As a persons skin ages, it slowly loses its ability to maintain its necessary microbiological functions in an optimal fashion. The skin still works, of course but a lot of the little things that go on below the surface just don't happen like they used to when a person was younger. Human skin has an innate ability to govern and regulate its tone and color. You tan and then the tan fades away. If you spend months or years in the sun your skin will gradually permanently darken several shades.

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How do Dark Areas Form?

What happens when this system that is contained in your skin begins to fail do to aging or stresses put on it by things such as exposure to the sun and poor nutrition combined with smoking. The color regulation system in your skin won't fail in its entirety but rather, it will tend to malfunction in certain discreet areas resulting in age or liver spots where the pigment has accumulated and isn't being removed. Obagi Nu-Derm Clear functions below the skins surface in the skins lower substrate on a cellular level to remedy this problem.

Obagi Nu-Derm Clear contains a 4% hydroquinone solution, that effectively bypasses the skins outer protective dermal layer, migrates to the substrata where it functions by stimulating the skins pigment regulatory system to function properly on a temporary basis. Not only is Obagi Nu-Derm Clear highly effective at clearing up age sposts on the face, hands and arms but it also works great for removing dark circles under the eyes.

There have always been skin treatment products on the market that function as exfoliants, in that they remove dead skin cells as part of their total function. All of them, without exception used some type of abrasive as the exfoliant that removed the skin surface cells. The functioned in the same way as sandpaper would if you dragged it across your face. While this may tend to make the skin feel softer initially, it is in fact not the best thing to do to your skin.

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Don't Sand Your Face

Built up excess dead skin cells on their face is a problem that many people face. They clog pores and prevent the skins normal surface functions. Obagi Nu-Derm Exfoderm is a new product from Obagi that takes an entirely new approach to skin exfoliation and treatment. Rather then attacking the skins surface with an abrasive, Obagi Nu-Derm Exfoderm uses a mild phytic acid solution to actually dissolve excess dead skin cells that have built up on the facial skins surface.

More Effective than a Common Abrasive

Why is this better? Its is far better for a number of reasons. To begin with, it ex foliates far more evenly and efficiently than a common abrasive. Obagi Nu-Derm Exfoderm is also able to penetrate deep into the skins pores and micro crevices in such a a way that an abrasive never could. Also, the low ph and high acidity of Obagi Nu-Derm Exfoderm functions as a perfect carrier for the active substances in the product that subsequently treat the skin.

One of the most common complaints regarding skin aging that dermatologists and plastic surgeons hear, is problems that manifest themselfes around the eyes. Crows feet, dark circles, puffiness and lack of volume are just a few of the symptoms of aging and distressed skin issues that often apear in the thin skin above or below the eyes. Unfortunately this delicate, thin skin has been the most difficult to treat over the years compared to other areas of the face.
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A Dificult Area to Treat

Plastic surgery is generally the first thing that will come to someones mind but there are a few thing that have to be considered before one runs to the “knife”. The first consideration is that the delicate tissue and skin around the eyes does not respond as well to plastic surgery techniques as other areas of the body and face do.

Bi-Mineral Complex

This is why many plastic surgeons are now recommending newer and more effective topical skin therapy products such as Obagi ELASTIderm Eye Cream to treat surface skin issues in the delicate skin that surounds the eyes. Obagi ELASTIderm Eye Cream contains a patented bi-mineral complex that has been shown in multiple clinical tests to actually tighten sub dermal connective tissues.

More Effective – Longer Lasting

Unlike topical skin therapy treatments of the past, this newly developed and released product from Obagi functions below the skins surface dermal layer. Also, its effects are cumulative which means that they build with time and last much longer than other similar products that you may have tried in the past.

Maintaining clean skin is fundamental to healthy vivarent normal functioning skin. However; over the course of time as skin has evolved, it never was meant to be cleaned as often and as thoroughly as most people do today. People have only began to view their skin in a cosmetic sense over the past two-thousand years.

Prior to that, a persons skin was solely viewed as an outer protective covering for the rest of the body. So, the irony is, that while people are scrubbing their skin to make it look better, the actual act of scrubbing it can strip vital nutrients and substances from the skin itself.

A New Look at Skin Cleansers

It is only in recent years that medical researchers and dermatologists have began to gain a full understanding of the skins actual intrinsic microbiological functions. In doing so, they have also gained a higher level of knowledge as to what that the skin needs and doesn't need with regards to day to day maintenence.

