Monday, August 10, 2009

Utilizing your Aesthetician as a Partner in your Skincare


An Aesthetician or often known as an Esthetician is a skin care specialist. Most have gone to a specialized school to study skin and the proper care for skin. They are taught various methods of skin care techniques along with everything that is harmful for skin. An Aesthetician is a great person to utilize when starting a skin care routine.


An Aesthetician can help you determine exactly what your skin is lacking and what steps you will need to regain a healthy glow. The first thing any Aesthetician will tell you in regards to your skincare is that in order to maintain healthy skin you must keep it clean and protect it from environmental factors that can cause harmful affects.

Having an Aesthetician as a partner in your skincare will help you in choosing the right skin care products specific to your needs. They have access to skin care products that you would not otherwise be able to obtain. Partnering your skincare with an Aesthetician gives you access to a trained specialist for all your skincare needs such as facials, body treatments, head and neck massages, and hair removal. Aesthetician will work close with you as a partner in your skin care utilizing their expertise to help you develop the perfect skin-care regimen specific for you.


A great Aesthetician as your partner in skin care will educate you in what products can be toxic to your skin and why. Many chemicals and synthetic fragrances and colorings can cause harmful side effects to your skin and health. Utilizing an Aesthetician will lower your risks of using products that contain these harmful ingredients.

Your Aesthetician will do a full profile regarding your skin care routine, products used, lifestyle, diet practices, exercise, and environmental exposure risks to aid in developing your perfect skin care regimen. Your Aesthetician will answer any questions you may have in regards to your skincare or the procedures they perform on you. They will point out any skin care issues they may see to you and give you direction in how to correct the problem. If they feel the problem is out of their realm of expertise, they will refer you to a quality dermatologist or medical doctor depending on the severity of the problem. Many Aesthetician work side by side with dermatologist, and some Aesthetician even practice alongside medical doctors and cosmetic surgeons.


An Aesthetician can successfully deal with skin problems such as aging skin, acne, and dehydrated skin and are trained in all the latest technology and equipped with the latest and most effective skin care products. Often times an Aesthetician can catch a skin disorder before it develops into something more serious such as skin cancer and give you proper referrals for follow-up care. They cannot diagnosis; however, when certain skin disorder signs present they can quickly recognize them and make sure it is brought to your attention for proper care.


An Aesthetician can give you the tools, know how, and direct you to the right skin care products for you. They will educate you on how to properly use the products and help you set up a regular skin care program. After consulting with an Aesthetician many people feel perfectly comfortable following through with a great skin care routine and only need to follow up on times they want to treat themselves to a facial, or if new skin issues arise. By utilizing your Aesthetician, you can be confident in your skin care routine and proper care of one of your most valuable resources, your skin and you.

$300 For Chemical Formulated Face Cream - Why You Must Be Crazy

The skin and face cream markets seem to be growing everyday. In fact, there are so many products that it is sometimes difficult to judge the good products from the bad ones. Depending on what you want your cream to do for you, it should have a large amount of active ingredients in it that work - that is actually do something positive for your skin. Naturally, you will be looking for the cream that has the highest percentage of working active ingredients, which may or may not be the most expensive product. In addition, the current evidence is that best creams for your skin should be made from natural botanicals. Which sounds better to apply to your skin - Lyco-persicum, or Lycopene which is a 100% natural botanical extract.


To get the most for your money, you will want to find a face cream that contains the most varied natural active ingredients and the highest percentages of those active ingredients. If you do not take the time to check out what is in the cream or the amount of active ingredients, you do not really know what you are getting. Not all creams have ingredients labels on them, therefore, you have to take it upon yourself to research what are the specific ingredients.


However, taking the time to research what is in the face cream you are interested in buying is a smart move. You do not want to spend sixty dollars or more on a product that is not going to work for you. These days, a large dollar investment in a cream that does not work is a larger waste of money. If you want to find the ingredients in a product, you can visit the company website to see what a particular product contains. As mentioned, the best skin creams on the market are not always the most expensive ones. So, you should not go shopping for the most expensive face cream on the market. Just because they put caviar in the cream doesn't mean it is good for your skin. Actually, the very expensive caviar cream on the market today actually uses salmon roe not the "real" stuff. Neither has ever been tested and shown as beneficial for your face in any event.


In all actuality, you can purchase a daily cream for sixty dollars or under that works great and has a high percentage of natural active ingredients and botanicals. You will have a choice between natural ingredients or synthesized ingredients, which will both have their different prices. Sometimes the natural products are more expensive and sometimes the synthesized products are more expensive. More than likely, you will have no problem finding a natural daily face cream, with a good quantity of botanicals, that works well for you under fifty dollars. A little homework goes a long way to improving both your skin and your bank account.

