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Fundamental of Cleansing
The first step in caring for your skin externally, is
cleansing. Perspiration, grease, dust, stale make-up, dirt
and bacteria all collect on your skin and must be removed
completely. As an artist prepares a canvas, a woman
must prepare her skin for good make-up. The first
step in make-up is cleansing.
Soap and water removes most of "the impurities but it
does not remove make-up completely, hence cleansing is
required. Foundations and powders are designed to
remain on the skin as long as possible. If you wear
make-up during the day, the first step in cleansing your
skin at night should be with a cleanser of some kind:
cleansing cream, lotion, milk or just plain cold cream. The
cleanser must be massaged into the skin with a light
upward and outward movement, paying particular
attention to the creases of the nose, under chin area, neck
and ear lobes.
It is necessary that the cotton wool used for cleansing is
moist, as dry cotton wool absorbs moisture from the skin.
Repeat the cleansing process two or three times until the
tissue is clean. The heavier the make-up you have been
wearing the more times you will have to cleanse your
skin. If your skin is too much greasy or blemished, you
may follow your cleansing by washing with soap and water
using a medicated soap and rinsing very thoroughly with
clean water.
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