medical beauty. Please poke the pores here and read the previous article. The emulsion will stop for a while.
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Give so many examples.
No hot SK-II fairy water?
According to the official introduction of SK-II, the positioning of Fairy Water (full name "SK-II Skin Care Essence") is the essence. Moreover, SK-II products also contain special toner products such as skin rejuvenation and clear-ying dew, so it is a well-deserved essence.
But everyone is used to using it as toner. Who calls it pure yeast liquid? Flower water pure dew is a water-soluble extract of flowers and plants, so fairy water is also an aqueous extract of yeast. Treat it in the same way, and then use essence and emulsion products. There is nothing wrong with this way. This is toner.
Before answering this question, let's briefly understand the origin of emulsion. At first, make-up water was used to neutralize soap scale in previous cleansing products (secondary cleaning), but now it is a pure soap-based cleansing product for several times, which will not produce soap scale, so the manufacturer has given make-up water more significance. Later, many kinds of emulsions were derived, which were generally divided into toner, astringent water, toner and essence water.
Whether it is toner, toner, toner, conditioning water or essence, its main function is to replenish water and soothe skin, but their respective emphases are different.
The distinction between the above waters has no substantial effect. The most effective way is to choose the corresponding emulsion according to the needs and skin types.
Moisturizing and soothing If your skin is in good condition, your skin care needs are "basic care, just keep your skin as it is". You can choose some moisturizing and soothing lotions.
Common moisturizing ingredients are: glycerol, calcium pantothenate (panthenol) and hyaluronic acid (hyaluronic acid)? Ceramide, polyol (such as butanediol, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, sorbitol, etc. ), shea butter, squalane, natural moisturizing factor (NMF) (such as various amino acids, lactic acid, various PCA, sugars, urea, etc. )
The well-known Muji emulsion is a moisturizing emulsion. It is a good choice for people who pursue moisturizing, with simple ingredients and high cost performance. It can also be used for wet compress and hydration.
Other moisturizing lotions can also choose brands such as HABA, Fangke, Minon, Kerun, Fulifang Silk and Winona. In addition to high cost performance, most of them are specially designed for sensitive muscles. In addition, Yang Ya and la roche-posay are the best choices for sensitive muscles.
If it is dry skin, you can choose high-performance water with more moisturizing ingredients, such as Lancome powder water. In its long list of ingredients, moisturizing ingredients can be seen everywhere-in addition to common butanediol, glycerol, glycerol, sodium hyaluronate and sodium hyaluronate, honey, sweet almond protein and yeast extract that can activate cells are also added.
If the skin is not dry, some people will think that the water is too moist. In summer, it can be changed into running water of Infu yarn, which has many active ingredients. In addition to the top moisturizing ingredients, there is also the soothing ingredient mentioned just now: dipotassium glycyrrhizinate.
There are also some lotions with soothing ingredients to help calm the skin. The common ingredients are dipotassium glycyrrhizinate, or licorice extract, or witch hazel extract. For example, adding dimethyl glycyrrhizinate to the water of Coix seed can relieve allergies, and the water of Kiehl's Toner contains witch hazel, which is mainly anti-inflammatory and alcohol-free, and is also very friendly to sensitive muscles.
There is also well-known mushroom water, which belongs to a kind of essence water. It is based on pure water and wild chrysanthemum water with good calming effect, and its essence is several plant extracts. Among these extracts, the well-known brands are Ganoderma lucidum and Cordyceps sinensis. The active ingredients in Ganoderma lucidum can resist free radicals and antiallergic, and Cordyceps sinensis also has outstanding antiallergic ability.
This bottle of water has a good reputation of calming and anti-allergy, and is suitable for problem skin and sensitive skin with acne and closed mouth.
In addition to moisturizing and soothing ingredients, some whitening and oil-controlling ingredients will be added to the lotion to improve the skin quality, or specific problems will be analyzed.
The famous whitening water contains many active ingredients, and dipotassium glycyrrhizinate and witch hazel are also used to help calm and soothe skin. Its polarized comments alone are serious. The main reason is that its second component is ethanol. Usually, skin care products containing ethanol have a refreshing feeling, and can promote penetration and absorption of other effective ingredients. However, a large amount of alcohol will aggravate the dryness and sensitivity of the skin, so it is more suitable for oily skin and mixed oil, not for sensitive muscles.
