How Routine Facials Benefit Your Complexion

When you think about daily skincare, most assume it’s washing and moisturizing your face in the morning and before you go to bed and perhaps using a toner, sunscreen, and occasional exfoliating. While cleansing, moisturizing, and protecting are key goals of any skincare routine, are there other tactics that help your skin look great and be healthier?

Yes, says Caryn McAllister, PT, DPT, and the High Quality Home Therapy aestheticians. Adding facials to your skincare regimen can take your daily skincare routine to the next level. In this blog, we look at what facials are and how they can help you maintain a healthy complexion.

Facials and a healthy complexion

We’ve all been there. You’re at a friend’s house for a party. A friend of a friend comes through the door, and you can’t stop staring at her skin. Her face is glowing. All you can think about is: what is her secret? And more importantly, will she share it with me?

And that is a healthy complexion in a nutshell. 

We often casually refer to the word complexion, and while we know it when we see it, have you ever really considered what a healthy complexion is? Think no blemishes, silky smooth, even-toned with a healthy-looking natural glow.

It sounds pretty amazing to us mere mortals, especially since the things that keep our complexion healthy and looking great are often our downfalls from time to time. Not surprisingly, the factors that keep our skin healthy and looking great also contribute to our overall health.

These factors include:

• Drinking plenty of water
• Getting a good night’s sleep
• Eating a healthy, balanced diet
• Managing stress
• Protecting our skin from harmful ultraviolet rays

While many of us aspire to live a healthy life and do all the right things to make that happen, we fall short from time to time, and sometimes, evidence of a life well-lived shows up on our faces. And that’s where facials come in.

One hour away from a healthier complexion

The typical facial takes about an hour. Initially, your aesthetician evaluates your complexion by performing a dermal assessment and asks about your optimal skincare goals and daily skin care routine.

Each facial generally includes cleansing, toning, exfoliating, hydrating, and extracting, if needed. Your provider uses the skin assessment and your goals to create a personalized facial just for you. At High Quality Home Therapy, our facials can add that extra oomph to your daily skincare routine to achieve that enviable healthy, great-looking complexion.

Achieving that healthy glow

At that next gathering of friends, you may be that head-turner. If clear, blemish-free skin is an issue, our proprietary Blemish Control Facial may be just the thing. This personalized treatment includes gentle exfoliation and deep cleansing.

This treatment uses calming steam to extract impurities and address clogged pores. Your aesthetician completes the session by applying an organic Eminence soothing mask, which feels great and reduces redness and inflammation.

Addressing problem areas

Another skin treatment that addresses blemishes or hyper-pigmentation is our Problems Be Gone Facial. Like our Blemish Control Facial, this treatment exfoliates by opening pores to remove blemishes. Here, your provider uses your skin assessment to create a custom blended masque and completes the session with light therapy and our special head-to-shoulder massage.

Rejuvenating without Botox

Collagen is not our friend as we age because existing collagen breaks down faster, and new collagen production slows down. If your complexion could use a youthful refresh and you’re not a fan of needles, our anti-aging facial, Botox Without the Needle, offers a natural way to combat aging. This facial uses collagen to firm your skin and boost elasticity.

Your aesthetician completes this treatment with an organic cocktail called Eminence serum, which mixes peptides, antioxidants, and botanical extracts to reduce the appearance of those pesky wrinkles and fine lines.

Besides our facials, we offer many add-on services at High Quality Home Therapy, including dermaplaning, glycolytic peels, microcurrent facials, hydra/microdermabrasion, and ultrasound facials.

If you’re ready to begin your dermal wellness journey and take your skincare routine to the next level, contact High Quality Home Therapy in Stamford, Connecticut, today to book your first facial. Use our online tool to schedule an appointment.