Why Essential Oils are Such Powerful Skincare Treatments?

Essential Oils are the true essence of plants. They are ultra-concentrated, fragrant and volatile liquid substances. They consist of several hundred molecules working in synergy.  Individually, each essential oil has therapeutic properties, such as antiseptic, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory.  As a blended formula, essential oils are powerful treatments for skin. 

We’ve been expertly sourcing, selecting and blending essential oils since 1974.  As masters of our trade, we take a scientific approach to creating blends of essential oil formulas of the highest quality targeted to specific skin concerns.      

DID YOU KNOW?

DECLÉOR, pioneers in the world of essential oils, was the first company to introduce aromatherapy to cosmetics, and to transfer age-old expertise from the world of medicine to the world of beauty.

Our Secret? AROMESSENCE serums for daytime use and nighttime balms. 

What is it?  AROMESSENCE is an expert blend of 100% pure, active and natural essential oils targeted to treat a specific skin condition. 

What does it do?  Each AROMESSENCE™ deeply penetrates to treat the skin, purifying and balancing it from within.  The result is a visibly healthy and radiant complexion. 

Does it treat specific skin conditions?  Yes. In addition to these properties, we offer an AROMESSENCE™ to treat specific skin conditions, such as issues associated with oily/combination skin, or sensitive skin, or even visible signs of aging skin, etc.   

What is the difference between the Daytime Serum and the Nighttime Balm? The serum is designed for a quick absorb penetration, which is ideal for daytime.  The nighttime balm delivers a slower penetration so it works while you sleep, thus optimizing your body’s natural nighttime regeneration process.  While they work differently, the result is relatively the same as both work deeply within the skin.  When both are used as part of your daily skincare routine, they work synergistically to deliver benefits for your skin day and night. 

Choosing an AROMESSENCE for your skin type:

• Normal/ Dehydrated Skin:  AROMESSENCE Neroli and Neroli Night Essential Balm
• Dry Skin: AROMESSENCE Angelique and Angelique Night Balm
• Sensitive Skin: AROMESSENCE Rose d’Orient and Rose d’Orient Night Balm
• Oily/ Combination Skin: AROMESSENCE Ylang Ylang and Ylang Ylang Night Balm
• Hyper-pigmented Skin: AROMESSENCE White (and there’s also a Aroma White C+ Recovery Brightening Night Cream)
• Anti-Aging – 40s: AROMESSENCE Iris and Iris Night Balm
• Anti-Aging – 50s: AROMESSENCE Excellence and Excellence Night Balm 

 SHOP AROMESSENCE: Daytime Serums and Nighttime Balms  

Thalgo for Dry Skin

Dry skin looks dry, sometimes flakes, and often feels tight, especially if you have washed it with soap and water. Sometimes it is lacking some of the protective sebum and so it reacts to very hot and very cold weather by tightening up. One benefit of dry skin is that it is less likely to develop acne than oily skin, but it is easily chapped in a dry atmosphere. Always use mild, alcohol-free make up and toner, and a rich, creamy cleanser. Moisturize your face every day, including the throat and the skin around your eyes. When you wear makeup, use a moisturized foundation. You will need little or no powder. When you wash your face, use a liquid or a cleansing bar. Use warm water to lather and rinse it with cold. 

Thalgo Cocooning Cleansing Milk

Cocooning Cleansing Milk very gently sweeps away impurities and makeup. It softens, soothes and moisturizes the skin for a velvety and supple feeling.

Thalgo Cocooning Tonic Lotion

Cocooning Tonic Lotion toner sweeps away the last of impurities and makeup that is left after cleansing. It softens, soothes and moisturizes the skin, leaving it feeling supple and velvety soft.

Thalgo Softness Exfoliator

Softness Exfoliator removes dead skin cells and impurities while preserving the natural protection of the skin. This facial scrub also stimulates epidermal cellular renewal, soothes and reveals a fresh, luminous complexion.

