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The Best Diet for Healthy Skin In 2012

The Best Diet for Healthy Skin In 2012

Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to eat better in 2012?  I’m checking in with you and encouraging you to stick to it.  Trust me, your diet matters to your skin health! Right about now that New Year’s Resolution enthusiasm might start falling off.  I’m noticing, for example, that it’s getting easier to find [...]

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Dermatologist Explains What Causes Dry Skin?

Dermatologist Explains What Causes Dry Skin?

Your skin becomes dry when it loses both water and it’s natural skin oils.  In the lab we see big differences between dry skin and hydrated skin in both the composition of the chemistry of the skin layers and the way they look structurally when examine under a microscope.  The structural and chemical characteristics of [...]

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How To Look Like a Model

You see extraordinarily gorgeous people everyday in the media. How do they get so beautiful? What are their tricks? When you look in the mirror after you’ve done your hair and makeup, why don’t you look like them? Do you feel a little pang of disappointment and inadequacy? You look different than the models and celebrities who [...]

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What’s The Best Over 40 Skin Care To Brighten Dull Skin?

What’s The Best Over 40 Skin Care To Brighten Dull Skin?

Dear Dr Bailey I am 42 with quite good skin and not a big problem yet with wrinkles.  I do suffer from tight feeling skin and lumpy skin with blackheads.  My skin mainly looks very dull and uneven.  My skin is quite tolerant. I’m confused what products would be best. I am ordering some of [...]

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Does Drinking Water Help Treat Dry Skin?

Does Drinking Water Help Treat Dry Skin?

You hear it all the time, but is it true? It’s the middle of winter and a lot of my dermatology patients have dry skin, even in our relatively mild climate here in Coastal Northern California.  Many are perplexed about it because they’re drinking plenty of fluids.  Unfortunately, drinking water won’t fix dry skin any [...]

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Dermatologist’s 3 Simple New Year’s Healthy Skin Resolutions

Dermatologist’s 3 Simple New Year’s Healthy Skin Resolutions

Just a few simple daily changes to your skin care regimen can really bump up the health of your skin in 2012. Take good care of your skin this year – it’ll show! Your complexion is the face you meet and greet the world with. Your skin is what covers the hand you shake with [...]

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