This week, we welcome Paula Fraser of PF Aesthetics to the show for a frank discussion around skincare and more.
Partial Transcript:
Paula: First of all, there's lots of dos and there's lots of don'ts, all right? So for me it's really important to, first of all, invest in a good quality skincare and be religious with it. And we'll come back to being religious with it, but that is the most important. It's fine to have everything in the bathroom or the shower, but if you're not religious with it, really, there's not really much point, if I'm being honest, to do a weebit here and a wee bit there, it's just not enough. So it's also really important. I would say my biggest piece of advice to every single patient is to protect the skin daily with an SPF. Now, whether we live in Dundee, whether it's not really as great, or if we're in Spain and the sun is out every day, those rays that are out there that are in our laptops, our light bulbs, our ah phones that we're using every single day as aging the skin and speeding that up times 100. And that is always, always my biggest piece of advice would be protect the skin with SPF. And lots of patients don't get that. They'll say, well, I'm not on holiday, I don't really need to do that. But the skin's agent every single day. So if we can protect it, then why not? Let's do that. Let's slow that down a little bit.
Shelley: Now, Paula, I was slow on the uptake of that. I've only just started using on the back of the advice you've been giving me for years is an SPF. And you say to me, sure, it doesn't have to be the most expensive, it doesn't have to be this, that, I just use one. Honestly, I do see a difference in the skin. You know that I had sunbed shops, I used to clean my sun beds with the lights on. Yeah, you got some M damage but you're right. Every screen that you use is obviously penetrating your skin, isn't it?
Paula: It's penetrating the skin. And I think things like, there's things we can do daily. We want to sleep well, we want to eat well. We want to keep the skin hydrated, and that's all stuff that we can do. And we're in control of, obviously, the light we're not. So we have to protect that. Um, but, yeah, eating well, sleeping well, keeping hydrated. Obviously there are things we shouldn't be doing. Excessive sunlight, sun beds that are killer, that are an absolute killer.
Shelley: What are sun beds doing to people's skin? Because when holiday, we go for a top up for a week or so before you go on holiday, so you don't burn when you go away. What is that doing?
Paula: Of course. So that artificial sunlight really just the same as the sun that's out there. It's speeding up the aging process. It's degrading the quality of the skin. It's dehydrating the skin. The skin, uh, aloe will have a color and will feel maybe a bit healthier at the time. That short acting. That doesn't last. So patients that are using sunbed or people that are using sunbed, they get caught up sometime in the cycle of it's short acting, and I'm going to use it again, and I'm going to use it again until they get to a point where they say, I'm feeling the skin as now. So the skin felt great for a long time because they've felt youthful and it's had a bit of color until they hit that vital point that they think, I need to do something. I'm feeling the skin aging now, and I definitely feel those patients are getting younger and younger. Coming into the clinic with those concerns.
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