Evening ritual - what is the difference between night cream and day cream?

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• Application
• Use and application rules
• How to distinguish a night cream from a day cream?
• The difference between young skin and mature skin
• Choice

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  Homemade night creams

Women of different ages use different face creams to keep their skin looking healthy, radiant and smooth. With careful care, you can preserve the freshness, youth and beauty of your skin for many years. And the most important task of the skin is to protect the body from foreign substances.

According to some representatives of the fair sex, the use of night cream is optional. They are confident that the skin needs rest and complete calm at night. This opinion is incorrect, because at night the skin cells are activated and restored, and we need to help them in every possible way in this difficult matter.

The night cream contains a huge amount of active substances, and therefore its texture is denser than that of the day cream. Thanks to these active substances, the night cream renews, moisturizes and nourishes the epidermis.

Application

Our task: to choose the right good night cream with ingredients that will help completely restore skin cells.

So, the skin is in a tense state during the daytime and its main task is to protect it from the negative influence of factors, including the external environment. At night it is possible to compensate for the costs of the skin. During sleep, good conditions appear for her to rest. These include relaxation, stillness and calmness of the facial muscles, darkness and silence. This is a period when blood circulation increases, ingredients in cosmetics become more receptive, and cellular metabolism becomes more intense. Therefore, the skin receives more benefits from the cream at night. According to cosmetologists, high-quality night creams are responsible for good skin condition.

The use of restorative night cream depends on the age and condition of the skin. The older a woman is, the more skin care is required. Consider using anti-aging night products by age 30, and use them systematically after age 40.

This cosmetic product can also be used by young girls under 25 years old if their skin is problematic and has acne. Hence, using a quality night cream is highly advisable. In addition, the cream for problem skin acts on the skin, providing an additional positive effect.

Definition

Night cream is a concentrated care product that is used for active nutrition, moisturizing, vitaminizing, and restoring the skin. It is recommended to use it from the age of 20 - early start of proper care allows you to maintain beauty and youth for many years. On sale are expensive and budget cosmetics with a different spectrum of action - from dryness, wrinkles, age spots, anti-inflammatory and so on.

You can start using anti-aging products around the age of 30, but buy creams specifically for your age - 30+, 40+, and so on.

Day and night face creams solve completely different problems and are not interchangeable, although at a young age many use one product, and you can also find “day and night” cosmetics on sale. Why shouldn't you replace the day formula with the night formula? The first has a pronounced moisturizing effect and, when applied before bedtime, can cause swelling. As for the consistency and degree of fat content, they are not indicators of the quality of a cosmetic product - it’s just that dry skin needs a thicker cream, and vice versa.

Tasks that day and night cream perform

Up to 25 years old, you can use day cream instead of night cream, but it would be better to buy two products.

Use and application rules

Before applying the cream, you need to cleanse your face with milk and rinse with warm water. Apply night cream to your skin 1-2 hours before going to bed. This is the time when the muscles are mobile and the cream can be absorbed normally. And if you go to bed immediately after applying it, the muscles relax, microcirculation is disrupted, and by the morning swelling may occur, especially around the eyes.

Special night creams are used for dry skin that absorbs a sufficient amount of oil, because it cannot produce the required amount of oil on its own. They are also used during the period when the epidermis has become temporarily dry due to illness or negative environmental influences.

Important: Remember that night products for dry and temporarily dry skin are different products.

For excessively dry skin, concentrated creams prepared without water and based on vegetable oils are suitable.

For temporarily dry skin, choose a cream that is not very rich, does not create a protective film on the dermis and contains restorative ingredients along with nutrients.

Applying night cream should be a thin layer, since a thick layer will lead to stagnation of heat and become an obstacle to sweating. For good absorption of the cream, it is advisable that your palms are sufficiently warm; you can, for example, rub them against each other. After five minutes, blot off the residue with a napkin. In addition, dermatologists support the opinion that a cream that has a lot of excess is decomposed by bacteria. This leads to skin irritation. Combination skin sometimes also needs such a cream. But it needs to be applied to dry areas.