Thalgo Waterproof Make-Up
Remover Eyes & Lips

A thorough eye and lip cleanser designed to remove all traces of makeup. Thalgo Waterproof Makeup Remover Eyes and Lips works to dissolve tough makeup, even stubborn water resistant formulations, quickly and effectively for a fresh complexion. Free from parabens, mineral oil, propylene glycol and animal by-products.

Thalgo Reviving Marine Mist

Reviving Marine Mist has been formulated to reinforce the effectiveness of your skin care treatments and creams. This seawater concentrate stimulates the energy and activity of your skin, offering the ultimate boost in marine beauty.

Thalgo Delicious Comfort Cream

Delicious Comfort Cream is a highly nourishing cream that is enriched with hydrating and restructuring Shea Butter. A true delight for your skin, it instantly restores suppleness and comfort. This full-bodied cream is also rich in vitamins and minerals that provide comfort and nourishment to dry skin.

Thalgo Extreme Comfort Cream

This double-action cream nourishes, hydrates and re-balances skin and is highly recommended for use in extreme climate conditions.

Thalgo Melt-Away Mask
Instant Comfort

Melt-Away Mask Instant Comfort melts into your skin to offer it a true nourishing bath. As soon as it is applied, skin is perfectly nourished and recovers suppleness and softness. Sensations of tightness and discomfort are instantly eased away. This soft setting mask is also rich in vitamins that remineralize and brighten your complexion.

Radiant in the Winter – Skin Care Tips

We all want radiant, smooth, and wrinkle-free skin year-round. For those of us that live in an area with cool winter months, this isn’t always easy to achieve. As cooler months set in, your skin goes through a transition. The hydrated and healthy skin of summer turns into chapped and dry skin. Here explains why this is and gives tips on how to keep skin healthy all winter long.

During the summer months, humid air helps to moisturize the skin, and the nourishing minerals in vitamin D are more easily accessible because of the vast amount of sunlight. People also tend to drink more fluids in the warmer months, an important component of healthy skin, because of heat and increased activity.

In the winter months, however, when activity decreases and leisure time moves indoors, it isn’t as easy to maintain healthy skin.

When skin is properly hydrated, nourished with vitamins and exfoliated, it has a radiant glow that is noticeable to you and everyone around you. This is when skin is at its healthiest. When moisture is absent from the skin, it becomes chapped. Flakes of dry and dead skin appear. Conditions like eczema, a severe dryness of skin that forms in patches over the body, may occur. To prevent this from happening and to maintain your healthy glow, these are the five wintertime tips.

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Winter Skin Care Tips

1. Avoid hot showers and baths. As tempting and as enjoyable as it is to jump into a hot shower on a cold winter day, don’t. Bathing in hot water breaks down the lipid barriers in your skin, which causes a loss in moisture. Instead, taking warm showers is recommended, not hot, and to avoid staying in for an extended period of time.
2. Exfoliate. The top layer of skin cells are either dead or old and make your skin look dull. Exfoliating gets rid of the dead skin cells and reveals newer, healthier-looking skin. Using a light exfoliate scrub, but to not over-exfoliate is recommended.
3. Moisturize differently and don’t pick at dry skin.  Peeling off dead skin is dangerous and will not help to revitalize new skin cells. You are recommended using a heavier moisturizer in the winter that is oil-based, not water-based, to nourish skin from the inside and help balance natural oil production. Make sure to grab an oil-based moisturizer with SPF, even when the sun isn’t out. UV rays that cause skin damage are present year-round, rain or shine. Keeping a small bottle of moisturizer with you if you are going to be outdoors for most of the day is also recommended, as your skin may dry out as the day goes on.
4. Use a humidifier. In winter months, the lack of moisture in the air causes skin to crack and become itchy. Humidifiers put moisture back into the air and prevent extreme dry skin. They also enhance moisture absorption in the nose and assist with mucus secretions, which are important in preventing things like sinusitis, especially in the winter months.
5. Bundle up in layers and take off wet clothes. Wet clothes that are worn close to the skin can cause irritation and sores. dressing in layers is recommended, which will allow you to take clothes off when you experience overheating and sweating.

Skin needs time to adapt to new routines, so don’t expect drastic changes overnight. Start following these tips early, and your skin will thank you this winter season.

