DERMAdoctor Skinstruction Manual (eBook)

The Smart Guide to Healthy, Beautiful Skin and Looking Good at Any Age

M.D. Audrey Kunin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2007 | 1. Auflage
416 Seiten
Simon & Schuster (Verlag)
978-1-4165-9171-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The DERMAdoctor is in and she's here to give an informed, friendly, and practical answer to every skin care question you've ever asked! Written by board-certified dermatologist Audrey Kunin, M.D., The DERMA-doctor Skinstruction Manual is a hands-on, comprehensive guidebook to maintaining healthy, beautiful skin and looking great at any age.
The DERMAdoctor Skinstruction Manual goes beyond any other book on skin care you've ever read. In her trademark warm and witty tone, Dr. Kunin frankly discusses the skin conditions we've all had questions about -- including enlarged pores, rashes, discoloration, and more serious concerns like skin cancer -- and provides straightforward explanations about why and how they affect us all. But Dr. Kunin doesn't just explain the problem, she gives unique and useful advice for preventing skin problems before they happen and repairing or reversing them when they do. From head to toe, this book is your indispensable guide to:
Glowing, beautiful skin: If you suffer from acne, oily skin, rosacea, or melasma, there are clear-cut steps you can take immediately to repair and rejuvenate your skin for good.
A fresh and youthful appearance: Chapters on sun damage, stretch marks, cellulite, and more address the clichs we've all heard and the treatments we've all tried and offer innovative, practical, and medically proven solutions that really work!
Healthy skin, inside and out: Dr. Kunin goes beneath the surface to discuss a wide variety of skin conditions that affect many of us, like hives and eczema, offering expert advice for their treatment and prevention.
Insightful and engaging, this invaluable handbook delivers noticeable results, with real-world answers to your skin care questions, all with a dose of humor and charm. In addition, there is helpful information on product ingredients, cosmetic treatments, and the beauty products that work best for your skin type. Packed with great advice and easy-to-follow instructions, The DERMA-doctor Skinstruction Manual is your companion for a lifetime of beautiful, healthy, and age-defying skin.

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Introduction My mother always wanted me to be a dermatologist. Good hours and good pay, was what she'd say. But I was convinced that I would be anything but. Who wanted to treat acne and warts all day long? Yet, despite my best intentions, I fell in love with dermatology. A medical school rotation in dermatology at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose opened my eyes to the fact that dermatology had a lot going for it. I could care for children and adults and perform as little or as much surgery as I liked. Plus, I discovered that skin conditions weren't even remotely limited to those in my own childhood (warts) and adolescence (acne) -- they affected everyone. Upon my arrival back at the Medical College of Ohio that summer, I found myself under the tutelage of Drs. Walter and Dorinda Shelley, naively unaware that these two experts were considered pioneers in dermatology. Their offbeat and unique insights into dermatological therapy widened my understanding of how medicine is often as much an art as a science. Working with them solidified my interest and fanned my enthusiasm. But while I have to begrudgingly accept the fact that my mother was right about my eventual career choice, even she never predicted the nontraditional use of my degree -- a use that has allowed me to help millions of people seeking skin care solutions. Here's what happened... Back in 1998, in the midst of the dot-com boom, I didn't even know how to turn on a computer. However, my husband, Jeff, whose passions included both business and the Internet, saw an unmet need -- and www.DERMAdoctor.com was born. It was a great opportunity to provide skin care items online, as well as thoughtful advice and expertise. But our business start-up wasn't like that classic IBM commercial where the orders start rolling in. Rather, it was the e-mail that was overwhelming. Perhaps this occurred because it was next to impossible to obtain an HMO referral to see a specialist...or maybe it was the average sixteen-week wait to see a dermatologist...or it could be that so much of rural America was underserved by specialists. Whatever the reason, I got literally thousands of questions. And responded to every one. After answering similar questions over and over again, I started writing articles in order to provide complete descriptions of the conditions I was being asked about. As a result, the skin care information on DERMAdoctor.com grew and grew. By the end of 1999, a recurrent theme had surfaced. Conditions previously not addressed by the cosmetics and skin care industries, like keratosis pilaris (a.k.a. chicken skin bumps), were continually being queried. Critiques of products in widely recognized categories were also accumulating. Friends from medical school remember that I had wild dreams about starting a cosmetics company, marrying dermatology with beauty. It was time to dust off my dream and launch my targeted line of skin care solutions: DERMAdoctor Specialist Skin Care. It took four years and countless hours of self-education (and frustration!) before our first product hit the market. Traditionally, skin care has been quite sterile, clinical, and predominantly masculine. Since I was essentially a mirror image of my own target audience, I knew that clinical skin care could use a feminine approach, even a touch of fun and whimsy. After all, most skin conditions are chronic. I was searching for something I could enjoy using day after day, something I'd enjoy looking at in my medicine cabinet (I prefer my skin therapy to be not only luxe but pretty), and something that was highly effective. I figured everyone else would be seeking the same...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2007
• Co-Autor: Bill Gottlieb
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4165-9171-0 / 1416591710
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9171-9 / 9781416591719