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The Sum of the Parts = You

The more you know about patient care, business, the arts, or just life in general; the more you can offer to your patients, your community, and your career. Professional and personal development improves existing and adds new skills, builds on your existing knowledge base, and gives you fresh perspectives of the world around you. As you develop yourself professionally and personally and apply what you learn to your practice, you increase your credibility, improve patient results, add to the level of professionalism in the skin care industry, and build your bottom line.
Deciding on where to invest your time and money for your development can be tricky.

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Steambaths for Clients

Steambaths For Client

An “Attitudes in the American Workplace” survey found that 80 percent of employees experience job-related stress, and nearly half say they need help with stress management. Mr. Steam is offering expert advice on the most effective ways to manage and reduce stress, beginning in the bathroom.
One way to begin to enhance and support a healthy lifestyle is with the addition of a steambath in the bathroom or exercise room. Steambathing may assist in promoting mental, physical, and emotional health benefits that may include reducing stress, detoxifying the body, and improving circulation.
Upon stepping inside a steambath, relaxation becomes the theme. Within moments, warmth penetrates your body from head to toe, easing tired muscles, helping the cares of the day drift away. Steam assists in opening the skin’s pores and creates a flow of perspiration that can lift out the impurities of everyday living. Skin can be deeply cleansed, leaving it soft, supple, and healthy.
Jump start your day feeling refreshed with a steambath followed by a cool bath or shower and a quick rubdown with a towel. To relieve stress at the end of the day, a hot shower after a steambath helps encourage a good night’s sleep. When used on a regular basis steambathing research shows that people feel rested and rejuvenated.

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Spa Fact (spa-goers)

SPA FACT

ISPA states that there are more than 32 million active spa-goers.

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Does a Cup of Tea Reduce Stress?

Does A Cup Of Tea Reduce Stress?

by Medical News Today

Several daily newspapers in the UK and elsewhere recently carried reports of a study commissioned by the Direct Line insurance company that suggests a cup of tea reduces stress, not just by drinking it but also because of the calming effect of the ritual of putting the kettle on.
In their background information, they referred to literature that suggests drinking tea is associated with positive mood and feelings of relaxation, that its chemical properties have been linked with making the brain more alert and helping people recover from stress, and that it has beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system.

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Nanomaterials in Sunscreens

Nanomaterials In Sunscreens

Engineered nanomaterials are widely used in sunscreens to make sun-blocking ingredients like titanium dioxide and zinc oxide rub on clear instead of white. These materials have been shown to exhibit different fundamental physical, biological, and chemical properties than their larger counterparts. The report indicates that very few nanomaterials have been adequately tested, though the limited data that is available shows that their small size makes them more able to enter the lungs, pass through cell membranes, and possibly penetrate damaged or sunburned skin.

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Sanítas Age Correcting Facial

1. Cleanse the skin with Glycolic Citrus Cleanser. Remove with a warm, moist towel.

2. Tone with Glycotoner 10%. Apply with cotton rounds using an upward and outward motion.

3. Mask with Papaya Pineapple Mask. Boost the enzymatic exfoliation action by adding two to four drops of Alpha Peel 20%. Cover eyes with cotton rounds saturated with Moisture Mist and apply steam for up to 15 minutes. Remove mask with a warm, moist towel.

4. Perform facial massage with Natural Moisture Factor. Remove with a warm, moist towel.

5. Treat and mask. Apply a few drops of PeptiDerm Professional Serum and massage into skin. Spread a layer of Re-Vita-Lize Anti-aging Mask over the PeptiDerm Professional Serum. Leave on for up to 15 minutes.

6. While Re-Vita-Lize Mask is setting, apply an age correcting eye enhancement. Blend PeptiDerm Eye Treatment, Vita K and Rejuven-A and gently pat around eye area.

Cover eye area with Chamomile Tea bags, soaked in lukewarm water.

