How to Keep Your Skin Healthy

Our skin has to keep up with the daily onslaught of sun damage, environmental pollutants, and the effects of aging. How can you keep it looking and feeling its best despite all of these challenges? At Laser Skin Care Center, we recommend a regimen of skin rejuvenation treatments, at-home medical-grade daily care, and yearly skin cancer screenings. This month is National Healthy Skin Month, so it’s time to talk about how to keep your skin looking and feeling good. 

How Do You Keep Your Skin Healthy?

Many people already know some basics about skin health. For example, most people know that exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer. However, many people do not follow the precautions of avoiding the excess sun and wearing sunscreen. Just like keeping anything else in good shape, skin health and maintenance requires some essential basic steps. 

What is Skin Rejuvenation?

At Laser Skin Care Center, we offer multiple options for skin rejuvenation. This means treating the skin in a way that signals it to produce more collagen, which helps rebuild more youthful-looking skin. Treatments include:

Microneedling

This process uses tiny needles to create micro-damage in the skin. This stimulates the skin to produce collagen and accelerates cell turnover for clearer-looking skin. 

Fraxel® Laser

This fractionated laser heats up areas of the skin’s surface, leaving untreated skin between these areas to help speed up recovery time. 

Clear + Brilliant

This gentle, quick laser can produce results such as brighter, clearer skin, smaller pores, and improvements in hyperpigmentation. 

Skin rejuvenation treatments address issues including dullness, enlarged pores, melasma, sun damage, hyperpigmentation, and fine lines and wrinkles. Most will require several sessions to achieve full results. 

What is Medical-Grade Skincare?

Headed by leading dermatologists and physicians, Laser Skin Care Center Dermatology Associates has produced a uniquely effective line of home skincare products to maintain and even improve the results of your skin rejuvenation between treatments. These products have been tested to exceed the effectiveness of store-bought brands, using ingredients only available in medical-grade products. 

How Can You Prevent Skin Cancer?

Avoiding sun exposure remains the best way to prevent skin cancer. The next step, however, is getting a skin cancer screening every year. Your dermatologist will examine your skin and note anything that looks different or unusual. 

Most skin cancer screenings find nothing to worry about. Even if your doctor finds something, most skin cancers can be cured entirely if they are caught early. Skin cancer screenings lead to early diagnosis, and early diagnosis might mean something gets removed before it ever causes a problem. Seeing your provider for a regular skin cancer screening every year is one of the easiest, least invasive ways to screen for cancer and keep you healthy. 

Why is Skin Care so Important?

Our skin acts as the first layer of defense against a host of outside invaders, from environmental toxins to bacteria. Keeping your skin healthy makes sure it can continue to do its job as your body’s protective shield. 

Take the Next Step

If you’d like to learn more about how to keep your skin healthy, please fill out the form on this page or call (562) 997-1144. Laser Skin Care Center proudly serves the Long Beach, CA area and offers a variety of cosmetic dermatology services.

*Individual results may vary.