Participate this yearGood recipe in ChinaThe annual gala, which happened to have a roundtable discussion on streamlining skincare. I got it in my hands too2024 Skincare Streamlined***。The content in it is obvious, from the perspective of skin care brands, consumers and experts, there are actually different interpretations of streamlined skin care.
But there is one point, which I think is also the basic consensus of everyone - compared with minimalist skincare, streamlined skincare emphasizes "less but finer".
For example, can the skincare steps be simplified from 10 steps to 3 steps?
Can the skincare time be simplified from 20 minutes to 5 minutes?
Ingredient list, can the miscellaneous additives be reduced to the core necessary ingredients?
The product claims efficacy, can I know how to choose at a glance?
Product collocation, can you not think about conflicts and efficiency reduction?
Actually, the answer to all of the above is「yes」However, it is all up to our brands and experts to work research and development.
From our consumer standpoint, the principle of streamlining skincare is to avoid unnecessary clutter and find the right solution for you.
"Ask if it is, then why and how".
A big dry skin said in winter that he wanted to simplify the skin care process, wash his face with water and not rub the cream, which is obviously not good.
Although there is a saying of "muscle fasting", it is like some liquid fasting methods, which are only suitable for short-term intermittent attempts. And the real streamlined skin care, in a sense, must first be accurately measured and customized.
Since you want to measure your skin and customize your personal skin care solution, you must first have a thorough understanding of your own ** situation and even your physical condition.
My personal case is that for a long time, I thought I was an old dry skin with acne, until I met a doctor the year before last and we chatted a few more times before that, I found out that I may have sweat gland damage and blockage, or because I can't sweat because of my own constitution, so I have become a "dry on the outside and oily on the inside".
During the live broadcast with @马马 this year, Dr. Ma also mentioned that if the oil secreted by the sebaceous glands cannot be fused with sweat and water in a reasonable proportion to form a sebaceous film, the sebaceous film will be incomplete, the skin barrier function will be defective, and the old oily skin with excessive oil secretion will occur. Lack of sweat will cause water and oil to not mix, which is rare, so I use common skincare advice: whether it is oil control acne or dry skin ultra-moisturizing ingredients, it has no effect on me.
This is my personal experience, for example, I have used A-acid, AHA, and antibacterial products to get rid of acne, but none of them are as suitable for me as salicylic acid in comparison - although it does not solve my situation fundamentally.
These detours are due to not really understanding the condition of your skin.
So first of all, please find a senior professional for a careful face-to-face consultation, and be sure to communicate more about your own situation and what problems you have.
And I would suggest that you can find a few more doctors to see everyone's analysis, different doctors may have different judgments, record them, and then use them as clues for investigation.
If you have the conditions, you can also go to the skin instrument for testing, which is not necessary, but some comparative data can roughly understand the advantages and disadvantages of your own ** compared with your peers, and you can understand what can really be improved.
The second step is to find your own skin problems and then find a skincare solution.
In fact, in this step, in addition to listening to the doctor's judgment, it is highly recommended that you go to Zhihu to search for relevant information. Don't look at the recommended products, but look at what methods and ingredients are used to improve them, and to what extent.
For example, for general acne, what are the first-line drugs that will be prescribed in the hospital, oral or external, and what need to be paid attention to in the use of various drugs. Sometimes doctors don't explain this part of the information very carefully, but the answer can be found on Zhihu.
Hormone ointments, generally not more than a week;Clindamycin cannot be used continuously and must be willedA acid needs to be established to build a tolerance to gradually increase the duration of use, endure the process of peeling, drying, and acne, and usually need to adhere to it for at least 3 months;And the overall acne ** recommendation is to stick to 6 months to see the effect.
In daily skin care, it is also necessary to judge that a acid and an alcohol, fruit acid, salicylic acid, mandelic acid ......These are all acne ingredients, but the specific ingredients that are suitable for each individual are different.
The same is true for anti-aging, such as the anti-aging triumvirate, retinol, bosonine, peptide collagen, each with its own efficacy, and the effect on different "aging" is also different. For example, if I don't have any wrinkles but have a sagging face, then I prefer the firming peptides collagen and bosonine.
In short, it is important to accurately understand your skin conditions and problems, and then to understand the corresponding solutions and find the solutions that suit you.
