Seven skin sins: These seven mistakes damage your skin

• Author: Paula Black Dayan/Walla!
• Published date: 01 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

1. Touching too much

How many times a day do you think you touch your facial skin? If you answer about 20 times or more in an hour, you're probably right. We do it without paying attention, touching the nose, mouth, cheeks and eyes all day. We play with our facial skin and spend many hours in front of the mirror and look closely for any redness, pimples or pigmentation, while touching, messing around and creating damage. Dayan said that many people come to her clinic with damage they caused themselves from over-touching their faces.

Touching the skin with unclean hands transmits contaminants to the skin, nose and mucous membranes of the eyes, which is the easiest way for viruses to enter the body.

2. Excessive cleansing

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You need to keep your skin clean, but sometimes people cleanse their facial skin excessively, thinking it's helpful. However, it's harmful since every time we clean it removes layers that cause the sebaceous glands to produce more oil. It can cause pimples to appear. What's too much? If you start to get pimples in new places, you're probably cleaning your face too often.

3. Not knowing your skin type

People have one of four skin types: oily skin, combination skin (some areas oily, others dry), dry skin or normal skin and each skin type needs its own products. A mismatch between various creams and serums and your skin type can definitely create spots. It's worthwhile to go to a professional cosmetologist who can diagnose the skin type and recommend the correct products.

4. Dirty makeup brushes

Most women have four to five makeup brushes in various sizes and different types. When was the last time you cleaned them? Grease and thousands of molecules of bacteria quickly accumulate on the brushes, which you touch every day (sometimes twice) to your...