Let it be said, we are always looking for THIS miracle which will allow us to sport a healthy skin. We adapt our beauty routine, we pay attention to our diet, and we drink a lot of water, yet that is not always enough. Winter does not spare dry skin . Between the heating and the relatively cool outside temperatures, our epidermis tends to suffer a lot. Redness, tightness, dehydration... in short, so many factors that make you try to protect it as best you can. And for that, we can trust Asian beauty routines. K-Beauty is known and recognized for its ever more effective tips to pamper our skin or our hair. This time again, she strikes with an unusual trick for deep hydration:smear your face with petroleum jelly . The most surprising ? That the experts validate the technique. So here's how to make Vaseline our beauty ally!
Vaseline is a star ingredient in our bathroom. Very rich in vitamins A and E, it is used to reduce our cracks. The slugging, "slug" in English which means "slug can be confusing because it does not contain any animal substances. You don't get slug slime on your face. We are simply talking about its sticky appearance. This beauty routine has over 105 million views on TikTok, be many followers. According to the tutorials, all you have to do is brush your entire face with petroleum jelly in the evening, then rinse it well when you wake up. The result ? Very soft, supple and perfectly hydrated skin . You are free to use this treatment during the day, but the texture is not very pleasant.
If this beauty tip seems to conquer the web, dermatologists have been recommending it for a long time. Because ? Vaseline is an occlusive agent that helps to fight water loss in the skin tissues and therefore prevents the skin from drying out. This protective film function also helps better penetration of cosmetics applied upstream on clean skin, and therefore to boost their effects. According to Dr. Landriscina , it would even help to prevent droughts of our face. “It acts as a signal that tells your skin to produce more intercellular lipids. It creates a barrier to protect the skin and prevents moisture from escaping “, she explains to the site “Byrdie ". Vaseline is much more than a simple moisturizer, because it retains the water the epidermis needs . Experts still recommend using a cream or serum for best results. Slugging can relieve and calm dehydrated and damaged skin mainly in winter or those that desquamate throughout the year.
Be careful, because if this trick is the friend of dry skin, it is not for those with acne . Its occlusive aspect blocks pores, bacteria and even make-up residue.
