Broken Capillaries? Sensitive Skin Solutions

Understanding Facial Capillaries

What are Visible Facial Capillaries?

Those tiny, spider-like veins visible through the skin are actually dilated capillaries that have broken and expanded. Located just beneath the surface of sensitive, thin skin, they're also known as telangiectasia.

Characteristics of Sensitive Skin

People with sensitive skin often experience burning and tightness. Their skin is more prone to damage, reacting strongly to external factors and temperature changes. It's also more susceptible to irritation and dryness, often accompanied by redness.

A hallmark of sensitive skin is the appearance of these "spider veins," usually around the cheeks, nose, and chin.

Preventing the Appearance of Broken Capillaries

To prevent visible broken capillaries, start by intensely caring for your skin. Regularly use a high SPF sunscreen to protect against harmful UV rays. Look for skincare products containing extracts from plants like horse chestnut (containing aescin) and butcher's broom (rich in saponins), known for their capillary-strengthening properties.

Factors Contributing to Capillary Dilation

Several factors contribute to the dilation and visibility of blood vessels, including:

• Environmental factors: Chemicals and pollutants damage the skin, making capillaries more visible.
• Medication: Certain medications, such as ACE inhibitors (ACEI), angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB), beta-blockers, and alpha-blockers, can dilate blood vessels.
• Rosacea: This chronic skin condition often causes facial redness and capillary breakage.
• Temperature fluctuations: Sudden and extreme temperature changes (e.g., moving from warm indoors to cold outdoors).
• Sauna use
• Strong wind exposure
• Pregnancy: Increased blood volume and hormone levels.
• Diet: Hot drinks, alcohol, spicy foods, and certain dishes.
• Sun exposure and tanning: Frequent and prolonged sun exposure and solarium use.
• Stress
• Hormonal changes
• Smoking
• Contraception
• Obesity

Individuals prone to broken capillaries should avoid these factors. However, sometimes this isn't enough; the skin and capillaries need extra support and strengthening.

What Happens When Capillaries Break?

It's not simply a lack of vitamins C, K, or rutin. Genetics and certain conditions, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, often play a role.

Treating Existing Broken Capillaries

Modern aesthetic medicine offers effective treatments to seal and strengthen capillaries, even closing visible ones. Laser treatments are the most effective method for closing capillaries, also used in rosacea and naevus therapy. They can also treat pigmentary changes such as lentigines, warts, and discoloration.

Electrocoagulation is another method, using an electrode to cauterize individual capillaries, causing protein coagulation and closure.

Daily Capillary Strengthening

For daily care, consider:

• Supplements: Vitamin C, vitamin K, ginkgo biloba extract, and aescin.
• Diet: Fresh fruits and vegetables, rich in vitamin C.
• High-quality creams: Containing collagen, vitamin C, rutin, horse chestnut extract, ginkgo biloba extract, vitamin K, butcher's broom extract, aloe vera extract, hyaluronic acid, panthenol, and flavonoids.
• Soothing cosmetics
• Compresses: Horse chestnut or arnica infusions applied to the skin.
• High SPF sunscreen

Remember! Avoid anything that worsens your skin condition.

Avoiding Irritants for Sensitive Skin

With sensitive skin, avoid harsh, drying, and irritating products containing acids and alcohol, as well as peel-off masks, cleansing clays, and mechanical scrubs.

Acnerose: A Solution for Rosacea and Broken Capillaries

The Acnerose set includes four products:

• Acnerose Cleansing Fluid: With aloe vera extract and gluconolactone, it cleanses, has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, moisturises, regenerates, and repairs damaged skin.
• Morning Ointment: Vitamin E, betaine, and rose oil soothe redness and irritation, improve skin elasticity, reduce rosacea, and remove dead skin.
• Day Cream: With bisabolol, horse chestnut and butcher's broom extracts, it regulates sebum production, strengthens capillaries, and reduces the visibility of blood vessels.
• Night Paste: With ichthyol and lanolin, for rosacea, facial redness, and broken capillaries.

Acnerose's effectiveness is confirmed by application studies. It reduces the visibility of blood vessels!

Summary

When dealing with sensitive skin, avoid harmful factors. Consider other skin conditions, as sensitive skin is often linked to rosacea. Use high-quality skincare products rich in natural active ingredients. Safe and effective aesthetic medicine treatments are also available.

Acnerose Products

Note: Prices are approximate conversions from Polish Zloty (PLN) and may vary.