Derma-roller – How Does It Work?
Posted: December 11th, 2009 | Category: Health and Fitness
The Dermaroller is a amazing new tool which has the fantastic ability to encourage collagen production without damaging the skin by making the skin to think that it is damaged even though it is not and so it starts to heal itself and will continue to heal until the treatment is stopped. This means that so long as the treatment is carried out regularly, your skin will heal itself to a cosmetic level. Skin needling has many beneficial out comes:
* Hair loss reduction
* Anti Ageing
* Anti Wrinkle
* Cellulite Reduction
* Acne Scar Removal
* Stretch Mark Treatment
* Hyper Pigmentation Treatment
The needle length on a Derma-roller is generally 1 millimeter long so giving you a tickling sensation when used. However, other sizes do exsist with the longer sizes such as 2mm upto about 5mm being used by professionals using numbing cream and more vigorous treatments with longer breaks in between treatments whereas using a smaller needle length at home can be done up to five times a week with two days rest.
It is not widely known, but the majority of the active ingredients within your favorite skin care products remains on the surface of your skin and are only partially absorbed. The Derma roller has approximately 192 surgical steel micro-needles which can part the pores of the top layer of skin (epidermis) without damaging it. After about one hour the pores close again, although during that time, your skin is better able to absorb and benefit from skin creams and lotions.
The skin starts the healing process when it believes it is injured to seal up the affected area, but usually it will only heal as far as it must to keep you healthy. By persistently triggering the healing process by using a Derma-roller to represent an injury to be repaired, you encourage your body to continue healing to a cosmetic level.