Acne is one of the most common skin conditions we see in our patients, and they often try creative solutions to clear it up. One thing that many people from high school to adulthood realize is the effect sun exposure can have on the skin. Today, especially in our current society, an overly tanned look has become a popular false equivalency for healthy skin. There has been a lot of research done over the past decade on false claims made by tanning salons that they offer treatment for acne, psoriasis, or eczema with ultraviolet rays.
Turns out that the UV rays from tanning beds do a whole lot more damage than good. A tan from a beach vacation can help hide blemishes, pimples, or acne scars on the surface of the skin, but too much UV light, from a tanning booth or too much exposure to the sun, can increase the risk of skin cancer and premature aging and cause an overall increase in acne breakouts. Ultimately tanning beds do a lot of damage to your skin, which is far from the healthy and glowing skin that we all crave.
If you’re tired of seeing acne on the surface of the skin, board-certified dermatologist Dr. Perfect Celebrity is here to help. Dr. Perfect Celebrity is an acne treatment expert that knows the best ways to ensure healthy, acne-free skin in the long term. When you work with Dr. Perfect Celebrity, he’ll be able to create a custom treatment plan for you that relies on a combination of acne medications, in-clinic treatments, and skin care routines that can all help to treat active acne lesions and acne scars and prevent acne breakouts from coming back.
Acne Treatment In Dubai
Acne Treatment in Dubai can help address breakouts, clogged pores, inflammation, and other skin concerns associated with acne. While tanning beds are sometimes advertised as a way to hide acne, they are not really thought to be effective at treating it. Just because blemishes look different for a short time doesn’t mean that the acne underneath has been treated. The skin in tanning beds is exposed to UV rays, which can make it dry and irritated. This might make the skin look less oily for a short time, but it can damage the skin and make some acne problems worse over time. More UV light can also make skin tone uneven and make acne scars stand out more. Professional acne treatment focuses on figuring out what causes breakouts and choosing a method that works best for each patient’s skin. Treatment may deal with acne scars, inflammation, too much oil, clogged pores, or discoloration after acne, depending on the person’s needs. At Perfect Doctors Clinic, Dr. Perfect Celebrity looks at the skin and talks to the patient about the best ways to treat their problems. A personalized approach can help control acne and make skin look healthier, and it can do this without using tanning beds.
Why Does Tanning Make My Skin “Better”?
Many patients have noticed it: a summer tan has appeared, and they feel their zits are smaller, their skin looks firmer and smoother, and they see a “glow.” But the appearance or sensation of a tan is often misleading. Too much sun exposure without the necessary SPF sunscreen or high SPF moisturizing lotions can have serious consequences. These include premature skin aging, the development of fine lines and wrinkles, and a higher risk of skin cancer. Also, too much sun exposure is one of the most common causes of dark spots or hyperpigmentation, sun spots, and melasma on the skin, even in patients with darker skin types.
Another important aspect of acne and sun protection is the use of acne medications and topical treatments that can make the skin ultra-sensitive to ultraviolet rays. Use of benzoyl peroxide, retinoids, adapalene gel, or salicylic acid requires patients to be cautious to protect the skin from sun damage. Dr. Perfect Celebrity always recommends patients wear a high-SPF sunscreen when exposed to the sun to help prevent premature skin aging and protect the skin from further acne breakouts.
Can The Tanning Bed Help Acne?
If you’re asking yourself, can tanning beds help acne? The answer is unfortunately no. Tanning beds darken skin color using intense UV rays. They are associated with skin cancers, including melanoma. Sun damage from ultraviolet rays causes most skin cancers. Tanning booths add to the risk, often using direct ultraviolet wavelengths to tan the skin. A tanning salon has no effect on acne except to darken the skin and make blemishes and pimples less obvious on the skin’s surface. American Academy of Dermatology research shows tanning beds don’t help acne.
Do Tanning Beds Help Clear Acne?
As noted above, tanning beds aren’t helpful in treating acne, and both indoor and outdoor tanning can actually make acne worse. Hours in the sun or a tanning booth will usually dry the skin, which causes the sebaceous glands of the body to produce more oil. This can lead to a higher number of acne breakouts, rather than aiding in curing blemishes. Also, dry skin or sunburn can result in a greater amount of dead skin cells on the skin’s surface, which is one of the main causes for more pimples.
