Dermatologists discuss the safety and possible effects of products that claim to offer cosmetic benefits by applying extreme cold to the face.
The only problem: True cryotherapy can’t be replicated at home because it requires the use of liquid nitrogen at super-low temperatures.Cryotherapy, which is using very, very cold liquid nitrogen between -240 and -320 degrees Fahrenheit, is so effective because it can get so cold,” Dr.“Your freezer at home is not going to be cold enough to achieve those long-term effects that medical-grade or even medispa-grade cryotherapy can do.
Oxygenating skin also starts from the inside. “You oxygenate the skin through good blood flow,” said Dr. Nanette B. Silverberg, chief of pediatric dermatology at. “What you really want is reduction of inflammation in your skin and agents that help keep your pores open, that help with the blocking of hormone activity in the skin.”
“There is plenty of discoloration and scarring that results with cryotherapy, so that’s always concerned me about [using] those products outside of a dermatologist’s office,” Silverberg said, adding that the risk of pigmentation loss increases with age. “An older female can have permanent loss of pigmentation.”
Kormeili recommended vitamin A cream . “We have known for decades and decades that prescription vitamin A could actually help with oil production, shrink pores, [produce] collagen,” she said. “A tube of that cream comes out cheaper than most products you would find at Neiman Marcus, and it lasts a long time because you only need a teeny bit.”
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