Skin Damage From Excessive Sun Exposure

Dear Beauty Reader, Many facial customers often ask me, why we get freckles, melasma or dark uneven pigments on our skin particularly the face. Basically, this is due to excessive sun exposure. When we are young, it all seems that even if you had sunburn, our cells seem to renew the skin. But as we age, you begin to see the side effects of excessive sun damage. Particularly, appearing as huge freckles mapped on the face or body. More often than not, dermatologist will recommend peeling treatments like glycolic acid, with instruction not to go under the sun. This is because glycolic peel is a chemical peel. Its effects vary from one person to another. If too much is used, this can cause serious deep skin damage after the skin has peeled. The peeling may be too deep that the skin ends up being too thin. Even after the healing period; if you go under the sun on an average day, you may still get melasma simply because the skin has become too thin. Are there any solutions to this? Yes, but its effects again vary from skin to skin. One which I have found to be most interesting is using lemon juice. Apply it to the skin with a cotton ball over the affected area. Let it stay for at least 15 minutes a day. Of course don’t try this if you have allergies to lemon. If you feel any irritations, it would be wise to immediately stop the treatment and see a doctor. The other treatment is to go to a spa that does facials and ask if they have what is called a laser tone treatment. This tool does many wonders other than killing bacteria and oxygenizing the skin. I discovered that after several treatments, the skin will begin to heal and the dark area begins to slowly fade away. Instead of glycolic peel, ask your esthetician to do the diamond peel derma-brasion instead. This procedure is what has been called as derma-brasion. It involves no chemical peel, so your skin will not be susceptible to anyt chemical reactions. The top layer of the skin is evenly peeled thru the derma-brasion machine. Again, it's important not to go in the sun, as I have been advised for at least 6 weeks. For some maybe more than that to give the skin cells time to renew itself.