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It’s time to spring clean your skin routine!

Spring has finally sprung! Get your spring skin care routine down pact with these helpful hints.

Declutter

Out with the old products, in with the new products! Clean up your skin care routine this spring and throw away any old products you haven’t used recently. Chances are, you aren’t going to be using them anytime soon and could use the counter space. Also, chances are if it hasn’t been used in over a year it’s expired. 

Make the Switch

Give your skin a break and use a lighter, water-based moisturizer. During the winter, you combatted dry, flakey skin with hydration and moisturize and now it’s time to let your skin breathe. Use something less emollient and oil-free to keep breakouts at bay.

Sunscreen

Chances are, the first time you see the sun this spring you’re going to want to break out that bathing suit and try to build your base tan. Resist the urge and lather up with SPF instead. The skin isn’t used to how strong the sun is in the springtime, so it is more prone to getting sunburn. Apply SPF 30 or greater every two hours for best sun protection.

Add Vitamin C

Springtime tends to make skin more red, itchy and irritated. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that is scientifically proven to help reverse the signs of photoaging and help stimulate new collagen growth and help with skin irritation and sensitivity.

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What is Vitamin C and why do you need it in your skincare routine?

Chances are you’ve heard the buzz about Vitamin C – it’s the gold standard in anti-aging. While you probably incorporate vitamin C into your everyday diet, it helps protect your skin when applied topically. Vitamin C is safe for most skin types and has many benefits. Read more on why Vitamin C should be added to your skincare routine.

Fights Free Radicals

Vitamin C is an antioxidant, which means it fights free radicals. Free radicals are tiny atoms that are unstable and roam around looking for an electron to steal. Many of these free radicals are because of environmental stressors such as sun exposure, air pollution, and smoke. This process leads to skin damage and causes discoloration, inflammation, dullness and fine lines. Studies show vitamin C helps stop atmospheric aging and restore balance back to the skin. 

Stimulates Collagen

Along with fighting off free radicals, vitamin C helps stimulate collagen. It helps holds the cells together during the collagen creation process. Collagen is a naturally occurring protein in the body and is something we all lose as we age. Elasticity and firmness are directly connected to collagen, so as we lose collagen, we are prone to sagging skin, fine lines, and wrinkles. The creation of new collagen helps restore the brightness and firmness of the skin.

 Minimizes Skin Discoloration

Lastly, vitamin C helps minimize skin discoloration, such as melasma, redness, age spots, brown spots, and acne marks. Vitamin c disturbs the cells that create pigment, so they are unable to do so. This helps fade dark spots and prevent new ones from forming.

Overall, Vitamin C is an important antioxidant that should be incorporated into everyone’s skincare routine. For more information on which vitamin C serum is best for you and to purchase products, schedule a consultation.

What’s the big deal with serums?

Serums are all the buzz in the beauty world. But what are they, exactly? A serum is a skincare product that is applied to the skin before moisturizing and helps deliver powerful ingredients to the skin. Typically, serums have active ingredients that absorb into the skin to target specific concerns – such as acne, wrinkles, and discoloration. Below you’ll find some of our best sellers here at Anne Arundel Dermatology.

iSClinical Active Serum

This is iSClinical’s most popular product. Active Serum is a fast-acting, long-term, “results-oriented” serum that decreases the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, visibly evens skin tone, and is excellent for blemish-prone skin. It is excellent for all skin types and for all ages.

Benefits:

  • Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles by smoothing and softening the skin
  • Diminishes the appearance of uneven skin tone and blemishes
  • Gives the appearance of smaller pores
  • Provides both rapid and long-term noticeable results
  • Paraben-free

iSClinical Youth Serum

The iSClinical youth serum is designed with growth factors to give skin the best of both worlds: immediate and long-term visible results. It contains patented Extremozyme® technology that provides support against environmental aggressors. The result is a more youthful, vibrant, and resilient complexion.

Benefits:

  • Instantly smooths the skin and visibly improves the signs of aging.
  • Contains safe growth factors that help improve the feel of skin firmness and elasticity
  • Helps protect skin from environmental aggressors with Extremozyme® technology
  • Excellent for use under makeup
  • Paraben-free

IsClinical Hydra-Cool Serum

This serum is formulated to rejuvenate, hydrate, and visibly soothe the skin. This refreshing, powerful, penetrating serum combines superior antioxidants with essential botanicals and bio-nutrients.

