42 Results for "stress"
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Master Therapist
Stress Therapy Treatments
What you?ll learn in this class will give you the power to turn your clients? lives around! Learn effective stress-reduction techniques for the back, shoulders and scalp to deliver pain and stress re...
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Master Therapist
Chinese Acupressure
Chinese Acupressure, which originated in China more than 2000 years ago, is a coherent and independent system of thought and practice. Skin treatments can incorporate Chinese Acupressure to improve c...
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Alternative Therapies
Fight Client Stress With Scalp Massage
One of the most under-utilized techniques in the spectrum of touch therapies is the massage of the scalp. Health practitioners of every discipline agree that stress is the No. 1 enemy of wellness and...
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Alternative Therapies
Putting Good Skin on the Menu
As skin therapists we are taught to examine, diagnose and treat skin from the outside in, dealing primarily with what’s happening on the surface. We must always ask clients in-depth questions a...
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Skin Conditions
Beyond the Surface of Sensitized Skin
Sensitized skin reacts in an instant. Can you react just as fast when faced with this condition in the treatment room? IDI has the research and the ingredients to help you manage this condition for ...
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Skin Conditions
The Latest in the Quest for Eternally Young Skin
People are now living longer than they ever have. From the Bronze Age to medieval times, most people were not expected to live past their 35th birthday. Plagues, wars, and harsh living conditions kep...
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Alternative Therapies
Ancient Diagnosis, Modern Results!
Western medicine believes that each organ of the human body is separate from one another, leaving its specialists to practice in each of the different fields. But the Chinese see the body as a whole,...
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Skin Conditions
Identifying Inflammation
A woman enters your retail space and asks if you have products for sensitive skin. The question is a reasonable one—her skin feels prickly, itchy, tight, dry in patches and may even bristle wit...
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Skin Conditions
New Age: No Time Like the Present
As Americans of the 21st century, we sometimes beat ourselves up for our youth-obsession. More traditional cultures, we remind ourselves, honor elders. We berate ourselves for being shallow and vain ...
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Skin Conditions
The Biology Behind Eczema and Psoriasis
Eczema and psoriasis are some of the most challenging skin conditions encountered by skin care professionals. Often, there will simply be a little red rash on the skin and you may be left scratching ...
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Science & Ingredients
Hormones and Your Skin
About one hundred years ago humans doubled their life expectancy. This was a monumental feat, given that the number of years the average person was expected to live was a relatively constant number t...
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Skin Conditions
Why is Adult Acne on the Rise?
More than ever before, adults are enduring the challenges of oily and acneic skin conditions. Clinical studies indicate that between 40 and 55 percent of the adult population age 20-40 are diagnosed ...
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Skin Conditions
The Top Three Causes of Dry, Dehydrated Skin
Dry, dehydrated skin can be a temporary condition or a lifelong concern. Dry skin can be genetically determined or a product of an increasingly stressful lifestyle coupled with continual exposure to ...
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Science & Ingredients
Breakouts Got You Seeing Red?
Have you ever experienced an adolescent-grade acne breakout in your adult life? The onslaught occurs suddenly, especially during a particular time of the month, and can leave you with limited options...
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Business & Motivation
Youth Trip: Help Your Business Speak Teen!
Generation Y. The Me Generation. The I Generation. Millennials. Sophisticated? Yes. Savvy? Absolutely. Spending power? Definitely: an entire generation of 8 to 23-year-olds spends about $200 billion ...
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Skin Conditions
CODE RED: Coping Strategies for Sensitized Skin
Restoring health and balance to sensitized skin must begin with a basic clarification of terms. If your client complains of tight, red, stinging, itchy, reactive, flushing, blushing or hot skin, she ...
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Alternative Therapies
Indian Champissage
Physical and psychological stressors alike assail the head, including the scalp, the muscles of the face and the neck and shoulders, threatening to turn the upper body into a minefield of tension, co...
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Methods & Modalities
Awakening Aging Skin
At The International Dermal Institute, we know that aging skin is largely a matter of skin health, not just esthetics. While overall proper skin care is one of the most effective ways to maintain the...
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Business & Motivation
6 Business Success Tips from Jane Wurwand, Founder of Dermalogica
There’s nothing like a great rags-to-riches story, and Jane Wurwand has a remarkable one. She started Dermalogica, a professional skin care company, in 1983 with $1,400. Her goal was to bridge ...
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Alternative Therapies
What Does Your Dosha Say About You?
Quiz: What Does Your Dosha Say About You? Diagnose your Dosha to better understand your physical, mental and emotional make-up! Understanding your own Dosha, or energy type, will make you more sens...
