Due to my facial skin hasn’t been well in the last three weeks, I have amended my normal face washing procedure by adding some new elements in, which mainly involves the use of lemons. Actually now I am using lemon wedge to keep a relatively low PH value on my facial skin. The new experiment started from last Friday and so far it has been pretty successful.

My face all the time suffers from some allergy problems. If it was not a case that needed to be treated with prescribed medication, nothing would look really serious but from time to time it would get a bit flaky. I can’t blame that it’s all because I have dry skin type. Yes, having dry skin can be annoying, especially when you get older. Dry skin does show the age on one’s face as lacking of natural glow and moisture, and the lines can be very obvious. What I hate is not the dryness in a whole, but the skin flakes consistently appear and come off. If I get a bath or shower lasts at least 40 minutes, the condition would dramatically improve afterwards. But a couple of days later, it would come back to the problematic look again.

My sister urged me to apply lemon or vinegar in skin care 4 months ago. Her enthusiasm with lemons influences me so much that I drink the water with lemon slices every day. Strangely this new idea of using lemon to wash the face was not really from my sister but an Italian movie “Maléna”. Inspired by the beautiful, charming and eye-catching Sicilian woman Maléna who used the lemons to wash the body, I suddenly found it a link between the beauty treatment function of lemons and my over-dehydrated face.

But to be honest, I didn’t like the first time. It was hurting too much. The skin couldn’t stand the strong stimulation of the sour juice from lemon slice, but after a couple of times, it gets used to it. I also changed the way to handle lemons. I squeeze it first to get juice out on my wet palm, which helps dilute, and then I tap it gently on my face. In this way, the face feels not that hard to take it. My sister also suggested me to use vinegar, but I wouldn’t give it a go because vinegar is a product of being over physically and chemically processed. It’s not as fresh and pure as natural fruit. So probably I will stick on lemons and see how it goes.