what happens to our skin at night?
🌚🌑 At night ( starting from sunset )
✔️ our skin switches to the repair mode & it focuses more on recovery , regeneration & the production of new ( keratinocytes) skin cells than protection, skin barrier is weaker now & it’s permeable .
✔️ Permeable barrier means things can get in or out .
so of course there is a higher absorption rate & at the same time there’s an increase in Trans epidermal water loss ( loss of skin’s water content) & increase in dryness
✔️ The higher absorption rate explains why we shouldn’t sleep with makeup on! . The barrier is permeable meaning it’s likely to absorb most of the ingredients in makeup & the pollutants trapped in makeup . This is why we should never sleep in makeup. Wash your skin with the double cleansing method to make sure your skin is so clean at night .
✔️ At night it’s important to focus on hydrating & moisturizing products to limit TEWL as much as we can . plus focuing on products that offer treatments & repairing for skin like retinol
✔️ Good sleep quality is necessary for skin’s DNA repair , Exposure to artificial light at night decreases melatonin levels & dysregulate the the skin’s circadian rhythm which affects the skin repairing process over time & accelerate aging