After using night creams correctly in the morning, you should notice that your skin is tightened and elastic. Tight skin is nourished with oxygen, vitamins, and collagen. With proper use of night cream, your skin will gradually smooth out and become silky.

Popular creams

While we sleep, they work. Who? Of course, high-quality night creams. There is a huge range of products on sale - well-known and not so well-known brands, mass categories and luxury series, cheap and expensive, for young and mature skin. The most popular brands and products:

• Aroma Night from Decleor is a 100% natural cosmetic cream with essential oils of lavender, geranium, chamomile, iris, wheat, cucumber and walnut extracts. The balm literally melts in your hands and is instantly distributed over the skin and quickly absorbed. At night, the product “repairs” cells damaged by free radicals, moisturizes and tones the epidermis. Cost from 1500 rubles.

Aroma Night by Decleor

• "Moisturizing Expert" brand L'Oréal Paris - the cream contains valuable omega acids. The formula restores the skin's lipid barrier, leaving it smooth, moisturized, and visibly rested. Price from 300 rubles.
• Génifique from Lancôme is a luxury product that contains high-tech ingredients. The unique Génifique Repair complex stimulates the activity of genes that are responsible for the restoration processes of the epidermis. Constant use of night cream allows you to turn back time. Price from 5600 rubles.
• Multi-Régénérante Nuit from Clarins is an effective cream against the first signs of aging. It contains peptides that have a targeted effect on skin cells and nerve endings. Skin aging is a kind of inflammatory process that results in the destruction of elastin and collagen fibers. The cream improves skin immunity and helps smooth out wrinkles. The cost is around 4800 rubles.
• La Nuit De Chanel is a simple, luxurious cream and highly effective formula with hyaluronic acid. The active component is enclosed in microcapsules that instantly moisturize the skin. Price from 5700 rubles.

La Nuit De Chanel

We also recommend that you pay attention to the Benefiance product from Shiseido (3500 rubles), Liftactiv Nuit Vichy (2000 rubles), a good budget cream from Garnier (200 rubles), Turnaround Overnight Clinique (3600 rubles). Of course, luxury lines give the maximum effect, but regular care using budget cosmetics also brings good results.

The cost of night cream starts at about 200 rubles, the upper price level is 4500-6000 rubles.

How to distinguish a night cream from a day cream?

As we already know, the functions of day and night creams are different. So:

night creams are thicker than day creams; they contain active substances that support skin regeneration at night; The skin is moisturized with day cream, which protects it from negative environmental factors, including sun rays. night cream has restorative and nourishing functions.

For good results and greater effectiveness, do not use day cream at night, as it will harm the skin: day cream is rich in moisturizing ingredients and can cause swelling.

Also, you should not use night cream during the day, since it does not contain the amount of substances that are needed to protect the skin during the day from ultraviolet radiation, temperature changes, and aggressive environmental influences. Are they used as masks? Yes, night creams with nourishing and moisturizing functions are also used as masks, in which the cream is applied well to the face (except for the area around the eyes and lips) and left for half an hour. Do not wash off residues with water. Blot them with a napkin.

Many cosmetic companies have begun to produce universal creams that are applied both during the day and at night. Such creams, when used during the day, protect the skin, and in the evening they nourish it with useful substances. Such universal creams have become very popular among the fair sex because they are easy to use.

Let's summarize the features of using night cream.

Apply the cream an hour or two before bedtime. At night, check that the cream is completely absorbed. If you need to remove excess, blot your face with a napkin. These actions can prevent swelling and clogging of skin pores. Keep track of your skin's biological clock. In the evening, the dermis is actively renewed and by one in the morning it takes in useful substances and reaches its greatest activity. To get the most benefits from your skin care, go to bed no later than midnight. Skin regeneration occurs at night, from 2 to 5 am. At this time, the cream, penetrating into the epidermis layer as much as possible, activates it. The skin tone increases, it is moisturized with nutritional components, and as a result, it is restored. In order for day and night cream to complement each other well, they must be of the same brand. This will increase the effective effect on the dermis. The cream must correspond to the needs (facial nutrition, getting rid of wrinkles) and skin type. You need to focus on their composition and consistency.

