An Interesting Piece of Information...(Guest Post)

Hi!

This is a very interesting post that I've kindly been permitted to use as a guest post for my blog, by the lovely Colin from Colin's Beauty Pages.

I asked a question on twitter and got a very prompt and informative response, please read on...

"An interesting question from NavT who does the Beauty Blogging Away http://beautybloggingaway.blogspot.com/  blog.
Does regular cleansing, toning, moisturising thin the skin? :/ it feels like it does, and a lot more sensitive, thanku

Well it certainly can.

The topmost layer of the skin is called the stratum corneum.  This is incredibly thin - half the thickness of photocopier paper - while at the same time being an amazingly good barrier to nearly everything.

But it isn't completely indestructible.  The barrier properties are very dependent on a particular structure of the oils in the skin and these can be disrupted by too much of some of the ingredients of cleansers, toners and
moisturisers.  This can and does leave the skin dried out and sensitive.  I have done this to myself quite often when working on particular projects - particularly when I was starting out and didn't fully understand what I was doing. 

One strategy is to read blogs like this one and find out which ones are the worse and carefully seek out the fomulations that are mildest.  But it is probably easier just to not tone, cleanse and moisturise so much.  I imagine beauty bloggers might be some of the people who are most prone to overdoing it given the numbers of products they seem to try.  I love the enthusiasm but don't forget that you can have too much of a good thing."
I think we should all rush to Colin's blog and keep up with all this information! Although beauty blogging is great fun I think as is correctly pointed out we need to be very careful with what we use and how much of it we use!

Thank you so much for reading! :)