Understanding Retinols

There is much confusion when discussing a Retinol (vitamin A derivative) versus Retinoids or Retin A® (tretinoin). To have a better understaning, Retin A® is prescription only, and both the Retin A® and other derivatives of Vitamin A have been shown to have significant positive effects on the skin. Derma MD® incorporates both retinols and retinyl palmitate, which are considered over-the-counter and do not need to be prescribed by a physician or R.N.

The difference between Retin A® and retinol or retinyl palmitate is that the latter two must convert to retinoic acid to actually become useful on the skin. Retinol and Retinyl Palmitate are non-irritating, moreso than Retin A®, therefore they can be tolerated much easier.

Is Retinol Right For You?

Before deciding which strength is right for you, it can be helpful to have a skincare consultation by a skincare professional or physician before you proceed. On the other hand, if this is not in your budget (although not all aestheticians charge for a consultation), you may just want to start with over-the-counter products such as Retinol or Retinyl Palmitate, which are more gentle and have very little, if any irritation, unlike tretinoins. When you are just beginning a regimen, start slowly, no more than 3-4 applications a week in the p.m.

Benefits Of Retinol For The Skin

• Effective cell-communicating ingredient
• Exhibits strong antioxidant properties
• Improves skin texture
• Reduces appearance of wrinkles and other signs of aging.
• Has been shown to increase collagen production
• Helps reduce appearance of hyperpigmentation from sun damage
• Has been shown to help improve elastin

As you can see, due to all of its properties, retinol has long been considered an absolute must ingredient to help reverse signs of aging skin. It can obtain multiple results in a short period of time… So we ask ourselves, how much retinol does the skin need to see improvement? What should one review prior to purchasing a retinol product? Some questions you may ask yourself are:

• Do you have sensitive skin?
• Do you use a tanning bed?
• How much are you out in the sun?
• Do you have a lot of sun damage, dark spots, hyperpigmentation?
• What results are you expecting?
• What strength should you purchase?

These are just a few questions to consider.

Simply put, how much retinol your skin needs depends on your skin type, skin concerns, and your level of tolerance.

Ready to see what Retinol can do for your skin?

Derma MD®'s Anti-Aging Retinol Complex Serum is a great place to start. Featuring Retinyl Palmitate, Vitamin A, Grape Seed Extract, and Alpha Lipoic Acid, this concentrated serum can reduce wrinkles, improve skin's texture, increase elasticity, and protect skin from damage.

This is a physician-recommended serum with concentrated levels of anti-aging ingredients. This formulation will improve the firmness, texture and overall appearance of skin within 2-3 weeks of use.

Glowingly Yours,

Sheila Malmanis, L.E.
Founder of Derma MD Skincare®

 

There are many types of Vitamin C, but L-Ascorbic Acid (water soluble) is probably the most recognized. Other effective forms of Vitamin C include sodium ascorbyl phosphate, ascorbyl palmitate, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate and magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, sometimes referred to as MAP.

Vitamin C benefits the skin in four very important ways:

1. It promotes collagen production
   • Vitamin C is proven to stimulate the synthesis of collagen. Skin loses Vitamin C over time, making lines and wrinkles more prominent. Topical vitamin C allows for the skin to start that stimulation once again, reducing fine lines & wrinkles.
2. It helps to brighten the skin and improve its texture
   • Vitamin C is found to stimulate increase of cellular turnover, leaving skin softer and more radiant. Vitamin C acts as a booster to our body’s most prevalent antioxidant, Glutathione (responsible for balancing our skin’s pigment levels).
3. It fights free radicals
   • Vitamin C, being a potent antioxidant, helps protect skin from free radical damage. Free radical activity increases due to excessive alcohol intake, along with environmental factors such as UV radiation from the sun and cigarette smoke.
4. It strengthens capillary walls
   • Vitamin C maintains capillary (blood vessel) integrity through the production of a compound found in our cells, which is responsible for strong tissue growth.

Vitamin C doesn't just strengthen your body's defenses against illness and disease; it also shields your skin against reactive free radicals in the environment that contribute to signs of aging.

DERMA MD® Offers Multiple Vitamin C Products!

COLLAGEN BOOSTING VITAMIN C + RESVERATROL

This luxurious antioxidant cocktail combines Vitamin C with the super potent anti-oxidants Pycnogenol and Resveratrol to inhibit collagen degradation, improve skin elasticity, fight free radicals and help bind and strengthen collagen for increased firmness. Has both ascorbyl palmitate (lipid soluble) and l-ascorbic acid (water soluble). Gentle enough to use with non-invasive procedures such as thermal collagen induction (micro-needling) after procedure.

