Clear Skin Menu

It’s all about good fats, high quality proteins, and Low-glycemic carbs. And of course don’t’ forget plenty of spring water! Try these menu options out

Breakfast

2 egg omelet or a 4 to 6 oz piece of grilled or broiled salmon
1/2 cup slow cooked oatmeal topped with 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
3 inch cantaloupe or 1/4 cup fresh berries (preferably blueberries)
8 oz spring water
Green or Black Tea

Lunch

4 to 6 ounces of grilled salmon or sardines packed in olive oil
2 cups romaine lettuce dressed with extra virgin olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice to taste
2 inch slice of cantaloupe and 1/4 cup fresh berries
8 oz spring water

Snack

Apple
6 oz plain yogurt
1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
8 oz spring water

Dinner

4 to 6 oz grilled salmon
2 cups romaine lettuce dressed with extra virgin olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice to taste
1/2 cup steamed vegetables (especially bright green vegetables, such as asparagus, broccoli, spinach)
2 inch cantaloupe
8 oz spring water
Evening Snack
2 oz sliced Turkey Breast

What to Avoid

• White flour (pasta, bread, and muffins)
• Sugar (cake and cookies)
• Fruit juices
• Dried fruits
• Aged cheese
• Milk and soy
• Vinegar
• Alcohol
• Mushrooms
• Coffee

Don’t forget to get your beauty sleep and reduce stress with moderate exercise. You’ll see clearer skin, and feel healthy in no time!

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Learn about:

• Dry Skin
• Oily Skin
• Combination Skin

Dry Skin

Dry skin often appears flaky, rough, and red. Individuals with dry skin often feel itchy and uncomfortable, especially in the winter. This is due to the contrast of outside cold and inside heat, which reduces humidity.

Fortunately, most dry skin conditions are due to external circumstances such as harsh soaps, lack of moisturizer, or overexposure to heat. Find the right Perricone skin care products for dry skin to reduce your dry skin today.

While many rough red dry patches are due to external effects, some may hint at underlying dermatitis, a non-contagious skin condition. Consult a doctor if you think you have this condition.

Oily Skin

Completely opposite from dry skin on the skin type spectrum is oily skin. Oily skin is due to the overproduction of sebum in the sebaceous glands, which makes skin look shiny on the outside. Individuals with oily skin generally have large pores, frequent blackheads and whiteheads, and slick skin. Luckily, though, oily skin types tend to show age less due to more hydrated pores.

For those who have oily skin, try Perricone skin care products for acne. Perricone skin care products for acne are made to reduce internal oil that clogs pores without over drying skin.

Even though skin is oily, it is important to use sunscreen every day for UV ray protection. Make sure your Perricone skin care product does not contain oil so that slick skin is kept at bay.

Combination Skin

Combination skin is often the most frustrating type to work with because skin presents an array of problems. Some areas may be oily, while others dry. Most individuals with combination skin have dry cheeks and an oily T-zone (chin, nose, and forehead).

If you have combination skin, mix and match Perricone skin care products to find your perfect regimen. In oily areas, try acne products, and in dry areas, try dry and sensitive skin products. Make sure to use the right Perricone skin care products in the right areas, or irritation may occur.

Still not sure of your skin type? Try this simple test:

• Wash face with a gentle skin cleanser, like Gentle Cleanser.
• Do not apply any products, but go about your daily activities for an hour.
• Go to a mirror after the hour is up and examine skin.
• Pat cheeks, nose, forehead, and chin with a tissue, checking the tissue for oil after each pat. If skin looks less oily and the tissue contains oil after a pat, that area is oily. If each area is dry and stays dry after a pat, that area is dry.
• Your skin is oily if every patted area gives off oil. Your skin is dry if no area gives off excess oil. Your skin is a combination if some areas give off oil while others do not.

Follow this test with the perfect Perricone skin care products for your skin type.

