Are you over-cleaning? Don’t neglect the areas that really need cleaning!

Since childhood, our parents and teachers have taught us to be "hygienic". We also pay great attention to our own cleanliness in life. Some people with mysophobia will "clean" themselves all the time. However, excessive cleaning of some parts will have a bad effect on them. It is of course a good thing to be hygienic, but you can't "over-clean" it~

What is over-cleaning? The most common part of the body that is over-cleaned is the face. There are several main manifestations of over-cleaning on the face. You can judge according to your own situation:

For oily skin, in order to make the face cleaner, you may frequently use facial cleansers, exfoliators, cleansing masks and other products. If you over-cleanse, the skin will compensatorily secrete more oil, causing the skin to become more and more oily.

If you have dry skin, excessive cleansing will cause your skin to become sensitive, with symptoms such as dryness, redness, and flaking. Using skin care products containing irritating ingredients such as alcohol will cause allergies, acne, stinging, etc.

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The purpose of cleansing is to clean away dust, sweat and other excretions as well as cosmetic residues on the face. It is not to clean away all the oil on the face. The oil on the skin is an important component for maintaining the balance of the skin's microecological environment. After excessive cleansing, the skin will compensatorily secrete more oil due to lack of oil, and will become more and more oily.

In addition, the oil secretion capacity of dry skin is insufficient. Excessive cleansing will damage the stratum corneum, the outermost layer of the skin. If the stratum corneum is too thin, the skin's moisturizing ability will be greatly reduced, the skin will become abnormally dry, and the sensitivity will also increase, thus becoming sensitive skin. Therefore, some acid scrubbing, blackhead removal, peeling mask, cleansing mask and other products must be used with caution and not too many times.

These areas should not be over-cleaned

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0 1 Excessive use of bath towels

Excessive use of bath towels can easily damage the skin barrier, reduce the skin's resistance to viruses, and increase the risk of skin diseases.

Note: It is not recommended to scrub your body hard with a fiber bath towel, as a rough bath towel can cause greater damage to your skin.

0 2Don’t often pick your belly button with your hands

Some people often clean their belly buttons. They feel uncomfortable with the black stuff in their belly buttons, so they often pick it out with their hands.

In fact, the dirt in the belly button is a mixture of cells shed during skin metabolism, sebum secreted by sebaceous glands, sweat, dust and other impurities, which is essentially no different from the mud rubbed out from other parts of the body. However, if you often use your hands to pick out the "dirt" in the belly button, it may cause certain irritation to the internal organs and easily cause symptoms such as indigestion. This is because there is a nerve reflex area for the internal organs in the belly button. If you accidentally scratch the skin, it is also easy to be combined with bacterial infection, causing symptoms such as omphalitis and abdominal pain.

If the belly button is really dirty, you can soak the dirt in the belly button with the water after taking a shower, and gently take it out with a cotton swab. Be sure to be gentle, and use iodine to disinfect it if necessary.

0 3 Excessive cleaning of the ear canal with cotton swabs

Many people in our daily lives have the habit of cleaning their ears. They use their hands to clean their ears when they are on the phone, or clean their ears again when they are playing with their mobile phones. Some people even carry an ear pick or cotton swab with them, and they take them out to clean their ears when they feel itchy.

Many people think that earwax (medically known as "cerumen") is dirty and will not be relieved if it is not removed. In fact, it is not only not dirty, but also has a role in protecting hearing. Picking the ears randomly may damage the ears. In fact, earwax also has a disinfecting effect. If there is no special reason, most people will never have ear inflammation in their lifetime. In addition, the special smell of earwax is the nemesis of many insects.

The skin of the human ear, especially the inner part, is very thin and very sensitive to pain. Behind the surface skin is a hard bone wall with no subcutaneous tissue in between. If you accidentally use too much force when picking your ears, it is easy to cause damage and infection, leading to unbearable pain. In addition, you may accidentally rupture the eardrum. At this time, if you encounter water in the ear or a cold, it will cause recurrent otitis media.

When cleaning your ears, you may accidentally break the skin, which can lead to external otitis, causing severe pain and even affecting your sleep. Secondly, frequent ear cleaning can easily bring foreign fungi into the ears, causing wet, itchy and difficult to cure fungal external otitis. As for cleaning your ears in saunas or barbershops, if the ear cleaning equipment is not disinfected properly, it is easy to cause cross-infection of diseases, which will cause endless troubles.

0 4 Daily excessive washing of private parts

There is no need for ordinary women to use disinfectant wash to clean their private parts on a daily basis. Using private wash can easily destroy the acid-base balance of the vaginal environment, cause vaginal flora imbalance, and cause vaginitis or even more serious inflammations such as pelvic inflammatory disease.

Vaginal douching can only be used occasionally under the guidance of a professional doctor and should never be used as a daily cleaning method. The design of vaginal washers sold on the market is not necessarily reasonable and safe. Improper vaginal douching is likely to bring pathogens into the uterine cavity and pelvic cavity through the fallopian tubes, causing acute and chronic pelvic inflammatory disease.

0 5 Excessive cleaning of the mouth with mouthwash

Many people pay much attention to oral health, and they habitually use mouthwash to clean their mouths after eating. However, this is not good for oral health.

First of all, mouthwash cannot replace brushing to clean the mouth. Mouthwash cannot remove plaque on the teeth like brushing. Food will still remain in some tiny gaps, and it cannot play a role in treating periodontal disease and caries.

There are also some normal bacteria in the mouths of healthy people. Long-term use of bactericidal mouthwash may lead to excessive suppression of certain bacteria, thus causing oral flora imbalance, which is not conducive to oral health. Whether it is therapeutic or health-care mouthwash, it is not suitable for daily use.

The most important thing to protect your teeth is to brush your teeth twice a day, morning and evening. You can use dental floss to clean between teeth after meals. If you have any oral problems, please see a doctor in time.

0 6 Excessive cleaning of the scalp to prevent dandruff

Many people believe that the more thoroughly the sebum on the scalp is removed, the better. First of all, sebum plays a barrier role in maintaining the scalp. It improves the scalp's defense function against various external stimuli and microbial infections. Secondly, the sebum secreted by the scalp can be evenly wrapped on the surface of the hair, playing a role similar to that of a conditioner, protecting the hair from moisture loss and preventing damage to the hair from various external factors. Therefore, excessive washing of the hair will damage the health of the scalp and hair.

Pay attention to cleaning these two parts

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0 1Washing your butt is more important than washing your face

The skin of the anus is delicate and has many folds. The dense folds create opportunities for the retention of feces and secretions.

Studies have shown that 0.1 gram of feces contains about 1 million viruses, 100,000 bacteria, etc.

If it is not cleaned in time or not cleaned properly, it will cause various anorectal problems such as perianal itching, eczema, hemorrhoids, etc.

It is recommended to use warm water of about 40 degrees to rinse. You can also wash in a basin, but it must be used for special basins and not mixed.

In addition, do not use shower gel or private wash to avoid destroying the pH value of the skin around the anus.

Under normal circumstances, it is sufficient to wash once a day. Washing too often will disrupt the normal secretion function of the anal canal, thereby reducing the anus's ability to resist disease.

0 2The hairline also needs cleaning

When you wash your face with facial cleanser, some foam may remain in the hairline area.

Over time, the foam particles will clog the pores and cause skin problems such as acne and pimples.

Note: When washing your face, rinse your hairline area thoroughly.

Source: Chongqing Tianji Network Co., Ltd.

This article is compiled from the Internet, Health Times, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Four Seasons Health Encyclopedia, Dr. Doudou Official Headquarters, and the Most Important Health GRT

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