Can You Put Estriol Cream On Your Face? | PYHP 102

Allison’s Question: I have opened a hormone wellness practice and came across your blog. You mentioned the application of estrogen cream to the face, neck, and chest to improve skin health. From what I found, it appears that .3% Estriol and .01% Estradiol is typically used. Do you recommend a once-daily application? Can this same dose be applied to the inner and outer labia for improvement of external skin appearance as well as the vaginal entrance to improve vaginal dryness, etcetera? Thank you in advance for any feedback you can provide. Short Answer: We typically only use Estriol cream for the face and the vagina. For the face, we do recommend using estriol daily, usually as a nighttime moisturizer. As for vaginal use, we recommend daily use of estriol cream for the first 1 to 2 weeks depending on the severity of symptoms. After that, we suggest a frequency of 1 to 3 times per week. We don’t use estradiol for vaginal use. The dosage of estriol we typically use for both is is 4 mg/gram, but apply 1/2 gram with each application. PYHP 102 Full Transcript:  Download PYHP 102 Transcript Dr. Maki: Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Progress Your Health Podcast. I am Dr. Maki. Dr. Davidson: And I am Dr. Davidson.  Dr. Maki: So I got an email back this morning from the designer. The kind of the first draft of your book cover. It was in my inbox this morning. What do you think about that?  Dr. Davidson: I think I am nervous as heck.  Dr. Maki: It is good. There are two different versions. I like a couple of things about each one of them. I will show it to you a little bit later, but it just came in right before we sat down to do this. Got to change the color scheme a little bit but so far so good.  Dr. Davidson: All right, and the book is on perimenopause.  Dr. Maki: This is the middle of summer 2020 so hopefully this will be available on Amazon probably, I am hoping within the next month but there are some other things we want to do prior to that. Maybe by Labor Day, I am thinking and to be conservative and to give ourselves a little bit more time to make sure we have all the things that need to be working, working properly. But we will definitely keep everybody posted. Dr. Maki: So today we are going to do a question that came in from a nurse practitioner. Why do not you go ahead and read the question?  Dr. Davidson: Okay. So this question is from Allison. We change everybody’s names from anybody’s question just to protect their privacy. She is a practitioner. She says, “I have opened a hormone wellness practice and came across your blog. You mentioned the application of estrogen cream to the face, neck, and chest to improve skin health. From what I found, it appears that .3% Estriol and .01% Estradiol is typically used. Do you recommend a once-daily application? Can this same dose be applied to the inner and outer labia for improvement of external skin appearance as well as the vaginal entrance to improve vaginal dryness, etcetera? Thank you in advance for any feedback you can provide.”