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subscribe to beauty blog via RSSDr. Denese: Forever Young Starts Now
July 24, 2009 10:27 am
This column features weekly tips and advice from a revolving cast of industry leaders, on hand to discuss your beauty dilemmas, from blemishes to Botox. To submit a question, e-mail celia_ellenberg@condenast.com.
I have heard that it is important to start treating the signs of aging early, even going as far as to start using Botox on would-be problem areas in your twenties. Are there certain products/less extreme treatments I should be focusing on regularly now that will be beneficial later?
The most critical time period of skincare for the rest of your life takes place in your twenties, when your most important job is to prevent future damage. As you grow older, your job becomes twofold: Continue to prevent future damage and try to undo already existing damage. Botox and LED Light Therapy would fall into the “undo damage” category, so as a woman of your age you do not need to turn to these treatments quite yet. Now, you should concentrate on earning your skin future, especially the skin around the eyes, by taking precautions against the sun 365 days a year, no excuses. Nearly everything that you will ultimately not like about your face comes from the sun—crow’s feet, wrinkles, enlarged pores, red capillaries around the nose and cheeks, dark discolorations, freckles, age spots, lines, wrinkles, and loss of tone. If you start using a broad spectrum UVA/UVB day cream around your eyes and all over the face, every morning of every day of the year—summer, winter, even if it rains—in your twenties, you can literally delay the onset of crow’s feet by more than a decade.
The other important goal of skincare at this age is to keep the oil glands in check to prevent breakouts. To this end, one of the most important things you can do is exfoliate properly to prevent sebaceous acid accumulation and clogged pores.
Adrienne Denese, M.D., Ph.D., is one of the only female scientists in the field of antiaging medicine. She has appeared on myriad TV programs and in countless magazines to discuss issues of antiaging and the latest methods in skin rejuvenation. In 2003, she launched an eponymous line to share her research with her patients.
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what is the best eye cream w SPF around? and if possible a paraben free option?
By caviarcreme on 07/27/09 at 7:45 pmHi Dr, i am a lady in my mid thirties and i am having pimples problem which has disgured my face for years and it wont just go!. i have seen a dermatologist in my country, i have also used different pimple products but my face remain the same. i am just tired of it all and feel ashame of my self everyday!
By sola on 08/5/09 at 7:03 am