Tips For Younger Looking Skin This Year

A new year brings to mind a lot of ways to improve. You want to eat better, dress better, treat your body as the temple it is...especially after the overindulgence of the holidays. Your skin deserves just as much attention as the rest of you, especially during colder weather getting and after a few nights of skipped makeup removal during the holidays. Whether you want to eliminate unsightly blemishes, smooth out wrinkles, or brighten up dark spots, we have everything you need to reach those skincare #goals.

Give your skin a jump start with our Fusion Peel. Perfect for all skin types, the Fusion Peel offers in depth rejuvenation with little to no downtime. Dead skin cells are removed and pores are cleared of oil and cellular debris. This proprietary fusion of acids helps to minimize fine lines and hyperpigmentation while combating breakouts. This is the reset your skin needs to look fresh and clear for the new year!

If you don’t want to go as far as a peel or you’re looking to maintain results between treatments, you need the Glycolic 10% Daily Exfoliator. This daily use treatment eliminates dead skin cells, which in turn reduces pore size and breakouts. Glycolic acid encourages cell turnover, boosting collagen and elastin--just what you need to minimize (or prevent!) wrinkles and fine lines. When used between peel treatments, it maximizes and lengthens results to keep skin looking radiant.

Looking to achieve younger looking eyes? Our Vitamin C30X Eye Lift Kit tackles the trifecta of ocular issues: fine lines, sagging skin, and dark under eye circles. Containing both a serum and a line filler, this kit works deep into the sensitive skin of the eyes, renewing without irritating. The serum improves tone and reduces the dark circles while the line filler improves moisture and elasticity. Crow’s feet will be a thing of the past and you’ll be looking brighter and more energetic.

There’s no skin that doesn’t need a great moisturizer. Our Hyaluronic Moisturizer Cream heals and hydrates, making it perfect for daily and post-peel use. Dry and combination skin can benefit from use as an overnight moisturizer, imparting deep hydration. Effective moisturizer keeps skin from drying out even during cold weather. Skin is protected from age and environmental damage, appearing plump and smooth. If you’re using it after a peel, this is a great way to impart lost moisture, protect healing skin, and extend results.

Ready to jump into the new year skin first? Beautiful skin is the gift that lasts through every season, as long as you’re willing to give it what it needs. Smooth and tight, clear and bright, whatever your goal is, we’re here to get you there.

Tips for the Ultimate Summer Skincare Routine

Summer is in full swing, along with all of the social events, selfies, and sunburns that come with it. Do you have a solid plan for blocking out the harmful effects of UV rays while keeping your skin looking healthy, fresh, and summer-ready?

The following tips will help you design a custom summer skincare routine that’s best for your skin and all of the concerns that come with the sizzling sunny months. It’s all about promoting and maintaining glowing, healthy skin to keep you looking and feeling your best this beach season.

Combat Oily Skin and Blemishes

The summer heat can bring out the oils in your skin, worsening any pre-existing acne conditions. Keep blemishes at bay with the oil-soluble power of salicylic acid. Incorporate the Salicylic 2% Daily Exfoliator into your summer skincare routine and keep your face looking fresh and clear all summer while maintaining a healthy balance of acids and pH levels in your skin.

Keep it Light

You don’t want to weigh your skin down with heavy moisturizers during the day, so the challenge is finding a daily cream that’s light and effective at the same time. Hyaluronic Moisturizer Cream is safe and lightweight enough for daily use. It cools the skin and helps to replenish it after a peel or excess sun exposure.

Shed Your Old Skin

It’s time to step out and reinvent yourself, revealing a vital new layer of skin. Don’t wait for harmful sunburns to peel your outer layer of skin away, do it yourself with a safe and effective peel.

If this is your first peel of the summer season, start with a light strength kit such as the AHA & Vitamin C Brightening 30% Peel Kit in light strength. Prep your skin with a mild exfoliator beforehand, and make sure to protect it with an SPF moisturizer of at least 30 as part of your daily aftercare.

Follow an Exfoliating Routine

If you’re preparing for a summer peel, the Glycolic Micro Peel Scrub is a great choice to prep your skin and increase your next peel’s effectiveness, allowing it to penetrate deeper into your skin. This scrub’s real microdermabrasion crystals are an in invaluable tool to resurface the outer layer of your skin and keep it looking beach-ready.

Load Up On Sunscreen Before You Hit the Beach

It’s common sense to apply sunscreen at the beach, but you can start building up your skin’s protection by applying it well before any sun damage occurs. Apply sunscreen every night for a few weeks leading up to that sun-drenched vacation you’ve been planning. Your skin will build up a store of of UV protection in its outer layer, known by the technical term “stratum corneum”.

