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Now You Can Sleep Off the Signs of Ageing with Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum

Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum is Finally Released in Australia

Dermalogica's Overnight Repair Serum

It’s about time Dermalogica brought out a specific night-time treatment for the skin – and they have! It’s called Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum, but before I get into that, have you ever wondered why we need day and night products for our skin? Is it just another ploy to get us to buy more products and do we really want to put the extra effort in?

Well the truth is our skin not only changes with the seasons but also shows fluctuations during the 24 hour cycle and this is known as circadian rhythms. Whilst studies are still being carried out on circadian rhythms two of the most known rhythms are sebum excretion (oil output) and trans epidermal water loss (water lost through the skin).

It is a fact that our skin excretes the most oil at midday but our trans epidermal water loss is at its lowest. The temperature for our skin and the ph also fluctuates from day to night with the temperature peaking in the evening when the ph is the lowest.

So to summarise this, the studies indicate that skin excretes less sebum, loses more water, is hotter and more acidic during the night-time than during the day. Taking these factors into account it indicates that the skin is likely to be drier and perhaps more vulnerable to irritation at night and may explain why some people are more prone to night-time itch or flare-ups of inflammatory skin conditions.

The Skin Works Hard While We Sleep

It is also believed that the skin repairs itself more at night and that cell renewal is enhanced in the evening. Another important factor is that there is no UV light from the sun (although there is UV present in fluorescent light) and no extreme daytime temperatures or environmental pollutants.

Ideally all out makeup is removed at night and whilst we are sleeping we are not smoking, drinking alcohol or acutely stressed therefore it is a wonderful environment for our skin to catch up with the damage caused throughout the day.

Ta Dah! Dermalogica’s New Night Time Treatment Overnight Repair Serum is Born

All these conditions have been analysed and through this a brand new product from the Dermalogica range has been born – Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum. One of my main concerns would be the prevention of wrinkles and fine lines along with dehydration and I know from my experience in any skin clinic that this is the biggest concern for most people.

Around the age of fifty Hyaluronic acid that is found in the dermis of the skin really starts to decline and as Hyaluronic acid can hold a thousand time its weight in water it is easy to see how the skin will become more dehydrated resulting in fine lines and wrinkles.

Also around the age of fifty the skin elasticity starts to deteriorate along with collagen (the plumping in your skin) – it’s not good news!

When our skin becomes dehydrated it is more prone to sensitivity so it is definitely in our best interest to keep those moisture levels high. Overnight Repair Serum is a true treasure and anyone concerned with sagging skin, fine lines and wrinkles would benefit from superb active ingredients including palmitoyl tripeptide-38 which stimulates two forms of collagen and hylauronic acid and alaria esculenta a brown seaweed that contains powerful antioxidants and vitamins A, B, C and E to nourish skin tissues.

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Dry, dehydrated skin benefits from the Argan Oil which is rich in antioxidants and essential fatty acids that restores the skins barrier and traps in moisture. Dull, lacklustre skin and hyper pigmentation is also addressed with rosehip seed oil rich in retinoic acid and vitamin C.

The results from overnight repair serum are nothing less than superb and my skin already is starting to see new life and is more plumped due to the newly increased hydration and people are already asking me what I am doing differently, which is always a good sign J.

I use the overnight serum on freshly cleansed clean skin, spritz with Dermalogica’s Antioxidant Hydramist and then apply four to five drops over my face and neck and then apply my moisturiser. If you prefer you can mix the Dermalogica Overnight Repair Serum into your moisturiser and then apply but I honestly feel you are better to apply the serum directly onto the skin.

An excellent night time skin care routine would be:-

The Dermalogica Age Smart Range:- Dermalogica Skin Resurfacing Cleanser, Spritz with Antioxidant Hydramist, MAP-15 Regenerator (applied to where signs of ageing are prominent), Age Reversal Eye Complex, Overnight Repair Serum – four to five drops let it sink into the skin for one minute before applying Power Rich. Now apply Dermalogica Power Rich.

There are also acupressure points on the face, that can be stimulated when applying overnight repair serum to improve results even further which are easy to perform on yourself, plus I forgot to tell you that Overnight Repair Serum smells beautiful! Thanks to the rosehip oil.

I am sure you will enjoy using this latest high performance product and be as excited as I am by the results I am getting, it really is beauty whilst you sleep, Enjoy!

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Dermalogica Age Smart – Why You Need to Use this Skin Care Range if you’re Concerned with Ageing

The Power of Dermalogica Age Smart

If like me you want to continue to look as young as possible for as long as possible, then you are just going to love the Dermalogica age smart range of products and what they can do for your skin. Perhaps you feel you need a step up in your current product

Dermalogica Age Smart - Your Ageing Defense!

range – as we all get bored, our skin does too. Then there are those of us who want to prevent the first signs of ageing and keep that dewy fresh young looking skin for as long as possible! Well isn’t it great to know that the Dermalogica Age Smart range will cover all these concerns.
It would have been great to have the fantastic ingredients that the Age Smart Range offers to me, when I was in my twenties so I could have started on it then but for me I use Dermalogica Age Smart Range to help slow down the ageing process and to give me a weapon against further damage.

