# Skin care products?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-care-products/486865>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 21, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-care-products/486865 "2009-02-21T17:38:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-care-products/486865/1 "2009-02-21T17:38:11Z")

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Some female friends were talking about skin problems & wanting various solutions & creams for these problems- firming, rosacea (sp?) and cilia (I’m still not sure what that is or how to spell it)? So does anyone have any suggestions for me to look up?

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**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-care-products/486865/2 "2009-02-21T18:07:40Z")

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> [@FriarTed](#):
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> Some female friends were talking about skin problems & wanting various solutions & creams for these problems- firming, rosacea (sp?) and cilia (I’m still not sure what that is or how to spell it)? So does anyone have any suggestions for me to look up?

They should see a dermatologist. Common treatments for rosacea require prescriptions (antibiotics and topical creams).

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**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skin-care-products/486865/3 "2009-02-21T18:13:29Z")

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Rosacea- can be controlled fairly well sometimes with oral antibiotics and metronidazole cream or gel. Redness caused by broken blood vessels require laser or intense pulse light treatments, though- nothing topical can help that.

Firming- now you’re looking at just over-the-counter products that claim to firm, like Oil of Olay or whatever. Or surgery, fillers, or Botox.

Cilia- I’m going to assume you mean milia, which are tiny white cysts just under the skin, caused by sun damage, they think. I can I and D those little suckers with an 11 blade and a probe- they pop right out. It’s considered a cosmetic treatment, so you’ll have to pay for it yourself. We charge about $100 for 1-15. See a dermatologist for that.