From Dull to Glowing: How Your Skin Can Be Timeless

There are so many products on the market today that claim they are not only beneficial for your skin, but actually promise they are the “anti-aging magic wand.”

These lotions and potions come in many forms, beautifully packaged with promises of eternal youth. No wonder walking down the skin care aisle in stores is confusing and overwhelming!

In order to find the real anti-aging magic wand, we have to ask ourselves this: “What actually happens to the skin as we age and how can we reverse the aging process?”

In simple terms, as we age, the dead layer of our epidermis (keratin layer) becomes thick and dull, while the alive dermal layer becomes thin, losing it’s elasticity. This creates sagging, wrinkled skin.

Our goal in medical skin care is to reverse this process by creating a glowing, beautiful outer layer of skin and a firmer, tighter inner layer. 

In order for a product to actually achieve this goal, it must have two major properties.

1) A small molecular size – The product must have a small molecular size—small enough to actually penetrate deeply into the area of the dermal layer where the collagen and elastin cells live.

2) Strength – The product must be strong enough to trigger those cells into reproducing. The more collagen and elastin cells we have, the stronger, thicker, and firmer our skin becomes. And the more rapidly these cells reproduce, the faster the dead, dull outer layer sloughs off. This leaves the skin with a real glowing, youthful look. Strength and penetration is what it takes!

As you know, my research and years of experience has led me to formulate products that can do just that with unbuffered glycolic acid.

You CAN have a youthful glow and a much brighter, smoother complexion. It’s important to know the process behind it so you can actually SEE RESULTS. Because if you don’t have results, what’s the point? The pretty packaging of products on the market today isn’t going to make your skin look amazing. An effective product does.

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How to Reverse and Slow Down Aging Skin

Wrinkles & lines begone! 

As it turns out, there is a secret ingredient for youth. Only it’s not a secret anymore.

Ever wonder how it is possible that creams and lotions can help our skin with the aging process? Here is the medical answer.

Derived from sugar cane, the small molecular composition of glycolic acid provides the skin with the deepest and quickest penetration of all the other Alpha Hydroxy Acids.

How does this give you smooth, beautiful skin? Skin that looks like porcelain? Skin as smooth as a baby’s?

I’m glad you asked.

By the time we hit age 30, 50% of our collagen and elastin is lost. And each year after that, we generate less and less—causing lines, wrinkles and sagging to occur.

The trick to stop that from happening is to trigger the collagen and elastin again.

The key is to have a product with a small enough molecular size that can travel to the deeper dermal layer of the skin where our collagen and elastin cells live.

The low pH glycolic in Academy by Candy products travels to the deeper dermis and “smacks” the cells back into rejuvenation. With the collagen and elastin working again, the aging process is slowed down and reversed.

Et voilà. Smoother, younger looking, beautiful skin. Try it and see for yourself.

The Ingredient You Need to Avoid in Cosmetics Products to Avoid Inflammation

Fragrance.

Combining my medical background with my clinical knowledge of cosmetic products, I recommend, not only to my patients but to the physicians I teach, the avoidance of “fragrance” in formulating beauty products.

In most cases of skin problems I’ve seen, fragrance has been the culprit.

Why?

Fragrance can cause inflammation, especially for those with sensitive skin. Inflammation can cause premature aging of the skin.

And who wants that?

A Better Alternative

lemonWhen formulating products, I prefer to use certain antioxidants which not only fight aging, but have pleasant scents.

Often, I use Lemon Oil in my products. Lemon Oil not only smells nice but its scent has soothing, detoxifying qualities. Better yet, Lemon Oil rejuvenates dull looking skin and is an effective treatment for acne and oily skin.

Keeping products simple, easy, but positively effective is what matters most. Not the scent, not the packaging, not the advertising, but the effectiveness.

Look through your skincare products right now to see if fragrance is an ingredient.

HISTORY OF PEELING

Glycolic Acid, derived from sugar cane, was used by the infamous Cleopatra.

Why did it take us so long to rediscover this amazing anti-aging remedy?

In the beginning, raw glycolic acid produced very irregular,inconsistent results.

Next, the substance was buffered or partially neutralized rendering it ineffective.

What “Academy by Candy” did was  formulate Glycolic Acid maintaining  it’s unbuffered

state (effective state) yet ensuring consistent, even results.

The “Academy” method is truly state of the art!

Thanks, Cleo

Keep following for more skin care tips and remember I’ll be happy to answer your questions too.

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