STOP popping the spots, also known as pimples and zits. This may make the pimple look worse due to inflammation and irritation. Popping a zit can spread infection under the skin and produce even more pimples than before. If you do pop a spot then immediately clean it with soap and water or rubbing alcohol in order to prevent infection. If a pimple erupts in a particularly bothersome place, learn how to target a single pimple. And if you're determined to pop, learn how to pop a pimple safely and properly. If you do pop a pimple, the best thing to do is put a mixture of honey and ground cinnamon on the spot. Put a band-aid on it also. You may also want to stay away from stress.
Remove any make-up you have on. Wearing make-up can clog pores, making them dirty and causing pimples.
Use a mild soap for sensitive skin but it doesn't matter exactly what type of soap you use. It can be designed for acne-prone skin or not, but you will want to treat your skin gently. Harsh antibacterial soap may actually make your acne worse by irritating skin.
Remove dead skin cells regularly by exfoliating. Use a gentle scrub with natural defoliants like ground walnut shells, or use an over-the-counter chemical defoliant like salicylic acid or glycolic acid. Adding ground walnut shell to a thick moisturizer like cocoa butter can be effective too. Take caution, because over-exfoliating can actually increase the likelihood of acne by irritating the skin. Pat dry, rather than rubbing, since rubbing can cause irritation to the fresh skin you've just revealed.
Use a good toner. Spray onto face or wipe on with a cotton ball and wipe off with a clean, dry cotton ball. This gets rid of excess cleanser and tightens pores. Good, inexpensive choices include plain witch hazel for normal to dry skin, lemon juice, or 3% hydrogen peroxide for oily skin. 70% ethyl rubbing alcohol can also be used for severe oiliness, but it can really dry out your skin and irritate it more. Some toners are medicated, and this stage is the best for using a medicated product if you're only going to use one medication.
Bacteria in pores is one cause of spots. Reduce the amount of bacteria by using toners containing anti-bacterial agents like alcohol, peroxide and benzalkonium chloride, and by using creams that contain benzoyl peroxide (ask your doctor about benzaclin, with moisturizer if you have dry skin, as it works better than just plain benzoyl because benzoyl takes up to 8 weeks before improvement is seen) which kill bacteria as well as cause the skin to regenerate faster.
Maintain a routine. Most acne treatments take time to work. It usually takes between two and eight weeks before you see any significant improvement, so you are going to have to be patient. Once you've gotten your acne cleared up, it's important to continue with the treatment that's working so it does not return.
If all else fails, contact a doctor. Mild antibiotics that are available only by prescription can help reduce acne. Keep in mind though, that the widespread overuse (taking antibiotics when you really don't need them or for something they don't treat) and misuse (not taking medication for the specified amount of time) of antibiotics has led to the development of multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria. That means that the antibiotics won't work for the things they used to (including your acne).
Keep hair off of your face if at all possible. If you want to keep your bangs, then consider taking showers regularly or keeping your forehead clean with oil-dabbing cloths / clean tissues / etc.
Get good sleep. Stress increases your skin's oiliness, which, combined with sweat and dirt, can clog pores and cause pimples. (Change your pillowcase frequently.)
Acne medications may cause your skin to initially break out worse than before because all FDA-approved acne medications (benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, and sulfur) are causing your skin to regenerate faster. This brings existing acne pimples already under your skin (but not visible yet) to the surface, which in turn causes a massive but fortunately temporary break out. Give the medications time to work -- about one to two weeks -- and you will notice a big difference in the quality of your skin.
See a dermatologist if over the counter remedies do not work. They specialize in skin care and can prescribe you medicines that help you improve it.
Drink plenty of water. Staying well hydrated can help your condition improve, because the "waste management" control system in your body requires a lot of water to do its job. Without enough water, the body has difficulty removing some waste products efficiently.
Look for face washes which contain the active ingredient benzoyl peroxide. This is the key ingredient in some of the best face washes. use a 5-10% benzoyl peroxide of mild to moderate acne and 10% for severe.