Decleor Hydra Floral 24HR Moisture Activator Rich Cream

This product is a rich cream that provides 24-hour hydration. This product contains Wild Pansy Extract which captures moisture in the dermis, Samphire Extract, which retains moisture on the skin surface, and Neroli Essential Oil, which hydrates the skin.

Thalgo Freshness Exfoliator

Freshness Exfoliator removes dead skin cells and impurities, leaving the skin supple, refreshed and invigorated.

Benefits:

Nylon Granules eliminate impurities.

Menthol has a cooling effect on the skin.

Leaving skin supple, refreshed and invigorated.

Has a creamy texture.

Ideal for normal to combination skin types.

4 Skincare Products You Can't Do Without

Here's a 'foundation' minimum that we recommend you use:

Sunscreen: You NEED this. It's essential for preventing sun damage and lowering your risk of developing skin cancer. If you use only one product, sunscreen should be it. A lotion with SPF 15 moisturizes, protects with SPF, and smoothes skin AHAS and vitamin C.

Eye cream: The skin under your eyes is more delicate and dry than the skin on the rest of your face. Purchase an eye cream which treats the eye area with more emollient moisturizers.

Face Cream With Retinols: Worried about wrinkles and pigmentation spots? A face cream with retinol is order of the day. Use it in place of your regular moisturizer after washing your face in the evening.

Body lotion: A lotion with AHAs is recommended for your whole body. For dry spots put on extra lotion before bed and let it soak in while you are sleeping.

A lot of people with sensitive skin have reverted to natural skin care solutions. Many people use natural skin care formulas to care for their skin at home.

Recommended Products:

Sothys SPF50 Sensitive zones protective fluid
Sothys SPF50 Sensitive zones protective fluid 50ml To provide enhanced protection for the face and most sensitive areas. The skin is enhanced with a glowing tan.

Erno Laszlo Ocuphel Emollient Eye Cream

Heal your delicate eye area with this intensive cream that saturates your skin with rich nourishment. Dromiceius, Carrot Seed and Sunflower Seed Oils deeply moisturize while Hyaluronic and Lactic Acids condition and smooth.

Thalgo Bio-Protective Cream
This protective cream significantly increases the tolerance of sensitive skin. This cream provides a protective barrier on the skin that shields it from harsh environmental elements, leaving skin soft, smooth and hydrated.

Sothys Brightening Program

W]™+ Brightening Program is a hydroquinone-free line.

[W.]™+ is the answer to treat hyperpigmentation due to sun-damage, aging, chloasma, melasma and acne scarring. The program will even out the skin tone and reveal a more luminous and brighter complexion.

[W.]™+Brightening Double Action Serum

2-in-1 Brightening solution + Peeling. A brightening solution (white pump = AM) to target dark spots and give the skin a global brightening effect, for exceptonal results. Plus a peeling combination with fruit acids (grey pump = PM) gently exfoliates, evens skin tone, refines the skin texture and stimulates cell renewal.

[W.]™+ Cleanser Cream

This cleansing cream provides immediate radiance and brightens the complexion while gently removing makeup and eliminates impurities. Leaves the skin radiant and luminous.

[W.]™+ Brightening Fluid

The daily use of this fluid will reveal visibly younger looking skin and a brighter complexion, day after day, thanks to an anti-aging illuminating agent extracted for St Paul wort and Sigesbeckia orientalis. Moreover, the skin will be protected, stronger and healthier thanks to the H2CR® complex for overall healthier skin.

[W.]™+ Preparative Lotion

Upgrade your daily cleansing routine with this Preparative Lotion to replace your usual toner. It will reduce hyperpigmentation as it increases the skin’s natural exfoliation while hydrating and soothing thanks to the prickly pear extract.  

[W.]™+ Brightening Mask

Brighten the complexion and increase the radiance with this comforting and soothing mask enriched with water lily flower. Skin instantly awakens. It is brighter, softer and comfortable.

