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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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 …
read more >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 …
read more >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 …
read more >Skin Care Commandment #2- Avoid Sun Damage (Video)
Length: 55 sec There is absolutely no excuse for sunbathing, certainly no excuse for sunbathing without sunblock. There is nothing positive that you will get from this in the long run. Let’s use a little bit of common sense. You need to two things, you need excellent sunblock and you need an excellent antioxidant serum, …
read more >SUMMER IS OVER.
Even if you have not intentionally tanned, your skin color has darkened. If you’re over thirty, some color irregularities are beginning as well. This is the time to set things straight and undo the damage. Here is what you have to do. Stay out of the sun and cover with sunblock of least SPF 30, …
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