Summer Skin Care Advice from Imieok Theme Dermatology: Beware of Dry Skin Caused by Air Conditioning!

Beware of dry skin caused by air conditioning!

Hello. This is Imieok Theme Dermatology, a dermatology clinic in Sinsa.

As July arrives, the rainy season brings humidity, and hot weather with tropical nights continues, so more homes, offices, restaurants, and other places are turning on air conditioners earlier in the day.

However, if air conditioners are run for excessively long periods of time, they can cause a cold-related illness and dry skin, so caution is needed. In particular, skin dryness caused by about two months of air conditioning during the summer can overlap with the seasonal transition in fall and affect skin aging. Skin exposed to air-conditioned environments all summer becomes dry and rough due to a lack of moisture, and this can increase wrinkles. Today, let’s look at why aging and wrinkles appear in skin tired from air conditioning and summer, and how to address them.

When you run the air conditioner in hot weather, moisture inside the skin evaporates, which leads to dry skin and aging such as wrinkles.

Wrinkles refer to grooves that form on the skin surface due to the loss of collagen and elastic fibers in the dermis.

In addition to fine lines caused by the skin’s own aging, there are wrinkles that form as the skin loses elasticity due to external factors such as facial expressions and gravity.

For this reason, skin wrinkles require customized treatment depending on the cause, the depth of the wrinkles, and the degree of sagging.

Wrinkles are broadly divided into three types: pseudo-wrinkles, which form as the skin’s moisture content decreases; true wrinkles, which appear when collagen and elastin fibers in the dermis are damaged or altered; and temporary wrinkles caused by a partial decrease in subcutaneous fat.

Pseudo-wrinkles caused by dry skin from air conditioning have a high chance of recovery depending on how the skin is cared for, but true wrinkles, in which the skin tissue itself has changed, can quickly become deep wrinkles if care is neglected.

Visible true wrinkles can be improved with treatments such as laser, Botox, and fillers.

To improve skin that has become dry due to prolonged air conditioning, it is best to improve lifestyle habits and the environment so that sufficient moisture can be replenished.

If skin dryness is severe, it is advisable to receive professional skin moisturizing care through a dermatology visit.

Recommended summer habits that can help prevent dry skin include drinking water regularly to supply the body with moisture and maintaining an indoor temperature of 24–26°C.

Keep indoor humidity at about 50%, and use cleansers that do not damage the skin surface when showering or washing the face. Also, among one or two face washes, it is good to rinse sweat lightly with water only once.

Imieok Theme Dermatology provides customized wrinkle, elasticity, and lifting treatments.

The lifting methods at Imieok Theme Dermatology include Botox lifting, laser lifting, and thread lifting. Botox lifting delicately injects Botox at various lifting points in the epidermis, dermis, and muscle layers to firmly pull up the entire facial line, including forehead and eye-area wrinkles as well as the jawline and under the chin, and by adding premium collagen contraction and regeneration laser procedures, a fast and excellent lifting effect can be expected.

Laser lifting is a non-surgical treatment that improves sagging skin and wrinkles by carefully diagnosing the cause, area of occurrence, and depth of each wrinkle, while regenerating collagen and elastic fibers inside the skin to restore internal elasticity. For premium laser treatment, more than 60 devices are used according to the skin’s needs, and more than 20 premium laser devices are used for wrinkles, elasticity, and lifting, including Polar Duo, Venus Viva, Potenza, Tune Face, New Thermage, and Ulthera. After precisely diagnosing the cause, location, and depth of the wrinkles, these lasers are applied to the affected area to stimulate collagen and elastic fiber regeneration.

In addition, in severe cases, combining Botox lifting with laser multi-lifting can be effective.

Thread lifting, which lifts deeply from within the skin, increases collagen in the dermis to help shape the overall contour and improve skin elasticity, and the lifting effect is maintained even after the threads are absorbed because collagen synthesis continues. At Imieok Theme Dermatology, genuine threads officially certified by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety are used, and the types of thread lifting used according to the skin’s needs include N-Cog, which minimizes foreign-body sensation; Derma-Spring, which provides a lifting effect through collagen; and QT Lift, which minimizes damage to blood vessels and nerves.

The medical skin care at Imieok Theme Dermatology delivers nutrients deep into the skin so that the skin can develop its own regenerative ability. Medical skin care treatments for wrinkles and elasticity at Imieok Theme Dermatology include Obagi Lunch Peel, Astrodome Facial, Triple Water Glow Jet, LDM Care, Vital Iont, ion care, radiofrequency care, Milk Peel, and Edi Peel.

Precautions before and after wrinkle, elasticity, and lifting treatments

• On the day of the procedure, avoid direct exposure to ultraviolet rays, and use sunscreen with SPF 50.

• Please refrain from drinking alcohol and smoking for about 1 to 2 weeks after the procedure.

• The skin may become dry after the procedure, so soothe it with moisturizer and regenerative cream.

• In some cases, hard nodules may be felt after the procedure, but most disappear over about 4 weeks. Please avoid hot and cold compresses for 2 to 3 days.

• Wrinkle, elasticity, and lifting procedures are treatments that penetrate radiofrequency deep into the dermis to create new collagen, so the effect does not appear immediately after the procedure; regeneration occurs over 2 to 3 months. Therefore, lifting effects appear over about 3 to 6 months after the procedure.

Imieok Theme Dermatology continually adds and replaces premium laser treatment devices for more effective results, and provides reliable treatment backed by extensive clinical experience of more than 600,000 cases.