Why You Should Add Glycerin In Your Daily Skincare Routine

Dry winter flakes or dehydrated summer skin, when fighting dryness of any kind, you want to lay your hands on the best moisturizers in skincare. The skincare realm is filled with ingredients that work wonders for all your skin woes. From hydration to getting rid of the dead skin, there is an ingredient just for you. One such wonder ingredient is a cult-favorite glycerin for skin also known as glycol. Loved by the beauty gurus and dermatologists alike, glycerin has been used in many skincare products from time immemorial. 

With benefits too good to be true, we have compiled this dossier with many ways glycerin is beneficial for your skin. 

What exactly is glycerin?

Classified as a humectant (which retains moisture) humectants are great at moisturizing your skin without hindering the effectiveness of other ingredients in your skincare products. Although you may find some of your products labeled synthetic glycerin, you should always opt for plant-based glycerin. 

Being a versatile addition to any moisturizer, lotion, or soap bar, the benefits of glycerin are endless. We are listing our favorite 5 benefits of glycerin in skincare.

5 Benefits of Glycerin

Glycerin for face is one of those ingredients that totally outshines in many skincare products. While it is often loved for its moisturizing benefits, there is more to it. Here are 5 benefits of glycerin you may not have known about.

• Deeply moisturizes

Say hello to flawless glow! Glycerin doesn’t just moisturize the skin but also zaps moisture from the lower levels of your skin and pulls it out to the upper levels. This helps the skin moisturize itself adequately.

Tightens your skin

If you have mature skin, glycerin is going to be your skin’s new bff. With regular use of glycerin, you are going to wake up to plump, dewy and significantly radiant looking skin.

Creates a protective skin barrier

While maintaining the skin’s protective layer of moisture, glycerin creates a layer that protects your skin from environmental and sun damage. 

Brightens up your skin

Packed with rejuvenating properties, glycerin goes a step beyond moisturizing your skin and keeps your skin looking radiant, supple and bright. 

Prevents signs of ageing

This has to be the highlight of the many benefits of glycerin. By infusing moisture into your skin, glycerin can effectively reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and leave your skin younger-looking. 

Does Glycerin suit all skin types?

By now, we are already Team Glycerin, but you can be too, skin type no bar. Glycerin benefits all kinds of skin types and here are few examples that might just have you running to the skin care aisle. 

Glycerin for dry skin

A humectant to its core, glycerin is extremely moisturizing to all skin types especially the dry skin which needs it a little more. Since it effectively moisturizes all layers of skin, it provides an extra hydration boost. Skin-quenching right?

Glycerin for oily skin

We all know someone who skips the moisturizer owing to your skin. Most often, that someone is us. Even though oily skin and a moisturizer may seem like an incompatible marriage, it isn’t true. Just because our skin is oily, doesn’t mean it doesn’t need moisturization. Glycerin-based moisturizers are non- comedogenic and much unlikely to clog your pores.  If you have oily skin and would love a moisturizer, look for one with glycerin in it.

Glycerin for combination skin

In addition to hydrating the skin, glycerin also helps maintain the skin's protective moisture barrier. That's why it's so effective on combination skin. Remember to protect your skin even if it isn't particularly sensitive or at the either end of the skin type spectrum. 

Glycerin for sensitive skin

Because glycerin is gentle, it moisturizes sensitive skin while providing a soothing effect. Additionally, plant-based glycerin is less likely to irritate skin. However, do not use it as a sole ingredient rather opt for glycerin infused moisturizers or lotions.

How to use glycerin in your daily skincare routine

Glycerin is one of those ingredients that works really hard. Depending on how you want to use it, glycerin can be in your skincare routine for literally everything.

Use glycerin as a cleanser 

 

Those see-through, reach in creme, pretty looking soap bars are infused with glycerin. A cleanser infused with glycerin is what dreams are made of for someone with dry skin. These do not clog pores and don't dry out the skin post a good cleanse. You can also make your own all- natural glycerin facial cleanser with ingredients in your kitchen cabinets. You can mix some glycerin with multani mitti and use it as a natural face cleanser or face mask. Make a DIY face mist with 1 ½ cups of rose water, 1 tablespoon glycerin and a few drops of tea tree oil. It will keep your pores clean and make your skin super soft. 

Use glycerin as a toner or a face mist

Tea tree oil and cica are the Romeo and Juliet of skincare ingredient combination, add glycerin to the mix, you have a perfect face mist. So we added it in our Mama Cica Rejuvenating Face Mist. This soothing mist with niacinamide goodness helps tighten pores, control shine, clear and soothe skin thanks to ingredients like cica, Korean ginseng, and lotus root.

Use glycerin as an overnight treatment

We don’t know about you but we love waking up to glowing and rejuvenated skin. That is why we love a pampering overnight treatment right before we hit our bed. Get glowing skin every day with Mama Cica Oil Control Overnight Mask from Quench. Our natural blend of ingredients makes this mask ultralight and easy to apply. Combining Korean ginseng, calendula, and tamanu oil, this mask helps unclog pores, absorb excess oil, hydrate, and brighten skin in just one use. A fast absorbing formula, this glycerin infused night mask instantly sinks into your skin to leave it supple and radiant in the morning. 

Use glycerin as masks

Oh to indulge in a relaxing spa-like experience! With a quick foaming sheet mask that bubbles up as soon as it comes in contact with your skin, Matcha Better Bubble Sheet Mask will instantly refresh your dull, tired skin. This skin-purifying mask is made of bamboo charcoal fabric with matcha green tea as a hero ingredient that helps control excess oil. It helps add freshness to skin while removing dead skin cells. 

For the clay mask days, use Mama Cica Mud Dipping Sheet Mask for Oil Control and Clear Skin. With this skin clearing mud sheet mask, you can reveal a clear, radiant skin with a supple, healthy-looking complexion. Formulated with kaolin clay, lotus root extract, Korean ginseng, and cica extracts, it detoxifies, heals, moisturizes, and soothes your tired skin. 

Glycerin is a powerful ingredient and luckily, you don't have to break any doors to find it. If you are looking for skincare, make sure you check the ingredients list for glycerin. We know your skin is going to love it!