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By | June 8, 2015

Oxygen uptake in the skin has been an attractive cosmetic property for many years. Ingredients that imply oxygenation, energizing, and cellular respiration often speak to addressing the impact of increasing the needs of oxygen for all of skin's metabolic ...

What’s your recipe for weaning clients off bad s

By Bella Schneider | June 1, 2015

Skin care professionals should begin by differentiating themselves from department stores and retailers by doing all consultations in the treatment room. The client should be laid down, skin cleansed, then analyzed through a magnifying lens. Find out ...

A Fitness Approach to Skin Care

By Heather Fowler, L.E. | April 30, 2015

A good personal trainer will tell you that the key to a healthy and fit body is a combination of a healthy diet and an effective exercise routine. While a personal trainer can put their clients through a series of exercises, perhaps focusing on building ...

Our Skin is a Mirror of Internal Health

By Sheilah Fulton, L.E., B.S., M.B.A., aesthetics instructor | December 1, 2014

Human beings have trillions of cells throughout the body that perform intricate functions to maintain the overall integrity and health of the skin. The metabolic processes and utilization of energy – ATP (adenosine triphosphate) – all impact the overall ...

What’s your recipe for the perfect summer skin

By Ahmed Abdullah, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S. | January 26, 2015

You might notice that clients are increasingly savvy about how to properly manage their skin at home. With the availability of skin care lines and anti-aging formulations in a range of price points, most of the women (and many men) I encounter have put ...

Recipe Box: Skin Restoring Aronia Berry Mask

By Elina Fedotova, CEO of Elina Organics | December 1, 2014

Aronia has traditionally been used in Russia to rejuvenate and heal the skin. Each berry offers an organic cocktail of vitamins, minerals, and other skin-nourishing nutrients. It has a higher concentration of antioxidants than blueberries, grapes, acai, ...

Identifying and Understanding Menopausal Skin

By Suki Kramer | December 23, 2014

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 ...

Skin Care MYTHS: Bleach cures fingernail fungus

By | December 23, 2014

STATEMENT: Bleach cures fingernail fungus. Facts: Many people believe soaking fungus-infected fingernails in diluted chlorine bleach or applying a paste of bleach and petroleum jelly to affected areas will kill infections.Although some home remedies ...

Winter Skin Under the Sun

By Alison Adams-Woodford, L.E. | January 27, 2015

It all started in the 1920s when Coco Chanel fell asleep while outdoors on vacation in the French Riviera and woke up with an unintended sunburn. The style icon singlehandedly changed previous views that skin should be pale and pristine to one that viewed ...

Skin Care MYTHS: Titanium oxide and zinc oxide in

By | January 28, 2015

STATEMENT: Titanium oxide and zinc oxide in sunscreen cause cancer. Facts: Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide are minerals frequently used as physical solar filters in sunscreens. These chemicals scatter ultraviolet radiation away from the skin, compared ...

Eye Skin Care

By | January 28, 2015

An English proverb proclaims that the eyes are the window of the soul. Clearly, the eye area is a focal point for human interaction. The aesthetic appeal of the eyes is directly related to the skin surrounding them as demonstrated by the wide variety ...

When is it Okay to Peel Sensitive Skin?

By Rhonda Allison | February 11, 2015

There are a lot of questions and much trepidation around administering chemical peels and corrective treatments on sensitive skin. Are rejuvenating treatments safe? Will the skin react negatively to a peel or enzyme formula? How much is too much? The ...

Confessions of a Teenage Client How to hear what y

By Beth Bialko, L.E. | April 30, 2015

Young skin. It is the paradigm for which we are all striving: skin with lightning-fast metabolic turnover, robust support from abundant collagen, elastin reserves in tissues, and consistent melanin production. Smooth, plump, evenly-pigmented, fresh. Clients ...

Ethnic Skin Conditions

By Linda Gulla, L.E. | March 3, 2015

When treating skin conditions, it is essential for the skin care professional to have a thorough understanding of ethnicity and predisposed factors when assessing the client during the initial consultation, treating skin conditions, and determining treatment ...

10 Things About...Sensitive Skin

By Lydia Sarfati | March 6, 2015

Sensitive skin is a broad term ranging from easily irritated skin to conditions like eczema and rosacea. Aestheticians should be able to clearly identify sensitive skin types and diagnose a plan of action to alleviate the symptoms to provide clients with ...

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Antioxidant Application: Giving Clients the Right Tools to Protect Skin from the Inside Out
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Making Time: The Aesthetician’s Need for Self-Care
As an aesthetician, we are trained to help clients through so many stages in their…