The Skin Report Holiday Gift Guide
When shopping for skincare, there are many options available, and it can take effort to choose the right product with the best value that will provide actual results. This can be even trickier READ MORE
The Best Foods For Your Skin Health
We hear many claims about which foods to avoid for clear, youthful, and healthy skin. But what foods and nutritional components can help improve our skin's health and appearance? On The Skin Report podcast, Dr. Simran Sethi, an Internal Medicine doctor and the Founder and Medical Director of RenewMD medical spas, discusses science-backed facts about how nutrition plays an essential role in the health of our skin. While certain foods can cause adverse effects on the skin, consuming nutritious foods can positively impact your skin's health from the inside out!
Foods to Avoid for Healthy Skin
We’ve all encountered sayings that claim how different foods can influence our skin. For example, maybe you’ve heard that chocolate gives you acne or that dairy can provoke common skin problems. When it comes to food and the skin, we know one thing to be sure - the nutrition we provide our bodies through food significantly impacts our skin health. So what foods should we avoid or limit to promote healthy, glowing skin?
The Basics of Botox
Botox has been a popular anti-aging treatment since the nineties when it was commonly used amongst the famous. Since then, Botox has grown in popularity, and today more people are turning to this treatment to help them maintain a youthful appearance. But what even is Botox, and how does it affect the skin on a scientific level?
Tough Treatments to Manage Melasma
Melasma can be tricky to manage, especially considering how little research exists on it, even though it’s a common skin condition. If your melasma has become stubborn and resistant to your skincare routine, you may want to consider implementing stronger skin treatments to target affected areas.
A Deep Dive on Melasma
Below the Skin’s Surface - Melasma can produce visible effects on the skin’s surface, usually in the form of hyperpigmentation. However it may surprise you to know that once you notice changes to your skin tone, melasma has already been affecting the deeper layers of your skin.
What are Melasma Triggers? And How Can You Avoid Them?
Melasma is a fairly common condition that often appears as excess pigment production within the skin. However, certain biological factors and triggers can lead to someone developing or re-activating their melasma.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Treating Skin of Color
While we hope each new skincare treatment we try will help us to achieve perfect skin, that's not always the case. All skin is unique, so some ingredients and tools that nurture some people's skin may be damaging to others.
Pregnancy And Your Skin
You may not realize this, but exfoliation is a process that takes place on and within your skin every day. As a part of your skin renewal cycle, your body is continuously shedding old skin cell layers from its outermost surface to make way for newer skin. As we age, and as we are exposed to different environmental factors, our skin needs an extra boost in exfoliation to continue making new, healthy, and radiant skin.
Coconut Oil in Skincare: Helpful or Harmful?
You may not realize this, but exfoliation is a process that takes place on and within your skin every day. As a part of your skin renewal cycle, your body is continuously shedding old skin cell layers from its outermost surface to make way for newer skin. As we age, and as we are exposed to different environmental factors, our skin needs an extra boost in exfoliation to continue making new, healthy, and radiant skin.
What is a Med Spa?
If you want a relaxing day with cucumber slices over your eyes, you visit a spa. If you want to identify a skin abnormality or concern on your body, you visit a dermatologist's office. But, on what occasion, you may visit a med spa. But, what is a medi spa? Well, to put it simply: A medical spa is a mix between a dermatologist’s office and a skin and body spa, with the difference being that a medical spa offers non-invasive, innovative laser treatments to treat and heal skin.
Skincare Wedding Prep 101
Whether you’re preparing to be a radiant bride, a handsome groom, or a guest of honor– weddings are a prime example of an event where you want to look and feel your absolute best. Fortunately, prepping your skin ahead of time can allow you to address your skin concerns so you can exude confidence on your big day. However, some treatments may be better for your specific skin type and tone than others. So, in the weeks leading up to the occasion, how can you ensure that your skin looks and feels beautiful?
Glutathione and Vitamin C Infusion Therapy for Glowing Skin, Strong Immune System and Mental Clarity
Glutathione combined with Vitamin C is a potent infusion of antioxidants and when combined together, create scientifically shown multi-benefits for the skin, body and brain. What are the benefits of Glutathione and Vitamin C IV therapy?
Services We Don’t Currently Offer
New and improved liposuction abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) The tummy tuck procedure has evolved and improved since the procedure was first tried in 1899. The standard technique, which has been with us for about 30 years, consists of a horizontal incision in the lower abdomen. The skin and fat is lifted up off of the muscle. The belly button is saved by cutting around it. The muscles are tightened and the skin and fat flap is brought down and trimmed off.
Don’t let treatments scare you!
One of the biggest obstacles to getting cosmetic treatments is fear. Fear is a natural reaction to the unknown. However, a lot of fear is based on misinformation and the wrong assumptions. Almost every patient coming to see me for an anti-wrinkle procedure will request that it looks very natural and not ‘frozen”. I want to try a cosmetic treatment, but I’m nervous. Is this normal? Yes! We find that many people are nervous the first time they come in. Usually, they’re worried about the treatment outcome, afraid that they won’t look like themselves or that they will look “done” or “overdone” and others will know that they did something. They are afraid of looking fake or looking like some of the people they see on TV, in the movies, or in magazines.