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Try these easy fixes to improve your skin today:

• Sleep on Your Back
• Exfoliate Daily
• Leave Blemishes Alone

Sleep on Your Back

While you may not realize it, sleep is one of the best remedies for bad skin. Why? During sleep, the body creates new cells and restores tissue, which helps revitalize skin.

Even with these benefits, sleep can have an adverse effect in the creation of wrinkles. The bottom layers of skin are composed of fats that create the cushy, wrinkle-less face of youth. When you sleep on your face, this fat layer is pushed, creating wrinkles. As you age, your face loses the elasticity that once allowed it to bounce back after a night of pressured sleep, so these wrinkles become deeper and deeper.

How do you solve this problem? Try sleeping with a contoured pillow to keep your head straight at night, or use top skincare products like Deep Wrinkle Serum. It helps reduce the loss of elasticity and the appearance of deep set wrinkles.

Exfoliate Daily

Exfoliation has multiple benefits, including:

• Cell Turnover Promotion
• Dead Cell Removal
• Pore Cleansing

Exfoliation opens pores to allow ultimate absorption of top skincare products. The Cleansing Treatment Bar is a top skincare exfoliant because it opens pores without harming skin.

Leave Blemishes Alone

Whenever a new pimple springs up, your first reaction is to pick, squeeze, and pop. Before you touch that blemish,think about what you’re doing.

Popping a pimple brings all of the built up pus and debris to the surface of skin, allowing it to penetrate into other areas of skin. And while it may seem like the pimple is gone after it pops, unseen debris may still sit underneath the surface of skin. Popping a pimple causes this debris to go even deeper into skin, irritating pores more.

The best way to treat a blemish is with top skincare products for acne. Check out Perricone’s RX Skin Clear. The products in this line contain the ingredients to clear skin without over-drying.

Implement these simple tips into your life to improve your top skincare products.

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If you are experiencing the following 3 skin symptoms, then you may be in need of Skin Clear Hydrator.

1. Clogged pores
2. Acne breakouts
3. Dryness

Clogged Pores

Clogged pores, or comedones, are either incompletely clogged with blackened dust (blackheads) or completely clogged with debris (whiteheads).

If you have clogged pores, wash your face with cleanser and warm water to loosen dirt and oils. Follow with Skin Clear Hydrator.

Formulated with lactic acid to slough cells from skin surface, Skin Clear Hydrator prevents dead skin cells from building up and clogging pores.

Acne results from worsened clogged pores.

Acne Breakouts

Acne commonly appears on the face and shoulders, but may occur elsewhere on the body.

Symptoms of acne include:

• Blackheads
• Whiteheads
• Pustules and redness around skin eruptions
• Cysts
• Scarring of the skin

When a pore becomes clogged (either as a whitehead or blackhead), if it ruptures, the oil and bacteria from the pore can spread to the surrounding area. This can cause an inflammatory reaction, which if deep in your skin, may form painful cysts.

By helping your pores avoid becoming clogged, Skin Clear Hydrator prevents acne.

Dryness

If experiencing acne, do not overtreat to the point of dryness. If you overwash for example, the body produces more oil in an attempt to replace it.

Skin Clear Hydrator is formulated especially for oily skin with allatoin, which helps to reduce surface debris while relieving dryness and increasing skin’s natural moisture. Meanwhile, lactic acid prevents dry skin.

By preventing and treating dryness, Skin Clear Hydrator helps to prevent acne-causing clogged pores.

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Perricone MD Skin Clear Cleanser helps to clear acne-troubled skin by reducing excess sebum and by eliminating surface debris. Green Tea Extract calms and clarifies the skin, while Allantoin helps encourage skin renewal.

The deep-cleaning cleanser also contains anti-aging DMAE, which helps to firm and tone skin.

Read on to see what customers have to say about Perricone MD Skin Clear Cleanser.

