Trend 1: ‘LESS IS MORE’ with regards to non-surgical treatments. A strong trend for 2016 is to have regular, on-going small ‘tweakments’ rather than overdoing it with drastic treatments. There are far too many overdone people walking around these days (and you can see many of them at professional aesthetic events…). As a rule of thumb you can say, if …
You might have read the horror stories about the dangers of tap water in last weeks press. So what about the skin – is there really a health risk when it comes to our skin? Tap water coming from shower heads have in deed been shown in studies to harbor various microbes such as bacteria and fungi. So in theory …
Up to now, the UK weather has be uncharacteristically warm this winter, hasn’t it? I actually felt that it didn’t feel very christmassy this year because of the strangely mild weather. However, that’s just about to change. Believe it or not – apparently it’s going to be snowing this week! So what are the dangers of cold weather for our …
Q1: How important is a good night’s sleep for having great skin? A: A good night sleep is very important for when it comes to our skin. With increasingly hectic lifestyles, it is easy for us to become stressed through a lack of sleep, and stress can play a major part in our skin health. Persistent high levels of stress …
Men’s and women’s skins are known to differ in hormone metabolism, hair growth, sweat rate, sebum production, skin surface pH and other factors. Until the age of 50 years, men’s transepidermal water loss for example is significantly lower than that of women of the same age (ie the skin’s barrier function is better in men, which means men have less …
