Is oxygen useful for the skin?.

Today, answering this question, cosmetology is based on contradictory facts, first offering drugs that prevent the harmful effects of oxygen on the skin (the word "antioxidant" means "anti-oxygen"), but at the same time creating a new line of nutritional cosmetics, Providing access of oxygen to skin cells.

So what is the effect of oxygen on the skin?.

Sharp decrease in oxygen occurs in aging skin. Unfortunately, the delivery of additional oxygen to the skin cells does not stop this process. Oxygen on the surface of the skin can affect its upper layer. But how much extra oxygen does the skin need? Nobody knows this. Can additional oxygen be absorbed? No. Moreover, there is no answer to the question of how oxygen generates even more damage, provoked by free radicals.

How did the oxygen boom start in cosmetics? Probably from oxygen chambers. Oxygen chambers are used to treat skin ulcers and poorly healing wounds. But the healing property is inhaled oxygen, which then enters the blood and has a healing effect on connective tissue. Moreover, ulcers on the skin - a temporary phenomenon, and the aging process of the skin is permanent. There is no research showing that oxygen treatment stops skin aging and eliminates wrinkles.

Medicus. En.

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