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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

How much cleanser am I supposed to use?

Too much feels like too much!
How much cleanser am I supposed to use? Enough so my face is white and then massage it in until I can’t see it or just a small amount? Is it supposed to lather?

How much cleanser to use will depend on a few things. First, how big your face is and second, how much you prefer to use. Practically speaking, if you use too much, you’re just wasting product. Conversely, if you don’t use enough, you probably aren’t getting a good cleanse.

So what’s too much? Honestly, I think you will just know—it will probably feel like you are rubbing cleanser on cleanser rather than cleanser onto skin. If you use too much, it will just feel like you have too much product to work with. And using too little product?
  • If you don’t use enough, you won’t be able to spread the product across your face, leaving many places unwashed.
  • Using too little may cause the cleanser to almost absorb into the skin like a moisturizer.

A cleansing product is meant to remove surface debris from the skin, not to penetrate like a moisturizer. And you really don’t want to massage it in until you can’t see it. In fact, if you have massaged the product in too long or perhaps used too little, the cleanser may have gone into your skin. In this case, I would “bring it up” by adding a little water to it with your hands, then splash-rinse to remove.

I find that using about a half dollar-sized dollop of cleanser is enough, but you want to use an adequate amount in order to cover your entire face. The product I use has a pump, and I use about two to three pumps for each cleansing. If it doesn’t feel like enough once I’ve gotten it on my face, I’ll just add another pump or two. Sometimes just adding a little bit of water makes the cleanser go further. Just don’t water it down so much that it can’t clean your skin.

Experiment and see. The main thing is to use enough to enable you to spread the cleanser over your entire face and neck. To cleanse, simply apply the cleanser, massage for a few seconds, splash-rinse, and then towel dry.

Milk cleansers generally do not lather. Gel-type cleansers and most soaps will lather, depending on the sulfates in the ingredients. (Sulfates make soaps soapy.)

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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Carolyn Ash Skin Care YONKA FACIAL video info

I decided to have myself filmed giving my signature skin care treatment just before I closed up my Boulder location (6/2017) and retired from giving facials. I continued my mail order business for another year before retiring from the skin care industry altogether at the end of May 2018.

I had my facial videotaped because I wanted to let any aestheticians who might be interested see how I gave my facials and if there is any information to glean from the videogreat. And for those of you who were my facial clients, I thought you might be curious about what and how I was doing each step during your facial treatments with me.

My normal facial was anywhere from 60 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes. This video is under 45 minutes so most of my movements are a bit faster and at the least abbreviated. Therefore each step has as little time in between as possible (again, for the video only), so your experience during an actual facial was surely more relaxing and definitely took more time.

Many thanks to my wonderful, long-term client Brooke who agreed without hesitation to be the model for this project, which was literally the very last facial I gave, ending my 33+ year career.

For any of you interested in seeing a video of my facial treatment, CLICK HERE to watch it on YouTube.

BE WELL!
:+) Carolyn.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

TIME RESIST Creme Nuit from Yonka-Paris

Time Resist Creme Nuit (Night Cream: nuit means night in French)

As you may have already read in Time Resist Creme Jour and the general overview More new products from Yonka-Paris: TIME RESIST Day & Night Creams (both links below), I dont have a ton of experience with TIME RESIST. I do have my opinions and I have already stated them in those posts, but I can say this without reservation: if my skin care salon was still operational, I very much doubt I would be selling a lot of these creams. Call me old-fashioned but I simply likeno loveso many of the “old” Yonka creams, and I have yet to be a big fan of their new launches in the past many years.

I also find it difficult to sell creams that are almost twice as expensive as others in the line (Time Resist right now is $122 per jar; many other “older” Yonka creams are $60-$80) and may or may not do “better” with a clients skin. Perhaps Im just not a great sales person. But I am a truth-teller. I have yet to be able to explain cogently to a client why something 2x as pricey is really that much better than a lower priced cream they may already use and have loved for years. This is exactly the way I feel! I dont want to tear away from what I love.

Still, the benefits of the Time Resist creams looks exciting on paper for sure. I was leaving my business just as these creams were coming out so I dont have real client-based critiques and as Ive said, I had an intolerance to something in both the day and night versions so couldnt really give them a long-term try myself.

Now that Im heading toward the end of my career in skin care, you all will have to forge ahead on your own. Not in terms of general information on how to take care of your skin, but specifically on these or any other new Yonka creams that come out past my retirement.

Give these creams a try and see what you think. Let me know if youre willing so I can post some actual user comments. The ingredients in Time Resist cannot be denied for their technological and innovative nature. Well just have to see if these stand the test of time like so many other wonderful Yonka creams.

From Yonka headquarters: At night, the skin launches its restoring program to fight the damage built up during the day. Euglena gracilis and silk tree extracts, combined with youth activators, help replenish and re-energize your skin. The TIME RESIST night cream reduces signs of tiredness and refines skin… For a fresh feel as soon as you wake up!

Aging is a part of the natural life cycle, which is predetermined at birth. Aging skin reveals the effects of time passing and the skin can thin, wrinkle, and loose its density and radiance. External factors (pollution, smoking, alcohol, sun, etc.) speed up these phenomena.

[As I wrote in the Time Resist Jour article: I don’t agree that your personal aging process is “predetermined at birth.” I don’t think or I certainly hope this isn’t what Yonka means since everything you do in your life affects how your skin ages. Genetics do plan a big role, of course, but for all the reasons we know many things (sun, food, indulgences, stress) play an even bigger role in how we will age.]

