Acne Solutions

Acne is one of the most the frustrating problems people young and old can face. While there's no cure, it is treatable. Different causes of acne: teenage & adult acne that's hormone related, clogged follicles, bacteria called Propionibacterium acnes, or P. bacteria for short, which is a natural part of the skin's maintenance system. Once a follicle is plugged, however, the P. bacteria multiply rapidly, creating a inflammation in the follicle and surrounding skin.

The hardest thing I face as an aesthetician is to figure out where it stems from and then figure out ways to treat it. A lot of times it can be treated with just the right skin care products. Since so many products just have toxic chemicals in them, there's is more susceptibility to an allergic-type reaction. In others, however, it might be more systemic, having to do with stress, medications, drug or alcohol abuse, etc. If you remember that since your skin is your largest organ, blemishes on your face indicate an imbalance in one of your internal organs. You can't have healthy skin, without a healthy liver. (A proper liver cleanse or detox will sometimes do the trick.) Your chin and jawline is the area where hormonal acne shows up.

In trying to clear up acne, there is a checklist and a process of elimination. If it's all over your face, it could be stress related or a sign of a systemic yeast infection, aka candida albicans, if you have a diet that's high in sugar. A good probiotic or acidophilus can help. Zinc with copper has also shown to help with acne.

Now, what are you using for products? Anything with a high alcohol content, which is in most OTC skin care products, seems to be the biggest culprit. What it does is strip your acid mantle (lipid barrier or oils in your skin), when it does that, your skin's natural reaction is compensate and overproduce more sebum (oil), when you have an overproduction of sebum, on its journey up the follicle toward the surface, the sebum mixes with common skin bacteria and dead skin cells that have been shed from the lining of the follicle. While this is a normal process, the extra sebum in the follicle increases the chance of clogging, thereby causing acne.

In the 2 years that I've been an aesthetician, I have been using Rhonda Allison. This is an awesome professional product that uses no fragrances, and very few preservatives, if any. Although I have seen good results with this line, I was just introduced to another skin care line called Glimpse Intuitive Skin Care by Xango. This new skin nutrition system is clean, green, and toxin free, and reinforces your skin with the natural power of mangosteen and other pure and safe botanicals, and it really works! Wow, a skin care line that's safe for you and works-there's a first!

Some benefits of Glimpse include:

*Toxin free, results-oriented skin care.
* Nourishes developing skin cells.
* Cleans your skin without caustic detergents or sulfates
* EXCLUSIVE BioActive X3 Complex:
1. BioActive Pericarp Oil for Anti-inflammatory Support (acne, hyperpigmentation, redness)
2. BioActive Polymeric Complex for Antioxidant Support (fights free radical damage)
3. BioActive Acidic Complex for Collagen Synthesis & Anti-bacterial Support (acne, fine lines & wrinkles)
* Tones, repairs, renews, and reminds your skin's cells to function how they did when we were younger.

I have seen personal results with acne using Glimpse. My skin tone has more clairty, the tone is more even, my pores are smaller, and it just looks more youthful. If I have had a blemish, it's cleared up immediately and greatly reduced the healing time. It speeds up the cell turnover more than anything I've ever seen using professional products.

I am in the business of helping people. If you have any questions about skin care, I would love to help! Please don't hesitate to ask.