Naila MD Skin System Blog

Naila Malik MD Featured in Health Magazine- May 2012

I was recently interviewed by health and beauty editors for the Health magazine. The article is about benefits of lavender for skincare.

I believe in using natural ingredients when applicable for management of common skin conditions.
Lavender has anti-inflammatory properties and lavender oil can be used for common inflammatory skin disorders such as bug bites, acne etc. provided there is no allergy to lavender.

I formulated my own line of targeted skincare for best treatment options for common skin conditions. For teen and adult acne treatments, anti-aging skincare, skincare for sensitive skin and rosacea prone skin
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Healthy Skin Super Foods- 5 Foods for Beautiful Skin

Eating the right foods is one of the most effective way to get Beautiful, glowing skin without spending time and money on expensive surface skin treatments which may or may not work!

On the other hand, even the best Skincare products and most reliable skin treatments work best when accompanied with these skin "Super foods"

Remember, skin is the largest organ of your body and reflects your body's inner health, start eating these skin super foods and you will be on your way to your healthiest, clearest skin!

1. Skin Super food # 1- Berries
All types of berries, including strawberries, blueberries, raspberries blackberries contain loads of antioxidants which not only slows down the aging process but also increases skin's ability to repair itself of daily wear and tear.
2. Skin Super Food # 2- Almonds
Almonds are rich in Vitamin E which is great for its antioxidant properties and skin moisturizing reducing both aging and skin dryness. Almonds are also provide "good fats" which help retaining water in skin, keeping skin well hydrated and supple
3. Skin Super Food # 3-Avocados
Avoczdos provide "good fats" essential to hold water in skin. Without good fats, skin is unable to retain water to maintain hydration no matter how much water you drink. Avocados are rich in Niacin, the B3 vitamin known for its anti-inflammatory properties in skin . Niacin has been used to treat several inflammatory skin disorders such as acne, eczema, dry skin etc. In our dermatology practice we have seen significant improvement in chronic adult and teen acne with use of oral niacin and topical niacin. We have niacin in our adult and teen acne treatment system for topical application.
4. Skin Super Food # 4- Salmon
One of the richest foods in omega 3 fatty acids, salmon provides softness and suppleness to your skin . These "good fats" have an anti-inflammatory effect on your skin which reduces chronic inflammatory skin conditions like acne, eczema, clogged pores, and even aging.
5. Skin Super Food # 5- Green tea
Green tea with its high content of antioxidants fights free radicals and neutralizes UV light, with its anti-inflammatory properties, decreases inflammation improving inflammatory skin disorders

If you are looking to achieve your healthiest, most beautiful face, try to include these skin super foods to your daily life in addition to choosing the right skincare for your skin needs. Naila MD skin systems is formulated with the highest quality phsician grade ingredients adn currently offer:

ACNE | Anti-inflammatory acne treatments for adults and teen acne

CALM | Gentle skincare for sensitive skin and rosacea with arnica for management of skin redness

AGELESS | Repair and Prevent aging for all skin types with cellular repair complexx

SUNCARE | BB Creme, mineral tinted SPF 20, skin hydrator and broad spectrum Sun

protection

CALM | Sensitive skincare featured in happi magazine this month April 2012:

Naila MD CALM| sensitive Skincare is carefully formulated for sensitive skin, rosacea and eczema prone skin. The Naila MD CALM | Skincare cocnsits of three products for sensitive skincare needs

1. CALM | Cleasning gelee contains all natural cleansing agents for a thorough yet yet cleaning and arnica to reduce redness and inflammation


2. CALM | Rrosacea Serum is an award winning formulation for even the most sensitive, rosacea prone skin. Strengthens and reduces appearance of broken capillaries with a unique Marine Complex, Sea Whip Extract and Oat Beta-Glucan. Sodium Hyaluronate keeps skin hydrated.Contains arnica to manage redness.


3. CALM | Biopeptide creme is a firming, intensely hydrating creme with advanced peptides, Matrixyl and Dermaxyl for wrinkle reduction and dermal strengthening. Ceramides, Hyluronic acid and a special anti-oxidant complex combat aging without irritation.

   All Naila MD Skincare is Paraben free, sulfate free, fragrance free, dye free, triclosan free.
   Naila MD Skincare is made in USA.
   No Animal Testing

Best Acne Treatment Options- 6 Common Causes of Adult Acne

Adult acne patients make up about 30% of our acne patient population.
It seems more and more adults are experiencing acne breakouts these days compared with few years ago with symptoms such as, deep painful cystic type lesions, oily skin and blocked pores etc.
Perhaps some of this can be explained with the evolving environmental factors such as increase in pollution, increase in hormones used in foods, increase in day to day stress.
To adequately manage a chronic skin condition, it is imperative to know the causation .
Some of the common factors leading to acne breakouts in adult population are as follows:

1. Hormonal Imbalance- Change in hormone levels is a known cause for increase in skin inflammation leading to exacerbation of all types of inflammatory skin disorders such as acne, eczema, rosacea, psoriasis. The change in hormone levels can be due to pregnancy, birth control pills, emotional or physical stress, presence of other medical conditions such as Polycystic ovarian disease, metabolic syndrome (pre-diabetes) or thyroid problems.


2. Diet- A diet rich in saturated fats and high glycemic carbohydrates has been linked with increase in skin inflammation, increase in skin oil production and exacerbation of chronic inflammatory skin disorders such as acne, eczema, rosacea etc.


