Why Use Toner? The Benefits of Adding Toner to Your Skincare Routine
Are you looking to enhance your skincare routine to improve skin quality and achieve a radiant, youthful complexion while removing impurities? Your toner plays a larger role in your skincare routine than you think.
Toners have evolved beyond traditional formulas of using alcohol-based ingredients that essentially strips the skin of all moisture while controlling oils leaving skin to feel dry and flaky, and ages the skin at a faster rate.
Today’s toners now offer a range of soothing, nourishing ingredients that are suitable for all skin types to prevent breakouts, skin irritation and aging skin. Here's why toners are essential to any skincare regimen:
Toners Help Restore the Skin’s pH Balance:
The main benefit of using a toner is its ability to restore your skin’s pH balance, leading to less acne-related breakouts.
According to The Cleveland Clinic, toners often contain ingredients that help restore the natural acid mantle of the skin. This protective outer layer, which is slightly acidic, defends against germs, bacteria, and environmental damage.
Cleansers can disrupt this balance, leading to moisture loss and increased sensitivity.
It is recommended that you should use a toner directly after a cleanser to help restore the skin's pH, and improve moisture retention and making the skin look rejuvenated and youthful.
Toners Target the Appearance of Pores:
Another key advantage of incorporating toner into any skincare routine is the ability of toners to minimize the appearance of pores.
Ingredients like malic, lactic, glycolic, or salicylic acid gently exfoliate and cleanse the skin, removing dead skin cells and excess oils that can clog pores and cause acne.
High-quality toners also tighten pores as it removes debris, giving the skin a smoother, and even appearance.
It is key to use a toner into any skincare routine because it ultimately prevents dirt, dead skin build up, and impurities from environmental factors to penetrate into the deeper layers of the face.
Let's face it, products block pores and one of the biggest ways to combat that issue is to use toner directly after using a cleanser.
Toners Add Hydration to the Skin:
Modern and high-quality toners, such as Abraza Skin Care’s Hydrating Phyto-Toner, now include hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, witch hazel, and cucumber extracts and is plant-based.
Key ingredients such as hyaluronic acid attract a thousand times their weight in water and act as humectants (a specific type of moisturize that attracts moisture to the skin via ingredients such as hyaluronic acid) ultimately attracting moisture to the skin for a smooth, refreshed, hydrated, plumped look.
Dr. Natasha Welch, DNP, founder of Abraza Skin Care, emphasizes the importance of hydration in skincare.
"I like to describe the skin as a grape," she explains. "As it gets dry, it turns into a raisin. So when we hydrate it, the skin smooths out like the outside of a plump grape."
Lastly, toners enhance product absorption, allowing serums, retinol, SPF, and other skincare products to penetrate more deeply, maximizing their effectiveness overall.
It is vital to choose a toner that contains no parabens, sulfates, or fragrance which are three of the leading ingredients that are known to be harmful to the skin.
For those seeking better hydration, protection, and overall skin health, incorporating a high-quality toner such as Abraza Skin Care’s Hydrating Phyto-Toner is a simple yet transformative addition to any skincare routine.
