SKINIPEDIA - Skin Encyclopedia: How to Clean Your Skin?
How to REALLY clean your Skin? (Part 2)
Skin Double-Cleansing Routine:
For a skin deep clean, use a cleanser
specifically for your (your client’s) skin type.
1. Remove eye and lip makeup with a water-soluble eye makeup
remover, or for stubborn makeup, use an oil-based cleansing
oil if it is suitable for the eye area.
2. Dispense an adequate amount of a water-soluble, oil-
based cleanser into the hands and spread evenly between
both palms. Apply the cleanser to the sternum and spread up
and out across the chest to the shoulders, behind the shoulders,
the neck, and continue up to the face.
3. Begin by cleansing between the breasts, where an accumulation
of oil, sweat, and dead skin cells tend to accumulate. Continue
up the sternum, across the chest toward the shoulders,
slide behind the shoulders and use fingertips to circle behind
and up the back of the neck. These movements will concentrate
on areas that are often neglected when a client cleanses at home.
4. With long sweeping strokes, roll and pat across the neck
and décolleté areas. This is also a great movement to help
drain lymphatic fluid.
5. Moving to the chin, alternate thumbs over the chin. This
movement will allow the skin therapist to feel congestion and to
encourage the loosening of micro-comedones. Separate hands
and thumb circle across both sides of the jaw line. The jaw line is
an area that tends to break out during times of stress.
6. Once the jaw line is thoroughly cleansed, continue to the
ears. Cleanse in front of the ears, inside and behind, where
shampoo, makeup, cleanser residue, and hair product accumulation
can build up and cause breakouts.
8. Moving upward into the inner cheek, make circles with the fingertips, and cleanse away concealer and blush. The therapist will also feel heat in this area if sensitivity is present.
9. Cross thumbs over the nostrils, and make small circles up
the nose. This will loosen blackheads and help prepare this
area for extractions.
10. Perform finger frictions in outward circles on the entire
forehead, concentrating around the hairline. The hairline is also
an area that is usually neglected in at-home cleansing routines.
11. From the temples, stroke under the eyes toward the
inside corners of the eyes, then up to the eyebrows and on
top of the eyebrows. Slide back around and under the eyes,
over the lower eyelids and back under the eyes to the inside
corners of the eyes. With light fingertips, gently slide out
over the eyelids with fingers brushing the eyelashes. This
movement is particularly effective at dissolving stubborn,
waterproof eye makeup debris.
12. To emulsify the oil-based cleanser, dip hands in warm
water and position warm steam over the client and repeat
the step-by-step routine. Remove with a sponge cloth,
steam towel or damp sponges or warm water. Continue
with a second cleanse, this time use a cleanser suitable for
the client’s skin concerns.
The author of this article, Annet King, CIDESCO and CIBTAC-certified,
has been a skin care therapist, day
spa operations manager, author, guest
speaker, industry consultant, educator and
distributor. She is the worldwide training
and development manager for the International
Dermal Institute.
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