Posts Tagged ‘collagen’

WANT HEALTH? Stay away from SMOKING!

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Some people still think smoking is part of the lifestyle. Though there are many problems that can be generated from cigarettes, especially in women.
Every woman must have longed for a clean body and the fragrant, skin and hair healthy and fresh faces and beautiful. However, if you smoke, do not expect to have a clean body condition, fragrant, as well as healthy skin and hair.
To get a beautiful skin and clean, there are ways other than health care for beautiful skin is healthy skin. Skin and hair will be healthy when life well maintained.
For example the skin, should have a regular cell replacement. But should keep in mind that in order to hold the turn well, the skin needs help from other systems, including circulatory system. Blood as a supplier of food and oxygen to get to the skin surface, through the blood vessels is very delicate. Without food and oxygen are smooth, the mechanisms of skin changes will not take place properly. Read the rest of this entry »

Microdermabrasion Stimulates Skin Regeneration

MicrodermabrasionFor mature skin and acne. Along with the peel and laser, microdermabrasion is one of the techniques defendants in such cases. Now, a new study, published in Archives of Dermatology ‘, confirms that this procedure is effective because of its ability to stimulate cell regeneration.

A team of scientists from the University of Michigan (USA) has observed that not only increases microdermabrasion precursors of collagen, other components associated with cell renewal. For example, cytokeratin 16 (with an important role in the wounds of the upper layers of the skin), antimicrobial peptides (which fight infection) and matrix metalloproteinases (inactivate enzymes that damage the skin).

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