We all want fresh glowy and healthy skin and we all know that starts with having clean skin. When wearing makeup regularly it’s important to ensure we have our make properly removed to keep our skin clean and healthy. However, no matter how hard you try, often your makeup doesn’t come off properly. Not only is leaving traces of makeup not hygienic, it can also lead to some nasty skincare problems like infections and eye irritations. To help you steer clear of bad skincare and nasty irritations from makeup here’s how to remove your makeup properly.
How To Remove Your Makeup Properly
How To Remove Your Makeup Properly
How To Remove Your Makeup Properly
To remove your makeup properly you must break down the makeup with a cleanser and remove any excess oil from the skin. Use an oil based cleanser to lift and remove lipstick, then gently remove mascara from the eyes with a clean makeup pad with a natural oil based cleanser. It’s important to ensure all your makeup is removed from the skin. We recommend to also wash the face with warm water and pat dry with a reusable face cloth. Steaming and covering the face with a muslin cloth to exfoliate is a helpful additional step to help rid the pores of dirt and makeup. It is essential to remove your makeup daily.
The best guide to removing your makeup properly and naturally
Take your time when removing your makeup.
There’s no rush to your evening skincare routine. The most important piece is ensuring that your face is left clean and all your makeup is removed. Often wearing heavy makeup or mascara can be difficult to remove and can be a lengthy process to get it all off. Not rushing and taking your time is our top tip when looking at how to remove your makeup properly.
Take your time and remove the makeup slowly and gently. Let the removers soak in and do their job. By taking your time you will find that the makeup will be removed much easier, saving you time in the long run. Applying makeup remover and letting it sit is a handy trick to help shift some of the tougher makeups. This will also stop you from rubbing and scrubbing at the skin with your makeup remover pad.
Use your cleanser to help break down the makeup
Your cleanser should be your go to tool for removing your foundation and blusher. Take your cleanser, apply it to a makeup remover pad and start removing makeup from your skin. Massage the cleanser into the skin. As we mentioned before by letting the cleanser soak into the skin it will do a much better job and working into the makeup and lifting it. Work around the face, along the hairline, your chin and under the neck line. Then take a face cloth and wipe over the face to ensure the makeup is really gone.
Use soap to help keep the skin extra clean
Reusable face pads can be fab at removing makeup and this is a great first step. But try and break the habit of a quick whip round, remove the makeup with a face and off to bed routine. Following removal with cleanser use a soap to wash the face with warm water and rid any chemicals in the cleanser. Enure you lift any last lingering elements of makeup. If you use a moisturiser this is extra important step. If only using a cleanser and face pad, sometimes when applying a moisturizer you can push makeup and dirt back into the pores if not fully removed.
Don’t miss around the eyes and eyelids
Often the heaviest of makeup is found on and around the eyes. The eyes are also very sensitive. Proceed with a little caution and make sure you are extra careful and gentle around this area of your face. This is an area that is often neglected, so we’re going to highlight it here. The edges of the eyelids can be overlooked and can be extra tricky to get to when cleansing. To make sure your makeup is removed properly take some care in and around this area. A great tip is to take a tool such as a swap to really get close to areas hiding a little makeup.
Don’t miss around the hairline
You want to make sure when removing your makeup you’re getting all off and that includes makeup around the hairline. Often makeup can be pushed up around the hairline and build up, resulting in clogged pores. Although this is maybe the last thing you want to do at night. Take your hair, whip it back in a pony and use a face pad with a cleanser to really work in and around the hairline. This will make sure all is removed around this area and your hairline is free of any traces of makeup.
Get rid of excess oil on the skin
As we covered before it is important to rid the skin of any excess oil. After you have removed your makeup with a cleanser use a dry face pad to remove any excess oil that may still be left on the skin. This step is great for ensuring all excess oil is taken care of and removed from your skin.
Don’t use baby wipes, ever
Don’t use baby wipes to remove your makeup, ever. Baby wipes are full of chemicals and they are incredibly bad for the environment. Please stay away and don’t use them to remove makeup. Not only will you be inputting nasty chemicals into your skin pores you’ll also be helping to add to an incredibly bad environmental problem. Baby wipes take years to decompose, not good at all.
When should I remove my makeup?
When should you remove your makeup? You should remove your makeup every day after wearing it. This should ideally be every evening at some point before you sleep at a minimum. It is important to let the skin breath naturally and remove impurities such as makeup.
Why it’s important to remove your makeup properly
It is important to remove your makeup to relieve the skin of oils and impurities that will lead to bad and unhealthy skin. Skin should be clean and natural and it is important to remove any non natural substance daily and wash and clean daily dirt.