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[Advice above from late Michael Bono is for clients who are not being overtreated by their therapists. If you think you are overtreated, you in need of interventions to promote healing and prevent permanent scars from forming, please visit Facebook Group called "Electrolysis Information Worldwide" or Hairtell Forum.]
To achieve permanent hair removal result, your follicles will be inflamed after electrolysis or laser hair removal treatments. Once follicles & skin received trauma, they will heal by firstly inflame (red & swollen); some scabs may form; post inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) may also form. These are not permanent and are parts of normal skin healing process, unlike permanent scars.
When your treated area oozes clear yellowish liquid, open pinpoint wounds develop & etc, these are ones of the signs that you are over-treated which can lead to permanent scars. Please change therapist and go to other business.
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Care after Electrolysis and/or Laser hair removal treatment is so vital to help your skin heal faster => soon after each hair removal session, we post-treat every client with at least aloe vera gel that contains no alcohol, unless the client has irritation or allergy to any of the contents. (Please note irritation is different from allergy.)
It is highly recommend that non-alcohol-containing aloe vera should be kept applying post hair removal treatment for at least 48 hours or longer. Please store aloe-vera gel in the fridge at all time.
*** Based on our experience trying various aloe vera gels available at Chemist Warehouse, Coles & Woolies, only the following aloe vera gels from this Australian organic grower contain real aloe vera content! => no-colour, no-alcohol, no-perfume -added genuine aloe vera gel (He also sells & post aloe vera plants interstate.) The real deal!
Click here to see a video about niacinamide in a nutshell
Among hundreds of aloe vera plant varieties, only few varieties prove to have wound-healing properties:
-- Aloe barbadensis
-- Aloe arborescens
For customers who developed irritation from aloe gel that we are using, please use hydro gel + silicone sheet, instead, for at least 2 - 4 days after electrology procedure. Apply thin layer of hydrogel and cover it with super clean reusable silicone sheet from chemist. See images below for examples:
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Quick Fix for PIH
However, PIH gradually fads away but disappearance can take some time from a few months upto a few years (around 2 years) depending on how deep PIH forms in the epidermis or dermis. If you don't want to wait that long, there are quicker solutions for this. (Or u don't need to use anything and it will eventually heal)
Prophylaxis of PIH, such as ingestion of certain supplements (see below) is far better than treatment of already-forming PIH.
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Do not use any irritants or any topical products containing, benzoyl peroxide, acids, AHA, BHA, vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid), alcohols, alkaline, witch hazel, astringents, vitamin A and its derivatives, such as retinoids [for examples, over-the-counter retinol, prescribed stronger tretinoin (Retin A), Tazorac], exfoliants, and etc. for at least 1 week before and after hair removal procedures, such as laser & electrolysis.
Discontinue isotretinoin (Accutane) for at least 6 months prior to electrolysis & laser hair removal.
Many of skincare products, supplements (including vitamins + minerals) and etc. must be avoided during pregnancy & lactation
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Cosmetics & Cosmeceuticals:
Cosmeceuticals can have an affect on either the functional, structural or both changes of the skin; but cosmetics do not.
For pigment correction:
Melasyl™️ (2-Mercaptonicotinoyl Glycine) in La Roche-Posay Mela B3 Serum
https://www.vichyusa.com/skin-care/skin-care-product-type/face-serum/mineral-89-prebiotic-3337875762908.html (* Recommended *)
https://shop.skintech.com.au/product/pigment-corrective-cream-30ml/
Retinol or other vitamin A derivatives for pigment reduction, anti-aging and wrinkle reduction:
- Paula's Choice Clinical 1% Retinol Treatment
- Beauty of Joseon, Revive Eye Serum: Ginseng + 2% Retinal (VDO)
- RAVIEL Red Ginseng + Retinol + 10 types of peptides
retinyl esters --> retinol--> retinaldehyde (retinal) --> retinoic acid
"A --> B" means our body needs to transform A into B
Suggestions for vitamin C serum for anti-oxidation, pigment reduction, promoting collagen production and anti-aging:
- SkinCeuticals' C E Ferulic or
- Paula's Choice or
- Mix The Ordinary 100% L-Ascorbic Acid Powder + aloe gel from www.aloeveraaustralia.com.au
just enough amount to finish it immediately. Do not store & discard
the leftover, vitamin C in powder/dry form starts oxidised as soon as it dissolved.
