Friday, March 10, 2006

With Rosacea It's Best to Prepare The Skin Prior to Treatment

Prior to beginning any new rosacea treatment, one needs to prepare the skin, and allow the skin to heal from the effects of previous treatments which may have left the skin damaged or overly sensitive. Rosacea sufferers often say that the rosacea treatments they had been using left their skin so sensitive that "even water hurts their skin".

By allowing the skin a healing period during which time use only a gentle cleansing bar and following the cleansing with Jojoba Oil to soothe, calm and moisturize the skin that the skin is able to begin to repair itself from the harmful effects of lasers, acids, retinoids, etc.

Reducing the acidic nature of foods in your diet and balancing them with more alkaline based foods and water will also add in the healing of the skin. Simply increasing your water intake can reduce facial redness.