For your golden years and beyond, your skin care needs seem to follow a similar pattern.  You will begin to notice greater loss of moisture and elasticity.  With this you may also begin to see greater areas of discoloration and sun damage becomes more prevalent.    

Realizations:  Your skin feels dryer year round.  Fine lines, wrinkles and sun damage are all more prominent.  This is the optimal time for a high quality moisturizer as well as a strong exfoliant to encourage cell turnover.

Essentials: 

• Broad-spectrum Sunscreen SPF 30+
• Gentle Cleanser
• Retinoid
• Thicker Moisturizer
• Collagen Enhancers
• Exfoliant

Product Recommendations: Complex Gentle Foaming Cleanser, Clinician’s Complex Super C Powder, Clinician’s Complex Tissue Growth Factor, NeoCutis Journee, Clinician’s Complex Microdermabrasion Cream, SkinCeuticals Sheer Physical Defense, Avene Retrinol, NeoCutis BioCream, SkinCeuticals A.G.E. Interrupter

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A natural decrease in elasticity when you hit your 40’s is completely normal for you skin.  You may start to feel your skin is less firm or notice a sagging appearance.  While this is often a time many begin to consider cosmetic treatments such as laser resurfacing or dermal fillers, there are still important changes in your skin care regimen which can help alleviate common skin care woes during your 40’s.

Realizations: If you haven’t been updating your skin care regimen, it’s way past time.  Your skin is starting to appear slightly thinner and less firm.

Key Players: 

• Broad-spectrum Sunscreen SPF 30+
• Cleanser
• Antioxidant Serum
• Retinoid
• Moisturizer
• Collagen Enhancers

Product Recommendations: SkinCeuticals LHA Cleansing Gel, Clinician’s Complex Super C Powder, Clinician’s Complex Tissue Growth Factor, NeoCutis Journee, SkinCeuticals CE Ferulic or Phloretine CF, SkinCeuticals Sheer Physical Defense, Avene Retrinol, NeoCutis BioCream

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By the time you hit age 30, awareness has set in regarding changes in your skin.  Sun damage, stress, bad eating habits are all starting to present themselves a bit more and right on your face.  You may find your skin is in the middle ground between acne-prone and mature, but this is a vital time for you to take charge of your skin care regimen, positioning yourself ahead of the game for decades to come. 

Realizations: Your skin doesn’t “bounce back” like it used to, i.e. visible signs of lifestyle habits, drop in cell-turnover resulting in texture changes, say hello to those little fine lines.

Key Players: 

• Broad-spectrum Sunscreen SPF 30+
• Exfoliant
• Antioxidant Serum
• Retinoid
• Moisturizer

Product Recommendations: SkinCeuticals LHA Cleansing Gel, Clinician’s Complex Microdermabrasion Cream, SkinCeuticals CE Ferulic or Phloretine CF, SkinCeuticals Sheer Physical Defense, Avene Retrinol, NeoCutis BioCream

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Oh the years of our 20’s! Young and free. For some it includes graduating college, starting careers, beginning families, and partaking in many of life’s changes in this important time of our lives.  However, this is also a vital time to take care of your skin as many of these changes can wreak havoc on even the clearest of complexions.

Realizations: Sun damage has already been set in motion and may even begin appearing more visibly; You can still get acne outside the ages of puberty and high school.

Key Players:

• Broad-spectrum Sunscreen SPF 30+
• Cleanser with salicylic or glycolic acid
• Exfoliant
• Moisturizer

Product Recommendations: SkinCeuticals Clarifying Cleanser, Clinician’s Complex Microdermabrasion Cream, SkinCeuticals Blemish + Age Defense, SkinCeuticals Sheer Physical Defense, Avene Triacneal, Clarisonic Mia 2

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You can check out our full Best Fit for You series!

As we grow older in age, our skin care needs grow as well.  By grow is doesn’t necessarily mean we need to add more products, rather alter the products we use to match our changing skin.

Taking a que from our friends over at gloProfessional, we have decided to begin a blog post series on finding the Best Fit For You when it comes to your skin care regimen.  Over the next few weeks we will be breaking down Skin Care by decade, recommending what areas you should be honing in on, and which products we suggest to frame your skin care regimen.  

Before we get started Regardless of our age, though, there are a few basics which remain constant throughout our years.  That is why we will be starting off the Best Fit For You series with Skin Care 101 - tips to take with you no matter where you are or how young your skin truly is.

1. Wash your face twice daily, with clean hands, and using a clean towel to pat dry.

2. Apply moisturizer appropriate to your skin (oily or dry) and season (your skin may need a thicker moisturizer in colder months).

3. Finish your morning regimen with a broad-spectrum (blocks UVA and UVB) sunscreen. Do this everyday, no matter the weather or season.

4. Exfoliate a minimum of twice weekly to help encourage cell turnover, as well as slough off dead skin cells.  Products are most effective when they are applied directly to your skin - don’t waste your products by piling them on top of a layer of dead skin cells!

As simple as it sounds, these four steps are the solid foundation to any good skin care regimen. 

Answer: A skin care regimen is only as successful as the how often a person utilizes it. Many people are guilty of hoarding skin care products but never really settling into a daily skin care regimen. Take a few minutes to sort through your products and pull out the basics:

• facial wash
• antioxidant (this is usually a serum)
• moisturizer
• SPF (can be combined in moisturizer)
• night cream
• exfoliant

*Of course you may have a few additional products if treating specific conditions, but you will be able to weed out which products you need.

Once you have gone through and pulled what you should be using every day, separate your products into morning and evening. Some, like your facial wash, will be used twice a day.

When you are ready to begin using and applying your products, whether it be morning or evening, remember the golden rule: Start with the thinnest, work your way up to the thickest, and top it off with sunscreen. (The sunscreen, of course, not necessary before bed time.) If you are still having trouble deciding which is first, contact your dermatologist and have one of their skin care specialists walk you through each step.

The field of Dermatology covers a wide array of skin diseases and conditions. Trying to navigate the various conditions for your own benefit can cause great stress, confusion, and sometimes anxiety.

To help you navigate these roads, each week we will be posting a series on the Top 20 Skin Conditions, starting with #1 and working our way back to #20. In these posts we hope to answer the following common questions:

• What are the most common skin conditions?
• What do they look like?
• Are they treatable?
• Where can I learn more?

We hope you will find these posts informative. If you have any further questions on these conditions or any of those we don’t cover, please visit our website or contact our office.