If your eyebrows are peeling, you need to identify the cause of this phenomenon. Most often, this problem occurs if the air in the room is too dry, or the body lacks vitamins. The problem sometimes appears as a result of allergic reactions or washing with too hard water. This situation may appear after solarium, or peeling is a symptom of dermatitis or psoriasis. In some cases, simply changing your makeup is enough.
If the symptom is accompanied by severe redness, the affected area itches, or there is irritation, you should see a doctor. To prevent the development of peeling, you need to follow some recommendations - periodically care for your face, do not wash your face with tap water if it is hard. It is also advisable to balance your diet and add foods that contain vitamins.
In winter, it is advisable to use a humidifier at home, and in summer, be less likely to be in the sun or use a hat. Skin bleaching or exfoliation is not recommended at home. Such recommendations help prevent the development of peeling. Sometimes it becomes a side effect when taking medications.
If symptoms appear, you should avoid care products containing alcohol. Before going to bed, you can treat your skin with vegetable oil and use natural tonics.
Facial care
When a cosmetic problem such as skin peeling occurs, the doctor prescribes a course of treatment. If it occurs due to a fungal infection, antifungal agents are prescribed; if this is the result of any mechanical effect, use non-hormonal ointments.
The doctor may also recommend hygiene products containing salicylic acid and zinc pyrithione. Tar soap is a good facial care product. It eliminates microbes that cause inflammatory processes.
Advice. Applying cosmetic oils to the eyebrow area before bed will significantly improve the condition of the skin.
At home, the skin can be helped by using various nourishing masks, compresses, tonics, herbal infusions, and scrubs. The ingredients on the basis of which folk remedies are made help the epidermis to recover, create external protection, nourish and moisturize the skin.
Hypo- and vitamin deficiency
Sometimes to solve a problem you need to look deeper, because such a skin condition is one of the symptoms of hypo- and vitamin deficiencies. With a lack of vitamin B2, the nose, forehead, and ears begin to peel. Other signs of deficiency of this vitamin: chapped lips, purple tongue, cracks in the corners of the mouth. Vitamin B2 is found in cottage cheese, cheese, yogurt, sour milk, lettuce, meat, liver and other products.
When the concentration of vitamin A decreases, the skin also begins to peel off. Inflammation in the form of pustules and dryness of the mucous membrane of the eyes may occur. A well-known symptom of vitamin A deficiency is “night blindness”: a person sees well during the day, but complains of a sharp decrease in visual acuity in the evening and night hours. To avoid this, you should eat butter, chicken eggs, liver, and carrots.
Why does the skin peel?
Straight eyebrows
There may be several reasons for peeling skin on the eyebrows and bridge of the nose. Here are the main ones:
- Dry air in a heated room. Under such conditions, the water balance of the skin is disrupted and the epithelium dies.
- Stress.
- Inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Skin diseases such as seborrheic dermatitis or psoriasis.
- Using low-quality cosmetics (eyebrow dye or pencil).
- Intoxication of the body due to the use of alcohol and nicotine.
- Tattooing on the forehead and eyebrows is a common cause of flaky eyebrows in women.
Tattooing can contribute to peeling
Note! If the cause of “dandruff” is dry indoor air, it is necessary to place a small container of water under the radiator.
Peeling of eyebrows can be observed even in newborns. This usually happens because the baby is bathed in water to which potassium permanganate has been added. It disinfects the skin, but can also dry it out slightly. This can happen after the first walk, during which the baby's face is exposed to wind and sun.
Why does the skin on the eyebrows of adult men and women peel off? Sometimes it arises from the influence of several factors. A dermatologist will help you determine more precisely why your eyebrows are peeling. Having identified why the eyebrows began to look sloppy or began to itch, he will prescribe the correct treatment and tell you what creams to use to remove this defect.
Fluctuations in hormonal levels
Hormonal balance is extremely important for the beauty of the skin. Of particular importance is the level of thyroid and sex hormones. If there is a deficiency of them or a violation of the normal ratio, the skin immediately reacts with a decrease in elasticity, dryness, and peeling. This happens, for example, with hypothyroidism, when the thyroid gland reduces the synthesis of its hormones.
During menopause, women notice a sharp deterioration in their skin condition. It begins to peel off, numerous wrinkles and sagging appear. This is due to the level of sex hormones, in particular estrogen. When a woman enters menopause, usually between the ages of 45 and 50, the gonads significantly reduce estrogen production. The same situation occurs if a woman has had her ovaries removed for a number of reasons. An artificial menopause sets in, which immediately affects the condition of the skin. The only way to smooth out these changes is hormone replacement therapy with sex hormones.
If you don't fight the disease
Itchy eyebrows: reasons
Since peeling skin on the eyebrows is not only a cosmetic defect, but also a possible reaction of the body to diseases of the internal organs, treatment should be mandatory. If the situation is left to chance, the defeat may worsen even further.
Self-medication is dangerous due to the fact that the organs of vision are located too close to the eyebrows. If it is an infectious disease, it can spread to other areas of the face and cause blurred vision. Whatever the cause of peeling around the eyebrows and nose, consultation with a doctor is necessary. Only he can prescribe treatment for an infection.
Seborrhea of the skin
If during a medical examination it turns out that peeling of the skin is just the result of atmospheric exposure, then this cosmetic defect may not be treated. But eyebrows dusted with “dandruff” still do not look very aesthetically pleasing on both a woman’s and a man’s face and can repel people from communicating with their owners.