Try smashing one tablet of aspirin in a small bowl, then adding lemon juice to the mixture. Aspirin is acetesalicylic acid, chemically related to salicylic acid. Apply to the affected areas overnight. It boosts the healing process while reducing redness.
Try putting toothpaste (paste, NOT gel) on your face, cover it with a bandage, and keep it on all night. When you wash it off in the morning your acne will look better. The astringent and surfactant nature of the toothpaste will help diminish the appearance of pimples. But the toothpaste has been known to burn sensitive skin of the face, so be careful. If your face does burn, stop acne treatments and work on healing your burn.
Apply some sudocrem to your spots, This helps them.
use shampoo! suave profossionals biobasics for damaged hair is a good example. its cheap and you have alot of it, and at the same time it gets rid of all the oil and grease, helping zits fade. however, many shampoos contain lauryl sulfates which can damage your skin.
Change your pillow case every week. You sleep on it! Most of your germs and bacteria are passed onto your pillow case and back onto your skin.... making acne worse.
Take Minocycline. Minocycline is an antibiotic which kills bacteria. Minocycline should be taken with caution, however, as it has been show to damage the thyroid gland, liver, and hair. It makes skin sensitive and lowers the body's resistance to pathogens. If you do choose to take minocyline, make sure to get bloodwork every six months at the doctor's office to moniter your health.
Get good nutrition. These top five nutrients have been shown to have a very positive effect on your skin and in treating acne. These nutrients, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin E, selenium and chromium, can pack a powerful punch in your acne war.
Zinc - Zinc is the Acne stopper. It works in several ways to both treat acne and prevent it. It helps the body regulate certain hormones which prevents acne, but it also helps with wound healing, tissue regeneration and boosting the body's immune system.Most people in the United States actually have a marginal zinc deficiency, but you can get zinc from many of your favorite foods, such as seeds, nuts, legumes and whole grains.
Vitamin A - Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin that helps you have beautiful, healthy hair and skin. You can find vitamin A from fruits and vegetables. Dark green vegetables and deep yellow vegetables as fruits give you a good dose of vitamin A by providing carotenes. Oatmeal is a good source of vitamin A, as well as cantaloupe, honeydew melon, broccoli, spinach and sweet potato. Liver contains a megadosis: watch out, vitamin A is stored in the body and you can actually get vitamin A poisoning.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Friday, December 19, 2008
SCAR TREATMENT
Scar Treatment After Healing from Injury
Topical application of our biological skin cream for scar treatment on skin wounds and scars regulates dermal fibroblast proliferation, and will prevent or avoid fibrosis, inhibit and decrease keloid scars and hyperthropic scars.
Scars are the pale pink and brown or silvery patches on the skin that form after the skin has experienced some sort of injury. It's the skins natural way of repairing itself.
Scars are a part of life and each one tells a story, however sometimes the scars are unsightly and embarrassing and may have negative affects in many aspects of your life.
The human body is able to withstand many different types of injuries, including penetrating trauma, burn trauma and blunt trauma. All of these insults set into motion an orderly succession of events that represent a healing response in which the skin is involved. The natural process re-establishes integrity by forming connective tissue (resulting in scars) and this response is characterized by the movement of specialized cells into the injury site.
When an injury occurs a migration of diverse cells begins immediately in the area and the complex healing process starts the moment an injury or wound happens.
Platelets and inflammatory cells are the first cells to appear at the site of injury and they generate key "signals" needed for the influx of connective tissue cells and a new blood supply. This phase is called inflammatory phase. The signs have been well recognized since ancient times: rubor (redness), calor (heat), tumor (swelling) and dolor (pain).
The arrival of wound macrophages is a marker that the inflammatory phase is nearing an end and the proliferative phase will begin. Lymphocytes appear at the wound area in a latter phase but are not contemplated to be major inflammatory cells involved in the healing reaction; their precise role in the wound healing system remains unclear.
