Optometrist reveals the mistake you're making when removing eye makeup - and how to do it right
An optometrist has revealed we are taking our eye makeup off wrong, sharing the best way to do it instead.
In an appearance on the Canadian show The Social, optometrist Dr Meenal Agarwal shared that we are unknowingly doing damage to our eyes.
"Many of us are going like this," she said, indicating rubbing furiously side to side.
Watch the video above.
Dr. Meenal Agarwal explained how to properly remove eye makeup TikTok/thesocialctv
"We're causing a lot of lash follicle breakage," she shared.
Instead, she advises to "take a cotton pad, soak it with micellar water [or] whatever product you're using, soak it quite a bit, then you place that pad on your eyelashes and your eyelid, let it soak for 10 to 20 seconds."
After that, she said to "stroke downwards and you'd be surprised, it actually comes off much easier."
Another trick to get your skin clear is to cleanse it with micellar water twice.
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The method many of us use is "causing a lot of lash follicle breakage". Getty
The trick to getting it to deliver on its promises is to soak a cotton pad in micellar water and thoroughly swipe your entire face, twice. Once to remove makeup, dirt and pollutants, and again (with a new soaked cotton pad) to cleanse.
The magical solution can even be used to clear bacne, to help remove dirt and sweat from the area before treatment.
But how does micellar water really work?
Well, the micelle is a molecule made up of a hydrophilic head, which is soluble in water, and a lipophilic tail that's soluble in oil – together they work to trap dirt and impurities found on the skin, when applied to a cotton pad and swiped over the skin.
"The head attaches to the cotton pad so when you swipe the cotton pad it bursts and the tail enables all the dirt, oil and pollution particles to be captured and trapped without disrupting the skin's protective barrier," Bioderma's skin expert, Renee Hockey, told 9Honey, describing what you can't see in that humble bottle of what looks like just water.
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A bottle with micellar fluid for make-up removal and facial care, liquid poured onto a cosmetic pad Getty
"We also use a technology called DAF (Dermatological Advanced Formulation), it's key in our micellar water and it's what sets us apart," adds Hockey.
"It's a combination of sugars that are naturally present in the skin, and these sugars have so many different properties, they help to strengthen and reconstruct the skin barrier and preserve it and have a lot of anti- inflammatory infusing properties."
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