19 Skincare Tips Dermatologists want you to Know

Tip #1: Avoid the Sun and Wear Sunscreen

Avoid the sun, and when you can’t avoid it, wear sunscreen and a hat. try out our sunscreen products that can change your whole idea about going out sunscreen by Albatros

One of our best skincare tips is to use a sunscreen containing anti-inflammatory and barrier-repairing ingredients. A broad-spectrum sunscreen with both UVA and UVB protection of at least SPF 30 is best.

Tip #2: Get a Full-Body Exam

You have to get a full-body skin exam by a dermatologist by the time you turn 30. It’s important to have expert eyes take a look at any moles you may have and be able to follow them for changes in the future. Also, the dermatologist can teach you how to do a proper skin check on yourself. This is very important because melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, is almost 100% curable if caught in its earliest stages. If women are armed with information on what to look for, it may save their lives.

Tip #3: Layer Products From Thinnest to Thickest

We consider treatment steps to be anything between toning and moisturizing. Layering your serums and essences from thinnest to thickest helps the skin to absorb each layer most efficiently!

Tip #4: Use Targeted Exfoliators

AHAs and BHAs are popular in dermatology clinics but are also formulated to be used in at-home exfoliating treatments to reveal brighter and more even-toned skin. Simply put, AHAs help to ‘unglue’ stubborn surface skin cells that cause dullness and clog pores, while BHAs enter pores to dissolve sebum and fight dormant acne. check out our exfoliating products here

Tip #5: Remove Your Makeup

“It’s been said a million and one times, but effectively removing makeup is the gateway to clearer, healthier skin. When makeup is removed, the skin becomes a clean canvas ready to absorb any product. An easy tip is to clean your face as soon as you get in the door instead of waiting right before you go to bed. Just as you are dying to get out of your constricting work clothes, skin desperately wants to rid itself of pore-clogging debris and pollution! We like to use gentle cleansing oil as a first step.

Tip #6: Soothe Inflammation

Use a skincare product that optimizes the skin barrier and contains anti-inflammatory ingredients. This will also help reduce chronic inflammation induced by ultraviolet light and airborne pollution. Barrier-damaging skincare and cleansing should be avoided.”

Tip #7: Invest in a Great Moisturizer

“Moisturizers help our skin barrier by providing lipids, protecting from external chemicals, and providing water to our sometimes parched skin. our all-time favorite moisturizer is, of course, Day cream & Night Cream from Albatros

Tip #8: Eat Well

Your skin acts as an excretory system to get rid of substances that don’t agree with your body. In the case of dairy, it is mucus-forming and can be difficult for the body digest—which is why many people are lactose intolerant. So when you get too much dairy for your body to digest, it may come out in the form of cystic acne (hard, painful bumps under the skin) on the chin and jawline area. The consumption of milk, cheese, and yogurt may become factors that influence endogenous hormones and mimic the hormones that trigger oil production in the skin to ignite the acne process.

As soon as cysts form, dab on our Anti Bump Solution. It will dramatically reduce the infection and cut the healing time, at least by half. When used twice a week on areas prone to cysts, you may find they won’t show up at all! Anti Bump Solution

Tip #9: Aim for a Restful Night's Sleep

We often explain this concept to patients by giving the analogy of our minds being like a computer that needs to be rebooted every night so as to process everything we put into them. Seven to eight hours of sleep allows it to happen.

Tip #10: Implement More Greens

Drink a green juice every day. It will be a great replacement for your afternoon coffee and will transform your skin in a matter of days. The ingredients in the juice help oxygenate the skin and stimulate lymphatic drainage, so it’s de-puffing too! Start by eating a bit of avocado every day or even throwing half of an avocado into your morning smoothie. Avocado supplies the skin with healthy fats and phytonutrients to hydrate from the inside out and bring back your glow.

Tip #11: Gently Exfoliate

Exfoliating twice weekly is what we call a secret weapon to perfect skin. We all tend to either skip it or overdo it. Twice a week with a physical scrub that has a chemical element like lactic acid is a perfect combo to great skin. It keeps the pores minimized, keeps the fine lines at bay, and resurfaces the skin perfectly. Check out our facial & Body scrub

Tip #12: Try Lymphatic Drainage Massage

Another great at-home treatment is lymphatic drainage massage to keep skin clear, de-puffed, and glowing. For dry skin, massage in circular motions upward. Start at the base of the neck where your arteries are. Massage in gentle circles upwards, toward the jaw, up the sides of the face, and around the eyes. This will help coax nutrients into the tissue. You want to do the opposite motion and start on the top of the face by the eyes if you are prone to breakouts—this will draw the waste away. Lymphatic drainage massage can completely change the look of someone’s face and is a great, under-the-radar skincare tip

Tip #13: Utilize Your Vitamin Serum

Complete nutrition for the epidermis is critical. The epidermis (the outermost layer of the skin) is a key protective structure that uses 23 vitamins. These vitamins must be provided at therapeutic concentrations and delivered within the epidermis for optimum skin health. A vitamin serum is non-irritating and formulated with vitamins A, B, C, D, and E to give skin the nutrition it needs.