Best acne cleanser EVER! – “This is the only product I have found that can clear up my chronic acne. Works better than any prescription medication or other face wash product. I recommend this to anyone who has struggled with acne.” — From DermStore.com

Works great for combo skin – “Doesn’t overdry, but does its job. I’ve tried various products for my adult acne and nothing seemed to work until I used this cleanser. I love how it doesn’t leave your skin stretchy from dryness, yet you still get that refreshing tingly feeling.” — From SkinStore.com

A Little Goes a Long Way – “This cleanser is smooth, light, gentle, and you really don’t need much of it. It almost has a fresh tingling sensation, but not one that is agitating or prickly, but rather cool and refreshing. My skin feels smoth and fully cleansed and is even brighter after I use this product.”

Perfect For Men,Very Good Texture, Creamy – “Great cleanser for men. Great cleanser if You have acne prone skin, or even if you sometimes get a break out. It will NEVER dry out your skin and it goes on like tanning lotion. It feels incredibly creamy. It is by far the best cleanser I have ever used. The addition of ALA also makes this worth buying.”

— From Sephora.com

The Entire Perricone MD Skin Clear Line

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Skin Clear Face Hydrator is an oil-free moisturizer that helps to hydrate and relieve dryness. It is formulated especially for oily skin, as it contains allatoin, a key science that helps to reduce surface debris, while relieving dryness and increasing skin’s natural moisture.

This face hydrator encourages the regeneration of skin cells and the renewal of skin’s appearance, so that it will look smoother and healthier.

But what do customers have to say about Skin Clear Hydrator?

Skin Clear Face Hydrator Reviews

This stuff is great! – “I recently purchased the skin clear hydrator with the nutritive cleanser to try to combat mild/moderate adult acne with very sensitive skin. In the last 2 weeks I have actually started to go without any makeup some days, I am even coming close to having perfect skin. My pores are shrinking, breakouts are going away and the few that I do have are healing really fast.” — From Skinstore.com

Great Moisturizing Product – “My skin feels very smooth all day with this product. I am very pleased that it doesn’t have a greasy feel to it and my skin literally will drink this up so every little bit is getting absorbed into my skin. My skin is very prone to breakouts (monstrous and small-adult acne) and this moisturizer I’ve noticed helps to calm the breakouts I had prior to usage of this item and no adverse reaction so far with new breakouts. Love it so far!” — From Amazon.com

Like nothing I’ve ever used before! – “This stuff is awesome! My dermatologist recommended it to me about a year ago for my acne scars, and I’ve been using it religiously ever since!! I have very fair skin, and a lot of times after my pimples heal, they leave a red mark behind. But after using this every morning, the red marks disappear! This stuff also helps control oil, and it’s a wonderful base for my foundation and makeup. With other lotions my makeup slipped and slid around, but not with this lotion! It all stays put. It’s also very very moisturizing. Usually when the seasons change my skin gets very dry and flaky, but this year that hasn’t happened even ONCE since I’ve been using this lotion.” — From Sephora.com

The Entire Skin Clear Line

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Read on to learn about a proper acne diet and skin care regimen.

Perricone MD Diet for Clear Skin

To avoid triggering breakouts, be sure to avoid pro-inflammatory foods, like fast food, and processed food.

Instead, the Dr Pericone Diet for acne calls for good sources of vitamin A and the plant form of vitamin A, beta-carotene. Vitamin A has been found to help prevent acne breakouts as well as treat acne lesions.

Oily fish, eggs, and milk are great sources of vitamin A, while good sources of beta-carotene include:

• Dark green, leafy vegetables, e.g. parsley, kale, and spinach
• Yellow-orange vegetables and fruits, e.g. apricots, carrots, sweet potatoes, and squash

Wash out toxins by drinking 8-10 glasses of pure spring water a day.