Top with a gauze butterfly mask. Lightly massage eye area over butterfly mask with ice cubes made of Chamomile Tea.

7. Remove mask and eye enhancement with warm, moist towels.

8. Moisturize and protect. Apply two to four drops of Vita C Serum to the entire face and décolleté and massage in well. Gently pat PeptiDerm Eye Treatment around the eye area and apply PeptiDerm Moisturizing Cream to entire face and décolleté. Finish with Solar Block.

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Germaine de Capuccini’s Cellulite Treatment – Celluless System

Germaine de Capuccini has created CELLULESS SYSTEM, an innovative treatment that prevents and combats even the most stubborn cellulite on all fronts as simple as 1, 2, 3.

STEP 1

After the Germaine de Capuccini Starting Protocol, prepare the skin and activate circulation by applying ACTIVE SCRUB Body Exfoliant (with previously moistened hands) using gentle, circular lissages on the whole body. Moisten your hands as needed. Remove the product by swiping the sandy particle with a dry towel. (15 minutes)

STEP 2

Activate circulation and lipolysis. With the client lying face down, spread LIPO-DRAIN Body Serum – using upward lissages on the legs, buttocks, and back – until it is totally absorbed. Then carry out movements inspired by Shiatsu on both legs. Ask the client to face up and apply the LIPO-DRAIN Body Serum using upward lissages on the abdomen, legs, and feet until it is totally absorbed; followed by specific pressures on different areas according to Shiatsu. (25 minutes)

STEP 3

Activate the circulation, lipolysis, and wrap.
Place a Plastic Cover Sheet under the client’s body. With the client facing up, apply LIPO-REVERSE WRAP

Body Wrap first on the buttock, lower back, and the back of the thigh and leg without turning the client over. Repeat on the other leg. Then apply on the front of the thighs, legs, and abdomen. Cover the client with a plastic cover sheet and leave in place for 10 minutes.
After the time in place, massage the remainder of the wrap with deep tissue techniques focusing on the areas with cellulite and adipocytes, for 10 minutes or until the product has been completely absorbed. (During the massage, remove the plastic cover sheet.)
To finish the treatment, go down the right side using light pressing movements on the palm of the hand on the shoulder, arm, leg, and foot. Then go up the left side and finish with relaxing movements on the neck and head.

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Intensive Wrinkle Reducer® Rapid Peel with Durian Cell Reform® by Murad

This powerful epidermal resurfacing formula provides immediate smoothing, firming, and brightening of the skin without the irritation of aggressive exfoliation. This is the ideal treatment for clients with concerns related to Genetic Aging such as fine lines, wrinkles, creases, dullness and loss of elasticity.

STEP 1 - CLEANSE and TONE

A - Cleanse and Tone:
Remove eye makeup with cotton pad and Gentle Eye Makeup Remover. Cleanse the face, neck, and décolleté under gentle steam with Refreshing Cleanser, followed by AHA/BHA Exfoliating Cleanser.

B - Treatment Prep:
Apply two pumps of Prepping Solution to 4x4 gauze.
Sweep across face, neck, and décolleté.

STEP 2 - TREAT and REPAIR

A – Treatment
Dispense one fourth fluid ounce of Intensive Wrinkle Reducer Rapid Peel into a dosage cup. Apply to face, neck, and décolleté with cotton tip applicator. Continue steaming treatment for the first five minutes and then turn off steamer. Remove treatment after 10 minutes.

B – Extractions/Tone:
Conduct extractions. Complete with Clarifying Toner on a cotton pad, sweeping upwards the over face.

C – Massage:
Apply a generous amount of Soothing Massage Cream to face, neck, and décolleté. Massage for 10 minutes. Thoroughly remove any residual with a moist warm towel.

D – Mask:
Apply Sensitive Skin Soothing Serum® over entire face and neck. Mix one package of Soothing Seaweed Mask with one and three fourths fluid ounces of Soothing Tonic and one fourth ounce of Soothing Cream Mask. Mix vigorously until smooth. Using spatula apply directly to the skin in an even layer avoiding the eye area. Let set for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove mask. Complete removal with a cotton pad moistened with Hydrating Toner.