VITAMIN C-21 ANTIOXIDANT & BRIGHTENING SERUM

Derma MD® newest addition. Formulated with a unique combination of 20% L-Ascorbic acid, Tocopherol (vitamin E) and Ferulic Acid. This concentrated level of antioxidants will protect skin from environmental stressors, such as UVA/UVB, and pollution which can cause premature aging. The synergy of these ingredients work to improve appearance of lines & wrinkles, along with brightening skintone. Used daily, the skin will appear brighter, have smoother texture, more even skin tone, less appearance of hyperpigmentation, feel firmer, tighter, and appear more luminous within days.

17% VITAMIN C SERUM

This lightweight serum has a low pH, meaning it is very acidic and can be slightly irritating for some skin types, especially rosacea, and/or extremely sensitive. It is a water soluble type of C, and is combined with super antioxidants. Excellent as an exfoliant, and to improve appearance of broken capillaries, inhibit collagen degradation, and increase firmness. The unstable water soluble antioxidant seems to be key to benefiting from the nutrient’s skin rejuvenating powers.

AGE ERASING TRANSFORMING C

This anhydrous Vitamin C silky serum has multiple properties for lightening dark spots, hyperpigmentation, brown spots surrounding acneic areas or scars left from acne, and can help with melasma, which is usually brought on by hormonal changes such as pregnancy. The Vitamin C, Tetrahexyl Ascorbate, is an oil-soluble form of Vitamin C and is found to maintain stability in air & water for up to 18 months, allowing it to serve as a long-lasting antioxidant. It is also found to be a less irritating type of vitamin C.

Vitamin C provides what the skin needs to maintain healthy, vibrant and younger looking! Don’t let your SKIN be without it!

Glowingly Yours,

Sheila
Founder of Derma MD Skincare®

Skincare Doesn't Stop at the Chin!

You take great care of your skin.  You slather on serums and creams full of active ingredients.  Your skin looks fresh, hydrated, vibrant and uplifted.

But are you forgetting about your neck and dècolletè?

The delicate skin on your neck and dècolletè (French for your chest and shoulders) is exposed to the same elements as your facial skin every single day and can begin to show its age with crepiness, lines and wrinkles.

No one wants a smooth, glowing face with a wrinkly neck!

Feel good about your neck by giving it the same care you would your facial skin with uplifting and firming products designed to increase hydration, tighten and lift.

Feel Good About Your Neck!

Derma MD's New MIDLIFT¹¹, combined with our new Vitamin C-21, will increase hydration, lighten, tighten and lift the delicate skin of the neck and dècolletè.  Used daily the appearance of crepiness, lines and wrinkles will be reduced and skin will appear firmer, more luminous, lifted and hydrated. 

The clinically proven ingredient of Essenskin™ found in our MIDLIFT¹¹ provides 11% of active ingredients to remove roughness, improve density of neck area, reduce appearance of lines & wrinkles, and give the neck you desire that is smoother and younger looking within two weeks (when used twice daily). 

Clinically proven Vitamin C combined with Vitamin E and Ferulic Acid in our Vitamin C 21 serum provides lightening of dark spots, firming, and antioxidant protection, leaving the neck firm, tight and younger-looking by reducing the signs of aging over time. 

The synergy of these two products together will address both the neck and dècolletè.  Both areas will appear smoother and skin texture will appear softer and younger looking.

Take good care of the skin of your neck and dècolletè for a beautiful and youthful glow from the chest up.

 

Glowingly Yours,

Sheila
Founder of Derma MD Skincare®

Peptides are changing the way we take care of patients. Learn about the newer ingredients and their uses. When recommending anti-aging creams and lotions to patients, you likely have run across a number of peptide ingredients. These elements of human cells have led to a new class of products for skin care professionals. They are made from amino acids, which are essential building blocks of life. Peptides provide smaller protein molecular chains which are able to penetrate the skin. Chemists are able to synthesize these chains for specific functions, such as stimulating collagen or fighting off environmental insults. This overview provides some of these more popular ingredients.

Two scientific terms that have become unavoidable are free radicals and antioxidants. These are now understood to be crucial issues in the health and beauty of one's skin.

There are different types of vitamin C, both lipid (fat), such as Ascorbyl Palmitate and water soluble, such as L-ascorbic acid. L-Ascorbic Acid, one of the most common forms of Vitamin C used in skincare products, is water-soluble, and is easily absorbed by the skin.