"Cover your waist bag and improve the cost performance of skin care".
In my opinion, the biggest benefit of streamlining skincare is that it can improve the value for money of skincare.
By simplifying your skincare routine, you can buy fewer skincare products. If you do the previous step, it will not only reduce the cost of trial and error, but also make it easier to find products that effectively solve your skincare needs.
In the eyes of consumers and experts, another major benefit of streamlined skincare is "safety" - of course, this is based on "truly streamlined skincare".
For example, after the promotion of excessive sunscreen in the past few years, many ordinary consumers think that sunscreen must have an SPF of 50 or above. But in fact, Europe and the United States began to propose about ten years ago that ultra-high sunscreen will increase the burden and may even cause dermatitis. In China, I found that the first to put forward the sunscreen without dead knock index is also the scientific skin care respondents on the Zhihu platform - although the trend of thinking about reducing the value of sunscreen for commuting has not yet been generalized, it also confirms that Zhihu is indeed at the forefront of the trend of beauty and skin care.
Nowadays, when consumers generally pursue safety and accept the concepts of "minimalist skin care" and "streamlined skin care" from the perspective of no burden on sensitive skin, in fact, Zhihu's focus on streamlined skin care has become more "refined". This essence means precisely, or to describe it in a more compelling word, it is "targeted".
The pursuit of not pursuing concentration and strong drugs, but pursuing targeted solutions to a specific problem will also be the trend of skin care products development in the future.
For example, to solve the problem of dry skin, is it the lack of water storage capacity or the imperfect sebum film?Is it because of my sweat glands that I can't synthesize the sebum membrane or because of the lack of sebum secretion?
These problems used to be generally referred to as the use of moisturizing products. But just as La Mer classic cream is easy to use, and some people say acne, the root cause is that the skin type and skin condition are different, and for a long time, it will always be attributed to "you are not completely emulsified".
"Don't blindly follow the trend, but use it as an alternative reference".
Nowadays, there are more and more brands that do streamlined skin care, but it also needs to be distinguished, streamlined skin care products do not mean that there are fewer raw materials, and raw material barrels like The Ordinary are not called streamlined skin care brands. Streamlining skin care is not the same as a clean skin care brand, but often pure skin care will follow the path of clean formulas and reducing unnecessary ingredients, but whether the efficacy is refined and effective is another matter.
At present, brands with their own R&D capabilities in cinemas, biology, and medicine are more suitable for streamlining skin care memos.
To name a few representative brands:
Boleda, which specializes in supramolecular salicylic acid, emphasizes precise sustained-release oil control.
Specializing in hyaluronic acidFreda (Yilian, Dr. Aier, Shanyan, etc.), Bloomage Biotech (Quadi, Runbaiyan, Mirepair, etc.), Dr. LingThese brands of hyaluronic acid products have their own characteristics, and you can find out whether they are suitable for you.
Giant organisms specializing in collagen (Kefumei, Kelijin, Kefuxin, Kepre, etc.), etc.
Well-known foreign cosmeceutical brands: La Roche-Posay, Avène, Urze, Eucerin.
Two brands that are easily confused: Dermasen, Dermasen, a German pharmaceutical brand, and Dermasensa, an American physician brand.
Blue and white packaging, and with a specific symbol on the packaging to indicate the applicable skin type and time period, is dermasence
Similar to the pharmacist's packaging is the American Demarsen's, abbreviated as DS, all of which are very suitable as a memo for streamlining skincare.
Of course, not only that, but some "one-bottle" skincare products are also suitable for streamlined skincare. The representative is Ou Zhenting Silver Cream - the official tutorial is to apply it directly on the bare face, no essence is required, and it is cold and dry with its silver oil.
Its main role is anti-inflammatory, swelling, and promoting circulation, which is a repair ** cream, which is different from the Japanese skin care products that are special for lazy people with 1 bottle of 6 effects but are very mediocre.
Products like this that have both efficacy and lazy use are actually gradually increasing now.
In short, when you have an accurate understanding of your skin condition, master the scientific knowledge of targeted skin care, and do not need to become an ingredient party who knows everything about each ingredient, you can find the skin care products that are truly suitable for you from the vast red sea of brands.
At that point, you'll naturally cut back on your skincare routine because: there's no need.
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