Difference Between Chemical and Mechanical Exfoliation

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Exfoliation is the skin’s natural process of shedding dead skin cells, allowing fresh, bright skin to surface. The top layer of skin is constantly going through the process of shedding and regenerating, which can sometimes lead to unevenness or may occur at a slower pace than we would prefer.

There are many skincare products on the market, which can speed up the exfoliation process, but what are the benefits? The answer is that when we speed up the exfoliation process, we encourage the process of cell turnover, which can help your skin look younger and brighter. 

Exfoliation: Chemical and Mechanical 

There are two types of exfoliation available to you: chemical and mechanical. Both aim to reveal new skin cells beneath the skin’s surface layer. The difference lies in how they accomplish that goal. Chemical exfoliators are usually more acidic, which allows them to separate dead skin cells from living ones. Mechanical exfoliation, on the other hand, requires a rough surface (washcloth, cleaning brush) or exfoliation products (scrubs) to remove the top layer of skin. 

Chemical Exfoliation

There are two main chemical exfoliators: Alpha-hydroxy Acids (AHA) and Beta Hydroxy Acids (BHA). For oily, acne-prone skin, BHAs such as salicylic acid is recommended to break down the fatty components (oils and sebum), on the skin’s surface. For combination/dry skin, AHAs such as glycolic acid are a better option, since not only do they penetrate the skin to encourage cell turnover, but they also aim to promote hydration. If you have sensitive skin and are interested in chemical exfoliation, you will want to begin with lactic acid, which is a gentle AHA. 

Mechanical Exfoliation 

When you use a rough object such as a washcloth or a facial scrub you are performing mechanical exfoliation. While mechanical exfoliation can be beneficial, you have to be careful about what tools you use. Many facial scrubs, specifically those that have microbeads, can cause tiny cuts on the skin if used too aggressively, which can result in inflammation and increase your chances of developing an infection. Using gentle exfoliants and gently scrubbing your face will ensure your skin stays injury-free.

DIY Exfoliation 

It may be tempting to experiment with DIY exfoliation treatments, but they can cause serious damage to your skin if you are not careful and do your research. The skin’s normal pH is around 5.5%, which allows it to protect itself from harmful bacteria. Many products used in DIY exfoliators, such as baking soda and lemon, are too acidic for the skin and can actually cause burning. If in doubt about a DIY exfoliator, it is best to refrain from risk your skin’s health and safety. 

 

For all of your exfoliation needs, come into European Beauty. We have a team of exceptionally trained estheticians who are skilled in a variety of facial and body services for your specific needs. 

Thalgo Supplements

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Activ Detox

DMK skincare

For whom?

Localised curves, difficulty eliminating toxins, a dull complexion, etc.: excess toxins in the body can have repercussions on the figure and skin.

Description

Activ’Detox Bio, with its 100% natural-origin active ingredients – fucus brown algae and a complex of organic plants* – helps you to recover a sense of well-being and lightness:

  • fennel and artichoke extracts encourage detoxification of the body by helping to drain and eliminate toxins;
  • fucus brown algae helps promote weight loss.

* Plants from organic agriculture. Product of organic agriculture.

 

L’OCEANE

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For whom?

Overexertion, loss of energy, lack of vitality, reduced strength during a diet… These can all be the results of a body imbalance.

Description

Studied for over a century for its regenerating and rebalancing properties, marine plasma is physically, physiologically and chemically identical to our internal organism, and an essential support for cellular life.

L’OCÉANE, 100% natural marine plasma, provides the body with all the vital energy of the sea.

 

Thalgo Slim LC Capsules

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Slim LC Capsules is the perfect supplement to the Thalgomince LC24 treatment and range of products to ensure optimum weight loss results.  It is rich in active slimming agents derived from algae and plants whose slimming properties have been scientifically recognized and validated. Benefits: Reduces stored fat with Green Tea, Green Coffee, Guarana and Chromium. Figure enhancement by reduction in volume of fatty tissues. Limits the absorption of fat and sugars. Control of weight gain and figure bylimiting fat storage in the adipose tissue.

 

Coach Anti-cellulite shots

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THALGO offers a corrective solution to the look of orange-peel skin, targeting all the parameters involved in the appearance of cellulite in order to restore the skin’s smooth feel.COACH Anti-Orange Peel Effect contains a patented melon concentrate, clinically tested on cellulite reduction*, Ascophyllum nodosum and fat-burning green tea extracts, and grape marc extract which contributes to tissue drainage.THALGO Health Innovation:Certain micro-nutrient deficiencies can delay the achievement of desired results. COACH Anti-Orange Peel Effect is formulated with zinc and vitamin A.