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Soaps and cleansers, that in the past were marketed as mild and “skin friendly” have recently found to have negative effects when used over the long term. Obagi Nu-Derm Foaming Gel was scientifically formulated to be highly effective while at the same time mild on the skin itself.

Deep Cleaning Foaming Action

To begin with, while other cleansers rely on harsh chemicals to strip the skin of oils and dead cells, Obagi Nu-Derm Foaming Gel employs its deep cleaning foaming action along with mild hypoallergenic cleaning agents to gently lift out grime and grit from deep inside micro crevices and pores. At the same time, therapeutic substances in Obagi Nu-Derm Foaming Gel function to treat the skin and enhance its luster and elasticity.

Treating skin that has been adversely effected by aging or a lifetime of sun exposure can present its own problems. The total effects of someones distressed or degraded skin did not occur over night. This means that by the time that a person begins to take the steps to restore their skins natural vitality, it can be in pretty bad shape. It will often be thin and lacking in many vital substances that it needs to function properly as the bodies protective surface layer.

New Highly Effective Substnces

Fortunately, many newer skin treatment products that have been developed as a result of a newer understanding of the skins actual intrinsic biological functions. These new skin care products contain active ingredients and substances that actually function below the skins surface in the substrate on a cellular level where skin problems are actually rooted.

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Mild Side Effects

However; many of the new active ingredients in these newer skin treatment products do have some side effects, particularly on skin that is thin and sensitive due to aging or other extenuating factors, such as sun exposure and poor nutrition. This is precisely why Obagi developed Nu-Derm Action.

Obagi Nu-Derm Action Treats Side Effects

Obagi Nu-Derm Action is was specifically developed and formulated to treat skin that has become dry red and irritated as the result of exposure to the powerful synthesized substances that are contained in many of the newer skin care and treatment products. Substances such as hyaluronic acid, peptides and kinetin, while highly effective on a cellular level in the skins lower substrate can cause minor irritation on the surface.

One thing is for sure and that is that great strides have been made in recent years by medical researchers and chemists in the area of developing new treatments for age old ski issues. New substances have been discovered, developed and synthesized that have the ability to bypass the skins outer dermal layer and migrate to the sub dermal substrate where they can then function on a cellular level.

Helps With Itchiness and Redness

While many of these substances that are contained in these new products, such as hyaluronic acid, kinatin and various peptides work wonders below the skins surface, they can at the same time be irritating to the skin initially. Just like other medicines, these products and the substances that they contain can have side effects such as rashes and temporary redness and itchiness.

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The Solution isn't at the Drug Store

Running to the drug store and procuring just any off the shelf skin lotion to treat the red and itchy skin that develop as a temporary side effect of using a skin care product can be a mistake. This is because, the product that you use to treat your problem can completely counteract the beneficial effects of the skin treatment product that you have applied in the first place.

Obagi Nu-Derm Tolereen - Specially Developed

Obagi Nu-Derm Toleren with .5% hydracortizone was developed specifically for the unique skin issues that developed as the result of using newer more effective skin treatment products. It contains no substances such as oils that would interfere with the function of the skin treatment products that you have applied. It is important that any adverse skin reactions that you experience from a skin treatment product is temporary and can usually be alleviated with Obagi Nu-Derm Tolereen.

Now Obagi skin care products offers a better acne fighting product in its Obagi CLENZIderm M.D. Starter set up, that can get you finally on your way to the complexion that you had before the acne hit. What makes Obagi CLENZIderm so much different from other acne fighting products that you may have already used in the past?

A Better Three Stage Treatment System

To begin with its a three stage acne treatment system that treats your skin along with the acne that is effecting it. But aren't there already three stage acne treatments that are on the market? Yes there are and while most of them have been proven effective, none is as effective as the Obagi CLENZIderm M.D. Starter Set Up.

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5% Liquid Benzoil Peroxide

This new three stage acne treatment system from Obagi is the only acne fighting product currently on the market that contains a liquefied form of benzoil peroxide in a 5% solution. Benzoil peroxide is the strongest acne fighting medicine that you can buy without a prescription and in liquid form it is more ready and able to bypass the skins outer dermal skin layer.

