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Hyaluronic acid and glycosaminoglycan are names you may have seen on skin care product labels or in supplements. But other than looking like really big technical words, what are they? And why would we need them? Well hyaluronic acid and glycosaminoglycan are actually the same thing – a naturally occurring substance in your body that provides moisture and lubrication.
You can get it from the sun, it’s added to foods we purchase or you can take it as a supplement. Vitamin D is not found naturally in many of the foods we eat, but it is important to the health of our bones and our skin.
It’s rather like the discussion of which came first; the chicken or the egg. Does sun exposure help or worsen your acne?
When you glance at food labels you see the names thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid; and probably a host of other things that you’re just not sure what they are and why they're important in our food. These are names of some of the B vitamins and they are essential to the health of your skin.
Vitamin A is important for our teeth, bones, soft tissues, mucous membranes and our skin. It is also known as retinol because it helps produce the pigments in the retina of our eyes. It is a naturally occurring vitamin that can be found in animal products such as butter, margarine, liver, eggs, cheese, milk and cod liver oil. It is also found in carotenes, such as alpha-carotene and beta-carotene. Carotene is what gives some vegetables and fruits their orange color, such as carrots, sweet potatoes, cantaloupe and pumpkins. There are carotenes in most fruits and vegetables.
We see these terms everywhere “FDA Approved” or “FDA Registered”, but what do they mean?
We all remember being teenagers with acne, or we remember being teenagers who used a lot of skin care products to treat or prevent acne. So how and why can we still have acne problems as adults? Adult acne is actually more common than you might realize, about 50% of adult women will continue to have acne flare ups and 25% of adult men will as well.
It’s an interesting looking medical device, and it can produce some amazing results. So how exactly was the