 

Thalgo 7 slim drink

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Slim 7 Slimming Drink is a seven day express drink mix treatment to boost weight loss. This red berry-flavored mix combines active seaweed and plants that act in synergy to help you “burn” fat more quickly, tone up your body, and detox your system. Benefits: Meadowsweet and cherry stalk help with draining. Guarana, Fucus and Palmaria palmata are invigorating and help tone. Green tea, Guarana and Fucus help with fat burning.

 

Thalgo slim control

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Your mind is made up, and you have a clear objective: to stay slim!

But must you resist delicious holiday meals, drinks with friends or this piece of chocolate just begging to be enjoyed?

For guilt-free pleasure, with its convenient and discreet pocket format, SLIM CONTROL ADE helps you manage dietary “slips” and maintain your slimming objective:

  • NeOpuntia® nopal absorbs dietary fats and sugars and eliminates them to prevent them from being assimilated or stored;
  • spirulina extract helps to naturally limit the assimilation of complex sugars and hence the daily calorie intake.

 

Thalgo slim biotic

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Thalgo Slim Biotic   A balanced intestinal flora, which provides a lighter and more streamlined shape. Thalgo Slim Biotic contains two strains of bacteria, theactive probiotics, the efficacy of which have been scientifically proven, help to replenish our intestinal flora by increasing the proportion of helpful bacteria. Prebiotic fibres enhance the efficacy of the probiotics by multiplying these good bacteria. Have you ever suffered from a bloated stomach? If the answer is yes, then Thalgo’s Slimbiotic is for you.

 

Ocea Draine

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This 10 day detox programme helps to purify and prepare the body before a slimming programme and acts as a refining booster.

– Horeseradish – Helps eliminate water retention
– Artichoke – Rich in flavenoids, purifies and is an important anti-oxidant
– Fennel – Assists in good digestion
– Fucus algae – Rich in fibre, good for intestinal transit

In the morning dilute 1 vial in a glass of water or fruit juice. Take daily for 10 days. Avoid alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. Take at each seasonal change, before starting a refining diet, or after over-indulgence.

Ingredients: Fennel, Black Winter Radish, Artichoke, Fucus.

 

COACH Light legs

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Solution for swollen feet . Contains extract of butcher’s broom, which reduces water retention ; Vitaflavan grape seed extract  for proper functioning of blood vessels ; Vitamins B2 and C which helps to protect cells ; Marine Magna helping to restore electrolyte balance , helping to maintain normal functioning of muscles.

 

Slim Control

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Fat binding agent. *** stabilizing weight , the source of vitamins

Perfect for anyone who wants to control overeating or to slowly stabilize weight off after a diet . Slim control  is a supplement with essential liposulubile vitamins A, D , E to offset the portion which is absorbed by the fibers of nopal and not so assimilated organism.

With a very practical package, will help you to control ” food slips ” and keep your goals because of the active ingredients .

CONTAINS :

100 % active -”anti – fat ” marine ingredients
NOPAL : Absorbs fats and carbohydrates and eliminate them ensuring that they are not treated or stored in the body.
Natural spirulina extracts help limit the assimilation of sugars and therefore dietary calories.
NeOpuntia absorbs fats and sugars and remove them to prevent their assimilation and submission .

 

MENOSVELT

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Menopause – Thiner than ever!  sUnder the effect of hormonal fluctuations, several physical changes can occur and interfere with the well-being of women during the menopause.

MÉNOSVELT is an exclusive formula, specifically designed for women over 45 wishing to get back into shape:

  • Undaria pinnatifida alga extract contributes to the metabolism of abdominal fat to help regain a flat stomach and refined hips;
  • the “anti-water” complex combines green tea with ash tree, known to facilitate the elimination of excess water;
  • iodine contributes to normal energy metabolism. The slimming metabolism is thus regulated.
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Thalgo Collagen Booster shots

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The Thalgo Collagen Booster is an Age defying beauty drink. The booster stimulates collagen & hylauronic reactivates the youthfulness of the skin in the deepest layers of the dermis. This then nourishishes, Stimulates and Protects your skin. The Collagen Booster smoothes fine lines & wrinkles, regenerates and plumps the skin from within. The Anti-oxidants help to restore engery and restore protein after exercise. The Collagen Booster also amplifies the effectiveness of Thalgo facial treatments and acts in synergy with all Thalgo creams. Not to be taken during pregnancy.

Eyebrow tint

Eyebrow tinting services are available and can be added on to eyebrow shaping services. Eyebrow tint defines brow shapes and intensifies lashes.

I recommend this service for clients with naturally light or red eyelashes and eyebrows.

The process involves a quick procedure using vegetable dye as tint.

Well-groomed brows create a more defined and youthful appearance – while darker lashes make your eyes look bolder and brighter!

We use the #1 tinting products on the market — RefectoCil and Berrywell and carry eight beautiful shades that last up to six weeks each

Eyelash tint

Eyelash services are available and can be added on to eyebrow shaping services.

