of 26 studies from 18 countries found 71% of people identified their skin as sensitive? It’s a huge change from the '70s when the concept of sensitive skin hadn't even been coined.
The effect is something that Seattle-based dermatologist Dr. Heather Rogers has noticed with frequent use of sugar- and salt-based body scrubs among her patients. “It makes it so difficult for your skin to get the pH back down below seven. Then the yeast grows and then you get pimples and atopic dermatitis,” she says. “You're trying to make yourself look better and all you're doing is causing inflammation and making your skin age.
The tendency to overdo it with active-driven skincare is something that prompted Dr. Rogers to develop her own facial skin care line,, which features biodegradable, skin barrier-building ingredients — and not much else. Like other brand founders, she recently expanded her stripped-down line to include a body wash and body lotion.
But there may be more to this idea of doing less: While one of the skin’s primary functions is to keep foreign substances from entering the body — and thicker skin on the body does a better job of this — blood and urine analysis has proven that chemicals from topical products do absorb. of total body surface ... When you use products over a larger area, such as the body, more absorption takes place,” says Dr. Baumann. “This means too much retinol, for example, could be absorbed .” As Dr.
Given skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States and melanoma is the second most common form of cancer in females age 15-29, our experts agree on a baseline of using sun protection on exposed skin — no matter where it is on the body. Ditto for a body moisturizer. “Just about everyone can use a barrier repair cream,” says Dr. Desai.
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