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Best Choice for Smooth Skin: Lasers, Peels or SkinCare?
January 1, 2009
Solutions for Sandpapery skin
Skin that feels almost like sandpaper often has a dull, muddy complexion. This is caused by a buildup of dead skin, produced by sun damaged skin cells that fails to renew itself for long periods of time—too long.
It's important to rev up your natural shedding process to remove dead skin and thereby expose fresh new skin. The skin renewal process can be improved by exfoliation either mechanically with microdermabrasion or chemically with a peel.
A laser can offer added benefits however. It can be used to remove and exfoliate to varying depths into the skins' surface while the heat produced by the laser also stimulates a tightening effect as well. Erbium or fractionated laser treatments, deeply penetrate the skin to improve the skin at the cellular level to stimulate the renewal process to begin. This produces a healthy, vibrant glow to the skin. Depending on the depth of treatment the treatment results can last months to years.
Medical grade skin care products, such as Retinols and Beta Hydroxy or Alpha Hydroxy Acids can help to maintain the results between treatments.