Oxygen Facials: Red-carpet Services or Serious Skin Care?
The oxygen facial is often marketed as being a red-carpet service, but is there more to it than that? The benefits of topical oxygen extend well beyond just the plump-me-up, blush-me-out, short-term look-good effect, and has its roots in serious skin care. Skin...
Take Vitamin D For Skin And Whole Body Health
Just look on your carton of milk (that includes your soy milk) and you’ll probably see a label that says “Vitamin D added.” So, if it’s added, it must be important, right? Turns out, vitamin D is essential for good health. Vitamin D acts more like a hormone than a...
Protecting Your Skin From Mosquitoes
Because we believe in total body health and always have our ear to the ground when it comes to hot issues, especially those that have to do with the skin, we thought we’d delve a little deeper into all the news about the West Nile Virus that’s become more prevalent in...
Rosacea
That inconvenient blush, the redness in the face and sometimes even the eyes, the little pimple-like bumps that show up inconveniently… these are all signs of Rosacea, a common skin ailment that can pop up at any time and last for years. Many women may develop it at...
Why Professional Facials and Spa Treatments Are Essential To Health
We all know that facials feel great and make us feel pampered and refreshed, but they are also extremely beneficial for other reasons. Identify Your Skin Type In a world awash with products and procedures, it’s difficult to know which ones are best for you. One of...
Skincare For Men
Skincare’s not just for women anymore!
Natural Protection From UV Rays
This has been a really hot, sunny summer and we feel it’s our duty to keep you informed on as much information regarding protection from harmful UV rays as possible. A new study from Italian researchers at the Universita Politecnica delle Marche found that adding...
Taking Care Of Your Skin After Cosmetic Surgery
Once looked on as a luxury, cosmetic surgery has never been so mainstream. Some procedures are even outpatient and can be done in the span of a lunch break. Any way you look at it, procedures can still be damaging to your skin and extra care must be taken after a...
Juicing And The Master Cleanse…Health Or Hindrance For Skin Health?
Juice cleanse, The Master Cleanse.... Although fasting and liquid diets are not new ideas, they seem to have surged in popularity in recent years. Partly due to documentaries, such as Fat, Sick, And Nearly Dead as well as all the attention towards the obesity...
Sweat And Your Skin
Call it “glistening,” call it “shining,” but whatever you call it, it’s just good old fashioned sweat. Nobody likes sweat stains on their clothing and it can ruin an otherwise perfectly good make-up application, but sweat is necessary to keep your body healthy. The...
Product Highlight: Slow Down The Aging Of Your Skin
Hi all, Layla here. One question I always get is, “how can I look younger?.” Although my clientele is diverse in age, ranging from young men and women with barely a wrinkle to speak of, to men and women with a timeline of smiles, frowns, sun, and years of experience...
Moles and Melanomas
We’ve talked quite a bit about sunscreen and skin protection from the sun and it’s just one of those things that we will continue to talk about forever. Sun damage to your skin has a whole host of problems associated with it, including premature aging of the skin and...
Dealing with Dark Circles
The skin under our eyes is thin and delicate to begin with and, depending on genetics, you may even have bluish marks there simply because the tiny veins are close to the surface or your skin is just a little thinner than others. However, there are also some very...
Eat Fat For Your Skin
Fat has been made out to be the villain in the diet wars for years, but studies have shown that fat is essential for proper body function. That includes the largest organ: Your skin. Of course, not all fats are made the same. Although your body needs a bit of...
Sleep: The Most Important Thing We Often Miss
We never have enough time for sleep. You wake up early to go to work, get the kids off to school, maybe sneak in a workout and, hopefully, breakfast. Then it’s go, go, go all day trying to keep up with work and errands and that never-ending list of things you must...
A Guide On Everyday Things That Age Your Skin And How To Fight Back
When we say “aging” your skin, we really mean “damaging” your skin. After all, wrinkles are caused by time, but also by not protecting your skin from the sun, free radicals, and other damaging elements. You are at your most beautiful when you take steps to keep...