Dermalogica Age Smart and Glycation

One of the processes of ageing in skin is glycation which is an internal chemical reaction within the body that eventually causes cross-linked collagen (resulting in wrinkles and loss of elasticity), inflammation and the slowdown of cell growth.
Glycation is a result of when sugar comes into contact with a protein (such as collagen) it reacts immediately and generates damaging free radicals that do damage to the cells and cause inflammation. There are many diseases that are associated with glycation such as people who are diabetic (as they have high levels of sugar in their blood and suffer from various health issues).

Glycation is also associated with many diseases of the brain, muscle weakness and heart disease as well as speeding up the ageing process. Reducing glycation is what scientists now believe will help slow down the ageing process and disease formation.

Dermalogica’s Peptide Technology

One of the active ingredients that help control glycation is a polypeptide molecule known as arginine/lysine. This polypeptide acts as a sugar trap and binds to the sugar in the body making it unable to react with proteins and cause glycation, therefore slowing down the ageing process.
This amazing polypeptide ingredient (arginine / lysine) can be found in the following Dermalogica Age Smart products – Dermalogica Antioxidant Hydramist, Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30, Dermalogica Super Rich Repair and Dermalogica Renewal Lip Complex.

I personally love the Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30, it feels so silky smooth and the hydration on the skin lasts for ages and even better a SPF30 which gives my skin fantastic protection without that oily, gluggy feel.
As I have already mentioned inflammation in the skin is another ageing process and anyway we can lessen the impact of this, will definitely be to our advantage. Colloidal Oatmeal, Evening Primrose Oil and Chrysantheumum Parthenium Extract reinforce the skin’s lipid barrier, helps to retain moisture levels and calms irritated skin – Dynamic Skin Recovery is a Winner

Free Radical Damage and Why I Love to Use Dermalogica’s Antioxidant Hydramist!

Free Radical Damage is also a big no no as far as ageing is concerned. The body has some great defence against these usually in the forms of vitamins, enzymes and some foods that we digest. We are always producing free radical damage and as we get older it gets worse. UV light, oxygen, pollutants, smoking, etc and although some of us, eat a vitamin rich diet the skin is often the last to get its supply of antioxidants so we need to make sure our skin get adequate supplies of topically applied antioxidants so we can help to repair the damage to collagen, elastin, DNA and tissue degradation.

One of the easiest and quickest ways to do this is by using Dermalogica’s Age Smart Antioxidant Hydramist on clean skin under your dermalogica moisturiser or other dermalogica skin care products. By using this twice a day I find it gives me an instant firming action to lift and tighten my skin and bathes my skin in refreshing hydration – you should try this!

Dermalogica Age Smart and the Effects of UV Damage

UV Damage is another ageing menace to the skin it strikes with no mercy and presents itself either early as sun burnt skin or later in the form of pigmentation and age spots (you can actually see the damage what will eventually show up on your face, with a special tool called a skin scanner), loss of elasticity, formation of wrinkles due to breakdown of collagen, skin cancer, leathery dried out skin – the list goes on – not a pretty picture and even though we may protect ourselves now, the damage has probably been done already.
If you get the chance, check out the skin scanners that are available in the professional skin care centres. Not only will the therapist be able to see your skin damage so will you too! That picture will ensure you will always use sun protection and if you are too lazy to apply a moisturiser and a sunscreen, do what I do and get the Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30 which has both. You can even get mineral make ups with sunscreen protection in, so there is not really an excuse anymore for not wearing sunscreen protection every day.

Inika Cosmetics have sunscreen in there organic mineral makeup range and the amazing Priori Coffeeberry Perfecting Minerals is fabulous, as it always improves your skin’s condition and can be applied as a dry sunscreen for children to wear.
Getting back to UV Damage one of the best things to do for your skin would be to use the Age Smart Dermalogica Map 15 Regenerator. It has a cocktail of high performing revolutionary ingredients to dramatically improve UV damage.

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Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Cream – A Saviour For Anyone Concerned About Wrinkles Around their Eyes and Why You Need to Use it@

Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Cream

Dermalogica Age Smart Age Reversal Eye Complex

Why you Should be using this amazing Dermalogica Eye Cream! – The skin around the eye area is the most delicate and thinest of the whole body that is the one of the reasons this area of the skin is the first to show signs of ageing. Just about everyone is concerned sometime during their lifetime about the skin around their eye area and no wonder! The skin around the eyes is not only extremely thin but is sensitive too and the first signs of ageing occur by the formation of fine lines and wrinkles.

At around 30-35 years of age the skin around the eyes become looser and it starts to develop fine lines and possibly wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness may also appear. It isn’t great that we have a product created in the dermalogica range called age reversal complex. It is often thought that dark circles under the eyes are associated only with more mature skin but the fact is lots of young people are affected also. The eye area is prone to sun damage and hormonal changes this is why pigmentation often presents itself.

Milia which appears as small white lumps on the skin are also a frequent visitor to the skin around the eye area. Because the skin around the eyes does not have sufficient oil glands to keep the area moisturised the skin dries out and becomes dehydrated quickly and this cannot only lead to fine lines and wrinkles but also sensitivity. The eye area is also affected by other conditions such as lack of sleep, continual late nights, illness, incorrect nutrition, incorrect use of cosmetics and excessive bathing or swimming.

