The Power of Peptide Creams

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Reverse Skin Damage with Peptides There is a vast array of new skincare products with high-tech ingredients designed to enhance the skin and improve its function while helping to correct some of the major causes and effects of aging. Many of these high-tech ingredients fall into the broad category of antioxidants - including Peptides. Many skincare products [...]

Blue Light Therapy

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Control Acne with Blue Light Therapy Blue light therapy has been used by dermatologists to reduce and eliminate acne breakouts for more than 20 years.    Blue light therapy is based on a simple principle that was discovered by medical researchers in the 1970′s. They found that specifically focused light (the 405nm – 420nm wavelength bands) [...]

Anti-Aging Caviar Facials

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Some of the finest spas and clinics are providing luxury, anti-aging facials, inspired by some of nature’s most nutritional gifts – one such nourishing ingredient – Caviar. Caviar is packed with a number of vitamins, minerals and fatty acids that can deliver a boost to the skin in the following ways: The fatty acids, Omega-3 [...]

Caffeine For Your Skin

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The Skincare Industry’s Newest Wonder Ingredient Caffeine is a well-known stimulant found in coffee, tea and in a variety of seeds, leaves, fruits and plants. We have used caffeine to boost our energy and keep us alert for centuries.  More recently, we have discovered that when applied to the skin, caffeine works to tighten and [...]

Ingrown Hair

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Prevention and Treatment of Ingrown Hairs An ingrown hair occurs when a shaved or tweezed hair grows back into the skin, causing inflammation and irritation.  This condition is most common in areas with coarse hair, like the bikini area in women, and beard and neck in men. Individuals with thicker, coarser hairs, such as African [...]

Skin Analysis

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How Your Skincare Professional Evaluates Your Skin Before you allow your skincare professional to treat your skin or devise an effective treatment plan, it’s critical that they perform a thorough evaluation of your skin. The proper skin diagnosis is the most important part of your skincare treatment. Apart from determining what type of skin you have using [...]

Things That Can Affect The Skin

    Apart from any inherited factors that determine what type of skin you have, there are many factors that affect the way your skin looks and feels. Knowing what these factors are and how they affect the skin is important if your goal is to keep your skin looking and feeling its best for [...]

Make-up with SPF and More

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With Summer is full swing – and the sun at its strongest – there is no shortage of warnings about protecting your skin with sunscreen before venturing outdoors.  But what do you do when your outdoor activity is a glam event… say a garden wedding?  You want to look your best, but the thought of [...]

Skin Rash – Common condition or something more serious?

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The term rash has no precise meaning – it is simply the common term for inflamed, itchy, red skin.  Technically, a rash is a change of the texture, color, and appearance of the skin.   A rash can cause the skin to become itchy or painful, feel warm, dry, cracked, or appear blistered.  A rash may [...]

The Worst Things Men Do to Their Skin

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There are so many do’s and don’ts to remember when it comes to skincare, it’s hard to keep them all straight. For men, the whole concept on skincare is either alien or new, so for now, let’s focus on three of the worst things you can do for your skin – things that contribute the [...]

 
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