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BEHIND BEAUTY: SUMMER’S COMING: A FEW TIPS TO CONQUER CELLULITE

With summer around the corner, it’s important to start getting your beach bod ready. If you’re like 90% of women, this probably means tackling your cellulite. But what is cellulite? Why do we get it? How can it be prevented? Every day, millions of women struggle with these very questions. Today, we’re offering answers.

What is Cellulite?

This lumpy, bumpy skin that tends to resemble the surface of an orange is caused when fat cells press against the vertical connective tissue. Often, this results in the dimpled texture. Cosmo Magazine even compares the effect to you skin pushing through fishnet stockings.

It’s not just an excess of fat that causes cellulite. In “The Cellulite Solution”, Dr. Murad argues that, “cellulite is caused by skin that has deteriorated to the point that buoyant fat cells are able to push into the dermis, the middle layer of skin, and show through the surface.” (pg. 8) Murad believes that to truly treat cellulite, the entire body must be brought into focus.

Most commonly occurring on the thighs and buttocks, there are many theories as to why people get Cellulite. Science has managed to narrow it down to genetics, hormones, lifestyle, diet, and clothing.

How Do I Prevent Cellulite?

There is no magic formula to living cellulite free. However, there are a lot of way you can reduce your chances of developing an uneven skin texture.

First, minimize your intake of saturated fats, junk food, diet pop, sugar and salt. Overly processed foods contain bad fats that accumulate on the body, increasing your chances of developing cellulite. Salt encourages your body to retain fluids instead of passing them naturally. This can increase the appearance of cellulite.  By decreasing the amount of bad fats in your diet, your body will be healthier. Additionally, opt for skin nourishing foods, such as berries, avocado, almonds, and cold water fish.

Most importantly, drink lots of water, about 8 8oz glasses a day. This helps to clear toxins from your body. Hiding between layers of fat cells, toxins can make cellulite look more pronounced. Cut out smoking and decrease your alcohol intake as both these habits add toxins to your body and can aggravate cellulite. Also, limit caffeine. A chemical that actively constricts blood vessels, caffeine can make  your cellulite worse.

How Do I Fight Cellulite?

Exercise 
Combine moderate aerobic exercise with strength training. Aerobic exercise helps to eliminate the fat cells causing cellulite. However, as our bodies require fat cells to function, it’s difficult to completely eliminate cellulite through aerobic exercise alone.  By increasing muscle tone through strength training, skin texture even out. The new muscle cells help to fill in the gaps.

Body Brushing 
Choose a brush with soft, natural bristles and a long handle. Thoroughly brush your entire body. The brushing helps to exfoliate the skin and increase blood flow. This helps cellulite by bringing nutrients and oxygen to the outer layer of the skin. By keeping skin healthy and strong, cellulite decreases. Use on a daily basis, moving from the toes up and finishing with your hands. Avoid brushing your face, as the bristles can harm delicate facial skin.

Massage
Like body brushing, Massage is a great way to stimulate circulation and drain away any excess fluids. It also loosens and softens the cells beneath the skin to help even out the surface texture.

Supplements
Adding a supplement or multi-vitamin to your routine will help to improve overall health as well as skin texture. Some brands produce supplements designed specifically to fight cellulite.

Topical Creams & Treatments
Cellulite products help treat some of the surface issues, but should be combined with deeper treatments, such as massage, bod brushing, and dietary adjustments. Some of the best creams contain caffeine. While on the inside this ingredient can aggravate cellulite, used as a topical treatment, it firms skin and helps improve texture.

Laser Treatment
A little on the extreme and expensive side, there are a variety of laser treatments available and results very greatly from person to person.

There are so many products on the market to treat, fight, and prevent cellulite. We polled our staff and here are their top recommendations:

Golden Moor Scorpion Brush A brush that uses 137 massaging fingers to stimulate the skin to reduce the look of cellulite.
Aromatherapy Associates Body Brush The brushing action immediately stimulates circulation and boosts cell renewal which effectively improves skin tone and texture by removing toxins.
Murad Skin Care The Cellulite Solution A fantastic book that outlines simple changes that can drastically reduce and repair cellulite.
Cellex-C Body Smoothing Lotion Minimizes the appearance of cellulite while helping to tone and firm sagging skin, giving the skin a smoother, sleeker appearance in 5 to 8 weeks
Aromatherapy Associates Enrich Body Scrub A coffee based scrub that cleans and tones to invigorate and revive dull looking skin.
Thalgo Celluceane Supplement – Anti Cellulite, Heavy Leg These are the ingredients that sea has to offer to work on your legs making them look beautiful and shapely, so regain light and energized legs and diminish any unflattering curves.

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Introducing Laboratoire Dr Renaud

Rigorous Standards. Guaranteed Quality.