Dermalogia Age Reversal Eye Complex contains an ingredient known as Palmitoyl Oligopeptide which enhances the production of collagen and elastin and glucosaminoglycans enabling the skin to be smooth, soft and moisturised. Research has shown that palmitoyl oligopeptide in general aids in skin repair and renewal and is the new best thing to retinol without possible side effects.

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Dermalogica Age Reversal Eye Complex also has an exclusive ingredient known as the Ugh Complex which is a cocktail of ingredients that exfoliates, smooths, firms tissue and keeps the skin hydrated and retexturised. Oat proteins, fraxinus excelsior bark extract firm, licquorice, soy and rice bran extract help to reduce pigmentation and brighten dark circles, while niacinamide, bisabolol and caffeine reduce puffiness and as always with dermalogica skin care products they do not contain artificial fragrance or colour and are not tested on animals. There is also 0.1% of retinol in the Dermalogica age reversal eye complex which will help to smooth, reduce fine lines, reverse photo ageing and chronological ageing of the skin tissues.

There is no getting away from the fact that wrinkles indicate age and more so for women – wrinkles are definitely worth eliminating. One of the most important preventatives to limit wrinkling is to avoid the sun’s rays particularly ultraviolet light because they penetrate the skin’s surface and physically destroys the tissues of the skin.

How to Choose an Eye Cream

When choosing an eye cream it is important to consider all factors of ageing. Is the product going to smooth my skin? Is it going to penetrate the skin, address the dark circles, puffiness, dehydration, hyper pigmentation and not cause any nasty side effects? Fortunately Dermalogica Age Reversal Complex addresses all of these problems. Remember to apply an eye cream like Dermalogica Total Eye Care with an SPF 15 during the day time to give your delicate eye area some protection. It is essential that you use an eye cream that is designed to be used around the eye area and not just any old moisturiser. The eye cream needs to be able to penetrate the skin and not overly congest the skin’s delicate tissues by being too oily or rich.

How to Use Dermalogica Age Smart Age Reversal Eye Complex

Start by using this dermalogica eye cream on alternate nights for the first two weeks. As you skin get’s used to this powerful formulation increase to using nightly. After using dermalogica soothing eye makeup remover with silk amino proteins (which conditions your lashes, generally apply Dermalogica Age Reversal Complex by smoothing and patting the eye area from the outside corner towards the inside corner. Remember also to take care of the nutrition of the skin by ensuring you have adequate amounts of vitamins A,C,D and E which are claimed to have beneficial effects for skin health as antioxidants.

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Party Skin Can Be Yours With Dermalogica’s Multivitamin Masque That Can Transform Anyone’s Skin into a Vibrant, Healthy, Complexion-Reviver!

Dermalogica Age Smart Power Recovery Masque

Dermalogica Age Smart Power-Packed Masque

If you want your skin to look your best during the party season then you must invest in doing a dermalogica age smart face masque minimum ‘weekly’ to boost your complexion and get some serious health benefits back into your skin.

Dermalogica Power Recovery Masque is a multivitamin cocktail of potent ingredients that simple soothe, nourish, hydrate and plump up the skin and you see an improvement instantly with every use – it’s no wonder this is the-must have dermalogica masque to use when you are going out and wanting your skin to look radiant.

If you want your make up to glide on your skin properly and look good, then dermalogica power recovery masque is the way to go, it helps get rid of those fine dryness, crêpe lines from too much partying i.e. dehydration and gives your skin an instant boost a GLOW that comes from the inside out.

The secret is from the potent vitamins that are in this dermalogica age smart masque and it’s incredibly repairing and healing properties it has on your skin.

What I LOVE LOVE LOVE about this dermalogica masque is it actually contains five percent panthenol also known as pro-vitamin B5. This is great news because a five percent concentration of panthenol cream has been shown in studies to reduce healing time in your skin DRAMATICALLY! It also has the amazing ability to rapidly penetrate deep into your skin (that’s why you see an instant result – and this is one reason why all dermalogica skin care therapists have this masque as their Top-Pick!). Just a side note many products out there contain panthenol but are in a concentration of one percent or less – this means THEY DO NOTHING FOR YOUR SKIN – As I always say – “You Get What You Pay For in Life!”

As it penetrates deep down into your skin it also stimulates your collagen making fibroblasts into action and because it is so incredibly healing to your skin, if you have any sensitivity what so ever – this is a great masque to use. It’s actually very creamy on your skin, smells great, has a wonderful texture and is a yellow-orange colour. In fact after you wash off this masque you can still feel it deep in your skin and he effects lasts for hours.

Besides Panthenol it’s also boosted with the active-vitamins of A, C, E and F (vitamin F is an essential fatty acid). Vitamin F, I love especially for anyone who has really dry skin because not only does it moisturise your skin it reduces any dryness and restores the natural barrier function on the surface of your skin – so such a great masque to use for sensitivity.