As the Proliferative phase advances the predominant cell in the wound site is the fibroblast. This cell is in charge of producing the new matrix necessary to restitute structural integrity and function to the injured tissue. Fibroblasts attach to the cables of the provisional fibrin matrix and begin to generate collagen.
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the animal kingdom, accounting for 30% of the entire protein in the human body. In normal tissues collagen gives strength, stability and structure. Collagen is necessary to repair the defect and regenerate anatomic structures and function. If too much collagen accumulates in the wound site, natural anatomical structures are deteriorated, function is compromised and fibrosis appears.
In summary, the normal healing cascade starts with a systematized process of homeostasis and fibrin deposition, which leads to an inflammatory cell cascade, distinguish by neutrophils, macrophages and lymphocytes within the tissue.
This is followed by attraction and proliferation of fibroblasts and collagen deposition, and finally remodelling by collagen cross-linking and scar formation. Although this orderly chain of events is responsible for normal wound healing, pathologic responses leading to fibrosis or chronic ulcers might take place if any part of the healing chain is altered.
Fibrosis: Abnormal Skin Reaction to Injury
Fibrosis is defined as the equivalent of the normal structural components of the tissue by alteration, non-functional and excessive accumulation of scar tissue. This is maybe the most crucial biological marker for fibrosis. A good number of clinical problems are associated with excessive scar formation for example, keloids and hypertrophic scars.
Keloid scars are basically thick, puckered, itchy clusters of scar tissue that arise beyond the borders of an injury or incision and almost never regress. Keloid scars are sometimes very nodular in nature, and they are typically darker in color than surrounding skin. They take place when the body persists in produce tough, fibrous protein (known as collagen) once a wound has healed.
Keloids are fibrotic tumors defined by a collection of abnormal fibroblasts with excessive deposition of collagen, fibronectin, elastin, and proteoglycans. Histologically, keloids contain relatively acellular centers and thick, abundant collagen bundles that create nodules in the deep dermal portion of the lesion.
Keloids present a therapeutic challenge that must be addressed while these lesions can cause substantial pain, pruritus (severe itching) and physical disfigurement. They unfortunately seldom improve in aspect over time, and can even limit mobility if the form over a joint.
Keloids can occur anywhere on the body, but frequently occur over the breastbone, on earlobes and on shoulders. Keloids mainly emerge in people with dark skin, such as individuals of Asian, African or Middle-Eastern descent. A person's tendency to develop keloids does decrease with age. But, one of the most troublesome aspects of keloids scars is their tendency to recur, occasionally needing permanent care.
Hypertrophic scars rarely are difficult to identify from keloid scars histologically and biochemically. Unlike keloids, hypertrophic scars stay confined to the wound site and normally mature and flatten out over time.
Both forms secrete higher concentrations of collagen than normal scars, but usually the hypertrophic type exhibits declining collagen synthesis after about six months. But, hypertrophic scars have nearly twice as much glycosaminoglycan as normal scars and this and enhanced synthetic and enzymatic activity end in substantial alterations in the matrix which impacts the mechanical properties of the scars, including reduced extensibility that makes them feel firm.
As with hypertrophic scarring, people who already have one keloid scar are more likely to suffer from this syndrome in the future and have to alert their doctor or surgeon if they need injections or are to have any form of surgery.
BIOSKINCARE™ Treatment cream contributes to REGULATE the skin healing, scar formation process and all associated fibrosis.
BIOSKINCARE™ is an organic cream that can help you to improve the levels of collagen, the most important elements of the skin regeneration mechanism. It is a natural cosmetic treatment cream, not a drug, pharmaceutical, or product aimed to cure a disease.
BIOSINCARE's main component is a secretion from the land snail (Helix Aspersa Muller). It is the same that they employ to quickly repair their own skin and shells when injured. It is a viscose liquid that is made into an un-perfumed white cream with no alien or synthetic chemicals. Topical application of the cream on skin wounds and scars reduces dermal fibroblast proliferation, and inhibits and decreases keloid and hyperthropic scarring.
