Do you feel like your skin needs an extra something as we transition into the cooler months?
Maybe you have already started switching on the central heating or lighting the fire and your skin feels a little more dry than usual?
This is the perfect time to book a skin treatment to re-balance your skin and stop any issues such as dryness or dehydration that are beginning to creep in.
Remember, the earlier you address any skin changes the easier it will be to get your skin back to its best.
But maybe you can’t get to us right now and need something at home to tide you over?
Most people will feel like using a face mask to deeply hydrate or restore the comfortable feeling to their skin….but Skin Essentials don’t have a mask for sale?!?
What to use…..
Don’t worry, you already have all the ingredients you need at home in your daily Skin Essentials products to create your own prescription mask – here’s how:
In your hand, simply mix two pumps of your cream and one pump each of your water based serum and oil based serum and add a pea sized amount of Vaseline (this will ‘seal in’ all the other ingredients).
Massage into clean, dry skin – including eye contour area – and leave overnight. Wake up to soft, hydrated skin!
Tip: To make this an even deeper treatment, prep the skin first using Enzyme Exfoliator for 10 minutes, remove and continue to mask stage.
I always recommend having an anti-oxidant-rich facial to help your skin repair itself from the extra UV exposure built up over the summer months.
Increased exposure to UV light (it doesn’t have to be hot, or even warm, just not dark 😂) speeds up the rate at which collagen fibres are broken down in the skin structure.
Decreased collagen leads to the visible signs of ageing that we all want to delay as long as possible – wrinkles, lines, increased pigmentation, bumpy texture and enlarged pores.
Luckily, anti-oxidants are Mother Nature’s antidote to decreasing collagen quality. Our bodies already produce our own anti-oxidants at cellular level to repair damage to our cells but, like everything, the availability of these natural resources slows down as we age.
Supplementing your intrinsic supply of anti-oxidants with your daily skincare will keep things ticking over nicely for you, and adding a deep boosting anti-oxidant repair facial when necessary will recharge your skin’s ability to battle UV-induced damage.
(Skin Essentials homecare products are ALL high in anti-oxidants. Specifically for anti-ageing and tackling UV ageing, use Hydra Collagen Serum daily under SPF30 and Lipid Repair Concentrate at night).
Even if you use SPF daily and liberally, your cells will still experience a surge of UV induced oxidation just from the longer hours of daylight.
Top antioxidant facials at Skin Essentials by Mariga:
We can adapt any or our 45 minute customised facials to supply the maximum amount of anti-oxidant repairing ingredients to the epidermis, leaving you hydrated and glowing.
For deeper repair choose our SmartMeso Hyaluronic Acid and Vitamin C which infuses hydrating and anti-oxidant molecules deeper into the epidermis than a facial alone.
Combine the two above in our Deluxe Dermal Infusion; all the deep repair of the SmartMeso plus the surface conditioning, multi-antioxidant cocktail and relaxation of our customised facial.
At Skin Essentials by Mariga, One of our most popular skin treatments addresses an issue many of us tend to have!
Especially when we get to a certain age – our sun spots love to appear in force…
As skin fanatics we know better then anyone that these skin issues can play on our minds as something we really should sort. So what are you waiting for?
We’re talking about Sun spots – Skin tags – Milia – but did you know how easy it is to remove them?
Some lesions we can treat
We’ve said it before but many of these issues above are quickly and easily removed in our state-of-the-art skincare clinic using diathermy or cryotherapy.
See below the list of what we treat at Skin Essentials by Mariga:
Red veins on the face
Sun spots (flat brown pigmented patches)
Milia
Skin tags
There are certain things that we can’t treat, such as:
Moles
Verrucae
Any lesion that bleeds, recurs or is varicoloured
When we get talking to clients, they often reveal some little anomaly on their skin (face or body) that really bothers them, and many are surprised to find out that we can treat them very easily in just a few minutes.
If there’s a skin issue on your mind that you’re looking to get rid of give us a call us on 053 91 45981, or drop in to our clinic in Selskar Street, Wexford, to find out if we can help you today.
We also offer this popular treatment in our Donnybrook, Dublin 4, clinic on the last Saturday of every month. Call us on 053 9145981 to book in this treatment for Donnybrook. Our next clinic day open for bookings is 28th September.
Last year, Mariga did a Facebook live video about this topic and received a lot of follow-up enquiries, so its always good to remind our customers that this is an area we can help.
See below our video for more detailed information about the treatments, prices and suitability.
Some of the exclusive treatments performed by Mariga include removal of various skin lesions that affect us all as we age.