- Other dermatologist-approved skincare products that containing vitamin C + vitamin E + ferulic acid
- Or contact compounding chemist/pharmacy to make one for you. Serum, containing kojic acid, licorice, niacinamide, vitamin C, vitamin E, retinoid, B5, hyaluronic acid, ceramides, &/or etc. Please note prices, compositions and qualities (such as stability & absorption) vary among different compounding pharmacies.
Avoid using topical vitamin C and retinol at the same time because both can cause irritation and they works at different pH and you don't want to degrade the products by mixing them together. It is recommended to use vitamin C serum in the morning & retinol at night, or apply them on different days.
Overuse of active ingredients &/or using multiple active ingredients in combination, like retinols, vitamin C & etc., can potentially weaken your skin barrier or cause irritation.
To repair skin:
https://fb.watch/mlB8p0nmhn/ or https://slurplaboratories.com/products/niacid (Not sure about the efficacy of this product)
https://fb.watch/rvvZgZWSpa/
https://theordinary.com/en-au/category/skincare/shop-by-concern/barrier-support
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Body Moisturisers recommended by many dermatologists
-- Hyaluronic Acid can hold water, thus helps prevent skin desiccation.
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Using proper skincare regimen regularly that are suitable for you individually can help promote skin healing and healthy skin somewhat. But our body including skin mainly heals from inside out. And our body needs our help because it sometimes cannot do this alone.
Skincare products alone aren't adequate to keep our skin staying healthy. Our body requires healthy diet & healthy lifestyle to promote healthy skin.
Vitamins, minerals & other supplements:
(The following info canNOT be applied to everyone.)
To help boost your immune, anti-inflammatory, good for cardiovascular, to promote quicker recovery, to promote healthy skin, overall health & so on:
- vitamin c + zinc + d3
- omega-3 fatty acids
Ensure the omega-3s combination of EPA + DHA is over 60% per capsule
For an example, a 1000-mg capsule must contain at least 600 mg of EPA + DHA (because the remaining 400 mg could be bad unhealthy fats which u don't want)
Such as: NOW Foods, Wagner Ultra Omega, Perilla frutescens seeds/oil, flaxseed meal/oil & etc.
* EPA is good for cardiovascular health *
* DHA is good for brain *
Avoid food high in omega 6 cause it's bad for u causing inflammation, such cooking oils like safflower, sunflower, grapeseed, soybean, hemp, corn, walnut, and cottonseed oils
Only omega 3 & 9 r good.
Extra virgin olive oils are high in omega 9, but do not heat these oils because:
- they oxidized, degraded & turned into toxic fats when heated
- their smoke points are too low for cooking/frying cause you will burn them and turn them into carcinogens.
- Quercetin (anti-inflammatory)
- multivitamins, such as Vital All-in-One, Centrum, Wagner, fishy Souvenaid powder & etc.
- diindolylmethane (DIM)
- probiotic (from such as fermented food, not pickles) + prebiotics (Must watch this & this!)
such as home-made kombucha, kimchi, sauerkraut, yoghurt and etc.
- astaxanthin
- magnesium, chelated
- K2
- anti-aging & longevity supplements, such as NMN, resveratrol, matcha, sencha & etc. which can be found in this supplement, Perpetua Life Aeon, as an example
- etc.
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- Ensure that vitamins, minerals & other supplements came from food sources, not synthetic man-made.
- For anything that acts like hormones in our body, ensure they r "bio-identical" & must b taken under regular medical doctor's supervision with requirements of regular blood checks to adjust dose accordingly.
- Avoid certain forms of Calcium (such as calcium carbonate) which can cause calcification and block your vessels by forming plaque and deposits in joints & tissues, better to take D3 & K2 instead.
Thus, before taking all these, it is highly recommended to consult medical doctors (MD) or specialists who r specialised in anti-aging, preventative & integrative medicine. For examples:
https://niim.com.au/clinic , ACNEM.org & etc.
These doctors of medicines are new world medicines, newer & better than our current modern medicine, nothing like your GP & specialists.
These MDs can offer you better access for health check-up & tests which are in more details and to check key biomarkers in your blood even before they become an issue, much better than your regular GP.
We can only treat you cosmetically, but the root cause is still there, thus these MDs and GP may be able to help find out & treat the root causes of your underlying health issues.
Modern medicine yet often treat acute symptoms and many infectious diseases successfully, but
it doesn't address the root causes, and instead it is focusing in treating/managing chronic symptoms & disease managements, but it fail to cure them (chronic symptoms/diseases).
