The serums in the process of skincare are also indispensable, everyone’s skin quality is different, only choosing the serum that suits oneself can protect skin better. So how to choose the serum?

What is the serum?

The serum is a kind of high concentration and high functional maintenance product, it usually contains more active ingredients, small molecules, strong penetration, because of its different effects, on the problem of different skin tissues for deep repair. The substances in most basic skincare products can only act on the corneous layer of the skin surface, taking simple care of the surface skin.

What effect does serum have specifically?

1. Moisturizing

With the influence of age, pressure, and other environments, skin moisturizing becomes worse, we are in urgent need of a remedy. The serum contains a moisturizing function, can let our skin better moisturize.

2. Keep your skin in balance

Nowadays, people due to all kinds of pressure, coupled with the surrounding environmental pollution, irregular diet, seriously affect the skin, so the skin is in an extremely unbalanced state. The serum contains toner root ions, which can promote cell regeneration in your skin, relieve the unbalanced state of the skin, and bring the skin back to balance.

3. Prevent your skin from aging

As you age and under various environmental influences, human fiber cells slowly lose their ability to regenerate, reducing the skin’s ability to hold water. Another effect of the serum is to maintain skin moisture and slow down the aging of the skin.

4. Take Comprehensive care of the skin

When skin problems occur, on the one hand, try to supplement the nutrients and moisture to strengthen the natural resistance; on the other hand, the serum with high-tech elements will stimulate and accelerate cell repair and renewal, drive skin metabolism and make the skin brighter and tighter.

What are the categories of the serum?

In fact, there are many kinds of serum, and the classification methods are also different, today we will classify them according to their efficacy:

1. Anti-aging serum

Anti-aging serum is to help girls dilute thin lines, slow down aging. In fact, to some extent, the serum of anti-aging class coincides with the serum of repair class. In the final analysis, aging skin cells are the ability to resist external stimulation is relatively weak, but also very easy to be damaged.

How to choose: usually the anti-aging ingredients are all high-tech, such as a peptide, which is diluted by accelerating the increase of skin collagen and elastic fiber, usually indicated in the ingredients list, the effect is generally this; for example, retinol, which should be fat-soluble vitamin A acid, which can make skin cells work normally and make regenerated cells more healthy and full.

2. Oxygen-resistant serum

Antigen serum helps the skin against oxidation but can inhibit the skin from becoming dark. Antigen essences can usually be combined with other effective skincare products. Relatively suitable for long-term stay up late, the pressure is very big, the body skin formed more free radicals, usually in the early stage of anti-aging is more.

How to choose: the relatively efficient antioxidant ingredients in the skincare industry, most of which are extracted from plant essence, similar to red pomegranate seed polyphenols, grape seed polyphenols, parsley seed polyphenols, and so on. This component is more effective in eliminating free radicals. It is right to pay more attention to this in the process of selection.

3. Basic serum

The serum of the basic class is usually the basic skin care maintenance, most of the main moisturizing effect, another skincare effect is usually not too strong, usually as daily maintenance skincare. This kind of serum is suitable for regular skin with no special skincare needs, or watery dry skin.

How to choose: to moisturize the basic essence, of course, to moisturizing ingredients, such as large molecules of hyaluronic acid, more skin-friendly squalane, more likely to be received and absorbed by the skin ceramide and so on these are better. In addition, there are some vitamin E, a variety of moisturizing oils, such as shea butter and other ingredients are also better, but also to see the acceptance of their own skin quality.

4. Whitening serum

Whitening serum light to see the name can know is the serum of whitening class, the main push whitening skin. But this serum usually has a basic moisturizing effect. Suitable for dark skin, color spots, acne marks, and other skin types.

How to choose: if you want to achieve a better whitening effect, and can solve the dark melanin, still need to see the composition. So far, the more efficient whitening ingredients on the market mainly include vitamin C, nicotinamide, passing acid, and various acidic ingredients. But be all sorts of beautiful white effect is not quite the same just. For example, the whitening serum with nicotinamide as the core is relatively mild, but the effective speed is slow; for example, in left-handed VC essence, whitening is more efficient and concentrated, but high activity, must be stored, and preferably used at night.

5. Repairing serum

The serum of repair class is usually light mature skin, or problem skin girls are more concerned about. In effect, people mainly choose to repair the damaged skin, and some active ingredients in the formula can even go deeper into the source of acne, spots, or wrinkles to alleviate skin problems.

How to choose: when choosing repair essence, the more common repair components, such as EGF epidermal cell growth factor, it is a component that can help skin cell regeneration; for example, the serum of snail mucus, is also confirmed to improve the activity of the human brain cells, contribute to metabolism, and form a strong repair and anti-aging ability. Another example is allantoin, which is a component that can repair scars and can help with wound repair, and stimulate cell regeneration. In addition, just like collagen, glucuronic acid and other components are also better.

How to choose the right serum?

If you choose by age, with no major skin problems before you age 25, choose moisturizing essence. After the age of 25, start using antioxidant serum and prevent aging. After the age of 30, of course, have to start using anti-aging essence. If the skin problem is more serious, you can choose the right product as needed:

Dry skin: choose moisturizing and watery essence; choose thin cream in summer, and thick cream serum in winter to strengthen the moisturizing effect.

Neutral skin: you can apply some of your own serum or essence, such as whitening, wrinkle removal, etc.; preferably choose the serum with SPF sunscreen factor during the day.

Oily skin: want to choose the serum that can control oil secretion and shrink pores.

What are the correct use steps and use amount of the serum?

The serum is not suitable for separate use and is generally used with other skincare products, the specific use steps are as follows:

The cheek part

Finger refers to the belly along the face outline from the bottom up, from the inside out circle

Eyebrow, eye, and nose

Starting from the center of the nose, massage the bridge and wing down along the bridge of the nose. Eyebrow part from the heart of the eyebrow, along the eyebrows to draw a semicircle

The forehead part

See the figure cross alternately massage, to absorb.

Mouth and chin parts

On the upper part of the nose and the mouth, the belly spreads to both sides, and the chin part is shown, gently lifting from the middle of the chin to the two sides of the cheek.

Choose the right amount of serum. If too much, the redundant ingredient that cannot absorb will cause a skin burden. Just 2-3 drops in summer and 3-5 drops in winter.