A Canadian Company, Laboratoire Dr Renaud has been a leader in ethical standards for the last 60 years. They give preference to ingredients that are organic, fair-trade and support biodiversity awareness. This means no parabens, no synthetic perfumes or colorants, no mineral oils, no alcohol, no formalin, and no animal testing. Using as many natural plant and marine extracts as possible, Laboratoire Dr Renaud is dedicated to producing products that safe for your skin.

With their production laboratories certified as a pharmaceutical environment by Health Canada, they have extremely strict quality controls in place. They have an extensive team of scientists and researchers working to develop their product line. More importantly, all of the results are tested by independent labs.

Our clients are over the moon about the Laboratoire Dr Renaud SeboBalance 24H Anti-Ageing Fluid – Fluide anti-âge 24H SeboBalance (50 ml). Ultra-lightweight, this cream smooths fine lines, matifies, hydrates, seboregulates, and prevents new signs of aging.  Plus, it provides a fantastic base for make-up. Laboratoire Dr Renaud has an entire line, SeboBalance, dedicated to anti-aging sebum regulation. This line focuses on regulating oil, tightening pores, reducing shine and refining skin texture.

This winter, we’ve also seen the Laboratoire Dr Renaud Protecting Balm for Lips SPF 15 – Baume à lèvres protecteur FPS 15 (3.8 g) fly off our shelves! A fantastic balm to maintain soft, supple lips all year long, fragrance free, good for men and women- this balm does it all! The 15 SPF will protect from both UVA and UVB rays.

For the past few years, Laboratoire Dr Renaud has been heavily involved with the Academy Awards, featured at a gift suite in the Beverly Hilton. For 3 days before the academy awards, celebrities are invited to experience the lavish luxury of a Dr. Renaud facial as well as whole bunch of other goodies! They recruit estheticians from all over Canada to run this mini spa and all of their clients leave Camera Ready.

One of our estheticians, Rebekah, is currently trying out Laboratoire Dr Renaud and loving it. Her top two picks are:

Laboratoire Dr Renaud Énergie Vitale Energizing, Multivitamin Cream
Rebekah found this cream “great for a dry, devitalized skin” especially “for this time of year.” Plus, the anti-aging elements help to leave your skin feeling refreshed and glowing.

Laboratoire Dr Renaud Pure Kronoxyl-⑨ Complete Anti-Ageing Skin Care (face)

After several years in esthetics, Rebekah thought there was very little that could surprise her. However, this set is a “Wow!” Instantly correcting 3 types of wrinkles, superficial, deep, and expression lines, it serves as an alternative to more invasive procedures.

Part of the Laboratoire Dr Renaud philosophy is that “Your skin is unique, Just as you are.” A comprehensive line, we’ve only been able to highlight a handful of their products. Our esthetics team is able to provide a consultation and recommend products based on your individual needs.  Call 1-877-224-4315, chat on our website (http://www.spaboutique.ca/), or email us at info@spaboutique.ca.

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Vivescence – Swiss Ingenuity At Your Finger Tips

At Spa Boutique, we are please to announce the arrival of Vivescence. Canadian owned and Swiss manufactured, Vivescence believes the key to younger looking skin is to produce an extremely active product line.

Vivescence is a brand built on perfection. They control every aspect of their product. In fact, they even own the Award Winning State-Of-The-Art Laboratory in Switzerland where all of their products are synthesized and manufactured.  Working with experts in all aspects of cosmetology, researchers, engineers, biologists, pharmacists, and more, they strive to produce products that will provide real, visible results for their clients.

Truly “Cosmeceutical”, combining cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, Vivescence uses the latest scientific developments to slow down aging. An extensive line, there are several products geared towards a specific need or skin type. They were one of the first companies to isolate the stem cells from Swiss Apples that help make their anti-aging products some of the most active on the market.

“My skin feels great for this time of the year!” Nancy Mudford, owner of Spa Boutique, raved, “I can really feel it working as soon as I put it on.”

Nancy has been trying Vivescence for the past 4 weeks. She is completely in love with the SkinLess Refining Smoothing Treatment. Great under make up, this serum reduces the appearance of pores, tightens skin, and minimizes shine. Like most of us, she worries about winter dryness. So, she combined the SkinLess Refining Smoothing Treatment with the HydraTotal Gel Cream. Leaving her face feeling smooth and soft, even in January!

Each line offers a concentrated serum to complement their lotions, gels and masks. If you can only invest in one product, grab the serum for your skin type. They have the highest concentration of active ingredients without a prescription and deliver optimum nutrition and care. Designed to mix and match depending on age and skin type, the products can be combined to meet your exact needs.

Need more moisture? Add a HydraTotal product to your routine. Looking to brighten dull, stressed out skin? Try the Nutri-energy Re-energizing Vitamin Concentrate.