Benefits:

  • Cools calms and soothes the look and feel of dry, irritated skin
  • Provides antioxidant protection
  • Great for all skin types
  • Excellent for use after shaving
  • Paraben-free

IsClinical Pro-Heal Serum Advance+

This serum features scientifically advanced vitamin C, combined with a superior form of Olive Leaf Extract and pure Vitamins E and A. This powerful formulation significantly increases antioxidant protection. Also, the Pro-Heal Serum improves the appearance of compromised, blemish-prone, and aging skin.

Benefits:

  • Provides extremely powerful antioxidant protection
  • Improve the appearance of blemish-prone skin
  • Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
  • Revitalizes the appearance of aging and compromised skin
  • Paraben-free

ZO Daily Power Defense

This is a powerful antioxidant serum. Daily Power Defense is designed to improve the appearance of lines and wrinkles and to address future damage.

Benefits:

  • Provides antioxidant protection to combat free radical damage
  • Helps tighten and firm the skin
  • Promotes skin health

ZO Growth Factor Serum

ZO Growth Factor Serum is a lightweight gel suitable for all skin types. It strengthens skin, supports skin rejuvenation and protects against future signs of aging.

Benefits:

  • Improve the overall appearance of skin
  • Reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
  • Improve skin firmness and elasticity
  • Restores hydration and reinforces the skin’s protective barrier

ZO Rozatrol®

Rozatrol is a treatment serum for red, sensitized skin that works to normalize skin by reducing excess surface oil. Exfoliating properties provide ultra-mild exfoliation to prevent the signs of premature aging.

Benefits:

  • Reduces the appearance of rosacea and redness
  • Improve skin firmness and elasticity
  • Patient pending technology

SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic®

C E Ferulic features a combination of 15% pure vitamin C, 1% vitamin E, and 0.5% ferulic acid to enhance protection against environmental damage caused by free radicals that can contribute to atmospheric aging.  C E Ferulic also improves signs of aging and photodamage. In addition, it improves the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Benefits:

  • Provides advanced environmental protection by neutralizing damaging free radicals
  • Improves of the loss of firmness, and brightens skin’s complexion
  • Once absorbed, C E Ferulic remains effective for a minimum of 72 hours
  • Paraben-free and ideal for normal, dry, and sensitive skin types
  • Tested suitable for use post-laser
  • Patented Serum: U.S. Patent No. 7,179,841

SkinCeuticals Phloretin CF®

Phloretin CF features a patented synergistic combination of 2% phloretin, 10% pure vitamin C, and 0.5% ferulic acid for enhanced protection. It protects against atmospheric skin aging, environmental damage and premature signs of aging caused by free radicals from UVA/UVB radiation and pollution. Phloretin CF improves the appearance of discoloration. Additionally, it helps with fine lines and uneven skin tone.

Benefits:

  • Provides advanced environmental protection by neutralizing damaging free radicals
  • Improves skin discoloration and overall skin tone
  • Once absorbed, Phloretin CF remains effective for a minimum of 72 hours
  • Paraben-, fragrance-, and dye-free
  • Ideal for normal, oily, and combination skin types
  • Patented Serum: U.S. Patent No. 9,248,082

Serums are available at any of our office locations (note: not all serums are available at all locations). To purchase products, visit our office or schedule a skin care consultation to see which products are best for your skin.

Pack Some Vitamin-C in Your Skin Care Routine

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We’ve all heard that taking vitamin C supplements can be beneficial to our health inside and out, but vitamin C can also benefit us when applied topically. That’s right! Continuous use of vitamin C in our skin care routines can diminish hyperpigmentation and increase collagen production, giving us a brighter, refreshed and more youthful complexion.

Because of the way it is molecularly structured, vitamin C is an effective agent in protecting the skin from free radicals. When your skin is exposed to UV light, superoxide ions, peroxide and singlet oxygen molecules are produced. Vitamin C can donate its electrons to neutralize these free radicals and prevent them from harming your skin.

While it comes in many forms, vitamin C is best used when combined with other ingredients, such as green tea, retinol and ascorbic acid. When you check the ingredients on a skin care product label, look for at least one of those three ingredients in addition to effective forms of vitamin C like sodium ascorbyl phosphate, ascorbyl palmitate and retinyl ascorbate.

Vitamin C is great for you skin! To learn more about what type of products and ingredients would be beneficial additions to your skincare routine, schedule an appointment with one of our skin care providers today by calling (865) 690-9467.