Too busy to take care of your skin?

Here are a couple time saving tips:

1) Put your cleanser and exfoliant in the shower and use those when you bathe.

2) Use products that will serve double duty such as the Phytomer Youth Contour cream. It is great for puffiness and dark circles around the eyes area and treating lines around both eyes and lips!

Product of the Week: Phytomer Youth Contour cream

The new Phytomer Youth Contour cream for eyes and lips!

Directions for use: Apply Phytomer Youth Contour Reviving Wrinkle Correction Cream Eye and Lip Care morning and/or evening to the area around the eyes and lips, patting gently until absorbed.

The full Phytomer line of products is available for sale at The Spa at PGA National.

DIY Strawberry Scrub

Here is a great strawberry scrub for you to create at home...
Homemade Strawberry Scrub

Ingredients:
1 strawberry
1/2 tsp of cornmeal

Smash your strawberry with a fork till all the lumps are flat. Then mix with cornmeal till well blended. Apply to face in a circular motion concentrating on problem areas. You may apply a honey mask over it and leave on for 15 minutes or just rinse and continue with your normal skincare regime.

Benefits:
Strawberries are packed with antioxidants and vitamin C. The Citric acid in strawberries help to break down the glue like substance that keeps dead skin cells together and the cornmeal serves as a safe manual exfoliant that gently lifts the loosened dead skin cells. Together they make the perfect exfoliant!
　
Check out this video on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erZptu63h8c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

If you feel like being pampered instead, go ahead and book an appointment in the month of February for a specialty Chocolate Strawberry Facial at http://www.thespaatpganational.com/

Product of the Week: Epicuren's Alpha Lipoic Omega Serum

Epicuren's Alpha Lipoic Omega Serum, our nick name for this serum is facial in a bottle!! A true favorite!!

Available for sale at the Spa at PGA National.

Product of the Week from Lead Esthetician, Zuly Morales: ZO Skincare Ommerse Overnight Recovery Cream

This is definitely not your ordinary nighttime moisturizer. Calms and nourishes the skin. While you sleep, retinol works to reduce fine lines and wrinkles, ceramides nourish and calming agents protect against inflammation.

Available at the Spa at PGA National. Call today to see an Esthetician like Zuly for all your skincare needs.

Tip of the Week from Zuly Morales, Lead Esthetician

Day or Night?

During the day use products that are intended to protect. During the night use products that repair and recover. The only real time your body and skin has to repair and regenerate itself is while you are sleeping.

Your New Years Resolution!

I've been getting asked a lot lately about how products should be used when it comes to skincare and what the usage sequence should be? Lots of New Year resolutions involve taking better care of yourself and that includes better skin care. So around this time of year I get asked lots of questions like "what should I use?", " How should I use it?" and "why should I use it?"
Cleansers are always first if you wear makeup use a milky cleanser to remove your make up first, then follow it with a sudsy cleanser if you enjoy that squeaky clean feeling, if not...use the milky cleanser a second time. Clarisonic is suggested for the second cleanse!!

Toners are typically used second, they're meant to balance your PH after cleansing so your skin is prepared to accept your serums and creams. Tone after exfoliating and masks. Toners are meant to be left on so it is a  a waste to tone before steps you need to rinse.

Instead exfoliation should be your second step and probably one of the most important steps! Getting rid of dry layers is key for your serums and creams to work properly. Exfoliate as often as your skin can tolerate and make sure it's the proper exfoliant! I recommend a fine grain scrub for everyday use that you can keep in the shower for convenience.

Your final step, finishing, should be applied in order of thinnest to thickest : toner (waterey), serum (usually thin in consistency), eye cream and moisturizer (usually creamy and thicker in consistency).

Sunblock always important and should always be applied last and right before makeup.