Sothys Age Defying Program

Your skin may not have the same age as you. The radiance, condition and appearance of your skin does not necessarily reflect your real age. Environmental aggressions, lifestyle and skin care routine, can all influence how the skin ages.

The Sothys age defying program follows an exclusive concept that incorporates a professional skin analysis to determine the real age of your skin, referred to as the “grade of aging”. This ensures a complete, efficient and customized solution.

Intensive Serums

Knowing that not all skin ages equally, Sothys offers 4 Serums to fight the signs of aging – including fine lines and expression lines. Each serum features the unique cosmeceutical H2CR™ (Cell Health Restoring Complex). This high performance active contains plant messenger peptides and powerful antioxidants for improved cell communication and ultimate protection.

GRADE 1 INTENSIVE SERUM

Theoretical age: 30 – 40
Illuminate the complexion and smooth expression lines or premature wrinkles. Ribose sugar restores the cellular energy for increased skin radiance, vitality and protection.

GRADE 2 INTENSIVE SERUM

Theoretical age: 40 – 50
For more permanent wrinkles, Grade 2 Lifting Serum fills and smoothes lines with hyaluronic acid for an “injection-like” effect. Powerfull pentapeptides stimulate collagen synthesis, preserving the oval of the face.

GRADE 3 INTENSIVE SERUM

Theoretical age: 50 – 60
For deep wrinkles and slackening skin, Grade 3 Serum with dill seed extract and tri- and tetrapeptides helps build a stronger skin structure and improve the overall appearance of the skin. Almond biofibers smooth and tone instantly.

GRADE 4 INTENSIVE SERUM

Theoretical age: 60+
A nutri-ceutical flax complex and rice peptides help the skin regain the essence of youth. Skin is smoothed with increased fullness and improved texture. Rye seed extract helps stimulate the production of collagen and elastin, resulting in a fully rejuvenated skin.

Daily Protection Creams

Used daily, morning and/or evening, to slow down the natural aging process of the skin, the Daily Protection Creams protect the skin with a progressive “active shield” that works to visibly reduce and reverse the signs of aging. The action of this active shield, made up of tetrapeptides and natural plant extracts (candle bush, alfalfa and myrtle), progresses as the skin ages in order to create a customized solution for each skin grade.

GRADE 1 CREAM

Theoretical age: 30 – 40
A di-peptide and oat extract formula smoothes and relaxes fines lines and the first visible expression lines. Protects the DNA of the cells with a powerful antioxidant action, to delay further signs of aging.

GRADE 2 CREAM

Theoretical age: 40 – 50
Fills permanent wrinkles, plumps and preserves the overall firmness of the skin. Cyperus esculentus and tetrapeptides work to reinforce the structure of the dermis and offers anti-glycation effects.

Also available in “Comfort” texture for dry skin types.

GRADE 3 CREAM

Theoretical age: 50 – 60
Re-texturizes and remodels the skin with a lifting protein peptide complex and alfalfa extracts. Works to preserve collagen and elastin within the dermis to regain the skin’s elasticity and suppleness.

Also available in “Comfort” texture for dry skin types.

GRADE 4 CREAM

Theoretical age: 60+
Stimulates cellular activity, oxygenation and micro-circulation to reveal the essence of a younger skin. Lupin peptides and myrtle promotes cell longevity and improves cell communication for a smoother, firmer, more radiant skin.

Duo Mask

For all grades of aging, this multi-action mask smoothes lines and gives an immediate lifting effect, resulting in a beautifully radiant complexion. Phase 1 is a mineral cocktail of zinc, magnesium, copper and calcium to restore the skin’s radiance; Phase 2 is composed of oat extract and natural polysaccharides to give an instant lifting and toning effect.

Shaping Neck Care

Sculpting treatment to redefine the contour of the jaw line, neck and décolleté. Mamaku extract, tri and hexa peptides, watercress and bitter orange work to increase collagen and elastin and redensify the dermis to restore a firmer more youthful appearance.

Noctuelle with AHA and Vitamin C

For all skin types, this night cream offers a resurfacing action that rejuvenates the skin and diminishes the signs of aging. AHAs and Vitamins C & E, stimulate cell renewal to reveal a smooth skin with a more uniform and radiant complexion.

