Super Skin
A Leading Dermatologist's Guide to the Latest Breakthrough In Skin Care
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Super Skin: An A to Z guide to total skin and nail care, covering everything you need to know about common skin problems, rashes, infections, growths, and special care for special places. Find out what you should know about sex and your skin, pregnancy and your skin, and the role diet, stress and smoking have in your appearance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Its title does this book a great disservice: ``Super Skin'' smacks of a sleazy promise from a skin-care advertisement, while the author actually takes great pains to debunk the ``miracle'' claims glutting the media. Super Skin is a straightforward and complete guide to caring for our largest organ. A dermatologist and professor at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital, and an author of two other books on the subject, Novick is an empathetic practitioner. Though disapproving of most common skin-care habits (he believes we over-wash, over-moisturize and over-deodorize our bodies), he acknowledges their purpose in strengthening our self-esteem and self-image. Divided into three sections, his book discusses the basics of good skin care, emphasizing what cosmetic regimens can and can't accomplish; the detection and treatment of skin problems ranging from rashes to skin cancer; and a variety of related subjects (sex and skin; geriatric skin care). Novick discusses the value of recent dermatological breakthroughs cautiously. The real draw of the book is his unswerving common sense in covering his subject, literally, from head to toe.