Many babies still like to use it to wet compress, but Heizi suggests that the frequency of wet compress should not be too high, otherwise the tolerant skin will easily become sensitive muscles.
Functional water containing many active ingredients is also added. Perilla frutescens and clove, the main components, have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and also have certain effects on silence, but ethanol still ranks second, so sensitive muscles should be carefully selected.
Well-known healthy water is also an emulsion containing many active ingredients. The active ingredient of European leaves is mainly anti-oil, which is combined with dipotassium glycyrrhizinate and witch hazel to relieve allergy. However, the second-ranked alcohol is still not very friendly to sensitive muscles, and it is more suitable for oily acne muscles. However, there are still cases where sensitive muscles are suitable. If you must use them, you'd better try them first.
This astringent water is added with mint, so it has a strong sense of coolness. In addition to water and simple moisturizing ingredients, it also contains witch hazel leaf extract, artichoke leaf extract, wild rose fruit extract and other ingredients, all of which have good convergence and conditioning effects.
After applying a cleansing mask or removing blackheads, you can also use a cotton pad to wet compress astringent water to avoid pore expansion.
The famous fairy water is a kind of essence water, and its composition is very simple. In addition to water, moisturizing ingredients and preservatives, it is its patented ingredient, Pitera? . Pitera? It is a kind of yeast metabolite, and its composition is very complicated. It has certain exfoliating and oil control effects, and many people will feel the skin brightening after using it.
This bottle of water, also known as oily skin mother, has done a good job in conditioning skin condition and keeping skin stable. But because of Pitera? Skin with high content and poor tolerance can easily cause allergic reactions, so it is best to try sensitive muscles first. In addition, this water is more suitable for oily skin because it contains less moisturizing ingredients.
No matter what kind of water, you need to choose according to your skin quality and needs. Before buying, you can do your homework, check the ingredients list, and then go online to see the reputation of this product, so that you can have a basic judgment on whether it is suitable for you.
Text: Kenji
What is the attraction of make-up water? The main appeal of cosmetic water is to remove aged cutin, moisturize cutin and adjust skin environment, which provides a good foundation for the use of subsequent products. Of course, there are also improving ingredients in the emulsion, especially some high-performance emulsions.
Most skin care manufacturers develop a series of products in strict accordance with the steps of cleaning products, lotions, essences and lotions/creams when setting the skin care process. In this way, when the skin is at the highest moisture content after washing the face, the follow-up products will help lock in the moisture and avoid excessive evaporation.
The form and formula of lotion determine that their moisturizing ability is not as good as lotion and cream, so generally speaking, for dry skin, it is definitely not enough to use lotion alone. (Work sister interjects: Hot and humid summer is an exception, and many people don't feel dry when using lotion alone. )
What's in the makeup water? Generally, more than 90% of cosmetic water is water, or natural spring water and pure dew of aromatic plants are used to replace water, hydrophilic and moisturizing ingredients, such as polyols such as butanediol, hyaluronic acid, amino acids and PCA. Add a certain concentration of plant extracts or biochemical synthetic active ingredients, and then make a rich, moisturizing or refreshing texture with colloid, synthetic ester or alcohol according to the positioning and appeal of the whole product.
Should I pat or wipe the emulsion? The commonly used methods of cosmetic water are cotton pad, hand pat and spray.
Cotton pad
Using cotton pad is the most classic and ceremonial way to use lotion. Many Japanese products will recommend the use of cotton pad, which has the advantage of not flowing everywhere, being simpler to use and having a certain exfoliating effect. Generally, there are two ways: wiping and patting. If you are worried about excessive exfoliation, it is better to choose a pat as far as possible.
The disadvantages of wiping are also obvious. For those expensive high-performance water, it wastes a lot, and excessive wiping of the skin will aggravate the damage of the barrier, which is not good for sensitive skin. So try to choose a soft and natural cotton pad to reduce the number and intensity of wiping.
Pat with one's hand
It is much easier to shoot by hand, which is also the way of most European and American departments. Pour a proper amount of product into the palm of your hand, then smear or pat it on your face. The advantage is that it will not exfoliate excessively, and the disadvantage is that it is inconvenient to use. Moreover, if the moisturizing effect is single, it is better to pat the lotion with a cotton pad by hand.
spray
If you have a spray bottle with a thin nozzle or a product with a spray design, it will be much more comfortable to use. Just spray it on your face a few times.
