Skipping The Nightly Face Wash? Here Are The Repercussions

My Vitamin C Face Cleanser was develop to neutralized the daily bombardment of pollution, sun and other factors that can aggravate the skin. You can shop for it at Amazon and get 20% off with this code LJVXFEIM. Source: Elle By Julie Schott Do I Really Need to Wash My Face Before Bed? "I never sleep with my makeup on," said Katy Perry in a recent ELLE interview. "Unless I'm, like, spending the night over at a guy's house. I used to do that a lot when I was younger." Perry isn't an exception; celebrities are as evangelical about sleeping with freshly washed skin as they are about drinking gallons of water. For the record, Perry has washed with Shu Uemura Cleansing Oil "for several years now." But in real life, cleanser worship doesn't always seem warranted. For a few ELLE editors who fall asleep wearing traces of morning foundation and wake without pimples, skipping the nightly face wash has had zero repercussions. If sleeping in makeup doesn't cause breakouts, why bother washing before bed? What happens when you make a habit of sleeping in makeup? "There's very little data on this," says Josh Zeichner, MD, director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mt. Sinai Hospital. "Anecdotally, we see patients who have more skin irritation and more acne breakouts if they don't take their makeup off. Some makeup is labeled as long-wear that you can wear for 24 hours. But should you? Probably not." So it's fine at first, but ultimately, sleeping in makeup isn't sustainable. "Eventually, your youth can no longer out-match the toxicity of the damage from makeup left on overnight," says dermatologist Macrene Renee Alexiades-Armenakas, MD, PhD. "When you sleep with makeup clogging the pores, the bacteria proliferate overnight. Pollutants and other bacteria adhere to the makeup and further add stress and damage to the skin. Leaving makeup on overnight can exacerbate breakouts and worsen the skin aging process." For Harold Lancer, MD, the Los Angeles dermatologist who takes care of Kim Kardashian's selfie-ready skin (and a stable of Grammy and Oscar nominees), a rigorous cleansing system (cleanse, exfoliate, cleanse) is the touchstone of his eponymous skin care line. But when his globe-trotting disciples can't adhere to his meticulous regimen away from home, "I tell them to get some sort of aloe wipe, or aloe cloth. Because if you have at least the white cloth, the material itself will get off some of the debris. You don't need to use water or a basin. > <