2012 is here and so are yearly resolutions. We all have bad skin habits to break, so why not add some skin care resolutions? Below is a list of our top 5 bad habits to break for the New Year.

1. Stop touching your face

Trying to self treat blemishes or other imperfections on your face can mostly lead to making the problem worse. Stay away from facial extractors available in your local drugstore, and leave it to a professional.

2. Appointments

For healthy skin, be sure to keep monthly appointments with your aesthetician, dermatologist, or doctor. And don’t forget to make an appointment for a yearly mole check up!

3. Stop sleeping with your makeup on

Once you get in the habit of cleansing your skin before bedtime, it will become routine and your skin will thank you!

4. Sunscreen

Levels of SPF can be found in almost any beauty product these days, so there really aren’t any excuses on why you are skipping this life saving step.

5. Set your own skin care goals

Setting skin care goals can only lead to you fully achieving what you would like most for your skin. We all have them, we just need to stick with them and the results will truly be rewarding…a younger looking you!

Best wishes for the New Year and new improved you!

A skin care regimen is based on many factors- your skin type, age, climate, where you live and your everyday lifestyle. Winter is quickly approaching and during this season, we are left coping with chapped lips and dry looking skin.

At Skinetics, we believe that with the right skin care regimen, we can all have healthy, glowing looking skin year-round.

Rejuvenate. Repair. Revitalize.

Skinetics is proud to offer the best in medical skin care products.  Here are a few of our most hydrating and soothing products for your skin and to combat the winter weather.

Bright Eyes contains a powerful combination of active ingredients (Vitamin K, DCX & Arnica), which are designed to target puffiness and dark circles. Proficient in providing exceptional antioxidant protection, superior skin hydration and reduction of hemoglobin accumulation. While improving on the delicate layers of the skin outwards and repairing damaged tissue, promoting smoother, healthier, more youthful looking eyes.

Eye Relaxer contains the only form of Vitamin C clinically proven to increase collagen production. This anti-oxidant cocktail of Vitamin C, Vitamin E and Green Tea, paired with penetration enhancing Hydroxy acids. Eye Relaxer clarifies and brightens the skin, while tightening sagging areas and softening the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

C-Complex Cream is a unique non-prescription skin brightener, which combines three compounds unrelated to Hydroquinone. Clinically shown to inhibit melanin production via alternate chemical pathways: Kojic acid, Hydroxy acids, Vitamin C and is fortified with Green Tea.

Green Tea Soothing Pads the first commercially available form of topical Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), the most biologically active component of Green Tea. EGCG is associated with a variety of biological effects including free radical scavenging, inflammation reducing and UVA/UVB photo protection properties. This anti-oxidant is approximately 100 times that of Vitamin C and 25 times that of Vitamin E at protecting cells from DNA damage.

LactiCream Cleanser helps moisturize dry skin with Lactic acid, Petrolatum and Sodium PCA, and is ideal for patients using products or procedures that can dry the skin. Designed for normal to dry skin.

LactiFoam Cleanser helps remove excess lipids without over drying the skin and contains 0.5% Salicylic acid and 3% Lactic acid to enhance exfoliation. Designed for normal to oily skin.

Moisture Balm contains a combination of ceramides, fatty acids and cholesterol that help restore the skin’s moisture barrier by mimicking the structure of the skin’s natural lipids. Moisture Balm has been clinically proven to reduce dry, flaky and compromised skin.

Repairative Emulsion contains CoQ10, which is an essential anti-oxidant found in every living cell, that provides the energy source for cellular renewal and proper function. As we age, our natural level of CoQ10 diminishes and skin begins to show signs of aging: wrinkles, fine lines and the loss of elasticity. Our Repairative Emulsion combines the power of CoQ10 with essential oils, extracts and actives to repair skin cells; revealing smoother, firmer, more youthful skin.

Revitalizing Gel contains Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, the only Vitamin C compound clinically demonstrated in a double blind, placebo controlled studies to aid in stimulating collagen production. This compound also provides anti-oxidant activity, inhibits lipid peroxidation, and skin clarifying actions by inhibiting melanogenesis. This non-acidic formula also contains Vitamin E Acetate for enhanced lipid activity and Green Tea Extract for reduction of irritation related to skin dryness.

RevitaMoist is an all in one cream, which provides maximum results in the treatment of dry, dehydrated, aging and over-stressed skin. A powerful, rich cream combining anti-oxidants, and anti-inflammatories, Hyaluronic acid, essential oils and vitamins; for a more youthful appearance.