Firm Your Physique

After you hit the gym to get your body in shape for summer, why not give an extra boost of firmness to your whole body’s skin? The Body Tight Firming Kit penetrates deep into your skin where cellulite first forms, while increasing collagen and elastin to give you smoother, sexier looking skin in just two weeks. Its active ingredients are glycolic and lactic acid, as well as caffeine and coccoloba polyphenols. Think of it as your secret weapon for a firmer-looking beach body. 

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This is exactly why HA Serum+ and HA Moisture+ with Antioxidants are age fighting superstars. You could not pack any more age fighting ingredients in a bottle if you tried. And if you want to take your skin to the next level, age prevention chemical peels can help perk up and revive a lacking complexion. Keep your skin young, healthy, and damage free with an ounce of prevention every day.

"Very soothing on my sensitive skin. Love the light texture of both products" - Kelly P. (Orlando, FL USA)

Sagging Skin As You Get Older

As you age, it's likely that you'll start to see changes occur in your skin, including on your face. What was once plump and healthy looking may become saggy and translucent. By understanding the changes in your skin, you can effectively seek out prevention plans and ways to treat your sagging skin so that it looks younger and healthier. As your skin begins to sag and age, you'll likely notice an increase in wrinkles. With saggy skin, you may notice folding and wrinkles, especially around areas on your face where you express emotion, like around your eyes and mouth. Collagen and elastin are naturally occurring structural proteins normally produced in the dermal, or underlying, layer of the skin. These proteins are believed to be crucial for keeping skin smooth, supple, and elastic. Though the body naturally produces collagen and elastin, production is said to decrease as one ages. Healthy production of these proteins are said to reduce signs of aging, particularly wrinkling, and sagging of the skin.

Some of your daily habits can intensify your aging and saggy skin, though, so it's important

to treat your skin well so that it stays looking younger. By avoiding skin damage, you can avoid sagging skin caused by most of all sun exposure. A combination of factors including collective sun exposure, diet, and tobacco use can accelerate the decline of natural collagen production. Chemical peels are best in boosting collagen and elastin production. This process will assist to smooth out fine lines and wrinkles, firm, restore, maintain skin's elasticity thus reduce the signs of aging.  

Addressing the Concerns of Darker Skin

Skin pigmentation conditions can be a problem for many of us especially brown skin
people of Asian, African, Latin or Native American backgrounds. While the natural pigmentation in brown skin provides many advantages, such as sun protection and slowed signs of aging, it is also more highly susceptible to skin discolorations.

Sometimes the cells that contain the melanin pigment are damaged or over stimulated. When this happens, the affected cells may begin to produce too much or too little melanin. Too much melanin causes darker spots or patches, while too little causes lighter spots or patches. These lighter or darker spots appear on the surface of the skin, and can be unsightly. There are a number of pigmentation disorders that affect brown skin. These include Melasma and Post Imflammatory Hyperpigmentaion.

For all individuals, it's crucial to wear a broad-spectrum sunscreen daily. Avoid the sun when possible, and wear protective eyewear, caps, hats and clothing.Chemical peels skin and lightening products is the ideal way in treating these conditions. Medium/Darker skin tones must be particularly careful when selecting a chemical peel due to the risk of post.

Which Chemical Peel Is Right For Me?

Determining which chemical peel is right for you is a difficult decision but the most important question a person needs to ask themselves is what are your goals for your skin. It is important to realize that all chemical peels all differ in result and how deep they penetrate the skin.

If you want to exfoliate the skin, then using a low strength glycolic, jessner or salicylic chemical peel can be used. In order to correct any pigment abnormalities such as melasma, using an AHA Kojic peel is very beneficial. For deeper peels that target fine lines and wrinkles, a TCA peel is a good peel to use.

In order to maintain healthy skin, it is vital to use a chemical peel to maintain that beauty. Several factors should be considered before applying a peel which include possible downtime and budget. A chemical peel that is applied by an esthetician usually ranges between $200 and $300 per application; however, any individual who is knowledgeable on the result they want to achieve can apply a peel.

It is important to consult with an esthetician so they can guide you in the proper direction and can help you with the result you plan on achieving. Please take a look through our  peel lineup and talk to our estheticians before making any decision.

What Are Some Exfoliation Options I Can Use?

