Home remedies for acne do not always help achieve positive, lasting results. And visits to the doctor only briefly relieve the general state of irritation. What to do? Contact a good dermatologist-cosmetologist. Facial treatments for acne offered today in salons are not much inferior in variety and depth of impact to medicinal ones, and sometimes beat the latter in price. In addition, a wide range and high-quality consultations from a cosmetologist will help you timely adjust the course of treatment and select the best options for affecting the skin in order to cope with the problem of acne for a long time or permanently.
Masks
This is a “classic of the genre” that helps not only cleanse the skin and pores, but also nourish the dermis with vitamins, remove toxins, tighten the skin and make it more elastic. Restoring balance, masks with healing clay, antibiotics, and essential oils refresh the skin of the face and body, tone and literally start the regeneration process at the cellular level.
Important! Salon procedures should be carried out only after preliminary consultation with cosmetologists. If your salon doesn't have a dermatologist, go to another one. Masks cause allergies, so using them without the supervision of a specialist can greatly harm the skin!
Skin cleaning
These are cosmetic treatments for acne that allow you to get rid of external manifestations of any depth. However, such manipulation does not eliminate the cause of acne, so complex treatment will be required to relieve both external symptoms and eliminate the internal factors of acne. The most popular procedures include:
- Ultrasonic cleaning. Removes dead layers of the dermis, cleanses pores, eliminates microcirculation problems, and helps restore complexion.
- High frequency current. It works like ultrasonic cleaning, and also helps relieve inflammation, smoothes scars, and destroys infection.
The cleansing process is not a treatment, it is only a preparation for subsequent cycles aimed at eliminating the problem itself. It would be wrong to cleanse your face and neglect masks and drug therapy.
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Advice! Cleaning is carried out only after a diagnosis has been made and the nature of the acne has been clarified. In case of an infectious inflammatory process, cleaning is strictly prohibited. Contact exposure to the dermis provokes further spread of the infection, which will lead to infection of the deeper skin layers.
Peeling
Such cosmetic manipulations still have both fans and opponents. The former talk about the benefits of cleansing, the latter talk about irreparable injury to the skin, which after peeling absorbs all infections, which will result in even greater troubles. The choice is yours, but only after prior consultation with your doctor.
The most popular peeling options today:
- Keratoregulating glycolic. The procedure reduces sebum production, cleans pores, exfoliates dead areas of the dermis, relieves inflammation, stops infectious processes and restores skin smoothness. But after peeling, a small scattering of pimples will definitely appear - these are the consequences of restoring blood microcirculation. Such pimples appear quickly and go away on their own just as quickly, especially if you use recommended medicinal cosmetics.
- Retinoic peeling helps against blackheads, blackheads, rosacea and fatty spots. The procedure is not cheap, it is recommended for infrequent use and only for patients with serious skin problems. Can be used as a means to whiten scars and spots. Peeling helps a lot with teenage rashes and postpartum skin problems.
Problem skin, as a rule, has a number of aesthetic defects: a tendency to rashes, oiliness, pigmentation, spider veins, acne and post-acne. Every day, patients with problem skin come to the ESTELAB clinic for consultation. Those with problem skin need to clearly understand that acne, pimples, papules, and nodules require increased attention and professional home care.
Problem skin can be simply oily, it can be combination skin, and what even more often happens from improper care - oily skin becomes sensitive and dehydrated.
The first stage of home care for problem skin
The first stage in home care is “makeup removal” and “cleansing” of the skin. All owners of problem skin carefully mask their skin imperfections every day with a large number of special products and cosmetics, so an important stage such as “makeup removal” cannot be skipped. Lotions with fungal mycelium - micellar water, lotion - are ideal for this stage. Such a product can be from any cosmeceutical or dermatological line. For example, Micellar water 3 in 1 Ultraceuticals Ultra B2 Micellar Solution.
What is important to know? Despite its softness and gentle care, micellar water should not remain on the skin. Therefore, the second sub-stage of cleansing should be a foaming agent, which must be rinsed off with water.
For example, Ultraceuticals Ultra Balancing Gel Cleanser, Exfoliating Cleanser, SkinCeuticals Simply Clean - this product is ideal for combination and oily skin. These products perfectly cleanse the facial skin of impurities and sebum (fat), do not dry it out, and regulate sebum production.
The second stage of home care for problem skin
The second stage is “ph restoration”. You can use cleansers that remove impurities and restore the skin's pH balance:
- Ultraceuticals Ultra Balancing Skin Mist;
- ZO Medical Balatone Calming Toner pH Balancer;
- Skinceuticals Equalizing Toner.
The third stage of home care for problem skin
The third stage is local action agents that reduce inflammatory elements and control sebum production.
- Ultraceuticals Ultra Clear Spot Treatment Cream;
- ZO Medical Aknetrol Acne Treatment.
The fourth stage of home care for problem skin
- Fourth stage “Moisturizing”
Ultraceuticals Ultra Hydrating Lotion has a light fluid texture. Ossential Daily Power Defense. SkinCeuticals Daily Moisture is a lightweight cream suitable for normal to oily skin.
- Fourth stage “Update”
The deep cleansing stage (scrub, peeling) is carried out depending on the indications and polishing particles. There are scrubs for daily use (for example, Offects Exfoliating Polish - a product with an exfoliating effect, used in combination with your cleansing gel) and scrubs that are used 1-2 times a week (for example, Ultraceuticals Ultra Gentle Exfoliating Gel - a renewing gel skin cells, can be used 3-4 times a week).
The fifth stage of home care for problem skin
The fifth stage is “protection”. The most important step in daily care for problem skin is applying products with SPF protection. To prevent pigmentation and reduce existing ones, the protection factor of your product should be at least 30 in the autumn-winter periods, and protection factor 50 in the summer.
