Five Skin Care Facts for Friday!

1. Smoking depletes the body of Vitamin C and therefore impairs healing. By restricting oxygen to the skin, you may see a sallow, yellow look to the skin and fine wrinkling. Multivitamin Power Concentrate is a stabilised pure concentrated complex of vitamins A,C,E,F. Regular use helps your skin recover from previous free radical damage.

2. The ideal water temperature to cleanse with is warm. If the water is too hot, this may cause sensitivity and dilated capillaries.

3. If you have had a previous previous reaction to sunscreen, this was most likely a chemical reaction. Sunscreens convert light energy into heat energy, therefore, if a sunscreen contains mineral oil, this will most likely cause prickly heat! Try using a physical UV protection that does not contain any chemicals. A physical sunscreen will reflect the sun's rays, a chemical sunscreen will absorb the rays.

4. Use a water soluble cleanser rather than soap. Soap is alkaline and will strip your skin of it's natural protective acid mantle and will leave your skin open to invasion by bacteria. The Bar or Special Cleansing Gel is a great alternative. It is deep cleansing, but does not strip and dry. It foams similar to soap and therefore gives you the simplicity of a routine similar to the one you are currently using.

5. Whilst it is essential to have a good routine where you exfoliate regularly, once or twice weekly, depending on your skin condition, too much will disturb your skin's protective acid mantle and leave your skin prone to invasion by bacteria and sensitivity. Disturbance of the protective barrier allows moisture to escape from the skin too quickly, leaving it feeling dry and tight and allows products to penetrate too quickly. If you continue to exfoliate to excess, this could lead to premature aging of the skin.

A Skin Treatment Designed Specifically For You

Our Dermalogica Skin Treatment is 100% customized to your skin’s needs with a thorough, zone-by-zone Face Mapping® skin analysis, making it one treatment… that’s different every time! Think of it as your personal routine, created especially for your skin’s needs, right on the spot.

The Dermalogica Skin Treatment is fully inclusive to deliver your skin’s best health, and involve a combination of professional double cleansing, exfoliation, extractions (as needed), masque, toner and skin protection. Skin Treatments are available for the face or back.

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Dermalogica Scoops 3 Awards

The results are in and Dermalogica bagged a whopping three awards this year in one of the UK's most respected beauty polls. The Instyle Best Buy Beauty Awards come highly acclaimed with an independent expert panel of 181 industry experts.

Best facial exfoliator

Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant

Make this your daily shower companion it's many a beauty editors' secret. "The rice bran formula gently dissolves dead skin in just a few minutes, so it's left brighter and feeling smoother"

Best Spot Treatment

Overnight Clearing Gel

Whether you suffer from the off pesky pimple or more problematic skin, make this your new best friend at bedtime. "This genius gel is great as a preventative as it stops spots forming. And just dab an extra amount on stubborn blemishes - it dries them out super-fast"

Best Moisturiser for Normal to Oily skin

Active Moist

It's a great base for creating a flawless, matte complexion. Apply to cleansed skin whilst still damp in upward stroked to boost circulation."

Congratulations Dermalogica we are looking forward to many more award-winning heroes being introduced this year!

Winterize Your Nails with Nailtiques

Winter is the time many people struggle with the condition of their nails, The cold weather combined with indoor heating make nails dry, brittle and prone to breakage or chipping more than usual.

The most important thing in winter is to keep your nails, cuticles and hands moisturised. This will help keep your nails from becoming brittle and breaking. Also, like hair, nail growth slows down during cold winter months, so to help speed nail growth, keep your fingers moving to increase circulation and apply a Cuticle Cream or Oil Therapy and a Nailtiques Protein Formula daily.

We also advise our clients to keep their nails slightly shorter and more rounded in winter so they won’t break as easily. Another way to keep nails strong and hard is to apply two coats of protein alone or over colour polish. If you apply colour to your nails, use a base coat to protect your nails and help the polish last longer.