Quicky Penetrates and Kills on Contact

The liquid benzoil peroxide goes immediately to work below the skins surface, deep in its pores where it can then attack and eliminate acne causing bacteria. Thats not all, because the subsequent stage of the three stage process treats you skin to counteract the harsh side effects of the liquid benzoil peroxide, leaving your skin fresh, rejuvenated and free of the acne causing bacteria that is the cause of your problem.

One thing that no one can escape from, is the hands of time. As you age, your bodies metabolism begins to slow, as do so many other biological functions of your body. One of the things that slows down is new cell production in the skin, which results in rough looking and feeling older skin cells remaining on the surface for a much longer time that when you were younger.

Works to Create New Skin Cells

The Obagi New-Derm Starter Set for normal/dry skin, functions by accelerating the production of skin cells in the sub dermal skin layers, which works to duplicate the skin activity of younger skin. Not all skin types are alike and this is why the Obagi Nu-Derm system is available in formulations for each unique skin type including normal/dry.

Obagi Nu-Derm Starter Set for Normal/Dry Skin

Bypasses the Skins Surface Layer

What separates Obagi skin care products, such as Obagi New Derm, is that they are chemically formulated to bypass the skins outer protective dermal layer. The active ingredients in New-Derm subsequently migrate to the skins sub dermal layers, where they then function on a cellular level to increase the production of collagen and elastin, two vital substances that your skin needs to stay looking young and viverant.

Vital Substances Necessary for Healthy Looking Skin

Obagi New-Derm also contains other substances that function to promote more healthy and better looking skin. Substances such as hyaluronic acid, which younger skin produces in sufficient amounts is vital for you skin to retain enough fluids to maintain its thickness and flexibility.

As a person ages, their skin loses the ability to produce certain substances that are necessary for healthy, natural biological functions. Two of these substances that are commonly found to be lacking in skin that is distressed due to aging or sun damage are collagen and elastin. Both of which are absolutely necessary for healthy elastic vivarent natural looking skin. Also, when these two substances are lacking in the skin, particularly in the dermal epidermal junction, the skin will become thinner resulting in the formation of wrinkles.

Stimulates the Production of Elastin and Collagen

The main active ingredient in Obagi Nu-Derm Blender is hydroquinone which makes up 4% of the product in total along with an activating base that is designed to be mixed with tretinoin. Once these two products are combined and react together the result is a lotion that has been proven in multiple clinical tests to be highly effective at stimulating the production of collagen and elastin in the skins substrate.

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Powerful Ingredients

Because Obagi Nu-Derm Blender contains powerful ant-wrinkle substances, it can have the side affect of causing redness and itching. If this is the case for you, then it is recommended that you treat the irritated skin areas with Obagi Nu-Derm Tolereen with .5% cortisone. It is important bear in mind that any side effects caused by this product are only temporary and will pass with time.

Bypasses the Dermal Skin Layer

Never use standard over the counter skin creams or lotions with Obagi Nu-Derm Blender, or any other Obagi skin care product for that matter. This is because, most over the counter skin care products contain oils that will interfere with the active ingredients in Obagi products passing by the outer dermal skin layer.

One of the biggest enemies of healthy skin cells is free radicals. These little devils, along with radiation from the sun are responsible for most of the skins visual conditions that transpire from causes other than aging. The worst enemy of free radicals is anti oxidants and vitamin C is on of the most powerful antioxidants available in nature.

The Importance of Vitamin C

Still one more important role that vitamin C plays in maintaining vivarant, healthy looking skin, is in cross linking collagen molecules that your skin produces naturally. Vitamin C also is a necessary nutrient that your skin uses to help it retain moisture and to disperse moisture effectively and evenly between the three skin layers.

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Ascorbic Acid Defence Against Free Radicals

Obagi Professional-C Serum 10% contains a special form of ascorbic acid in 10% solution that is engineered to penetrate past the skins outer dermal layer far more expediently that standard vitamin C. This is important, because it is in the skins sub dermal skin layers where it functions on a cellular level to thwart the harmful effects of free radicals that are constantly attacking healthy skin cells.

Topical Vitamin C is the Direct Approach

Skin that is lacking in vitamin C will also tend to have a deficiency in the rate of normal production and turnover of healthy skin cells. Swelling and inflammation, particularly in the thin skin around the eyes is also one more symptom of a vitamin C deficiency in the skin.

The best way to introduce vitamin C into your skin is by using a topic treatment such as Obagi professional-C Serum 10%.