Hi, I’m Dr. Gerald Imber. Let’s talk about sunlight and what it does to your skin. Forget about the healthy glow. What sun exposure does to your skin is it promotes skin cancer, it causes wrinkles, it causes discoloration, it causes the collagen to thin and loosen on your face, therefore it causes sagging of …
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Less Sun Does Not Equal Less Suncare Protection
It is very important to continue to apply sun protection as the summer comes to an end. Many of us stop the use of sunscreen with the perceived lack of sun exposure. But fall and winter does not signal a break from harmful UV rays. Remember UV rays can penetrate through clouds and overcast skies. …
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The Myth of Facial Exercises (Video)
Hello, I’m Dr. Gerald Imber and today we’re going to talk about facial muscle exercises. Let me start by saying, I call facial muscle exercises a wrinkle workout. Because the only thing facial muscle exercises do is give you wrinkles! Period, end of story. The muscles of facial expression work in this way, they’re attached …
read more >Fall into Renewed Skin with Retin A
Too much sun exposure and beach time activities can lead to flaky, dry, pigmented skin. With fall here it is the perfect time to renew the skin while decreasing hyper-pigmentation and dead skin cell build up. The perfect ingredient to do this is Vitamin A which is found in Retin A, and Renova. Retin A …
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Proper Skin Care Routine (Video)
Hi, I’m Dr. Gerald Imber and we’re going to talk about a proper skin care routine. A skin care routine should really do several things. First of all, it has to remove the old environmental damage and dead cells and dirt from the world we live in by exfoliation. After the skin is clean and …
read more >Skin Care Tips: First Step to Healthy Skin Care
The first step to every skincare regimen is the cleansing process, one of the most important processes in a skincare regimen. Skin cleansing assists in removing bacteria, make-up and remaining impurities that cause clogging in the pores leading to breakouts and oily skin. A common mistake made by many is using bar soap on the …
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When To Start A Good Skin Care Routine (Video)
Hi, I’m Dr. Gerald Imber, and I’d like to talk to you about the proper time to start a proper skin care routine. The story with a skin care routine, and I don’t mean just putting moisturizer on, I’m talking about preventative measures. The time to begin a real skin care routine is before you …
read more >Season Changes- Product Exchanges
The start of each season is the perfect time to see your skin care specialist. Typically skin types and conditions can change with the seasons. Oily skin types may notice their skin turns combination to normal with the colder weather approaching. Normal skin tends to become dry and tight. To maintain the overall health and …
read more >Youth Corridor Gentle Moisturizer for Men
Let’s admit it, men are as conscious as women when it comes to their facial skin. Men’s skin care is focused on a clean, smooth shave while moisturizer tends to be neglected. Just as in any women’s skincare regimen, the same rules apply to men. The key factor is finding the correct products to suit …
read more >Towel Off for Soft Skin
One of the simplest exfoliants is hanging in the bathroom — your clean towel. It can be used for a post-shower buffing session to remove dead skin cells and allow healthy, young cells to reach the surface, says Gerald Imber, a cosmetic surgeon in New York City. Start at your feet, moving all the way …
read more >Skin Cancer Tip #3: Correction
80% of all skin cancers are basal cell carcinoma usually cured by simple surgical excision. 10% are squamous cell carcinomas which have the ability to spread and must be excised more aggressively. The remaining 10% are melanomas, which are potentially lethal, and must be treated surgically, and very aggressively. These are typically very dark, spreading …
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Moisturizers with Sunblock (Video)
Hi, I am Dr. Gerard Imber. A quick word about moisturizers and sunblock, a question that is always asked is do moisturizers with sunblock actually work? Yes, they do. That is the short answer. The long answer is that if you use a moisturizer every day, and you use one with sun block in it, …
read more >Skin Cancer Tip #2: Maintenance
It is not known whether any treatment can protect against incipient skin cancer, but aging accelerated by sun exposure is manifested in brown spots (sunspot), wrinkles and laxity of skin caused by collagen loss. These can be significantly reversed by certain laser treatments and by the daily application of antioxidant serums such as Youth Corridor’s …
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Let’s Talk About Skin Cancer (Video)
Length: 77 seconds Hi, I’m Dr. Gerard Imber. Let’s talk about skin cancer. Not a topic we enjoy talking about, but if we talk about the sun, we have to talk about skin cancer. There are almost a million and a half new skin cancers discovered every year but most of them are related to …
read more >Skin Cancer Tip #1: Prevention
The weather is getting warmer and spring and summer activities are right around the corner, which is why it is important to share some skin cancer awareness tips (Skin Cancer Awareness Month takes place in May). Damaging sunlight involves two portions of the light spectrum: UVA and UVB. UVB rays cause tanning and skin cancers …
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