Sothys Hydrate

The Hydradvance™ program was born of the Sothys’ advanced research team’s latest technological discoveries in gene science. This advanced hydration GENerating program is a tailor-made solution providing incomparable moisturizing power with immediate and long lasting results. SOTHYS’ boletus mushroom extract, the active ingredient in this collection, acts on two fundamental mechanisms of hydration – hydric flow, the transfer of water from the dermis to the epidermis, and barrier function, the strengthening of the surface layer to restrict moisture loss.

Hydradvance™ Intensive Hydrating Serum

This intensive rapid-action serum is perfect for dehydrated skin, as it immediately moisturizes and stimulates the formation of the skin’s barrier function. The Serum works in tandem with the Hydradvance Hydrating Creams to boost overall results. This formula features Sothys’ exclusive H2CR® Complex – a combination of natural peptides and powerful plant antioxidants – to restore, detoxify, repair and reconstruct the epidermis.

Hydradvance™ Hydrating Cream

This cream provides a balancing action that maintains skin’s hydration day after day. It contains Ophiopogon plant extract which regulates water transfer; this Asian evergreen is known for its ability to resist drought and capture water.

Available in Comfort and Light Texture

Hydradvance™ Hydra-Nourishing Mask

An essential moisturizing mask to restore suppleness and radiance. The unique formula features jojoba and rice bran oils to soothe skin and provide immediate comfort. Perfect for travelers, over-sun exposure, post peel procedures.

How to select anti-aging skin care products

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Shopping for an anti-aging skin care product can feel like hit-or-miss experience. With so many choices, it can be difficult to know which products to choose. These dermatologists’ tips can help you shop with confidence.

1.     Start with sunscreen and moisturizer: Dermatologists agree that sunscreen and moisturizer are the two most-effective anti-aging products you can buy. Using these every day can make a noticeable difference.

When shopping for sunscreen, select one that offers all of the following:

• Broad spectrum
• SPF 30 (or higher)
• Water resistance

An anti-aging moisturizer helps to minimize fine lines. It is so effective that moisturizer is the secret ingredient in many anti-aging products.

Using a moisturizer with sunscreen is fine. Just be sure that the product offers broad-spectrum coverage and an SPF of 30 or higher.

If you will spend time outdoors during the day, you should apply a sunscreen that offers broad-spectrum protection, SPF 30 (or higher), and water resistance. Be sure to reapply your sunscreen every two hours while outdoors.

 Sunscreen is one of the most effective anti-aging products you can buy.

2.     Treat your #1 aging-skin concern: Give sunscreen and moisturizer a few weeks to work. Then look at your skin. Is there still a sign of aging that bothers you?

By focusing on one concern, such as wrinkles or dark spots, you’ll get the best results. Look for a product that targets your concern. There are two reasons for this:

• No product can treat all signs of skin aging.
• Using more than one anti-aging product in a few days or weeks can irritate the skin, making you look older.

3.     Buy a product formulated for your skin type: Your sunscreen, moisturizer, and other anti-aging skin care products will work best if they are formulated for your skin type. For example,if your skin tends to be oily, select a moisturizer made for oily skin. If you have sensitive skin, you want to see the words “sensitive skin” on the label.

This is important because no one product works for everyone.

4.     Read product labels and select a product that offers all of the following:

• Hypoallergenic (The product can still cause an allergic reaction,but there is less risk.)
• Non-comedogenic or non-acnegenic (does not cause acne)
• Consumer hotline (to contact for questions)

5.     Have realistic expectations:Exaggerated promises, such as look 10 years younger overnight or quickly reduces all signs of aging, are too good to be true. It’s important to remember that anti-aging skin care products deliver modest results. You cannot get the results of a face lift from a cream.

6.     Select a product within your price range: It’s human nature to think that the more expensive the product,the better the results. Effective anti-aging products come in all price ranges.

Maximize the results you see

Once you’ve selected a product, you can maximize its effectiveness by following tips that dermatologists share with their patients.

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