Vitamin C continues to be recognized for its abilities to slow down the process of free radical damage. Free radicals are molecules that can cause collagen degradation (breakdown), fine lines, wrinkles, dryness, inflammation and damage to one’s DNA. It is important to note that water-soluble antioxidants such as L-ascorbic acid act as a first defense against free radicals which play a key factor in the aging process. In addition to its direct antioxidant effects, L-ascorbic acid is known to be the primary replenisher of vitamin E.

Vitamin C recognized for its lightening properties, increase synthesis of new collagen, and reduce appearance of hyperpigmentation, is an antioxidant that is crucial in one’s skincare regime to maintain healthy, and younger looking skin.

First big trend on everyone wanting big, sexy lips...ANGELINA JOLIE! 

Her beautiful, voluptuous, sexy lips made us all wonder how she does it...Injectables?  

DEFINITELY NOT!  

Wonderful Nature gave her those LIPS...On the other hand, how many of us are born that lucky?  Not Many.  We saw lips that looked like blow fish, the joker, and many more I choose not to describe when injectables first became popular.  But having those large full lips came at a large cost, and sometimes with pain, along with some very unhappy patients if they did not get results expected!

So now we moved into the next new trend which is LIP plumpers...A topical product that can actually build volume without injectables, no pain, and no large cost.  Here in-lies the reason why Derma MD formulated Glamur LIP Plumper!

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So how does Glamur LIP Plumper work?  Formulated with hyaluronic acid micro-spheres to increase hydration and volume immediately! Niacin boosts micro-circulation, increasing fullness and color.    Derma MD wanted to take it a step further buy actually incorporating a unique peptide to build lip volume on-going.  So this also helps the Lips regain the fullness lost over time.  Retinyl Palmitate will exfoliate and increase cell turnover, leaving lips soft and hydrated.  Retinyl Palmitate is also found to promote new collagen.  Used daily, the ugly LIP lines will appear less noticeable as the lip begins to build more volume.  

Glamur LIP plumper has been used by many physicians to provide longevity to LIP augmentation, and  our product helps maintain the hydration that lips need to be supple, soft and sensual.    

So if you're looking for the LIP plumper, used my famous makeup artists and wanting one that is result oriented without high cost and irritation,  Glamur LIP is the right one for you!

Seven Beautiful Shades to choose from...Result Oriented & Affordable!  You can view all colors at  http://www.dermamdskincare.com

              "This is more than a LIP plumper...this is a LIP care treatment + Plumping Effects...All-N-One"

Directions:  Apply onto lips, minimum twice daily.  Can be used alone or on top of your own lipstick.  For quicker results,  apply glamur LIP plump onto clean dry lips at bedtime in addition to using throughout the day.  This is more than a plumper, this is a LIP care treatment!   

Please feel free to email me directly at sheila@dermamdskincare.comregarding any questions you may have about your own skincare regime, product ingredients, and or any concerns regarding your skin.

YOUR PERSONAL SKINCARE SPECIALIST!

 

     

  Sheila Malmanis, L.E.

    President/Founder

 

Beautiful eyes like Elizabeth Taylor…is what we all desire!

We may not all be able to look like Elizabeth Taylor, but we can maintain our youthful appearance and have younger looking eyes!

As a woman of maturity, I know that eyes are a major concern for all of us.  They are one of the first areas that show age, right along with our hands and neck. 

Prior to starting the development of eye products, I wanted to make certain they each would contain key ingredients such as  Matrixyl 3000, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3, Haloxyl and Eyeliss.  These types of peptides are very significant to address specific conditions such as dark circles, puffiness, lines & wrinkles and improve the elastin around the eye area. 

What do these exotic sounding ingredients have in common? They are all peptides which have small molecular structures needed to penetrate deep enough to make a structural change in our skin.  Peptides have multiple properties and each are designed to provide a specific function in the skin.   They are often referred to as the building blocks of life. 

It’s all about collagen. When we are young our skin is plump, smooth and taut, as it is full of youthful collagen.  As we age collagen and elasticity is lost but not easily replaced. Peptides help replace some of this lost collagen by signaling the skin to produce more collagen.   Applying peptides to the skin tricks your skin into thinking it has lost collagen and needs to kick into production.

Matrixyl 3000 found in many of Derma MD's products is a dual action peptide that helps prevent collagen loss and reduce the appearance of wrinkles and crow's feet. Acetyl Hexapeptide -8 is a neuropeptide that reduces wrinkles by relaxing facial contractions that cause lines and furrows. These two peptides are great to use around the delicate area of the eye, for this is an area where expression lines are likely to form quickly. You can find these ingredients in the newest addition to my eye products.

Two Steps to Younger Eyes!