I used to have clear skin but however after my encouncter with mineral makeup 2 years ago, i had bad breakouts, I seemed to have lots of cyst and acnes. I do go for facial and you know they will prick open the acne and it leaves a mark in the long run and it's especially around my cheeks area, does the serum or any of SN skin care helps to clear away the marks? Some tips, advice is needed for me.
thank you ladies and SN team.
emma
how to Lighten acne marks?
Re: how to Lighten acne marks?
Hiya 
You'd need a better technical answer from Karen or Jen for good quality advice, but I'll tell you what I've found from my own similar experiences. I'm 35 and have had mild but persistent acne forever along with wide pores which seem to get gummed up quickly with makeup. For me, it wasn't congestion acne but breakouts from food allergies, but it took years to work this out. But whatever the cause, repairing the damage is what this is about... A number of years ago, I started reading up on skincare and had part of my uni course on how the skin tissue works. But I stress, I'm not an expert and have only fuzzy memories of what I learned.
The acne scarring I had / have is usually red marks which looks like freckles but are just red scars. Often these came from messing about trying to clear the spots or from under-the-skin bruising marks from the more cystic kind. I used Decleor Prolagene gel, a 99% water and 1% osmathus solution which was a carrying agent for proline amino acid. The idea was that it carried the proline to the layer of the skin where new cells formed and it added as much proline as the skin could want. Proline - and here my info gets hazy - is one of the 'ingredients' that the skin uses to make new collagen, along with hydroxyproline. Your skin makes the hydroxyproline but when there isn't enough proline (for example, when production slows down with aging or damage), the new skin cells might not be made with as much collagen as they should have, so when they surface (it takes about 28 days for a new cell to be made and work up to be a surface layer cell), they don't looks as strong, firm and healthy as they could. So when there's damage, like a scar, sometimes scars fade as new stronger cells take their place and sometimes they can't when the skin can't repair itself that way.
That worked great, but didn't tackle an underlying issue = the cause of the acne. Get rid of the problem and you'll usually not have to deal with it so much! I found out that healthy skin cells are obviously important, but as well as being strengthened with their own collagen, they also need to be full of hydration - the 'waters' inside the cells (like the air inside a balloon) which keeps it plumped up and healthy. Oils help seal that in (that's moisturising), but you need the hydration to be there in the first place.
So adding a hydrating agent to your skincare helps ensure that skincells stay plump. That also helps the whole skin tissue function better together. As the skin is stronger, your pores work more efficiently to help the skin stay healthy, to 'flush out' toxins and keep the skin moisturised with your natural oils (called sebum). It's all about the balance.
So getting to the point - yes, adding something which will help strengthen your collagen will, over time, probably a few months, help to diminish the acne scarring. At the same time, adding something hydrating will help the whole skin repair itself, including helping the pores reshape to being strong, not flaccid and too wide, and to produce the right amount of sebum instead of producing too much and getting oily and having congestion acne.
Something the skin uses and makes itself to help stay hydrated and keep the waters inside the skincells is called Hyaluronic Acid. We can add more of this to the surface of our skin to help keep the surface in good shape.
If I remember correctly - the Vitamin C and Peptide serum would help with all these things. Peptides work to help the collagen. The tamarind extract is even more efficient than the commonly used hydrator (hyaluronic acid) which the skincare industry usually adds to skincare. The vitamin C will also help brighten your complexion too.
Keep it simple, cleanse thoroughly but gently and make sure you use a good serum to hydrate, and a lightweight moisturiser over the top to seal in all the goodness. Jojoba Gelled Oil is good as it's close to the sebum in texture, but others with acne also like the Hemp Gelled Oil and the Raspberry Gelled Oil. Or if you've got a lightweight cream or lotion that you already like and trust, that's fine too. Hope that helps a little, but there's more you can do, like how to exfoliate gently, that'll help in time too.
You'd need a better technical answer from Karen or Jen for good quality advice, but I'll tell you what I've found from my own similar experiences. I'm 35 and have had mild but persistent acne forever along with wide pores which seem to get gummed up quickly with makeup. For me, it wasn't congestion acne but breakouts from food allergies, but it took years to work this out. But whatever the cause, repairing the damage is what this is about... A number of years ago, I started reading up on skincare and had part of my uni course on how the skin tissue works. But I stress, I'm not an expert and have only fuzzy memories of what I learned. The acne scarring I had / have is usually red marks which looks like freckles but are just red scars. Often these came from messing about trying to clear the spots or from under-the-skin bruising marks from the more cystic kind. I used Decleor Prolagene gel, a 99% water and 1% osmathus solution which was a carrying agent for proline amino acid. The idea was that it carried the proline to the layer of the skin where new cells formed and it added as much proline as the skin could want. Proline - and here my info gets hazy - is one of the 'ingredients' that the skin uses to make new collagen, along with hydroxyproline. Your skin makes the hydroxyproline but when there isn't enough proline (for example, when production slows down with aging or damage), the new skin cells might not be made with as much collagen as they should have, so when they surface (it takes about 28 days for a new cell to be made and work up to be a surface layer cell), they don't looks as strong, firm and healthy as they could. So when there's damage, like a scar, sometimes scars fade as new stronger cells take their place and sometimes they can't when the skin can't repair itself that way.
