How to achieve a beautiful skin color and get rid of hyperpigmentations? What determines a beautiful healthy skin color? What is the reason for the uniformity of its tone and the absence of age spots? Conversely, what factors contribute to pigmentation disorders? Patients often turn to their beautician with such questions.
Answered these questions, and also told the readers of estet-portal.com about the means that allow you to prevent excessive pigmentation and help correct already manifested age spots Elena Tananko – geneticist, cosmetologist, pHformula trainer.
- Which pigment is associated with skin color and what it is made for
- Examples of skin color disorders and treatment tactics
Which pigment is associated with skin color and what is it used for
Elena Tananko – geneticist, cosmetologist, pHformula trainer.
For starters, skin color depends on the condition of the tissues that make up the skin. The thickness of the stratum corneum, the translucence of the vessels, the level of moisture, the presence of pigment, as well as the degree and nature of its distribution are important.
Melanins are the main pigments in the skin. These high molecular weight, polymeric compounds are insoluble in water. There is some variation in the chemical structure of melanins, which determines the color of the pigment: yellow, yellow-red, brown, black. Melanin, especially black melanin, exhibits powerful antioxidant properties.
Melanin is synthesized by the enzyme tyrosinase in specialized cells of the basal layer of the epidermis - melanocytes. Here it is packed into granules for transportation to the cells of the epidermis.
The nature of the process of production and distribution of pigment in the skin is genetically predetermined, activated by UV rays, controlled by hormones. The pigment works as a filter, absorbing light quanta in a wide range. The more melanin, the more evenly it is distributed in the mass of epidermal cells, the more reliable the protection. Such a mechanism is provided by nature for the human body, which does not have a cover in the form of wool, characteristic of animals.
It should be understood and remembered: sunburn is a response, defensive reaction of the skin to the sun.
There are six skin phototypes according to the ability to pigmentation. And if the first, the Celtic type, is extremely poorly protected, since it is not able to sunbathe and always burns, then the sixth, African phototype, is ideally adapted to the sun, is always dark and never burns out.
Most Europeans have skin of the third or fourth phototype - it is always well pigmented, and the latter, swarthy, practically does not burn. The principle is clear.
Let's emphasize a very important point: skin color is not related to the number of pigment-synthesizing cells. Their total number is two billion units in any of the phototypes.
The level of physiological activity of melanocytes is of decisive importance. In this regard, it becomes clear that in response to external influences, the skin of a dark phototype reacts quickly, synthesizing more pigment, while the light phototype is poorly protected.
Therefore, it is dangerous to uncontrollably bleach dark skin and expose light skin to excessive insolation. The first will "respond" with severe hyperpigmentation, the second with a rebirth to oncology.
Examples of skin color disorders and treatment tactics
As a rule, people come to the beauty parlor with problems of hyperpigmentation - these are various clinical variants of melanogenesis towards an increase in skin color.
The most common concern is the appearance of hyperpigmented areas on the face after a trip to the sea. Also often variants of post-traumatic hyperpigmentation at the site of sunburn, acne inflammation, after deep peels or cleansing.
Of course, there are patients with age spots that appeared during pregnancy or after taking hormonal drugs and even after plastic surgery.
Treatment strategy:
• reliable protection against UV rays all year round;
• preservation and strengthening of the protective function of the skin;
• decrease in the activity of melanin synthesis and blocking of pigment transport;
• removal of already formed melanin;
• restoration of full cellular regeneration;
• safety for all phototypes.
Among modern professional brands, this strategy is brilliantly matched by preparations of the Spanish brand pHformula.
Treatment Tactics: using pHformula Medical Controlled Skin Resurfacing System.
The pHformula brand is the first to offer pharmaceutical-grade products to cosmetologists. Consequently, it becomes possible to quickly saturate the skin with antioxidants, anti-inflammatory agents, vitamins, tyrosinase blockers and other biologically active substances for the successful management and regulation of the life processes of skin cells.
The system works successfully in conjunction with two components:
1. Procedures for controlled chemical skin renewal. Performed by a pHformula specialist once every two weeks.
2. Daily use of renewing home care products as directed.
PH formula procedures allow you to effectively change the condition of the skin at all levels: superficial, middle and deep in a short time. Thanks to them, it is possible to achieve impressive results safely and painlessly.
Rejuvenation effective and painless: biorevitalization without injections
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