A Very Scientific Experiment: I Washed My Face with Bottled Water for a Week
French model Aymeline Valade: Not a fan of tap water.
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I’m devoutly anti-tap water, and I promise that the reality of that statement is not half as ridiculous as it sounds. If you’re well versed in the countless “French beauty secrets” with which the Internet runneth over, then this nugget of wisdom may already sound familiar: It is a sin to even think about putting tap water on your face.
This is not because tap water is for peons but because there’s a ton of stuff that comes out of the faucet?including chlorine, fluoride, heavy metals, and minerals?that’s drying, irritating, and potentially damaging to your skin. It’s that simple. Hard water, like you’ll find in Paris, is especially bad. On a whim, and also because it was cold in my bathroom and I hate splashing water on my face, I swapped it out for micellar waters and cream cleansers I could wipe off with a cotton pad, sparing myself the whole hovering-over-the-sink situation entirely. Within a week, my “imperfections” up and vanished. The tiny red bumps scattered over my cheeks disappeared, my pores looked smaller, my skin felt smoother, and everything just looked better. I didn’t immediately recognize that this sudden improvement could be directly related to avoiding water, so I decided to do some A/B testing?and once I started using it again, everything went to shit within days. I quit the tap immediately.
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