Rebecca’s Fab Five: Products I Can’t Live Without
Written by Rebecca Reinke, PA-C
Clarisonic Cleansing Brush
What it does for your skin:
Cleans skin six times better than regular washing, buffs the surface dead skin cells off, leaving behind a fresh, exfoliated surface. The gentle vibrations stimulate blood flow and oxygenation and gently loosen up dirt clogging pores.
Translation:
Younger-looking, cleaner skin with less acne.
Vitamin A Derivatives — Retin A, Tretinoin, Tazorac, or Adapaline:
No other anti-aging topicals have more research to back them up or are more cost-effective than these little gems.
What they do for your skin:
–stimulate blood flow and improves oxygenation
–stimulate collagen and elastin production
–clean out pores and facilitate sloughing of dead skin cells. Think WD-40 for the pores.
–reduce inflammation
–enhance the penetration of other products
Translation?
Younger-looking skin with less wrinkles, brown spots, precancerous lesions, and acne.
HA5:
-The product flying off our shelves with obvious, immediate results.
What is does for your skin?
–Contains 5 different hyaluronic acids, dramatically improving your skins ability to hold moisture
–Improves endogenous hyaluronic acid production.
Translation?
Immediately plumps up individual skin cells, minimizing the appearance of lines and wrinkles. Lips appear fuller. Skin around eyes appears smoother and brighter. Skin looks more luminous, youthful, and requires less moisturizer to appear hydrated.
Sunscreen:
Winter sunscreen: Obagi 360.
This sunscreen moisturizer combo glides on without balling up, creating a luminous look and feel to the skin, making make-up application a breeze. The broad-spectrum SPF 30 blocks up to 97% of UVA and UVB light, providing excellent protection against the sun’s damaging rays.
Summer sunscreen:
I up the ante a bit in the summer and reduce the moisturization component by using Skin Medica Total Defense and Repair. This is a tinted SPF 34 or the non-tinted SPF 50 that blocks Infrared rays from the sun as well as UVA and UVB.
Even Up:
This 3-in-1 tinted primer and pigment fighter provides light coverage to even out the skin’s appearance and it serves as a mineral-based physical sunblock of SPF 50. Extra sunscreen, foundation, skin brightner, and pigment treatment in one product? Yes, please! I apply this right after Obagi 360 or Skin Medica Total Defense and Repair.
If you are interested in learning more about these products, contact our Aesthetic Center at 402.484.0908 for a free complimentary skin care consultation.
