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If you eat pizza, your face will look like a pizza. Popping those pimples will make them dry up and go away faster. Wash your face and keep your hair off your forehead to keep from getting pimples. Eating chocolate will make your acne worse. When you consider the number of acne myths circulating, it’s sometimes [...]
While no scar can be completely eliminated, its appearance can often be improved with treatment (a.k.a. scar revision). A variety of methods have been used to treat scars. Treatment is generally tailored to the type of the scar. Silicone gel sheets A modest amount of research indicates that silicone gel sheets can reduce raised (hypertrophic) [...]
Scars are areas of tissue resulting from the repair of wounds and some other lesions. Scars are different from the surrounding tissue in several ways: they contain excess of connective tissues proteins (such as collagen), possess cell/matrix structure irregularities and are characterized by inferior functional capacity. In particular, skin scars are less elastic, less resistant [...]
At present, there is no cure for rosacea. However, it can be treated with varying degree of success. Optimal treatment depends in the subtype of rosacea, individual responsiveness and other factors. Avoiding triggers Avoiding triggers of rosacea outbreaks is important for all types of rosacea but by itself is generally insufficient to induce remission. Most [...]
Rosacea is a common skin condition initially characterized by flushing and redness (a.k.a. erythema) on the central face, particularly across the cheeks, nose, and/or forehead. Less commonly, it can also affect the neck and chest. As the disease progresses, other manifestation may develop, such as dilated blood vessels (telangiectasia), coarseness of skin, and inflammatory eruptions [...]
Spider veins are generally harmless and cause no symptoms. However, visible spider veins make many people self-conscious and uncomfortable, in which case treating the problem may be worthwhile. Topical vitamin K cream Vitamin K is the most common active ingredient in spider vein creams. Sadly, it appears to be completely ineffective. First, there are no [...]
Telangiectasia (a.k.a. spider veins and broken capillaries) is abnormally dilated small vessels near the surface of the skin. They are usually only between 0.5 and 3 millimeters in size. They can develop anywhere on the body but are typically found on the face and/or legs. Signs and Symptoms Spider veins are harmless and generally cause [...]
Cellulite is caused by diet. There is no evidence that any particular diet composition (including the amount of fluid you drink) leads to cellulite or can help prevent it. Of course, any diet that makes you gain weight will make your cellulite more prominent. However, if you do not have cellulite, simply gaining weight will [...]
There is no officially proven and approved treatment for cellulite. One of the reasons is that quality research in this area has been scarce. On the other hand, there are a number of empirical treatments on the market claiming to improve cellulite. Which ones, if any, are reliably effective will remain unclear until rigorous clinical [...]
Cellulite is sometimes viewed as an unscientific term. While there is no official disease called cellulite, the phenomenon it refers to clearly exists. Basically, the term cellulite refers to skin dimpling caused by protrusions of subcutaneous fat into the dermis and other irregularities of the junction between the skin and subcutaneous fat. Other names used [...]