How often should you do anti-aging skin care?

In fact, there is no universal standard answer. Daily application of mild anti-aging products can be used every day, and hospital-based programs are available from once every two weeks to once a year and a half. The core depends on the anti-aging method you choose, your skin tolerance, and the effect you want to achieve.

Among the commonly used anti-aging ingredients nowadays, there are mild and non-irritating ingredients such as peptides and Bose. As long as you don’t feel redness and stinging when using them, you can apply them every day without any problem, and even sensitive skin can hold on to them. However, if you use strong anti-aging drugs with exfoliating properties such as alcohol and fruit acids, the controversy is not small: many skin care bloggers who have been playing with strong drugs all year round will encourage everyone to gradually build up tolerance and then use them every day. They believe that continuous effective stimulation of the skin can continue to generate collagen and have higher anti-aging efficiency. ； Many doctors from public dermatology departments have also come forward and said that even if you have healthy skin, there is no need to bear the slight irritation and use strong medicine every day. Use it 3-4 times a week to give the skin enough time to repair and buffer. The long-term effect will not be bad, and it can also avoid the risk of redness, darkening, and barrier damage. I came across a typical example when I was helping a friend sort out her skin care list a while ago. A 30-year-old girl with dry and sensitive skin used to copy the morning C and evening A routines that were popular on the Internet. She applied high-concentration prototype VC with 0.5% alcohol A to her face every day. Within half a month, her face started to become red and stinging, even after using it regularly. I couldn't apply moisturizer for several years, and it took me almost a month to stay at home before it returned to normal. Later, I switched to using 0.1% low-concentration alcohol A every two days, and used a repairing essence cream in between. Now I have been sticking to it for almost half a year, and the dry lines at the corners of my eyes have faded, and my skin has no more tantrums.

After talking about skin care products for home use, let’s talk about the anti-aging programs in theaters that everyone asks about more. For superficial improvement projects such as photorejuvenation and basic anti-aging water-light injection, if you want to quickly improve dark yellowness and reduce surface fine lines at the beginning, it is more appropriate to do it once every 3-4 weeks. After doing it three times, the skin condition will stabilize, and it is enough to do it every two or three months to maintain the stability. I myself had photon treatment three times in a row in the first half of the year, and now I only go once every two months. My complexion is much more even-toned than before, and even the redness during seasonal changes has improved a lot. If you do deep anti-aging programs such as Thermage and Ultrasound Cannon that affect the fascial layer, you have to wait at least one to one and a half years. After all, this type of program relies on controlled thermal damage to stimulate collagen regeneration. The damage repair itself takes three to six months. Frequent treatments will not only fail to add up to the effect, but will easily damage the dermis, which is not worth the gain. Now there are two completely different voices regarding the frequency of anti-aging in theaters. One is that anti-aging requires steady progress. Even if you only do a big project once a year, if you insist on applying anti-aging skin care products, the long-term effect will be much better than saving money to do several big projects a year. ； Another one says that after 35+, the skin will break down quickly. It is more cost-effective to focus on 2-3 courses of treatment to quickly improve the condition, and then slowly maintain it to stabilize the condition. In fact, there is nothing wrong with both of these statements. It all depends on your own skin condition and budget.

To put it bluntly, anti-aging frequency is just like eating. People with a big appetite and good digestion can eat two bowls at once without any burden. People with a small appetite and weak intestines can only eat seven times full. If you insist on eating according to other people's meals, you will either go hungry or feel uncomfortable. If you are really not sure which frequency is suitable for you, it is better to go to a formal institution for a skin test first and listen to the advice of professional doctors. It is much better than blindly copying homework and stepping into the trap.