Elevate Your Glow with Japanese Silk: How to incorporate silk into your beauty routine
Silk's Unique Properties for Skincare:
- Gentle on the Skin: Silk is renowned for its smooth and soft texture, making it gentle on the skin. When incorporated into skincare products, such as cleansers and facial wipes, silk helps to cleanse without causing irritation. This is especially beneficial for those with sensitive skin, as silk minimizes friction and reduces the risk of redness or inflammation.
- Hydration Retention: One of silk's remarkable properties is its ability to retain moisture. Skincare products infused with silk can effectively lock in hydration, leaving the skin feeling supple and moisturized. This is crucial for maintaining a healthy skin barrier, preventing dryness, and promoting a radiant complexion.
- Temperature Regulation: Silk has natural temperature-regulating properties. In skincare, this translates to a soothing and cooling effect on the skin. Products containing silk are ideal for calming irritated skin, reducing redness, and providing relief from environmental stressors.
- Amino Acid Content: Silk is rich in amino acids, which are essential for maintaining the skin's elasticity and promoting collagen production. Amino acids contribute to the overall health of the skin, helping to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Japanese skincare products often leverage silk's amino acid content to enhance their anti-aging properties.
Which silk-infused skincare products should I try?
Silk Cleansing Oils: Japanese skincare routines prioritize thorough yet gentle cleansing. Silk-infused cleansing oils effortlessly remove impurities and makeup while nourishing the skin with the benefits of silk.
Ninja’s choice: COMOACE Serisage Moisture Cleansing Oil
Why? COMOACE Serisage Deep Cleansing Oil — A luxurious cleansing oil formulated with pure sericin silk, designed to thoroughly cleanse away make-up, dirt, and oil deep from within pores. The formula contains natural active ingredients to help reduce the formation of acne and blackheads, and leaves the skin feeling smooth and clean after each wash.
Silk Sheet Masks: Sheet masks are a staple in Japanese skincare, and silk sheet masks take the experience to a luxurious level. The fine texture of silk enhances the adherence of the mask to the skin, ensuring optimal absorption of the beneficial ingredients.
Ninja’s choice: AXXZIA Beauty Force Airy Face Mask
Why? The mask uses a unique combination of cotton and silk. Silk not only improves the adhesive ability of the mask but also nourishes the skin with useful substances, making it softer and smoother. It regenerates damaged epidermal cells, retains moisture, stimulates the production of collagen and elastin by the skin.
Silk Creams and Serums: Moisturizers and serums enriched with silk provide intensive hydration and deliver the amino acids essential for maintaining skin elasticity.
Ninja’s choice: COMOACE Serisage Crystal Face Cream
Why? COMOACE Serisage Crystal skincare line is based on Pure Sericin™, a silk protein with anti-oxidant properties which help protect skin from external stress that causes damage to skin such as UV rays and dehydration.
Ninja’s choice: Spa Treatment Nano Moist Essence Serum
Why? Lightweight serum quickly penetrates into the skin and gives it a moisture boost in a matter of minutes. Nano formula accelerates the process of cell renewal, increasing moisture levels in the deep layers of the skin.
