Shopping for Your Skin

Happy Holidays! It's shopping week as we head from Christmas to the New Year. If you're out shopping and skin care products are on your list, here's information to help you find quality products and not buy into some product lines' empty promises.
Many products promise to rejuvenate and "redensify" the skin and offer immediate results. The reality is that the only way to truly rejuvenate the skin is to stimulate its own regeneration abilities and allow it to repair itself. This can only be done by penetrating deep into the skin and microscopically irritating the skin, which stimulates the skin's defensive systems and causes the skin to repair and renew itself by stimulating cellular turnover. Products that do this are generally lighter, do not feel as rich and luxurious as the creamy products that most people use, and may cause a tingling sensation to the skin.
The key is not to look for an immediate result. Anything that you put topically on your skin that produces immediate improvements will not produce visible, long-term results. Instead look for a complete system that penetrates into the skin and stimulates the skin's own regenerative and reparative mechanisms. You may not see an incredible result instantly, but in the long-term your skin will both look better and be much healthier and age slower. Your skin has not aged and wrinkled overnight and there is no instant fix that you can simply apply to your skin to turn back the clock.
For assistance in finding a skin care system please contact one of our Le Petit Spa estheticians at 604.224.4314. Our spa only skin care lines B. Kamins, MD Formulations and Phytomer will have a skin care system right for your skin type (www.lepetitspa.ca)