Stress Busters And Why You Need To Relax
Stress can be one of the biggest contributing factors to bad health. It affects you physically and emotionally, often wearing you down and leaving you susceptible to catching whatever illness is floating around. You’re also more prone to getting blemishes, which we...
Why Yoga Is Great For Your Skin
This is the first in what we hope will be a series of posts on yoga and other practices/food/and products that explore total body wellness and health. Your body is not just one entity, but a series of systems that are intertwined, working independently and together...
Exfoliating to Keep Your Skin Healthy and Younger-Looking
Your epidermis is one of the hardest working organs of your body. We’re talking about your skin; your barrier between you and a world full of pollutants, dirt, and other irritants. It’s also the largest organ and, often times, the most neglected on a day-to-day...
A Quick And Easy Guide To Summer Skin Protection
The start of summer means the return of long days of sunshine and all the activities we enjoy to take advantage of the extra rays of the day. Although the vitamin D from the sun is a necessary ingredient for our bodies to stay in good physical and mental health, too...
A Multifaceted Approach to Acne
Acne is a common skin disorder affecting both genders and all ethnic groups. In fact, the condition affects at least 80% of adolescents and young adults to some degree. Research also shows that a large number of women over 25 have acne, and the prevalence of acne...
Is Your Skin Discolored From the Sun? It May be Melasma
By Kevin C. Smith MD FACP FRCPC Melasma is a common increase of pigmentation that occurs exclusively in sun-exposed areas, in particular on the face. SOME FACTS ABOUT MELASMA: It is much more common in women between the ages of 20-40 Melasma is less common in older...
A Multifaceted Approach to Acne
Acne is recognized as a multifactorial disease requiring a multifaceted approach to therapy. Establishing an accurate assessment is essential for developing a treatment strategy for acne and evaluating treatment success.
30 Skin Care Misconceptions
30 Skin Care Misconceptions Skin care professionals and consumers alike are bombarded daily with a myriad of information about skin care, skin science and skin health from the media, manufacturers and an ever-increasing number of physicians, all attempting to justify...
Skin Rashes – Where Do They Come From?
By SkinCareGuide.ca A skin rash shows up as an area of inflammation or change in the texture, and/ or color of your skin. It can be caused by a number of different things including irritation, disease, or allergic/ non-allergic reactions to foods, chemicals, plants,...
Skin Tags and Seborrheic Keratoses
By Kevin C. Smith MD FACP FRCPC As time goes on, we all acquire tiny bits of extra skin called skin tags. These can range in size from 1-10 mm, and are flesh colored or brown. Skin tags can be found on any part of the body, but are most common on the eyelids and neck,...
Halloween and Your Skin
By SkinCareGuide.ca Keep Your Skin from Becoming Ghoulish With Halloween upon us, adults and children alike are planning costumes for parties, school events and trick or treating. For some adults, it is the one time of year that "the inner child" comes out to...
For Shapely Brows, Put Down the Tweezers
By KAYLEEN SCHAEFER “TAKE your tweezers,” Maribeth Madron, a makeup artist and eyebrow specialist in New York, will say to about a quarter of her clients, “and put them in a glass jar and freeze them.” To women who obsess over and excessively pluck their brows, tough...
Anti-Aging Skin Care Tips
Learn to look after your skin By SkinCareGuide.ca Although there are different kinds of treatments, procedures and surgery that can assist in improving the look of your skin, it is important that you look after your skin to start with. If you are unhappy with how...
Age Spots? Sun Spots? Skin Cancer?
By Kevin C. Smith MD FACP FRCPC As time goes on, we start to notice brown spots and freckles -- "souvenirs of Florida" -- on the backs of our hands and on other sun exposed areas like the upper chest and face. At first, these brown spots are small and light colored,...