Exfoliate
Exfoliate
Skin
Skin exfoliation, or to be more accurate, an advanced
form of it, is what happens at the very heart of home microdermabrasion,
not to be confused with professional office or Dry Dermabrasion treatments.
The exfoliation associated with home microdermabrasion is less aggressive,
more predictable and a nearly everlasting solution which dramatically reduces
the appearance of wrinkles and darkened areas on your face and neck.
A younger,
healthier looking face can be yours in as little as eight weeks. Home microdermabrasion
is accelerated exfoliation which is how it works. Home microdermabrasion
has become incredibly affordable (see About Us) and only requires one to
two minutes per day of your time.
Exfoliation is a normal and unending process of your skin shedding its
dead surface cells. Regular daily treatments with home Microdermabrasion,
the accelerated exfoliant, will radically improve the appearance of wrinkles
and dark spots on your face and neck.
Home accelerated exfoliation works
as if it were a magical anti wrinkle cream rather than a simple exfoliant.
Home microdermabrasion, being the accelerated exfoliant of choice, helps
to turn back your physiologic clock. It is for this reason that you must
use it daily for about eight weeks to see very good results. An eight week
time interval is the minimum essential, obligatory time required. This
is because; what you are doing is forcing your skin's physiology to change
(to accelerate) and you simply cannot compel human physiology to change
any faster, by any other technique known to modern medicine. Period.
That being said and out of the way, plan for eight weeks of use, with
one to two minutes per day of extra shower time. That certainly seems like
a small investment to make, in order to be yourself again as you appeared
ten to fifteen years ago. (That assumes that you are age forty plus now.)
A single 8 oz. jar of Microdermabrasion Cream will last virtually anyone
the entire eight weeks, provided you use it only on your face and neck.
Home accelerated exfoliation removes a small
bit of your skin's surface layer every day and will, over approximately
two months, simulate more
rapid production of new skin cells. Faster cell production and
replacement promotes fresher, healthier skin with improved skin
elasticity and improved
skin texture. This fresher, healthier skin comes with a major
reduction in the appearance of winkles and dark spots on your
face and neck.
Eight
weeks of accelerated exfoliation treatments will also enhance
your skin's surface qualities, like absorption, which is necessary
to get the real
value out of your expensive moisturizers and cell regenerators.
Home accelerated exfoliation works especially well for persons
with Black skin. (see Black
Skin Care)
Skin
Anatomy
New skin cells are produced
at your skin's lower level (called the lower dermis).
These new cells move upward slowly and as they ascend,
produce filaments of a protein, keratin, as well as a granular
substance,
Keratobyline. The new cell's keratin and Keratobyline
interact together and actually kill the new cell
as it makes
its
way to the surface. This process is known as keratinization
and makes the new cell to be exceptionally resilient
to all types of physical stimuli by the time it
takes its place
in the surface layer.
The Epidermis:
The epidermis or surface layer of your skin, has between
fifteen and forty layers of skin depending upon location.
The thickest epidermis is on the soles of your feet, the
thinnest is on your eyelids and the skin under your eyes.
This epidermis or surface layer of your skin is comprised
almost entirely of dead skin cells. In fact it is hard to
find anything other than dead skin cells in the epidermis.
Another way of looking at your epidermis; It is merely a
bunch of very durable and flattened, protein-filled dead
skin cells, heaped up like bricks in a wall. As a result
of this natural process, your skin renews itself every month
to five weeks or so. Most people shed an astonishing two
pounds of skin cells every year! What ( I can't imagine)
might one create with so many dead skin cells, assuming we
could even find a method of capturing them?
The Middle Dermis:
The middle dermis (erroneously referred to as just
the dermis) is the layer of skin that lies underneath the
epidermis. Unlike the epidermis, however, the middle dermis
is composed entirely of living cells. It consists largely
of bundles of collagen, which provide general skin strength
and they are interwoven with elastin fibers, tough filaments
which give your skin its elastic recoil, firmness and additional
strength. Together these bundles and fibers create a latticework,
the sole purpose of which is to contain your skin cells.
This is a collagen/elastin support system and is the skin's
actual source of firmness, fullness and elasticity. Wrinkles
originate in this middle layer of your skin as your body
ages and fails to reproduce sufficient amounts of the collagen/elastin
for the support system. The middle dermis also contains;
blood vessels which feed essential nutrients to these areas,
hair follicles, nerve fibers, sweat glands and sebaceous
(or oil) glands.
The Lower Dermis:
Just as skin cells originate in the lower dermis,
so too do the various other skin glands such as; the sweat
and oil glands. From here they rise to the surface of the
skin and function to eliminate waste matter. The lower dermis
also acts as a cushion for the rest of the skin. It contains
finely distributed muscles which regulate body temperature
and a most important layer of subcutaneous fat which is indispensable
(like it or not).
Skin Exfoliation and Renewal
The time interval
referred to above (of approximately four or five weeks)
required
for a facial skin cell to renew itself and migrate to
the surface is, in reality, based on young adults and
it represents a "best case scenario". Cell
renewal, in really, slows down drastically both as we
age and as we subject ourselves to the effects of direct
sunlight. When your skin is exposed to the sun for several
hours at a time, it responds by becoming thicker at
the surface (the dead cell layer) in order to protect
its underlying layers. This is a normal physiologic
reaction.
Sun damaged skin appears thick, leathery and
has crease lines. Home accelerated exfoliation (or microdermabrasion)
works on this surface layer of dead skin cells as if
it were a magical anti wrinkle cream, rather than a
simple exfoliant. Home microdermabrasion is first and
foremost an accelerant to exfoliation, which may help
you turn back your physiologic clock to a time when
your skin was younger.
You merely have to stay with
your daily treatment plan for about two months to see
the benefits. Home microdermabrasion is quite like some
mysterious anti aging skin care miracle cream, except
there is no magic, only proven examples in people just
like yourself. Home accelerated exfoliation serves its
purpose best to enhance the appearance and properties
of aged or sun-damaged skin. Nevertheless, it is not
harmful when used as directed and can even help in the
prevention of age related skin problems of young adults.
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