Facial facials, what are the do's and don'ts?

Facials are one of the popular skin treatments offered at beauty salons or clinics. Although you can actually do facials yourself at home. But be careful, facial facials should not be done carelessly. Find out the various do's and don'ts for facials in this article.

Actually, what is a facial facial?

Facial is a procedure that is intended to clean the face from dirt, dust, oil, dead skin cells and blackheads.

This one beauty treatment is carried out in stages, starting with facial cleansing (cleansing), scrubbing , massage, evaporation, blackhead extraction, and wearing a mask that is tailored to the skin conditions and needs of each patient.

Ideally, facial facials should be done every 4 weeks because the skin cell regeneration process occurs in approximately 28 days.

Unfortunately, not everyone is allowed to do facials

People who are experiencing irritation or infection on their facial skin are not advised to do facials. Keeping forcing facials even though the condition of the facial skin is not possible will actually worsen the problem.

Therefore, it's a good idea to wait until your skin problem is completely healed first or at least partially subsides. If it's getting better, then you can do facials.

Are there any side effects of facial facials?

Just like other beauty treatments, facial facials also have potential side effects. Even so, the side effects tend to be mild.

Some of the most common side effects after facials include redness, itching, dry skin, allergic reactions, irritation, and pimples or pimples. Usually side effects arise because your skin does not match the ingredients used during facials.

In certain cases, a person may also experience serious side effects, such as damage to skin texture. This occurs due to improper acne or blackhead extraction procedures that cause facial skin to experience sores, abrasions or even pockmarks.

Is it okay to do facials when it is spotty?

Facial when acne is fine. However, first pay attention to how bad the acne is. Remember, facials are not meant to cure acne. Facial aims to clean the face and clear blackheads only.

If your acne is active and inflamed, even red or pus, I do not recommend you to facial first. This treatment can lead to the risk of worsening the inflammatory reaction. Finish your acne treatment and wait until the skin condition improves, then you can have a facial.

Indiscriminate facials when you are spotty actually worsen acne

It should be underlined that in facials for acne-prone skin, the extraction process is only done on blackheads, both blackheads (blackhead comedones) and white blackheads (whitehead comedones). Acne that is inflamed, red or pus SHOULD NOT extracted or squeezed.

Squeezing active pimples and doing random blackhead extraction without special techniques can cause pimples to get bigger and more inflamed.

Instead of pimples being healed, they might even get more inflamed until they become infected or even cause pockmarks to appear later in life.

You can do facial facials at home, as long as…

You can do your own facial at home. But only limited to cleaning the face and scrubbing , without blackhead extraction. The reason is, blackhead extraction must be done by a trained and certified beauty therapist. This is done to avoid complications or worsening of your skin condition in the future.

Therefore, if you intend to have facials including blackhead extraction, make sure you do it at a beauty clinic that is managed by a professional and experienced beauty doctor or dermatologist. Not only that, make sure that the beauty clinic you choose has a trained and certified facial therapist.

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