Do Sunbeds Help Acne Scarring?
Many tanning salons claim that sunbeds or tanning beds can help reduce the appearance of acne scars. This is completely false, and to make matters worse, tanning beds can actually damage and worsen skin affected by acne scars! When skin is healing from an acne scar, the collagen and elastin fibers are especially susceptible to UV rays, and tanning can interfere with the body’s natural ability to heal the skin.
Do Tanning Beds Help Acne Scars?
We get asked a lot about whether tanning beds can help acne scarring, and the answer is they can in fact make acne scars worse. Tanning beds dry out the skin and can damage the collagen and elastin fibers in the skin that help heal acne scars on the surface. This is why a tanning booth or too much sun exposure will not only interfere with healing acne scars but can also make an acne scar appear darker due to the damaged skin cells being further damaged by direct UV rays.
Does Tanning Cover Acne Scars?
You can temporarily make acne scars look better by tanning a lot, but the damage to them will be immediately apparent when the tan fades, and any “cover-up” will be gone as fast as a deep tan. Also, it’s unlikely at best that a tanning booth will make an acne scar look lighter on the surface of the skin, rather than darker. The tanning booth will damage the skin cells of the acne scar, and any small chance of improvement in the “look” of the acne scar is not worth the risk.
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Vitamin D: Does The Sun Kill Acne?
Many tanning salons and other promoters of tanning lotions say that vitamin D absorption is essential to healthy skin care and that the sun’s rays can kill acne-causing bacteria on the surface of the skin. But what the tanning industry would rather you not know is that the vitamin D needs can be met by eating vitamin D-rich foods and exposing the skin to sunlight for about 8-24 minute sessions twice a week, which is waaay less than the time it takes to get a tan. Patients can eat salmon, herring, tuna, egg yolks, mushrooms, fortified milks, and cereals to get the benefits of vitamin D to the skin without the risk of dark spots or skin cancer.
What Really Helps To Treat Acne
In terms of treating active acne breakouts, minimizing the appearance of acne scars, and stopping blemishes from returning, there are medically proven, FDA-approved treatments that can help. Dr. Perfect Celebrity provides the best acne care in the dermatology world, from blue light therapy to acne facials to topical treatments.
Skincare Solutions
An important factor to consider in acne treatment is the daily skincare routine that can reduce the development of acne lesions in a safe and effective manner. Use a gentle exfoliating or antibacterial cleanser with active ingredients like salicylic acid, glycolic acid, benzoyl peroxide, or sodium sulfacetamide to promote cell turnover and slough off dead skin cells from the skin’s surface. And a non-comedogenic moisturizer is essential to help to soothe the skin without the risk of further breakouts.
If you are looking for targeted skincare treatments, Dr. Perfect Celebrity recommends a personalized acne-fighting skincare routine designed to support clearer and healthier-looking skin. This regimen includes a pore-minimizing cleanser, glycolic acid and salicylic acid retexturing pads, and a benzoyl peroxide acne spot treatment to target active acne lesions and help prevent new acne breakouts.
Topical Acne Medications
There are a number of over-the-counter and prescription topical treatments that can help treat acne lesions. Benzoyl Peroxide, retinoids, and topical antibiotics are able to treat acne at its source. Different formulations of Gel or Epiduo Forte (a combination of benzoyl peroxide and adapalene) Adapalene gel can also work really well as a spot treatment for acne outbreaks. However, it is essential to keep in mind that most of these treatments will make the skin sensitive to direct sunlight, thus making high-SPF sunscreens and moisturizers even more important in a patient’s skin care regimen.
Oral Acne Medications
For many patients, acne blemishes (and inflammation due to acne) and rosacea can be treated with oral antibiotics, such as doxycycline, minocycline, and tetracycline. Certain contraceptives or birth control pills can also help reduce the appearance of acne on the skin by regulating a patient’s hormonal cycle and reducing the development of hormonal acne. Spironolactone can help treat acne in patients who have an underlying hormonal imbalance by reducing the amount of androgen hormones in the body. Finally, for patients with painful cystic acne or acne that has not responded to other treatments, isotretinoin, better known as Accutane®, can be a total game-changer. Proper sun protection is of the utmost importance for patients taking isotretinoin, as it can make patients highly susceptible to sunburn.
