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Reasons Why a Professional Facial is Better than Home Care

   Facial  Aug 27, 2016  Comments Off on Reasons Why a Professional Facial is Better than Home Care
Reasons Why a Professional Facial is Better than Home Care

facialOne of the most underestimated, spa treatments is the facial.  Many people don’t seem to understand how a facial can help you treat and change your skin, not just relax and rejuvenate.  Facials provide both short-term and long-term benefits for your skin and even your overall health. Investing in this treatment will help your skin now and in the future. You might be wondering, what happens in a spa facial?

For a typical facial, it is a skin consultation, deep cleansing, skin analysis, exfoliation, extractions, and mask. There might be a massage as well. At home, you can cleanse, exfoliate, extract, and mask, but there are a few things about a spa facial that you can’t get at home.

Professional Facial Vs. At Home Facial

While at home facials are convenient, remember that a professional facial includes products, equipment, and more importantly, the expertise of the esthetician who is giving the facial, all which you cannot recreate on your own.  Estheticians are provided with stronger skin care products than the products you can buy in the store and additionally have the training to know how to use those products efficiently and safely.  Furthermore, having extractions done during a professional facial is a highly different process than squeezing and poking at your skin at home in the bathroom mirror. During professional facial extractions are performed safely so that the skin is not damaged.

Benefits of Facials

Anyone who has more severe skin issues such as acne, hyperpigmentation (dark spots), or fine lines and wrinkles will see a positive effect from a professional facial.  Estheticians have various products and equipment at their disposal for use on clients that you just cannot reproduce on your own.  All the skin mentioned above conditions along with any other skin type will exceedingly profit from professional strength exfoliation.  Don’t underestimate the ability of proper exfoliation.  This step in the facial makes a significant difference in how your skin will look overall for days, and even weeks.  It can be the first step in getting your skin to look and feel they way you want it to in the long run.  Lastly, facials not only treat current skin issues but restrict other skin problems from occurring in the first place.

Why go?

  1. Professional Strength Exfoliation: The exfoliation is mainly catered towards your particular skin type so that it will give you results that smooth the skin, soften lines, and break up discoloration to promote more even-toned skin.
  1. Clean Out Blackheads and Clogged Pores: Your esthetician will use a skilled method to extract clogged pores, blackheads, and impurities gently without causing harm to your skin. People generally have a hard time removing blackheads at home because home care products can only help to reduce clogged pores.
  1. Intensive Hydration: Every skin type requires hydration. It doesn’t matter if you have oily, acne prone, or dry and flaky skin, your skin cells need water to survive. To maintain healthy skin, it is important to keep it topically hydrated.
  1. Professional Advice: Part of getting a facial is receiving a lesson from experts on how to care for your skin properly. This experience includes which products will work the best for your skin type, and you will learn how care for your skin at home so you can have the best results for your facial.

For the best facial in Petaluma, CA, be sure to choose Laura Skin Care.

Are Carbohydrates Making You Look Old?

   Facial  Jan 06, 2015  Comments Off on Are Carbohydrates Making You Look Old?

Aging With GraceWe all know that too much of anything is bad. But, when it comes to the skin, there are some things you may have not considered.  As a woman starts to add some years to her life, she will wake up one day and realize that gravity started to take its toll. Looking in the mirror starts to become a little disheartening. The pink glow that she once had is now gone and the skin on the face does not have the volume that it one had. There are many reasons we begin to show signs of aging: lifestyle, sun exposure, and bad food. Believe it or not, but the amount of excess Carbohydrates that you eat is actually speeding the aging process along.

Simple Carbohydrate such as bread, potatoes, sugar, especially anything white and refined, are destroying the protein fibers in your skin. Proteins, Collagen and Elastin, are what hold the muscle and skin together. Carbohydrates leave a sticky substance that attaches to protein fibers, and cause them to weaken and eventually break. When these protein fibers begin to break, the result is saggy, old looking skin. This is commonly called Glycation.

Glycation is, also, visible on the skin noted by dry, dull, almost grey looking appearance. Despite the loss of volume, there is no pinkish glow which is found in youthful skin. The rate of metabolism slows and the body can no longer turn over the skin cells that contribute to that once youthful glow that we all seek. The worse part about Glycation, it will prevent any product that you may use on your skin from actually penetrating into the skins surface. Chemical Peels and Microdermabrasion are the most safe and effective way to remove this layer of cellular garbage. Proper washing of the skin helps tremendously, as well.

Changing the way you wash your face and being mindful about the foods that you consume is a way to begin combating the first signs of aging: it is never too late to start. Start by cooking your meats, slowly, and avoiding over cooked meat, as well. Supplements such as Vitamin C and E protect the protein and increase the turn- over of new skin cells. Substitute whole grains in bread and rice and eat as much fresh fruit and vegetables. You will see a definite improvement in your skin tone and texture with in a two week time frame. A lifetime of bad habits take some time to repair so be patient: your mirror will thank you!

Fall Is For Facials

   Facial  Nov 17, 2014  Comments Off on Fall Is For Facials

Best Facial Petaluma, CAThe summer fun is gone but it left its footprints on your face! After a long summer on the beach, by the pool, or just playing outdoors with your kids, you may start noticing some rough patchy skin. Some people start to notice some darker areas on their skin that they had not noticed before. You are just in luck, because there is never a better time to get a facial. There are all types of facials that one can get; a basic facial is a great place to begin removing what summer has left behind.

The seasons always provide what Nature takes away. The Fall harvest is full of the richest antioxidants that we can intake through our food. And, all of these wonderful treasures can be found in the skin care products that we use. Pumpkins, cranberries, grapes, to name a few, are full of antioxidants which will help remove the lasting effects of summer. The summer sun promotes the formation of Free Radicals while the fall harvest will help remove the damage.

Antioxidants, which are produced by the body, provide Free Radicals- skin scavengers- with the food source it is looking for. Having an abundance of antioxidants available will protect the body and skin from being broken down. The more stress that you are under, or the more you expose yourself to hostile environment factors, the more antioxidants you need to consume.

As far as treating your skin with powerful antioxidants, they will prevent the DNA destruction that is responsible in the aging process. Once the DNA is destroyed, the human body does not have the instructions to create new skin cells. Once cellular death begins to happen, you will start to see advanced signs of aging. Having a diet rich in antioxidants, will protect new cells and repair what is damaged. They are also full of Vitamin C, which is not made by the body, and without out this essential supplement, the body cannot produce new skin cells. So there should be no question in why you should get a facial. A skin care professional has access to the strongest antioxidants available. Not only do they have the finest ingredients, but they can recommend which products would be best for you. No one gets as close to your skin as an Esthetician: skin is their business.