Wellness and Healthy Tips

The skin is the organ that is located at the outside and restrict the human body from the surrounding environment. The size skin of adult is 1.5m2 weighing 15% of body weight of adults. The skin is an essential and vital organs and is a reflection of health and life. In addition, the skin is also very complex, sensitive and elastic and varies according to climate, age, sex, race and location of the body.

The skin can be easily seen, touched, and ensure the continuity of life. The Skin support any person's appearance. Thus the human skin has a very important role, besides the main function of ensuring the survival of others which also have an aesthetic sense, race, systemic indicators, and non-verbal means of communication between individuals to one another.

Air pollution, cigarette smoke, foods high in carbohydrates and calories, sauna, steam, malnutrition, stress, sleeping deprivation, filth, dust, smoke containing carbon, ultraviolet rays from the sun, sunbathing, are some of the many other factors that may cause damage on the skin. This is because the above factors makes the occurrence of skin aging and even ultraviolet light stimulation continuously, which does not only make the skin damage, but also cause the skin cancer risk. 

According dr.Aryani Sudharmono, Sp.KK (K) from the Senopati Skin Center using a moisturizer too much or often, use powder compact or (powder foundation) for long period can damage the skin. Because of the results of the study, use moisturizers, powders, solid or powder foundation for long period also can often cause premature aging. Similarly, the use of high alcohol cleaning

Therefore, skin health should always be considered. To get healthy skin there are 3 main steps: setting diet, doing exercise and skin care. The characteristics of healthy skin are skin feeling soft, taut, and the color evenly. But it often arises skin aging which is marked with a rough skin, wrinkles arise, uneven skin color and resulting plaques.

The signs of aging on the skin can already be seen at the age of 30 years, aging spots usually appear the redness, dilation of the pores, fine wrinkles, skin is bright less and the changing of skin color. While in the 40s, the number of supporting collagen began to decrease so that the lines appear more obvious on the face, wrinkles skin are clearer and drier. At the age of 50 upwards, human skin is eventually going to look more wrinkled, because of new cell production decreases rapidly and the skin is less able to withstand the water content.

In addition, it?s often also found visible facial skin sagging and wrinkling. This is due to the depreciation of fat cells under the skin, the old man seem to be loose and hanging, eyes dilate and at the bottom of neck is like a chicken neck.

 Due to the aging of skin is getting thinner and lose elasticity. It often appears benign tumors, capillary blood vessels are widened and redness spreads around the neck and face, as well as post-acne scarring.

 Thus, skin rejuvenation is needed, namely a mechanism for getting healthy skin. Medically, skin rejuvenation or skin-rejuvenation is defined as a procedure to eliminate or reduce the signs of skin aging. Actually a lot of effort has been made of human skin rejuvenation thousand years ago. Starting from traditional cosmetics, such as the fermented milk, jerky with mud, mask, acid fruits, vegetable extracts and so on, until the modern cosmetics.

Here are some skin rejuvenation procedures:

 Topical drug

Drugs applied to the skin (cream or lotion) usually containing retinoid acid, alpha hydroxyl acids (AHAs), hydroquinone and sunscreen. However, hydroquinone is now banned because of dangerous effects.

 Chemical Peeling

 Peeling is a superficial skin peeling procedure by applying acid solution at a certain time with certain concentrations of glycolic acid 20% -70% or 10-30% acetic acid trichloro periodically.

 Peeling can be conducted for adults aged over 17 years, but for women who are pregnant should be postponed until the baby is born. This is to avoid things that are not desired.