Salma Hayek Reveals Secret to Beauty: Don’t Wash Your Face

If you want to look like Salma Hayek, don’t wash your face!

That’s the beauty secret that the 46-year-old star revealed during a television interview. Specifically Hayek said she doesn’t wash her face when she wakes up in the morning.

“OK, one tip—always wash your face at night. Clean it,” she said. “You don’t have to wash it, but you have to clean it really, really well at night.”

“Don’t wash it in the morning, at all, never,” she continued. “Because at night your skin is rebuilding some of the oils that you need to keep your skin young, and it balances the PH. So in the morning if you take them off—you can splash it with water, do something mild—but you don’t want to get rid of that. And if your skin is dirty in the morning, it means you didn’t clean well at night.”

Hayek has developed her own range of beauty products that she uses all the time—but they are only sold in one store across America.

“I’m not very trim, but I don’t have as many wrinkles as probably I should,” she said. “But I do use, I use my products but you don’t sell them, I just sell them in only one drug store in the States. And I do a lot of that for 10 years, and I’ve been using that stuff even since before, so I use creams, it’s creams.”

 

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