Analysis of the secretion of the snail has shown that it contains biological activators that enhance the skin's growth factors which in turn reproduce brand new skin cells. It also contains antimicrobial peptides, and antioxidants that act as natural anti inflammatories and immune modulating glycoproteins. Their activity helps also in the production of glycosaminoglycans which are responsible for holding the water molecules in normal healthy skin. The skin is nourished with all the ingredients necessary to regenerate the elastin and collagen levels, which results in skin looking healthy again, quickly.
In simpler words; BIOSKINCARE™ cream helps your skin regenerate itself! It is additionally anti-microbial, thereby helping to avoid skin infections. There is nothing like it! And you can use it for treating a wide variety of skin blemishes: wounds, burns, sunburns, and rashes, cracked and dry skin. It works excellently on post-surgical scars. It is also ideal for wrinkles, age spots, abrasions, acne, athlete's foot, boils, chilblains, diabetic sores, diaper rash, infected nails, insect bites/stings, skin allergies, skin ulcers and stretch marks with incredible results. It is just fantastic for helping the skin to recover itself. Wounds heal with minimal scarring while it also helps shrink old scars.
Scar treatment with skin cream on skin wounds and scars to reduce dermal fibroblast proliferation, and inhibit and decrease keloid and hyperthropic scarsSKIN RE-JUVENATION
Skin re-juvenation is really regeneration, removing the old and dead top layers of skin cells it exposes the new younger fresher cells encouraging new growth with firmer skin and a more radiant fresher skin tone. If you combine this with a vitamin application called mesotherapy you will get astounding results that you and your friends will instantly notice.
The treatment to remove old cells can be anything from light exfoliation all the way through to a heavier and more substantial peeling process.
At HB Health we provide you with guidance, choice and most of all the highest level of expertise in getting the results which suit you best.
The three effective processes for fantastic results which we strongly recomend are:
- Microdermabrasion
- Peeling
- Mesotherapy
Microdermabrasion
As the names suggests this process utilises an abrasive method that physically rubs the older dead skin away revealing younger cells beneath. Taking normally 20 to 40 minutes , after just one treatment results are immediately visible and have no longer term side effects. It is suitable to have done if you are considering going out on an occasion.
We recomend and use a natural salt as the abrasive material followed with a soothing gel mask to cool and re-moisturise the upper dermis layers to leave a rejuvenated glowing complexion
Peeling
Skin peeling involves an application of a chemical or fruit solution of varying strengths to sun-damaged, unevenly pigmented, and finely wrinkled facial areas. The procedure is meant to diminish imperfections by peeling away the skin’s top layers. It has proven to be a very popular non surgical cosmetic procedure. The depth of peeling action may also depend on factors such as how long solutions remain on the skin and whether they are lightly applied, or more heavily or vigorously applied.
The practioner will select the best chemical or chemical mix for the individual patient. A solution is applied—using a sponge, cotton pad, cotton swab or brush—to the areas to be treated (or the entire face, avoiding the eyes, brows and lips). Generally, the most superficial peels are those using alpha hydroxy acids (AHA), such as glycolic, lactic or fruit acid. Various concentrations of an AHA may be applied weekly or at longer intervals to obtain the best result.
Depending on the strength of treatment selected , there will be short term peeling over several days following treatment as the old skin comes away, similar to peeling from sun burn. This treatment would not be appropriate if you wanted to look your best before going to a special event within a few days of the treatment.
SKIN RE-JUVENATION
Skin re-juvenation is really regeneration, removing the old and dead top layers of skin cells it exposes the new younger fresher cells encouraging new growth with firmer skin and a more radiant fresher skin tone. If you combine this with a vitamin application called mesotherapy you will get astounding results that you and your friends will instantly notice.
The treatment to remove old cells can be anything from light exfoliation all the way through to a heavier and more substantial peeling process.
