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Razor burn

Features

Razor burn is a skin irritation that occurs after shaving. It is typically caused by several factors, including:

Friction: The razor blade can irritate the upper layer of the skin and cause small cuts or micro-injuries. This is especially true if not enough shaving foam or shaving gel is used.

Ingrown hairs: Sometimes hairs grow back into the skin after shaving and cause inflammation.

Sensitivity: Some people have more sensitive skin, which reacts more sensitively to shaving and can develop razor burn.

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Psoriasis

Features

Psoriasis is an inflammatory, non-contagious disease. It is primarily characterized by reddish, scaly skin changes that can itch. The chronic disease typically progresses in episodes - sometimes with more severe, milder or no skin problems at all.

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Scaly skin

Features

Scaly skin is caused by the disturbance of the so-called protective layer of the skin, which is responsible for the balance between the death of old skin cells and the formation of new ones. The causes of scaly skin can be numerous. The protective layer of the skin itself consists of moisture and a lipid film.

The technical term for scaly skin is squama or pityriasis capitis.

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Scrape

Features

An abrasion is a superficial wound in which the skin is damaged by abrasion. The skin is literally abraded. Depending on how hard and rough the surface is on which the skin is abraded, different types of abrasions can occur.

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Seborrhea oleosa

Features

Seborrhea oleosa refers to increased sebum production of the skin, i.e. an oily skin condition. It usually occurs with a cornification disorder in the area of the sebaceous gland follicles and thus leads to acne.

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Seborrhea sicca

Features

Seborrhoea sicca is characterized by a dry skin condition. Skin cells dry out prematurely, resulting in forced keratinization (scaling). The skin is drier than usual.

The development of seborrhea sicca can be caused by a dry environment, which causes the water content of the skin to evaporate prematurely, or the excessive production of the skin's own hydrolipid film.

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Sensitive skin

Features

Sensitive / sensitive skin is difficult to define by concrete symptoms. In the first place, the skin is clearly more sensitive than other skin types.

While normal skin has ideal sebum production and an intact cell membrane complex, and sebum production is increased in oily skin, several circumstances come together in sensitive skin: It usually does not have sufficient natural protection from the skin's own cell membrane complex. Furthermore, its moisture balance is irritated. It therefore reacts more irritably to external factors.

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Sun allergy 

Features

Sun allergies are a reaction to sun exposure in combination with the active ingredients of conventional sun protection products. These use two types of active ingredient:

1. types of absorbent active ingredients: These are organic-chemical UV absorbers whose molecules absorb the sun's UV rays. They include octinoxate, for example.

2. reflective types of active ingredients: These are mineral filters that reflect sunlight - like a series of tiny mirrors. Titanium dioxide is an example of this.

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Sunburn

Features

Medically, sunburn is a 1st or 2nd degree skin burn.

Sunburn is - as the name suggests - triggered by sunlight, more specifically by ultraviolet, namely UVB and UVC radiation. When UVB or UVC rays hit human skin, they stimulate it to produce radicals. These radicals, in turn, are the direct cause of sunburn.

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