We’re expecting a warmer, dryer summer this December to February as we enter in El Niño. (Sometimes we think it’s already here with the amount of intensely hot days we’ve had. And, Spring has just sprung!) It’s predicted that we have an elevated risk of heatwaves, bushfires, and warmer coastal sea surface temperatures. (Not bad for a nice evening dip just after work and before dinner.)
No doubt you will all be spending most of your summer days at the beach! How will we know? Don’t worry, you’re going to see us as well, catching those glorious deep blue waves, and sunbaking on the soft sand to achieve that golden summer glow!
But what does this mean for your skin? Glad you asked!
With some days expected to deliver dry heat, as well as days of muggy humidity, your skin is more likely to experience dehydration caused by excessive perspiration and possibly excessive oil production. This will lead to the clogging of the pores as debris and pollution get trapped amongst the stickiness of sweat, sebum, and dead skin cells.
Inflammation may follow as your skin becomes dry and overexposed to the harsh elements of the heat and pollution. Breakouts may occur more frequently and aggressively as acne bacteria festers within the clogged pores. And because these stress the many individual skin cells, the trauma accelerates the ageing process, resulting in an accumulation of fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation.
Our question to you is: are you taking the precautions to avoid traumatising the skin that’s speeding up the ageing process caused by sun damage, overexposure to hot conditions, and suffocating clogged pores within the skin?
Is your skin resilient enough to handle these intense seasonal conditions?
If you’re unsure, here are our treatment and product suggestions to make sure your skin stays hydrated, resilient, and glowing before and during summer!
Advised Treatments
Laser Genesis
Our skin is made up of a protein called “collagen”, and as we age, or when under constant intense stress, collagen fibres break down faster than our skin can produce them. Laser Genesis stimulates collagen production by causing mild trauma to the skin. By encouraging the skin to produce collagen during the Spring season, your skin will become more resilient to extreme temperatures and harsh environments.
The treatment also refines the pores size, making it difficult for debris and pollution to seep in, resulting in a reduction of inflammation and breakouts, again, making your skin’s integrity increasingly resistant to external factors.
Continuing Laser Genesis treatment regularly throughout Summer will maintain your skin’s integrity, prevent inflammation and breakouts, and reduce fine lines and pore size to create a smooth complexion of youthful skin.
Oxygeneo
Oxygen is the energy supply of all our cells, but as we age, or when we are exposed to extreme external or internal stressors, oxygen doesn’t reach the superficial cells as efficiently as is needed, resulting in slowly weakening our skin’s barrier.
The Oxygeneo facial oxygenates the skin with the Bohr effect, effectively improving blood flow to the skin and the natural metabolic processes, feeding the cells with nutrients and oxygen to keep them functioning to their optimal level!
Depending on your skin type and condition, an OxyPod will be designated to support and improve your concerns. But specifically, with the forecast of dry and dehydrated skin, the Hydrate OxyPod will perform wonders for your skin by utilising Blue Spirulina, Niacinamide and Lactobionic Acid, to replenish and improve the skin’s moisture retention abilities.
Monthly treatments will continue to vitalise the superficial cells, promoting hydration and strengthening the skin barrier, keeping the skin resilient throughout dry weather.
Hydrafacial
One of our clinic’s favourite treatments is the Hydrafacial, mainly because it leaves you with a dewy glow that all us girls love! But aside from looking hydrated and clean, utilising the Vortex-Fusion technology, the Hydrafacial removes debris, excess sebum, and dead skin cells from clogged pores, as well as encouraging the pores to decrease in size to reduce future debris and pollution creeping in. Within the third step, the serum applied saturates the skin with intense moisturising, and nourishing, ingredients.
Overall, the Hydrafacial treatment deeply hydrates the skin, clears congested pores, controls excess oil production, improves acne-prone skin, helps with age spots and rejuvenates sun damaged skin throughout summer. Ongoing regular Hydrafacial treatments will prevent severe damage caused by trauma responses to extreme heat and humidity.
Recommended Products
CIVONA Gentle Cleanse
We recommend a gentle cleanser to avoid stressing the skin barrier more than it already is from the seasonal conditions. If you use a harsh cleanser daily, it can cause more damage than expected, leaving your skin vulnerable to the elements, therefore speeding up the ageing process.
CIVONA’s Gentle Cleanse includes ingredients that soothes and calms, as well as nourishes and replenishes the skin while removing impurities. With the Botanical Oil Complex that cleanses while maintaining the skin’s moisture barrier.
CIVONA B3 Active Serum
As we’ve mentioned, it’s vitally important to build and strengthen the skin barrier now in the cooler months before we reach the peak of the summer season. It’s also important to maintain the consistency of supporting the skin barrier during those scorching hot days.
CIVONA’s B3 Active Serum is the amazing product we highly recommend that supports strengthening the skin barrier, as well as hydrating and replenishing the skin cells, before and during summer! Applying this serum daily will greatly please your future self when they look at their skin and see that they still have their youthful glow!
CIVONA DNA Repair Serum
When our skin becomes traumatised under intense stress, such as heat, it damages the DNA within each cell, altering its performance and functionality. Retinol, and the derivatives of Vitamin A, are widely used for their ability to repair the dermis and reverse the effects of ageing.
CIVONA’s DNA Repair serum physiologically alters damaged DNA, so new cells are replicated in a healthier state, it produces new collagen fibres, reduces the appearance of redness and calms inflammation. Applying this serum 1-2 times a week will help repair damaged DNA caused by UV rays and the heat.
CIVONA Protective Glow
Protection is the best prevention of excessive acceleration of the ageing process! Always wearing an SPF moisturiser, even indoors, helps to protect your gorgeous youthful skin from the harmful UV rays as well as maintain moisture within the skin in harsh dry environments.
CIVONA’s Protective Glow is a tinted moisturiser that can be worn as extra protection over a higher SPF moisturiser without leaving that white sheen when applying a mineral moisturiser with zinc and/or titanium. With four shades to choose from, your skin can be protected without compromising your natural glow!
Prep Your Skin Today
If you’re not entirely sure of what treatments and products would best suit your skin, come in for a skin consultation where we thoroughly analyse your skin and assess what may be the best process to reaching your skin goals for summer!
We know that each individual skin is different and may be sensitive to the treatments and products we have mentioned within this article, responding negatively than anticipated. It’s always best that we perform a patch test before going ahead treating the whole face.
We want to help you achieve healthy, glowing skin full of integrity to withstand the anticipated heat and dryness that this summer will bring. We can’t completely stop the ageing process, but we can definitely slow it down so you can look and feel confident during this summer’s festivities!