Give Your Face an Ultrasound WorkoutChances are you don't subscribe to a medical journal entitled Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. But if you did, you could have read a fascinating article written by a medical research team School of Community Health Sciences in Nottingham, England about how ultrasound massage rejuvenates skin in people both young and old.
Recruiting ten volunteers as young as 18, the British skin care scientists carefully measured the effects of ultrasound massage on facial skin. The researchers had two goals. First, they wanted to be absolutely sure that this massage method had no detrimental effects on the skin. Secondly, they wanted to verify that ultrasound workouts stimulate and rejuvenate skin at all ages.
Ultrasound does not heat the skin, but increases skin circulationThe researchers verified that ultrasound does not heat the skin. This finding was very important to make sure ultrasound machine is safe. Then the researchers found that if the device was used for as little as 2 minutes, the circulation to the skin measurably increased.
What is the significance of increased circulation to the skin? Here are the two basic reasons:
Increased skin circulation brings oxygen, nutrients, and hormones into the skin.
Increased skin circulation carries inflammatory agents, allergens, and white blood cells that done their work away from the skin.
Ultrasound Skin Therapy ExplainedAfter ultrasound, the skin receives more proteins to make its own collagen and elastin. Collagen inside the skin keeps it plump and supple. Elastin helps it stretch when the tissues beneath it move, but allows it to spring back to its normal, beautiful contours.
Ultrasound machine also provides many of the benefits more commonly associated with a process called microdermabrasion. Instead of applying an extremely gentle abrasive solution to the skin, ultrasound "jiggles" skin cells just enough to loosen dead skin but not so much as to damage living tissues. Dead skin cells are lifted off the skin so that a simple cleanse after an ultrasound session is all you need to restore a natural texture to the skin.
Ultrasound machine helps reduce sagging skin and more...Ultrasound also helps soften lines and reduce facial wrinkles. The effect of the ultrasound machine may not be immediate. However, as the skin creates more collagen and elastin, it gains more and more flexibility, allowing creases and crow's feet and other kinds of wrinkles simply to disappear.
You won't see results overnight, but you will see them over few weeks.
