Skin toners are the next step after a facial cleansing routine. Skin toners ensure complete removal of the skin of all cleansing preparations. They refresh and tone the skin and prepare a clean surface for makeup application. Also restore the acid or alkaline the skin, because they are pH balanced. They are designed to penetrate pores, refresh and cool your skin while removing excess oil, impurities and dead skin cells that were not removed with cleaner.
Toners restore the pH balance natural skin. When you wash your face, balance the pH of the skin is distorted leading to skin working overtime to restore pH levels, the process of restoring skin's pH levels alone can take as much as half an hour or more. Using a skin toner, the pH of your skin is restored instantly.
Choose a toner cartridge suitable for your skin type. A wide variety of toners are available. The alcohol dries the skin and harms the soluble collagen below the skin surface. It is therefore safer to use a toner without alcohol.
Common herbs in toners include witch hazel, geranium, honey, lemon, ivy, sage, nettle and burdock. Witch hazel has a tendency to dry skin. It is ideal to combine it with moisturizers such as vitamin E, honey, etc. Rosewater helps keep skin hydrated and face fresh and balances pH levels.
Essential oils are the gentlest way of toning. Rose water for normal or dry, sensitive skin or witch hazel for skin more fat is ideal for air freshener bases. These can be applied with a cotton, with smooth, gentle upward or sprayed in the face. Oily skin benefits from juniper or lemongrass whereas drier skins would benefit from rose or sandalwood.
Apply the skin toner to a cotton ball and gently sweep across your face. Cotton must leave relatively clean when toning. If not clean, says the cleaning is not done correctly. Do not succumb to the temptation to tone the skin whenever you feel that has become dirty. Should be used only after the skin has completed a clean routine and not as a substitute for cleaning. So, remember that the toner must function as a toner cartridge and not a cleaning product.
Toning is pleasant and refreshing, can act as an additional cleanser on very oily or dirty skin, and is useful to remove any traces of grease that the cleanser may have left behind. Think of it as the polishing touch in your skin care treatment.
Homemade Recipes Toner
Watermelon Toner
1 cup watermelon chunks, 2 tablespoons of witch hazel and 2 tablespoons of distilled water
Purée watermelon chunks in a food processor or blender. Strain liquid and discard solids. Mix the strained liquid with the remaining ingredients, mix and pour into a glass jar. DAB in the face with a cotton ball. This is rich in sugars and vitamins A, B, and a cup of watermelon has astringent properties, and super high water content makes excellent skin refresher.
Rose Skin Toner
3 ½ cups of witch hazel, ½ cup dried rose petals and 5 sprigs of fresh rosemary.
Mix ingredients together and make sure everything is well blended. Strain and spray on your face after cleansing.
Thayer - Witch Hazel Toner-Rose Petal Alc.Fr, 12 fl oz liquid
Almay Toner 2, for Dry Skin with Cucumber, 5.1-Ounce bottles
Olay Daily Care Refreshing Toner, 7.2-Fluid Ounce
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