The best possible way to care for normal skin is to follow the basics every skin type needs - daily use of a gentle, effective cleanser, a toner loaded with skin replenishing ingredients, a serum to protect and stimulate and a formulated moisturizer with skin restoring and soothing ingredients
Even if you feel your skin is truly normal, it is imperative to have a skincare routine to keep your skin at its best for as long as possible. Getting older, visible effects from cumulative sun damage from unprotected sun exposure, environmental damage and mid-life changes to your skin will eventually take a toll. Our expert dermatologists have created the perfect twice daily skincare routine to help keep your skin looking and feeling its best.
Daytime Routine
Step One – Cleanse with Q-SkinScience Purifying Cleanser
A refreshing daily cleanser that deep-cleans the skin and pores removing impurities including makeup, dirt and surface oils. This unique formula also gently prepares the skin for advanced treatments with other Q-SkinScience products without stripping the skin of precious moisture.
It is a detergent-free, lipid-free formulation that is non-irritating to sensitive skin. It contains the phyto-effective natural ingredients: Aloe Vera, Cucumber Extract and Bisabolol (a counter irritant found in chamomile). It also contains the antioxidants, vitamins A and E, providing increased protection for your skin. These ingredients work synergistically, helping to optimize the benefits of the Clarifying Under-Eye Serum Capsules and Serum C. The Purifying Cleanser’s gentle soothing properties make it ideal to use during the colder winter months.
Step Two – Tone with Q-SkinScience Green Tea Toner
Q-SkinScience Tea Toner is a uniquely effective skin care formulation designed for use on the face after cleansing with Q-SkinScience Purifying Cleanser. It helps balance the skin’s natural pH levels as well as re-hydrate the face and restore the skin’s natural acid mantle. It also soothes irritated skin and gently prepares the skin for advanced treatments with other Q”-SkinScience products without stripping the skin of its precious moisture balance, which is essential for maintaining healthy skin throughout the winter months. This formula tones and conditions with natural solvents and astringents to dissolve residual oils and waxes and adds antioxidants, vitamins and other extracts to soothe and maintain a viable, fresh surface to the face.
Q-SkinScience Green Tea Toner is non-irritating even to the most sensitive skin types and may be applied directly after professional, in-office chemical peels, and Microdermabrasion or IPL treatments. It contains the phyto-effective natural ingredients Aloe Vera and Cucumber Extract which soothe irritated or inflamed skin and posses’ natural skin tightening properties. It also contains witch hazel, a mild, natural astringent and glycerin for softening and moisturizing the face. These ingredients work synergistically, providing optimal benefits in balancing and soothing the skin and preparing it for application of Q-SkinScience Serum C, Q-Strixin and Q-Sunshade
Step Three – Moisturize with Q-SkinScience Keratin Hydrating Gel or Phyto-Active MBR
Q-SkinScience Keratin Hydrating Gel
Q-SkinScience Keratin Hydrating Gel is light, oil-free and easily absorbed formula containing a patented natural bioactive keratin, which has scientifically demonstrated capabilities of both improving the appearance of skin aging and also protecting the skin against future damage. The majority of other keratin products offered in today’s skincare market are no longer bioactive or particularly functional. Instead, they have been “denaturalized” through a large scale industrial rendering process, which applies both high temperature and acid to undesirable animal origin by-products and renders these keratins inactive to the human body. By comparison, the main ingredient in Keratin Hydrating Gel involves a patented process, using the gentle method of keratin solubilization performed on a natural high quality raw material, from a renewable natural source.
Quintessence® Keratin Hydrating Gel is appropriate for all skin types, including acne/oily skin and sensitive skin types.
Product Benefits:- Reduces Fine Lines and Wrinkles
- Promotes Hydration, Firmness and Elasticity in Skin
- Reduces Redness Associated with Inflammation or Sensitive Skin
- Improves the Brightness and Radiance of the Skin
OR Phyto-Active MBR
Phyto-Active Moisture Barrier Repair is modeled after the skin's own natural protective barrier making it ideal for sensitive skin. Contains ceramides, essential fatty acids, natural bioactive keratin and plant stem cell extract Benefits:
- Helps reduce redness associated with skin inflammation and sensitivities
- Helps soothe dry irritated skin commonly found with atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, icthyosis (dry scaly skin) or rosacea
- For post-procedure MBR helps soothe and repair skin barrier damaged by chemical peels, microdermabrasion, laser skin resurfacing, IPL, mesotherapy & micro-needling
OPTIONAL - Combine Moisturizer with Q-SkinScience Serum C to give you an antioxidant boost, which will help to revive your dry skin.
