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August brings the end of summer and the start of a new school year for many teenagers and young adults. With the importance of appearance being at the forefront of their minds, spas and professionals need to be ready with the answers and the right products to help this transition be as smooth as possible. (Must be logged in and hold an active AIA membership to view video below.)

Take a moment this month with Nicole Majdali to enjoy a treatment. Remembering what it feels like to be an honored client may make all the difference for the overall spa experience. With the many hours a skin care professional spends in the spa, they may need a reminder to spend a little time on the table rather than servicing clients. (Must be logged in and hold an active AIA membership to view video below.)

A new school year is all about new beginnings. Students love everything new to begin the new year as it sets the tone for a fresh start. Every student deserves a new look, so they feel their best and experience a boost in self-confidence as they anticipate the new school year. It is important that every teenager has a look that reflects who they feel they are on the inside. This year has been all about inclusivity and acceptance as the world continues to try to build a bridge between people and embrace others regardless of any differences. 

Jaclyn Peresetsky is the founder of Skin Perfect Academy, Skin Perfect Spas, and Colore Me Perfect Analysis and Cosmetics. Her passion lies in advanced education for aestheticians in real life aesthetics. She contributes her expertise through speaking, writing, teaching, and continues to see her clients to further her knowledge and skill to share it with others.

There are some first-time clients who will dump an entire bag of skin care products on the table when they come in for their first facial appointment or consultation. Thankfully, they sought out a professional for guidance and support with their skin. With the vast amount of so-called skin experts, beauty influencers, beauty bloggers, and YouTube’s famous “how-to videos,” it is no wonder women and men are confused when it comes to skin care and what they should or should not use. Skin care professionals should understand how to help clients navigate the internet, how to simplify clients’ skin care routines through education, and lastly, how to empower clients to make smart skin care purchases for their skin.

Samantha Dench is a 16-year licensed aesthetician, owner of Skin Deep, author, and speaker. Dench’s passion goes beyond treating the skin and incorporates internal health as means to achieve healthy skin for clients by finding the root of the problem. She loves to educate groups of women and share her knowledge and passion for skin. Dench finds pleasure in sharing her book to help women take control of their skin. She is a single mom of three and loves to cook, bake, and find creative ways for healthy alternatives to her favorite dishes. 

Being a skin care professional or aesthetician comes with the previously surrounded notion of being in the treatment room, offering facials, waxing, and other fun niche services. However, being a modern professional can now mean offering virtual consultations, education, and creating products, tools, podcasts, and more. The sky is truly the limit.

The modern professionals can also become influencers – taking their skill to Instagram, YouTube, and a podcast to name a few mediums. With the past challenging year(s), skin care professionals had to get tremendously creative, spending less hours in the treatment room while still reaching more clients. After spending years in dark rooms with busy days at the spa working on clients, skin care professionals had to shift their focus and find new and creative ways to stay in contact with clients, so they can continue to support themselves and their families financially while shut down. Even though many professionals were shocked, sad, and even depressed at first, this was when their creative juices started flowing. They not only had to serve their clients but remain financially stable as well. There are a couple of tips and tricks in order to make this happen.

Kasey Boone has always had a passion for the beauty industry. After working as an aesthetician in the treatment room for over 15 years, she now has a passion to create fun, versatile tools that can be used in and out of the treatment room. She has created the amazingly soft and easy-to-use Glow Towels, Glow Skincare Cold Roller, Mini Cold Roller, and more. When Boone is not creating skin care tools or treating her clients, she is working on her new magazine and podcast, Skin and the City.

Our skin is responsible for our daily habits of living and environmental surroundings. It shares a cognitive relationship with what we intake, whether it's food, air, or water. Overexposure to sun radiations, usage of chemical-driven products, frequent burnouts, etc., are the factors that reduce skin elasticity.

Skincare is the fuel for every woman that keeps nourishing their skin on a regular basis. Revamping your skincare routine doesn't really mean making changes in the daily skincare products; instead, it focuses on structuring while considering every minute detail that enhances the skin's texture.

Generally, working women are struggling to follow regular skincare because of their hectic life schedules. This article discusses every single corner of skincare that is best applicable for working women. And help them to focus on what, explicitly, our skin is requesting.

Let's not waste time and learn to sort a skincare regimen that will assist your skin with accomplishing a flawless look without utilizing any sketchy synthetic products.

Minimize The Steps Of Basic Skincare

Simplify your basic skincare process by involving only two essential steps, i.e., cleansing and moisturizing. Cleansing is a must for removing the impurities that skin has attracted from surrounding air. Dust particles from pollution settle on the skin and often create breakouts in the skin pores resulting in acne, pimples, and other skin issues.

After cleansing, the moisturizer must be used for hydrating the skin. Moisturizing assists the skin for regular functioning and allows it to remain smooth and soft.

Never Forget Sunscreen

Certain sunscreen myths are revolving around the misperception of wearing sunscreen daily. The majority of women are unaware of the fact that sunscreen not only protects skin against sun radiation but also helps in preventing premature aging effects on the face. Frequent use of sunscreen over a long duration improves the skin texture by vanishing wrinkles and fine lines.

The above graph clearly depicts how low the importance of sunscreen is amongst daily personal care products. This survey was conducted back in 2011 among US college students. Though the percentage of people using sunscreen in their day-to-day routine has notably increased in recent years with proper awareness.

Experts recommend using sunscreens with SPF 30 or above for the best protection. All working women must never dare to forget sunscreen as they are stepping outside daily. However, keep a habit of wearing sunscreen even when you have no plans to step outside.

Facial Massage

Facial massage plays a prominent role in rejuvenating the face skin cells. All you need to know is particular ways of massage that focus on the face, neck, and shoulder as well. A hectic schedule may not allow such pampering sessions daily, then prioritize facial massage on weekends, but ignoring such efforts would make your skin suffer from dullness.