Check out our Beauty Serum

Tip #14: Use Non-Foaming Cleanser

When choosing a cleanser, stay away from high-foaming cleansers, as they can strip the skin, leaving it tight, dry, and more prone to breakouts. It can even cause lines, wrinkles, and sensitivity to the environment. Instead, one of the most strategic skincare tips is to apply a pre-cleanser prior to cleansing to help thoroughly clean your skin without stripping your skin’s natural oil

Tip #15: Sleep Right to Avoid Wrinkles

After sunlight/UV exposure, the second cause of wrinkles is sleeping. Squishing your face into a pillow for approximately 2,500 hours per year while you sleep is like ironing wrinkles into the skin. Strategically position your head so the lower half of your face never touches your pillow. What this helps to prevent is a squishing of the face, which would exacerbate the wrinkles that come with age. These are the deep creases also known as the ‘parentheses’ or ‘marionette’ lines that run from the nostril to the corner of the mouth on both sides of the face and are enhanced every time you smile or laugh.

Tip #16: Find the Right Spot Treatments

Whenever a blemish appears, the goal is to get it to heal quickly. Most people have a myriad of zit-zapping spot treatments in their bathrooms and will apply these generously the moment a blemish pops up in hopes of drying it out. This may come as a real surprise, but most spot treatments actually make the blemish stick around longer when used in this way. It will also lead to a prolonged recovery time with scarring. When there is an infection within the pore, the natural process is for the infection to come up and out through the skin’s surface.

This is the skin’s way of healing itself. The best solution is to leave it alone (without the application of a drying spot treatment) to get rid of it faster. However, when the infection comes to the surface, appearing as a whitehead, you can gently squeeze it out as long as it comes out in one or two tries. Anything more than that means it wasn’t ready to come out and you will injure the skin, resulting in a red or dark scar. Be sure to wrap your fingers in tissues when trying to pop a pimple.

Applying a warm, damp washcloth to the blemish beforehand for two minutes can soften up the skin to make for easier extraction.

Tip #17: Treat Your Neck as an Extension of Your Face

Here’s the sad news about the neck for those in their 20s: While you have the wisdom of caring for your skin better than your mother did (due to more awareness and better products available now than ever before), with technology more so embraced by younger people, you are creating what is known as ‘tech neck.’ The 45-degree angle that you hang your head to look at your cell phone causes a repeated squishing of the neck, resulting in premature folds and wrinkles. To treat this, most people know to apply moisturizer to the neck, and many do this, but the mistake is made in treating the neck as an afterthought.

This particularly applies to sunscreen, since the number one cause of premature skin aging is UV rays given off from the sun. The best way to apply sunscreen to this area is by doing a full second application exclusively to the neck. In addition to sunscreen, be sure to apply your serums and moisturizers in an upward motion to go against gravity.

Tip #18: Increase the Circulation in Your Skin

When the skin ages, less oxygen and [fewer] nutrients are being delivered to it. For example, by the time you reach 75 years old, you have about 50% fewer blood vessels in your face. So with fewer vessels, it means less nutrient-rich blood, and oxygen is being brought to the cells of the skin. The result is dull, tired-looking skin. To be sure skin is healthy and has good blood flow, hang your head upside down for three minutes per day—it's one of the best skincare tips. This can also be done up against a wall, during a downward dog in yoga, or by simply hanging your head over the side of your bed.

After three minutes, a slight redness will appear on the skin, and in the long run, it can make a big difference in getting and keeping that inner glow going strong

Tip #19: Start Getting Facials

We always recommend clients to have facials once a month. Nothing you do at home can replace professional exfoliation, extraction, and attention! If you can't make it for a facial each month, try facial mud mask at least once per week to help draw out toxins, dirt, and oil and clear up clogged pores.

Written & Edited By Mahmoud Alshahahdi.