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Precious Metals: Skin Loves Gold, Silver and Copper

This article discusses gold, silver and copper in skin care, and highlights which skin care manufacturers use them and how.

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Rosacea Reduction

All too often we hear from individuals whose practitioners have told them their chronic skin redness is rosacea, and many have been provided anti-inflammatories, antibiotics and/or other topicals or oral medications to treat it. Other mechanisms could be involved, an overview of which is given next.

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The Frustration Behind Fragrance

Considering that 2-11% of the population is affected by fragrance allergy, the professional skin care industry needs to know more about fragrance allergens.

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The Microbiome of Healthy Skin

Learning to nourish and live in harmony with the bugs in our microbiome is an important component to maintaining healthy skin.

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Touchscreen Skin: The Next Wearable?

Are we closer to an e-Skin reality? The market may be ready. But is the technology?

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Help the Heal When You Peel

Post-care and skin recovery are important opportunities for estheticians to make a huge difference in their client’s skin. It starts with understanding the stages of wound healing, which is often a longer process with medical peels, as well as how to most effectively support the healing process.

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An Ounce of Prevention

So while you plan how to help correct your clients in office, here are four main topicals that will help prevent and correct damaged skin before, during and after their in-office treatments.

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Hungover Skin Causes and Cures

While overindulging in “adult beverages” can make our heads pound and stomachs implode, perhaps less obvious are the toxic effects that seep into our skin. This article reviews the causes of hangovers, their impact on skin and what hope there is to “cure” them.

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Ingredient Insights: Pollution Protection

Most clients now know they must protect themselves against UV radiation to prevent premature aging and skin cancer, but a new environmental threat has gained a foothold in skin care—pollution.

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6 Tips for New Age Periorbital Rejuvenation

This article will take a look at non-invasive techniques to improve three eye conditions that are of concern to most patients: wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness.

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Ingredients for Mastering Pigmentation

What direction will you take to achieve a brighter, more even skin tone for your clients? Lasers, chemical peels, mechanical resurfacers, hydroquinone or no hydroquinone?

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Eye Lift in a Jar: Can Skin Care Ingredients Replace the Scalpel?

As an alternative to an eye lift, skin care can offer a multifaceted solution to all eye issues. The most advanced ingredients can have real benefits to smooth, soothe, firm, lift, support capillary integrity, brighten, reduce dark coloration and enhance circulation.

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Your Toolkit to Spotting Skin Cancer (And Saving Lives)

Estheticians, hair stylists, nail technicians and massage therapists can play an important role in recognizing the three types of skin cancer. Provided here are the tools to identify a suspicious spot and how to direct the client to have it assessed without frightening them.

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Don’t Just Stick a Needle In It: Eye Lesions

This article will go through the most common lesions seen around the eyes—milia, syringomas and xanthelasma—discussing how to address them or when to send your client to a medical professional.

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Decoding Peptide Technology

A peptide is comprised of two or more amino acids in varying sequences, with new commercially available peptides consistently evolving. Peptides can be used to address a myriad of conditions, and they work in different ways to improve the health and appearance of skin.

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Defensive Natural Ingredients to Shield and Strengthen Skin

Skin is a highly complex and specialized organ of immunity and defense that functions as a continuous, impassable physical and chemical barrier to keep out water, sunlight, impurities and potentially infectious pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and toxins.

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Greener Pastures for Skin: Natural, Organic and Beyond

Natural and organic skin care has become a permanent segment of the skin care market, but many clients still wonder if the quality, safe and effective product line for them is natural, organic or synthetic. This article was written to help you, their skin care professional, educate them while making that choice.

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Nature’s Answer to Sensitive Skin

According to the number of botanical clinical trials conducted and available, the best evidence exists in the treatment of inflammatory skin conditions and diseases, atopic dermatitis and psoriasis.

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