A local doctor's perspective on skin-care products

Dr Lisa given the advise that "Best Way To Take Care of The Skin is to protect from the Sun and don't smoke.

However, I would like to add the following:

1. De-Stress By Meditation

2. Early morning Sun is OK for 10 minutes.

3. Avoid Alcohol

4. Don't take too much Pickles

5. Wash your face constantly with filtered water

6. Drink White tea or Green Tea

7. Drink soup everyday.

8. No Junk food, Deep fried food

9. No spicies food.

A local doctor's perspective on skin-care products
February 22, 2005 By Katy Buchanan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Dr. Lisa Pawelski, a dermatologist in private practice in Wilkins, said part of the problem for doctors in deciding which products to sell from the office is that there's very little data comparing product to product.

"In my mind, for equivalent quality of product, the more expensive lines might cost four to six times as much as the least expensive doctor-office product line," she said.

As an example, Pawelski pointed out that a 2.5-ounce bottle of an 8 percent glycolic acid cream can cost less than $20, compared with Prevage, which is $115 an ounce. Glycolic acid thins the dead layer of skin cells on the skin surface, thickens the top live layer of cells and helps minimize damage such as liver spots and fine wrinkling.

"You might say you're comparing glycolic acid to antioxidants [i.e. Prevage], but they're all anti-aging things one way or another," she said.

Pawelski carries a less expensive line of skin-care products called DCL in her own office.

"There are certainly physicians who push the products a lot harder and that's a larger part of their profit stream," she said.

As a bottom line, she pointed out, the best way to take care of your skin probably isn't in a tube or a jar.

That is, protect your skin from the sun and don't smoke.

"Sometimes healthy lifestyle adjustments may accomplish as much benefit as an expensive, hyped product."

A local doctor's perspective on skin-care products