Moreover, modern/conventional medicine has become segregated and disintegrative, but I strongly believe medicine should apply integrative, holistic approach to treat the person as a whole, not segregated into separate body systems (such as, endocrinology, Obs/Gyn, neurology, dermatology & etc.) Anti-aging medicine started in the mid 1990s. This branch of medicine aims to close these gaps by helping us address root causes of various chronic symptoms before they develop into or become diseases and applying evidence-based practice (EBP) using the combinations of lifestyle, exercises, mental health, environment, nutrition, supplements and medicines to help prevent chronic diseases developed from just mild chronic symptoms, in order to treat root causes and/or to manage diseases in integrative & holistic manners by interconnecting different body systems as a whole.
In anti-aging medicine, health
care should be holistic, integrative & tailor-made (to suit each
individual) addressing the root causes of all deterioration and symptoms such to
prevent these from developing into diseases, which is different from modern medicine approaches.
Anti-aging medicine is not about making your skin or face look younger, but it is a new/future paradigm of integrative & holistic health care to slow down deterioration & aging process of our body, from cellular level up to promote good health & to maintain good quality of your life for as long as possible.
Anti-aging medicine can also cure, for examples, fatigue, weakness, allergy, inflammation, irritation, insomnia, indigestion, hormonal imbalance, weight management, wrinkles, aging, depression, impaired skin, impaired digestive system, other chronic symptoms/diseases and etc.
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A. Why do you need to consume sufficient amount of good fats if you want to have a beautiful, healthy skin?
Our skin and all cells of our body have cell membranes (aka plasma membranes).
For our body to be able to synthesise our cellular structures, some components of our cellular structures cannot be synthesised by our body and we can only obtain them through ingestion. These are termed “essential nutrients”.
The components of our cellular membranes are:
lipids (phospholipids and cholesterol)
proteins
carbohydrates
The proportions of proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates in the plasma membrane vary between different types of cells. For a typical human cell, however, proteins account for about 50 percent of the composition by mass, lipids (of all types) account for about 40 percent, and the remaining 10 percent comes from carbohydrates.
Depending on the location and function, lipids can make up anywhere from 20 to 80 percent of the cell membrane.
A phospholipid is a lipid made of glycerol, fatty acids and a phosphate group.
Unlike triglycerides, which have three fatty acids, phospholipids have two fatty acids, termed a diacylglycerol.
Some of fatty acids are saturated fatty acids and some are unsaturated.
The structure of the fatty acids of the phospholipids is important in determining the properties of the plasma membrane, and in particular, how fluid it is. For an example, the saturated and unsaturated fatty acids of phospholipids behave differently as temperature drops:
At cooler temperatures, the straight tails of saturated fatty acids can pack tightly together, making a dense and fairly rigid membrane.
Phospholipids with unsaturated fatty acid tails cannot pack together as tightly because of the bent structure of the tails. Because of this, a membrane containing unsaturated phospholipids will stay fluid at lower temperatures than a membrane made of saturated ones.
Among other roles, omega-3 fatty acids, such as DHA & EPA, play important roles in human body as components of the phospholipids that form the structures of cell membranes.
References:
-- https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/health-disease/skin-health/essential-fatty-acids
-- https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-HealthProfessional/
-- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15458813/
Since
the human body can't produce omega-3s, these fats are referred to as
ones of essential nutrients, meaning that you have to get them from
diet. Our body can't make (synthesise) them and we need them
to keep us staying healthy. If you want your skin to look healthy,
you need to consume omega-3s, such as DHA & EPA,
as for examples.
Cholesterols
are a type of lipids different from phospholopids. They help to keep cell membranes from becoming stiff by preventing phospholipids from being too closely packed together.
In addition to phospholipids, cholesterols also help maintain fluidity, minimising the effects of temperature on fluidity of plasma membrane. At low temperatures, cholesterol increases fluidity by keeping phospholipids from packing tightly together, while at high temperatures, it actually reduces fluidity. In this way, cholesterol expands the range of temperatures at which a membrane maintains a functional, healthy fluidity.
There are 3 main types of cholesterol:
high-density lipoprotein (HDL cholesterol) – good for our health
low-density lipoprotein (LDL cholesterol) – bad for our health
very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL cholesterol) – bad for our health
Are you getting adequate amount of good fats in your diet?
Structure affects function.
Deficiency in essential fats can result in abnormalities of structures & functions of our cells => tissues => organs, not just skin => organ systems => our overall health
B. Why...
To be continued ...
