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How to get glowing healthy skin ?

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Everyone deserves a picture perfect glowing skin. Lack of glow could be because of numerous causes. Beginning from excessive oil to lack of hydration, patchy pigmentation, poor nutrition (junk food/crash diet), deranged hormones, stress (physical/mental/emotional/medical), inadequate sleep are some of the causes of lack of skin glow. A glowing skin is the result of adequate nutrition (minerals, vitamins, proteins and antioxidants), good hydration, protection from pollution and UV rays and oxidative damage and hormonal balance. So once the nutrition and hormone status is optimal, one can start skin glow treatments. When one is looking at skin glow treatment  limited to the face, there are options like hydrafacial, and vampire facelift (PRP). The Skin Detox Ritual  or Hydrafacial is a signature skin glow treatment that involves gentle exfoliation by Diamond microdermabrasion, followed by hydradermabrasion, a Vitamin C enriched fruit peel, mesoporation with active ing

How do dermatologists take such good care of their skin

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When I was a child and I had a pimple or a boil, my mom wud be dismissive about it. It was only during my dermat residency that I realised that disorders pertaining to skin and hair affect a person's psyche as much or may be even more than say a heart disorder.. And that was the time in my mid 20s that I decided to start taking care of my skin. Sunscreen   If there is just 1 cream that a person needs to apply to protect their skin. it will be a sunscreen. A sunscreen protects not just from sunburn and suntan, but also aging, pigmentation and even skin cancer. A good sunscreen shud b non-sticky, water resistant, UV A and UV B protective. Nowadays newer sunscreens seem to also protect against blue light, Infrared light, pollution etc. Sunscrens have to pplied generously and repeated every 2 to 3 hours. Vitamin C cream /serum - A good Vitamin C cream (>10% Vitamin C) should be used as a day cream before a sunscreen is applied to correct the oxidative damag