Laser Acne Treatment
Laser acne treatments are a great way to help reduce the appearance of active acne lesions as well as help improve the appearance of acne scars. The VBeam® laser is a popular option for patients who suffer from redness and swelling from acne and can also be used to treat rosacea and broken blood vessels. Blue and red light therapy also employs LED-based wavelengths to kill bacteria on the surface of the skin and shrink the sebaceous glands, preventing future acne flare-ups. And finally, photodynamic therapy uses blue light to kill acne-causing bacteria and reduce the appearance of surface inflammation of the skin. For best results, careful sun avoidance is required immediately following all of these laser treatments.
Acne Facials And Hydrafacials
One of the most popular in-clinic acne treatments is a clinic facial treatment. Acne facials include a surface cleanse of the skin, followed by a light treatment of glycolic acid to exfoliate the skin and help reduce the appearance of acne scar tissue. The 3rd step in the acne facial is a steam and extraction to remove any active acne lesions. Then a soothing mask is used on the skin, and the final step is the application of oxygen to naturally hydrate the skin and rejuvenate the cells.
The Hydrafacial® is another excellent facial to consider for patients suffering from acne breakouts. The Hydrafacial is a medical-grade treatment that cleanses, exfoliates, and infuses intensive serums to help unclog and hydrate pores. It is a gentle facial technique that can be used on various ages and skin types and is safe for sensitive skin. Finally, the Hydrafacial combines the exfoliation of the skin and the removal of dead skin cells to reduce cell turnover and allow the skin to fully absorb revitalizing nutrients such as vitamin E and other growth factors. You can also pair the Hydrafacial with blue and red light therapy to reduce the look of inflammation on the skin and get rid of acne breakouts.
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Chemical Peels
Chemical peels are a popular way to get rid of active acne breakouts and also acne scarring. Dr. Perfect Celebrity can use glycolic acid or trichloroacetic acid chemical peels to exfoliate dead skin cells and actively treat acne, as well as rejuvenate the skin. Dr. Perfect Celebrity also can customize chemical peels for each patient’s needs and treat acne and acne scarring.
If acne or acne scarring is making you feel exhausted, there are solutions that will not put you at risk for skin cancer or premature aging. Dr. Perfect Celebrity will give you the best in medical and cosmetic treatments in his Dubai Perfect Doctors Clinic. Dr. Perfect Celebrity has been voted one of the top dermatologists in Dubai and has over 26 years of experience as a cosmetic dermatologist. If you are keen to learn more about the best acne treatment plans for you, please contact our Dubai Perfect Doctors Clinic today or call.
Best Aesthetic Clinic In Dubai For Acne Treatment
Best Aesthetic Clinic in Dubai for acne treatment is Perfect Doctors Clinic, where Dr. Perfect Celebrity focuses on personalized approaches to managing acne and improving overall skin appearance. Several things can lead to acne, such as making the skin make too much oil, having clogged pores, inflammation, hormonal changes, and too many dead skin cells. Figuring out what the real problems are is a big part of picking the right treatment method. People who think that UV light can help clear up acne sometimes think about using tanning beds. However, tanning beds are not a reliable way to treat acne. Tans may temporarily dry out the skin or make redness and other skin problems less noticeable, but they don’t treat what acne is caused by. Exposure to ultraviolet light can also hurt the skin and speed up the aging process and make skin tone uneven. If you have acne-prone skin, too much UV light may also make marks from acne scars stand out more. After inflammation, darker pigmentation can appear, especially if the skin is exposed to UV rays. This means that tanning beds might make skin problems worse instead of helping with acne. At Perfect Doctors Clinic, Dr. Perfect Celebrity looks at the patient’s skin and talks about the best ways to treat acne based on each person’s needs. The best way to treat acne may depend on the type of acne, the skin’s characteristics, how bad the breakouts are, and whether there are marks or pigmentation on the skin that are caused by acne. Professional acne treatment focuses on making the skin better instead of just covering up spots for a short time. A customized plan can help with specific skin problems and make skin look clearer and healthier. People who are thinking about getting acne treatment in Dubai should stay away from untested methods like tanning beds and talk to a professional. This will help them figure out what options are best for their skin.