The Vitamin C in Dermalogica Power Recovery Masque is in the form of Ascorbyl Palmitate – which is a form of vitamin C which is more stable and penetrates better into your skin. By using this dermalogica masque you are getting an ample dose of Vitamin C that will stimulate more collagen production (i.e. that is why your skin looks plumper) but also stops the enzymes that break down your collagen and elastin at the same time – GENIUS!

Vitamin E which is a great antioxidant is used for its antioxidant properties but is also smoothes your skin incredibly and helps your skin increase its moisture content.

Vitamin A in the form of Retinyl Palmitate this protects your skin against dehydration, improves the texture of your skin and also helps to reverse the signs of aging.

Think of this dermalogica masque as Five Five Five, because it contains five percent panthenol, five percent algae extract and five percent betaglucan – which is an extremely high amount! This masque really is POTENT – You Really Have Got to Try it!

Dermalogica Power Recovery Masque is Jam-Packed With Goodness!

So far you can see how powerful this masque is but it’s also full of more amazing active ingredients that work to calm and soothe your skin. It has Algae Extract which besides being full of nutrients it softens your skin incredibly.

These are the soothing and calming ingredients in the dermalogica masque – Liquorice, Comfrey, Burdock and Rhizone Root Extracts which all work to de-sensitize your skin and the most incredible anti-inflammatory ingredient Oats! (You can see why it’s a therapist Best Friend).

While this masque is not a true dermalogica Age Smart Line (i.e. it does not work on glycation, or MMP’s – see my other posts on these) It does quench the free-radicals thanks to the high-amount of antioxidants in this product and it really does restore your skin and makes it look like peaches and cream for when you want your skin to look instantly better – Enjoy!

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Dermalogica Age Smart MAP-15 Regenerator

Yes You Can Firm Your Skin With Dermalogica Map-15 Regenerator

There are not many products that claim to firm your skin and do but according to dermalogica there MAP-15 regenerator will stimulate your collagen to firm and brighten your skin. I think the MAP-15 Regenerator is a strange product there really is nothing quite like this out on the market. It’s a powder that is incredibly light-weight and when you apply it directly to your skin it turns into an emulsion that gently melts into your skin.

What does MAP-15 Stand For?

Dermalogica’s Age Smart MAP-15 means Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate (MAP) this is a form of vitamin C which is an antioxidant that will protect your skin from free radicals and the damaging enzymes known as Matrix Metalloproteinase that is responsible for destroying your collagen supplies. With so many different forms of vitamin C on the market why would you want to use this? Well MAP is a stable for of vitamin C, so that means with every application you are guaranteed fresh “non-oxidised” vitamin C, which will straight away do it’s job of firming and brightening your skin while providing antioxidant protection and stopping the enzymes Matrix Metalloproteinase from breaking down your freshly made new collagen bundles!

MAP is a special form of vitamin C that is non-acidic making it great for sensitive skin types and not causing any dryness on your skin. The “15″ part of MAP-15 stands for the percentage of the product, there is 10% of vitamin C in this product and 5% of the other ingredients that work together to boost your collagen formation in your skin.

Dermalogica Age Smart

The dermalogica age smart line is designed to target the biochemical reactions that lead to skin aging. The biochemical reactions are Free Radicals, Collagen Dissolving Enzymes and Advanced Glycation End Products I am not going to go into these factors now, however what I want to point out to you is that Dermalogica’s Age Smart MAP-15 is designed to target these reactions. White Tea I think is a fantastic ingredient is in this product that not only protects you from free radical damage but is a wonderful antioxidant that inhibits the collagen dissolving enzymes (Matrix Metalloproteinase) and also inhibits Glycation – that is why I have started to drink White Tea daily, I actually prefer the taste to Green Tea and is a more powerful antioxidant. However drinking White Tea is not going to be enough to get it’s benefits to your skin, you still do need to apply good antioxidants topically to your skin to get the skin benefits.

Glucosamine is also a new wonderful super-ingredient of mine because it stimulates the formation of Hylauronic Acid in your skin (your natural moisturising factor) providing intense hydration to your skin but what is really great is it stimulates collagen regeneration and also protects your skin from advanced glycation end products (a damaging by-product of sugar and protein reactions in your skin).

This product so far, regenerates collagen, inhibits collagen-dissolving enzymes, stops glycation and provides wonderful antioxidant properties to your skin what else does it do? Well, it contains yeast extract and yeast extract is excellent for collagen formation and increasing the firmness in your skin, in fact I would go to say that this really does firm your skin and this would be one of the main reasons to use this, as it excellent – but strange!- but good!

How to Use Dermalogica Age Smart MAP-15 Regenerator

There is two ways to use this product you can use it as a spot treatment on any areas that need firming and the way to do this is cleanse your skin, spritz with antioxidant Hydramist and then apply a small amount of the powder to your finger and then apply to your face. As you apply it you will notice how it melts gently into your skin. In fact regular use of this will lightly exfoliate your skin, brighten and smooth out the texture as well as stimulating oodles of collagen. Next apply your dermalogica moisturiser.

As it’s a powder and I find it a bit messy to use myself I prefer to mix in a pea size amount with my moisturiser, to give my whole face a brightening collagen boost and still does give excellent results.