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Here’s to healthy skin!

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It’s flu season, and you will probably notice your intake of Vitamin C is going up.

Vitamin C is great for fighting flu’s and cold’s, but also has a great effect when used in skin care products.

When Vitamin C is used in a topical form (skin care products), it has many different effects. It works just like it would if you felt you were getting a cold…Vitamin C helps boost your skin’s collagen and skin renewal cells, just like it helps boost your immune system. This super anti-oxidant is essential to skin renewal, and can also play a key role in brightening you skin, and treating fine lines and wrinkles.

We carry these various Vitamin C based products: C-Complex Cream, Green Tea Soothing Pads & Revitalizing Gel.

In our last segment, we talked about how your skin is the largest organ in your body. It’s not replaceable, so why abuse it?  We will say this over and over again……catch the hint?

As we previously stated, a lot of things are considered when it comes to getting healthy skin. Diet, regular exercise, vitamins, are all contributing factors and roles in maintaining healthy, balanced skin.

In this segment our Aestheticians focus on products and how they improve the health of the dermis.

The skin’s primary function is to protect the body from external pathogens, it poses a penetration challenge for some ingredients. Optimally, a topical ingredient should penetrate the entire epidermis/dermis if it’s to provide benefits. Using oil-based ingredients, or adding an oil or penetration agent to the product, can help the compounds get through the epidermis.

Promising Ingredients:
The primary causes of skin damage and aging are exposure to sunlight—UVB and UVA—oxidation and inflammation of the skin, decreases in supportive collagen, loss of muscle tone, and dryness. Topical anti-aging ingredients seek to ameliorate these conditions. Popular vitamins, such as C and E, are well-studied for topical benefits. Other compounds, such as DMAE, Hyaluronic Acid and CoQ10, are supported by emerging research. The following are some of the popular, scientifically backed inclusions for today’s anti-aging skin care products.

VITAMIN C: researchers discovered that vitamin C  had significantly reduced wrinkles and had rearranged wrinkle lines from deeper ruts into shallow, random order, a sign of younger skin and a stronger collagen matrix. The same researchers further tested vitamin C on post-menopausal women—previously thought to have severely limited skin-collagen-production capacity—and found that topical vitamin C significantly increased the production of collagen vs. placebo.

VITAMIN E: It’s recommended that supplementing orally with 400mg vitamin E daily can reduce photodamage and wrinkles and can improve skin texture, while topical applications, including blends with vitamin C, can soothe dry skin and protect against sun damage. Researchers have found the topical application of alpha-tocopherol to be more effective than internal supplementation at preventing UV damage. In another study, researchers found that a topical solution of alpha-tocopherol inhibited UVR-induced epidermal lipid peroxidation.

DIMETHYLAMINOETHANOL (DMAE): made its debut years ago as a cure-all antioxidant aimed at enhancing cognitive functioning and reducing fatigue and depression. Nicholas Perricone, MD, author of The Perricone Prescription, claims that it is even more potent topically, adding to DMAE’s credentials as a membrane stabilizer, anti-inflammatory and penetration enhancer.

A young face is characterized by short, thick muscles that prevent sagging. As we get older, the muscles get thinner and longer, causing a flatter and increasingly saggy face. Cosmetic surgeons cut muscles shorter to pull up the sags and round out the face.

DMAE stimulates the contraction of muscles so you correct the sagging and get a more rounded look and a physiologically younger face. A possible mechanism of action is DMAE’s stimulation of acetylcholine, a key component in muscle contraction.  DMAE also helps stabilize skin-cell membranes.

HYALURONIC ACID: Injected forms of HA have been used for arthritis, wrinkle-removal, ophthalmic surgery, and research supports its critical role in scar-less wound healing.Small facial cuts heal without scarring because of high HA levels. HA’s multi-faceted role in wound repair—carefully regulating inflammation, formation of granulation tissue, re-epithelisation and remodeling—has prompted its topical use.

C0Q10: CoQ10 decreases in level with age and thus skin at about age
30 is below optimum, resulting in a lesser ability to produce collagen,
elastin, and other important skin molecules.  CoQ10 is a small
molecule that can easily penetrate the skin. These studies indicate CoQ10 to be an effective topical agent and is a viable photo-protectant with the ability to penetrate into the skin.

*Skinetics products containing these wonderful and promising ingredients: C-Complex Cream, Green Tea Soothing Pads, Repairative Emulsion, Revitalizing Gel, RevitaMoist.

Stay tuned for more in the upcoming weeks……Here’s to healthy skin!