That worked great, but didn't tackle an underlying issue = the cause of the acne. Get rid of the problem and you'll usually not have to deal with it so much! I found out that healthy skin cells are obviously important, but as well as being strengthened with their own collagen, they also need to be full of hydration - the 'waters' inside the cells (like the air inside a balloon) which keeps it plumped up and healthy. Oils help seal that in (that's moisturising), but you need the hydration to be there in the first place.
So adding a hydrating agent to your skincare helps ensure that skincells stay plump. That also helps the whole skin tissue function better together. As the skin is stronger, your pores work more efficiently to help the skin stay healthy, to 'flush out' toxins and keep the skin moisturised with your natural oils (called sebum). It's all about the balance.
So getting to the point - yes, adding something which will help strengthen your collagen will, over time, probably a few months, help to diminish the acne scarring. At the same time, adding something hydrating will help the whole skin repair itself, including helping the pores reshape to being strong, not flaccid and too wide, and to produce the right amount of sebum instead of producing too much and getting oily and having congestion acne.
Something the skin uses and makes itself to help stay hydrated and keep the waters inside the skincells is called Hyaluronic Acid. We can add more of this to the surface of our skin to help keep the surface in good shape.
If I remember correctly - the Vitamin C and Peptide serum would help with all these things. Peptides work to help the collagen. The tamarind extract is even more efficient than the commonly used hydrator (hyaluronic acid) which the skincare industry usually adds to skincare. The vitamin C will also help brighten your complexion too.
Keep it simple, cleanse thoroughly but gently and make sure you use a good serum to hydrate, and a lightweight moisturiser over the top to seal in all the goodness. Jojoba Gelled Oil is good as it's close to the sebum in texture, but others with acne also like the Hemp Gelled Oil and the Raspberry Gelled Oil. Or if you've got a lightweight cream or lotion that you already like and trust, that's fine too. Hope that helps a little, but there's more you can do, like how to exfoliate gently, that'll help in time too.
Re: how to Lighten acne marks?
Wow cupcake,,,Cupcake wrote:Hiya
The acne scarring I had / have is usually red marks which looks like freckles but are just red scars. Often these came from messing about trying to clear the spots or from under-the-skin bruising marks from the more cystic kind. I used Decleor Prolagene gel, a 99% water and 1% osmathus solution which was a carrying agent for proline amino acid. The idea was that it carried the proline to the layer of the skin where new cells formed and it added as much proline as the skin could want. Proline - and here my info gets hazy - is one of the 'ingredients' that the skin uses to make new collagen, along with hydroxyproline. Your skin makes the hydroxyproline but when there isn't enough proline (for example, when production slows down with aging or damage), the new skin cells might not be made with as much collagen as they should have, so when they surface (it takes about 28 days for a new cell to be made and work up to be a surface layer cell), they don't looks as strong, firm and healthy as they could. So when there's damage, like a scar, sometimes scars fade as new stronger cells take their place and sometimes they can't when the skin can't repair itself that way.
That worked great, but didn't tackle an underlying issue = the cause of the acne. Get rid of the problem and you'll usually not have to deal with it so much! I found out that healthy skin cells are obviously important, but as well as being strengthened with their own collagen, they also need to be full of hydration - the 'waters' inside the cells (like the air inside a balloon) which keeps it plumped up and healthy. Oils help seal that in (that's moisturising), but you need the hydration to be there in the first place.
So adding a hydrating agent to your skincare helps ensure that skincells stay plump. That also helps the whole skin tissue function better together. As the skin is stronger, your pores work more efficiently to help the skin stay healthy, to 'flush out' toxins and keep the skin moisturised with your natural oils (called sebum). It's all about the balance.
So getting to the point - yes, adding something which will help strengthen your collagen will, over time, probably a few months, help to diminish the acne scarring. At the same time, adding something hydrating will help the whole skin repair itself, including helping the pores reshape to being strong, not flaccid and too wide, and to produce the right amount of sebum instead of producing too much and getting oily and having congestion acne.
Something the skin uses and makes itself to help stay hydrated and keep the waters inside the skincells is called Hyaluronic Acid. We can add more of this to the surface of our skin to help keep the surface in good shape.
If I remember correctly - the Vitamin C and Peptide serum would help with all these things. Peptides work to help the collagen. The tamarind extract is even more efficient than the commonly used hydrator (hyaluronic acid) which the skincare industry usually adds to skincare. The vitamin C will also help brighten your complexion too.
Keep it simple, cleanse thoroughly but gently and make sure you use a good serum to hydrate, and a lightweight moisturiser over the top to seal in all the goodness. Jojoba Gelled Oil is good as it's close to the sebum in texture, but others with acne also like the Hemp Gelled Oil and the Raspberry Gelled Oil. Or if you've got a lightweight cream or lotion that you already like and trust, that's fine too. Hope that helps a little, but there's more you can do, like how to exfoliate gently, that'll help in time too.
thank you so much,,,that was too much for me to digest though esp all the terms relating to skin issues..im a lazy bum to actually know what conspires behind the skin. Thanks for enlightening me with the informations. I kind of got an idea how it works..used to be a science student but guess gave it back to the teacher lolsss...I do have the vit c peptide serum and realised that its going to finish. I am in search for a good moisturiser that wld be good for the humid weather in singapore..I do not mind the jojoba, hemp moisturiser for night time use as its good. Thank you dear.