Friday, July 24, 2009

The Natural Way To Remove Wrinkles & Brown Spots



This illustrates (left to right) a 90 day use of a product containing azealic and kojic acid treatment mixed with the hydrating benefits of Lycopene working to lighten brown spots and de-emphize wrinkles with daily use at night. This along with morning use of a Lycopene Hydrator with UVA/UVB blockers is all your skin needs to renew and maintain itself. Two simple steps to improving your skin naturally and with 100% organic products.


Friday, June 12, 2009

Benefits of Natural Skincare and Why They Cost More Than Common Chemical Ones


I think everyone can agree that your skin is a living and breathing organ that is 100 percent natural - correct. Therefore, one should naturally assume that you take care of it as naturally as possible to maintain it in the healthiest fashion possible. It is not a piece of car although performs as a mechanism that transports you from one place to another while protecting its passengers of delicate internal organs, tissues, muscles and so forth. However, just like car, if you do not take care of it, it will begin to deteriorate. And if you do not take care of it properly you can speed the deterioration rate. If you threw water in the gas tank of a car you can bet you are going to put it out of commission and end up spending a lot of money to get it up and running again. If you let your car sit out in the rain day in and out, you will eventually see rust if you have done nothing to protect it. Your skin is the same way. If you were to throw things in your body that you know are not conducive to maintaining its health and well being such as chemicals your health, and the health of your skin will begin to worsen in the fashion of loss of resilience, tone, texture, and a slew load of other problems. Moreover, applying products to your skin that you know are not advantageous to its health is only adding insult to injury. Just like your vehicle, you want it to last as long as possible and still look good. The only difference is, when your car no longer runs, you can trade it in, when your skin dies, your done. Therefore, it should be understood that you should only treat your body, and skin,with the most natural products to maintain its optimal health and beauty.

When you use chemical based products for topical care of your skin, you may not see the immediate damage it is causing. You may even see some temporary improvements of the targeted problems you are trying to reverse. However, here is how chemicals play trickery on your skin, and over time do more damage then they ever could good. Chemicals store in your body. What you put on your skin is absorbed into your system, lodging in other organs, tissues and even your blood stream. This accumulation over time can result in some pretty serious side effects for the user. Out of the chemicals used in skin care products, over 33% of them can be linked to causing cancer. Therefore, what you are putting on your face today in later years can show up as cancer. This accumulation of chemical being stored in ones body is even more dangerous for women. If you are still in your childbearing years and even remotely are considering having children, you should stop all use of chemically based skin care products. The accumulation of these toxins stored in your body can seriously affect the health of your yet unborn child.

If four out of five skin or hair care products that you use contain a highly toxic chemical such as Parabens, your body becomes a toxic dump. When considering breast feeding you can pass these toxins right to your child. Your waste and toxin elimination organs (Liver, Kidneys, and Skin) can only dispose of so much. If in taking toxins through your daily diet, skincare routine, and environmentally, you put your system in serious overload. Your blood circulation becomes sluggish, and other problems will begin to present themselves. Your skin will show signs in aging much quicker then if you had been treating your body like a temple rather then a dumping ground. Your skin will lose its luster, tone, texture, and resilience, present with wrinkles, acne, discoloration, excessive fatty tissue build up, and numerous other things that can totally change ones appearance. But what is worse is that most of these things are the issues you started using the toxic chemicals for in the first place to diminish or prevent. It becomes a mad cycle with no end while increasing your risks for cancer.

Had you been using natural products in your skin care routine followed by a healthy diet you would have kept the natural radiance of your skin and achieved a healthier body and skin. Your skin is the largest organ on your body. It already has to battle an abundance of free radicals in the environment daily to help keep you healthy. You know how you feel when the boss lays the workload on you heavy, how drained you become, often times sick, and without any extra pay. Well think of how your body, and skin, feels when you subject it to unnecessary work, just as you would like to strike, your body does too, however when your body strikes it only hurts you!

One of the biggest complaints heard, or excuse anyhow, that people give for not using natural skincare products is their cost. However, they do not give it a second thought when they are purchasing products that have short-term effects that only turn around and cause more of the issues that they were trying to eliminate in the first place. You never hear anyone complain about how healthy natural skincare products are, and the wonderful long lasting results achieved from using them, just the cost. Have you ever heard anyone complain about the heightened risks of contracting cancer from natural skincare products? No, I am sure you have not. Alternatively, have you ever heard anyone complain that by using natural skincare products that you are putting your future children’s lives at risk? No, I am sure you haven’t. Is your health and the health of your yet to be born children worth a few pennies more? I am sure it is. Natural skin care products do take more to produce and test. They take the extra time needed to make sure that the product is not only 100% safe for you and your family but also safe for the environment. Production methods used to produce natural skincare products are earth friendly as well. Producers of true natural skin care products do not only look at the product alone, they look at the full picture, from ones health to the health of the environment. Although the time and effort put in to the creation of natural skin care products may cost a bit more then chemically based products, the benefits far out weight the few pennies.