Dr Shyna Raj of Shine Medical Cosmetic Clinic explains to Nub News readers why Vitamin A is so important.

Vitamin A helps to improve the health of your skin.

It works by normalising how your skin cell functions, which in turn helps your skin to stay strong and healthy.

What are the benefits of Vitamin A?

Vitamin A has a variety of benefits to our skin, including:

• improves skin barrier functions - thus protecting it from irritants and germs.
• Improves skin cell turnover- thus, improving overall skin texture and tone.
• Stimulates skin cells to produce collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid which leads to improving skin firmness, elasticity and hydration and thus, reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
• Decreases clustering of Melanin granules – thus reducing brown spots or pigmentation.
• Improves blood flow to the skin– taking nutrients and oxygen to the cells.
• Repairs the cellular structure of the Epidermis – optimising your UV protection.
• Has anti-inflammatory properties and decreases sebum production and therefore, it is used in the treatment of acne.

Where do we get Vitamin A from?

Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin that is naturally present in many food like fish, eggs, meat, liver, fruits, vegetables etc.

There are also various dietary supplements available in the market.

But remember, both too much and too little Vitamin A is harmful for health.

Vitamin A Skin Care Products

Incorporating Vitamin A in your skin care regime can be very beneficial for the reasons mentioned above.

Your skin needs to start out using small amounts of Vitamin A in a gentle and effective formula, slowly building up it's tolerance, before you can increase into the stronger more active versions.

Choosing your Vitamin A skin care product can be very confusing, as there are many different forms and not all products are suited to everyone's skin type.

Using the wrong products can lead to potential side effects. Therefore, it is really important that you discuss with a medical professional before starting Vitamin A skin care products regarding what product is best for you.

If you want to discuss about how you can incorporate Vitamin A into your skin care regime, contact Shine Medical Cosmetic Clinic.

Book your free consultation with Dr Shyna who will be happy to assist you in choosing the right skin care product for you.

For more information about medical grade skin care products, visit the website.

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