Your Skin: Things To Look Out For When Bathing No matter how much you love to soak, overbathing can be too much of a good thing. Even if you use gentle cleansing products, taking too many long baths, just like overcleansing your face, can hurt rather than help your skin.
from stripping away your skin’s own protective oils. And be sure to choose a mild cleansing product. Harsh soaps, typically deodorant soaps, can cause irritation if you have dry, sensitive skin or a chronic skin problem. Even people with normal skin can develop eczema if they shower more than once a day with a harsh deodorant soap that strips oil from the skin. Shower in the morning, then shower after a gym workout using deodorant soap – do this twice a day and after two weeks, you’ll end up with xerotic (dry-skin) eczema or even nummular eczema. Nummular eczema is particularly unpleasant – coin-shaped patches that blister and ooze. Dermatologists often recommend body bars like Dove, Tone and Caress rather than deodorant soaps. If you’re concerned about body odor, though, use a regular deodorant soaps. If you’re concerned about body odor, though, use a regular deodorant or use a deodorant soap in strategic locations only. To further avoid serious dry-skin conditions, shake off excess water as soon as you get out of the tub and pat yourself dry, then immediately lock in the moisture you’ve absorbed with a super-rich emollient. What to look out for in scented products “Fragrance-free” is a popular sales pitch. Perhaps too much has been made of it. In fact, only 1 to 3 percent of the population may be allergic to certain ingredients in cosmetics, most commonly fragrances and preservatives. What’s more, it might not even be the fragrance that’s to blame. If you’re using a bubble bath, the detergents that create those bubbles might be irritating your skin. If you simply need a mild cleanser, try Oil of Olay’s Bath Bar or a detergent-based liquid cleanser. Both Lever Brothers and Procter & Gamble have good brands. A very mild no-soap cleanser, like Eucerin or Cetaphil, may soothe sensitive, extremely dry skin. If you do have allergic skin, try the Basis brand of cleansers, which are both fragrance- and preservative-free; the Basis bar is also superfatted to prevent dryness. |
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