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When manufacturers market a beauty product, they can make claims that are not approved by the FDA. An “effective antiaging treatment”, for example, could simply mean the product is moisturizing the skin. You won’t know what works for you in the antiaging category until you test a product yourself, using the old-fashioned trial and error.
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Cell turnover is an ongoing process. The skin cell forms at the bottom of the epidermis, rises up through that layer, dies, and is shed. It’s nudged free by wear and tear and replaced by a newly arrived cell that has completed the same process. As all of the body processes slow beginning at your [...]
Stress is a powerful enemy of beauty. To fight it, you will have to learn to relax. To free both mind and body, take time out and allow yourself small and intermittent moments of calm and serenity.
Your skin is emotive. For a long time people thought the skin was simply a kind of cover protecting [...]
People often don’t realize that skin type may not only change with age, it can also change in response to a shift in the external or internal environment.
Traveling to a different climate or a higher or lower altitude and seasonal shifts in temperature and humidity are the most obvious examples. But certain medications, particularly hormone [...]
Free radicals can damage virtually every part of a cell, including the nucleus, where DNA, the body’s unique genetic blueprint, is produced. They can also harm the fats inside cells.
In fact, many scientists believe that free-radical damage is one of the primary causes of aging and age-related diseases such as heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, [...]
There are two major types of aging that occur in the cells that make up your face and all of the tissues and organs in your body.
The first type is intrinsic aging, from the inside. This is a combination of your genetic or inherited aging pattern and your dietary and lifestyle factors, which have a [...]
Using good skin-care products and developing a routine facial skin-care program will obviously help the skin look better. As the skin ages, production of intercellular cement decreases, which decreases the skin’s ability to hold water. This is dehydration, and it results in a rough-textured appearance.
Many theories support the use of hydrating agents in lessening the [...]
The skin-care establishment has led you to believe that a magic cream exists that will solve it all. It will stimulate the skin to make more collagen, fill in the wrinkles, and smooth and comfort at the same time. But a cream that can do it all, even in theory, is a scientific impossibility.
A cream [...]
The language of beauty has always been filled with fantastic promises and grand declarations. From the earliest days when ‘vanishing’ creams (basically, just moisturizers) guaranteed flawless, eternally youthful skin, until today when virtually every product ensures that it will erase the signs of aging, consumers have been told that there are thousands of ways to [...]
The results or benefits you will see after the injection of any filler, whether it’s collagen, Restylane or fat, are only as good as the skill of the person who injects these substances into your face.
Brooke Rutledge Seckel, M.D. [...]