For superior results, take Perricone MD Skin Clear Supplements once each morning, formulated with:

• B-Complex + Vitamin C
• Evening Primrose Oil
• Asorbyl Palmitate
• Alpha Lipoic Acid+DMAE+Chromium+Zinc
• Omega 3
• Tocospan Vitamin E
• Calcium+Magnesium+Vitamin Dl

This supplement program works from the inside out to improve skin’s clarity while providing toning benefits and improving skin’s texture. As an added bonus, Skin Clear Supplements also help support a healthy immune system and provide antioxidant protection.

Perricone MD Skin Clear Regimen

The Perricone MD Skin Clear products are the ideal complement to the anti-inflammatory acne diet.

There are 3 steps to the topical Skin Clear regimen:

1. Cleanse: Skin Clear Cleanser
2. Apply Toner: Skin Clear Toner
3. Moisturize: Skin Clear Hydrator

1. Cleanse: Skin Clear Cleanser

Start fresh by cleansing your skin with Skin Clear cleanser, a deep-cleaning acne cleanser that helps to clear troubled skin by reducing excess sebum and eliminating surface contaminations.

Formulated with:

This cleanser preps skin for the next step in the Perricone MD Skin Clear regimen.

2. Apply Toner: Skin Clear Toner

Formulated with different concentrations of the same ingredients as the Skin Clear Cleanser, Skin Clear Toner helps to calm inflammation. gently exfoliate skin, and refresh skin without drying it.

Anti-bacterial and anti-microbial, Skin Clear Toner should be applied using a cotton pad to smooth over face, focusing on affected areas, 1-3X daily.

Decrease usage if dryness occurs. Follow with a moisturizer suited for acne to help relieve dryness while treating acne.

3. Moisturize: Skin Clear Hydrator

Skin Clear Hydrator helps make skin appear more soft and clear as it reduces surface debris, regenerates skin cells, and relieves dryness, increasing skin’s natural moisture with Allatoin.

Skin Clear Hydrator is also formulated with:

• DMAE to re-contour, tighten, lift, and tone skin
• Lactic acid to sloughs cells from skin surface and prevent clogged pores and dry skin

With the right anti-inflammatory diet and skin care regimen, you can achieve clearer skin for a lifetime.

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Some sources believe foods do not necessarily cause acne, but pro-inflammatory foods can lead to inflammation which in turn, may lead to acne. For example, the Dr Pericone diet recommends staying away from processed foods when battling acne. The key is to avoiding acne through your diet choices is to find the food or foods (if any) that you have found trigger an outbreak and avoid them.

Read on to learn which foods for your face will help treat acne, followed by a Dr Pericone Diet recipe.

Eating plenty of foods that are good sources of vitamin A and beta-carotene, such as melons, spinach, and broccoli, can help treat acne.

Why Vitamin A?

Vitamin A is helpful in improving acne for several reasons.

First, it is essential to the growth of new skin tissue, which means it may help acne lesion heal better and faster.

Since vitamin A is an antioxidant, it has anti-inflammatory properties. Further, it snatches up free radicals, thus combating the growth of bacteria trapped in the skin’s pores which leads to acne. And because of its antioxidant properties, vitamin A can send white blood cells to consume acne-causing bacteria.

Good sources of vitamin A include:

• Oily fish such as mackerel
• Eggs
• Milk and cheese, although Dr Pericone recommends eating calorie-dense cheese sparingly

Vitamin A Toxicity

Ingesting too much vitamin A (in supplement form) or vitamin A-rich foods can lead to a toxic level as vitamin A slowly builds up in your system. However, it takes months to years of chronic overuse of vitamin A to develop toxicity systems.

Toxicity symptoms include:

• Fatigue
• Headaches
• Muscle and joint pain
• Flaking skin
• Nausea and vomiting

You can prevent toxicity by including Vitamin E and the mineral zinc compound, which help in the absorption of vitamin A.

Further, beta-carotene doesn’t build up to toxic levels, so you can reap the benefits of vitamin A without any risks of toxicity.

Why Beta-Carotene?

Beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A, is converted into vitamin A by your liver on an as-needed basis. Beta-carotene, from the carotenoid family, is the plant source of vitamin A.