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Why Every Woman Who is Concerned About Ageing Should Be Using Dermalogica’s Antioxidant Hydramist!

Dermalogica Age Smart Antioxidant HydraMist

Stimulate Collagen, Instantly Firm Your Skin and Boost it With Antioxidants

You know are skin is with us all our lives, it lasts longer than clothes, a pair of sunglasses and that flashy looking hand bag and if you are like me and want beautiful, healthy skin, looking after your skin with the best anti-aging ingredients is a wonderful way to ensure that your skin lasts a life time.

Now I have been updating my knowledge over the last few days

on the ageing process and I am glad that I use dermalogica antioxidant hydramist on a daily basis! I cannot believe how powerful and full of goodness it is and if you’re like me and want to do everything you can to slow down the ageing process let me tell you why you need to use this dermalogica age smart product as your first step in the protection of your very best asset – your skin!

Dermalogica’s Age Smart Line uses the latest in peptide technology and looks at how the triggers of collagen breakdown can be slowed down or halted.

What’s so Good About Dermalogica Antioxidant Hydramist?

It really is another instant effect dermalogica product that not only you feel the difference straight away but it hydrates your skin, has brilliant antioxidant protection, stimulates new collagen formation with the use of peptides and vitamin c (a.k.a MAP) and gives you an instant flash-firming effect.

I really like it because it has ingredients in it that help to combat advanced glycation (sugars that attach themselves to proteins – such as your collagen and break it down) this product has the polypeptide argentine/lyseine that stops sugars binding to your skin’s collagen stopping it from breaking down – a BIG REASON WHY YOU NEED TO USE THIS DAILY!!!!! It contains Glucosamine that controls this processes and stops your collagen from cross-linking which gives you those deep wrinkle lines.

It also protects your skin with my favourite ingredient at the moment which is White Tea Extract (I do drink White Tea daily now, however it’s a sad fact that none of this goodness goes straight to my skin on my face, but gets used in the body – that is why I suggest you use antioxidant hydramist because applying them topically to your skin does give you protection). White Tea Extract stops the enzymes called Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) in particular the enzyme Collagenese that breaks down collagen in your skin when activated either from inflammation or UV.

As we age our natural MMP protectors or inhibitors decline so we need to combat this with topically applied ingredients and White Tea is excellent at controlling these, along with Vitamin C, so you know that any collagen-regeneration products you apply are not going to be wasted, as you know you have White Tea which is inhibiting the MMP’s from breaking down your newly formed collagen!

Packed with Antioxidants such as vitamin C, White Tea is a great antioxidant, liquorice and glycosmine you know that these antioxidants are trapping free-radicals.

What’s so bad about free-radicals? They are responsible (another factor) that may cause damage to your dna, collagen and elastin cross-linking which shows up in your skin as lines, wrinkles, hyper pigmentation and inflammation – you see it’s important!

This amazing topically dermalogica age smart mist also contains Pea Extract which acts like egg white and as the mist dries on your skin it gives your skin that tautness and it’s great to use if you get hot as the cooling mist really helps calm your skin and the beautiful rose, clove and lemon aroma is wonderfully refreshing .

This super-mist also helps to stimulate hylauronic acid with the ingredients glucosamine and Bamboo and sorry to go on about this product but it does have so many great ingredients in it that do so many wonderful things!

The great palmitoyl tripeptide-5 is also in it that helps to stimulate collagen formation and stop the MMP’s from being activated and breaking down the newly formed collagen.

There are great soothing ingredients such as vitamin E, beta-glucan and liquorice and also vitamin a in the form of retinyl palmitate.

If you are concerned about your skin aging and want to keep your skin looking as good as possible, use this product under your moisturiser, it really is every woman’s best friend.

How to Use Dermalogica Antioxidant Hydramist

Prepare your skin by cleansing it with dermalogica precleanse and then your specific dermalogica cleanser, if your concerned with ageing and don’t have sensitive skin then you could try dermalogica’s skin resurfacing cleanser. After you have cleansed your skin, close your eyes and lightly mist your face with the antioxidant hydramist, (don’t let it drip over your face, just a light misting as if you are going to apply hair spray). Next gently press the antioxidant hydramist into your skin and before it’s absorbed into your skin (it should be slightly damp) apply your chosen moisturiser. I really like dermalogica’s dynamic skin recovery for day time use as it does go really well with the dermalogica antioxidant hydramist and it has an SPF30 in with it.

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Get a ‘WOW’ Effect With Dermalogica’s Age Smart Skin Resurfacing Cleanser!

Dermalogica Skin Resurfacing Cleanser

: Dermalogica Age Smart Cleanser that Gives Super Smooth Results

Dermalogica Skin Resurfacing Cleanser has to be one of the best cleansers in the dermalogica line and this is a new cleanser from dermalogica’s age-fighting Age Smart Range. If you like really super smooth lovely soft skin this is it! I have tried many different alpha hydroxy acid lactic acid cleansers before but it’s amazing how this cleanser actually does soften and smooth your skin instantly, you only need to use this dermalogica cleanser once for you to see and feel the difference, results are amazing.

