“My skin has never felt better than than it does since I started using your skin care line. I have tried a lot of things, but your are the bomb!!!” -Bgamble413
At Dr. Lucy, we believe taking care of your skin the French way should be a luxurious, dynamic yet simple and pleasant experience.
Natural vs. Chemical Skin Care?
Absolutely, natural skincare focuses on utilizing ingredients that are derived from nature, such as plant extracts, essential oils, and botanicals. These ingredients are often rich in vitamins, antioxidants, and other nutrients that can nourish and support the skin's health without causing harm.
In contrast, chemical skincare products often contain synthetic ingredients, artificial fragrances, and harsh chemicals that can be abrasive and irritating to the skin. Prolonged use of such products may lead to skin sensitivity, accelerated aging, and other adverse effects.
By choosing natural skincare products, you can avoid exposing your skin to potentially harmful chemicals and instead promote its natural balance and vitality. Additionally, natural skincare tends to be gentler on the skin and can be suitable for individuals with sensitive skin or allergies.
What Are The Most Important Parts Of a Natural Skin Care Routine?
Using organic and natural products that contain top of the line, natural ingredients is most important. That means cleansing with a natural oil-based cleanser, toner, serum, moisturizer (with botanical hyaluronic acid), and or face oil, plus a natural sunscreen, are the basics for healthy, calm, youthful looking skin.
How Can I Prevent Aging Skin?
As your skin loses elasticity and collagen, it can naturally begin to appear more wrinkled and a bit saggy. By caring for your skin and focusing on prevention, you can minimize these issues. Using natural products to protect the skin like natural SPF, natural retinols, botanical hyaluronic acid, antioxidants and eating live, fresh food and good oils will help improve the skin’s texture, buoyancy, fine lines and wrinkles.
*Think of natural skin care products like Dr. Lucy’s as nutrient dense foods for your skin. Remember, natural and organic skin care products that are formulated correctly work better simply because they are made with superior ingredients.
What Is The Best Way To Handle Sensitive Skin?
Handle sensitive skin gently with natural and organic products. Try to stay away from chemicals and fragrances. Test the products on the inside of your arm as your skin is sensitive here. Remember every skin care company’s products can be a bit different. It’s even better if you can try samples of the products first for three to five days before investing in the full-size products.
How Do I Know If a Product Is Right For Me?
This is a tricky one. First look at the ingredient deck on the label, if the products read like natural ingredients, then this is a good place to start. We always recommend the Dr. Lucy 7 Piece Sample Kit to start your natural skin care journey. This way you can really give the high-quality products a test run first before purchasing the full size product with minimal expense to you. Lets face it, no one likes the frustration of returning purchases of any kind!
Why Should I Use a Crème Cleanser?
Crème cleansers do not strip the skin like soap, foam or clear cleansers do. Crème cleansers also help to keep the skin at a lower PH ([potential hydrogen) balance and start the nourishing and hydrating process for the skin.
Natural crème cleansers that are made with “good oils” will help sweep the “bad oils” (makeup, dirt and pollutants) out of your pores and off your skin. They will also remove dry, dead skin cells to reveal a more calm, beautiful, hydrated complexion!
Do I Really Need To Wear Sunscreen Every day?
In short, YES! We recommend only natural SPF like Hynt Beauty Sun Prep Broad Spectrum SPF 25 Sunscreen, Eminence SPF 30, and Blue Lizard mineral-based sunscreen SPF 50+just to name a few.
Remember to apply mineral-based SPF in one, upward-like motion, towards your hair line, until the white is gone. You can also put your mineral sunscreen on your hands or fingertips, gently press hands together, then press into the skin on your face. Keep pressing until all white is gone.
Is it true the skin gets use to skin care products after a while and then you need to change them out? Actually, we are not sure where this information came from, but in a nutshell NO! It is kind of like saying your body gets use to organic, fresh food and now you need to eat the chemical laden ones every once in a while.
*If you find a natural skin care line that works for you like Dr. Lucy’s and you love it, stick with it...your whole life!
Why Am I Still Breaking Out After 30?!
Your products (maybe change to natural), hormones play a huge part (so good oils, organic food, spring water, etc.), change your pillowcase every other day, work on your stress (I know, sometimes easier said than done), make sure when you cleanse your skin you are getting all the cleanser off your neck, under your chin and face.
Remember to cleanse, rinse with warm washcloth, then cleanse, rinse with warm washcloth again. Don’t forget to use your natural toner! This is a huge step when dealing with adult acne. Last, use face oils like Dr. Lucy’s.
Do I Need a Toner?
Yes, A Thousand Times Yes!!! Only a natural toner will do, no rubbing alcohol like the old Sea Breeze kind. A natural toner will not only balance your skin’s pH which is a must, but allow your serum and other natural skin care products to be driven deeper into the epidermis layer of the skin to plump, tone and brighten.
*“A Toner is your secret weapon for healthier skin”. Says Dr. King of Today Style.
*Always applying your toner after cleansing.
Six Reasons Why You Should Use a Toner…
They balance your skin’s Ph. Adds a layer of protection and allows nutrients in, keeping harmful contaminants out. Starts hydration and helps bind moisture to the skin. will take your skin care products to a whole new level by preparing the skin. Helps shrink pores. Refreshes skin with or without makeup.
Do I Really Need a Face Serum?
