Skin Tightening Options – Experts reveal what works
Posted on | July 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
Skin Tightening Options – Experts reveal what works
How many times have you grabbed a ‘skin firming’ cream off the shelf of the supermarket and thought: ‘Great. Now I can get rid of saggy skin using this topical ointment filled with fragrances, colours and chemicals! Goodbye forever wrinkles, sagging and dull skin!’ Admit it, you’ve fallen for the multi-million dollar advertising campaigns and cast aside all logic and reason and bought the creams, haven’t you? Haven’t you??
Come on, if it were that easy, we’d all be walking around looking like Gisele Bunchen well into our fifties!
So I’m sure there’s a logical part of you that will not be surprised by this next sentence: apart from a short-term moisturising effect, these creams do nothing for you but make a dent in your wallet, the don’t even result in loose skin reduction, let alone offer a cure!
But don’t despair. If you have been seeing a few more wrinkles, more sagging skin and a little more age in the mirror than you would like, rest assured, there is something you can do about it.
To understand what works for skin tightening, first we need to understand the process of skin aging.
Our skin is made up of a multitude of layers, the lower layer of which is called the dermis. It is this lower layer that provides our skin with its firmness and structure. As we age, our skin gets thinner as the cells that make collagen and elastin, or fibroblasts, diminish from the dermis and the skin slows down the synthesis of these support-providing cells. This natural process is also aided by a reduction in circulation, and therefore nourishment, to the skin as our capillaries also diminish.
Even if we don’t speed up this aging process by exposing our skin to UV rays, this skin thinning is inevitable. All these biological breakdowns occur in the skin’s dermis. What we see on the skin’s surface is really just the end result of a process that has been occurring for many years.
So you can see why, logically, a cream simply applied to the surface of the skin is really not going to get down to where it needs to, even if an over-the-counter cream could actually stimulate collagen and elastin anyway. And if you’re not convinced, then understand this: legally, any cream sold over the counter in Australia is not allowed, by law, to penetrate past the first couple of layers of skin. Creams that do that are classified ‘medical grade’ and cannot be sold over the counter.
Fortunately, many years ago, some very clever skin doctor discovered that a process called ‘thermal stimulation’ actually resulted in genuine skin tightening.
Thermal stimulation is the process of applying heat to skin in highly controlled measures and temperatures. What this heat does is ‘injure’ the skin slightly. Our very clever skin then releases more collagen and elastin in order to heal itself. This boost of collagen and elastin also results in–you guessed it–skin tightening and reduction in wrinkles.
This is the premise behind many of the skin tightening treatments available in skin clinics and dermatologists now, treatments like thermage, laser resurfacing and fractional resurfacing.
So why isn’t everyone doing this? In short, it hurts like hell and costs a bomb. If you can imagine, to apply thermal stimulation, a laser resurfacing treatment actually ‘ablates’, or vaporises, sections of your skin to prompt it to then heal. Youch. Each session many cost over $1,000 and you may need several sessions depending on the level of aging in your skin.
But now, there is a new treatment available in Sydney that is able to trigger thermal stimulation in the skin without the pain or cost price.
By using both radio frequency and magnetic pulsing, this new treatment promotes skin tightening and rejuvenation, to rebuild and strengthen the skin from right down deep in the dermis. This is because magnetic pulses stimulate circulation to the treated area, while prompting the propagation of new fibroblasts. The radio frequency uses controlled heat to create mild thermal stimulation in the dermis, which prompts the skin’s natural healing and increases collagen and elastin synthesis.
Unlike surgical procedures to tighten skin, this is no band-aid solution. This treatment actually promotes the growth of new skin firming cells in the dermis, so the tightening that occurs is natural, not fake.
While you will need up to 10 sessions, each session costs a few hundred, not thousands, of dollars, and feels like a warm, pleasant hot stone massage.
This new treatment, which is applied using a revolutionary multipolar applicator, can be used anywhere on the face or body for not only skin tightening and wrinkles reduction, but cellulite removal as well.
The treatment just hit Sydney so be sure to check it out.
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