Oily skin? Acne? The Matifying Skincare Treatments, Hydra Mat, Hydra Mat Lift, and Pure Mat Water, are designed to regulate sebum and leave your skin feeling clean.  This line, especially the Pure Mat Water, works to matify, cool and leave your complexion clear. It’s a fantastic cleanser that targets acne. Finally, an oily skin treatment that hydrates and won’t leave you feeling dried out. Perfect for oily or acne prone skin.

As we age, our skin’s needs change. Vivescence focuses on generating products that offer visible results and long-term change for any skin type.

Looking to add a little Vivescence? Here are our top 5 Must Try Products:

1.     Vivescence Crystal Patch Regenerating Eye Contour Treatment – great for travelling (no more jet-lagged eyes!), relaxing before a big event, or pumping you up Friday night after a long week at work (A Spa Girl Personal Fav!)
2.     Pure Mat Water – a cleanser that works to fight acne, matify, and hydrate
3.     Cell Perfect Concentrate – worried about aging? This serum promotes the development of collagen and works to rebuild the dermis. It’s a fantastic product for achieving lift and tightness.
4.     Nutri-energy Re-energizing Vitamin Concentrate – A fantastic night cream, it feeds your skin. Phenomenal for high stress times and revitalizes dullness.
5.     HydraTotal Gel Cream – anti-aging, pure hydration, heaven on the skin. Available in several different weights depending on your preference.

 

 

  Plus! Purchase $250 in Vivescence products from www.spaboutique.ca and receive a Hydra-Replumping Kit (7pc) Plus a Metal Cuff Bracelet FREE! An $80 Value! *One Gift per order, not valid with any other promotions, available while quantities last. Substitutions may occur. Limited time offer.

 

 

 

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Yonka Stimulastine – A New Restructuring Wrinkle Remover (Day & Night Duo)

Yonka Paris has just launched an exciting new wrinkle correcting program using potent plant extracts!  It’s called Stimulastine Restructuring Wrinkle Remover and it is a powerful duo that includes two treatment creams, one for daytime and another for nighttime.

The focus of this product is on elastin, an essential fiber in the skin that is responsible for giving skin its elasticity.  With age, certain enzymes cause the break down of elastin which means that expression lines and wrinkles increase and become deeper.

Stimulastine Jour is a daytime moisturizer that contains a natural extract from the Boswellia Serrata tree that is known to stop the enzyme responsible for the degradation of elastin.  This day cream also provides a smoothing-lifting action thanks to oat polysaccharides, and an antioxidant effect with coenzyme Q10.  Stimulastine Jour is to be applied to cleansed skin every morning.  It’s silky, fast-absorbing and makes a great base for makeup.

Stimulastine Nuit is an elastin-boosting night cream that helps to restructure the epidermis resulting in smoother texture with less prominent lines and wrinkles.  Stimulastine Nuit has a smooth and comforting texture and is to be applied to cleansed skin every evening.

 

Both Stimulastine Jour and Stimulastine Nuit contain ingredients to hydrate and repair the skin as well as provide excellent antioxidant protection.  With essential oils of neroli and jasmine, both creams have a delicate and relaxing aroma.

 

If you have any questions or comments about the new additions to the Yonka anti-aging collection feel free to comment below!

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How to Revitalize your Eye Area with Celazome Clinical Skin Care

Unless you’re getting regular Botox, fillers, or have had some sort of other intensive treatment done to your eye area, you probably notice some level of aging around your eyes.  The eye contour is usually the first place that we begin to see fine lines and loss of elasticity because the skin is very thin and fragile and it’s also an area of expression (repeated muscle movements).

There are all kinds of eye creams, gels, and serums out there – all claiming to bring back youthfulness to your eye area.  Are you like me, tired of trying eye cream after eye cream with no results?  Are you ready to take your eye treatment to the next level without going to the doctor’s office?  This is where Celazome Eye Therapy comes in.  Celazome Clinical Skin Care is a fluff-free, straight to the point, pharmaceutical-grade skin care line that focuses on ingredients and results.  You won’t find any fancy packages or advertisements with touched up models with this line.  Celazome is famous for their unique nanotechnology which is a technique of encapsulating active ingredients for time-released, deep penetration into the skin.

Celazome‘s eye treatment products really stand out because of the rapid and remarkable results they yield.  This is due to the nanotechnology which delivers the active ingredients deep into the skin, rather than just to the surface like most other skin care products.  The same nanotechnology allows for powerful ingredients like peptides, retinol, and hyaluronic acid, and vitamins to be stable in one single product.

Which eye treatment is right for you?

What if you have concerns from both charts? Use the Eyelyph Serum during the day and the Eye Treat at night.

Results:

If you have any questions about these eye treatment products or any other Celazome Clinical Skin Care product or system, don’t hesitate to ask me or one of our other estheticians!

 

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