Yes, from age 30+. Look, don’t you want the best skin you can possibly have as you get older? Then, use a natural serum (only), preferably a gel, to not only boost your other products into working better but to really amp up those antioxidants, natural retinols, Vit. C, etc. for deeper penetration.
*Some comments from Dr. Lawrence Samuels, Chief Dermatologist at St. Luke’s Hospital on the benefits of a face serum: A serum is your go to product to improve the overall look of your complexion. Serums are formulated to keep the skin hydrated by putting a protective barrier between it and the outside. Serums have a lipid-soluble base that allows the active ingredients to actually penetrate into the epidermis. The active ingredients can bring antioxidants to the skin, restore cell growth and help decrease pore size. They are formulated to penetrate deep into the skin to deliver key ingredients by way of smaller molecules. Serums are used after your crème cleanser and toner, but before your moisturizers.
When Is The Best Time To Use a Moisturizer?
Morning and Evening. Moisturizers always work better when a serum is applied first then a moisturizer over the serum to seal in all those antioxidants, natural retinols, etc. Moisturizers have a base that allows them to stay on the surface to moisturize and protect the skin from the outside environment. They help keep water in with humectants, and emollients, plus nourish the skin with vitamins and minerals. Leaving out a moisturizer might add to wrinkles, sagging and other aging signs that will show up on your skin.
Face Oil??? Oui s’il vous plait!
The oil molecules behave like tiny Trojan horses, tricking the skin into letting active ingredients go deeper and closer to the collagen producing fibroblasts, all without irritating the surface. They also maintain the lipid barrier and inhibit the free radicals that cause skin damage and wrinkles. The carrier oils with the aid of the essential oils, are lipophilic or fat loving, that means they pass through the lipid layer of the skin faster, preventing water loss and plumping up the skin with moisture more effectively. Blemish-prone skin benefits from nutrient dense face oils by re-stabilizing the skin and breakup the congestion at the source.
*Some very important reasons why we use Organic Rosehip and Carrot Seed Oil in our Face Oil!
Doesn’t Face Oil Make Blemishes?
No, some like Dr. Lucy’s, actually have anti-bacterial and anti-microbial essential oils to help combat acne in general and aid in keeping your skin calm and balanced.
*If your skin is oily, natural face oil has a magical way of telling your skin to balance and stop over or under producing its own natural (sebum) oil.
Rosehip Seed and Carrot Seed Oil vs. Retinol?
A natural retinol “alternative” is just that – an alternative to retinol. Rosehip Seed and Carrot Seed Oil are great alternatives! Rosehip and Carrot Seed Oil are full of naturally derived vitamin A-betacarotene, and has been shown to drastically reduce wrinkles, sun-spots and premature aging that are caused by sun exposure and environmental conditions, while aiding in brightening your skin!
* Dr. Julia Tzu, a dermatologist who is also an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at New York University says, “Rosehip seed oil does contain a blend of bio active ingredients that can potentially be beneficial to the skin, for example vitamin C, Vitamin E, carotenoids, and essential fatty acids. It may also be potentially beneficial as an anti-aging product because of the antioxidant ingredients it contains. Its high vitamin C content suggest that it may also be useful for treating dark spots, since vitamin C decreased the pigment-producing ability of the skin”.
*Rosehip and Carrot Seed Oils also help fight free radicals and are collagen and elastin boosting champions!
Does Topical Hyaluronic Acid Penetrate The Skin? The Answer Is YES!
Benefits of botanical hyaluronic acid as we age, our skin loses the ability to preserve moisture, resulting in the visible loss of firmness, pliability, and plumpness. Topical hyaluronic acid is important for the skin and is different than the injectable kind. States the 1999 Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Botanical hyaluronic acid holds 1000 times its weight in moisture for all day hydration. At the same time, it revitalizes the skin’s outer layer, so that it looks and feels softer, smoother, and glowing with fewer fine lines and wrinkles.
P.S. More benefits of botanical hyaluronic acid... Our skin suffers from unprotected sun exposure (daily SPF is a must!), harsh skincare ingredients, and environmental assault—they all weaken the surface of skin. Botanical hyaluronic acid skin-replenishing properties and antioxidant defense go a long way toward mitigating those issues, especially when used as part of a complete anti-aging routine that also includes other proven ingredients. Now that’s what we call a multitasking anti-aging ingredient! Hyaluronic acid is also incredibly gentle for even the most sensitive, redness-prone skin. In fact, its positive influence on skin’s surface is due in part to its natural calming benefit, which means it can help sensitive skin as well as blemish-prone skin. - Paula’s Choice
*We use only botanical hyaluronic acid in all our Dr. Lucy skin care products!
Why Should I Use a Face masque?
I think everyone will agree with this first answer! You should use a hydrating masque if you want skin that is clear, plump, with an even tone, smaller pores, less lines and wrinkles, less hyper-pigmentation. Who doesn’t want to hear, “You look ten years younger than what you are!” or “How do you keep your skin sooo young looking?” The second important answer… A proper masque helps all your other skin care products work more efficiently. If you want your toner, serum, moisturizer and face oil to be absorbed into your skin more quickly and penetrate deeper, then a hydrating, nutrient dense, natural face masque is a must.
*Using the Dr. Lucy Luscious Rose Equalizer Hydrating Masque will not only ensure that ALL your skin care products are perform better, but will feed your skin with nutrient dense ingredients, providing you with the results you are looking to achieve at a much faster pace.
