The Ideal Night Time Skin Care Routine

The Ideal Night Time Skin Care Routine:
Unlocking Your Skin’s Full Potential While You Sleep

Have you ever wondered why night time skin care routines are so crucial?

While you sleep, your body goes through a variety of restorative processes- and your skin is no exception. This is the time when your skin regenerates, repairing daytime damage and rebuilding its natural barrier function. But for your skin to perform these vital tasks, it needs the right support and a clean canvas.

That’s where a well-structured nighttime skincare routine comes into play. In this post, we’ll dive into what your skin needs overnight and the incredible benefits of an effective nighttime routine.

What Happens to Your Skin Overnight?

During the day, your skin serves as a protective barrier against environmental stressors like pollution, UV rays, and bacteria. This results in the buildup of dirt, excess oils, sweat, and dead skin cells. By the end of the day, your skin’s surface is laden with a mix of impurities and naturally produced oils that, if left on overnight, can, and will, clog pores causing acne, white heads, enlarged pores, premature aging and interfere with the skin’s renewal process.

While you sleep, your skin enters its reparative phase, producing new cells to replace damaged ones and increasing collagen production for firmer, clearer, more youthful looking skin. Blood flow to the skin also increases, delivering essential nutrients and oxygen. However, the effectiveness of these overnight functions largely depends on the cleanliness and condition of your skin before bed.

By not utilizing a proper night time skin care routine, you are preventing your skin from reaping all the benefits of its natural regenerative functions that happen overnight. This leads to dead skin cell and sebum build up, which causes clogged pores, dull skin, acne, white heads and blackheads, enlarged pores, dry or oily skin and premature aging. By providing your skin with an effective night time skin care routine, you are giving your skin with everything it needs to regenerate itself overnight and encourage its natural production of the key to antiaging- collagen.

Why Double Cleansing is Essential for a Nighttime Routine

After a long day, a single cleanse is often not enough to remove all traces of makeup, sunscreen, pollutants, and sebum that accumulate on your skin. These impurities interfere with the skin’s function by changing the pH balance of your skin (protective acid mantle), causing clogged pores, breakouts and interfere with  the skin’s natural renewal process.

That’s why double cleansing is imperative—especially before bedtime. A proper double cleanse ensures every layer of dirt and oil is lifted away, leaving your skin’s surface thoroughly clean and prepped for the next steps in your routine.

Metrin’s two-step cleansing process, the #1 Deep Cleanser followed by the #2 Lathering Cleanser, is specifically designed to remove makeup and impurities without disrupting your skin’s natural balance. This approach allows your skin to focus on what it does best overnight: repair, regenerate, and restore.

The #1 Deep Cleanser is an oil based cleanser that uses colloidal cleansing, meaning it’s incredibly effective at breaking down oil-based impurities like makeup and excess sebum The #2 Lathering Cleanser is a gently exfoliating cleanser that removes all dead skin cells and tough to remove deep set dirt. After using both, your skin will be clear of any and all impurities, leaving it completely clear and bright (but not stripped of its natural oils!) and perfectly primed and prepped to absorb the next steps.

As make up, sebum, dead skin cell residue left on the skin can interfere with hydrating, protecting and nourishing the skin, it  only makes sense to cleanse the skin properly and gently before the skin is hydrated, protected and nourish for its renewal.

Building Your Nighttime Skincare Routine: A Step-by-Step Guide

Double Cleansing with gentle exfoliation

Step 1: An Oil Based Cleanser
Start an oil based cleanser, like the Metrin Deep Cleanser. This product is oil-based, meaning it’s incredibly effective at breaking down oil-based impurities like makeup and excess sebum. As the first step in your double cleanse, it uses colloidal flotation to lift away impurities gently, without harsh scrubbing or irritation. This step is crucial to set the stage for effective skin renewal overnight.

Step 2: A Gently Exfoliating Cleanser
The second cleanse should be with a lathering cleanser, like the Metrin Lathering Cleanser. This cleanser goes deeper, washing away remaining dirt and bacteria trapped within your pores. Its foaming action helps to gently exfoliate and keep your skin’s surface clear, ensuring that it remains healthy and free of congestion while you sleep.

Hydration, Protection (skin recovery) and Nourishment. The Powerful Synergy of Skin Care Layering. 

After double cleansing, your skin is primed to receive nourishing ingredients. The next sequence of layering skin care steps provides an unbeatable hydrating, protective healing, and nourishment to your skin.

Step 3: Vita Conditioner
The Metrin Vita Conditioner provides a blend of antioxidants and essential fatty acids to keep your skin hydrated. This step supports your skin’s natural lipid barrier, reinforcing its ability to lock in moisture during the nighttime reparative process. It also serves as a base to help bind and deliver hydrating, protective nourishment to your skin. 

Step 4: Protective Lotion
Next, apply the Metrin Protective Lotion. Overnight, your skin loses water, leading to dryness by morning. This lightweight lotion helps to bind moisture to the skin and provides a protective barrier, reducing the likelihood of moisture loss. Together with other ingredients the reduces excess bacteria growth, it’s also enriched with Aloe Vera to calm and soothe your skin, allowing it to heal from daytime damage.

Step 5: Enriched Vita Conditioner
Finally, seal in all the goodness with the Enriched Vita Conditioner. This final step fortifies your skin with additional vitamins and antioxidants, neutralizing free radicals that can contribute to premature aging. It’s like giving your skin an overnight boost of nutrients to support its natural regenerative functions.

Why Choose Metrin for Your Nighttime Skincare Routine?

The Metrin Skincare System is more than just a routine—it’s a scientifically designed program that supports your skin’s needs 24/7. By following these five steps, you ensure that your skin is thoroughly cleansed, hydrated, and protected throughout the night, enabling it to regenerate effectively and look its best by morning. The Metrin Skincare System is the ideal night time skin care routine

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“I have been using Metrin for over 35 years and have had many people remark about my wrinkle free skin. It is, without doubt, the best product on the market and requires absolutely nothing else to enhance it’s cleansing and moisturizing benefits and leaves the skin soft and moist for hours. My skin used to be a combination of oily and dry when I was young but Metrin keeps it consistently soft and fresh”

-Daphne W.

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What might surprise you, is that your morning skin care routine should have the SAME steps as the ideal night time skin care routine- but their functions are needed for different reasons! Learn what your skin needs every morning- and why- in our “The Ideal Morning Skin Care Routine” blog post here.

References:

• Dermato-Endocrinology. (2014). “The Skin as a Peripheral Clock.”
• Journal of Investigative Dermatology. (2015). “The Role of Circadian Rhythms in Skin Functions.”
• Metrin Skincare Official Website – Metrin 5-Step System Overview.