I recommend this service for clients with naturally light or red eyelashes and eyebrows.

Well-groomed brows create a more defined and youthful appearance – while darker lashes make your eyes look bolder and brighter! Somebody may even wear fake lashes to really get that extra thickness and length. There are even prescription medications on the market that promise to enhance your lashes.

While most women stick with their trusty mascara, it isn’t for everyone. Some people have allergies that make it impossible to wear mascara. Some people just don’t like the hassle of putting it on every morning and removing it every night, or the smudging issue is simply too much. And some people just don’t like wearing makeup, but would still like their eyelashes to look a bit more appealing.

Eyelash tinting is for people who like their lashes black, but don’t want to use mascara everyday Eyelash tinting is a process wherein your eyelashes are dyed to make them look darker. According on your skin type and hair color, you can achieve eyelash colors, including black, blue, shades of brown, grey or whatever color best fits your completion.

The process involves a quick procedure using vegetable dye as tint.

BENEFITS

  • Opens up the eyes to give definition and add thickness to the lashes for long lasting beauty.
  • Defines brow shapes and intensifies lashes.

Eyelash tinting will benefit people:

  • who are sensitive or allergic to make-up…
  • who are active in sports (especially swimming)…
  • who have no time to apply make-up daily…
  • who wear contact lenses…

We use the #1 tinting products on the market — RefectoCil and Berrywell and carry eight beautiful shades that last up to six weeks each

Oxygen Facial Treatment

Like all living things, our skin needs oxygen to survive, reproduce and regenerate. In younger skin, this process is very efficient, but as we age, the micro capillaries degenerate and skin does not receive the nourishment it needs. As a result, the metabolism of our skin cells slows down, collagen and elastin content are reduced and fine lines, discolorations and wrinkles begin to appear.

Pure Oxygen Injection System provides the painless treatment which makes use of oxygen to inject special active elements deep into the skin, such as oxygen serum and so on. These special active elements can reach the interspaces between the scarfskin cells and make positive effects.

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Pure Oxygen Injection System is able to inject 98% pure oxygen and active nutrition into the skin bottom by 2BAR pressure, which can accelerate the cell’s metabolism and smoothen the skin to be in the bloom of youth.

Oxygen Facial Treatment

Pure oxygen treatment relieves skin redness and increases cellular vitality. You will see immediate skin glow so the result is 3 times faster than traditional hands facial.

Non invasive skin therapy treatments are now the right answer to people looking to keep healthy and prevent skin ageing. Oxygen facials are designed to improve the appearance of your skin by renewing skin cells and fighting the bacteria that causes acne. Oxygen facials may also help reduce fine lines as well as protect skin from sun damage and everyday stress.

Oxygen helps speed up absorption of the serum and skin care products which have rich botanical ingredients with free radical effect. Pure Oxygen real benefits lie in its ability to stimulate cell renewal and promote skin production of elastin and collagen.

How the Pure Oxygen treatment work:

We start off the treatment with a thoroughly cleanse and exfoliation, which is followed by the oxygen treatment. Pressurised pure hyperbaric oxygen is applied to the skin with a small pen/gun liking device, the oxygen helps speed up absorption of the serum and skin care products which have rich botanical ingredients with free radical effect.

For best result a course of 6 treatments in series is recommended. Also recommended to combine with Diamond Microdermabrasion or Radio Frequency Skin Tightening Treatment.

Oxygen Facial Treatment

Advantages of using Pure Oxygen for skin care

Pure Oxygen replenishes the epidermis with life by stimulating our cell regeneration process and and promoting new cell formation. When skin is deprived of Oxygen it is suffocated, and as a result it dies. Oxygen breathes life into the skin and helps the transfer of Proteins, Molecules, DNA, Liposomes, Ceramides, and Sphingolipids into the cells therefore, transferring energy materials from cell to cell.

Oxygen Botanicals™ ingredients

Known as the pure line, Oxygen Botanicals™ products are water-based and utilizes the most advanced natural botanicals and pharmaceutral grade ingredients available. Formulations include: Linden Extract to encourage proficient circulation, Soybean Extract to stimulate the synthesis of Collagen and Elastin, Ginseng Extract to increase epidermal elasticity, Chamomile Extract to restore and repair damaged skin, Lavender Extract to regenerate skin cells, Aloe Vera Gel to rehabilitate the epidermis, Vitamin A to diminish fine lines and wrinkles, and Vitamin C as an anti-oxidant agent to build Collagen. All of these are combined in such a way as to invigorate, calm, soothe, and replenish your skin. The fragrance used throughout the product line is a natural grapefruit. It is of absolute grade of grapefruit, which is a higher and more expensive grade then essential oils. Oxygen Botanicals is friendly to animals, meaning all products are scientifically tested, not animal tested.