Can't decide between the exfoliation options? Let us help you in some handy information. Exfoliants are charged with the task of removing dull, dead cells on the skin’s outermost surface. There are two general categories of exfoliation treatments: topical and mechanical. The exfoliation action of topical treatments may be considered “physical,” as when abrasive action is applied to create friction to slough off the dead cells, or “chemical,” as when the natural exfoliating properties of the topical product alone get the job done. 

Chemical exfoliants dissolve and loosen dead skin cells and encourage them off the skin. Once the dead skin cells are removed, new, healthy skin cells are revealed, creating a more youthful, vibrant complexion. Physical exfoliation has a long history of popularity thanks to its simplicity, reliability and versatility. There are two kinds of physical exfoliants: Gommage applications, also known as “sloughing creams,” best used on young, oily skin and rubbed into the skin using massage-like movements and the good old scrub applications. Which are often used for dry to normal, sensitive as well as mature skin, really depends on the constitute of the scrub. 

Chemical exfoliation as “the application of a liquid or gel solution that contains an alpha hydroxyl acid (AHA) or beta hydroxyl acid (BHA).” AHAs may include glycolic, lactic, citric, malic and tartaric acids; the most commonly used BHA in skin care is salicylic acid. Fruit enzymes such as pumpkin, papain (from papaya) or bromelain (from pineapple) also fit into this category. Enzymes functionally work to ‘digest’ dead skin cells after they have been brought to the surface.

 The skin cells are like layers of bricks held together by a glue-like substance. AHAs dissolve the glue that holds the cells together, which allows them to fall off. BHAs, on the other hand, digest protein, dissolving the actual skin cell.” Because the skin has an acid mantle to protect itself, a chemical exfoliant needs to have a specific pH to work. The skin’s pH range is 4.5 to 5.5, thus to penetrate the protective mantle, the product pH must be lower. So the simplicity of choosing the right peel lies in your hands and the options are there!

How To Treat Depressed Acne Scars

There are thousands of people out there, young and old, who are plagued with acne and the scars that go along with them. These scars can leave a lasting effect on a persons self esteem and can drive people to feel depressed or even have major anxiety. People who have these scars always wonder what is the best way they can get rid of these scars.

First and foremost, it is important to see a dermatologist before attempting anything on your skin and to be sure that your acne is under control so you don't get any new acne scars.

Secondly, try a series of different types of chemical peels that fit your skin type and deliver the results you are looking for. Different chemical peels that are helpful are:

Jessner's Peel - a mixture of lactic acid, salicylic acid and resorcinol which help revitalize the skin like no other.

TCA Peels - provide superficial to medium depth and relies on the concentration of the peel. The peels strength usually range from 10%-30%.

The key is to have your acne under control before attempting anything.

Glycolic Acid Attacks Bacteria In Pimples?

There are many different types of chemical peels: Glycolic Acid, Salicylic Acid Peel, Jessner's Peel, TCA Peel, AHA Peels, a our special Fusion Peel, but only a couple of them attack the bacteria that causes the development of pimples. A study was performed by a doctor in Japan name Dr. Yuko Takenaka at Tokyo Women's Medical University. Their study wanted to determine the effect of glycolic acid chemical peels on inflammatory acne.

The doctor and her team performed the study on nine women aged 25-35 with severe cases of acne. They found that each woman all had a bacterium called Propionibacterium acnes, which is associated with acne. Each researcher grew the bacteria in a petri dish and then added glycolic acid. The results found that the glycolic acid had inhibited the growth of the bacteria. With these promising results, the doctor and her team applied glycolic acid to one side of the subjects faces. 

The study showed that the bacteria on the side of where the glycolic acid was applied had significantly less bacteria than the other cheek that wasn't treated with the glycolic acid. Moreover, the side applied with glycolic acid had significantly less acne scars then the side not applied with the glycolic acid.

This research supports the use of chemical peels and the effectiveness that it has on the individuals who have cystic acne and strongly suggests that glycolic acid is a great substitute to the harsh alternative of benzoyl peroxide.

Want to see if it works for you? Try our glycolic peels today!

Containing Cold Sores When Performing Chemical Peels

Cold sores can occur when there is any type of disturbance to the skin, even when performing a chemical peel. Before performing any type of chemical peel on yourself, it is important that you visit a dermatologist to make sure you are fit to perform any type of peel or speak to a licensed esthetician. Speak to a professional and explain to them that you have had breakouts of cold sores in the past. In order to prevent the cold sores from inflammation, it may behoove the individual to start medication to prevent or even diminish the possibility of reactivation of the cold sores.