Ordinary polish removers are extremely harsh on nails and make winter nail problems even worse. Nailtiques Non-acetone Remover is an acetone-free formula that is extremely gentle to both nails and skin. It contains aloe and conditioners which help protect the nail from becoming dry while effectively removing nail protein and/or polish.

Nailtiques is a unique therapeutic nail care system designed to promote and maintain healthy, natural nail growth. Everyone’s nails are different and need treating in a very individual way to ensure their condition is improved. Whether nails are soft and thin, hard and dehydrated or just require a maintenance programme, Nailtiques has the formula to suit everyone.

Nailtiques uses ingredients that work in synergy with the natural make up of the nail. Their products contains a combination of natural proteins and conditioners to nourish the nail and the range’s moisturising treatments re–hydrate and recondition the nail, cuticle and surrounding skin.

With a little care through the cold, winter months, you can go into the spring with fantastic, strong, great looking natural nails.

Winter skin and why you should exfoliate!

To get the most out of your moisturiser you should exfoliate on a regular basis. Once any dead skin cells are cleared away, the moisturiser is able to penetrate the skin with greater results. Dead skin cells are shed from the body naturally in a process called desquamation. The human skin produces about one million skin cells per minute, which equates to over five billion skin cells per day. The dead cells have an internal clock that tells them when they can travel up to the skin’s surface to be sloughed off. However, a build-up of dead cells on the surface can result in dull, ashy or lackluster skin. Choosing the proper exfoliating product is vital to achieving polished results without any irritation. There are many ways your skin can be exfoliated, from brushes and scrubs to enzymes and acids.

Some exfoliants can be particularly irritating during the winter months, so test them on a small patch of skin first or opt for a gentler technique. Very dry or irritated skin should be allowed to heal before any form of exfoliation is performed to avoid sensitization. If scrubs are too harsh for dry, winter skin, opt for chemical methods that gently dissolve the bonds holding skin cells together, like Dermalogica's Gentle Cream Exfoliant. Hydroxy acids are a popular option and include Glycolic Acid, Lactic Acid and Salicylic Acid. Lactic Acid has additional beneficial properties, such as increased moisturisation and greater barrier protection. Salicylic Acid is a great addition for acneic skin with the added bonus of being anti-inflammatory. Enzymes from Papaya, Pineapple and Rice Bran are also great methods to promote skin renewal. The Phytic Acid found in Rice Bran can also help control pigmentation to yield a brighter skin tone as used in Daily Microfoliant.

A good exfoliation can ease the effects of winter skin when done properly and combined with a good moisturising routine!

Dermalogica AGE Smart Gift With Purchase

We are loving the new Dermalogica AGE Smart Gift With Purchase. Three of your favourite AGE Smart products can be found inside a great mini travel/make-up bag.

Multivitamin Thermafoliant 15ml
Multivitamin Power Recovery Masque 15ml
Renewal Lip Complex 1ml

This great gift worth £30 can be yours with the purchase of Dermalogica products of £100 or more. Add the gift to your basket to claim it.

Conditions apply.

Can anyone use Nioxin?

Can anyone use Nioxin?

The answer is absolutely! You Don't have to be losing your hair to use Nioxin. It's skin care for the scalp, cleansing the hair while gently removing the build up from the scalp left behind from convential shampoo, conditioner and styling products.

Nioxin is a hair care range that provides a long-term solution to fine and thinning hair and provides excellent protection from different external factors that hair is exposed to on a daily basis. Unlike some traditional hair thickening regimes, which can roughen up the outer cuticle layers to provide short term results, Nioxin works to smooth and protect these precious layers. Providing a long term thickening effect for fuller, healthier hair.

Nioxin simply replaces your regular shampoo and conditioning routine and with 8 systems to choose from, you can be sure you are using a system to suit your hair type.

Donna Maisey Skin Care is an authorised Nioxin stockist and the first online store to stock all eight systems at great prices.