Q-SkinScience Serum C is a light topical serum containing Vitamin C (12%) and Cucumber Extract (28.1%). Both ingredients work in synergy to improve skin tone, elasticity and a reduction in the appearance of pores. Serum C was developed utilizing a special, patent pending process that reduces water content, thus minimizing oxidation and degradation of the formula. This process provides for the maximum potency and effectiveness of the topical Vitamin C utilized in the formulation, the most effective form available today, pure L-Ascorbic Acid.
Results Backed By Science:Our skin is exposed on a daily basis to environmental assaults from many sources such as the UV radiation from sunlight as well as from man-made light sources, cigarette smoke and air pollution, all of which cause oxyradicals to form in the skin. These oxyradicals attack the skin's collagen layer and break it down, causing lines and wrinkles to appear; the process commonly referred to as photo-aging. Clinical studies show that topical application of certain antioxidants, such as Vitamin C in the form of L-Ascorbic Acid can help prevent photo-aging in skin and provides many other essential benefits to the skin such as:
- Protection against UV light radiation induced free radical damage.
- Stimulates collagen production improving skin tone and elasticity.
- Helps control inflammation.
- Promotes wound healing.
- Reduces erythema (redness).
- Protection against UV light-induced immunosuppression.
Remember, the benefits of Serum C should not be limited to just the face. It is especially recommended that a few drops of Serum C be applied directly to those areas of the body exposed to Ultraviolet light, such as the neck and upper chest areas and the hands and arms, prior to applying your daily sunscreen, in order to help combat sunlight induced photo-aging. Serum C should also be applied to the entire body by mixing several drops with your favorite body lotion.
Step Four – Apply Q-Strixin Facial Formula
Q-Strixin Facial Formula quickly penetrates the skin helping stimulate and support cell renewal. It helps improve facial skin tone and texture, reduces fine lines and wrinkles and improves the appearance of discoloration associated with sun damaged skin. Your skin will have a smoother, more youthful appearance. Q-Strixin Facial Formula may be applied in the morning before make-up or sunscreen and again at nighttime for added anti-aging benefits.
Step Five - Apply Q-Sunshade Mineral Antiaging Sunscreen, or Q-Sunshade Tinted Sunscreen
Q-Sunshade SPF 30 UVA/UVB Mineral Sunscreen is a transparent, broad-spectrum, chemical-free and mineral based so you don't have to worry about chemical filters that can be irritating to those with dry and sensitive skin. This non-comedogenic, hypo-allergenic & fragrance-free formula helps keep skin protected & healthy with antioxidants & peptides and is suitable for all skin types.
Q-Sunshade Tinted Sunscreen comes in 3 convenient shades Light/Medium and Dark & also our new Mineral Anti-Aging, Chemical-Free Untinted formula to blend with all skin types.
Advanced technology allows for maximum SPF protection with only about half of the sunscreen active ingredients of comparable products, providing for a lighter, more natural formulation, with less chance of irritation of dry and sensitive skin
NIGHT TIME ROUTINE
Repeat steps one and two from the daytime routine
Step Three - Apply Phyto-Active Eye Gel
Q-SkinScience Phyto-Active Eye Gel quickly penetrates the skin helping support cell renewal. Its scientifically advanced Swiss Biotechnology formula utilizes an extract derived from the stem cells of a rare apple tree cultivated for its extraordinary longevity to promote a youthful and rejuvenated appearance. It also utilizes a proprietary Anhydrous or water free technology that permits a preservative free formulation, under-eye dark circles and puffiness under the eyes.
Product Attributes:- Improves skin tone & texture in the delicate eye area
- Reduces appearance of eye area fine lines and wrinkles
- Reduces the appearance of under-eye dark circles
- Reduces the appearance of puffiness under the eyes
- Powerful antioxidant protection
- Natural anti-inflammatory and anti-irritant agents
Step Four – Apply Q-Strixin Facial Formula
Q-Strixin Facial Formula possesses the same key potent ingredients as the original Q-Strixin Micro-Active Emulsion in a lighter moisturizing base that may be used on more delicate, fragile or sensitive skin types. It has also been reinforced with a third peptide called Acetyl Hexapeptide-3 , the wrinkle relaxing or so called botox like peptide that further aides in skin tightening.
Q-Strixin Facial Formula quickly penetrates the skin helping stimulate and support cell renewal. It helps improve facial skin tone and texture, reduces fine lines and wrinkles and improves the appearance of discoloration associated with sun damaged skin. Your skin will have a smoother, more youthful appearance. Q-Strixin Facial Formula may be applied in the morning before make-up or sunscreen and again at nighttime for added anti-aging benefits.