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A Step-By-Step: Collagen Infusion Therapy

📖 4 min read

Collagen infusion therapy is the perfect treatment for aging skin. Freeze-dried collagen masks enhance moisture levels, hydrate, improve functions of skin capillaries, recover loss of firmness and elasticity, even color tone, and oxygenate and stimulate natural skin collagen production. Read More

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Aging Beneath the Surface: Understanding aging on a cellular level

📖 18 min read

By Gül Zone

It seems that everyone wants to stay young; the quest for longevity is the number one goal of many individuals. Unfortunately, aging begins at birth and there is no magic potion to stop this natural process. Read More

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Menopause and Aging Skin: 21st century health and beauty solutions for mature skin

📖 9 min read

By Katherine Tomasso, L.E., C.M.T.

Globally, the mature skin category amounts to 25 percent of the skin care market and almost 40 percent of the anti-aging market. People are living longer lives than ever before due to better life expectancies, decreased mortality rates, and declining fertility rates. Read More

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Aging Skin: An Introduction to Mature Skin

📖 2 min read

As the skin changes with age, it becomes thin, loose, and loses fat. Mature clients often find that their veins and bones are more apparent and that injuries to their skin take longer to heal. Read More

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Pine Cone Extract and its Link to Sagging Skin

📖 2 min read

Nature has always played a role in the aesthetic industry from essential oils to plant-based stem cells. Read More

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Chemical Peel Intervention: Combined Modalities or Adjunct Treatments?

📖 9 min read

In our zealousness to incorporate new modalities into client treatments, skin care professionals often ask, “Which modalities can I combine with chemical peels?” However, the questions that professionals should ask themselves instead are: Read More

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Aging Skin: Prevent, Maintain, Reverse

📖 12 min read

By Dieter Kuster, Ph.D.

All too often, we use the term ‘aging skin’ to describe the visible process of getting older on the body’s largest organ. We as humans start to age from the moment we are born until we pass, so when we refer to aging skin, we are actually talking about aging itself. Read More

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Menopause: Signs, Symptoms and More

📖 9 min read

By Michelle D’Allaird, L.E.

I think the worst part of writing this article was that I had the “slapped in the face” realization that “oh no, this is me!” Although I am not quite yet experiencing the physiological characteristics, my age is certainly applicable as is the horrific realization that yes, I am getting older! Read More

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Identifying and Understanding Menopausal Skin

📖 10 min read

By Suki Kramer

Our skin changes in menopause just like during puberty (what fun huh?). In fact, the skin goes through normal, hormonal shifts every seven years, and clients should be ready to change up their skin care routine along with those shifts. Along with these changes, the expectation and pressure to feel and look beautiful can be overwhelming and cause the kind of stress that produces more skin problems. Read More

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Two Theories of Aging

📖 10 min read

By Sonia Boghosian

Sometimes the most obvious things in life go unnoticed. We see many wrinkles every day, but ask someone to define a wrinkle, and usually the answer is “Well, everyone knows what a wrinkle is.” We need to look at the microscopic anatomy of the skin to study the basis of the wrinkle which is often like the hole in a doughnut; it only exists by virtue of what surrounds it. Read More