Sensational Skin at every age!
Once we hit our forties our fine lines become deeper, hyper pigmentation increases and the dreaded sagging begins. The skin will become visibly drier and begins to lose some of its tone and elasticity. Now is the time to energise and rejuvenate your skin, and get the glow back to reveal a youthful luminescence and firmness.
Tips:
- Start using more intense moisturisers to nourish & restore elasticity. Please click here for a range of intense moisturisers
- anti-ageing products to help to improve tone and texture.
An uneven skin tone can add 10 years to your looks.
Jan Marini Bioclear cream provides superior resurfacing agents to leave a more smoother, refine and even skin texture.
To help lift and tighten the skin, try Priori CoffeeBerry Tightening serum
- Consider investing in regular facials and peels to refresh and revitalise your skin or even a hand held Omnilux new-U device for the ultimate skin rejuvenation treament
And don’t forget to keep protecting your skin from the sun
Andrea
Cosmetic Nurse Practitioner
Sensational Skin at every age!
This is the age when you can start to notice the signs of ageing, as oil production decreases. For many, the first signs include fine lines, creases around the eyes begin to appear and the skin starts to show dullness and dryness.
Sun worshipers may have sun spots and discolouration.
Creasing of the skin from repeated muscle activity (frowning) can start to show now, with a central frown furrow, lines across your forehead and crows feet.
This is the time to make your skin work harder for you rather than let it start to slow down.
Tips:
Exfoliating your skin can work wonders at this age. Products which contain AHA’S (alpha hydroxyl acids), such as glycolic acid and BHA’s (beta hydroxyl acid) such as salicylic acid, increase skin exfoliation by shedding the top layer’s dull, dead cells, helping the skin to appear smoother and feel softer.
Please click here for further information about Hydroxy acids
You may not get enough sleep if you have young children or your career is in full swing. To help prevent puffiness or crow’s feet develpoing around the eyes.
Add an eye cream into your routine to help reduce the signs of puffiness, lines and dark circles.
Here’s a great range of Eye Products
This is the time to boost hydration
You could protect your skin at the same time by wearing a moisturiser with sun screen even if it isn’t sunny outside.
Agera Daily moisturiser protector SPF 25 is a mild daily moisturiser is specifically designed for all skin types.
It is a multiple function formula that hydrates while maintaining the skin’s natural pH and providing UVA/UVB sun protection.
Andrea
Cosmetic Nurse Practitioner
Sensational Skin at every age!
Lucky you! Skin is at its best in our twenties. One thing’s for sure , the way you care for your skin now will have an impact on it’s future beauty. So start taking care of your skin now and you’ll look twenty years younger when you are in your forties!
TIPS :
-Protect your skin from the elements. This means making sure you use a high factor sun screen.
Apply SPF 30 sunscreen or above daily and all year round, not just in the summer to help minimise future sun damage and premature aging. You could use a daily moisturiser which contains SPF, it offers all that the skin needs from sun protection to effective hydration
-Apply an antioxidant serum after cleansing or use a moisturiser with added antioxidants. When skin is exposed to environmental pollution, it can increase the presence of free radicals which accelerate ageing. Antioxidants can fight these free radicals and prevent premature ageing.
For Super Antioxidants serums try Skinceuticals.
– Remove all the make-up with a good skin cleanser, before you go to sleep. Use a gentle cleanser instead of soap, as soap causes premature ageing, skin irritations and allergic reactions.
Exfoliating the skin daily helps to remove those layers of old dead skin, minimize your pores and makes your face look new, fresh and radiant.
– Lack of moisture and water, makes your skin look dull and flaky.
Don’t forget to hydrate from inside too.
Drink at least 6-8 glasses of water every day.
Eating a well balance diet with plently of fruit and vegetables will also help to keep your skin looking healthy.
Andrea
Cosmetic Nurse Practitioner
New ways to hold back the years
Uneven pigmentation and lack of plumpness are even more ageing than wrinkles.
For once, dermatologists, facialists and cosmetic doctors agree
- it’s all about skin tone.
As we age, brown patches, age spots and sun damage appear.
Adding sagging, loss of luminosity and a changing face shape
as everything heads south, and we look visibly older.
But there is good news the latest batch of targeted treatments,
smart skincare and specialist ingredients are all designed to address the damage.
She magazine April issue 2010 looks at a number of products and treatments designed to hold back the years. Andrea
Medik8 White Balance Serum is featured in the section ‘save your skin tone’
Please click here to view the article
Medik8 Dark Circles Eye Formula is featured in section “defeat dark circles’
Please click here to view the article
Available at www.dermacaredirect.co.uk
Cosmetic Nurse Practitioner
It has long been known that sun light (UV light) will improve acne. However, because of photo ageing and the increased risk of skin cancer, UV lights are not recommended as a safe treatment for acne.
The FDA approved blue light therapy for treating acne in August 2002.
Blue light is probably the best-known light therapy for acne treatment.
In contrast to other treatments, patients do not have to apply a cream to their skin. The technique simply relies on the interaction of the blue light with the infected skin.
Blue light acne treatment is a non-invasive treatment that uses light in the blue wavelength range of 405-420 nm to kill the Propionobacterium acnes or P. acnes bacteria in skin.
AcneStar® is a unique hand-held Blue light unit approximately the size of a mobile phone and is extremely easy to use.
Light Therapy Treatment
The treatment simply involves sitting in front of a light device for about 15 minutes everyday or as required.
The number of treatments depends on the severity of acne and improvements seen.
Benefits
- 100% natural and non-invasive
- drug-free with no adverse side effects
- safe for all ages
- painless
- easily self-administered in your own home
- no down-time
Combination Light Therapy (red & blue light)
Red-light therapy works using a similar method, but the red light is used for the purpose of speeding the process of skin recovery. A combination of lights both attacked bacteria contributing to the acne, and promoted healing in the skin.
Both red and blue lights penetrate deep into the skin without causing harm to the dermis. People who suffer with acne can greatly benefit from a combination therapy of both red and blue light.
The britebox dermaclear is an effective acne treatment lamp using innovative light-waves (840 medical LEDs), which kill P. acnes and promotes healing (reducing the chances of scaring). By combining blue and red LED technology, the Dermaclear is a natural acne treatment which is highly effective and safe.
Andrea
Cosmetic Nurse Practitioner
