Brightening Facial Treatment

Beauty Grace's Ice Breaker

Begin your treatment with a comforting Beauty Grace Hand & Foot rub down with a freshly steamed towel, to help loosen your senses. Followed by a brief back massage specifically designed for deep relaxation.

Professional Cleanse

Highly concentrated professional cleansers that are water soluble, each thoroughly cleansing a specific skin imbalance. These cleansers are pH balanced, thus never drying the skin, and do not leave the skin feeling "tight". Our cleanse is used together with a facial steamer, for added effectiveness.

A touch of tone

A professional toner is applied to the skin, following cleansing to help add further hydration to the skin and more importantly, to increase product penetration and to even out porosity.

A Comprehensive Skin Analysis

A clear picture of the current state of your skin, from which treatment can be made by our skin therapist is established. In almost all cases, skin analysis allows our skin therapists to take control of their skin care in the right way, and by detecting any possible issues early, thus picking up underlying conditions you might not have known you had, such as broken capillaries and pigmentation.

In addition, your skin type will also be determined. This is an important part of assessing whether or not your skin care regime is appropriate for you.

Exfoliation

This procedure removes comedones from the skin without further spreading acne or breakout-causing bacteria, thus minimising the impact to the health of the skin. A double exfoliating action of papaya enzymes are used to mechanically remove dead skin cells, thus reinforces keratolytic action of the treatment, while the lemon extract lightens the skin.

Professional Extraction

Comedone extractions prevent future breakouts and our professional extraction technique prevents skin damage and scarring.

A World-Class Facial Massage

This technique encourages blood flow, stimulates sebaceous production, increases muscle tone, detoxifies acid waste in the tissues and muscles, thus relaxing the nerves and lends itself towards the oxygenation of the skin.

Not forgetting of course, this just happens to be the most rewarding, pampering and relaxing part of the treatment.

A Premium Mask

Both an energising and gentle exfoliating mask, which harnesses the power of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and salicylic acid are used to intensify the results of your treatment, as it is instrumental in treating the sun damaged skin. The cooling effect has an active astringent which leaves the skin soft, luminous and calm.

Superior Moisture

A specific professional moisturiser for your skin type is applied onto the skin, to aid with the skin's natural defences against the environment while regulating moisture loss.

Sun Protection

Develop by Australian CSIRO scientists, the sun shield SPF30 formulation offers greater skin protection, and is less likely to irritate the skin vulnerable to UV damage. A naturally tinted, broad-spectrum sunscreen with encapsulated, micronised oxides to protect the skin from harmful UV rays in a gentle formula designed for maximum skin tolerance.

What is pigmentation?

The pigmentation of your skin is the result of millions of years of evolution, which explains the wide range of skin tones we see in everyday life. People with origins close to the equator, where the sun is the most intense, had to develop protection against dangerous UV rays. The result? An increase in the production of melanin, a natural skin and hair colorant that absorbs UV radiation and protects the body from damage. In fact, the epidermis of a dark-skinned person absorbs up to 25% more UV radiation than that of a light-skinned counterpart.

Exponential gain...

Combine this treatment with Omnilux red light therapy for an exponential gain in hydration for an additional $60.

How do I prevent unbalanced pigmentation?

Pigmentation disorders are caused by a myriad of factors, which include sun damage, hormonal imbalance, and skin trauma or disease. Of all these causes, sun damage is both the most common, and the most easily prevented! Simply applying a sunscreen with a minimum SPF15 every day, and avoiding peak sun times around midday, will do a lot to prevent the sun damage that can make your skin’s pigment act up. Sun protection SPF30 provides optimum daily sun protection.

Hormonal imbalance, a cause of pigmentation mostly affecting women, can occur during any time that the body's natural hormone balance is disturbed. These triggers can include hormonal changes, such during the menstrual cycle, menopause, prolonged stress, pregnancy or even when taking birth control pills. Unlike pigmentation related to trauma or sun damage, hormonally induced hyper pigmentation generally disappears when balance is restored to the body, and it can be treated during the interim period with topical skin brighteners.

The pigmentation related to skin trauma (cuts, wounds, scrapes and the like) is difficult to prevent in the case of accidental damage to the skin. Picking at acne lesions is also, of course, a big no-no, and will only exacerbate the pigmentation associated with the wound healing.

What are my treatment options?

Brightening treatments contains vitamin A, vitamin C, glycolic, salicylic and Lactic Acid agents to normalise the distribution of melanin and reduces the excessive amounts of melanin. Your skin care therapist will be able to prescribe the regimen best for you, but it will most likely begin with a professional series of Skin Brightening treatments. These highly active treatments include a professional-only exfoliation to smooth away the unevenly pigmented skin cells, followed by the application of a powerful botanical serum.

Of course, your at-home regimen is also vitally important. After cleansing in the morning, use high technology serum to renew dull skin, which contains optical illuminators, and will help protect your skin from further sun damage while actually helping to combat melanin production on the cellular level. At night, use skin renewal night cream or serum, a cellular repair regime that smooth and brightens the skin which penetrates deep into the skin and delivers a potent dose of eleven botanical brighteners to regulate melanin production.

How much you can reduce the appearance of hyper pigmentation depends largely on what is causing the problem in the first place, as well as how deeply into the skin the pigmentation extends.

Generally speaking, most people see results within 8-10 weeks of beginning a treatment program. Keep in mind, however, that all sun exposure must be avoided during this time – even one unprotected day in the sun can completely reverse all positive treatment results.