Is the Airplane Giving Your Skin Trouble?

The cabins of airplanes have extremely low humidity, which cause the skin to get extremely dehydrated (lack of water). The dry air looks for moisture where it can get it, and that means robbing it right from your skin!

Dry skin will become drier, but did you know that oily skin gets even oilier during flying? When the skin has no water, it attempts to compensate for the dehydration by producing more oil—which is the last thing that oily skin needs. For dry skins that have no oil glands, the skin will be depleted of its water content.

Bottom line: Airplanes can wreak havoc on the skin!

Here are helpful tips before, during and after flight to keep your skin healthy and balanced: … Read more

Got Fine Lines and Wrinkles? We Have Help!

Why do wrinkles occur?

The reason for lines and wrinkles as we age?  The weakening of collagen and elastin fibers in the skin, as well as facial movements that create the actual folds and creases in the skin. Laughing and smiling are inevitable, but squinting is preventable with good sunglasses.

What can I do to make them less noticeable?

If you were to take a piece of wood and hit it with a hammer, you would make an indentation in the wood. To smooth out that dent, a little sandpaper would make the dent less noticeable. The same rules apply with the skin. Wrinkles and lines are considered indentations in the skin, so by “sanding” down the skin with exfoliators, the lines and wrinkles will be less deep, and therefore, less noticeable. Once the skin is exfoliated, you should focus on giving the skin intensive hydration to fill the cells with moisture so the lines stay plumped up.

Renée Rouleau recommended products: … Read more

Renée Rouleau Intensive Firming Serum featured in Ebony Magazine!

We were very honored to have our amazing Intensive Firming Serum featured in Ebony Magazine for treating expression lines, loss of elasticity, dryness, and puffiness under eyes.

This potent cocktail of advanced age-defying ingredients provides immediate and long-term results for skin smoothness, skin brightening, firmness and younger-looking skin with continued use.

In a clinical trial involving 27 female volunteers aged from 40 to 65, the Intensive Firming Serum reduced fine lines and wrinkles by as much as 29% after 28 days in comparison with a placebo.  This formula does not contain Mineral Oil, Petroleum, parabens, artificial colors or synthetic fragrances.  For best results, apply a small amount over entire face and neck after cleansing and toning. Follow with application of moisturizer like our Hawaiian Nourishing Cream. Use nightly… Read more

Skin Ingredient Spotlight: Witch Hazel

During the early to mid 19^th century, Witch Hazel became a staple in most medicine cabinets because of its healing and soothing properties. Women used it to tone their complexion, men used it as an aftershave, and families used it to soothe sunburns, disinfect cuts, and dry out poison ivy.

The leaves, bark and twigs of the Witch Hazel shrub were boiled to draw out the natural extracts and oils. Alcohol was added to allow it to evaporate on contact and to provide a cooling sensation.

Today, we use the petals of the Witch Hazel shrub in skin care formulations since they are shown to give the best skin benefit. In the late fall, the shrub blooms with long, yellow, tendril-like petals after the leaves have dropped. The petals go through steam distillation to draw out the essential oils and natural extracts. Today we do not add alcohol like was done years ago, since it will create a drying effect on the skin.

Witch Hazel (also known as Hamamelis Virginiana) is an excellent ingredient for its use in toners and moisturizers to lessen oily skin, hydrate dehydrated skin, soothe redness in sensitive skin and disinfect problem complexions… Read more

True or False? You Should Take a Break From Moisturizer to Let Your Skin Breathe

Absolutely false! Research indicates that the skin repairs itself most effectively at night, so washing off the day’s dirt and grime and nourishing it with a good moisturizer for your skin type will give your skin a chance to renew while you sleep. Especially in the winter when the heat is blowing on your skin at night, your skin must have protection from a cream to prevent moisture from evaporating out of the skin. As long as your night cream is free of Mineral Oil and Petrolatum, it will not suffocate the skin and clog the pores.

Read five reasons to wash your face before bedtime.

 Which moisturizer is right for you? Get moisturizer recommendations by looking at our nine skin types.

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