When I only wear sunscreen in summer, can I use a simple facial cleanser to remove makeup?

One of the most common misunderstandings I see about how to remove sunscreen is: it depends on whether you use physical or chemical sunscreen. Physical sunscreen needs to be removed, but chemical sunscreen does not need to be removed. This is absolutely wrong. Physical or chemical sunscreen does not have that big an impact at all.

Don’t take it for granted, let’s do a little experiment! At the Nanning Zhibei Comprehensive Clinic where I work, the dermatology department usually receives many beauty seekers. Most of them come wearing makeup or sunscreen. However, when checking the skin, they need to thoroughly clean off these things, so they originally prepared some cleaning products. . Let’s just make use of the clinic’s space and materials.

Some people say that ultraviolet rays are "the biggest enemy of the skin", which is not an exaggeration at all.

Of course, sunbathing can change your mood and help synthesize vitamin D. We also need to bask in the sun to ensure our health, but we cannot ignore the harm of ultraviolet rays to the skin.

If you stay in the sun for too long, your skin will get slightly sunburned. Many students have experienced skin redness, burning, or even peeling after traveling or swimming outdoors. Prolonged exposure to sunlight can lead to skin photoaging, actinic keratosis and squamous cell carcinoma. Intermittent overexposure also increases the likelihood of basal cell carcinoma and melanoma.

Wearing sunscreen is an important way to protect the skin, which is better than any facial mask or repair water you usually use. Since the purpose is protection, the raw materials will not harm the skin like cosmetics. But we must also face the problem of cleaning residue!

According to the cleaning intensity, it can be divided into makeup remover water, makeup remover paste, and makeup remover oil (the intensity increases in order).

Especially makeup remover balm and makeup remover oil, with the help of surfactants, can deeply absorb and clean dirt, even sebum and moisturizing factors.

So the focus of formulators is often how to prevent sunscreen from being easily washed away by water and sweat, and our worries about how difficult it is to remove sunscreen are really a bit unnecessary.

The main component of facial cleanser is "water surfactant", and the main component of cleansing oil is "base oil surfactant".