How to shrink your pores?
Pores are the basic small opening on a surface. Your pores are genetic & you can't shrink them, but we will use many techniques to help you minimize the appearance of your pores with an explanation of how you can do this.
Minimize your pores
so I find a diagram Where you see the skin surface and a pore here is your pore. The pores in the opening that you all see on the surface of your skin so you notice here it's like a cup shape almost like it's wider near the top right like a bowl almost so it's skinnier near the bottom wider near the top this is gonna become important near the end. so these lines are something called the stratum corneum which is the very top layer of our skin and it's it can be more than one cell layer thick but these are just dead skin cells essentially dead corneocytes dead keratinocytes and they sit at the top layer of our skin and they can vary in thickness
so then you have the rest of the epidermis here so this over here this whole area is called the epidermis and then you have underneath that something called the dermis so inside the dermis is made up of a lot of different things but some of the main things that it's made up of our collagen.
What to do If collagen is damaged?
we're going to focus here on collagen and elastic vibrates or elastin, which will play a big role in the appearance of your pores. If you can imagine that your collagen is damaged by something like the sun so UVA radiation has a long wavelength it gets through our glass windows it gets through our car windows and it can actually get destroyed by that and the elastic fibers can also get us destroyed by that and once you lose this collagen you can imagine that if you lose these support structures here that your pore will start to dilate outwards right because you're losing those support structures.
How To Protect Collagen And Elastin?
- Use Broad-spectrum Sunscreen SPF30
The first line of treatment is to prevent your pores from looking larger or to actually just wear sunscreen it's also broad-spectrum sunscreen it needs to cover both UVA and UVB and there you go one step to minimizing your pores the reverse.
Ingredients Build collagens
- vitamin A derivatives
- vitamin C
- retinol,
- retinoid,
- adapalene,
- tretinoin,
- tazarotene
Any of these ingredients are going to help build collagen so your first line of defense I think the most powerful and most studied form to build your collagen over time is going to be your vitamin A derivatives another option is vitamin C potentially niacinamide.
Other Things like micro-needling where first poke little holes into the skin at a physician's office can also build collagen through wound healing. Some other advanced techniques are co2 laser to build collagen.
Decrease Oil Production
- Niacinamide
- Green Tea-Extract
- L-Carnitine
Sebaceous glands are oil-secreting glands. Things that are producing your oil or sebum and they actually kind of release that sebum into the pore and that's why people can have variations in the oiliness of their skin overall but if you fill this thing up with a ton of oil it's gonna end up dilating your pore over time just because it's just so full of stuff so to get rid of this all you have to do is try to minimize your oil production or remove the oil that's building up in your pores a couple things that can decrease oil production.
Greatest of all time to decrease oil production actually if you want to look at some over-the-counter options niacinamide has been studied particularly in the Japanese population and showed a benefit with decreasing oil production but in some people, it seems to normalize sebum or oil production decrease oil production can minimize the appearance of your pores.
Additionally, things like green tea extract L-carnitine have been also shown to decrease oil production now the question of what of whether or not topical retinoids decrease oil production is not proven so we actually don't know whether topical retinoids can decrease oil production and there actually haven't been any studies at this time that show that they do what if we wanted to remove oil from the glands instead so if you remove the oil then that could also minimize the appearance of the pores
REMOVE OIL
- Salicylic acid is that lipophilic one that concentrates in the oil glands to remove some of this oil beta hydroxy acid, salicylic acid is very good at getting into those pores and getting rid of some of that oil so you can either have that as a cleanser or you can have that as a Levon product as well
Normalized Keratinization And Flatten The Stratum Corneum
- salicylic acid
- lactic acid
- glycolic acid
other acids that help
flatten out that layer and exfoliate the skin and then other forms of mechanical exfoliation like dermabrasion, dermaplaning, microdermabrasion, things like that where you are helping to sort of normalize that top layer of the skin so those are the three things you could do.
Get A Glass Skin
Some tips we are going to share that will help to treat a lot of different things so not to just minimize your pores but ultimately these other ingredients that we mentioned have so many other benefits right so you can stick to this routine and it will slowly minimize your course over months that you'll notice an improvement in that to give you that sort of like glass skin dewy skin appearance.
Day Routine For Glassy Skin
During the day use a gentle cleanser, any cleanser but something like this RV hydrating cleanser would be a good option. Any cleanser would work at this stage just gently but I recommend Cera Ve.
- Then go with vitamin C to try to build up that collagen and squeeze the pore
Lastly, go with sunscreen that has niacinamide in it like the Elta MD UV clear which has niacinamide in it so that's also going to decrease oil production but also protect your collagen in elastic fibers protect those support structures
Night Routine For Glassy Skin
so at night go with a gentle cleanser again or you could do a cleanser with salicylic acid in it but I gentle cleanser I like.
Then hit with retinoid five to six nights a week.
And then you can even layer that with niacinamide as well and then follow it with a gentle moisturizer and
Then the other one or two days a week I would use a chemical exfoliant a Levon chemical exfoliant like the BHA liquid exfoliant the lactic acid exfoliants a glycolic acid exfoliant
Now you do this over several months and you will see the improvement in your skin.
Reference Links
Links for recommended products:
-CeraVe Cream-to-Foam Cleanser: https://amzn.to/3az057z
-CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol: https://bit.ly/2SyITXC
-EltaMD UV Clear: https://tidd.ly/355UG7x
-Naturium BHA: https://naturium.com/collections/all/...
-Skinceuticals Vitamin C: https://tidd.ly/36x8qJb
-Timeless Vitamin C (Skinceuticals alternative): https://bit.ly/36CcS9w
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