We all love the look of sexy bronzed skin. But, let’s face it, nobody likes the look of sun damage. Luckily, with today’s sunless tanners, you can help your clients fake it!:) Today’s sunless tanners have traveled a very long way. The days of orange, zebra-like streaks are gone, if you know how to correctly [...]
Skin discoloration goes high-tech
Alright all you workaholics, put the laptop down or at least off your lap. Why you might ask, well there is a new skin issue that may be attributed to your high-tech pal. Skin discoloration can appear on any part of your body, not just your face. The sun is still the number one cause [...]
Put some bacteria in my sunscreen, please!
Hope y’all had a great weekend - back to work here on this lovely, fall Monday. That’s right it feels like fall has trickled down to Texas :) Even though the heat of the summer is slowly giving way to cool fall nights, sunscreen is essential all year round. In the natural body care industry [...]
Skin Care Foundation gets tough on sunscreen
The US Skin Cancer Foundation has updated its Seal of Recommendation for sunscreens, bringing a more stringent industry standard. The Foundation introduced the seal over 30 years ago and since that time not much has changed in their requirements. The seal, which has become a recognized symbol in most households, is used on over 800 [...]
The skinny on skin care
I know I read at least one new study on skin care a week. Every time we turn around they have found the next big thing to fight aging, blemishes, or anything else we don’t like about our skin. Well this post is not about a new treatment or beauty product, just the facts when [...]
Tea-rific new skin cancer treatment is in the works
New research out this week has found a fast, cheap and effective treatment for non-melanoma skin cancer – tea tree oil. If you haven’t used tea tree oil on insect bites you are missing out on a great, cheap and natural miracle worker. But now the commonly used oil has been found to shrink non-melanoma [...]
Sun kissed = sun fried
I have touched on the fundamentals of skin protection in a variety of posts about the rise and dangers of skin cancer. But did you know that while the risk of skin cancer to your scalp from overexposure is extremely rare, damage to your hair and its follicles are not. Unprotected hair can fry in [...]
Sunscreen - safe or toxic????
It seems like every month there is a new study about why this product or that process by which the product was manufactured is not really beneficial to our beauty routine. How are we supposed to know what is fact and what is exaggeration? Case in point, today’s new study release…… The new, annual study [...]
FTC says no to tanning ads
Okay, so by now we ALL know tanning beds are bad, right? Skin cancer is considered an epidemic in the U.S. and one of the easiest ways to prevent this type of cancer is to use sunscreen and fake that tan ;) The FDA came out against tanning beds, the government wants to add a [...]
