Now, that everyone's forced to stay indoors due to the lockdown, we've been seeing a variety of trends make their way to social media platforms. Most of these are there to help uplift people's mood while in lockdown while the others try to help improve our health. We've been seeing a lot of skincare trends going on, some of which include applying a variety of products to your skin.
But while you may think of this as the perfect time to opt for an at-home facial session, a new skincare trend has come about and it is called 'skin fasting'. What is this skin fasting, you ask? Well, it refers to leaving your skin bare without using any sort of products on it for a few days so that it gets a chance to detox itself.
Basically, the belief behind it is that when you use so many skincare products, your skin becomes used to them. Because of this, it also becomes unable to shield itself or take care of itself. And just like your body needs a detox every once in your while, so does your skin. And so that's why this concept of skin fasting was brought about. Here's how you're supposed to opt for it.
You need to start slowly by reducing the number of products you use on your skin every day. Keep reducing the number of products until you stop using all of them. This is the midpoint, after this, you need to let your skin breathe and not put anything on it for a few days. After this, you need to slowly reintroduce your skin to your products and keep building things up as you go.
Eventually, your skin will learn how to protect itself even without having to use multiple products on it. So, give this one a try and see how it works.