Biodermabrasion for acne
This procedure should only be taken on the recommendation of a doctor! Carrying out the strongest extracts, cosmetic manipulation is aimed at combating skin pigmentation, the effects of post-acne, enlarged pores, and hyperkeratosis. For the procedure the following are used:
- Bushy blackberry extract. It whitens, tones the dermis, improves blood microcirculation, increases skin firmness and elasticity.
- Capsicum red pepper extract as a strong irritant. The use of such a composition “launches” all skin metabolic processes, forcing the dermis to quickly renew itself.
- Natural abrasives for exfoliating dead skin scales.
The overall result is perfectly smooth skin with increased firmness, firmness and elasticity. It will take some rehabilitation for the dermis to regain its normal, even tone, but the effort is worth it.
Ozone therapy for the face for acne and intravenously: principle of action
Ozone therapy
An effective and harmless method of getting rid of acne. Bioactive components clear sebum from clogged glands, relieve inflammation and destroy fungi and microbes that cannot be eliminated even with antibiotics. According to cosmetologists, ozone therapy is indicated as a means to combat rosacea and blackheads, subcutaneous lipomas.
Due to its strong effect on red blood cells, the therapy “starts” blood circulation, causing the skin to renew itself. The rapid resorption of fat allows you to tighten your shape quite well, as with lipolytic procedures. Thus, ozone therapy is not only the elimination of acne, but also a general tonic for the skin of the face and body.
Acne treatment
Effective treatment of acne involves influencing all stages of the development of the disease. Each patient has a predominance of one or another component that stimulates the development of acne, in addition, different people react differently to drugs, therefore the treatment is different for everyone.
Acne treatment produces the best results with a combination of medications, medical treatments and proper home care.
The clinic carries out procedures that, from our experience, have proven to be the most effective and help eliminate deep stagnant formations, as well as speed up the healing process.
Mesotherapy
The main advantage of the procedure is the direct delivery of beneficial components under the skin, exactly where it is needed. By eliminating unwanted manifestations, mesotherapy eliminates acne and rashes without affecting healthy areas of the skin. It turns out that the dermis does not suffer from unnecessary exposure where it is not required and receives full treatment where it is necessary. Experts say that mesotherapy is effective not only for rashes, lipomas, rosacea, blackheads, but also helps smooth out scars, remove scars, lighten spots, spider veins, etc.
Mesotherapy is a targeted delivery of vitamin complexes to the desired depth of the skin. Perhaps this salon treatment for acne is the most therapeutic, but it should be remembered that the effect is achieved after accurately determining the nature of the rash. But for this you will still have to visit a dermatologist.
Procedures in the salon can solve both a complex of problems and be targeted locally. Simply acting on a large area of skin is harmful and ineffective; the healthy area suffers, while the patient receives much less treatment. At the same time, healthy microflora is killed, which can lead to the appearance of acne where there has never been one. Regardless of the high cost of the procedure, the skills of cosmetologists and knowledge of your own body, you need to choose cosmetic and cosmetological manipulations with a clear understanding of the final result. It may not be at all what you expected.
Post-acne treatment
With untimely or improper treatment of acne, secondary changes are formed that remain, if not for life, then for a very long time.
Types of post-acne:
- Stagnant pigment spots
- Atrophic scars
These formations are deep, their treatment is very complex and lengthy.
Stagnant spots can be red or brown. Chemical peels containing retinol, as well as Jessner peels, give good results in their treatment. We also sometimes use our own mesotherapy techniques.
A very important aspect is sun protection, which must always be applied correctly!
Atrophic scars are one of the most difficult conditions in aesthetic medicine. They are divided into several types, depending on depth and shape. It should be noted that there is no panacea for the treatment of post-acne scars; for each patient there are different methods, their number and a different prognosis.
Our clinic uses the following types of treatment for atrophic post-acne scars:
- Plasmolifting is the introduction of your own plasma enriched with platelets. Our certified specialists have been trained by the plasma lifting company and will be able to correctly apply the technology
- Enzyme injections are used to soften scar tissue. The use of this method is justified for a combination of atrophic and hypertrophic scars.
- Filling scars with hyaluronic acid. It is not always possible to simply fill a scar with gel, such as a wrinkle. Most often, under the scar there is a fibrous adhesion with the underlying tissues and the gel does not get there. But with preliminary undercutting, or with very superficial small scars, this becomes possible and perfectly evens out the skin.
- IPL phototherapy - the skin surrounding the scars sometimes has pronounced signs of atrophy - vascular changes, uneven pigmentation, or the bottom of the scar is bright red. In such cases, phototherapy is successfully used to eliminate the vascular and pigmentary component. Phototherapy also stimulates cell renewal and regulates skin oiliness. Performed on the LumenisM22 device (Israel-USA)
- Fractional laser resurfacing with an Nd:Yag laser allows you to treat very deep scars. This method is used for almost any post-acne scars. It is used both independently and completes the course of procedures described above. Fractional resurfacing of scars allows you to even out the relief, reduce pigmentation, and eliminate fine wrinkles. The fractional laser LumenisM22, which is used in our clinic, not only evaporates cells layer by layer, it also uses a heating mode (coagulation) that stimulates the skin to recover, thus reducing the depth of scars and improving the quality of the skin. Fractional resurfacing of scars is carried out both locally and on the entire face. Usually, several procedures are needed to achieve a pronounced result.
Acne is a very common problem, but there are many effective ways to treat it. The main thing, in our opinion, is the joint work of the dermatologist, cosmetologist and the patient himself, then you will achieve positive results quickly and forever!
