PRODUCTS
This US Agency is responsible for ensuring the safety of our nation's cosmetics, including makeup and skin care products.
What is The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
What is dry skin?
What is a scar?
This type of mask stimulates circulation and draws out excess oil.
What is a clay mask?
A phenomenon caused by the repeated movement of looking down at a cell phone or other electronic device.
What is "tech neck"?
Sometimes found on newborns at birth or shortly therafter, they resemble sesame seeds and are almost always perfectly round.
What are milia?
Terminology referrering to a product where no addtional ingredients have been added to specifically provide a fragrance.
What is fragrance-free?
A Fitzpatrick type which rarely burns, and tans easily and significantly.
What is Fitzpatrick Type 5?
A skin sore or abrasion produced by scratching or scraping.
What is excoriation?
Another name for a thermal mask containing gypsum, a plaster-like ingredient.
What is a modelage mask?
A filtered black light used as a tool to illuminate skin disorders, fungi, bacterial disorders, and deeper levels of pigmentation.
What is a Wood's lamp?
An inflammatory condition of the skin caused by contact with allergins or caustic chemicals.
What is contact dermatitis?
A type of mask that should be avoided for clients allergic to shellfish.
What is alginate?
A type of medicication that contrindicates stimulating, exfoliating, or waxing treatments, as it may cause the skin to be more fragile and bruise easier until the client has been off medication for a minimum of two weeks.
What is oral steroids (cortisones) such as prednisone?
Also known as shingles, this painful skin condition is due to reactivation of the chicken pox virus.
What is herpes zoster?