Contents:
- Medical Video: 10 Best Soaps in India with Price | Soaps Effective for Indian Skin Types | 2017
- Choose the right type of soap for your skin type
- 1. Oily skin
- 2. Dry skin
- 3. Sensitive skin
- 4. Combination skin
- 5. Normal skin
Medical Video: 10 Best Soaps in India with Price | Soaps Effective for Indian Skin Types | 2017
Maintaining healthy skin is not enough just to diligently take a bath. When bathing, you also have to choose the best type of soap. With the various types of soap on the market today, is the bath soap you choose right? Is your type of bath soap suitable for your skin type?
Choose the right type of soap for your skin type
1. Oily skin
Your body can produce sebum, which is natural oil. However, this oil production varies for everyone. People with oily skin have sebaceous glands that work more so that the sebum produced is usually too much.
Too oily skin is prone to pimples or blackheads. Therefore, people with this skin type are advised to avoid bath soaps that are too strong in their chemical ingredients.
Glycolic acid and salicylic acid are the most recommended ingredients for oily skin to prevent the onset pimples on the back or chest. Both of these ingredients can bind excess oil so that pore blockages do not occur which will trigger the growth of acne.
However, avoid bathing too often. This will actually trigger the formation of excess oil and cause acne or blockage of skin pores. Simply take a shower twice a day.
2. Dry skin
Sebum has an important role for the skin, but its production should not be too much or little. When sebum production is less than normal, your skin will dry out and lose its natural moisture.
When you choose soap for dry skin, make sure the ingredients contained are ingredients that can moisturize the skin. Choosing glycerin-containing soap is the best choice. Glycerin has moisturizing ingredients and even maintains moisture for several hours after you take a shower.
According to MayoClinic, another thing to consider is using warm bath water (lukewarm, not hot water) and not taking more than fifteen minutes of showering. Then immediately after bathing, use a special moisturizer for dry skin so that skin moisture is maintained.
3. Sensitive skin
If you have sensitive skin, you are lucky. There are many choices owned by stores that sell soap for sensitive skin.
WebMD recommends that you avoid soap containing deodorants and antibacterials. Because the type of soap antibacterial usually contains a variety of additional chemicals that are hard enough for the skin, so susceptible to irritation.
Look for types of soap that contain moisturizers. Also, avoid products that contain salicylic acid and scrubbing. Simply use your hands or a soft cloth to wipe your body while taking a shower and then dry it by gently tapping the skin dry.
4. Combination skin
Combination skin is dry and oily skin type. If you have this type of skin, you should avoid soap that is too special for oily skin and dry skin.
A special type of bath soap for oily skin will make your oily skin more oily. While special dry skin soap will make the dry part of your skin become more dry.
5. Normal skin
This type of skin is the opposite of a combination skin type. Normal skin means not too dry and not too oily. Basically, even though your skin has relatively balanced moisture, choose the type of soap that keeps the moisture of your skin from drying out. You are also advised to wear sunblock or sunscreen when outside the room to avoid the danger of ultraviolet light from the sun.
