Skin Care
Skin Care Basics Facts
Your skin reflects your health. It has been described as your body’s canvas and one of your most valuable assets. For good skin, you have to develop healthy habits that guard this priceless possession from outside and inside forces attempting to ruin it. Your skin is the only skin you will ever have so the daily habits you establish to care for it means everything.
As the body’s largest organ, your skin has many jobs including:
• Your skin serves such as a waterproof covering that prevents excessive loss or gain of bodily moisture.
• Your skin helps keep out pathogens or agents such as a bacterium or fungus that cause diseases.
• Your skin provides a barrier against invasion by outside organisms and it protects underlying tissues and organs from abrasion and other injury.
• Your skin and its pigments shield your body from the dangerous ultraviolet rays in sunlight.
• Your skin’s numerous sweat glands excrete waste products along with salt-laden moisture, the evaporation of which may account, in certain circumstances, for as much as 90% of the cooling of your body.
• Your skin’s fat cells act as insulation against cold; and when your body overheats, your skin’s extensive small blood vessels carry warm blood near the surface where it is cooled.
• Your skin helps your body to maintain normal temperature.
Human skin has remarkable self-healing properties, particularly when only the epidermis is damaged. Even when the injury damages the dermis, healing may still be complete if the wounded area occurs in a part of the body with a rich blood supply. Deeper wounds, penetrating to the underlying tissue, heal by scar formation.
Determining and meeting your skin’s essential needs with a comprehensive regimen is critical to maintaining its healthy function and beautiful appearance. While there are several options to choose from, the key to optimal health and beauty is to maintain beautiful skin and slow the rate at which it ages with a regimen that both supplements and protects its structure and function.
Basic and Advanced Skin Care Needs
Your skin has up to ten essential needs for optimal health and beauty. These needs can be divided into two categories: basic and advanced needs. Your skin’s basic needs are the minimum, daily needs or regimen steps all skin types require. Advanced needs are those that address specific concerns of your skin that can be met by incorporating additional regimen steps as needed. Starting in our late 20s, our advanced needs steadily increase. Together, basic and advanced needs form the essential requirements for healthy skin.
Skin Basics Overview
Because the skin, to some extent, is separated from your other vital organs, it is the first area to show signs of stress. This means that however great your skin is, you need to take care of it. Today’s skincare is scientifically proven to help turn back the clock but we still find ourselves fighting a constant battle against skin aging. When we are in our twenties and thirties, our skin renews itself easily and efficiently because the horny layer is able to retain enough moisture to keep the epidermis fresh and the complexion smooth and refined. But as we get older, environmental factors and stress endanger our skin’s health and appearance.
Because our skin is a living organism, its needs change according to condition and the climate. Thanks to the revolution in skincare technology, you no longer have to be born with perfect skin to reap its benefits. The thinking behind modern skincare is so advanced that discoveries in both texture and formulation are now used routinely. Dr. Tabas is an expert in skin care so in your search for perfection, she will show you how to respect your skin’s individual needs while improving your image.
While it is true that beauty does come from within, there are some simple skin care steps that you can do to enhance your outer appearance as well. Our society places a high value on looking young so a lot of money is spent on beauty creams, various procedures to rejuvenate the skin, and even surgery. There are creams and light procedures that help give your skin a fresher glow or soften some of your lines and age spots. For more dramatic improvement, there are laser procedures or stronger creams and peels. You must decide how much effort and expense you are willing to invest in your appearance and without professional expertise, making the right decision can be overwhelming. Dr. Tabas and her team are ready to help you take on the challenge so contact us or call Winter Park Dermatology today and we will help you feel good about yourself once again.
