3 Anti Aging Treatments to Ask Your Esthetician About

3 Anti Aging Treatments to Ask Your Esthetician About
I'm a thirty-something woman, and I'm looking to stay as
fresh and young looking as I can for as long as I can
because I think that your skin is the most important part
of the way you look.

Having good skin versus bad skin really makes all the
difference when it comes to feeling and looking beautiful
and young, and that is why millions of women are flocking
to estheticians and doctors around the world, in search of
the right anti aging treatment for their skin.

And the "right" treatment could be dramatically different
depending on a number of attributes, including race,
gender, ethnic background, environmental exposure such as
sun and diet, products used, and a number of other factors
that we probably wouldn't even think of.

This is why it is so important to not only find the right
treatments to use daily on your face for the best possible
results on your skin type, but it is also to find the right
aesthetic treament if you are planning on actually going
and getting professionally administered anti aging
treatments.

Word of mouth is definitely one of the best ways to figure
out where to go, but what if you don't really know anyone
who can recommend a doctor or skin specialist who they were
no less than thrilled about?

Well, you should first make sure that the places you are
choosing to go offer free consultations. This way, there
is no financial obligation if you choose not to give them
your business, or weren't quite thrilled with the
atmosphere, advice, or treatments options available, and
wanted to further comparison shop.

Once you've actually chosen the facility you ultimately
will allow to work on your most precious beauty asset -
your skin, that's when the personalization comes in. Most
likely, you will be offered a few choices, and based on
your age, and depth of wrinkles or fine lines, it will be a
combination of a couple of things, only three of which
we'll discuss here today.

The most common and popular anti aging treatments available
are variations of laser therapy, chemical peels, Botox
injections, Microdermabrasion, and injectable dermal
fillers such as Restylane. We'll talk today a little more
about Microdermabrasion, Botox, and Restylane.

Microdermabrasion is a process that does not involve any
type of chemicals or invasive needles or surgery, and yet
can have quite a dramatic effect on the appearance of the
skin, no matter what your age is. However, it is usually
not prescribed as a means to rid you of deep wrinkles.

Usually, Botox or injectable fillers are recommended for
deep wrinkles. Microdermabrasion is really a treatment
that targets fine lines, spotting and uneven skin, sun
damage, acne scarring and other scarring and pitting, and
renewing the freshness and vital appearance of the skin.
In other words, it sloughs away the "dullness" that often
comes with aging skin.

In the process, which involves blasting tiny particles of
aluminum dioxide, and then sucking them up through a
vacuum. If the procedure is done in the right localized
area and agressively enough, many times patients will see a
reduction in their fine lines, as well as a renewed,
fresher look to their skin and a great improvement in the
evenness and tone of their skin.

I've had Microdermabrasion before, and was pleased with the
results, but as far as erasing fine lines, it didn't do the
trick, although I will say it even out my skin tone, and
also helped with the appearance of the fine lines.

Chemical peels are another offering that you might have
heard about. They usually custom mix a solution of
glycolic acid, or perhaps some other sort of acid commonly
used in skin care.

This acid solution is applied to the skin and allowed to
set for a specified time frame, and when it is taken off,
the skin usually responds by shedding layers, or peeling,
revealing younger, more vibrant and even skin underneath.

You see, when we age, our skin sheds less and less, and our
cells do not turn over as quickly, which results in a dull
appearance as well as wrinkles and fine lines. The peels,
especially when combined with Microdermabrasion, can help
speed cell turnover like when we were younger, and give us
back that youthful, dewy look.

The final professional anti aging treatment we will talk
about is that all too commonly joked about product called
Botox. Botox is a form of botulism, a feared word because
of it's toxic status and the bad rep for being a food toxin
that causes unpleasant side effects if ingested orally.
But not if it's injected in the right amounts, into the
very muscles that cause you to look "wrinkled" when you
make a facial expression.

Because Botox actually relaxes, or freezes the muscles
where it is locally injected, it is not only a current
wrinkle inhibitor, but it is also considered preventive,
because it will actually prevent wrinkles from happening by
preventing the positions of the skin that cause wrinkles to
occur.

I spoke to an esthetician recently about Botox, and
expressed my concerns about the treatment that I would
somehow be unable to express myself and have the "frozen
face" look that I'd heard could happen.

She said this is a common misconception, and that this is
why good doctors will only use Botox in selective areas,
just locally enough so that they don't relax large sections
of muscle and a patient can still express themselves
through facial expressions, without further wrinkling their
skin.

Botox is still one of the most popular anti aging skin
treatments provided in professional facilities around the
world today, and shows no signs of fading. It actually
might be the way to go for people who want to prevent
further wrinkles, who are not yet ideal candidates for
dermal fillers because their wrinkles have not yet
progressed far enough to be "filled".

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