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Skin Care News & Specials
A monthly e-zine from GreatSkin®.com
March, 2004
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 Welcome Spring!
In With the New and Out with the Old
(Skin, that is)
By Lori Van Wormer, L.E.
Lori’s Beauty Tip of the Month
“The look for Spring is Dewy Youthful Skin, a lot of Color on the Eyes, and Beautiful Pink Pouty Lips!
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Ahh! Finally, winter (and all the skin woes that come along with it) will be disappearing. Spring is here, and dewy, fresh looking skin is "in" for the season. So, now is the time to exfoliate away old dead skin cells and schedule a series of professional peels whether it is laser, glycolic, or microdermabrasion. It's also the time to start that new at home skin care regimen that you didn't dare start in winter when your skin tends to be in a much more sensitized state. This at home skin regimen should coincide with these professional treatments for optimal results and effectiveness.
You will need the following:
An Exfoliating Cleanser
Try our GreatSkin® Alpha Cleanser which is ideal for all skin types. The Papaya Enzyme eases away dull surface cells while both Salicylic Acid and Beta Hydroxy Acid provide mild exfoliation and skin softening properties leaving skin soft and supple.
A Hydrating Toner
Try our GreatSkin® Vital Hydrant Toner which will refresh, hydrate, and stimulate even the most sluggish of skins while protecting it with Vitamin A, E, and C.
A Cell Renewal Product
TNS Skin Medica is the perfect product to incorporate into any carefully planned skin renewal program, for it represents the cutting edge of bio engineered harvested growth factors for the distinct purpose of skin renewal.
A Vitamin C product
GreatSkin® 25% C Serum is the highest concentration of C Serum on the market today.
A Sun block
GreatSkin®'s new Sun block SPF 30 with Green Tea is an oil free formula that is excellent for daily protection and provides potent anti oxidant protection with Green Tea.
A Moisturizer
GreatSkin®'s Restorative Marine Moisture has clinical studies to prove substantial cell turnover------20% increase in firmness and 70% increase in hydration in just four weeks.
An Eye Product
GreatSkin®'s new Retinol Eye Serum helps to prevent premature aging of the eye area while stimulating growth of healthy new skin cells.
A Night Product
At bedtime, apply GreatSkin®'s new Retinol 10x Serum, which helps to restore cell renewal in damaged skin cells while giving long lasting reduction of visible lines and wrinkles. Follow with GreatSkin®'s Moisture Balance Night Cream for added hydration.
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 PhotoDynamic Therapy, the Latest Non Surgical Face Rejuvenation Technique
By GreatSkin.com, MD
Medical Director, GreatSkin® Clinics of the Southwest
Photodynamic Therapy using the combination of AminoLevulinic Acid (ALA) and light energy delivered via both Laser and Non-Laser light sources is taking the Dermatology office to a new level in minimally invasive or no downtime skin rejuvenation. The interaction between the chemical compound Levulan (currently marketed by DUSA pharmaceuticals as Kerastick®) applied to the face and various light sources, has tremendous positive benefit on all sorts of Dermatologic conditions.
Levulan (a water/alcohol soluble chemical) is applied to the face as a 20% serum following a deep cleansing and a microdermabrasion treatment. The compound is then left on the face to be absorbed anywhere from 1 to 24 hours. This compound is preferentially taken up by actively dividing and metabolizing cells, such as those found in Actinic Keratosis (those annoying little scaly red crusty things on the photodamaged face), squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas (the skin cancers that result if the actinic keratosis is not ablated early on), as well as psoriatic plaques, seborreic or allergic dermatitis, inflammatory acne, acne rosacea, discoid lupus, as well as inflamed irritated photodamaged skin. Once the Levulen is found inside the skin appendages including the sebaceous glands, various wavelengths of light are used to "activate" the compound. What does "activate" mean?
The Levulan which has actively taken into the rapidly metabolizing cells is converted to a photoactive compound called protoporphyrin IX. This compound will "fluoresce" under UV Light, which means it will glow under a black lamp. One can visualize how extensively the levulan has been metabolized into the skin cells by using this fluorescent technique to look at the skin. Protoporphyrin IX has several wavelengths which are preferentially absorbed; one in the blue light zone and three or four in the red to colorless zone. That is why so many light sources can be used to activate the levulan once taken into the cells. What happens when levulan is activated? That is truly the key. A "singlet oxygen species" or free radical is produced. This free radical then kills the cell that the levulan is found in. Thus, we have created a controlled way to selectively kill "bad cells" and leave the good ones alone! The rapidly growing cancers are killed! The early cancers are killed before they grow. The actinic damage is destroyed, the psoriasis plaques are destroyed, and the sebaceous glands are injured so that hair production and oil production are diminished. In short, all the "bad stuff" is treated and the normal cells are left alone!
Photodynamic therapy will become the number one, no down time, in-office cure and prophylactic treatment for photodamage, non-melanoma skin cancers, actinic keratosis, keratosis pilaris, acne, rosacea, psoriasis and many other skin conditions. The patient just comes in, has a microdermabrasion, the application of ALA and a 20 minute light treatment with the Omnilux Red or Blue light, the Aurora Syneron FotoFacial RF, or other light source with wavelength from 400 to 800 nm of light. If it took six treatments of Fotofacial-RF for adequate result, it might take only two or three with Levulan to achieve the same result!. Levulan with FotoFacial RF will treat fine blond to white peach-fuzz of the face, diminish the skins oiliness and treat moderate to severe acne. Just about any light based therapy can be made more effective with Levulan, providing the wavelength of excitation is in the correct range. Phototherapy is now in its infancy, but will become the single greatest advance in light based non invasive therapeutic techniques as well know them!
GreatSkin MediSpas of the Southwest is proud to announce its acquisition of the Omnilux Red and Blue light diode facial light therapy, in concert with the use of Kerastix® from DUSA pharmaceuiticals.Please make an appointment today to learn about the amazing spectrum of treatment options we can provide for restoration of a youthful appearance.
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