Fortunately, personal care devices like facial hair removal, skin tightening machines, blackhead remover, etc., have profoundly benefited working women to mend their skin quickly and effortlessly. The modern advancement in beauty products is shaping the beauty industry to new heights of success.

Carry Face Mist At Your Workplace

Face mist possesses quick freshening components, which is a must for working women. It'sIt's a convenient and flexible way to revive tired skin within a few moments. Face mists are beyond just scented water, and it has relevant hydrating components that are a daily requirement of your skin.


The face mist market has been rising since 2018. In the below graph, we can observe a steep fall in demand for the face mist in 2021, the reasons being the impacts of coronavirus. However, the usage of face mist is expected to grow over the near future.

Allow Your Skin To Breathe

Learn that the chemical products layered on the skin for good appearance may damage the internal texture of skin over the long run. So, ditching unnecessary products is a wise decision for every woman.

Prefer Clean Beauty Products

Clean beauty products are exploding in the beauty industry in recent years. People have started gaining awareness for the concept of clean beauty. Women are actively promoting the use of natural products which are made without harming the natural surroundings. The prime advantage of using clean products is that they have fewer chances of adverse impacts on the skin, regardless of skin type.

Know What You're Eating

Did you know that eating habits also have a cognitive relationship with our skin? The nutrients we intake are lastly absorbed by the skin cells. So, keeping a habit of eating healthy and nutritious food allows our skin cells to grow.

While working, we often forget what we are eating, we overeat junk food, and lately, our skin suffers. A working woman must pay keen attention to food habits to maintain the health of the skin. And remember to not compromise with breakfast and lunch for work schedules.

Set Reminders To Drink Water

Hydrating your skin with moisturizers alone will never help if you keep forgetting to drink enough water. Water is a source for neutralizing the skin cells and internally flushes the impurities from the skin.

Prioritize Night Skincare

Most women make mistakes by misinterpreting night skincare and take it for granted. Daytime skincare motivates people to glowing skin throughout the day, but very few know the essentialities of night skincare. Before going to bed, every working woman must prioritize a night skincare routine for treating their skin exceptionally.

Scientists have studied the behavior of the human body while sleeping and revealed that skin cells cause growth at a good pace during sleep. The skin undergoes the process of healing when you're asleep and nullifies the impacts of impurities on the skin. So, night skincare possesses the potential of enhancing skin internally and externally.

The Bottom Line

Recall every single point discussed in this article when you start your daily skincare process. If you get less time to prioritize your skincare routine, organize it well as per the suggested tips. You'llYou'll surely observe the difference and improvement in your skin within a few days.

Riddhi Ganatra is an online marketing consultant and outreach expert at Viss Beauty who loves to write and review fashion and beauty products. She spent more than three years as content creator covering topics like online marketing, technology, motherhood, lifestyle, beauty, and more
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With the many DERMASCOPE editorial calendars under my belt, it is always exciting to introduce new themes to our readers. While the magazine would be subpar without the staple themes like acne, hyperpigmentation, and hair removal, August is all about the chemistry of skin care. Whether a skin care professional is aware or not, treating skin is a chemical experiment and should be treated as such. Explore this issue and see what you missed in science class.

In the day and age where marketing drives much of the money spent on beauty products such as skin care and makeup, skin care professionals need to be cautious of all that is out there. Product formulation should be the be-all-end-all when it comes to choosing which products will be beneficial to a spa and its clients. Take in all the facts with Gina Marie McGuire’s article entitled, “Scientific Situation.”

In addition to understanding formulation, grasping the concept of nanotechnology within common skin care ingredients is worth exploring. While not every aesthetics practitioner is a chemist, it is important to know how exactly ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycolic acid, and retinol fit into skin. Are there superior molecular weights to ingredients? What exactly does particle size have to do with formulations? Get the answers to these questions and more with “Small by Design,” an article by Gloria Lu and Victoria Fu.

Ingredients are not the only subject under the microscope this issue. Take a scientific tour of the skin types with Breanna Brown’s article, “Chemistry Contrast.” From the skin barrier and pH to the chemical reactions happening with common ingredients and how absorption works, this article will fill any gaps in even the most seasoned skin care professional’s expertise.

Lastly, discover the world of custom blending and all that is has to offer. With existing, established product lines providing incredible results, one might wonder if custom blending is worth the research. Chris Estey is here to set the record straight. Get the pros and cons and the do’s and don’ts of custom blending from his article entitled, “Mixing Madness.”

Skin care professionals obviously know a thing or two about the science of skin care, but this issue is meant to challenge those preconceived notions to dig deeper. We know DERMASCOPE readers are already the most educated practitioners out there, and we are always striving to bring them more. This issue is no exception.

Toners may be the secret to skin care success. Toners, toning lotions, and astringents are liquid formulations that accompany the cleansing process. However, are they a necessity for proper cleansing? While toners vary greatly in quality and benefits depending on the manufacturer and their purpose, some contain alcohol (to impart a tightening effect and make skin feel fresh and cool) and concerns of long-term skin dryness and dehydration with continued use are often brought up. 

It is the taboo word – sales. This is a word that can make any service provider feel uncomfortable. Most skin care professionals never want to come off as a salesperson, because they are not – they are aestheticians. An aesthetician who has a high success rate of skin care transformations has expertise in the treatment room and the clients’ commitment to a homecare routine. Clients are looking for a complete experience and that includes a wonderful service and guidance on maintaining the result of the service at home. It is important to inform the client that the result of the treatment can only go so far if the proper maintenance at home is not being followed. The client will understand and will want to keep their glowing skin for as long as possible. So, flip the way most skin care professionals look at sales and examine it for what it is – educating.