What can we do to reduce skin dryness, while also addressing things like anti-aging and acne? Are there things we need to start doing now as we move into fall?
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Welcome to the Rachel Varga podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Varga, double board certified
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aesthetic nurse specialist since 2011 with over 20,000 rejuvenation procedures performed. I'm an
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international clinical trainer for other physicians and nurses as well, celebrity skin expert
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having been featured on some of the world's top proactive aging podcasts and much, much more
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Learn more at rachelvarga.ca and enjoy today's episode. Welcome everyone. I hope you're having a lovely day. Thanks for hanging out with me
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here on the Rachel Varga podcast. Be sure to hit the bell notification on YouTube and Facebook and
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subscribe here on the podcast. Share this episode with somebody who you think might want to learn a
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little bit about how to address dry skin. So in today's episode, we're going to cover what we can
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do to reduce dry skin dryness while also addressing things like anti-aging and acne
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And are there things we need to start doing now as we move into the fall and a hundred percent
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there's lots that we need to be doing to switch things up with our current routine
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as we move into some of these drier months with more indoor heating, less, you know, vitamin D
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what could we do to supplement that with things like biohacking and red light therapy
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We're going to be highlighting in this episode, though, my top three dry skin tips. This is
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something I get asked all the time, right as we hit kind of like September, October
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Rachel, what do I do about skin dryness? My clients reach out all the time. It's like clockwork
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at changes of seasons, which is why I do my skincare programs. All right. So tip number one
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I want you to be transitioning to a richer moisturizer. So for me, I'm acne prone
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but I'm also in my mid thirties and I need to make sure I'm on top of things like
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making sure I'm getting lots of antioxidants and actives in my products like retinol, glycolic acid
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mandelic acid and other peptides to feed and nourish my skin. But I also don't want to break
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out because in the summertime we sweat a little bit more. But then as we move into the wintertime
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our skin definitely has different needs. So if you're kind of needing to reorder anything and
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you're just about finished your current moisturizer that I'd recommended for the spring
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finish your current moisturizer that I'd recommended for the spring summer, reach out, send me an email info at rachelvarga.ca and I'll make a suggestion for you
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This one, however, the shield you could actually get at my e-store at rachelvarga.ca forward slash
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store. This is one of my go-tos as we move into the, you know, kind of like cooler
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drier months, but also we're going to be talking about things that you can do at home to promote
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collagen and undo some of the photo damage from your fabulous days enjoying nature outside
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So tip one is to transition to a richer moisturizer for the fall and winter
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Tip two, monitoring your vitamin A and retinol use. Clients get a copy of my weekly planning guide
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This is a great way to organize which evening you're doing your retinol, right? So vitamin A
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retinol, really potent antioxidant. It's been on the market since like the eighties. It's one of
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the most potent antioxidants out there, but here's what you need to know about it. It can cause quite
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a bit of dryness and flaking and things like that. So the way that you want to first integrate your
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retinol is slow and steady wins the race, but you don't want to be too aggressive at first with your
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retinol use. So my weekly planning guide, you can email me, I'll send you a copy of that. Everybody
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that takes skin camp gets it as well. And all my current clients also. So this is something we tend
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to forget about, right? Cause we get all our products that say recommended for you, your delivery arrives
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you want to use everything, right? When you get it all, please do not do that. Do not put the cart
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before the horse. There is a method to the madness for incorporating vitamin A and retinol into your
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routine. And you have to have the right cleanser, moisturizer, sensory scrub to go alongside
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retinol use. Otherwise what will happen is say you're using certain products, you throw in a
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retinol and it starts to make your skin dry, kind of like red, irritated, and you start to flake
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If you don't have the right products on hand to mitigate the dryness with the richer moisturizer
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to mitigate the flaking with an awesome scrub, and also to mitigate things like photosensitivity
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which you have to be very careful with retinol use to make sure you're not getting a lot of sun
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while you're using it. So then you have to have a really good sunscreen on hand. So there is a
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method to the madness. It's not just buying this one anti-aging beauty product that's going to fix
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all your skin woes. There, there is a bit of a method and a really great plan to follow to
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integrate your vitamin A and retinol so that you don't get all of that irritation. And tip number
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three, we need to continue to exfoliate and wear our SPF daily. So as I mentioned with retinol
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what retinol can be really good at is basically speeding up your cell turnover, right? Because for
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me, my skin cell cycle, so from like the dermal layer up to the top of the skin where we see it
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it's about a month. As we age, that can slow down to like a month and a half. And so doing things
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like exfoliating, retinol, you speed that up a little bit, we get your cellular turnover to
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improve and increase, but you also need to wear your sunscreen daily. So what exfoliation is going
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to do if you have dry skin, like say for example, this one here that uses magnesium particles to
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buff and polish the skin as opposed to tearing it. And that's going to take off like the dead
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cornflake layer on the skin. That is really one of the culprits of skin dryness. And when those
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cornflakes are kind of the dead skin cells are stacked on top of one another, you go and put
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your moisturizer on top, it will have a harder time actually penetrating into the skin. And also
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you need to wear your SPF daily. I just wrapped up a lovely follow up consultation with a fabulous
