Todays Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatments

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About the Course
Today, anti-aging treatments are the most popular service requested from estheticians, with hyperpigmentation being the second.  Skin care professionals must understand their profession is one of life-long learning because advances in skin care ingredients, procedures, technologies, and therapies are constantly being improved and modernized. This course will discuss the components of skin and compare and contrast chemical peels, resurfacing, and microdermabrasion anti-aging treatments. Additionally, this course will identify at least three skin conditions that anti-aging treatments help to improve and identify the five procedures to perform an anti-aging treatment.

Learning objectives
  • List the three (3) basic layers of the skin and the (5) five sub-layers.
  • Compare and contrast chemical peels, resurfacing, and microdermabrasion anti-aging treatments. 
  • Identify the alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs) estheticians may use in the state of Ohio and their concentration and pH levels approved by the state.
  • Identify at least three (3) skin conditions that anti-aging treatments help to improve.
  • Identify the five (5) procedures to perform an anti-aging treatment.
About the Author
Jo Ann M. Stills began her career as the owner of a successful salon. From that position, she moved into an educational focus as Manager and Styles Director for Trend International Beauty colleges. Further career development led her to the position of Salon Manager for a chain of corporate owned salons. In the first year of this position, she successfully headed off a unionization effort and increased salon revenues by 37%. The year the salon was sold, we reached $1 million level, with a 98% customer satisfaction rate.