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Natural Beauty and Healthy Aging

There are some obvious tips for great skin, but some new twists on the tradition will leave you with better skin than ever. As we age, treating our skin well becomes just as important as how we attend to our internal health.

The earlier you start maintenance routines, the more likely you will have long-term benefits from it. So, if you haven’t really thought about and the signs of aging are creeping in, today is a good day to start for the road ahead.

 

Hydration and Cleansing

Here are some tried and true tips (that I use myself and with patients) for keeping a dewy soft complexion and avoiding surgery or chemical injections:

  1. Hydration: drinking water isn’t enough. Do you know what your electrolyte balance is like? Electrolytes help with water absorption, among other important vitalizing functions. The most sophisticated electrolyte mix that I offer in my clinic is sea plasma, which comes in sterile vials, and is foundational to cellular life.
  2. Cleanse: Shea butter or hard milled soap for cleansing is about all you need. Keeping your skin clean is foundational to a healthy appearance. Again, be careful of the chemicals in skincare products. Up to 70% of what you put on your skin gets into your bloodstream.Red circle with three diagonal black lines on bottom left.

Moisturizing and Exfoliation

  1. Moisturize take a look at the label on your moisturizer and make sure you know what every ingredient is.  Maximize moisturizing benefits with Skin Blessing serum. It is a blend of 40 essential and botanical oils that is available at my clinic or on the Skin Blessing website. I have been using it for 20 years. It is and anhydrous serum formulated for sensitive skin.
  2. Exfoliation is your best weapon for dealing with the signs of aging. My personal favorite is the Clear+Brilliant laser treatment. It is a natural treatment, since the tool is light itself. Clear+Brilliant is a non-oblative fractional laser which means that the treatment penetrates to only the surface layers of the skin stimulating the even sloughing of the dead surface layer of skin that sinks into wrinkles while promoting collagen production, muscle release and blood flow to the surface.

Skin Protection and Collagen Support

  1. Heal and protect with anti-oxidant supplements and a clean topical that are best for your unique skin type. Your sunscreen should have natural ingredients, like Stream2Sea, that will protect your skin and the reefs.
  2. Plumping: not all injections are created equal. Would you like the natural fullness and youth of your skin back? There are many topicals that can naturally plump skin without the dangers of accumulations and tox buildup. Dr. Hackett’s Glassy Skin Nutritive Treatment post Clear+Brilliant laser treatment hydrates deeply and painlessly. The result is superior to microneedling with zero down time.
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    A Cautionary Tale on Fillers. Clear+Brilliant stimulates your own natural collagen production. Look like you, just better.

  3. Stimulate collagen production the best is the Clear+Brilliant laser treatment since it evenly stimulates collagen production across the entire treated surface while the laser naturally tightens skin and reduces pore size.

Facial Tone and Acne Healing

  1. Tone facial and neck muscles a simple massage routine for your skin and jaw exercises help tone, release, and relax facial muscles. I will be posting a series techniques on my blog in the coming weeks. Tight muscles and habitual muscle movements are the underlying source of fine lines and deeper wrinkles. Acupuncture can help plump out deeper wrinkles. Fine lines are smoothed away with Clear+Brilliant laser treatments.
  2. Healing Acne: Acne is a sign of an internal imbalance in your gut and hormones. There is the fact of a bacterial latency present below the surface of your skin. Dr. Hackett offers a three-pronged holistic approach to treat acne with herbal medicine. Each case is unique so it is best to get a comprehensive assessment and a personalized treatment plan with Dr. Hackett.

The Hidden Beauty Tip

Over time, our mental and spiritual health shows up on our face. The long-term beauty tip is a simple and easy, a joyful smile. It sounds a little corny, but in sincere practice, it yields authentic rewards. The Inner Smile Meditation is a carry-over of that practice. Put simply, you visualize the joyful energy of your smile into each organ and across all of your skin.

Find gratitude in your heart, feel it as a living sensation of a smile in your chest and let that energy flow up to your face. Smile for the life that you have and find joy in the simple things.

A quiet walk in the grass or on the beach. A slow bike ride at sunset. The daily things that are quiet luxuries.

These little morsels of gratitude will contribute to your well-being and stress reduction in ways you would not believe until you try it. It’s a little bit of magic.

 

About Dr. Hackett

Tracy L. Hackett, AP DAOM, is an acupuncture physician and doctor of acupuncture and eastern medicine in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. She provides all of the treatments mentioned in the above article.