Understanding & Treating Aging Skin

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Without a doubt, aging skin is what brings clients through the doors. What makes a skin care professional stand apart in the aesthetics industry? Most certainly, it should be more than an amazing facial. What role does the expert play in the understanding and treating of aging skin? A professional can achieve incredible, lasting results for clients. However, in order to begin treatment, one must first have a good understanding of aging skin. This webinar will get viewers thinking and start putting the pieces together as they go through the process of reversing aging skin.

MEET THE PRESENTER- GINA MARIE MCGUIRE, L.E.

Gina Marie McGuire has over 30 years of experience in the skin care industry and has been educating professionals and consumers for the majority of her career. She feels strongly that when treating skin from the health standpoint, one can achieve remarkable results. McGuire brings a wealth of information to the industry as she has extensive experience in retail, manufacturing, wholesaling, public speaking, educating, marketing, and skin therapy treatments. She is considered a leading expert in the skin care field and has a strong desire to share her wealth of knowledge in the advancement of the beauty industry. As a result of her leadership, McGuire was nominated for the 2019 Aestheticians’ Choice Award for Favorite Brand Educator and has been featured several times in professional skin care magazines.

Fundamentals of Aesthetics

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Having a clear understanding of the fundamentals of aesthetics is the foundation of everything skin care professionals do in the spa, as well as what they prescribe to clients. Mastering what is done in the treatment room and why are two key components to the success of any aesthetician. Often, the basics of what is learned are overlooked due to the advancement in the industry. This webinar will bring professionals back to the value they have to clients beyond providing a facial.

MEET THE PRESENTER- GINA MARIE MCGUIRE, L.E.

Gina Marie McGuire has over 30 years of experience in the skin care industry and has been educating professionals and consumers for the majority of her career. She feels strongly that when treating skin from the health standpoint, one can achieve remarkable results. McGuire brings a wealth of information to the industry as she has extensive experience in retail, manufacturing, wholesaling, public speaking, educating, marketing, and skin therapy treatments. She is considered a leading expert in the skin care field and has a strong desire to share her wealth of knowledge in the advancement of the beauty industry. As a result of her leadership, McGuire was nominated for the 2019 Aestheticians’ Choice Award for Favorite Brand Educator and has been featured several times in professional skin care magazines.

What Does Barrier Disruption Actually Look Like?

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Barrier issues are at the core of many skin disorders. Learn to spot the signs outside of the traditional symptoms to get a head start on managing clients’ skin care needs with amazing results.

MEET THE PRESENTER- ELIZABETH BRASHER, L.E.

Elizabeth Brasher is a licensed aesthetician since 2011 and has been practicing with a strive for advanced skin care education ever since. Brasher is an aesthetician at Premier Med Spa in Richardson, Texas. She continues to devote herself to helping her colleagues offering expert training, heading online aesthetics forums, and writing contributions to industry magazines. At the beginning of 2020, Brasher became DERMASCOPE Magazine’s lead in-house aesthetician.

Impactful Protection: Successfully Layering Sunscreen Formulations

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Thanks to the rise in popularity of sunscreen, sun protection products have become a nonnegotiable step to professional services and homecare recommendations. Newer ways to incorporate sun protection into a regimen are becoming rapidly available, so it is time to learn and layer these together for the most impactful protection.

MEET THE PRESENTER- ELIZABETH BRASHER, L.E.

Elizabeth Brasher is a licensed aesthetician since 2011 and has been practicing with a strive for advanced skin care education ever since. Brasher is an aesthetician at Premier Med Spa in Richardson, Texas. She continues to devote herself to helping her colleagues offering expert training, heading online aesthetics forums, and writing contributions to industry magazines. At the beginning of 2020, Brasher became DERMASCOPE Magazine’s lead in-house aesthetician.

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While Western medicine schools studied cadavers, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) studied and documented patterns of the human, living body for thousands of years. Because of this, Eastern medicine was able to establish patterns that continued in the human body in its natural state.

Western medicine continues their dissection methods in an attempt at controlling symptoms, also known as allopathic medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine looks at the manifestation of symptoms, whether in the body or on skin as a warning or a sign that something is wrong and unbalanced. The goal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is to always find balance and create harmony within the body, so it can restore its optimal function. This philosophy is what holism was truly built on. It gets to the bottom of the symptoms – the reason the body responded in a particular manner.

Michelle Valeri, licensed aesthetician, is the founder of Holistic Dermal Professionals, advanced training for aestheticians in Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophies and strategies and as it relates to an aesthetics practice. Valeri has a successful holistic skin correction practice, MV Skin Consulting located in McKinney, Texas. She has trained privately with three Chinese masters and has a proficient knowledge of eastern philosophical strategies to bring the body back to balance. She brings over two decades of natural healing, product development, and formal education to her skin care practice.

For decades, the beauty and skin care industries relied on animal testing to ensure the safety of their products. Many top brands, including renowned professional skin care brands, have moved towards cruelty-free policies in recent years. Unfortunately, the practice of animal testing still occurs in the industry today despite the increasing demand for products that are not tested at the expense of animal safety.

The reason some brands still test their products on animals despite a consumer shift towards more ethical methods is because of product testing regulations in the Republic of China. Although the law was updated to exclude many general cosmetics, beauty brands that want their products cleared under Chinese local law still require companies to test their products on animals. In light of this, even if a product label specifies that it is cruelty-free or not tested on animals, these assertions may not be entirely true.

Sara Terrell is a contributing writer and a fitness enthusiast. She is passionate about sharing her experience on health and wellness through writing. In her free time, she loves teaching yoga and pilates classes - her cat Margaux loves to take part.

The benefits of seaweed are the subject of serious research and is one of the top subjects in international communities for development. In fact, the global seaweed market size was $13.33 billion dollars in 2019 and is projected to reach 23.04 billion in 2027.

Leading scientists are looking towards seaweed and aquaculture to find numerous applications in the modern world because of its composition and ability to grow just about anywhere in the ocean.

“Seaweeds are abundant and ancient autotrophic organisms that can be found in virtually all near-shore aquatic ecosystems. They form an important living resource of the near shore environment. For millennia, people have collected seaweeds for food, fodder for animals, and fertilizers and soil enhancers. More recently, seaweeds have become important sources of various bioreactive molecules and are important in medicine and biotechnology. Containing phycocolloids, or polysaccharides, they are also used in toothpaste, soaps, shampoos, cosmetics, skin care, milk, ice cream and many other items.”²

Lydia Sarfati is an international industry leader, with over 46 years of experience as a spa owner, consultant, and aesthetician. She is the founder and CEO of Repêchage, the first company to bring seaweed-based skin care treatments to the United States market and is the President of CIDESCO Section U.S.A, the world's major international beauty therapy association. She appears at industry tradeshows, is the author of “Success at Your Fingertips: How to Succeed in the Skin Care Business,” and “The Repêchage Book of Skincare Science & Protocols,” and is a contributing author to textbooks, such as “The Milady Standard Esthetics: Fundamentals, Twelfth Edition, and Oncology Esthetics.”