The 5 active ingredients you need in your daily beauty routine

Julianne Moore's facialist

By Hannah Coates

How do you board your skin care routine?Maybe you like to let yourself go and you incorporate every powerful active ingredient that crosses your path.Or maybe you prefer the moderate route, reconsider, look for professional advice and specify what goes best.If you are one of the first, you only need a little push to return to the net of sensible care.Luckily, Los Angeles Joanna Vargas's facialist, who tells Julianne Moore and Emma Roberts, brings us the book of her Grow From within to fix the convenient rules of our skin routine.Vargas, with her extensive experience, knows a few things about the subject and what better she guides towards a revitalized and radiant complexion.

Defender of establishing “basic pillars” for a 360 ° care approach, there is no skin problem that has resisted in its many years as a facialist."Beauty is not just the skin," she says."Today, most of my clients know that, to get their best and younger version, you have to make nutritional meals, avoid some foods and drink enough water."Vargas recommends adopting other positive habits in our day to day such as practicing self -care, paying attention to our body, prioritizing a quality dream and doing some exercise.In her book summarizes it in a maximum: "Connection time and joy."

As for the products, "I recommend a minimalist routine," says Vargas.“A cleaning at night and apply a serum or a mask to go to bed.In the morning, cleaning or clarified, applying serum, moisturizing and sunscreen, ”he continues."I also exfolled a couple of times a week and I put a mask once a week."Finding the cleaner that comes best is relatively easy: it is enough to use a soft formula aimed at the needs of your skin and that does not leave your face tirade after clarifying it.So far, simple.But Vargas exalts the benefits of another basic pillar of facial care that sometimes leads to confusion: active ingredients.Where do we start?

According to the facialist, for a routine to work, it must include a dose of retinol at night, yes or yes. "It is great for all skin types and if you combine it in the morning with vitamin C fosters the natural shine of the skin." Faced with what is usually thought, there are very good retinoids in the market. Brands such as Skincenitors and Medik8 offer a wide range that irritate the skin very little or nothing. Medik8's Retinal 3 Serum Retinal 3 is perfect to start and helps you stimulate cell renewal, an action that improves skin tone, refines its texture and, of course, reduces expression lines. The new Advanced Retinol 1.5% Complex of NO 7 is an option as good and affordable. Vargas has also drawn his own vitamin C serum (rescue serum), a magnificent formula that combines this vitamin with escualene - of superhydrating action - and extract of Saúco, a powerful antioxidant. If you are looking for something more powerful, try the vicky-C lifactiv peptide-c blisters, which presents 10% of pure vitamin C vialuronic acid in each capsule.

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Para la experta, la exfoliación también está en lo alto de la lista de cara a recuperar la buena cara. “Actúa casi siempre como un minitratamiento facial y te devuelve el glow al instante”, asegura. Su recomendación pasa por aplicarse un tratamiento o mascarilla cargados de enzimas de frutas, unido a uno o dos alfahidroxiácidos (activos que garantizan una piel suave y luminosa), como los ácidos láctico, kójico, mandélico o glicólico. Estos arrastran suavemente las células muertas que puedan bloquear los poros, evitando que se acumulen en la piel y apaguen su apariencia. Prueba con Emu Apple Enzyme Power Polish, de Sand & Sky; Prism 20% AHA + 5% BHA Exfoliating Glow Facial, de Herbivore; o Exfoliating Mask, de Joanna Vargas. Recuerda que, según su recomendación, es mejor realizarse este tipo de tratamientos un máximo de dos veces por semana.

To hydrate the skin, Vargas is an absolute fan of hyaluronic acid, the magical molecule that can retain an amount of water of up to 100 times its own weight and that, consequently, moisturizes and repulshes the face as no other asset.Multi-molecular Hyaluronic Complex, from NiOD, is a great option, since it contains up to 15 different forms of hyaluronic (which increases its power to cross the protective barrier of the skin).Or, the hyaluronic acid of Dr. Barbara Sturm, also very concentrated and formulated with short and long molecular chains to achieve greater penetration.

Of course, there are other active ingredients with proven benefits that can improve our routine, but in Vargas' opinion, they would be their key players to form an unbeatable beauty team.However, he clarifies, it is equally important to listen to our skin and remember that what works for a face does not have to serve another.“If your skin is not right, you will notice redness, inflammation or irritation, and if the pinch, that the skin does not return to its place but is irregular or wrinkled.Or you may directly suffer from acne, ”Vargas reviews.If you are at this point, it fights irritation with soothing and anti -inflammatory ingredients such as niacinamide, aloe vera, green tea or cycle, to name only some.Then, check the products you have used or if you may have sinned excess in your routine.

And what else?The fifth asset and perhaps the most crucial of all: sun protection (which is actually a cocktail of several assets).Do not forget to always apply it and go out to eat the world.

This article was originally published in Vogue.co.uk

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