E – Repair:
Apply Renewing Eye Cream around the orbital bone.

STEP 3 - HYDRATE and PROTECT

A – Hydrate and Protect:
Apply Sensitive Skin Soothing Serum to face, neck, and décolleté. Apply Essential-C Eye Cream SPF 15 around orbital bone. Follow with Perfecting Day Cream SPF 30 to face, neck, and décolleté. Apply Soothing Skin and Lip Care to lips to complete the facial.

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Skin Clearing (Anti-Acne) Treatment by Dr. Jeff

Acne is the most common form of inflammatory skin disease. Normally, sebum produced by the sebaceous glands is excreted to the surface of the epidermis through hair follicles. Occasionally, the hair follicles clog up and form a plug that attracts bacteria, resulting in swelling, inflammation, and eventually the outbreak of pimples. To combat acne effectively but gently, use Dr. Jeff® OTC anti-acne drug ingredients along with antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and soothing ingredients to help skin clear of blemishes and reduce inflammation and redness.

Target conditions: impure, blemished and inflamed skin
Time duration: 60 minutes
Treatment interval: once a week for consecutive
four weeks
Expected result: to reduce inflammation and redness; accelerate the clearing of blemishes

1. Cleanse skin with antiseptic Tea Tree Foaming Cleanser.

2. Apply Balancing Astringent.

3. Perform extractions. (Skip exfoliation and massage for acute acne.)

4. Apply Professional Astringent Ampoule, thenthe Acne Spot Treatment Lotion over the blemished area.

5. Mix two ounces of Icy Mineral Earth Mask with Phyto Mask Activator. Add a teaspoon of Firming Powder Masque and two teaspoons of Soothing Gelle Masque. Blend into a smooth mud paste.

6. Cover the eye and mouth areas with moistened cotton pads. Moisten a piece of gauze and put it over the face.

7. Apply the mask paste evenly over the face and leave it on for 15 to 20 minutes.

8. Lift the gauze and remove the mask residue with a wet sponge or cleansing pads.

9. Apply Balancing Astringent; then Acne Spot Treatment Lotion.

10. Protect skin with SPF 15/SPF 30.

Products for Home Care
• Tea Tree Foaming Cleanser (1% Salicylic Acid)
• Balancing Astringent
• Hyaluronic Gel
• SPF 15 Facial Moisturizer/SPF 30 Phyto Sunblock

Products for Treatment
• Tea Tree Foaming Cleanser (1% Salicylic Acid)
• Balancing Astringent
• Professional Astringent Ampoule
• Acne Spot Treatment Lotion (1% Salicylic Acid, 5% Benzoyl Peroxide)
• Icy Mineral Earth Mask
• Firming Powder Masque
• Soothing Gelle Masque
• Phyto Mask Activator
• SPF 15 Facial Moisturizer/SPF 30 Phyto Sunblock

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Summer Into Fall Beauty

by Larenim Creative Director Kirsten Corcoran

Give your clients a few tips this fall so they can maintain beautiful skin in between spa visits. Summer skin is sunny and warm but transitioning into fall can initiate breakouts, uneven skin tone, and washed out coloring. To keep your clients looking healthy and gorgeous, tell them to try the following:
1. Purify and clear the skin by using a detoxifying facial mask two to three times a week, depending on their skin type. This will help to draw unwanted matter from within the skin and rev up circulation.
2. Brush on a little bronzer as the tan fades to maintain a warm, flattering glow.
3. Adjust makeup to the diminishing sunlight. Instead of pastels and corals, try richer, earthier colors.
4. Try a primer under her foundation to help maintain a longer lasting finish, especially if her skin gets oilier during seasonal change.
5. Apply a finishing powder to help assure even skin tone and porcelain smooth skin.