Revitalize Your Skin: Expert Insights on Biorevitalization from Polina Lighter

Even during our short summer, the heat and sun can be extreme factors that negatively impact facial skin. Exposure to high temperatures, ultraviolet rays, and chlorinated or saltwater accelerates skin aging, reducing its tone and elasticity. How can you properly restore your skin and why is it important not to confuse “dehydrated” and “dry” skin? What is biorevitalization? Polina Lighter, an Israeli medical cosmetologist specializing in natural facial and neck rejuvenation, shares her expertise.

Understanding Your Skin: Dehydrated vs. Dry

Firstly, it’s crucial to understand that dehydrated and dry skin are two different conditions requiring distinct correction methods.

Dry Skin

Dry skin is primarily associated with a compromised epidermal barrier. Symptoms include roughness, flaking, fine lines, tightness, dryness, and sometimes irritation.

Dehydrated Skin

Dehydrated skin may not feel dry but will exhibit reduced turgor, sagging, and a yellowish undertone.

Restoring Skin Elasticity

To restore elasticity after UV and high-temperature exposure, it’s essential to restore the skin’s barrier functions under the guidance of a skilled specialist and adjust your daily skincare routine.

The Evolution of Dry Skin Therapy

Over the past decade, the approach to treating dry skin has evolved. It’s now clear that therapy involves more than just applying moisturizing products. It requires a well-structured, comprehensive skincare regimen that demands a deep understanding of skin physiology and cosmetic chemistry from the cosmetologist, and adherence to the specialist’s recommendations from the patient.

Physiological Skin Revitalization

It’s commonly believed that biorevitalization is necessary to restore skin after a hot summer. However, this isn’t entirely accurate, despite biorevitalization being one of the most popular procedures due to its quick visual effects.

What is Biorevitalization?

Biorevitalization involves injecting hyaluronic acid into the skin, indicated for signs of dermal dehydration (deep skin layers).

Despite the quick visual results, this deep skin treatment may not always have long-term therapeutic effects, especially post-summer. To maintain the lifted, refreshed look after biorevitalization, it’s crucial to first restore the upper epidermal barrier damaged by the sun. This makes the hydration of deeper skin layers more effective.

Quick Restoration at Home

To restore the damaged upper skin layer before any invasive procedure, adjust your daily home care routine according to these rules:

Daily Gentle Cleansing: Use emollients or micellar cleansing products.
Weekly Peeling: Use enzyme preparations, bacterial enzyme complexes, or low concentrations of fruit acids.
Daily Cream: Apply a cream that affects the microcirculatory bed and has an antioxidant effect. Look for ingredients like niacinamide, caffeine, horse chestnut extracts, Centella Asiatica, and Aloe Barbadensis.
Weekly Mask: Use a fat-based mask for dry and damaged skin or an occlusive mask based on hydrogels with peptide components.

Tips to Save Dry Skin: Cosmetologist Advice

Use gentle cleansing products (e.g., based on fruit acid complexes, probiotic complexes, yogurt, silver mallow extract, bioflavonoids).
Add soothing lotions (e.g., based on chamomile or Centella Asiatica extract).
Use moisturizing products containing water-attracting and retaining substances (glycerin, sorbitol, hyaluronic acid, aloe gel, etc.).
Apply products that normalize the composition and structure of lipids in the stratum corneum (vitamin E, sweet almond oil extract).
Use products that improve the condition of the vascular bed (e.g., niacinamide, fruit acids, vitamins C and K).
Incorporate antioxidants into your skincare routine (e.g., vitamin C, Q10, alpha-lipoic acid, etc.).
Increase fat intake in your diet to at least three times a week.
Avoid uncontrolled use of acids, laser methods, dermabrasion, and chemical peels.

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