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Why Community Memberships Matter: More Than Just a Like or Follow

Why Community Memberships Matter: More Than Just a Like or Follow

In the fast-paced world of skin health and aesthetics, it’s easy to feel like you’re navigating things alone. But what...

Hope Beyond Hair Loss: How Therapists Can Support Clients With Alopecia

Hope Beyond Hair Loss: How Therapists Can Support Clients With Alopecia

Alopecia Areata is a condition that affects thousands of people around the world and can be both physically and emotionally...

Skin Treatments for Oncology Patients

Skin Treatments for Oncology Patients

Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and immunotherapy play a critical role in saving lives, but they can often...

Beauty Squad House

Beauty Squad House

Last month, Mocha Group and Beauty Biz magazine were proud to host the 3rd annual Beauty Squad House for the...

Biofilm in Acne

Biofilm in Acne

Costerton and Cheng first used the term ‘biofilm’ in the 1970s. Although since then, the definition of a biofilm has...

Why a One-off Treatment Just Isn’t Enough

Why a One-off Treatment Just Isn’t Enough

Unfortunately, so many people only get professional skin treatments when they have a special event coming up or when they’re...

The Skin's Ageing Process

The Skin's Ageing Process

The fact is that we start ageing during our early 20’s. The ageing process is gradual and therefore we don’t...

5 Factors That Affect Tissue

5 Factors That Affect Tissue

When it comes to performing treatments that involve triggering the inflammation or the wound healing response, it is important we...

How Stress and the Gut Can Impact the Skin

How Stress and the Gut Can Impact the Skin

I am sure we have all felt the stress that has been bestowed upon us in the last two years,...

Acne and Inflammation

Acne and Inflammation

Inflammation is undoubtedly one of the major factors involved in acne, and the generation of an inflammatory reaction seems to...

Post Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation

Post Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation

There is a possibility that combinations of hormonal activity could cause hyperpigmentation. For instance, the combination of ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone)...

The Top Treatments for Rosacea

The Top Treatments for Rosacea

While Rosacea and Diffused Redness cannot be completely cured, we can offer many treatments and skincare options which, along with...

What is Biofilm?

What is Biofilm?

Over the last few years, biofilm research has expanded considerably and revealed that biofilms are probably the most common form...

Asking the Right Consultation Questions

Asking the Right Consultation Questions

There is nothing worse than a client spending all that time filling out a consultation form, only to have the...

Hydroxy Acids and Factors Affecting Their Performance

Hydroxy Acids and Factors Affecting Their Performance

The efficacy of a topical hydroxy acid is determined by two major factors – the bioavailable concentration and the vehicle...

Beauty & the Heat: How Heat and Cold Effects the Skin

Beauty & the Heat: How Heat and Cold Effects the Skin

There are many factors that can both impact and affect our body temperature and should be considered during a consultation....

Treating Psoriasis

Treating Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a global condition that affects many with stress being a triggering factor. It is an autoimmune disease that...

Antimicrobial Peptides in Acne Skins

Antimicrobial Peptides in Acne Skins

The Innate Immune System is the first defense system to protect against invading organisms, hence it’s very powerful presence in...

The Impact of Hormones on Sebocytes

The Impact of Hormones on Sebocytes

Research has found that acne skins are triggered by increased male hormones called Androgens; Higher levels of testosterone are recorded...

An Insight Into the Sebaceous Gland

An Insight Into the Sebaceous Gland

The sebaceous gland is such an important gland!It helps maintain the hydration of the skin and in fact, it provides...

What is the role of Mitochondria?

What is the role of Mitochondria?

In fact they take up 20% of the cytoplasm of the cell and they are forever changing their shape, they...

All About DNA Repair

All About DNA Repair

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is found in almost every cell of the body and is the genetic material that is essential...

How to Know When It’s Hives

How to Know When It’s Hives

Hives which are also known as urticaria, welts, weals or nettle rash will appear as a red, raised, itchy skin...

Periorbital Hyperpigmentation is Easy to Diagnose But It Is Not Easy to Cure

Periorbital Hyperpigmentation is Easy to Diagnose But It Is Not Easy to Cure

So much importance is put on the appearance of our skin and how aesthetically pleasing it appears to both ourselves...