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 Energize Program

Sothys unveils its most unique and cutting-edge program ever to address aging and skin wellness. A plant with miraculous active ingredients grows in the cold, faraway lands of Siberia. Its ability to adapt to the specific needs of each woman gives it power attained only by a select few…until now. Experience the new Energizing program featuring Siberian Ginseng. An exclusive spa treatment and at-home care to restore the skin’s radiance and energy. RECHARGE, REGENERATE, ILLUMINATE.

Energizing Day Cream

This cream reveals the skin’s youthfulness by restoring luminosity & radiance. Siberian Ginseng protects and optimizes cellular energy for improved skin health and quality, and prevents and diminishes signs of aging. Formulated with rice peptides and lupine extracts, this daily moisturizer improves microcirculation and boosts the energy production and skin oxygenation. Available in “Light” for normal to combination skin and “Comfort” for Dry to Very Dry skin.

Energizing Night Cream

This cream renews and rejuvenates the skin overnight by visibly reducing lines and wrinkles while stimulating the collagen production. Formulated with glycolic acid and Sophora flower extract, it increases cell renewal and encourages the elimination of toxins during the night to reduce the “puffy” appearance of the face in the morning. The features appear more relaxed, the skin appears more refreshed and a youthful appearance is restored.

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.

Cleaning the Skin

Cleaning the skin is important as it removes the dead cells from the surface of the skin. It also will remove the dust and dirt that chokes the pores on the skin. If the dust is allowed to accumulate, it can block the pores thus blocking the secretion of the glands from coming to the top of the skin providing it the weapons it need to fight against infections, toxic agents etc. It also gives the shine or glow to the surface of the skin.

Soap and Natural Cleaners
Skin experts recommend avoiding soap because of its high pH. A high pH (alkaline) soap will dry the skin and diminish its life expectancy. The skin's surface is mildly acidic, having a pH of around 5. Most soaps are well over 7, and some as high as 10. Soaps with a high pH will not only dry the skin but also eliminate its acid mantle (coating on the surface).

You can make good skin cleansers from natural products. For example, products that contain vegetable oils, such as coconut oil, and water, combine with sebum and allow it to be dissolved and rinsed away. At the same time, water dissolves dirt.

Effective skin cleansers can contain a number of different vegetable oils, including coconut, sesame, or palm oils. These are safe and effective cleansers and have a relatively low pH. Stearic acid provides the skin a pearly firmness.
Another organic products that is increasingly useful in skin care is seaweed. The high mineral content of seaweed stimulates circulation, helps eliminate toxins imbedded in the skin, and leaves the skin feeling smooth. Seaweeds can also strengthen the immunity and healing functions of the skin by providing the needed minerals.

Facial Scrubs
Facial scrubs help clean the surface of the skin by removing the dead skins and the dirt mechanically. We recommend that you use a facial scrub that contains a mild abrasive. The coarseness of these abrasives vary. For example, it may contain very fine, mild base of oatmeal or ground-up almonds. Some products may contain, however, coarser materials such as silica or fine sand or the shells of almonds, apricots, or walnuts.

Since women spend considerable more amount of money and time on makeups and skin care, we would expect that their skin will be smoother and blemish free compared to that of men. However, studies have found exactly the opposite. These studies have found that men have fewer blemishes and smoother skin than women on the face. Experts suggest that men are exfoliating their faces every day by shaving. The razor removes the top layer of dead cells every day. This allows the skin to breathe and eliminate waste much easier. This may explain why men's facial skin is much more smoother than women's. Women can accomplish the same by using a mild abrasive scrub on their faces, every other day.

European women have been using exfoliants for decades. People in India and the orient had been using natural exfoliants to clean their skin.

Decleor Aroma Cleanse Essential Cleansing Milk

Decleor Aroma Cleanse Essential Tonifying Lotion

The Right Way To Wash Your Face
1. Moisten your face with water. Work up a lather by rubbing the soap between wet palms. Using your fingertips (not the bar of soap), massage the lather into your face and throat.

2. Rinse thoroughly with a washcloth or with splashes of water. Take three times as much time for rinsing as compared to what you took for lathering. The important thing is that you remove all of the soap so any caustic it contains won't burn your face.

3. Blot dry with a soft towel; vigorous rubbing with coarse material aggravates and tugs at your skin.

Thalgo Foaming Marine Cleanser

Erno Laszlo Phelityl Cleansing Gel

Sothys Clarity Cleansing Milk

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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