Brighten Up!

Did You Know?

Age spots aren’t caused by age.

They are caused by the sun.

“Sunshine is an attack on the skin, and one way the skin defends itself is to make pigment,” explains Ranella Hirsch, M.D., a cosmetic dermatologist in Cambridge, MA, and president-elect of the American Society of Cosmetic Dermatology & Aesthetic Surgery. If a patient is skeptical about her spots being solar related, Dr. Hirsch asks her to move her bra over a quarter of an inch to expose the skin that the sun never hits. “And then she sees what I mean,” she says. “If these changes really came from aging, you’d have them all over.”

How Can Med Spas Help?

1.     Light-based treatments: Lasers and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL or Photo Facials). Most of the time, several treatment sessions are necessary.

2.     Chemical Peels

3.     Skin Care Products to use at home

Bonus

Many of the treatments will also help with wrinkles!
I love a combination of Photo Facials and Chemical Peels.
And, of course, my Retin A.

Ageless Elaine
Your Anti-Aging Expert
Blending Beauty and Science

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Photo Facials

Chemical Peels

Anti-Aging Peel Appeal

Original Article

Peel Away the Years

Great Anti-Aging Treatment

Patty Reiman writes about chemical peels in the Spring 2011 issue of “New You”:

“Many of us are turning to the chemical peel to address the skin issues that plague us…

Most often, chemical peels are used to treat sun-damaged skin with mild wrinkling (and) uneven skin tone.”

Peels work by exfoliating the skin’s top layers and vary in strength, depending on the extent of skin damage and what you’re having treated. Usually a series of peels is necessary for desired results:

• decreased wrinkles
• reduced age/brown spots

Ageless Elaine loves her peels!

For even more improvement, peels are often rotated with other anti-aging
med spa treatments, such as fractional laser skin rejuvenation and microdermabrasion.  In fact, at Ageless Remedies SouthPark, our aestheticians feel that a “micro-chem. peel package” is often the way to go.

Don’t forget

You go to the med spa once a month.
The rest of the time — the other 30 days! — it’s important that you follow up with your skin care product regimen at home.

Ageless Elaine
Your Anti-Aging Expert
Blending Beauty and Science

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Chemical Peels

Exfoliation

Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Skin

Do You Want To Prevent Wrinkles?

Some highlights from a great article on Vibrant Nation:

Is This You?

Until the age of 30 you didn’t think about using
anti aging skin products.

But few women make it past 40 without seeing
the first few fine lines…

Now you are starting to worry
about changing their skin care regimen.

Get to Work!

Starting and maintaining a regular skin care routine
can help keep your skin looking healthy.

• Cleanse
• Moisturize
• Use an anti-oxidant
• Exfoliate
• Protect from the sun

This routine does not take
a great deal of time.

Do it.

Invest

You have to break down and buy some stuff.

• Anti-wrinkle creams contain ingredients
  such as retinoids like Renova and Retin-A.
  Aside from retinoids you can look for creams
  that contain alpha hydroxy acid or hyaluronic acid.
  Use this at night.
• Anti-oxidants fight free radicals. Use at night.
• Good sunscreen.  30 SPF.  UVA, UVB
  

Eat Well

What  you eat or don’t eat has a definite effect
on the health of your skin.

Studies have shown that vitamins A, C, E,
carotenoid-rich fruit and vegetables
along with the minerals zinc and selenium
can help skin stay soft and smooth by reducing free radicals.

Keep in Touch

Take a close-up foto.

Take another one in 5 years.

Write and tell me how great you look!

Ageless Elaine
Your Anti-Aging Expert
Blending Beauty and Science

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The original article by Susan Lee Ward

Healthy Lifestyle

3 Important Things To Do

Is More Better?

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do…Part IV

Anti-Aging Advice:How Much Product is Too Much?

Good Habit – Using Your Skin Care Products

Do You Use Too Much?

It’s easy to fall into the mentality of if some works,
more will be even better and more effective.

Why is This Bad?

Too much moisturizer will
actually create a thick film
that stays on your skin and clogs pores.
Too much acne treatment can
dry out your skin,
causing it to actually produce more oil.

The Solution

Use only a little.
Usually the size of a pea is enough.
Really.

This stuff is expensive, as you well know.
Why waste it?
Especially if less is more.

Call to Schedule Your Free Consultation: 704.364.3332

Ageless Elaine
Your Anti-Aging Expert
Blending Beauty and Science

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Original Article by Sharalyn Hartwell

Ageless Remedies Customized Skin Care Products

Consult with our Aestheticians

Organic or Not Organic?

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do – Part III

Habit To Break:

Relying Exclusively On Organic Skin Care Products

WHY Should You Break This Habit?

After all, organic products contain 95 percent
organic ingredients and avoid ingredients
which may be harmful to people, animals
and the environment.

You Should Break This Habit BECAUSE:

Just because it is organic doesn’t mean it is gentle.
A lot of organic products contain fruit
which can irritate the skin and trigger allergic reactions.

You’ll miss out on the benefits of traditional ingredients
(such as retinol and retinoids, which are proven to improve your skin)
if you exclusively use organic products.

So What SHOULD You Do?

Trust your medical spa aesthetician.

She will be able to incorporate organic
and medical ingredients to give you
the best skin care regimen FOR YOU.

Ageless Elaine
Your Anti-Aging Expert
Blending Beauty and Science

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Ageless Remedies Skin Care

Original Article by Sharalyn Hartwell