Good sources of beta-carotene include:

Acne-fighting Recipe

This Dr Pericone recipe, Spinach, Artichoke and Sun-Dried Tomato Frittata, calls for foods rich in vitamin A and beta-carotene.

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 cup sweet onion, finely chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup artichokes, chopped
• 1 10 oz. bag organic baby spinach
• 1 cup organic spaghetti, cooked
• 5 large organic eggs
• 4 large organic egg whites
• 1/4 cup fat free organic milk
• 3 tbsp. sun-dried tomatoes, drained and thinly sliced?
• 1 tsp. basil
• 1 tsp. thyme?sea salt and freshly cracked pepper to taste
• 4 oz. cracked pepper Chevre, crumbled

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Heat a large, oven-proof skillet over medium heat.
3. Add olive oil and sauté onions and garlic until soft.
4. Add artichokes and spinach. Cook until spinach wilts. Add a little water if needed.
5. In a mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, egg whites, milk, sun-dried tomatoes, basil and thyme. Season with salt and pepper. Pour into skillet.
6. Use a spatula to lift the spinach and artichokes to allow the eggs to spread underneath.
7. Cook over medium heat until eggs are just set.
8. Sprinkle with goat cheese and place in the oven.
9. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until set.

Serves 6 to 8.

Have you tried incorporating good sources of vitamin A and beta-carotene into your diet? Has your facial skin cleared up?

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The main skin issues for most twenty-somethings are acne breakouts and puffiness due to late nights and a pro-inflammatory diet.

Read on to learn how to begin your anti-aging Dr NV Perricone regimen now to help treat inflammation and prevent skin damage.

What to Avoid

With just a few lifestyle changes, you’ll be on to securing a bright skin future.

Sun Damage

One of the most important skin-agers to avoid is sun damage, and in your 20s, it is important to make applying sunscreen a habit.

Wear a broad-spectrum, UVA- and UVB-blocking SPF every day. This simple step is one of the best ways to save yourself money in the future trying to reverse sun damage.

Dr NV Perricone No Foundation Foundation contains non-chemical SPF 30.

For additional sun protection, wear sunglasses to protect the eye area, where skin is the thinnest and most delicate and thus, the fist area where fine lines usually appear.

Smoking and Alcohol Consumption

Smoking and alcohol consumption can lead to premature aging signs.

Smoking causes blood vessels to constrict, which is a problem since this means skin is not getting the flow of blood and oxygen it needs. Further, smoking accelerates collagen breakdown and loss of elasticity.

Alcohol is problematic since it is very dehydrating, which causes skin to look dull and dry. Alcohol also causes inflammation, which accelerates aging inside and out.

Pro-inflammatory Foods

Foods that increase inflammation and puffiness, such as junk food, red meats, and fast food, should be avoided.

Inflammation is a problem because it induces skin damage. Inflammation is a way for your body to react to infection and foreign pathogens such as free radicals, but this same process can destroy tissue while it is trying to rebuild it. Inflammation can lead to a number of skin conditions, such as dermatitis, psoriasis, and acne.

Visible skin aging can be reduced and prevented with the daily use of anti-inflammatory Dr NV Perricone topical products, coupled with a diet rich in anti-inflammatory and antioxidant foods.

What to Include

Besides including an anti-inflammatory diet in your regimen, it is helpful to use topical treatments that will help avoid future skin problems.

First, treat acne and avoid acne scarring with a skin clear system like Dr NV Perricone’s Skin Clear regimen. What’s great about this line is that it helps treat acne without overdrying the skin, while it also provides anti-aging benefits.

Dr NV Perricone Skin Clear Hydrator is especially important since it encourages regeneration and renewal of skin’s appearance. Although skin cells refresh themselves quickly in your 20s, this helps speed up the process and glow. Skin Clear Hydrator also helps minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles while increasing skin’s natural moisture.

Are you in your twenties? Share your daily skin care regimen below.

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