Have you exercised your skin today?

We have all set our New Year’s resolutions for a new body or mind program but how about our skin? 

Our skin is the largest organ of our body and shows face daily.  It’s important to keep our skin moving by turning over dead cells layers, which in turn leaves our pores open, clean and ready to breath. If you do not do this, your skin will clog up and form large pores, blackheads, acne and generally dry, dull skin. 

But it does not end with this top layer, which in childhood is almost down to none, which gives youngsters their smooth, silky look.  The next layer to "exercise” is our living immunology or protective layer. We need to keep our bacteria and viral fighting cells in full gear as well as our pigment cells dispersed, helping us to avoid age and sun spots.  Better yet, we can stimulate increased cell production and enhancement of collagen cells, elastin cells and moisture retaining cells in the deep dermal layer. This layer gives our skin plumpness, elasticity, radiance and tightness. 

We can accomplish all this with a few active ingredients called cosmeceuticals—medical grade substances for beauty purposes and more.  The key ingredient is a sugar cane based acid called glycolic acid, one of our most active alpha hydroxyl acid due to its small molecular structure. It works all the layers I talked about—the top dead layer, middle living free radical fighting layer and the lower structure enhancing layer.  The neat thing is this ingredient is highly effective, safe, non-toxic, available, easy-to-use and versatile.  It comes in products ranging from soap to chemical peels (for both home and clinic use).  The Clinage line, tried and true for more than 20 years, produces results with minimal to no side effects. Other important ingredients are Vitamin C (Magnesium Ascorbal Phosphate form), A, E, and Niacinamide. 

These vitamins work along with glycolic to synergize and enhance the functions of glycolic acid to keep your skin working out. 

The best regime is a daily regime and weekly treatments, which can be done at home. Start the year off right.  Front Face Forward! (These substances are also anti-acne and tackle rosacea too. They are safe on all skin types and colors.)

Until next time……