Reducing Maskne With K-Beauty

As we have adjusted to wearing masks in our daily lives, our skin has also had to keep up. The skin under the mask can end up getting irritated from rubbing and trapped sweat, causing you to break out. As mask-wearing has been prominent in South Korea long before COVID-19 to protect from dust pollution, K-Beauty is prepared to help protect and care for your skin.

Gentle Products

Use a gentle product to cleanse the skin before and after wearing a face mask. A cleanser such as the CosRX Low-pH Good Morning Cleanser, which has a low pH level to help protect the moisture barrier of your skin, treats breakouts and cleanses your skin without irritating it. 

Pimple Patches

Pimple patches are made to directly cover and heal acne while reducing breakouts over time. They can also protect irritated blemishes from outside irritation and other contaminants. Not only do pimple patches heal blemishes and breakouts, they can also be worn underneath your mask to help prevent and reduce them. CosRX’s Acne Pimple Patch is a great way to help these breakouts. The patch is a hydrocolloid bandage, which is a medical-grade material that speeds up the healing process while protecting the skin from bacteria. They even come in different sizes, so you can easily adjust to your current blemishes.

Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate!

Hydration is key in helping protect your skin from maskne. Having a balance of moisture levels in your skin can help prevent it from becoming dry and inflamed, which results in your skin producing more oil and therefore causes more acne. 

Having a serum to hydrate your skin, especially after cleansing, will easily put the moisture back into your skin and leave it feeling smooth. The Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is a gentle moisturizer that uses peach extract to brighten and firm the skin, leaving it with a luminous finish. 

Using a sheet mask can also easily help hydrate your skin, and different kinds can give even more benefits. Mediheal face masks are a great brand of masks to use because of the variety they have, like their Tea Tree Essential Blemish Control Mask. It is infused with herbal extracts such as willow bark, rosemary, and tea tree oil to clean your pores, while chamomile and Asiatic pennywort are used to calm and correct the redness of the skin.

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