From sun spots to red veins…
You may be surprised to know that from as little as one treatment (up to three in some cases) we can effectively treat the following skin irregularities:
Sun Spots (age spots)
Red veins on the face
Milia
Skin tags on face or body
Sebaceous Hyperplaisa (flesh-coloured raised bumps on the face)
Some types of warts
What we can’t treat (see a doctor or dermatologist for the following):
Moles
Recurring flaky or oozing patches of skin
Cysts
Psoriasis
Eczema
Any open lesions
Simply pop in to our clinic in Selskar, Wexford or call us on 053 914981 to book a consultation and see what we can do for you.
This large sun spot was treated in two sections, taken 3 weeks apart.
Milia removal by diathermy, before and after one treatment.
If you are acne prone, whether teenage or adult acne, there are some common lifestyle factors that will contribute to breakouts.
While there are many individual factors that influence and trigger breakouts including hormones, genetics, environment and nutrition…
There are also some common triggers that need to be avoided by everyone who is prone to any type of acne.
There is no single fix for acne as it has many contributory factors and some of these vary in severity from person to person.
Also, you need to be very compliant with your routine as acne is always ‘under control’, never ‘cured’. But there is every hope that you can keep your breakouts minimised if you are willing to commit to your skincare routine and lifestyle/dietary changes.
Here are some things to avoid to help get you started on clearing your pimples and spots:
Ditch the dairy. There is no middle ground on this one, consumption of dairy products directly impacts breakouts. Try almond milk on your cereal.
Sticking with nutrition, sugar is the next culprit you need to limit in your diet. It contributes to inflammation and so to inflammatory acne. I agree that it is hard to eliminate completely but see how much you can clean up in your diet and watch the impact on your skin.
Again, a dietary tip (see how much your gut health has to do with your condition of your skin?). Be sure to get your 5 a day and drink more water & herbal teas than coffee. Skin, like the rest of your body, needs the building blocks of a strong, healthy structure to flourish and a lot of this comes directly from your diet.
Picking – everyone is guilty of it but squeezing blackheads, popping pimples and generally poking at your face will spread infection, cause scarring and definitely not reduce the breakout!
Use ice to cool a hot or sore spot, it will act as an anti-inflammatory and make the spot clear more quickly. Remember, once you see a spot on the surface, it is too late to do anything about it.
Using random products without any plan or cohesion. It can be tempting to try the latest internet ‘tip’ (who even starts these viral things??) but always consider the source! Professional skincare advice should only come from a skincare professional. Not a facebook meme. Mixing glue and charcoal and applying it to your face is not something you will find in any cosmetic chemistry textbook 😳. Believe me, if there were some instant or miracle cure for acne, we as skincare professional would know!
Also, jumping between one product and another will never work, even if the products are great! Getting on top of acne is a long-term situation and even the very best acne control protocols take months to show the results on the surface as the foundation work in correcting dysfunction deep in the skin comes first.
As specialists in skincare, we also create our own skincare products including our very popular Blemish Control Cream.
This is an acne control system that works on all the causes of spots simultaneously to give you real, long-term results.
I hope by now you are aware that skincare is a long game.
Despite marketing promises and social media filtering there is no such thing as a magic potion for correcting skin issues such as acne, wrinkles, sagging skin, redness issues etc. etc.
Some of these issues are caused by internal factors such as genetic predisposition or medical problems, some are caused by years of accumulated external factors such as sun exposure, inappropriate skincare products or other bad skin and lifestyle habits.
Most things can be improved, many dramatically with a combination of long-term excellent skincare at home and appropriate clinical treatments for your particular skin.
So, what are these quick fixes then??
Strangely, it’s the things that you might think you can’t treat/improve/get rid of at all that are actually easy and quick to fix, such as:
Visible red veins on the face
Skin tags
Milia
Sun spots / age spots
Many other benign skin lesions
Great result achieved with a single cryotherapy treatment on seb keratosis
Have you been putting up with annoying skin lesions for years thinking that they can’t be addressed, or that it would take an expensive round of GP referral/dermatologist visits to treat?
Then you will be happy to know that all the above skin anomalies and more can be very quickly treated by Mariga at Skin Essentials right here in Wexford Town.
Using diathermy or cryotherapy we can quickly and easily remove unsightly or annoying lesions. Unlike a scalpel removal, these methods do not leave any scars.
We do a full consultation with you before treatment to determine suitability and also to let you know whether you will need one or more treatments, and how much each will be.
With prices starting from €35 for diathermy or from €75 for cryotherapy, and many lesions treated in a single session, now is the time to call and book your quick skin fix!
P.S. While we can’t change your skin long-term, we can get you short-term ready for an event or to kick-start you for a longer-term skin correction programme with our deep skin infusions.
Hydrating and plumping hyaluronic acid and revitalising vitamin C will give your skin a beautiful, dewy radiance from the first treatment – read more about it here.
Book your treatment with one of our expert therapists online below or call us on 053 9145981.