Night facial care: why?

In the evening, the body prepares for sleep and proper rest, during which the condition of skin cells is restored. Night cream activates metabolism in the dermis, saturates it with useful substances, including:

• vitamins A, C and E, which help maintain youthful skin;
• bisabolol - heals microdamages;
• softening vegetable oils (sesame, argan, shea);
• plant extracts (from oats or carob), enhancing cell renewal;
• elastin, which tightens the skin.

Such a rich natural composition of products actively participates in regeneration processes that start at night. Thanks to its delicate consistency, the cream quickly penetrates into the deep layers of the skin and moisturizes it.

Since at night the body tries to get rid of toxins and various impurities, in the morning the face may look dull and unkempt - the cream minimizes unpleasant effects.

The tangible advantages of using the product include:

• rapid restoration of the dermis;
• healing of minor scratches and injuries;
• youthful skin.

But, like any other cosmetics, night cream has contraindications - current severe inflammation on the face, allergies or intolerance to at least one of the components of the product.

The difference between young skin and mature skin

Unfavorable environmental conditions help to protect young skin. Girls are recommended to use a product with antioxidant protection and use creams with nourishing and moisturizing functions.

For mature skin, cosmetologists and dermatologists advise using creams that fight wrinkles, sagging, pale color, pigmentation and other age-related imperfections.

The concentrated composition and rich texture of creams penetrates deep into the layers of the epidermis of mature skin and restores them.

Choice

The results depend on the right choice of night cream.

Read reviews of new products from manufacturers and choose your favorites. Choose creams based on your age. For example, lifting and enhanced rejuvenation are not suitable for young girls. When choosing, consider your skin type. The packaging indicates what skin type this cream is intended for. Read the ingredients carefully. If you find only chemicals there, discard such creams. Night creams contain vitamins, water, glycerin, collagen, chamomile, ceramides, coenzyme Q10 and other beneficial substances. By the way, coenzyme Q10 is a powerful protection against wrinkles. It is advisable that both night and day creams be from the same manufacturer. It is better to choose night creams not in jars, but in tubes with dispenser tips. The likelihood of bacteria entering them is much less. If you are using night products for the first time, it is better to check for an allergic reaction: to do this, apply a little cream on your wrist and watch the skin reaction.

Kinds

“Your” night cream should solve current problems (smooth out wrinkles, relieve inflammation, etc.), not cause adverse reactions (rash, peeling, itching), have a pleasant consistency and be quickly absorbed. By the way, the ideal consistency is a very subjective concept, since some girls and women are looking for light products, while others like rich formulas.

The main tasks of night cream

Oily skin needs a night care product - but let it not be a thick cream, but a gel or emulsion with vitamins and zinc.

There are several types of night creams, each of which solves specific problems. Let's look at them:

1. Nourishing night cream - contains oils and valuable components, prevents dryness and flaking. It should definitely be in the arsenal of skincare products after 25 years; if the skin is dry, the nourishing product can be used earlier.
2. Restoring formulas - contain amino acids, estrogens, vitamins, plant extracts, kelp. Their use is aimed at restoring overall tone and increasing skin elasticity.
3. For wrinkles - such night creams are used after 35-40 years; they contain substances that stimulate the production of elastin and collagen fibers.

Types of creams

Also, the products on sale are divided into several categories based on skin type and can be intended for dry, normal, combination, or oily epidermis. There are rulers for aging and problem skin.

Nourishing night creams often contain propolis, beeswax and apilac. Before using such a product, make sure there are no allergic reactions to bee products.