Approximately 90% of people are infected or have been infected by some form of the Herpes Virus. Chemical peels and microdermabrasion all stimulate the skin and can reactivate the virus that usually live in the sensory nerves.


The chemical peels stimulate the nerves and decrease the barriers allowing the virus to start and the cold sores to form. If the peel is more superficial, doctors will prescribe different medications to combat the cold sores. Superficial peels can include Glycolic Acid, TCA peels and Jessner Peels. 


Chemical peels are extremely safe when you have cold sores, however the key to containing them is preventing them from the beginning!

Chemical Peels Throughout Time

Chemical Skin peels are used these days to improve the skin’s overall appearance, by removing the initial surface of the skin, allowing rejuvenated smoother skin to grow in its place. But were they using them in the old days?

In Ancient times, Cleopatra was known for bathing in sour milk. This practice was common in that time. Why sour milk? Sour milk contains lactic acid, one of the ingredients used in chemical peels today. The Egyptians were also known for bathing in old wine to achieve the same effect. The old wine contains a tartaric acid. This fruit acid is used in skin peels now a days.

From the 15th Century on, pale skin became a fad, which in turn made skin whitening creams and chemical peels very popular. They began using these creams and peels after the Greeks introduced the effective ingredient lead oxide in these products.

In the 1950’s dermatologists began administering medium depth, and deep peels which weren’t available until this time. When they administered these peels they used ingredients such as trichloroacetic acid, resorcinol, salicylic acid and phenol. These ingredients are still used today in chemical peels.

Chemical peels have been around forever and there is only one reason why: They work. Try one today and reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, uneven skin tone, even pigmentation, and rejuvenate the appearance of your skin!

Chemical Peeling vs. Other Treatments

Chemical peeling is a popular way to rejuvenate the skin. It can improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, remove blemishes like sun spots and melasma, and treat acne and other skin conditions. The procedure is fast, with few side effects and a short recovery time.

Other dermatological treatments, like microdermabrasion and laser skin resurfacing, offer results and benefits similar to those of chemical peeling. Let's take a look at how chemical peelings compares to some of these other treatments.

Chemical Peels and How They Work

Chemical peels use a layer of gentle chemicals to melt away dead cells from the surface of the skin, leaving skin smoother, lighter, and younger in appearance. Chemical peels of varying strengths are used to treat fine lines and wrinkles, acne and acne scarring, melasma, age spots, sun spots and precancerous growths.

Chemical peels come in three different strengths, mild, medium-depth and deep. Each one penetrates a little further into the skin to more effectively treat blemishes, scars and irregularities in skin tone.

Chemical Peels vs. Dermabrasion

Dermabrasion is another way to remove dead skin cells from the surface of the skin. Rather than using chemicals to melt away dead cells from the skin's surface, dermabrasion uses surgical tools to scrape them away. Like chemical peels, dermabrasion can be used to improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, scars, age spots, sun spots, melasma and precancerous growths.

Dermabrasion, however, is generally considered a more serious procedure than chemical peeling, because it uses tools to surgically scrape surface skin from your face. Depending on the severity of your condition, you may need either local or general anesthetic to under dermabrasion. The procedure itself can last for up to an hour and a half, whereas most mild and medium-depth chemical peels take only about half an hour to administer.

Dermabrasion generally causes more significant side effects than chemical peeling. Your face may be quite inflamed and swollen for as long as a week. It may burn, ache or tingle. You may need to stay at home for at least two weeks and you may need to avoid the sun entirely for at least four weeks. Full recovery could take as long as one year. In comparison, mild and medium-depth chemical peels cause only moderate pain and inflammation for about 24 hours post-procedure, and full recovery usually takes about two weeks.

Chemical Peels vs. Laser Skin Resurfacing

Laser skin resurfacing is a relatively new skin refinishing technique that promises to smooth skin and even out skin tone with fewer side effects. Laser resurfacing is used to treat fine lines and wrinkles, remove acne scars and firm skin. Laser skin resurfacing has minimal side effects including bruising, redness and swelling. Comparatively, they may be slightly more severe than the side effects of chemical peeling. Recovery time for laser resurfacing is longer; one to two weeks, depending on the type of laser used.

Laser resurfacing for your whole face can take as long as two hours, much longer than a mild or medium-depth chemical peel, which usually takes about 30 minutes and almost never takes longer than an hour. You may also need to wear a facial bandage for as many as three days, and use ointment to prevent the formation of a scab. With most chemical peels, bandages and ointments aren't necessary as scabs don't form.