Aging Skin is a Thing of the Past
If it’s not broke don’t fix it. It’s so easy to get sold on everything that looks or sounds good. However, I always warn my clients not to buy into everything they see and hear. Most importantly, choose active ingredients that will stimulate your cells and stay away from moisturizers that put your cells to sleep. So, what should you be using and why?
I already know what your biggest question is, “Will I stay hydrated without moisturizer?” The answer is yes, and actually your skin will become naturally hydrated. Your cells will start to work on a regular basis and when they do they will bring water and oxygen with them.
The products that we recommend will help to activate your cells instead of putting them to sleep like most moisturizer. Furthermore, it’s time to stop doing your cells job and that’s why we will leave the moisturizer behind.
The Best Everyday Facial
Cleanse: Once in the morning and twice at night
Firstly, we always recommend cleansing your skin once in the morning and twice at night. The first cleanse at night in considered a superficial cleanse. In other words, it only gets rid of the daily grime and does’t actually clean the skin. Therefore, it’s the second cleanse at night that cleans the skin. For those of you who are sixty and older, we suggest a nice milky cleanser. This type of cleanser will leave the skin feeling clean without making it feel tight.
We like Azulen Cleansing Milk as a make-up removing lotion and a gentle soapless cleanser. Good for all skin types, but especially for sensitive skin. Camellia, Avocado, and Wheat Germ Oils, combined with Dimethicone, Glycerin, Glucose, Fructose, and Sucrose, protect and maintain the skin from moisture loss. Glycosaminoglycans, Azulene, Aloe Vera, and Allantoin help calm inflammation and refine pores. In addition, Azulen Cleansing Milk also helps improves skin‘s suppleness and elasticity. It’s light blue color comes from Azulene.
For those of us who are still producing oil, we recommend a cleanser that will control oil, exfoliate dead skin cells, strengthen the skins barrier function and eliminate inflammation caused by bacteria. We love, Active Cleansing Gel because it contains two active ingredients, glycolic acid and salicylic acid that will do everything previously mention and then some.
Active Cleansing Gel (with AHA & BHA) is made up of a deep cleansing, oil-free formula that thoroughly removes excess oil, surface impurities, and make-up. It helps exfoliates dead cells, due to Alpha and Beta Hydroxy Acids and natural enzymes. Active Cleansing Gel is recommended for normal-to-oily, oily, and problem skin types.
Exfoliate: Daily exfoliation keeps the skin healthy, bright and above all else, stimulated.
So, wake up those cells with a nice stimulating exfoliation. The new science has proven that a gentle exfoliation everyday is healthy for the skin. Baby Me Clubs loves this two in one exfoliant, the Pineapple Enzyme Scrub.
This exfoliating, retexturizing, refining, and nourishing treatment scrub is efficient and non-abrasive. Exfoliation is achieved by combining Bromelain Enzymes (obtained from pineapple) and Jojoba Beads. These enzymes help remove excess surface cells. While the micro spherical Jojoba Beads dissolve and release their nourishing Jojoba Oil into the skin.
This process produces improved skin texture and leaves the skin with a luminous glow. The ultimate result is refined and moisturized skin.
Astringent: A nice light hydration.
This is a nice way to add a little hydration while maintaining the skins natural pH and oil balance. After cleansing and exfoliating the skin, apply with cotton. Similarly, using your hands to apply astringent allows it to go further and saves a little dinero. Practice makes perfect.
We prefer Aloe-Cucumber Astringent (alcohol free) helps tightens pores, smooth the appearance of the skin, and gives the skin a finer, softer texture. Firstly, Aloe Vera Gel, Cucumber Juice, Witch Hazel, and Horse Chestnut Extract help refine, tone, tighten, and protect the skin. Glycerin and Amino Acid Complex moisturize. Finally, Chlorophyll, Allantoin, and Ginseng possess soothing and healing properties.
Consequently, this product is very effective prior to make-up application to allow a matte, even, and long lasting finish. It also cools and soothes the skin. However, it is recommended for dry and sensitive skin types.
Correctors: Active ingredients that will stimulate your cells instead of putting them to sleep. Find out what they are.
Now that the skin is awake and the cells are ready, it’s time to stimulate them even more. Correctors are daily and nightly treatments that produce results. Therefore, they should contain active ingredients and produce a certain action that the user wants to achieve. Furthermore, they should be layered and not mixed together. Mixing products together weakens and makes them less powerful.
Active Ingredient: Vitamin C
Most importantly, order does matter when it comes to layering products. We recommend that everyone use a Vitamin C serum. To clarify, Vitamin C is an active ingredients that will stimulate your cells and should be the first thing you layer either day or night.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant which slows down the aging process by eliminating the free radicals. Moreover, it also stimulates collagen and helps to repair the signs of aging due to sun and free radical damage. The results achieved with vitamin C is a brighter more even skin tone, fewer fine lines and wrinkles, firmer and more refined skin and extra protection against future damage.
Active Ingredient: Glycolic Acid
After vitamin C it’s time to layer a Glycolic Gel or Serum. However, we prefer a 10-15% because it is most beneficial for non-sensitive, normal to oily, and blemished skin types. It helps fight bacteria and increase the rate of natural dead skin exfoliation. Therefore, helping promote hydration by renewing native skin collagens. In addition, repeated use will reduce the appearance of fine lines, decrease redness, strengthen capillaries and increase firmness.
It’s wise to start out with these two amazing correctors, Vitamin C and Glycolic Serum. That is to say, giving you the time to see how well these two work together. If there’s any type of adverse reaction, it’s easier to eliminate one or the other. Finally, after a couple of months it’s time to add in a third corrector. Retinoids, is an umbrella term that describes a family of ingredients that includes retinol and retin-A.
Active Ingredient: Retinol
Finally, we layer Vitamin A, an active ingredients that will stimulate your cells. A stabilized Retinol (the natural form of Vitamin-A) in this active serum helps thicken the epidermis and regulate the renewal of skin cells. Promotes Collagen and Elastin. In other words, this product speeds up cell turn over. Most importantly, it creates new (baby) skin.
Retinol is naturally produced in your body and is a specific form of vitamin A. It’s the enzymes in your skin that converts it from retinol to retinaldehyde when applied topically. After that, it’s converted to retinaldehyde. It then converts to retinoic acid making it accessible for the skin to use. Although this two step conversion may take some time, it’s what makes retinol naturally more gentle than Retinol-A (Tretinoin a vitamin A derivative). Finally, that’s why it’s found in most over the counter products.
Retinoids are definitely harder to use than most active ingredients. Most people move way too quickly when it comes to retinoids and then never use them again. Retin-A (Tretinoin) comes in different strengths and requires a prescription from a doctor. Above all, both Retinol and Retin-A should be used very slowly at first while building up to everyday use.