How does this age smart cleanser get your skin so soft, smooth and clean? Let’s have a look at the ingredients and the way it works on your skin.

Dermalogica Age Smart Cleanser Ingredients

This skin resurfacing cleanser is designed to be a two in one cleanser that cleanses and exfoliates your skin at the same time. You only need to do one cleanse with this cleanser, but make sure you use dermalogica’s Precleanse before using this cleanser to get perfect clean skin results.

Lactic Acidis what gives you that wonderfully smooth effect on your skin from this dermalogica cleanser. It contains five percent Lactic Acid that is enough to give you that incredibly smooth feeling but also helps to brighten and hydrate your skin from within. On first time use you may experience tingling sensation on your skin and this is a normal effect, however do not use it around your eyes or get it in your eyes – it will sting like CRAZY! If you find this cleanser burns your skin, it’s not for you and you would be best to try dermalogica UltraCalming Cleanser.

You have got to try and see how smooth your skin is from this cleanser and try out the half face test. Wash your face one side with skin resurfacing cleanser and the other side with any other cleanser, wash your skin and dry it off and then pat your skin dry and feel the difference, it really does feel clean and fresh.

Why would dermalogica put this much Lactic Acid into this age smart cleanser?
Because cleansing your skin prepares your skin for the actives in the dermalogica age smart to penetrate evenly and deeper into your skin, there is no point using dermalogica’s MAP-15 Regenerator if you are not effectively preparing your skin beforehand in the correct way.

As we get older our skin can become more sensitive and this dermalogica age smart cleanser has added Rose Flower Oil which helps to calm your skin from any irritation and Vitamin Eis added to help smooth your skin and provide antioxidant protection. Vitmin E is also a great preservative and you will be happy to know that dermalogica skin resurfacing cleanser is paraben-free.

Vitamin E applied topically does help improve the smoothness of your skin and has great anti-inflammatory properties.

If you really need a cleanser I think it’s worth giving dermalogica skin resurfacing cleanser a go, particularly if you are concerned with keeping your skin looking good for longer and improving it’s current condition.

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Dermalogica’s Smart Moisturiser For Premature Aging

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Dermalogica Age Smart Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30

Dermalogica Age Smart Potent Moisturiser

If you’re concerned about ageing and want more than just a moisturiser that only hydrates your skin then dermalogica dynamic skin recovery is just for you. If you are aware of the dermalogica age smart range you will know how good it is and dynamic skin recovery is no different.

It’s a moisturiser but it also helps your skin fight skin aging free radicals (not that much different from the other dermalogica moisturisers) however the key thing about this dermalogica product is it actually helps your skin fight against the damaging effects of glycation.

Glycation is a new term what is floating around in the skin care industry; it’s the reaction between sugars (glucose) and amino groups in proteins. Collagen is a protein and as a result the sugar reacts with it (known as glycation) causing glycation and free radical damage. The result from this process is inflammation (which accelerates the aging process), the loss of collagen and elastin and also can stop skin cell growth.

The scary thing is our body cannot reverse the glycation process or remove it. Dermalogica however when developing the Age Smart line has discovered a peptide molecule that can act as a ‘sugar trap’ allowing the sugar in the body to bind to it. The peptide is known as Arginine/Lysine polypeptide and thankfully this is included in this moisturiser, providing to your skin an anti-glycation effect!

Yes is new technology, but it’s amazing that we now have a moisturiser that can help protect our skin from this. Dermalogica are starting to use more and more peptides in there formulas and in this dermalogica moisturiser again they have added another peptide known as Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5.

This peptide is amazing, I mean it really is clever it actually activates tissue growth in your skin, it’s a skin-firming peptide and also stops the process of the enzymes that are responsible for breaking down collagen.

Dynamic Skin Recovery Moisturiser

Ok, this moisturiser really feels creamy on the skin, but not on the thick and heavy scale, it’s rich but not thick and it’s jam-packed with moisture usch as hylauronic acid to provide maximum skin hydration. It’s got glycosamine in there which not only fights the glycation process but it stimulates the production of collagen and hylauronic acid in your skin.

Evening Primrose Oil is in this moisturiser and you can tell and feel how it repairs your skin and helps keep it hydrated and it last’s throughout the day. As aging and inflammation go and in hand, it’s no wonder that dermalogica have included ingredients such as Colloidal Oatmeal – which is an absolutely brilliant calmer of skins (I use this a lot in my treatments for anyone with extremely sensitized skin conditions) and Feverfew Extract which helps to calm irritated skin types.

Free radical damage from pollution, smoke and everything else bad around us and White Tea Extract helps to protect our skin against this but it’s also incredibly good at helping with preventing glycation in the skin a really potent and good antioxidant is White Tea.

When you use this creamy moisturiser you will notice how incredibly calming and hydrating it is and will now be happy in the fact that it’s doing all of those amazing things I mentioned above! It’s a daytime moisturiser and it does contain an SPF30. I find it does not leave my skin with any white residue that a lot of sunscreens can, it blends really well and the hydration lasts all day and make up goes on over the top great. Don’t forget that UV is the major cause of skin aging so make sure that if you are going out in the sun all day that you reapply for that extra protection. Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery is more suitable for anyone with premature aging. I have seen client’s skin’s fine lines vanish from using this daily, it’s really good for anyone with a dry, dehydrated skin type.

