What is double cleansing?
Double cleansing is broken down into two steps: the first phase of double cleansing removes makeup, impurities, and pollution. The second step, using soap, deeply cleanses the skin to remove all impurities.
Why is it essential for having beautiful skin?
Double cleansing is essential for maintaining healthy and radiant skin because it removes impurities, makeup, and pollution with cleansing oil. As a reminder, impurities are fatty substances. Fat attracts fat, so oil helps eliminate them as effectively as possible. Once the skin is free of makeup and/or mineral filters from sunscreens, it is important to cleanse and rebalance the flora with cold saponification mango & avocado soap . The last step is to spray a mist of water to neutralize the chlorine and limescale in tap water to prevent tightness.
The ritual
Its formula contains a cocktail of organic plant oils that preserve the skin's barrier. Upon contact with water, it transforms into a delicious, melting milky emulsion. Suitable for all skin types, even the oiliest, it eliminates impurities accumulated throughout the day without leaving a greasy film on the surface. "Plant oils have a great affinity with the skin and are very well tolerated, even by oily skin." Dr. Sylvie Peres
In summer, it is important to practice double cleansing even if you do not wear makeup because it helps to remove the sunscreens left by sunscreens.
The Soap was one of the first products in the Alaena range because it fulfills an essential step in the beauty ritual for healthy skin: cleansing. After observing the harmful effects of shower gel on the skin (eczema, spots, dryness, etc.), Dr. Sylvie Peres chose to return to ancestral methods by offering a cold-saponified soap. This method preserves all the qualities of the raw materials and naturally produces glycerin, a highly nutritious moisturizing substance.
The Mango & Avocado Soap is formulated with donkey milk, coconut and avocado oil, mango and shea butters. It rebalances the pH and regulates the skin's flora while leaving a moisturizing veil on the surface. It is handmade in a workshop in the Pyrenees, a few kilometers from our offices.
A simple and ecological ritual for the whole family, for the body and face.
Second step of the double cleansing , the Mango & Avocado Soap formulated with donkey milk, coconut and avocado oil, mango and shea butters. It rebalances the pH and regulates the skin's flora while leaving a moisturizing veil on the surface.
Is this ritual suitable for all skin types?
Gentle and effective, double cleansing is suitable for all skin types, even oily skin.
Dr. Sylvie Peres: Often in the summer, we tend to wear less makeup and therefore skip makeup removal altogether. I highly recommend double cleansing in the evening because it helps rid the skin of mineral filter residue left by sunscreens and eliminates salt and chlorine.
What are the mistakes to avoid when cleaning?
Dr. Sylvie Peres: Use micellar waters! They don't require rinsing or a greasy feeling, and they can remove all impurities in one go. And yet, to be effective, they contain micelles. And what are these micelles? Surfactants, that is, detergent chemical components that can be carcinogenic. They strip away all the impurities in their path... but our hydrolipidic barrier with them! As a result, our skin is weakened, irritated, and dried out.
Cleansing your skin is essential because it helps remove impurities and allows your skin to breathe, but you have to be careful: overly aggressive cleansing damages your skin's natural protective barrier, making it more permeable to external aggressions and more sensitive. In addition, you retain the very impurities you were trying to get rid of, since most of the time, micellar water isn't rinsed off.