Skin care is a major factor throughout life. After all, the skin is the body’s largest organ, and protecting it is a good key to health. Moisturizers, creams, lotions, and other skin care products are used regularly for day-to-day care, but sometimes, additional steps must be taken to protect the layer that protects you. The top layer of skin, the epidermis, is exposed to the elements, and as such, takes a lot of damage. Drying, cracking, flaking, wrinkling, and burning are regular events in the life of your skin. Sometimes, additional steps have to be taken to care for it.
One such step is the process of microdermabrasion, which consists of opening the pores of the skin, and then cleaning them with an agitator and suction machine, removing oils, dirt, dead and damaged skin flakes, and other detritus found on the skin. This procedure, mostly done on the face, helps to reduce signs of aging, and gives a more radiant complexion.
At the best spas and beauty facilities, such as Skinney Medical Spa NYC, this process is done to help the skin while it beautifies. Generally, the procedure starts with cleaning the skin, to remove surface dirt and particles, and tighten it so that the treatment will be more effective. By doing this, the technician readies the face for the following steps, and prevents additional dirt and oil from seeping back into the pores.
Then, the skin is treated with steam. The purpose of the steam is to open up the pores, and allow for the cleaning instrument to do its job. Skin reacts to heat and cold in opposite ways; cold causes the pores in the skin to close, trapping heat to regulate body temperature, while heat causes the pores to open, and release heat as well as sweat and oils to cool the body down. The steam is properly heated so as to be hot enough to open the pores to their fullest, while not being so hot as to cause burns, or damage the skin.
Finally, the technician will use a special tool called a Diamond Microdermabrasion System, which involves a pump and vacuum source attached to a hand wand. The tip of the hand wand has a small diamond head, used to agitate the skin, and exfoliate dead cells off, while the vacuum attachment sucks up the dirt and particles. In the past, this step involved a sandblaster like implement which would shoot small crystal granules into the patient’s skin, but newer facilities like Skinney Medical Spa NYC sue the safer, more effective diamond system.
Microdermabrasion skin treatments tend to last anywhere from 5 – 60 minutes, and due to their noninvasive nature, a patient is able to resume their daily lives right after treatment. An excellent way to remove signs of aging and sun damage, microdermabrasion is a great way to treat ailing skin.
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