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Skin Conditions
Sensitive Versus Sensitized: The Genetic Difference
Millions of people perceive their skin as sensitive. Although these numbers vary across the world, the American Academy of Dermatology reports that 50% of the United States population experience some...
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Alternative Therapies
Thai Yoga Therapy
Our global village grows smaller every day, with the onceexotic made mainstream through the unstoppable acceleration of media, international travel and technology. Today, we take for granted that sus...
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Science & Ingredients
Skin and the Brain: Uncovering New Links
While scientific research during the past century has focused on identifying and studying separate somatic structures, functions and conditions, the newest discoveries spanning many disciplines uncov...
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Science & Ingredients
What Is A Free Radical?
Free radicals may be formed through natural human physiological processes as well as from the environment. They may be the result of diet, stress, smoking, alcohol, exercise, inflammation, drugs or e...
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Science & Ingredients
What Causes Skin Aging?
Wrinkles, altered pigmentation, loss of skin tone… we all associate these changes with skin aging. Age-related skin changes are the result of genetically programmed changes (intrinsic factors)...
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Skin Conditions
What is Acne?
Acne is a condition that most people have experienced at some point in their lives. Whether seen as a teenager, adult or both, those who’ve been unfortunate enough to cross its path know what a...
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Science & Ingredients
Smart Mouth
We often tend to neglect our lips when it comes to facial skin care, except of course for the occasional collagen injection for some. And yet our mouth and lips are so vitally important for an array ...
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Science & Ingredients
Controlling Aging Skin
Scientists have performed extensive research to track the changes that occur during skin aging and understand what we can realistically do for this pre-existing condition. In the past, scientists hav...
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Skin Conditions
The Future's Looking Bright
At the International Dermal Institute, we hold that a substantial part of the aging process is attributed to skin discoloration. To achieve brighter skin, once must undergo treatments and use product...
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Science & Ingredients
Soothing Sensitive Skin
Burning, stinging, prickling, itching. Sound like a bad gardening experience? Actually, various reports state that 50% of the world’s population suffers from these symptoms in a condition broad...
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Business & Motivation
Healing the Industry, the World and Ourselves
No thinking person will deny the fact that the world is in need of healing. But, where to begin? The question and the task are more than merely daunting. The skin, far more so than the eyes, is the w...
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Alternative Therapies
Balancing the Body
We’ve all heard of Yin and Yang energy, but what exactly is it? Simply put, it is a facet of Chinese philosophy that believes that everything in life has two aspects: a Yin aspect and a Yang as...
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Business & Motivation
HOMING INSTINCTS: Create an at Home Skin Program for Your Clients to Build a Robust Business
Enormous changes have rocked the worlds of the skin care center, salon and spa since 2008. While we take hope in the news that the economy may be sparking back into life, it is fair to say that profe...
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Skin Conditions
When Razor Meets Skin: A Scientific Approach to Shaving
A survey conducted by The International Dermal Institute indicates that 79 percent of male respondents say they have one or more skin problem(s) that they notice daily, and yet the selection of their...
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Business & Motivation
Know Thy Niche
Do you think the entire world is your potential market? In a very real sense, you are correct—after all, everyone has skin. But, as a skin care professional, what are you going to do to stand o...
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Methods & Modalities
Indirect High Frequency
Regenerate tired, stressed and skin with this amazing modality that enhances penetration of creams and complexes.
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Debbie Sung
As a Skin Therapist and an Esthetics Instructor, I cannot stress enough the importance of staying on top of what?s new in the industry to get the best ingredients and technology available to my clien...
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Skin Conditions & Treatments
I quit smoking 3 months ago and knew that I could ...
Congratulations on your decision to quit smoking! It may take a few more weeks for your skin to settle into a new routine, but it depends on how long you have been smoking, how stressed you are now t...
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Skin Conditions & Treatments
What is best for skin that breaks out on the jaw l...
Skin that breaks out along the jaw is generally hormonal. If you notice a pattern when the breakouts occur, it may be a drop in estrogen hormones and a rise in testosterone (this is common in many pe...
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Skin Conditions & Treatments
I have had constant, bad acne on only my chin for ...
The fact that you have had breakouts on your chin sounds more like your hormones than your diet is playing a role. We are glad that you are doing exfoliation, as this is a great way to ensure the ski...
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Science & Ingredients
Is there any nutritional advice for those that suf...
Remember that acne treatments really depend on the individual, and keep the person's age in mind. Adult acne is different from teenage acne. Overall, a healthy diet will be reflected in healthy skin....
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Skin Conditions & Treatments
What?s the difference between teen acne and adul...
Teen acne is caused by an overproduction of sebum (which can be triggered by hormonal spikes) and is typically characterized by breakouts over the whole face and even the neck and chest. Adult acne i...