3 Scary Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Sleep With Your Makeup On
When you forget to wash your face before sleeping, chances are your skin is cooking up in a mixture of pollutants, oils, and chemicals overnight. Before you leave your home, your skin is exposed to over 200 chemicals so who knows how much build up we’ve acquired after wearing makeup for 12 hours.
- A stye can be a result of sleeping with eyeliner or mascara over night because the tiny hair follicles and oil glands get clogged with bacteria. While sleeping we tend to rub our face on the pillow which then can distribute the makeup into our eyes causing irritation. These issues can be resolved quickly but can also require attention from your doctor.
- Clogged pores prevent your skin from absorbing all the wonderful nutrients found in serums and moisturizers. Oil based foundations are the worst to sleep in because it prevents our skin to breathe at night and causes break outs and clogged pores. The skin uses the time we sleep to heal and repair itself therefore repeatedly sleeping with makeup on can lead to blackheads, acne, and dullness
- Premature aging is caused by consistently sleeping with makeup. Our skin is exposed to so many free radicals, that it breaks down the healthy collagen which results in premature aging and fine lines.
Combat all these terrible things by making sure to wash your face with an exfoliator and gentle cleanser before bed. Now that we know what happens when this important step is missed, we can keep our skin fabulous and healthy!
Board-certified Medical Doctor, Founder of Schique Beauty skincare product line, Business Woman, and internationally celebrated author.
Dr. Jacqueline Schaffer-Stichter is an American entrepreneur and businesswoman, and author of the International Best Selling book, How to Get Clear Skin, a complete, medically sound, guide to skincare, and dietary guidelines that affect the skin.
Motivations and Beginnings
After completing medical school, Jacqueline affected deeply by her mother’s contraction of Skin Cancer for a second time – and the fact this affliction was partially attributed to harsh and toxic ingredients found in beauty and skincare products. Shocked by this fact, and determined to prevent this from happening to other women, Jacqueline researched the beauty product industry in depth – learning about the origins of the packaging the products came in, the supply chain involved in creating a product, and most importantly, the exact molecular composition of each and every ingredient in the products being marketed today.
As she discovered more about the impact of this process, she became even more determined to change how these products were made, distributed, and to educate women about the dangers and toxicity in some of the beauty and skincare products available. This led her to develop her own natural skincare product line, Schique, producing and distributing natural and ethically sound beauty and skincare products.
Femalepreneur and Women’s Empowerment Advocate
In creating her own product line, managing her own successful company, and promoting her ideas and products globally, she gained a unique knowledge and perspective on the many challenges and strains that affect a female business owner, or Femalepreneur. This became a foundational idea for her – that women in business face a different set of challenges, and that empowering women to succeed can truly make a difference in the world we live in. This became a focus and passion in her career, and she began speaking publicly and mentoring women worldwide on how to develop their own business, succeed in getting their ideas and innovations heard and represented. As a result, she has been featured on She Built It, Clever Girl Finance for Helping Women Grow their Business from the Ground Up, has appeared on Business Rockstars as a speaker on Mentorship, and Her Campus on How She Got There. She has also appeared on CBS, NBC, Money Inc., Entrepreneur, and many others.
Her quest to share her experiences and empower like-minded women to succeed in business, has made her a sought after global public speaker on these subjects. As an advocate for change and women’s empowerment, she’s had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with some of world’s strongest female business owners and operators, and has begun organizing a community, that she has branded Femalepreneur – and plans to create a learning platform for women’s business education, and host events and gatherings worldwide, introducing and sharing ideas with the global audience. She currently has several new books underway to assist and guide women in the business development process.
Well Recognized and In the Media
As a public figure, Jacqueline Schaffer-Stichter has been recognized and nominated alongside Jessica Alba, Jen Atkin, David Olsen, Gregg Renfew, Anna Tran, and others in the LA Fashion Beauty Awards.
She has appeared on the TVSN Network, CBS, NBC, Money Inc., Enterpreneur, to name only a few, introducing her philosophy and natural products to millions of viewers, and has taught skin physiology, clear skin improvement programs, and the effect of neurohormones to celebrities such as Olivia Culpo, Jeanine Mai, and the founder of multi-million dollar company Think Thin, Lizanne Falsetto.