Can make-up water wet compress be done every day? Some improved products, such as healthy water and snow muscle essence, can be wet-applied, so that the ingredients can penetrate better, and mild moisturizing products can also be applied for a period of time when the skin is dry and dull. The product is reliable, the skin is normal, there is no acne or allergy, and it is no problem to apply wet compress occasionally.
Among many wet compress products, Xueji Jinghua has the best reputation, but it is only suitable for oily and insensitive skin, so don't toss sensitive skin.
Is spray emulsion more effective than ordinary emulsion?
Expert advice: there is no such thing.
Whether it is effective depends on the ingredients and whether these ingredients are suitable for you. If additional moisturizing factors are added to the spray, such as polyol, hyaluronic acid or ceramide, you can spray it evenly on your face, gently massage with your fingers, and then use eye cream, essence and moisturizing products. However, if the spray only contains mineral water, it should be positioned as fresh and soothing water instead of emulsion, which can be used to calm and relieve the pressure, dryness, redness and dryness of the skin at a certain moment.
Is high-performance emulsion more effective than ordinary emulsion?
Experts suggest that high-functional lotion may not be suitable for everyone, and it can have a good effect on extremely dry and aging skin, but for young skin, ordinary lotion is enough, otherwise high-functional ingredients will not only be wasted, but also no obvious effect will be seen.
In fact, all cosmetic water is extended from moisturizing emulsion. The only difference is that some emulsions add some functional ingredients or have strong permeability. High-functional lotion usually contains expensive biochemical moisturizing factors, such as hyaluronic acid, mucopolysaccharide, collagen, amino acids, peptides and so on. , not only has high-quality moisturizing effect, but also has maintenance effects such as repairing aging.
Can I use an alcoholic emulsion?
Little-known secret of toner
Expert advice: on the one hand, alcohol can remove the oil secreted by the skin.
On the other hand, it also has antiseptic and bactericidal functions, but to achieve this goal completely, the concentration of alcohol needs to be as high as 60%~70%, which is very irritating and harmful to the skin. Now there are more and more alcohol-free emulsions, because many of their ingredients have the advantages of alcohol but are not irritating, especially some plant formulas. You can try.
Is there no seasonal difference in the use of emulsion?
Expert advice: In fact, not only when the seasons change, but also when the skin condition changes, we should use the corresponding lotion alternately.
Use moisturizing emulsion in winter or when the environment is dry; Plant astringent emulsion can be used in summer or when oil is abundant; You can use whitening or hypoallergenic emulsion in autumn and spring. For acne or rough cutin, the corresponding emulsion can be used locally, but it is not suitable for long-term use.
Will you pat the emulsion with your hand to absorb nutrition?
Expert advice: The advantage of patting the pie by hand is that patting the skin directly with your hands can help the skin absorb nutrients effectively.
This feeling of direct contact with the skin is very kind. Disadvantages: it is impossible to take care of every inch of skin and check the cleanliness of the skin, and the dosage is not necessarily small. The advantage of make-up cotton cake is that it can take care of every inch of skin and dead angle of the face, and can check whether there is makeup and dandruff left on the face. If the lotion on the cotton pad is enough, you can take care of your neck, chest and arms by the way. Disadvantages: If the force is too heavy or the quality of the cotton piece is poor, it will hurt the skin.
Is green organic toner the best toner?
Expert's suggestion: It is true at present, because the green and organic standard is the top international pure natural raw material!
Green organic cosmetics refer to products that contain plant ingredients and must be composed of organic plant extracts that have obtained organic certification. Harmful ingredients such as artificial spices, pigments and petrochemical products cannot be added to the products, and the preservatives and surfactants added must be strictly limited. So this is the best care for women's skin.
Water without color is safer?
Expert advice: no skin care products are primary colors.
Because all the ingredients have their own colors, they can't all be beautiful white or pink when mixed together, so pigments must be added to make the color of the products more uniform, but the pigments used by regular companies should be tested by relevant departments. At present, there are only tar dyes and D &；; C red dye.
How amazing is the emulsion?
How to use lotion correctly and choose the lotion that suits you is a core issue we will discuss today. Of course, before discussing this issue, we should say in advance that the emulsion discussed today does not contain pure dew, toilet water and other products, which have been strictly classified as aromatherapy products, and will be elaborated in detail when we have an opportunity to talk about aromatherapy care in the future. Today, I mainly share some evaluation results to see which ones you are using!