Cleansing of skin is very much important to remove the dust and grime and to have a healthy and radiant skin. Today, skin cleansers find an important place in our everyday skin care regime.

While choosing a skin cleanser, you should see to it that it suits your skin type. Use of wrong cleansers might give you the exact opposite results of what you actually wanted to have.

Here are some tips that you can follow for selecting a suitable skin cleanser.

If you have oily and acne prone skin, then you should use a gentle cleanser which removes the excess oil in the skin and at the same time won’t cause excessive drying of your skin. The skin cleanser you select should be free of oils and alcohol. You should massage the cleanser gently on to the skin without rubbing it too hard so as to avoid the clogging of pores.

People having oily skin can use a homemade cleanser which can be made by mixing 2 tablespoons of baking soda with lemon juice or tomato juice. Rub this paste on to your skin and then clean it by washing it with cold water. The baking soda in the cleanser will help in absorbing the excess oil in the skin and the fruit juices will help in unclogging the skin pores.

People having dry skin should opt for using cleansers which are water soluble, as they will bring about the cleansing of the skin, without stripping it off the required moisture and oil. You can also use a homemade cleanser of half a cup of milk and one cup of honey to cleanse your dry skin.

People blessed with normal skin have the liberty of using a variety of skin cleansers. They can use a homemade skin cleanser made of curd and oatmeal. A mixture of 1 tablespoon cucumber juice and a quarter tablespoon of lime juice will also act as an effective cleanser for people with normal skin.

If you want to have a younger looking skin, then you should aim for using anti aging skin cleansers. The commercially available anti aging skin cleansers will have alpha hydroxy acids, which helps in the exfoliation of dead skin cells and promotes the growth of healthy skin cells. These cleansers also stimulate collagen production and will  thus prevent your skin from sagging.