The TIME RESIST duo is therefore a precious ally for your skin: it provides it with advanced natural ingredient technology that neutralizes the effects of these external factors: controlling the visible signs of aging.

At the heart of these velvety and hydrating formulas is an all-new synergy that combines new-generation plant-based stem cells with the anti-inflamm'aging Youth Energy lipoaminoacid, to uphold your skin's youth. At night, the Euglena gracilis and silk tree extracts replenish and revitalize your skin so it appears firm and fresh upon wakening. 

In time, wrinkles are visibly smoothed, skin is plumped, signs of tiredness are diminished and your complexion is much brighter.

Essential ingredients:
  • Plant-based saponaria pumila stem cells, Youth Energy lipoaminoacid, wakame extract—youth activating, redensifying
  • Vegetable glycerin, grape seed oil, shea butter—hydrating, nourishing 
  • Sacha inchi oil, euglena gracilis extract, silk tree extract—anti-fatigue, smoothing

Directions for use:
    In the evening:
    • After cleansing and spraying on Yonka Lotion toner 
    • Apply TIME RESIST Creme Nuit over face and neck
    • Then use your favorite Yonka eye cream

    Discover a new application gesture with the touch & slide airless jar. it delivers the right dose of cream by pressing down once on the cap. This economic innovation is safe and maintains the beautiful aromatic pleasures of Yon-Ka products.

    Wednesday, June 26, 2019

    TIME RESIST Creme Jour from Yonka-Paris

    TIME RESIST Creme Jour (Day Cream: jour means day in French)

    These new Yonka products came out just as I was about to close my skin care salon in Boulder and move out of state. I went to my last product information class in 2018 with Time Resist products as the headliner.

    As you can read in my post linked below (More new products from Yonka-Paris: TIME RESIST Day & Night Creams, which is an overview of these products in general), I’m not a huge fan of jars, even though there is a reason Yonka strayed from their decades-long use of tubes and opted to start using air-tight jars.

    I have tried these creams (both day and night versions) and found I have a sensitivity to one or more of the ingredients. My eyes simply couldn’t handle something in these creams so I gave them away to a client to use and to get a critique from (something I never received!).

    My point is: I don’t have a lot of experience with Time Resist. From the seminar I attended and reading what I can find about them, these creams pack a powerful punch of new technological ingredients and although they are pricey, I recommend giving them a try if you are looking for the latest in anti-aging products.

    From Yonka headquarters: During the day, your skin faces a number of aggressions. It needs a cream that can protect it while making it more beautiful. In addition to youth activator ingredients, the TIME RESIST Day Cream is also enriched in filling spheres and hyaluronic acid, to smooth skin and restore its bounce.

    Aging is a part of the natural life cycle, which is predetermined at birth. Aging skin reveals the effects of time passing and the skin can thin, wrinkle, and lose its density and radiance. External factors (pollution, smoking, alcohol, sun, etc.) speed up these phenomena. 

    [I don’t agree that your personal aging process is “predetermined at birth.” I don’t think or I certainly hope this isn’t what Yonka means since everything you do in your life affects how your skin ages. Genetics do plan a big role, of course, but for all the reasons we know many things (sun, food, indulgences, stress) play an even bigger role in how we will age.]

    The TIME RESIST duo is therefore a precious ally for your skin: it provides it with advanced natural ingredient technology that neutralizes the effects of these external factors: controlling the visible signs of aging.


    At the heart of these velvety and hydrating formulas is an all-new synergy that combines new-generation plant-based stem cells with the anti-inflamm'aging Youth Energy lipoaminoacid, to uphold your skin's youth.

    Protected throughout the entire day, technologically advanced microspheres enriched with hyaluronic acid visibly smooth wrinkles and give the skin more bounce. In time, wrinkles are visibly smoothed, skin is plumped, signs of tiredness are diminished and your complexion is much brighter.



    Essential ingredients:
    • Plant-based saponaria pumila stem cells, Youth Energy lipoaminoacid, wakame extract—youth activating, redensifying (I’m not sure I even know what that means!) 
    • Vegetable glycerin, grape seed oil, shea butter—hydrating, nourishing 
    • Microspheres (hyaluronic acid low molecular weight + konjac), oat polysaccharides—wrinkle filler
    • Hyaluronic acidhydrating, wrinkle filler
    Directions for use:
      In the morning:
      • After cleansing and spraying on Yonka Lotion toner 
      • Apply TIME RESIST Creme Jour over face and neck
      • Then use your favorite Yonka eye cream

      Thursday, April 11, 2019

      Radio Interview with Carolyn Ash on Conversations with Beth & Dan

      Here is a fun radio show interview I did with Beth Aldrich and Dan Balth on their weekly radio show: Conversations with Beth and Dan. It was recorded in 2006 in Chicago, Illinois.

      I had a lot of fun talking with them about skin care and related subjects; I hope you enjoy listening to us!

      CLICK HERE to listen to the show on YouTube (duration 22:27).

      Conversations with Beth and Dan is a co-production of the Men's Media Network and For Her Information Media. Executive producers are Beth Aldridge and Dan Balth. Produced and directed by Andy Metran in Metran Studio Chicago. Copyright 2006, all rights reserved.