Facial treatments: water vapor

The use of steam to clean the body date of ancient Rome. Since this method is still used for personal care, some beauty salons offer for the face. It can also be done simply at home.

The Romans went to the spa for comprehensive care of the body. For personal hygiene, the principle consisted of a succession of rooms and baths (the hotter the coldest). The sudatorium (humid chamber) by water vapor, perspiration and promoted the expansion of pores. There are remnants of these "public baths" in many cities in France.

Water vapour has many advantages:

Dilation of pores
Remove skins dead
Improves blood circulation
Skin (acne and comedones)

Care by steam can be repeated each week and is particularly effective before the application of a facemask.

Needless to visit a beauty salon, you simply carry a pan of boiling water, a big towel and a container.

1. Clean your face with water and soap or lotion your usual
2. Dry without rubbing
3. Wear then three bowls of water to boil in a saucepan
4. Transvasez boiling water in a container wide and shallow
5. Put your face or thirty centimetres receptacle
6. Cover your head of the towel to confine your face above the receptacle
7. The steam should be warm and soothing (Warning, if steam is too hot, if it is uncomfortable even painful stop immediately.)
8. Stay in the towel between 5 and 10 minute and then rinse with cool water to close pores
9. Then, apply a moisturizing cream or light facemask


A simpler method can also be used:

1. Clean the face
2. Imbibez a glove toilet hot water to sink.
3. Essorez the glove toilet before putting it on the face
4. Keep cool until it (be careful also not to burn yourself)
5. For efficient, repeat operation between 5 and 10 times
6. Then rinse with cold water
7. Then apply a moisturizing cream or a facemask


Whatever method you choose, be vigilant, water or steam too hot can burn the skin. Be careful. Before using the method of water vapour, check with your doctor if your skin can handle.

Since water vapor promotes the extraction of impurities, you can find small imperfections after care. However skin for a "normal" these small defects gradually fade and you will see a marked improvement after a few weeks.