What I truly love about the skin care profession is not necessarily the “how” of treatments, products, and results; but the “why”. This is probably why I am so passionate about teaching. It is not enough in our business to simply be able to make recommendations and deliver visible results to our client’s skin, if we do not know precisely why we are capable of achieving such results. As consumers place increasingly more confidence in our hands regarding meeting their skin needs and concerns, our professional responsibility to meet those needs has grown, requiring aestheticians to have a deep understanding of how those concerns even came to be. That being said, one of the most influential contributing factors to the condition of the skin, at many different ages, is fluctuations in hormones. The human body has two types of glands, exocrine glands and endocrine glands. Exocrine glands secrete material out of the duct and onto the surface of the body (I like to think of them as exiting), such as salivary glands, sudoriferous glands, and sebaceous glands. Endocrine glands are composed of a special group of cells that form ductless glands, and secrete substances directly into the bloodstream; these substances Read More