Various beauty/skin care questions...any product ??

[logitech]

1. I have friends/family who smoke and I work in a club where there's a lot of smokers: what products are there that protect/repair skin from smoke (and pollution, etc.)?

2. Is microdermabrasion the best procedure for evening out skin tone in the face/neck and reducing wrinkles (I also heard it stimulates collagen growth), or is there something else that works better for this? Or a product like a lotion or something?

3. Is there any product for the body that evens out skin tone? (Like reducing redness in the knee area so legs are all one even color?)

Thanks!

[bluedianthus]

i just can suggest for no.1
as you cannot avoid smoke because of your job, try to drink plenty of water,
the more you drink, the better. You are not encouraged to put lots of makeup,
just use cream(dry skin) or lotion(oily skin), and need to wash face thrice a day.
and try to avoid smoke directly to ur skin.

[rin201]

I have been told that when you go out to a smoky place, use a foundation with a low level of SPF in it. This is believed to be effective in preventing you from getting affected by the smoke, and from getting skin problems due to it.

[bluedianthus]

Thanks for the info rin201, i didn't know that the use of SPF affected by the smoke can give you skin problem.
i will be careful after this..thanks..

[rin201]

Hi,
What I meant was that if you are going to a smoky place use a foundation to cover your skin - specially one with SPF - but since it is likely to be night time use one with a low SPF rating.
I do not think that smoke has an adverse effect on SPF inclusive cosmetics

[bluedianthus]

Ok rin201, point noted...thanks once again.
Just want to make sure, coz i used SPF-based for most of
my skincare products.. Asia, especially Malaysia's weather, don't have seasons.