The magic of skin repair

Most often, when buying an expensive anti-wrinkle cream or going to a beauty salon, women hope for a miracle. Despite all the arguments of reason, most believe that there is a remedy that will allow you to fix your skin, just like a watchmaker fixes a broken watch. If the cream or cosmetic procedure does not give the desired effect, then it means that the remedy was chosen incorrectly and you just need to find another, more perfect one. Patients who go to the doctor and doctors who undertake to treat diseases reason in a similar way. The main thing is to find a magic remedy that will stop the victorious march of the disease. Many people, like Humpty Dumpty sitting on the wall, hope that in the event of a catastrophe they will be able to call for help "all the king's cavalry and all the king's men", who will be able to collect their destroyed organism piece by piece.

This belief is very useful for both manufacturers and sellers of cosmetics, and for cosmetologists. It is because of this belief that women are ready to spend huge amounts of money on cosmetics and spend hours in beauty salons, it is precisely because of this belief that advertising is focused and it is precisely for this reason that "magic ingredients" are introduced into cosmetics. Advertising convinces - no matter how worn out your skin is, no matter what is happening inside it, you can find a product that will solve all problems - eliminate wrinkles and age spots, moisturize dry skin, increase its elasticity, give it the softness of a child's skin and the color of an apple petal. In reality, everything is much more complicated. If you analyze in detail the mechanisms of action of the most modern and scientifically proven cosmetics, it will become clear that cosmetics, even "magic" ones, can do only a small part of the job, and the main magic lies in the depths of the skin. All the miraculous rejuvenation products, all the magic products and “fountains of youth” are designed precisely for the skin’s restorative and protective powers.

For example, cosmetics that stimulate skin renewal do not act on their own, but rely on the restorative capabilities and vital potential of the skin and the entire body. Therefore, if two cosmetics simultaneously activate the renewal reaction, the advantage will be with the product that contains fewer substances that inhibit cell function. If two women undergo the same procedure with the same cosmetics, the result will be better for the one whose restorative systems are in a better condition.

It is quite understandable that everyone wants a miracle, and therefore it is precisely on whether it is possible or impossible to get a magical result from cosmetics that ladies who are looking for cosmetics or a cosmetologist focus their attention. And yet it is worth paying attention to a much more amazing thing that happens daily and constantly - the work that skin cells do, maintaining the balance of physiological processes, despite numerous factors that tend to disrupt this balance. Isn't it a miracle that, being surrounded by microorganisms and toxins, exposed to many other pathogenic factors, the skin wears out so slowly? We see examples of the power of the body's healing power all the time - the healing of wounds, abrasions, sunburns, curing infections.

There are a number of conditions of the body in which its ability to recover is weakened. Weakening of the protective and restorative systems of the skin leads to the fact that it begins to cope worse with its main task - to be a barrier, which leads to both damage to its own cells and to disruption of the vital functions of the entire body.

Thus, we can formulate a new approach to choosing cosmetics based on understanding the needs and capabilities of the skin, when cosmetics work in collaboration with the skin's restorative powers. Of course, in order to apply this approach, you need to know the structure of the skin, understand a little about its internal life, and also know the mechanism of its restorative and protective systems, as well as the mechanism of action of the main damaging factors. This approach considers the skin not as a passive target for cosmetics, but as an active participant in the restorative process.