What is the relationship between beauty and skin health

Beauty and skin health are never antagonistic, nor are they bound to cause and effect—a healthy skin base is the prerequisite for all beauty treatments to work, and scientific and appropriate beauty treatments can, in turn, help maintain and strengthen the health of the skin, and even intervene in the occurrence of some skin problems in advance.

Two groups are quarreling fiercely on the Internet right now. One group says that beauty is all a tax on IQ. As long as you have a regular diet and a light skin, your skin will be fine. The other group advocates that if you don’t do anti-aging beauty treatments, your face will be ruined by the age of 30. In fact, they are going to extremes. When I was working as a consultant at a community skin management center two years ago, I met a 26-year-old girl who followed the trend of having facial makeup done just after getting her year-end bonus. Today she applied high-concentration acid for a peel the next day, and she dared to do a full-mode photon treatment once in half a month. She suddenly turned her originally healthy normal skin into severely sensitive skin. In winter, her face turned red like a ripe peach after two minutes of wind blowing. She used any big-name skin care products and it stung, let alone wearing makeup for more than two hours. Later, I asked her to stop all functional programs, wash her face with warm water of about 35 degrees Celsius every day, apply simple ceramide repair cream, and rely on hats and masks to protect her from the sun when going out. It took her half a year to maintain the skin barrier and slowly recovered. After that, she only did a mild hyaluronic acid introduction once a month, and did basic moisturizing and sunscreen every day. Now her skin is very clear, and it is much better than when she was messing around.

Don’t think this means beauty is useless. I met a 42-year-old middle school teacher who had a pretty regular schedule and didn’t smoke or drink. He just stood on the podium and ate chalk dust all year round. In addition, the cold and windy northern winter caused heavy dry lines on his face and a lot of sun spots on his cheekbones. She doesn't blindly pursue Internet celebrity projects, and does gentle deep cleansing and hydration once a week. She uses peptide antioxidant essence suitable for dry skin every day, and does low-energy photorejuvenation twice a year to adjust her skin tone. Now many of her colleagues of the same age have obvious static lines and dull skin. Except for the faint lines around the eyes and tail when she smiles, her skin is very tight, and her sun spots have faded and are almost invisible.

In fact, this matter is very easy to understand. You think of your skin as a pot of succulents that you raise. The healthy root system and thick leaves are the foundation. You occasionally pour some diluted nutrient solution and put it in a diffused place to bask in the sun, which is a beauty treatment. If the roots are rotten, it will be useless no matter how much imported nutrient solution you pour, and they may even rot faster. But if the roots are good, and you don’t care at all and leave them outside in the wind, rain, and sun every day, the leaves will wilt and develop sun spots over time. The plants that could live for many years may wither in less than two years.

Many people think that beauty can harm the skin. Essentially, they confuse "excessive beauty" with "scientific beauty." Even the sunscreen we talk about every day is actually part of basic beauty care. You can't say that sunscreen will harm the skin, right? To put it bluntly, as long as the beauty method you choose matches your skin type and does not exceed the skin's tolerance threshold, it will add points to the health of your skin. On the other hand, if you only pursue quick results such as "whitening in 7 days" and "wrinkle removal in one go", then the most popular beauty program can damage good skin.