At HB Health we provide you with guidance, choice and most of all the highest level of expertise in getting the results which suit you best.
The three effective processes for fantastic results which we strongly recomend are:
- Microdermabrasion
- Peeling
- Mesotherapy
Microdermabrasion
As the names suggests this process utilises an abrasive method that physically rubs the older dead skin away revealing younger cells beneath. Taking normally 20 to 40 minutes , after just one treatment results are immediately visible and have no longer term side effects. It is suitable to have done if you are considering going out on an occasion.
We recomend and use a natural salt as the abrasive material followed with a soothing gel mask to cool and re-moisturise the upper dermis layers to leave a rejuvenated glowing complexion
Peeling
Skin peeling involves an application of a chemical or fruit solution of varying strengths to sun-damaged, unevenly pigmented, and finely wrinkled facial areas. The procedure is meant to diminish imperfections by peeling away the skin’s top layers. It has proven to be a very popular non surgical cosmetic procedure. The depth of peeling action may also depend on factors such as how long solutions remain on the skin and whether they are lightly applied, or more heavily or vigorously applied.
The practioner will select the best chemical or chemical mix for the individual patient. A solution is applied—using a sponge, cotton pad, cotton swab or brush—to the areas to be treated (or the entire face, avoiding the eyes, brows and lips). Generally, the most superficial peels are those using alpha hydroxy acids (AHA), such as glycolic, lactic or fruit acid. Various concentrations of an AHA may be applied weekly or at longer intervals to obtain the best result.
Depending on the strength of treatment selected , there will be short term peeling over several days following treatment as the old skin comes away, similar to peeling from sun burn. This treatment would not be appropriate if you wanted to look your best before going to a special event within a few days of the treatment.
Facial Wrinkles
How many times have you guessed someone's age just by looking at his/her face, specifically the skin? As people age, it's normal to get wrinkles. And if the person has spent a lot of time in the sun, at tanning salons, or smoking cigarettes, he or she might have a lot of them.
The skin is made up of three layers:
the outermost layer everyone can see, called the epidermis
the middle layer, called the dermis
the innermost layer, called the subcutaneous layer
When a person is young, he or she doesn't have wrinkles because the skin does a great job of stretching and holding in moisture. The dermis has an elastic quality thanks to fibers called elastin that keep the skin looking and feeling young. A protein in the dermis called collagen also plays a part in preventing wrinkles, because collagen is the most important component in the skin regeneration process.
However, over time, the dermis loses both collagen and elastin, so skin gets thinner and has trouble getting enough moisture to the epidermis. The fat in the subcutaneous layer that gives skin a plump appearance also begins to disappear, the epidermis starts to sag, and wrinkles form.
Here are some things people can do to prevent getting many wrinkles at an early age:
Avoid spending too much time in the direct sun.
Ultraviolet (UV) rays cause many wrinkles. If you are outside a lot, be sure to wear a sunblock with sun protection factor.
Don't go to the tanning salon.
Don't smoke! Smoking robs your skin of precious moisture and causes premature wrinkles.
Drink water.
Moisturize dry skin, especially during months when the air is drier.
Posible treatments
Restylane is effective for filling moderate to severe wrinkles around the nose and mouth. More than one injection is necessary to get a satisfactory result. The effect lasts for about six months.
Botox (botulinum toxin) is approved for treating frown lines between the eyebrows.
Other treatments for wrinkles include topical creams, chemical peels and laser and electro-surgical resurfacing.
Side effects
Restylane. While more severe reactions occur in only 1 of 2000 patients on average, some have experienced localized swelling at the injection point, thought to be brought on by hypersensitivity.Tenderness, redness, and very rarely acne-like formations have appeared.
BOTOX: Reactions to the treatment: Redness, and an increased incidence of severe bruising, severe swelling, allergic reaction, pruritus, severe pain, urticaria and psoriasiform eruption, skin rash and severe tenderness. These incidents were lower with follow up injections for both products.
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