Why "suddenly" the skin of the face becomes sensitive and what to do about it

Quite often, patients complain to a cosmetologist that the skin on their face suddenly began to react too painfully to external influences. Even to the usual cosmetics, to washing, to windy weather, the skin begins to respond with itching and burning, a feeling of tightness, redness and peeling. As a rule, highly sensitive facial skin - & nbsp; this is a response to some changed external or internal factors, and the task of the beautician in this case – find that cause, and help the skin return to normal. How to do this, read on estet-portal.com.

Some of the causes of sensitive facial skin

Before starting the treatment of the skin, which, according to the patient, suddenly turned into extremely sensitive, you should ask in detail and carefully about how and what kind of cosmetics the patient uses, what has changed in her skin care or in her life lately.

Among the leading causes as provoking factors for increasing skin sensitivity, we will name the following.

1. Failure to follow the terms of application of cosmetics for home care, which were recommended by the beautician.

The skin of the face may become excessively sensitive due to the excessive accumulation of the active substance from the prescribed cosmetic product. The doctor prescribes the drug to be applied to the skin for a certain time, and the patient likes the result so much that she continues to use the prescribed cosmetics even after the prescribed period has elapsed. As a result, the skin shows signs of an overdose of the active substance from the drug. You can only help by completely canceling the product and prescribing cosmetics with soothing ingredients.

2. Using expired cosmetics.

It is extremely rare for patients to carefully read the expiration dates on the packages of cosmetics for the face, and, moreover, the terms for using the product after opening the jar or tube. Usually, when buying a cream or serum, these terms are not in doubt, but it is not a fact that they immediately started using the cream or emptied the jar before the expiration date allotted to the product. But these deadlines are not in vain. The cosmetic product may go rancid. The concentration of vitamins, acids, plant extracts, carefully verified by technologists, may increase after the allotted time. As a result, the patient receives a hyperreaction of the skin – peeling, inflamed rash. You can help by immediately canceling the cosmetics used.

3. Using cosmetics prescribed by a doctor for a teenage daughter.

Such cosmetics can quickly and confidently spoil the skin, since adult skin is usually dry and hypoestrogenic, which needs softening and carefully nourishing components. Products for young (and most often problematic) skin – aggressive, which perfectly cope with the problems of increased oiliness, but are in no way suitable for aging skin.

Among other causes that affect the increase in skin sensitivity and which the patient should be asked about, an important role is played by stress (proven to increase skin reactivity), medication and herbal supplements that increase skin photosensitivity.

How to help a patient complaining of increased sensitivity of the facial skin

The strategy for selecting products for hypersensitive skin should take into account the following principles:

• Minimize the amount of ingredients in the skin treatment, discard any components that do not fundamentally affect the expected result;
• be sure to introduce substances that increase the immunity of the affected skin.

The following groups of substances can be recommended to restore the protective forces and reduce the reactivity of the skin:

• general adaptogens of plant origin (schisandra, ginseng, echinacea) and anti-inflammatory extracts (chamomile, yarrow);
• analogues of epidermal lipids (linoleic and linolenic acids, cholesterol, ceramides);
• antioxidants (carotenoids, tocopherol, ascorbic acid, amino acids);
• angioprotective substances to strengthen the vascular walls (rutin, horse chestnut extract);
• moisturizing ingredients with different mechanisms of action (hyaluronic acid, glucosamines, polysaccharides).

With caution, drugs should be introduced into the composition of care procedures  with bioactive substances – vitamins, proteins, minerals. On the one hand, they provide the effectiveness of the impact on the skin, but on the other – they can, due to their complexity of structure and excessive activity, upset the already fragile balance of the skin with hypersensitivity. Therefore, such ingredients are selected  taking into account the maximum need and the minimum risk of unwanted allergic reactions.