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Fotofacials
- before & after
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PDT Fotofacials - before & after
Skin Care Reality
The trouble with skin care products
is not that they don't have good ingredients
that your skin needs, it's that you can't
get them through the skin. Your skin is designed
to keep you in and everything else out.
Sure, all of the skin care
companies have good stories and slick ads
touting "micro-spheres" and such,
but the truth is that topical products aren't
nearly as effective as the current medical
treatments.
Dry skin isn't really dry at all. If you
go deep enough into the dermis, everybody's
skin gets wet.
Dry skin is really a symptom
of another problem, poor skin turnover. Your
skin is constantly renewing itself every thirty
days or so. New skin cells are formed deep
in the skin and travel upwards as the top
layers are exfoliated. (Much of the dust in
your house is actually skin that's been shed.)
Healthy skin has constant turnover that keeps
it looking fresh.
But there's a problem. If
the skin is not adequately exfoliated the
top layers of the skin (the stratum cornea)
aren't shed and just hang around.
Moisturizers can cause even
more trouble. By gluing down the top layer
of dead skin cells they interfere with the
signals traveling down into the dermis that
stimulates new cell generation. It becomes
a vicious cycle, slowing down the skins entire
renewal process.
So, what should you do.
Some physicians are recommending that you
forego moisturizers altogether, using exfoliation
instead.
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