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I've been thinking lately of ways to extend some good anti-aging methods out to the entire body, as opposed to just the face.
Here's what I've come up with:
1. Topicals: In my opinion, cleanser, moisturizer, tretinoin, and sunscreen are the only skincare ingredients worth anything, so the focus will be on these.
The cleanser and moisturizer are not important IMO as long as they get the job done. So I'd just go buy the biggest and cheapest tubes available at the local retail store.
For tretinoin, applying it straight to your entire body becomes prohibitively expensive real quick. A viable alternative is to bulk buy multiple tubes from a cheap online pharmacy, such as Skinorac or AllDayChemist, then mix in a couple drops with your moisturizer really well using your hands before applying (you have to do it each time you apply, because trying to pre-mix a big batch of tret-moisturizer and storing it for later will ruin the tret). This should yield much greater coverage per tube, therefore saving you money from having to constantly reorder tret. It also combines two steps of the skincare routine, saving you time as well. Mixing like this will most likely reduce the efficacy somewhat, but there is a workaround - just make sure you are using 0.1 tret. This is because only 0.025 is truly needed for anti-aging purposes, so using the highest available concentration should still surpass the anti-aging threshold despite the drop in effectiveness (in other words, I highly doubt mixing would render 0.1 tret less effective then 0.025).
For sunscreen, I have personally found that using stick sunscreen is the fastest and least-annoying way to apply and reapply, so I would buy a handful of SPF 50 PA++++ formulated sticks off of Amazon and apply to exposed skin.
Here's a sample routine:
AM - hop in the shower for a quick full body rinse, then apply moisturizer everywhere, then sunscreen just to exposed skin
PM - hop in shower again and do a full-body cleanse, then apply the tret-moisturizer combo
Yea, two showers in a day, but the AM one is just a quick rinse. This is needed to mimic the typical rinse-face-with-water AM step of most skincare routines.
2. In-office treatments: annual co2 lasering sessions.
This can be done pretty much everywhere - arms, legs, torso, face, neck, etc. Definitely the most costly part of this whole endeavor, and will probably require strategic piecemeal planning on your part, as I'd imagine getting your entire damn body treated in one go would make recovery a nightmare. But, nothing else comes close to mega-boosting collagen as does this treatment, so I consider it the highest ROI investment out of all other in-office treatment options, such as microneedling or chemical peels.
3. Healthy lifestyle habits apply just as much to the body as they do to the face for anti-aging, so obviously don't neglect them.
4. Other anti-aging methods like controlling balding with meds and transplants, correcting any recession via osteotomies and implants, and plastic surgery like face lifts, fat grafting, and blepharoplasty only apply to the face, so just plan on combining them with the methods outlined above for the ultimate comprehensive anti-aging protocol.
Overkill? Perhaps, but if you are giga neurotic like me, this should bring peace of mind that you are taking care of all your skin so that one day you don't wake up with a young face but prematurely old-looking body.
Here's what I've come up with:
1. Topicals: In my opinion, cleanser, moisturizer, tretinoin, and sunscreen are the only skincare ingredients worth anything, so the focus will be on these.
The cleanser and moisturizer are not important IMO as long as they get the job done. So I'd just go buy the biggest and cheapest tubes available at the local retail store.
For tretinoin, applying it straight to your entire body becomes prohibitively expensive real quick. A viable alternative is to bulk buy multiple tubes from a cheap online pharmacy, such as Skinorac or AllDayChemist, then mix in a couple drops with your moisturizer really well using your hands before applying (you have to do it each time you apply, because trying to pre-mix a big batch of tret-moisturizer and storing it for later will ruin the tret). This should yield much greater coverage per tube, therefore saving you money from having to constantly reorder tret. It also combines two steps of the skincare routine, saving you time as well. Mixing like this will most likely reduce the efficacy somewhat, but there is a workaround - just make sure you are using 0.1 tret. This is because only 0.025 is truly needed for anti-aging purposes, so using the highest available concentration should still surpass the anti-aging threshold despite the drop in effectiveness (in other words, I highly doubt mixing would render 0.1 tret less effective then 0.025).
For sunscreen, I have personally found that using stick sunscreen is the fastest and least-annoying way to apply and reapply, so I would buy a handful of SPF 50 PA++++ formulated sticks off of Amazon and apply to exposed skin.
Here's a sample routine:
AM - hop in the shower for a quick full body rinse, then apply moisturizer everywhere, then sunscreen just to exposed skin
PM - hop in shower again and do a full-body cleanse, then apply the tret-moisturizer combo
Yea, two showers in a day, but the AM one is just a quick rinse. This is needed to mimic the typical rinse-face-with-water AM step of most skincare routines.
2. In-office treatments: annual co2 lasering sessions.
This can be done pretty much everywhere - arms, legs, torso, face, neck, etc. Definitely the most costly part of this whole endeavor, and will probably require strategic piecemeal planning on your part, as I'd imagine getting your entire damn body treated in one go would make recovery a nightmare. But, nothing else comes close to mega-boosting collagen as does this treatment, so I consider it the highest ROI investment out of all other in-office treatment options, such as microneedling or chemical peels.
3. Healthy lifestyle habits apply just as much to the body as they do to the face for anti-aging, so obviously don't neglect them.
4. Other anti-aging methods like controlling balding with meds and transplants, correcting any recession via osteotomies and implants, and plastic surgery like face lifts, fat grafting, and blepharoplasty only apply to the face, so just plan on combining them with the methods outlined above for the ultimate comprehensive anti-aging protocol.
Overkill? Perhaps, but if you are giga neurotic like me, this should bring peace of mind that you are taking care of all your skin so that one day you don't wake up with a young face but prematurely old-looking body.
