Each skin type has specific needs. If this is particularly true when choosing your skincare, it is also important to adapt your actions and products when applying makeup. For oily skin, we will tend to finish our beauty treatment with a mattifying powder, for mature skin, we will choose the right foundation, focusing on a rather light formula, and if we have dry skin, we will can do small, simple touch-ups with moisturizer.
If you suffer from irritation on your face or acne, there are also small reflexes to adopt. On Instagram, Dr Dima Haidar, dermatologist who shares his advice under the pseudonym @doctor_skinrecently released a video to reveal two accessories, which she believes should not be used or used sparingly.
These objects not to use when applying makeup to irritated or acne-prone skin according to a dermatologist
The doctor recommends not using a makeup brush or sponge for everyday makeup. These could make the problem worse. The reason ? “These are nests of bacteria that hang around everywhere in bathrooms, in kits, because we can’t really clean them well and because the disinfectant products that exist for these utensils leave molecules that can be irritating for ( the skin“, explains the doctor in her video.
Dr. Haidar recommends applying your makeup with your fingers instead, after washing your hands well. She advises, for example, to mix a few drops of foundation with your moisturizer and to keep the brushes and sponges for the days when you are looking for “more sophisticated makeup or for special occasions“.
>>> Check out the video from @docteur_skin here
How to properly wash your brushes and sponges?
If, however, you use them more frequently, it is important to clean them well. In an interview given to Current wifeDr. Nina Roos, dermatologist, explains to us how to choose “a foaming cleanser that dissolves grease like dishwashing liquid or shampoo. These contain very foaming surfactants.. This will allow “break the chemical bonds to dissolve on the bristles of the brushes, and it will be more effective than superfatted soap for example“. She recommends rinsing with lukewarm water, using your hands to loosen what is stuck then rinsing them well and letting them air dry. If you need to disinfect it, it is possible do it with white vinegar before rinsing well with clean water.