As winter fades, the excitement of summer begins to fill us. Our skin may have been worn out and tired during the cold winter months due to the cold and polluted air. To welcome summer with beautiful and healthy skin, we need to find the right solutions. Our skin, which has faded, dried, dulled, and cracked during winter, our dry hair, thickened foot skin, and cellulite are some of the problems we need to resolve before summer. Dr. Lida Çiteli, your Medical Aesthetic Doctor, explained how you can deal with all these issues.
Your Skin Needs Moisturizing
The most important need of our skin is moisture. Cold weather is one of the most significant factors that dry out the skin. Skin dryness can lead to problems such as eczema and itching. Using a moisturizer suitable for your skin type should form the basis of your skincare routine. You should choose an oil-based or water-based moisturizer that suits your skin. To prevent skin dryness, it's beneficial to avoid showering with excessively hot water for long periods. Moisturizers containing vitamins E, C, and A, along with selenium, applied to your face, help prevent damage to your skin.
How to Get Rid of a Pale Skin Appearance?
In winter, environmental pollution and cold weather affect our skin in some way, causing it to become pale. Moisturizers are your skin's most important aid at this point. However, with the summer months, the sun's UV rays emerge as a new danger. Therefore, sunscreen products should be added to your skincare routine these days. Antioxidant-containing face creams can prevent skin wear and fading. By doing a peeling once a week, you can make your skin look smoother, healthier, livelier, and younger. While you can eliminate your wrinkles with Botox injection, you can also give your skin a younger and healthier appearance with filler injection. With treatment applications such as laser and mesotherapy, you can increase the fullness and radiance of your skin and get rid of paleness.
For cracked and flaky skin, the most attractive treatment method is oil-based moisturizers. When choosing a moisturizer or any skincare product, you should consult your dermatologist or medical aesthetic doctor. Because using products that are not suitable for your skin type will do more harm than good.
Healthy Hair: The Symbol of Beauty
Everyone wants to have moist, shapely, full, and shiny hair. However, our hair is constantly affected by environmental conditions. Therefore, we need to use balancing products for our hair. However, prolonged exposure of hair, especially dyed hair, to the sun during summer without using any protective products is extremely harmful. Excessive exposure to sun rays quickly causes hair strands to split, dry out, and as a result, become dull and lifeless. When this happens, by mid-summer, your hair starts to resemble a broom. When factors such as sea and pool water are added to the equation, in addition to the sun's harmful UV rays, the result can be frightening. Therefore, just as we protect our skin, we must also protect our hair from the sun. The most effective way to protect our hair from the sun is to wear a hat or scarf during the hours we are exposed to the sun. Nowadays, special sunscreens for hair, such as sprays, shampoos, and creams, are also produced. In addition to all these, it is also important not to use products containing alcohol when going out in the sun.
Our Worst Nightmare: Cellulite!
One of the most significant skin problems experienced in summer is cellulite. Although many women believe that creams are effective in cellulite treatment, the effect of these creams is quite limited. The most effective methods used in cellulite treatment can be listed as mesotherapy, lipolysis, and carboxytherapy. In the lipolysis method, lecithin, a substance produced from soy that burns fats, is injected into the skin. In cellulite treatment with mesotherapy, certain substances that accelerate circulation and reduce edema, along with components that accelerate the breakdown of fat cells, are given under the skin. In carboxytherapy, carbon dioxide gas is delivered into the person's skin to break down fats.
You can gain an advantage in your fight against cellulite by taking precautions such as eating a balanced and healthy diet, avoiding salty and fatty foods as much as possible, speeding up your metabolism, drinking plenty of water, and exercising.
What Can Be Done to Make Thickened Foot Skin Baby-Soft?
Hand and foot skin can thicken and become calloused over time. Peeling the skin with a peeling effect ensures the removal of dead skin cells. In this way, it is possible to achieve heels with thinner skin.
What Can Be Done for Beautiful and Healthy Skin When Starting Summer?
Our skin is a vital organ that acts as a barrier between our body and the potential harms of the external environment. Therefore, environmental factors affect our skin first. Environmental factors are becoming more harmful every day. Global warming, acid rain, and air pollution lead to a more frequent incidence of skin diseases. Especially the sun's harmful rays lead to an increase in skin cancer cases. To reduce the risks of fungal diseases, sunburns, itching, sun allergy, and similar problems, we must always keep our skin barrier strong.
Don't Neglect Protection While Tanning
During the winter months, while working intensely under stress, we all dream of lying on a sun lounger and getting a tan. However, we must not neglect the precautions to be taken and the care to be done before summer. First, we should sunbathe using a high-factor sunscreen on a clean skin surface. You should determine your ideal protection factor by consulting your dermatologist. It should be remembered that every skin type is different and has different needs. It is an important criterion that the products you use are suitable for your skin type. For example, some skins may show an allergic reaction to chemical or physical protective ingredients. In such cases, mineral-containing protective agents should be preferred. If protective products are not used, the elastin and collagen layers of the skin can be affected. This can lead to early wrinkles, dullness, and blemishes. A predisposition to skin cancer may occur. In summer, you should also pay attention to your sun exposure times. You should avoid going out in the sun during midday hours when the sun's rays hit the earth at direct angles. As much as possible, you should go out in the sun before 11:00 AM and after 3:00 PM. Otherwise, you may face sunburns and spots. Uncontrolled and unprotected sunbathing increases the incidence of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. Therefore, you should not neglect to protect your skin while tanning.
Beware of Fungus!
One of the most common skin diseases observed in summer is fungus. Fungi are frequently encountered in the feet, groin areas, and torso during hot summer months. Foot fungus is especially common in men. Factors such as closed shoes and excessive sweating in humid and hot climates facilitate fungal formation. Walking barefoot on fungal surfaces is the fastest way for fungal disease to spread. Therefore, during the summer months, be careful not to walk barefoot in the pool or anywhere else. Try to keep your feet consistently cool and dry. In this way, you will have taken precautions against microbes clinging to and living on your feet. After washing your hands and feet, make sure you dry between your toes. For this, your towels and similar items must be personal. Wash your towels at high temperatures and change them frequently. Wear breathable and non-sweaty shoes, avoid tight clothing and sharing belongings. Be careful not to walk barefoot in environments such as pools, hotels, Turkish baths, beaches, or saunas.
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