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client of mine, Loretta, who actually inspired me to make this video. I told her I'll be the
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caller. I'm like, I'm going to film a video talking about all this stuff that we covered
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which is great. And the reason why you want to wear your sunscreen daily is even though we're
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moving into fall winter and the cooler months with not as much sun exposure is we actually get
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a lot of sun exposure in our homes. And that is usually via things like LEDs, right? So if you
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have lights in your home, I want you to start paying attention to the quality of lights that
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you have. And just reach out, I'll give you some some guidance on that. But actually, a lot of the
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light that we get in our home is damaging our skin, LED actually penetrates about three times
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deeper in the skin than the UVA and the UVB rays that we get outside. So even if you're just kicking
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it at home, you're on zoom calls all day long, you got LEDs shining from your lights above, you are
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actually damaging your skin, and you're exposed to things that can damage your skin. So wearing
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your sunscreen every day, but it's really key what type of sunscreen you're using. So you can actually
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get this sunscreen, the the primer TSO three, I love this one. And this one you can get at the
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store as well, Rachel Varga dot ca forward slash store, there's tinted, there's untinted options
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This is my go to because I'm acne prone, I get a little bit shiny, I don't like putting things on
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like toners and primers, I like to just skip those steps and use products that are going to do like
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three things for me. So this one also has antioxidants in it as well. And it's only a
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mineral sunscreen. So there's no added chemical filters like avo benzone or oxybenzone. It's
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really tricky these days. So one of the things I do with my clients is I were on a call together
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And then live, I'm going through their products and which ones they either need to stop using
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right away, because they're full of frickin toxins, or which ones they could potentially
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get through and then just upgrade to something that's going to be a little bit more like results
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based and more optimized for aging, mature dry skin. So sunscreen, every single day, there's no
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point using retinol, no point dermal rolling, or investing in in clinic rejuvenation options if
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you're not doing the heavy lifting and the hard work at home, which really, your home care should
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be making up most of your your skin rejuvenation stuff, right. So moving away from simply relying
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on the in clinic stuff showing up for your appointments, it's really digging into the home
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care is really, really important. So your in clinic options for facial rejuvenation and hydration
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what are they? What are the approximate costs? What are the downtime? What do I have to do before
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and after to prepare for it? There's a lot of really great in clinic options that are wonderful
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for rebooting the skin undoing some of the summer, spring photo damage from being outside in nature
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which I do encourage you guys to do. But there are some really great in clinic facial hydration
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and rejuvenation options and even some really nice gentle peels. But the reason I can't make blanket
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statements as to you know, if you have this skin, you should do this treatment and that. Because
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this isn't medical advice. This is educational information only if you want some more of that
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specific guidance as to some of the options that I think could be helpful for you. Just reach out
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you can work with me at rachelvarga.ca. So this was a fun episode talking about my top three dry
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skin tips. Number one, transition to a richer moisturizer. Number two, monitor your vitamin A
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and retinol use, you may just want to give yourself a couple days off of retinol start to get intuitive
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with your skincare and not doing too much on your skin. Sometimes you just need to rely on your
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basic kit to you know, for a week or two to let your skin stabilize and then start talking to it
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again with your actives. And then tip number three for my dry skin tips is continuing to exfoliate
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with an approved scrub that I've set out for you and also wearing your sunscreen daily. These are
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all very important, very basic things to cover. When my clients work with me and I get them on a
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basic routine, usually within even their first application of the routine I'm laying out for them
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or a couple days to two weeks you start to see more glassiness to the skin smoothness and
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reduction of the diffuse redness. So covering your basics is really key and I wanted to warmly invite
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you all into fall skin camp. You can register at fallskincamp.com right now. I begin a fall skin
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camp right on the fall equinox and this is where I will be focusing on undoing sun damage in the
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fall and which at home and in clinic rejuvenation options to focus on now as well as pre and post
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recovery tips. So each season there's certain things that we need to be aware of moving into
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fall and winter. It's definitely dryness and things like that and also kind of really starting to go
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down the rabbit hole of looking at some rejuvenation options for reducing things like photo
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damage so sun spots loss of collagen and all sorts of stuff. All right well I hope you guys have a
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fantastic rest of your day. Thanks for hanging out with me here on the Rachel Varga podcast. It would
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mean the world to me if you would subscribe here on the Rachel Varga official YouTube channel and
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my free treatment planning guide and my five steps to sophisticated skin cheat sheet. That's an
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awesome one that I put together for you all. You can get that when you join my newsletter at
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rachelvarga.ca. It'll go right into your inbox and those are two guides you can start using right now
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If you are a current client of mine and you're taking fall skin camp you are going to get access
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to the weekly planning guide and I actually emailed all my clients yesterday with the link for the
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guide so you can check your inbox. All right have a great day everybody and if you haven't yet had a
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you with some pretty lovely ongoing support. Have a good one guys. I'll see you in the next episode
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