Age Spots Removal

Before considering age spot treatment or removal, consult with your doctor, physician or a professional dermatologist. Note: Treatment may cause side effects.

Age spots Creams

There are many age spots creams available over the counter to treat age spots. These creams act by lightening the skin area or fading the sun spots in a bleaching fashion. Agents such as hydroquinone, Vitamin A and Vitamin C in retinol form will gradually fade out age spots.

Blackhead Removal

Before considering treatment for your blackheads always consult your doctor, physician or a professional dermatologist. Note: Some treatment may cause side effects.

Benzoyl Peroxide

Benzoyl peroxide treatment acts as an anti-bacteria agent and has proved effective in reducing plugging or preventing comedones from forming. This form of blackhead treatment also works on other forms of acne and comes in various forms with differing strengths.

Tretinoin

Tretinoin or Retin-A, Avita or Renova, has proved very effective in treating blackheads or whiteheads. It contains Vitamin A agents and works by increasing healthy skin cell turnover as well as opening up closed comedones – the cause of blackheads.

What Causes Stretch Marks

Stretch marks happen when the skin is stretched for a prolonged period or when it happens rapidly. Of the three layers of skin; the epidermis, dermis and the subcutaneous stratum, it is the dermis that appears to be affected by the expansion. It is this region that helps skin retain elasticity.

The dermis contains concentrations of collagen and elastic fibers called elastin. When these substances and tissues are weakened, skin damage occurs. When rapid weight gain happens the resulting stretching seems to lead to tearing of underlying fibers and that results small rips and scarring.

What Causes Cellulite?

There are basically two schools of thought as to what cellulite is. For some, including doctors, cellulite is just plain old fat. The reason why the cellulite looks dimply is because the tissues that connect your skin to the underlying muscles are stretched out, causing fat to have a bulging appearance.

According to doctors, this would help explain why women have cellulite but all but the heaviest men don’t, because women carry fat between their skin and their muscles while men tend to carry fat beneath their muscles.

Some people reject the notion that cellulite is just fat. They believe that cellulite is fat, but also has some toxins in the fat, which gives it the bulging, orange peel appearance.

What Causes Dry Skin

Dry skin is caused by a lack of moisture or oil in the skin and is especially common during winter months when heating systems can dry up the air.

Bathing with hot water, the skin’s aging process, spending time in the sun and exposure to other factors can also lead to dry skin such as low humidity, using alcohol based lotions, using or coming into contact with certain chemicals and cleaning products, pregnancy can cause dry skin, psoriasis, eczema, contact dermatitis, fungal skin infections, heatstroke, sunstroke, hypothyroidism, uremia Ichthyosis and Vitamin A deficiency.

Inherited factors and metabolic factors like an underactive thyroid gland, or excessive weight loss are also believed to be causes of dry skin.