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Moisturizing your skin and taking care of it every day is nothing new. But knowing the right amount of cream or serum to apply for optimal effect is less obvious. Experts respond.
In front of your jar of moisturizer, have you ever wondered if you should have a light hand or, on the contrary, a generous one? Because although it is known that hydrating your skin and taking care of it is essential day after day, no instructions indicate the optimal quantity on the jar. So how to proceed? In the magazine Marie Clairethe pharmacist and medical manager for A-Derma, Fanny Treil gives her opinion.
The right dose, for its cream and serum
Our skin is precious, it acts as a barrier between other organs and the outside world. Protecting it is therefore essential. For Fanny Teil, the choice of product is therefore important:
- A facial cream aims to hydrate the skin to counter the insensible loss of water, which can be a source of discomfort, but also accentuate skin aging. Some also have other properties, such as an action on wrinkles, firmness or acne.
- Serums, on the other hand, are targeted treatments that treat a specific problem and strengthen the epidermis.
In this context, the serum is used sparingly. “It is very concentrated in active ingredients, so a few drops are enough to glide it over the entire face.” recalls the expert in the magazine. For cream, it can be more: “For a pump bottle, we will use one or two pumps, while in the case of a tube or a pot, we will start with a pea to a pea-sized amount of product.”
Sunscreen, on the other hand, can be a little more generous, the idea being to fully protect your face.
The exception of retinol anti-aging cream
For special treatments such as an anti-aging cream which includes more concentrated active ingredients, you really need to follow the instructions for use, indicates Dr Marie-Estelle Roux, dermatologist in Femina Version. Retinol, for example, is a very powerful active ingredient. It is applied once a day, rather in the evening, in small quantities: “Especially not as a mask or in a thick layer, and never around the eyes.”. It is even recommended to apply it only two evenings a week at the beginning to test its tolerance.
Is exceeding the dose harmful for your skin?
However, should we worry about applying “too much” care? “No”specifies Fanny Treil. “Apart from the risk of having to repurchase your product more often, there is no real danger in using more than necessary.”
Certain routines such as layering also play on the fact of applying several creams generously.
The problem of a surplus can, however, be found in the following stages. A product that is too shiny or fluffy will not look good on your makeup, for example. But it won’t make you sick or allergic.
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