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PENNY JENKINSON – MANAGER LASERMED CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA, SKIN TECH MASTER TRAINER
Promoting a healthy, evenly coloured skin is important for all skin phototypes. While the same number of melanocytes is present in all phototypes, darker skins are characterized by larger melanosomes, higher content of darker eumelanin, thicker and compacter stratum corneum, lower skin pH, lower content of natural antioxidant glutathione, and larger fibroblasts. Darker skins are more prone to dryness, roughness, itching, uneven pigmentation and keloid formation. The issues like varied efficacy of cosmeceuticals, safety of certain chemical peels and laser treatments and healing skin response should be addressed before commencing skin treatments or rejuvenation procedures…
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