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Hello, I’m Dr. Neal Schultz
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and welcome to DermTV.
If you have some important events coming up
in the next month or two, and
you’re willing to make a commitment of time
and effort to making your face
look its very best, here are some tips and
tricks to help you do that.
First of all, and the most important thing,
is you need to know your oil
and water facial skin type. You need to know
whether it’s dry or oily,
normal or combination so you can buy the proper
skin care products that
will agree with and help you make your skin
look its very best. Next, you
need to adopt a daily skin care routine that
you do every day, particularly
involving cleanser and toner and moisturizer
and whatever other appropriate
skin care products you will be using which
I will discuss in a few minutes.
But certainly you want to use a cleanser and
toner every day twice a day
because, if you do the same thing every day
and you prepare your skin in
the same way every day, it will reproducibly
be able to accept the active
ingredients that you’re doing, and they’ll
be able to work much more
reliably and reproducibly. Make sure every
day you are using the three
essential skin care ingredients. They are
sunscreen, exfoliant and
antioxidants. The sunscreen every morning,
rain or shine, because you want
to prevent all future sun damage. The only
way you can prematurely wrinkle
your skin is to have it exposed to the sun
without protection. Exfoliant
every day to help remove the dead cells to
improve the texture and to give
it a luster, also to help improve the color
and, in addition, you’ll help
prevent acne breakouts and you’ll remove
some of the early abnormal cells
that want to become skin cancers in the future.
And every night an
antioxidant, because no matter how fastidiously
you use your sunscreen and
how regularly you re-apply it, somehow some
sun manages to get around it or
through it and to cause some high-energy particles
inside your skin that
can be dangerous. The antioxidants used at
night will neutralize that
dangerous energy and prevent it from damaging
DNA or cell membranes which
causes premature aging of the skin and contributes
to skin cancer. Then,
how about a trip to a dermatologist’s office.
At your dermatologist’s, a
series in that month or two months, a series
of glycolic treatments or
microdermabrasions will go a long way toward
improving the color and
texture of your skin, giving it even more
of a luster. Botox and filler
treatments will certainly have plenty of time
to control any lines,
wrinkles or contour issues. And lastly, if
you have discolorations on your
face that don’t respond to the others and
the other treatments, certainly
broken capillaries that cause redness can
be removed with lasers or brown
spots or age spots can also be removed with
lasers. So, if you have a month
or two, if you have the luxury of having that
amount of time, it’s
certainly very easy to get your skin into
very, very good shape and to look
its very best and, if you get caught at the
last minute and you just have
two or three days before that important event,
see the other DermTV
episodes on quick fixes, both at home and
in your dermatologist’s office.