Fun Facts about your Skin...

Your skin is your largest organ and plays a vital role in detecting hot and cold, regulating your body temperature and protecting your muscles, bones and internal organs from outside infection and disease. But that’s just for starters. There is so much more to your skin than you might think. Here are some of the most interesting facts about your skin:

• The average person’s skin covers an area of 2 square meters.
• Skin accounts for about 15% of your body weight.
• The average adult has approximately 21 square feet of skin, which weighs 9 lbs and contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels.
• The average person has about 300 million skin cells. A single square inch of skin has about 19 million cells and up to 300 sweat glands.
• Your skin is its thickest on your feet (1.4mm) and thinnest on your eyelids (0.2mm).
• The skin renews itself every 28 days.
• Your skin constantly sheds dead cells, about 30,000 to 40,000 cells every minute! That’s nearly 9 lbs. per year!
• Some sources estimate that more than half of the dust in your home is actually dead skin.
  
• Dead skin comprises about a billion tons of dust in the earth’s atmosphere.
• Your skin is home to more than 1,000 species of bacteria.
• Skin that is severely damaged may try to heal itself by forming scar tissue, which is different from normal skin tissue because it lacks hair and sweat glands.
• Skin can form additional thickness and toughness — a callus — if exposed to repeated friction or pressure.
• Some of the nerves in your skin are connected to muscles instead of the brain, sending signals (through the spinal cord) to react more quickly to heat, pain, etc.
• Your skin has at least five different types of receptors that respond to pain and touch.
• Changes in your skin can sometimes signal changes in your overall health.

These fun facts are just some of the thousands of important aspects of your skin and its health. Forefront Dermatology’s skin care experts have all of the information you need, including how to best care for the health and beauty of your skin, and the advanced expertise and experience to help you protect it throughout your lifetime

The Kim Kardashian 24 Karat Gold Facial Mask

Kim Kardashian's favourite facial, why?

The facial treatment consists of the following. A pore cleansing treatment followed by microneedling (collagen induction therapy) and is topped off with a 24 KARAT GOLD MASK!!

Gold slows down the skin collagen depletion and elastin breakdown. This mask stimulates cellular regrowth at the basal layer to regenerate, combats damaging free radicals, stabilizes skin immunity, rehydrates skin and improves skin elasticity thus reducing the appearance of premature aging. The gip-active ingredients enhance face slimming, sculpting, whitening and even out skin tone effectively.

This facial is one of Kim Kardashian's favourite treatments thus named as such or as Kim K calls it: the fashion week facial. After she had this facial she went to the Balmain Fashion Show at Paris Fashion Week completely make up free.

Love her or hate her but we all want Kim's flawless skin...

CIT - Collagen Induction Therapy

Benefits of Collagen Induction Therapy (CIT) with a PEN device 

The Needle Pen uses multiple needles that pierce the skin vertically with minimal pain compared to traditional Derma Roller rejuvenation. The skin rejuvenation treatment has great results. The automatic, high speed vibrating function of the Pen increases the effectiveness of the treatment by rapidly making multiple insertions, quickly and clinically, dramatically reducing pain and discomfort for the user.

Skin needling with a pen allows for controlled induction of the skin’s self repair mechanism by creating micro “injuries” in the skin which triggers a whole cascade of events that result in new collagen synthesis. The result is smoother, firmer and younger looking skin. A good treatment for all skin types especially people with acne scarring, pigmentation and wrinkles.

Skin Needling is used to treat: fine lines and wrinkles around eyes, mouth, cheeks, neck and décolleté. Other areas of the body can be treated such as the abdomen, thighs, hands and arms. All forms of acne scars, surgical scars, stretch marks and burn contracture scars can safely be treated. The typical areas treated with micro needling are full face for skin rejuvenation.

The results of micro-needling can go on for months after each treatment and the results are accumulative. Initial results can be seen within 10 days. The best results of one single treatment can be seen up to 3 months later and the collagen will continually grow in the skin over a 90 day period.

The needle only penetrates the epidermis and does not remove it thus the skin’s natural protective barrier remains intact. The pierced epidermis rapidly heals in a matter of hours. After the procedure, the treated skin has the appearance of moderate sunburn which improves over 24 to 48 hours. The treatment is therefore not only very effective but also very safe with very few to no side effects or complications.

Automatic Needle adjustments from 0.25mm-2mm allow for all treatments to be tailored to individual needs. When treating acne scars on the cheeks, adjust the Pen to a depth of 1mm to 2mm depth for better results. Over the eye area the needle depth can be decreased to 0.25mm to 0.5 mm. For skin rejuvenation (anti-aging, pigmentation, sun spots and acne brown marks) 0.5mm for best results. The electrical stimulation and vibrating function can make the treatment less painful especially on the body for the treatment of stretch marks.

How will the Dermapen Treatment help your skin!