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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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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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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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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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Tried and True: Busting 5 Common Tanning Myths

Gear clients up for spring break trips or summer by encouraging them to use adequate sun protection. You know who your bronze goddesses are; bust their bad summer habits to help deliver beautiful skin all year long.

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DNA Repair in Skin Care

DNA is information everyone should become familiar with as we move to the next paradigm in skin care. While DNA repair is occurring in our body roughly 100 trillion times every day, we apparently still need more help. There is a delicate balance between oxygen being used a repair and sustain life and the infamous free radical cascade that is often the main contributor to aging. Our DNA is critical to our health and survival, but does our skin really benefit from this novel ingredient class?

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Fruit of the Vine: The Mighty Grape

nutrients can be eaten and applied to the skin to nourish, protect and transform the health skin. In this article, let’s dig into the amazing qualities of the grape.

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Stem Cells–Myth or Medical Breakthrough?

Years ago, stem cells and growth factors became hero ingredients in skin care formulations. Some brands have claimed plant-based stem cells helped reproduce human stem cells and growth factors, directly changing the behavior of human DNA. This article will explore the facts on stem cells in skin care products

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When SPF Isn’t Enough

Skin cancer rates continue to rise every year, so it is clear the current approach to sun protection is not enough. It may be time to dig deeper to find out why—and how we can lower the number of malignant and nonmalignant skin cancer incidences.

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Anatomy of a Sunscreen

This article will explore some basic considerations behind sunscreen products, such as the two main categories of marketed sunscreens, formulation architecture and delivery systems—the anatomy of a sunscreen.

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Ancestry and Skin: Produce Results for Skin of Any Color

As the U.S. population grows, it will become increasingly important to know how to serve a diverse clientele. Every skin has a much deeper story than what meets the surface, and ancestry plays a major role in how the skin will respond to certain ingredients and treatments.

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Face & Body Midwest 2016: Practical Application of Spa Education

Face & Body Midwest, set to take place on Mar. 12–14, 2016, in Chicago, is featuring an Advanced Education Program that offers the latest research, treatments, business practices and scientific knowledge that this industry has to offer.

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Treating Skin Changes During Perimenopause

This article will look at how fluctuating hormones can affect the skin, as well as suggest effective treatments and ingredients to mitigate conditions brought on by these unavoidable hormonal changes. It also will offer suggestions to help soothe perimenopause symptoms such as sleep disruption and hot flashes, which can affect skin health.

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18 Must-have Tools for the Acne Arsenal

Acne is a chronic condition of the skin. It affects millions of people and is frequently treated in esthetics. This article will delve into the most successful ingredients and treatments for eliminating acne—“the acne arsenal.”

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