4 Major Skin Concerns for Skin Care
Nowadays the skin care market is packed with countless skin care treatments, each promising improvement of skin with minimal time and effort. You need to choose them carefully based on your skin concern because not all products deliver the results they promise. You might need to get extra beauty or natural skin care tips so that you can get the skin care treatment or products that suit you the most.
Basically, there are 4 major skin concerns that people look at. Each type of skin concerns has different causes (although some causes are similar) and thus has different skin care solutions.
1) Signs of aging
2) Pimple and acne
3) Dull and rough texture
4) Skin discoloration
1) Signs of Aging
When you have healthy collagen and elastin structure, they support the skin firmly. However, when you age, the breakdown of skin structural proteins leads to fine lines, wrinkles, sagging skin and loss of contour.
What you can see at the skin:
# Wrinkles
# Fine lines
# Loss of contour and sagging
# Age spots
Causes:
# Exposure to UV rays and pollution
# Deterioration of cell turnover
# Biological aging factor
# Stress
# Poor lifestyle
# Decrease in structural proteins
In fact, most of the above aging causes are due to the root cause of aging: Free radicals. Read the aging article if you would like to know more about it.
Skin care solutions:
# Increase skin cell turnover
# Perform constant exfoliation
# Provide sufficient moisture and hydration
# Enhance blood circulation using spa tools like Galvanic Spa
# Protection against sun damage
# Use quality skin care treatments such as ageLOC, a range of products that can lock your age
Beauty inside out:
# Cellular inflammation leads to aging. You can make use of omega-3 fatty acids that can promote anti-inflammation.
# Decline in blood circulation speeds up aging. Ginkgo extract can help improve blood circulation and thus can add in to your skin care treatments.
2) Pimple and Acne
Under a normal and healthy sebum production, you have clean and clear pores. Anyway, excessive sebum secretions and clogged pores lead to formation of blackheads, enlarged pores, pimples and acne.
What you can see at the skin:
# Whitehead
# Blackhead
# Pimple
# Acne
The acne causes:
# Clogged pores
# Hormonal changes due to adolescence, menstruation, pregnancy, use oral contraceptive, early menopause, use “muscle-building” steroids etc.
# Excessive exposure to UV rays
# Poor lifestyle
# Genetic issue
Skin care solutions:
# Remove clogging of pores
# Obtain a balance skin PH, preventing bacteria propagation
# Control sebum secretions
# Use skin care treatments that contain Alpha Lipoic Acid, which helps to reduce remnant marks caused by post acne scars.
Beauty inside out:
# Skin inflammation may cause the acne condition get worsen. High intake of omega-3 fatty acids can promote anti-inflammatory state.
# Stress may further aggravate the acne. Maintaining healthy level of stress hormone like cortisol is a good management of stress.
3) Dull and rough texture
For a healthy skin, the skin is smooth, soft, radiant and moist. However, when the skin is unable to retain moisture, first line of dehydration will start. Skin surface will become rough and dry and skin tone is dull and not radiant anymore.
What you can see at the skin:
# Dehydrated dry lines
# Rough texture
# Dullness
Causes:
# Exposure to UV rays and pollution
# Harsh and dry environment
# Deterioration of cell turnover
# Poor lifestyle and skin care routine
Skin care solutions:
# Normalize the skin cell turnover
# Regular exfoliation
# Proper hydration
# Use quality products such as skin care treatments with ageLOC technology.
Beauty inside out:
# Full spectrum of antioxidant protection at the cellular level is important to prevent free radical and oxidative damage and thus help in your skin care.
# Green tea with high content of polyphenols provides potent antioxidant defense against free radical damage.
4) Skin discoloration
There are 3 phases in skin discoloration: Activation, Synthesis and Expression. Please watch the video clip or read the content in 3 phases of skin discoloration article if you want to know how it happens. Basically, over exposure of the sun causes darkening of skin tone and accumulation of melanin. It then leads to age spots, freckles, pigmentation, uneven skin tone and scars.
What you can see at the skin:
# Uneven skin tone
# Hyperpigmentation
# Scars
The causes:
# UV rays
# Hormonal imbalance
# Poor lifestyle
# Environmental aging such as pollution and irritation
# Hormonal change due to pregnancy
# Stress
Skin care solutions:
# Obtain normal skin cell turnover and regular exfoliation
# Provide protection against sun damage
# Inhibit melanin production and control melanin formation
# Use quality products such as skin care treatments with ageLOC technology.
Beauty inside out:
# Stress is one of the activators of pigment production. Maintaining healthy level of stress hormone like cortisol is a good management of stress and thus help in your skin care.
# A recent study carried out by Stanford University indicated that green tea with 97% polyphenols has shown to be a powerful anti oxidant and can help in preventing photo-damage in the skin.
Always know what are your skin concerns before buy any skin care treatments or products. Besides, drink more water, perform regular exercise and have a well-balanced diet will help in your skin care.
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August 30th, 2009 at 6:34 pm