Skin barrier repair protects and restores your natural glow!

If your face often gets flaky, itchy, red, or acne in all seasons, you may have damaged skin barrier or sensitive skin. Study shows that 30-40% of the population has sensitive skin. In fact, barrier impairment is strongly associated with sensitive skin. Any mistreat and improper skincare routines may further irritate and harm them. So, how aesthetic treatments help to sooth the sensitivity and rebuild the skin barrier?

What is sensitive skin

Sensitive skin is a suboptimal health status of the skin, an intermediate status between being healthy and unhealthy, which results from complex processes involving the skin barrier, nerves, blood vessels, immunity, and inflammation. When the skin is irritated externally, it is likely to respond to the irritants in different ways such as erythema, papules, telangiectasia (spider veins), sensation of tingling and burning, and loss of tolerance to normal cosmetics. The skin condition is called sensitive skin. In fact, the damaged skin barrier is associated with the development of sensitive skin.

Simply put, the skin barrier is a physical barrier of the skin, which consists of sebum and the stratum corneum.

○Sebum barrier: Sebum barrier is a layer of sebum covering the outermost layer of the skin. It is an emulsification product of sebum (secreted by sebaceous glands), lipids (waste from the disintegration process of keratin, and sweat. The sebum barrier is composed of triglycerides, wax esters, squalene, and cholesterol.

○ Stratum corneum: A “bricks and mortar” structure formed by corneocytes and intercellular lipids. The intercellular lipid is composed of ceramides, free fatty acids, cholesterol, etc.

Stratum corneum is made up of multiple layers of corneocytes (imagine them as the “bricks”), each of which is encased and supported by a coating of intercellular lipids (imagine them as the “mortar”). This “bricks and mortar” structure and sebum barrier function together and protect the skin as a brick wall. Therefore, the strength and integrity of the stratum corneum and sebum barrier directly affect the health of skin.

A healthy, strong skin barrier is excellent in keeping away external stimulants such as irritants and UV, preventing transepidermal loss of water and other cellular substances, and anti-inflammation.

Causes

Damaged skin barrier is nearly all man-made and no one was born with barrier impairment. However, sensitive skin could be man-made or happen naturally.

1.Aggressive products:Products containing hormone, fragrance or high concentration of acid are aggressive products that can cause irritating reactions of the skin.

2. Overwash or aggressive exfoliation can damage the sebum barrier, which will weaken the skin protection, leaving the skin becoming more fragile towards external stimulants.

3. Skin suffering from skin diseases, such as rosacea, hormone-dependent dermatitis, or lupus erythematosus is constantly under the threat of barrier impairment.

4. Some external stressors such as extreme warm weather, UV or air pollution can damage the skin barrier, cause dilation of blood capillaries, and lead to facial redness.

Symptoms

Skin feels tight, tingling, burning, or itching.
The stratum corneum becomes thin. Skin is prone to allergic reactions and redness.
Skin is prone to redness. When it is too warm or too cold, the face will go red and hot.
The skin feels flaky and dry and shows declined ability in retaining water. Putting on moisturiser does not help improving the dehydration condition.
Prone to outbreak of closed comedones in small areas. The condition keeps coming back after treatment.
Prone to provoking allergic reactions even under mild stimulation.
Persistent skin inflammation causes a tired-looking appearance.

Affected people

Sensitive skin; Often happens on women more than men; People with skin diseases; people with underlying skin inflammation condition; People who are prone to facial redness.

Treatment

People with impaired barriers or sensitive skin have fragile skin and should be cautious when it comes to aesthetic treatments. They are recommended to firstly identify their skin condition in Ai Beauty Clinic by meeting with a beauty practitioner and completing a thorough and professional skin assessment. Based on the assessment results and analysis, a tailored plan that best suits your condition and desired results will be made for you.

A. M22 IPL treatment

What is M22:

M22 is an innovative photoelectric skin revitalisation instrument jointly developed by Lumenis, Stanford University and Harvard University. It innovatively combines the world leading technologies (OPT technology and fractional non-ablative technology – RESURFX) to effectively treat pigmented lesions, acne scars, surgical scars, stretch marks and many other skin conditions.

Ai Beauty Skin Photorejuvenation Treatment:

M22 is the best photorejuvenation equipement in the market. As a strategic partner of Lumenis in the UK, AI BEAUTY is authorized to become the designated medical beauty institution for the use of M22 Photorejuvenation equipment.

B. Mesotherapy

What is Mesotherapy:

Mesotherapy for the face is a regular skin rejuvenation treatment that helps maintain our skin in a good condition.. It is a non-surgical treatment that injects solution with various vital nutrients to our skin directly, which has a significantly higher absorption of nutrients than using skincare products.

Ai Beauty Mesotherapy:

With rich clinical experience of treating asian clients under the treatment standards for asian anesthetic and asian skin type, injections are administered by British GMC/NMC registered medical staff, you can get a unique and customised skin rejuvenation solution.

C. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP)

What is PRP:

A Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment, also known as the “Vampire face-lift”, is an advanced treatment for skin rejuvenation purpose. It involves the extraction of the platelets and white blood cells from the client’s blood. The resulting extract containing a high concentration of growth factors is then injected into the client’s skin.

Ai Beauty PRP Treatment:

A safe, one-time aseptic treatment. Perform a preoperative VISIA skin evaluation for professional data analysis of the skin, and engage in a private face-to-face consultation to customise a detailed treatment plan. PRP can be combined with Mesotherapy for optimal results.

D. Hydrafacial

What is Hydrafacial:

HydraFacial is a patented skincare treatment developed by an American skincare company, HYDRAFACIAL. This FDA, CE and CSA approved device was designed to promote the health of skin and to restore skin barrier rapidly. Mainly focusing on restoring skin health, HydraFacial utilised the patented 4 in 1 patented Vortex-Fusion delivery system to exfoliate, extract and hydrate skin.

Ai Beauty Hydrafacial:

A high-end skincare treatment that is suitable for all skin types including sensitive skin. Providing a high flexibility on the types of treatment tips and the content of essence and a high compatibility with other skincare treatments (e.g. photoelectric, microneedling).

Repair damaged skin barrier/sensitive skin, come to Ai Beauty Clinic,
for safe and professional medical treatment.

Ai Beauty Clinic is a CQC accredited clinic based in London, and also is strongly supported by Cynosure(the owner of Ulthreapy) and Cynosure (the owner of PicoSure).

With rich experience of treating clients of various conditions, led by a famous British medical chief trainer, practiced by doctors and nurses who are GMC/NMC-registered and worked in NHS national hospitals, Ai Beauty provides certified and safe medical beauty treatments.

Ai Beauty always puts safety first. Not only are all medical staff insured by independent medical policy, each client who comes to Ai Beauty Clinic is also insured by £5 millions medical insurance. This full insurance coverage allows clients to have a concern-free treatment experience.

Ai Beauty Clinic has served over 15,000 clients from all around the world, been covered by some famous media such as European Times and CW Television, and established trust and an excellent reputation among them.