How to fix the problem?
Before starting treatment, it is necessary to determine the main factor that caused the peeling. In this case, under no circumstances should you scrape off the scales or overdry the skin, as this will only worsen the situation. To begin with, experts recommend using moisturizing, rich creams. However, if the “illness” has not gone away three days after starting to use the remedy you have chosen, be sure to purchase an ointment that has anti-inflammatory and antifungal effects. If the inflammation is well expressed, then in this case it is recommended to choose an ointment with glucocorticosteroids. It will remove redness and peeling in just one or two days. Do not forget that it is hormonal and has a negative effect on the body even when applied topically.
It should also be taken into account that if the cause is a fungus, then peeling can only be cured with the help of an antifungal ointment. There are also many gels, masks and scrubs that cosmetic companies offer for excess peeling. These products do not have medicinal properties, which means that they do not eliminate, but only mask the problem. Therefore, it is better to refuse them.
Ways to fight at home
Before finding out the reasons why the forehead and eyebrows peel in an adult, you can use traditional medicine recipes that will relieve severe swelling and reduce itching. Making them is not difficult, since the necessary components are always at hand.
To get rid of flaking on eyebrows
Eyebrow piercing
Soft scrubs, masks, and herbal decoctions will help relieve inflammation and remove dead skin cells from the eyebrows:
- Coffee scrub. Grate the cucumber (1 teaspoon), add 1 tbsp. spoon of coffee grounds. After morning washing, wipe the eyebrows with a scrub, massage, and rinse with warm water.
- Fruit mask. Apples, pears and other available fruits are grated. The paste is applied liberally to the eyebrows and washed off after a few minutes. Eyebrows are smeared with nourishing cream.
- Vegetable oil mask. Mix the egg yolk with vegetable oil and add honey. A nourishing mask will relieve swelling and moisturize the skin.
To get rid of peeling above the eyebrows on the forehead
There are many folk recipes for restoring forehead skin, the most popular of which are given below:
- Tonic. Mix 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey and warm water heated in a water bath. Every morning, the skin above the eyebrows is wiped with tonic, and its remnants are applied to the rest of the face.
- Mask. Grate the carrots and mix with oatmeal and milk until it becomes a paste. Another option is to mix cucumber juice, grated potatoes and oatmeal. The paste is applied to the forehead for 15-20 minutes, then washed off.
- Oil compress. Mix a few drops of the following oils: almond, grape seed, wheat germ. Before going to bed, the mixture of ingredients is applied to the skin of the forehead, a piece of film is placed on top, then a soft cloth. In 10 minutes. the compress is removed.
- Calendula infusion. Dry (1 tbsp. spoon) or fresh (2 tbsp. spoons) calendula is poured with 1 tbsp. boiling water, infuse for 30 minutes. You need to wash your face with the infusion 2 times a day. You can store it in the refrigerator.
On a note. Damage to the eyebrows and the skin around them caused by exposure to wind and sun may disappear after several days of using traditional recipes. If the skin of the eyebrows is affected by a fungal infection, longer treatment (about a month) will be required, prescribed by a dermatologist.
Peeling skin due to dry air
Expert advice
Experienced doctors and cosmetologists recommend adhering to the following rules if “dandruff” occurs on the eyebrows:
- refuse decorative cosmetics in the forehead area;
- establish proper nutrition (exclude fatty foods, carbonated water, alcoholic drinks);
- use a hat and sunglasses;
- ventilate the room several times a day;
- stop smoking;
- avoid stressful situations.
Important! Since the disease can occur due to a lack of vitamins, you need to eat food rich in various beneficial substances (vegetables, fruits, herbs, dairy products, liver).
By determining the cause of peeling eyebrows, as well as choosing the right treatment, the doctor will help the patient quickly get rid of the problem. A nutritious diet, avoidance of alcohol and nicotine, high-quality cosmetics, and the use of a hat with a visor to protect from wind and sun will help prevent peeling of the eyebrows and other areas of the face in the future.
Salon treatments for eyebrow redness
If you have red eyebrows and you are absolutely sure that your health is not to blame, you can try to correct the current situation with the help of numerous salon procedures offered by the modern beauty industry. Yes, they are quite expensive. Yes, most likely, you will have to undergo a whole course of salon treatment. But it will give a visible result. As a result, the skin will regain its previous, healthy color. What they can offer you:
- cryomassage
: under the influence of liquid nitrogen, the reddened skin of the face will be carefully exfoliated; - dermabrasion
: an aggressive but very effective method of grinding with special cutters can only help in the eyebrow area, but it will not be possible to remove the redness directly under them, because the hairs will be damaged; - electrocoagulation
will cope with red eyebrows, if the reason is the malfunction of the blood vessels, this is the cauterization of damaged capillaries with current; - Laser coagulation
of blood vessels is a more innovative procedure than electrocoagulation, since the effect occurs with a long-wave laser, and it causes less trauma to the skin.
After a full course of one of these procedures, red eyebrows will gradually acquire a natural color. You can get rid of a cosmetic defect forever if you simultaneously treat the underlying disease. In addition, therapeutic and salon courses can be combined with homemade masks against eyebrow redness, if the cosmetologist allows. And, of course, proper eyebrow care will significantly improve their condition.
Facts, facts...
If redness of the entire face or its individual parts (including eyebrows) occurs from time to time and is dictated by embarrassment or fear, this can provoke erythrophobia - the fear of blushing.
