As a formulator and skin specialist, I consider facial toner to be one of the products that should NEVER be missing from a successful skincare routine.
It is a simple water-based or hydroalcoholic solution to which purifying, moisturizing or soothing ingredients are added, depending on its intended action.
The benefits of consistent toner use are numerous. In an almost essential step, we can say goodbye day after day to excess sebum, impure skin, and enlarged pores.
Today, alcohol-free toners in spray form are preferred in formulations, as they are easier to use.
With its liquid consistency and a more or less acidic formula that varies depending on skin type, toner deeply cleanses, restoring the ideal pH. Among the most chosen are delicate and non-aggressive formulas, developed with a base of distilled waters and plant extracts from flowers and plants.
Facial toner: what is it for?
Toner is one of the facial cleansing products. A fundamental step for beautiful and healthy skin.
It completes the cleansing process immediately after classic cleansing milk/creams or micellar makeup removers.
- Minimizes enlarged pores
- Soothes redness
- Restores skin pH
- Inhibits and regulates sebum production
- Removes impurities
It is important to choose the right one and, above all, to use it in the most appropriate way. Alcohol-based toners should be avoided (even if they are now almost out of use) as they are too aggressive for any skin type. Instead, moisturizing toners with soothing active ingredients should be preferred, useful for sensitive and delicate skin, even better if with an acidic pH to minimize enlarged pores and deeply cleanse excessively oily skin.
When to use facial toner?
In a proper beauty routine, the best time to apply toner is after cleansing; whether with soap, cleansing milk, or micellar water, it should be used in the morning and evening, misted or spread before applying eye contour, serum, or cream, or after face masks. Its main function is to deeply cleanse the epidermis.
Facial toner is useful at many other times of the day. After physical activity, it is useful for soothing, thanks to its anti-inflammatory effect on redness; it improves the effect and sets makeup, in addition to being an essential step after face masks.
It is recommended for moisturizing and providing relief even to those who work a lot on the computer, for those with tired and fatigued eyes, and for eliminating dullness.
Where? Dabbed all over the face with cotton pads or misted, extremely delicate formulas are also useful on the periocular area.
Should facial toner be rinsed off?
No, toner should not be rinsed off.
It is essential that it is not rinsed off the face; this is because there would be a risk of eliminating the raw materials present in it before they have acted correctly.
Instead, you should apply the product, wait a few moments, and proceed to the next steps of your daily skincare routine.
Let's review the steps together:
Morning
- Cleansing, whether single or double
- Toner
- Eye contour
- Serum and cream
Every other evening
- Mask or peel
- Toner
- Eye contour
- Serum and cream.
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