How often should we get a facial depends on several factors—our skin type, skin condition, skin care goals, budget, age, and location. If we want to take good care of our skin, booking a professional facial once a month is ideal. Why? The skin is a living organ, and it takes about 30 days for the cells to move up from the dermis to the surface, or epidermis, where they flatten out, die, and slough off. Giving it a boost every 30 days is what skin needs to look its best. With our gentle but effective methods, experiencing one of our facials every day or once a week will uncover remarkable results in less time, depending on your goals.
Nurturing our skin is the best line of defense of not only aging well, but it also allows for time for us to re-balance and eliminate the daily tension that show-up in how we hold our expressions and is mirrored in our faces.
When you rest your mind and body in our hands to experience our facials, we read the telltale signs of how facial expressions and stress are leaving their mark. As we begin to touch and massage your neck, décolleté, shoulders, face, and scalp, we read your face and body, just as reading someone’s posture, gate, and body mechanics. We can see and feel the tension that is carried in the scalp, jaw, and neck. Imagine melting away those unwanted expression lines, easing tension, and releasing the stress we have been carrying around with us for days, weeks, and months.
The skin has been well studied but often misunderstood. It’s traditionally seen as a complex tissue made up of three major layers: epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis. The epidermis, the outside layer is mostly an accumulation of dead skin cells. During the time of one cycle of the moon, the epidermis is entirely renewed.
There are about 12 lbs. of skin on average on an average human being. Its thickness may vary from a half millimeter to a few millimeters, depending on the part of the body. An eyelid is thin like a piece of paper, but the heels of our feet can be thick like the soles of our shoes. The skin harbors an enormous amount of blood vessels, nerve endings, fluids, and tiny oil glands. A square inch contains millions of cells to be fed oxygenated and whose waste needs to be eliminated. Eventually, dead skin cells must make room for new ones.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, the skin is viewed with great reverence. It is more than a barrier between the inside of the body and the outside environment. It is linked to the organ function of the lung (i.e. breathing/eliminating function).
Your skin is particularly important because it is a reflexive organ that provides important telltale signs of what is going on within your body. Any skin problem re-occurring in the same area is an indicator of your health condition. Your skin’s role as a provider of natural early warning signs can help you maintain or achieve an improved state of wellness and vitality.
Because of the tight network of energy channels within the body, there is a direct connection between your skin, organs, and hormonal glands. Specific areas of your skin over your entire body are where specific organs or hormonal glands reflect their condition. They are the reflex zones for the organs, glands, and their corresponding function.
Importance of Reflexology
Many people are aware of or have experienced reflexology in the form of a foot treatment. A reflexology-trained therapist can massage the bottom of our feet with great results and relaxation and energy balancing, but few people know that the same can be achieved by working on other parts of the body that are reflex zones as well.
The face is particularly convenient as it is a place that regroups all major energies. The trained esthetician will analyze your skin and its condition in a refreshingly new and entirely holistic way.
The additional benefits of reflexology can be included while performing a facial. It is how the energetic root cause of many skin conditions can be addressed.
Because of the way the skin reacts to what occurs both inside and outside the body, some holistic practitioners see skin as a sort of external brain, capable of providing a large amount of psychosomatic information. Not only are physical factors manifested on the skin but emotional ones as well.
Your skin is equally affected by your physical health, and by your emotional, and mental states, therefor you can view your skin as more than simply a covering that needs to be cleansed and moisturized. It is a vital organ with the gift of silent communication.
It is extremely useful to pay close attention to learning the language of the skin, not only to look better but to also improve your overall state of well-being.
The Secret of Lymphatic Stimulation
The secret to keeping the body’s natural detoxification process flowing means boosting the flow of lymph (a colorless fluid containing white blood cells that bathes the tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream). Fewer toxins mean more radiant skin. We have 3 times more lymphatic fluid in our body and face than we do blood. Our blood has our heart to pump the blood through our intricate system but our lymphatic system is in needs us to keep it moving and keep it clean and clear. How we move the lymphatic fluid is through:
- Massage
- Exercise
- Laughter
We stimulate moving the lymphatic with our state-of-the-art Biorhythmic Drainer. The Biorhythmic Drainer produces absolutely no pain or unpleasant sensation. There are no invasive frequencies produced or transferred. No electric currents are used on your skin. You experience a gentle humming and vibration that soothes, hydrates, tones, and clears the skin uncovering remarkable results.
Facial lymphatic drainage can greatly reduce:
- puffiness
- hyper-pigmentation
- acne breakouts
- fine and deep lines
- sagging skin
- congested skin, circulation, lymph
- irritated skin
- lack of tone
- darkness around the eyes
- dark circles
- heavy legs and cellulite
- excessive heat
- toxins
- body soreness
- fatigue
- downtime and bruising following surgery
The skin as a vital organ cannot be excessively stripped mechanically or treated with acids, injected with chemicals, or cut, stretched, and sewn, without consequences. Likewise, what you eat, drink, and breathe, and how you exercise your body, or not, will have consequences for your health as much as for your skin.
Skincare is caring for your entire body. That is why it is truly a holistic proposition. Anything else is a shortcut with potentially undesirable consequences.
