Proper skin care is a part of taking care of your overall health. The beauty industry is a fast growing billion dollar industry that keeps putting out new products and telling you that you must have them for proper skin care and your overall health. With all their new and different products that are being put out there it can be hard to determine what you really need to stay healthy and have a good skin care program. With the technological advances today you might be able to do without your toner.

There are some common misconceptions about toner. One of these misconceptions is that using a toner with your daily skin care program will help you to remove any makeup and the impurities that your regular cleanser leaves behind. This may have been easy to do years ago but in today's fast paced world not all women have time to use toner and soap. The good news is that a good facial cleanser will remove all your makeup when you wash your face and will only leave behind perfectly cleansed skin. Toner use to be bought separately but the beauty aisles of today have facial cleansers with a toner built into the wash. This makes using a toner itself unnecessary and more expensive. Skip the toner if you have a good facial cleanser with a toner built in.

Another common misconception about toner is that using a toner will help you to even out your skin tone. Toner is said to help reduce blotchiness, redness and skin irritations on your face. Many of the cleaners in toner however are astringents that will further remove oils from your skin which will cause more dryness and irritations increasing your blotchiness and redness. Toner can leave your skin feeling clean and tighter but that feeling signals your skin to make more oil increasing all the problems you were hoping to avoid.

Can you balance your skin tone without a toner? Many women who have used a standalone toner for years may feel like they can't get the same effects with a toner built into a facial cleanser. However, the real purpose behind using a toner is to balance the skin. Most cleansers contain ingredients that will take away the dirt and makeup and also the natural oils on your skin that hydrate the skin. This leaves the skin feeling dry so many makeup companies recommend using a toner after cleansing to bring your skin back to a balance. You can get this same effect with a quality moisturizer. Apply the moisturizer a few minutes after cleansing the skin which will help restore your skins balance while also hydrating and soothing your face.

In today's beauty markets toners seem to be a thing of the past. Many companies are actually putting toner or other moisturizers into the products to help save time. Toner may have seemed to work for many women and may still be needed today but not as a product in itself. You should buy facial cleansers and moisturizers with toner already built in to help save time and money.