Pollution on your skin: How does it affect it?

How pollution affects your skin

We always insist that we must maintain good skin care. Because there are many factors that can damage it and yes, pollution on your skin It is one of them. Although we must be clear that it not only affects the skin but can also affect the body, especially the lungs.

But perhaps that is already talking about bigger things and we are going to focus on what contamination can leave on your skin, which is not little. Since some of the consequences of it can be presented in a more rapid or evident and others in the long term. Find out how all this affects your delicate skin!

Reduces skin antioxidants

When we talk about contamination on your skin, we also talk about the gases that arrive from the vehicles, as well as the dust or the air itself. So they reach our skin in a direct way and this can cause its antioxidants to decrease.. Among them we highlight vitamin C or E. Two of the great essentials. Since the first takes maximum care of it, preventing premature aging, without forgetting that it is also essential to produce collagen. While the second traps free radicals that are the cause of damage to our skin. So if it is scarce, then it is more common for our skin to suffer. Now we understand it a little more!

Cleansing the face

causes dryness

Surely on some occasion you have noticed it and you have not known very well what it was due to. Well, we must talk about the fact that, as a general rule, the contamination on your skin can be seen through the dryness of it. Hence, it is extremely important to cleanse the face well both in the morning and at night. From said cleaning, we will use a good moisturizing cream. To be able to see how elasticity is once again present in our face. Of course in addition to the creams themselves, nothing like opting for natural or home remedies. Where ingredients such as honey, avocado or banana will be present, since all of them add more hydration, which is what we need.

more acne

Although it is true that dryness is one of the problems of pollution in your skin, sometimes there may be an increase in sebum. Therefore, this increase will cause more dirt in the pores and as such, will result in the appearance of pimples. So again we have to mention that skin care is something of the most basic. For this reason, we have to add that once a week, you need to do an exfoliation, since in this way, we will say goodbye to dead cells.

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Appearance of wrinkles

Surely you could already guess, because really when we talk about the dryness caused by pollution, as well as the decrease in vitamins, we have wrinkles as a result. The skin will be much tighter and therefore, the expression lines will give way to more marked wrinkles. To do this, we must prevent them by applying a day cream or a serum that is responsible for returning light to our face and of course, softness.

More irritations or rosacea skin

In this case, it must be said that rosacea can have various causes, but within all of them, contamination is also one of the main ones. Those redness that can appear all over the face are also due to the sun, wind or humidity. Wash your face well but do not use soaps or water that is too cold or too hot. Sun protection is another of the creams that you should take into account every day. Now we know how pollution affects your skin.


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