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Silky, Smooth, Soft Skin Can Be Yours With Dermalogica’s Multivitamin Thermafoliant

I am in love with Dermalogica’s Multivitamin Thermafoliant!

: Dermalogica Multivitamin Thermafoliant For Skin So Smooth and Soft!

Dermalogica Multivitamin Thermafoliant is an amazing two-in-one dermalogica age smart product that gives great results. It polishes the skin, gently removing dull skin cells, leaving your skin feeling incredibly smooth

and so sensationally soft and gives it an irridiscient fresh glow immediately. It’s a powerful physical dermalogica exfoliant that exfoliates and smooths your skin but at the same time address the key triggers of aging.

The aging factors I am talking about are free-radical formations, glycation end products and Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP’s) that trigger the break down of collagen – Not going into detail about these here today!

First up this dermalogica exfoliant actually contains Lactic Acid and Salicylic Acid these are alpha and beta hydroxy acids that stimulate exfoliation on your skin leaving it smoother, plus it’s boosted with Magnesium Oxide Granules that at the same time immediately polishes away dead skin cells helping to minimise fine lines and smooth out the texture of your skin, kind of like a Microdermabrasion Effect (this is not added as a gimmick. These granules remove the excess cells to allow maximum penetration of the active vitamins into the skin).

In this Dermalogica Age Smart Product we have the power of the Lactic and Salicylic Acid, plus the Microdermabrasion Granules Effect, but it’s formulated in a waterless formula that allows the Vitamins A, C and E and Soybean Extractto penetrate into your skin, and when you add water to the dermalogica exfoliant it actually heats up to allow all of those active ingredients to penetrate further using thermal technology, your skin is left amazingly smooth with better texture and you can feel it heat up on your skin.

Dermalogica also added Prickly Pear Extract this boosts the exfoliation process, and Licorice is added to reduce any irritation and help reduce pigmentation – as usual dermalogica always add an anti-inflammatory into the product, to calm and soothe the skin.

It also has White Teathat has brilliant antioxidant properties and also inhibits the collagen-degrading enzymes (MMPs), Soybean Extract is also used as it’s a great antioxidant that fights free radicals and also stimulates new collagen formation whilst stopping the formation of glycation in the skin – WOW it’s pretty good what can be put into skin care products these days. Check out my dermalogica multivitamin thermafoliant video below.

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This dermalogica age smart exfoliant you have got to experience, it’s great for an immediate result and I find it fantastic to use if you are going out and you want to give your skin that instant lift! Another fabulously created dermalogica product.

You can use dermalogica’s multivitamin thermafoliant in two ways.

How To Use Dermalogica Multivitamin Thermafoliant

First after cleansing with your dermalogica cleanser apply to damp skin in circular motions for about one to two minutes (make sure you do not apply around your eyes)

and then wash off and follow with your normal dermalogica moisturiser and dermalogica sunscreen. The second way gives you an intense result- Just apply it to clean dry skin and rinse with warm water.

It’s recommended that you exfoliate two to three times a week. It’s not suitable for sensitive skin-types or anybody who is taking and medically prescribed exfoliation products or has waxed recently. Be smart with this dermalogica exfoliant and don’t over use!

AGREE? DISAGREE? Tell me your experiences of Using Dermalogica Multivitamin Thermafoliant or any tips that you have with this dermalogica product, I would love to hear your views and ideas, please comment below – Show me your ALIVE!!

Have You Tried Dermalogica’s Age Smart Potent Lip Complex?

Peptide-Packed Lip Product - Not Your Average Lip Balm

Dermalogica Age Smart Renewal Lip Complex

Dermalogica Age Smart Renewal Lip Complex to get moist juicy lips you need to do more than just use an everyday lip balm. Lips are fragile things, one day they can be nice, plump and juicy and the next dry, cracked and sore.

In-fact not caring for your lips is a sure way to start getting those tell-tale feathering lip aging lines. Dehydration of the lips can cause them to shrivel up, dry out and crack (have you noticed the older you get the thinner you lips get?)

Most people reach for their balm when this happens but some ingredients in certain products can cause more damage to your lips and make them even more drier and you end up in a never ending cycle of applying more balm to compensate (not realising that the balm causes them to dry out).

Dermalogica suggest to avoid using lip products that contain artificial colours like Red D and C dyes, artificial fragrances, lanolin wax, Isopropyl Esters and Myristyl Lactate on the lip area to name a few. Any inflammation is a known precursor to the aging cycle so make sure you use a good quality lip product and check the ingredients.

If this was not enough assault to our lips as we age and our lips dry out naturally (thanks to UV damage, pollution, cold weather and inflammation). Dermalogica have made the Age Smart Renewal Lip Complex to help smooth and condition the delicate lips fast. The active balm contain many moisturising natural plant oils that smooth your lips and help prevent and repair any damaging cracks.

The balm itself is a very thick consistency and feels different to a gloss, the balm will actually condition your lips for around three to four hours and with regular use will make your lips really silky soft and smooth.

