Most clients spend numerous hours and plenty of money on treating their face, their nails and their hair each month. But somehow in the time, effort, and dollars most of us spend on maintaining our look, we neglect our body skin (even though it takes up vastly more surface area than our face!). Our bodies don’t feel the love and therefore become victim to a vast number of evils including genetics, hormones, sun damage, aging, and that awful “C” word. Cellulite. Here are a few tips to address those body …

Younger Looking Skin Glossary

DermaFrac™: This new treatment in skin rejuvenation is a micro-needling procedure that can treat a variety of skin issues including aging, hyperpigmentation, uneven skin texture, acne scars, and stretch marks. You might be wondering what all these conditions have in common. Well, collagen production in the skin is lacking and needs to be stimulated in order to correct these skin concerns. Here’s how it works: microscopic stainless steel needles on a roller glide across the skin’s surface and create tiny punctures. By using the micro-needle roller, the …

Is the skin around your eyes feeling a little dry? Are you noticing those fine lines and wrinkles begin to appear under and at the sides of your eyes? Have you noticed a bit of a sag?
If these issues sound all too familiar, then the Renewing Eye Complex is an eye cream packed with active ingredients to work on wrinkle-relaxing. Matrixyl 3000 ™, one of the key ingredients in the Renewing Eye Complex, is a powerhouse ingredient derived from fatty acid synthesis, collagen and fibronectan that works to reduce wrinkle …

Check out Lyn’s article “Skin Care and the Hormonal Balance” in this month’s Dermascope Magazine.
Understanding hormones and their effect on the skin, from the teenage years to perimenopause and menopause, is challenging for many skin care specialists. Journeying through the roller coaster with many clients can be rough sailing. Understanding the prominent hormones in the body is essential in order to correctly diagnose, treat and prevent hormone related skin conditions. Estrogen and progesterone are the main partners in this delicate balancing act. Designed to work together as a team, when …

Institut’ DERMed Clinical Skincare will be an Exhibitor
at the Salon and Spa Expo at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta.
Institut’ DERMed will be showcasing their product line, and Founder and Master Medical Aesthetic Instructor Lyn Ross will hold classes and conduct demonstrations.
Check out the Institut’ DERMed Show Education Schedule here .

Chemist’s Clinical Ingredient Research
Introducing…
CHROMABRIGHT™
A CUTTING-EDGE MOLECULE
FOR A RADIANT SKIN TONE
and a new active for safe
skin brightening

CHROMABRIGHT™, a new patented molecule for skin brightening:

Inhibits human tyrosinase activity in vitro
Higher melanogenesis inhibition than Arbutin, MAP and Kojic Acid
Same depigmenting activity than Hydroquinone without cytotoxicity
Proven in vivo brightening efficacy
High stability in formulations
High solubility in oils
Impeccable safety profile

Primary human melanocytes (hemn-dp) cell cultures were used to compare the skin lightening performance of Hydroquinone, Arbutin, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate (MAP) and Kojic Acid to that of CHROMABRIGHT™ at the same concentration (10μM) for a period of …

Check out Lyn’s article “Ingredients: Only Half the Recipe – Part 2″ in this months’ Dermascope Magazine.
In addition, special emphasis was put on the Glogau Aging Classification Scale and the Kligman Acne Classification Scale. In concussion to part one of Ross’ article, part two continues on with detailed descriptions of additional classifications scales: Kligman Acne Rosacea Classification Scale and the Rubin’s Photo Age Classification Scale.
Open publication – Free publishing – More ingredients

Institut’ DERMed in the International Media
Nov 2009 – May 2010

Lyn Ross Featured on Joy in the House TV
Lyn receives Joy at Institut’ DERMed Spa! Watch as Lyn talks skin care, gives Joy a facial treatment and offers makeup tips in a three-part video series, brought to you by www.joyinthehouse.tv

Part I
Joy visits the spa and learns about skin care for different ages.

see Joy’s blog post on Part I

Part II
Lyn gives Joy a facial treatment.

see Joy’s blog post on Part II

Part III
Lyn shares her insight on makeup techniques, the advantages of mineral makeup, …

We are frequently asked for alternative treatment options for eliminating lines and wrinkles without surgery. While a facelift is currently the only way to truly eliminate sagging skin and deep wrinkles more and more people are opting for alternative choices that can address their concerns without an invasive operation or too much downtime.