Skin Care 2025 Where to Start

And another year starts. It’s a great time to assess if what we are doing is what we want to do or if we are just in a habit loop.

So, looking at the health of your skin, how’s yours going? I know that when people come into the salon they often joke about whether or not we can make them look younger, and the honest answer is, yes ...

The first step to achieving radiant, healthy skin is to visit us for free expert advice. As trained skin professionals, we take the time to assess your skin, establish a baseline, and uncover the root causes of any skin concerns. From there, we create a personalized plan to rejuvenate your skin or maintain its natural glow.

Once you understand what your skin truly needs, following your tailored care routine becomes effortless. This plan includes a combination of at-home practices and in-salon treatments designed to nurture and enhance your skin's health.

A key part of our recommendations includes the exclusive Ella Baché skincare products, available only through licensed outlets. These products are carefully matched to your unique skin type and needs, ensuring you receive the best advice and optimal results for your skincare journey.

Lets investigate some of the Ella Bache product range

Ella Bache skin care products are formulated with great attention to the following areas

1. Ingredients that maintain the skin’s pH balance
2. Ingredients that hydrate the skin (hold water in the skin) which affects the skin on a number of levels. It makes the fine lines that you can see today visibly disappear (much the same as a blown up balloon looks less wrinkly than one from which the air has begun to leak). These fine wrinkles if left unhydrated over time can settle into deeper habitual skin creases, which we see as deeper wrinkles.
3. Ingredients that use state of the art product advances that target particular skin issues such as -

• Thinning skin, loss of elasticity - retinol is the wonder product for these issues. It causes you to make more collagen and elastin at a cellular level. It degrades easily when exposed to light or air so not all retinols from all companies are equally effective

• Scarring - retinol, vitamin b (niacinamide), vitamin c, salicylic acid all help here. They encourage resurfacing and collagen increase.

So with all these choices in the Ella Bache ranges, where do we start with our skin goals?

We begin with your skin’s pH.

Skin pH is a result of a number of factors including lifestyle, genetics, skin conditions and what we use on our skin. A common cause of imbalanced pH is when too many of the wrong products for our skin type have been used and this can develop a sensitive skin. Dryness in the body and skin exacerbate this sensitivity. This sensitivity must be addressed before any other issues such as pigmentation or scarring.

How do you know that you have sensitivity that needs treating?

Skin that is easily irritated by products can lead to the skin feeling dry, tight, and red—especially on the cheeks. It is also more prone to acne, eczema and rosacea

When you visit us, we’ll take the time to assess your skin sensitivity and identify the underlying causes of these concerns. Together, we’ll create a plan to restore your skin’s balance and comfort.

Good products and services for sensitivity include

• The sensibeutics serum that is currently in the boxing day sale
• The sensibeutics cream that is also on sale til mid January
• The Creme Douce cleanser which is especially formulated to target red sensitive skin.

If you are dry as well as sensitive then then try the creme intex, the creme tomate or the sensibeutics rescue cream.

If you are oily and sensitive then the emulsion tomate will be perfect.

The special eye cream is great with sensitive skin,

And the Fruit Enzyme will be a good exfoliant, but don’t leave it on for long.

Sensitive skins need sun protection - the sun guard is great and uses zinc as its active ingredient. Otherwise we have a range of other sunscreens that you can try if you don’t like zinc.

The best facials for sensitivity are the find my balance, give me strength and help me hydrate. They all target different supports for sensitive skin while maintaining the skin’s pH barrier. The Give me Strength facial in particular has an amazing probiotic soothing mask that is magnificent.

So target your sensitivity first and then we can move on to your next skin goals.