Would you go months without working out and expect to be in your best shape? Would you gorge on junk food and expect to feel good and healthy? Such is the case with your skin. If you don’t maintain it with regular facials and good skin care, your skin is not going to look it’s… Continue reading The Benefits of a Facial
Category: Acne/Blemish Treatment Info
Toner: Why Use it?
Many clients that I meet are unsure as to whether they should be using toner as a part of their skin care regime and how it actually benefits the skin. So, to answer these questions once and for all, here are the 5 main benefits of using toner: 1. Toner gives your skin a dose… Continue reading Toner: Why Use it?
A Safe Alternative to Retinoids
We get many clients who contact us after having an adverse reaction to products containing retinoids. We are never surprised. As we wrote in a blog post last year – retinoids are a controversial ingredient in the skin care world: they are known to cause chronic inflammation and thin the skin over time, which can… Continue reading A Safe Alternative to Retinoids
Why do acne products dry out the skin?
If you have acne, your pores shed dead skin cells at a much faster rate than normal pores. Normal pores shed about one layer of skin cells inside the pore per day and acne-prone pores sheds up to five layers per day. The body just can’t keep up with this so a plug forms –… Continue reading Why do acne products dry out the skin?