Cleansing, toning, moisturizing and feeding: these are the pillars of good skin care. The skin is a living thing and your biggest organ that keeps good things in and bad things out. You only have one, and although it's one of the organs that can regenerate it's not a pretty result. It is therefore very important to look after your skin, and prevention is better than cure. It's also important to use cosmeceuticals instead of cosmetic creams. Cosmeceuticals are medically tested skin treatments (double blind, placebo controlled, peer reviewed studies) only available through medical practitioners.
So what is a good cleanser? The basic requirement is that they must not leave your skin dry. To do this it must not contain a foaming detergent (i.e. soap bars). A good toner? There are basically two types of toner available: alcoholic and non-alcohol based. Depending on your skin type, one will typically use an alcohol based toner on oily skin and the other on dry skin. Some people even need to use both! The correct moisturizer? Here is where the big confusion and expense can lie. The amount of creams and their promises are only outnumbered by their disappointments and their cost. While it's easy to say ‘use a night cream and a day cream with sunblock', this information doesn't help much. There are "special "creams for every area, condition, age and skin type. The use of sunblock cannot be compromised. Anything above SPF 20 is ok, and one should apply more than once a day to the face, neck, chest and hands. Even so, try to stay out of the sun.
Vitamin A (retinol, retinoids, isotretinoin) is the most important skin rejuvenating ingredient and the only medically proven age reversing agent. It can be found in SKINMEDICA RETINOL COMPLEX. Vitamins C (ascorbic acid, ascorbate) and E (tocopherols , tocotrienols) have strong and vital anti-aging and antioxidant properties that are medically proven to prevent aging. These can be found in SKINMEDICA TNS VIT C, E COMPLEX.
As long as you have these three key ingredients in your face creams, the rest is optional. It is important to know that your skin is actually impermeable to the creams you apply; otherwise you are only moisturizing the outside dead layer of your skin (stratum corneum). So although your skin feels smooth, it has not been penetrated with any of your creams. So what can one do? One option is to remove (regenerate) your stratum corneum with acid, an important skin care regime component. FILORGA GLYCOPEEL Chemical peels can be used for this. It is proven that one chemical peel a month will increase the skin absorption of anything applied to it.
So what is a good cleanser? The basic requirement is that they must not leave your skin dry. To do this it must not contain a foaming detergent (i.e. soap bars). A good toner? There are basically two types of toner available: alcoholic and non-alcohol based. Depending on your skin type, one will typically use an alcohol based toner on oily skin and the other on dry skin. Some people even need to use both! The correct moisturizer? Here is where the big confusion and expense can lie. The amount of creams and their promises are only outnumbered by their disappointments and their cost. While it's easy to say ‘use a night cream and a day cream with sunblock', this information doesn't help much. There are "special "creams for every area, condition, age and skin type. The use of sunblock cannot be compromised. Anything above SPF 20 is ok, and one should apply more than once a day to the face, neck, chest and hands. Even so, try to stay out of the sun.
Vitamin A (retinol, retinoids, isotretinoin) is the most important skin rejuvenating ingredient and the only medically proven age reversing agent. It can be found in SKINMEDICA RETINOL COMPLEX. Vitamins C (ascorbic acid, ascorbate) and E (tocopherols , tocotrienols) have strong and vital anti-aging and antioxidant properties that are medically proven to prevent aging. These can be found in SKINMEDICA TNS VIT C, E COMPLEX.
As long as you have these three key ingredients in your face creams, the rest is optional. It is important to know that your skin is actually impermeable to the creams you apply; otherwise you are only moisturizing the outside dead layer of your skin (stratum corneum). So although your skin feels smooth, it has not been penetrated with any of your creams. So what can one do? One option is to remove (regenerate) your stratum corneum with acid, an important skin care regime component. FILORGA GLYCOPEEL Chemical peels can be used for this. It is proven that one chemical peel a month will increase the skin absorption of anything applied to it.