3. Dairy- intake of dairy has been associated with increase in skin inflammation, thus exacerbating incidence and severity of acne, rosacea, eczema etc. Switching to organic dairy may reduce this incidence but even organic dairy has hormones given to cows for milk production and these can exacerbate acne


4. Stress- Let's face it.. we live in a high paced society and most of us live in chronic stress. This is extremely detrimental to skin. Stress related mediators and neurotransmitters cause vasoconstriction of skin, strangling skin of vital blood flow which leads to poor skin circulation, poor skin nutrition and inability of skin to repair daily wear and tear effectively. This chronic state of poor skin nutrition leads to exacerbation of all inflammatory insults to skin resulting in accelerated aging and precipitation of other chronic inflammatory skin disorders such as acne, rosacea, eczema, dandruff.


5. Skin Care Routine- Lack of proper skincare routine or the wrong type of skincare may lead to excessive skin oiliness or excessive skin dryness. Skincare with synthetic oils or too much moisture for this skin type tends to cause blocked pores and formation of skin cysts . We recommend using Naila MD Anti-inflammatory acne skin care for all of our acne patients. Adult patients with excess skin surface oil do best with the ACNE | Medicated Cleanser (Salicylic acid and AHA) and ACNE | Treat & Nourish (2% Salicylic acid and loads of anti-oxidant, anti inflammatory ingredients). Most adult acne patients who use commonly available acne products tend to get excessive skin dryness and skin irritation and inflammation which starts the cycle of inflammatory skin acne and worsening of other inflammatory skin disorders. For this group CALM| Cleansing gelee with natural gentle cleansing agents and arnica to reduce redness and ACNE| Wrinkle & Acne reducer (with Anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatory ingredients and peptides) works very well to clear pores, keep breakouts at bay without over drying or irritating skin for those with occasional breakouts and normal to dry skin


6. Make Up- Using the wrong type of make up can lead to skin irritation, blocked pores and the never ending cycle of chronic inflammatory skin conditions. We recommend Naila MD SUNCARE | BB Creme, a mineral tinted SPF20 skin hydrator, which provides sheer coverage without blocking pores for a healthy, "nude" skin look, available in three shades for most skin tones


For all of my adult acne patients, I like to discuss the potential causes of their acne and strongly suggest to make positive changes in lifestyle, diet, stress management, skincare routine and make up for better long term management.
In order for ANY medical treatment or procedure to work its best, it is extremely important to recognize the causes of acne and modify your lifestyle, skincare or make up to suit your skin for your healthiest, clearest skin

Our SUNCARE| BB Creme featured in Happi Magazine April 2012 issue!

Naila MD SUNCARE | BB Creme SPF 20 is a light weight, mineral tinted skin hydrating sheer formulation with broad spectrum SPF 20 sun protection. Free of parabens, sulfates, artificial fragrance and artificial dyes.
Available in three tints for most skin tones

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Best Cleaning Tips- Change your cleanser with your changing skincare needs

Most people make the mistake of keeping the same skin cleanser regardless of their changing skincare needs. I see this very often in our patients.

This can lead to over drying of skin with continued or too frequent use of anti-acne cleanser or cleanser meant to reduce skin surface oils when your skin does not this type of cleansing or the opposite effect of excess surface oil accumulation and acne breakouts with continued use of "extra gentle" cleanser made for dry or irritated skin.

The truth is, very few people have constant skincare needs.
For most of us, our skin goes through periods of excess oil production with increase in acne breakouts interspersed with periods of relatively low surface oil with tendency to get "dry" or irritated.

The skin oil variation and susceptibility to acne breakouts or to irritation and redness can vary with several internal or external influences such as, menstrual cycle, stress level, extremes of temperature, level of physical activity, type of diet etc.

The solution is quite simple:
Have two types of cleanser at hand suitable to your most common variations and switch with your changing skin needs.
I personally use Naila MD medicated acne cleanser and Ageless AHA pore refining cleanser and switch between the two even during the same day depending on my skin at the time.

For a lot of our patients a combination of Ageless AHA pore refining cleanser and Calm Cleasning gelee works very well in keeping the balance of the skin cleanliness and moisture level.

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April is rosacea awareness month.

30% Off CALM | Skincare for sensitive and rosacea prone skin during April

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Rosacea is a chronic inflammatory skin condition of adults characterized by facial redness and formation of new and broken blood vessels. The symptoms of rosacea vary from periodic facial flushing, facial redness, appearance of broken capillaries and small red, pus- filled bumps.

With over 16 million Americans affected by rosacea, it is unfortunate that most are undiagnosed and not aware of the condition. It is estimated that 78% of Americans do not know the symptoms of rosacea.

Rosacea gets progressively worse over time if left untreated. In most people, rosacea tends to occur in cycles which means there are periods of relatively asymptomatic phase interspersed with worsening of skin redness, appearance of tender bumps etc.

The treatment of rosacea depends on the severity of skin symptoms and presentation at the time of visit. I like a gradual, stepped approach to rosacea treatment.

Generally, lifestyle modification and gentle, calming skincare products appropriate for rosacea prone skin may be sufficient for management of mild and early rosacea.

The next step is addition of topical prescription medications such as Metronidazole gel or Finacea gel followed by oral low dose antibiotics like Oracea to reduce the inflammatory process.

In office treatments like IPL Fotofacial to reduce skin redness and Lasers to shrink down broken capillaries can help manage rosacea symptoms alongside lifestyle modification and rosacea skincare for more than mild rosacea symptoms.

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Disclaimer:

The information provided on this website is for educational purpose only and does not create doctor/patient relationship and should not be considered medical advice. Please consult your physician if you need medical advice for your symptoms.