You can use the renewal lip complex as a primer before applying your lipstick and it helps to reduce those dreaded contour lines, I find it best to use as a night time treatment for my lips and it’s recommended that you use the Age Smart Balm morning and night to get maximum results, apply it after applying your eye cream.

Besides the conditioning oils dermalogica have added there polypeptide that acts as a sugar trap and binds sugar to the peptide stopping the breakdown of collagen and elastin in the lips (also known as glycation) and reducing fine lines, preventing the signs of aging.

The Renewal Lip Complex also contains Palmitoyl Oligopeptide an ingredient that helps to restore the collagen in the lips and keeping them fuller for longer. Along with added vitamin E for it’s healing and hydrating properties and it’s help at fighting free radical damage, this dermalogica lip balm is amazing, you will really notice the difference with your lips, it’s the best lip product I have ever tried contains nothing harmful and smoothes uneven texture, another great addition to dermalogica’s Age Smart Line.

Dermalogica and The Power of Peptides in Skin Care

: Dermalogica’s Powerful Peptides

Dermalogica has always looked at the use of ingredients in their skin care range with integrity, in fact there are many of the dermalogica skin care products which have peptides in them. Before I get into the dermalogica products that contain peptides and there uses, I want to go over what actually are peptides and how they benefit the skin.

What Are Peptides?

Peptides are a chains of protein fragments. Scientists can control the amount of amino acids in the peptide, how they are linked together and what response they want in the skin, depending on how the amino acids are ordered. Peptides are made in the laboratory (synthetically made) and they are the big discovery in the skin care world, with this new state of the art technology.

To give you an example of a peptide which you are familiar with is collagen. Collagen is a big amino acid chain of one thousand amino acids. Peptides made today are not very big compared to collagen, grouping amino acids into bundles of two, three, four and up to thirty four, not sure if they go higher than this? They are small so they can penetrate into the skin.

Peptides Used in Dermalogica Skin Care

Dermalogica have started implementing peptides into there formulations. The Age Smart range is full of them! Below I am going to list the peptides used, and what they are going to do in the skin, and the dermalogica products.

Dermalogica Age Smart Peptides

Dermalogica use these peptides in there Age Smart Line:-

Polypeptide (two amino acids) – Consisting of Argenine and Lysine – This peptide is wonderful it is used to trap suger to preven glycation taking place in the skin – basically helping to prevent your collagen and elastin breaking down. This peptide is found in Dermalogica’s Anti-oxidant Hydramist (if you are using multi-active toner and you are concerned about aging, give this a try!), dynamic skin recovery SPF 30, super rich repair, and even dermalogica’s renewal lip complex!

Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 (three amino acids) – Palmitoyl is a carrier, which allows the peptides to enter the epidermis and begin to work. The tripeptide works at stimulating collgen, firming the skin and control the effects of enzymes that are responsible for breaking down different types of collagen and elastin within the skin. This peptide is used in Dermalogica’s Super Rich Repair, Anti-Oxidant Hydramist and Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF30.

Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-3 (five amino acids) – Again Palmitoyl is a carrier, which allows the peptides to enter the epidermis and begin to work. The pentapeptide is responsible for alerting our cells to produce more collagen and hylauronic acid (which is the hydration in our skin). This peptide is used in dermalogica’s Power Rich Super Cream, when we reach thirty we lose 1% of collagen every year, so peptides are great way to stimulate different types of collagen in the skin, giving you plumper less wrinkled skin! I also have found that dermalogica’s extra firming booster uses this peptide for it’s firming effect. Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-3 functions similar to vitamin C and Retinol (Vitamin A)!

Palmitoyl Oligopeptide (five amino acids) – Palmitoyl is a carrier, which allows the peptides to enter the epidermis and begin to work. Oligopeptide is a new peptide that conditions the skin and stimulates collagen formation and researchers are saying it is one of the next best ingredients next to retinol, with the added advantage of not having any side effects. This amazing peptide can be found in dermalogica’s renewal lip complex (Yes a lip balm with peptides, have a look at the link, you will see how amazing this lip product truly is), and even dermalogica’s sunscreen/moisturiser for mature skin extra rich face block SPF30!

Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 – This is the peptide that dermalogica so far only uses in it’s extra rich face block sunscreen, this peptide like the oligopeptide also is responsible for stimulating collagen and hylauronic acid therefore helping to increase elasticity and firmness within the skin.

Palmitoyl Oligopeptide-34 (thirteen amino acids) – This peptide addresses pigmentation (brown marks on the skin). Dermalogica developed this peptide with a biopharmaceutical company, and when they tested this peptide they were blown away with the results. They even have studies showing that this peptide is superior to vitamin C, and getting pigment reduction up to 47% improvement compared to vitamin C’s 27% reduction. With any skin care product for pigmentation you need to use the product regularly and always wear sunscreen and reapply. You need to have patience when using any pigmentation product, as it normally takes about four weeks for you start to see results. This peptide can be found in dermalogica’s chroma white range of products, the C-12 Concentrate, Pure Light SPF30 and Pure Night.

As you can see in dermalogica’s skin care range there are many dermalogica peptides being used, it is exciting to see what we will see next in the future of skin care products.

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