If it is recommended to apply sunscreen to your face to prevent the appearance of wrinkles, some bad habits can totally ruin its effectiveness. Discover one of them.
To slow down skin aging, nothing is more effective than protect your skin from the sun. While some experts recommend applying sun protection all year round to your face, neck and décolleté, it is particularly interesting to protect these areas from UV rays as soon as the weather arrives. In fact, the sun is one of the first factors in accelerating skin aging and applying sun protection, even in town, can be beneficial in slowing down the formation of wrinkles, sagging skin and the appearance of pigment spots.
If there are now a multitude of sunscreens for the face, with ultra-light textures and invisible finishes, certain bad habits of application can totally ruin their protective effects on the skin…Skincare expert Hannah Collingwood reveals one of them.
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This mistake that makes sunscreen ineffective
New generation facial sunscreens can come in serum, gel or tinted cream form. Textures close to make-up that make you want to mix them with other complexion products. But this is not recommended at all: “You should never mix anything with your sunscreen. Apply your moisturizer, let it act for a few minutes, then apply your sunscreen. Mixing any product with its sunscreen can totally transform its formula and make it ineffective” says Hannah Collingwood.
For sunscreen to be effective, it is important to apply the right amount to the face. In her videos, Hannah Collingwood recommends applying the equivalent ofa good teaspoon on the face, neck and décolleté.