Activated charcoal has become a popular ingredient in skincare products due to its powerful detoxifying and purifying properties. This natural ingredient, made from carbon-rich materials like coconut shells, wood, or peat, is processed to create a highly porous substance that can attract and bind … [Read more...] about The Benefits of Activated Charcoal in Skincare
5 Reasons Your Skincare Isn’t Working
Sometimes, it seems as though no matter what you do, your skin just looks a bit ‘blah’. You’re using good products, but you’re just not getting the results that you expected - especially when you have forked out hundreds of dollars on your skin care! Maybe your skin looks tired and dull, maybe the … [Read more...] about 5 Reasons Your Skincare Isn’t Working
Omnilux Skin Solutions
As we age, damaged skin loses elasticity and the ability to regulate pigment production. This leads to sags, wrinkles, age spots, and redness. With published clinical studies and 20 years of research, Omnilux Skin Solutions (contour range) uses optimised doses of red and infrared light to … [Read more...] about Omnilux Skin Solutions
Best Toners For Your Skin
Cleanse, tone and moisturise. These are the three steps I was taught when I was younger, and at that time, it consisted of a Nutrimetics cleanser, cheap supermarket toners and a Ponds or Nivea moisturiser - or if I was ‘in the money’ I’d lash out and purchase an Olay moisturiser. If I was feeling … [Read more...] about Best Toners For Your Skin
Enzymes in Skincare
Enzymes is one of the words that you often hear about when talking about skin care and one that we know we love. Do you actually know what they are, where they come from and what they do though? Here we will break it down for you, so you know why having enzymes in your skin care is so … [Read more...] about Enzymes in Skincare
Oily Skin Care Review – Our Favourites!
This week we're giving you our real life, honest oily skin care review. I think we can all agree that oily skin is not fun. The thought of adding skin care onto your already oily skin can be distasteful to say the least. The easily available supermarket products can often either feel like they're … [Read more...] about Oily Skin Care Review – Our Favourites!
Oily Skin – 8 Tips To Balanced Skin
Do you suffer from oily skin? Maybe just part of your face is oily, like your T section. Perhaps you don’t start out feeling oily, but by half way through the day, you need to blot your face. Or maybe your makeup has trouble staying put throughout the day? If this sounds like you, you probably find … [Read more...] about Oily Skin – 8 Tips To Balanced Skin
Vitamin B Skin Care – Every Skin Needs it
This week we are looking at Vitamin B skin care options. Vitamin B continues to be one of our top selling serums, and here you will find out why. What are Vitamin B serums? Vitamin B is a wonderful vitamin for skin care because it is so versatile. Not only does it perform so many … [Read more...] about Vitamin B Skin Care – Every Skin Needs it
Vitamin A – essential for your skin
Vitamin A – Facts, Types and Use Vitamin A skin care products improve the health of your skin. They work by normalising how your skin functions, which in turn helps your skin to stay strong and healthy. This makes it a powerhouse in your skin care regime. It was conclusively proven in 1996 that … [Read more...] about Vitamin A – essential for your skin
Lactic Acid and Skin Care Products
Have you heard how amazing Lactic Acid and skin care is? It's an important ingredient in your facial cleanser, serums and masks, as well as being so much more! Having clean skin has become particularly important in today's modern world. This is because the Environment is now filled with pollutants … [Read more...] about Lactic Acid and Skin Care Products
Enlarged Pores Top 10 Skin Care Tips
Enlarged pores have overtaken wrinkles in areas of complaint. Most of my clients have add large pores to their list of skin woes and I would have to agree. Unfortunately for me, I inherited enlarged skin pores from my mum, and while I do everything possible to minimise their appearance, they will … [Read more...] about Enlarged Pores Top 10 Skin Care Tips
Double Cleansing – Should You?
Our skin care routine can be serious business. For some of us (like me) it can take a good 15 minutes every night. Although 15 minutes seems a lot of time to spend on my skin care routine, I find that by the end of the day it’s something that I really look forward to. Just like taking off my bra at … [Read more...] about Double Cleansing – Should You?
Introducing New Products Into Your Skincare
Sometimes, no matter how many lotions and potions we put on our face, our skin can become complacent. One day we wake up and our skin just doesn’t look the way it usually does. We usually put it down to a bad nights’ sleep, but the next day, it happens again. Our skin starts to look a little dull, … [Read more...] about Introducing New Products Into Your Skincare
Acne – Common Questions & Answers
We receive many online skin consultation submissions here in the clinic. Each one is answered individually as though the person was sitting in our consultation room opposite us. Over the years we’ve found that we are answering common questions. Different age groups and skin types develop and suffer … [Read more...] about Acne – Common Questions & Answers
Face Masks – A Weekly Essential
Choosing face masks can feel overwhelming when they all appear so similar and yet can achieve such different results! Face masks are a great addition to any good home-care routine, providing a wide array of benefits, boosting results and bringing that luxurious feel of having a ‘treatment’ in … [Read more...] about Face Masks – A Weekly Essential
The What, Why and How of Cleansing
Quite often, it’s easy for us to complicate things in our lives. Our skin care seems to be one of those things that we over-think and then overlook and eventually, it all ends up getting put on the back-burner. To make things easy, we’re getting back to the basics of skin care. The what’s, why’s and … [Read more...] about The What, Why and How of Cleansing
How to Choose a Cleanser
It’s a little overwhelming isn’t it? There are so many cleansers out there and so much information. So, how to choose a cleanser? We plan to dispel the myths and give it to you straight! If you currently just use water to rinse your face – you need to first find out WHY you need to use a … [Read more...] about How to Choose a Cleanser
Moisturisers – What, Why and Which…
As with any product, choosing the right moisturisers depends on the type of skin you have, as well as understanding your skin’s current needs, which are always changing. That is why it’s a good idea to see a skin care professional regularly so that you can be prescribed the right products for your … [Read more...] about Moisturisers – What, Why and Which…
Acne, Oily skin, congested skin
Acne affects most of us at some stage in our lives... Whatever age or sex you are, it is the hormones that set a series of events in place which see your skin erupting in all manner of ways. Your hormones, however are influenced by many of your lifestyle choices, and it is these which can see you … [Read more...] about Acne, Oily skin, congested skin
Men’s Skincare Stories
We asked four men to take part in Men’s Month, using our Men's Skin Care Kits and having treatments. They have all been using products for at least two weeks and all started their experience with a Personalised Skin Consultation including a tailor-made Hydrating Facial Treatment. Here we … [Read more...] about Men’s Skincare Stories
Skincare for men – regimes
Generally speaking, men do look for a simple life - well we all do really! Skincare for men can be simple. To help those that feel uncomfortable with "skincare product" but would like a changed skin, we have created two skincare kits. Either one of these will make it simple for anyone to begin … [Read more...] about Skincare for men – regimes
Acne Explained
The bane of life for many of us... a pimple! Even if you are predominantly clear skinned there will be times just when you don’t want them that one pops up – usually right in the middle of your forehead or chin! When its just one or two usually it’s stress and diet that are the culprits. As a … [Read more...] about Acne Explained
Sugar, Your Skin and Acne
We have all heard sugar and your skin don't mix... but why? In recent years there has been much talk about the big bad Sugar word, and where it lurks, often even hidden in so called ‘health foods’ in our diets. In its natural form, as we find in whole fruits and veggies, sugar can be … [Read more...] about Sugar, Your Skin and Acne
