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Let's take a quick break. I want to tell you about today's sponsor who is so super relevant to any estheticians out there that want to make their business more modern, more convenient and easy to access for your customer and really take your retail to the next level while reducing your overhead costs. So I have been partnered with Pomp Beauty since the very early days in my business, and although I didn't know it at the time, partnering with Pompeo was one of the best decisions I ever made in business. It was a total game changer for me. It gave me access to such a wider selection of curated professional products that I wouldn't be able to retail to my clients without the hassle of holding inventory. And if you feel like, you know, I think my business could be more profitable, I'm working so hard, but I'm just not seeing that profit. A big part of that for estheticians is often overstocking retail. And we think by just having more and stalking more and taking on more burden, we are going to be providing a better experience for your client. And that's really not the case. A lot of people get overwhelmed when they walk into a spa and they just see rows and rows and rows of inventory. It's overwhelming. It starts to collect dust. And if you are needing to stock all of that inventory and not seeing a profit until you make a physical.

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Sale.

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You are not optimizing your business. Pomp has streamlined my retail process and elevated the experience and the care I provide. Trust me, your clients appreciate having an easy way to access the products that you recommend to them online. And it is a benefit to them when they can shop in one place for all of these incredible lines, but also feel like they're never getting bored with your retail selection because Pomp is always bringing on the best of the best. I'm talking Jan Marini, Hydrinity Color Science Glymed Face Reality all of the incredible brands that we SDS talk and rave about, but without needing to stock inventory yourself. I cannot recommend Pomp enough and it is so easy to get started. Don't be intimidated. You just go to pompbeauty.com, create your account, import your clients and you can start recommending skincare and then earning 30% commission on your sales. I worked with the Pomp team and we have a exclusive offer for you. They've never done anything this generous. They're giving away a $75 product credit after you create your that you can use towards any products you have been wanting to try. You can use the link in the show notes or just type the treatment room in where you heard about Palm.

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Next, I am dying to get into some of the science, the clinical data, the technology behind SafeGlaze and what makes it unique and more than a moisturizer. I really mean it when I say that. So. So let's highlight one of the superstar ingredients that I really think makes this formula, which is a peptide called acetyl hexapeptide 8. And let's first just to take it back to the basics, talk about what peptides are. I'm sure you've heard about peptides in skincare. They're also currently revolutionizing the healthcare space. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. You can think of them as tiny little messengers that tell your skin how to behave. Acetyl hexapeptide 8 has a very cool and unique job of helping your skin relax and look smoother. And it was so cool to find that although this is the main mechanism of this peptide, there are also sort of a bunch of like ripple effects that really hit on my clients main concerns. So acetyl hexapeptide 8 is known as the chill peptide. And it isn't just a classic anti aging peptide, it's actually a neurotransmitter peptide, which means it works a little differently than some of the classic anti aging peptides. Again, its main job is relaxing the skin and more specifically relaxing micro contractions under the skin. These are tiny muscle movements from facial expression that can lead to fine lines over time. So as we make more expressions and talk or move our eyes, of course this can create fine lines around the lips, around the eyes, around the forehead, and there's nothing wrong with that, but we do want to preserve the integrity of the skin. And so by calming these little tiny muscle contractions, this in turn helps to soften expression lines. So mechanically it is mimicking part of a protein called SNAP25 which interferes with neurotransmitter release. And so in plain English, the muscles that etch lines are less intense when we soften these contractions so your skin looks smoother. And although it's not technically an anti inflammatory class of peptides, by reducing stress in the skin, this can also make the skin look calmer, more balanced, and overall just help your face look less tense. So key takeaway is, is that acetyl hexapeptide A is line relaxing. It helps to chill out these muscle contractions and provides the skin with a smoothing effect. Next, let's talk about how this peptide reactivates your skin. So this is where it gets really cool. Acetyl hexapeptide 8 also activates your skin's own natural renewal system. So over time, this treatment can help to reprogram your skin in the right way. And it does that by influencing a tiny molecule called micro RNA 145. You can think of micro RNAs as little switches inside your cells that control how they behave. We have basal cells, the factory cells in the bottom layer of your skin that produce new skin cells. So by Nudging this micro RNA switch, acetyl hexapeptide 8 helps these basal cells to behave in a younger manner. In other words, your skin starts to regenerate more efficiently. Skin renewal speeds up, elasticity improves, and the skin looks fresher and more vibrant. It is like flipping a you switch inside your skin. And although this doesn't happen overnight, with repeat treatment, you start to see more and more results. Next, rejuvenating skin behavior. So studies show that skin treated with acetyl hexapeptide 8 behaved between 13 to 17 years younger. But what does that really mean? Your skin isn't literally just de age by using this treatment, but on a cellular level, it actually mimics that of younger skin. Collagen production is more active, cell turnover is healthier, and the skin surface looks smoother. You have probably seen those Instagram charts about how over time your cell turnover slows down. As a baby, it's super fast and rapid and as we age, this slows and overall your skin starts to just look a little bit more dull and looks a little bit more age. So this peptide helps skin to look resilient, balanced and radiant, like it is actually operating in younger mode. Finally, a really cool finding about this peptide, although it wasn't the original mechanism of action, is that clinical volunteers reported up to a 41% decrease in skin roughness and a noticeable boost in radiance after just 56 days of consistent use. So in simple terms, this peptide helps to calm the skin, soften lines, improve the barrier, and provides a radiant glow even without any type of exfoliation. So we love acetyl hexapeptide 8. Again, you can think line relaxing. It helps to soften exfoliating expression lines by reducing those micro contractions that really etch lines into the skin over time. You can think youthful skin behavior. Basal cells are acting younger, and the skin is improving its renewal rate even without exfoliation or retinoids, which you could use in conjunction with this treatment. And lastly, calm radiant skin by reducing tension in the skin. You also help to smooth texture and improve luminosity. And I did promise I would touch on the name safeglaze. So for some reason, I love putting a hyphen in my names. It's just a little pattern that is repeated with all of my product names, which I do think of all on my own. Basically, how I do this is I think about the benefits of the treatment and I start writing down adjectives in a notebook. And I will do this for days, sometimes weeks, and keep saying these adjectives, keep thinking of alliteration or sounds that complements the first sound. So Safe Place kind of rhymes. Or I just want it to have an element of rolling off the tongue. And so with Safe Glaze, I wanted to emphasize that it's acne safe. And then secondly, I just really wanted to speak to the consistency and how it was going to wear for the consumer. So I thought of glace, which is a little bit of a made up term derived from, you know, glacial, that kind of vibe. And I just feel like when it comes to moisturizing treatments, you hear the same types of names over and over again, like barrier treatment or Dewy Glowy. I feel when adjectives are used over and over and over, they start to lose meaning. And. And it just becomes a cliche to the customer. It's not something new that resonates anymore. And so I really wanted to almost create a new term like us glazing ourselves, which implies, you know, glowy dewy, just setting that foundation for flawless glass skin and really just speak to the effect. I know a lot of the girlies are looking for when they do their makeup. So safeglaze. And it was just something I know no other brand has and something that would make my brand more memorable. So I really value uniqueness when it comes to names. I'll say that for sure. And then finally, how does Safeglaze fit into your routine? So of Course, this would be your moisturizing step. Ideally I would have you using it both morning and night to get more cumulative benefits. And so just to really break it down, you always want to start with cleansing. I mean I am an advocate for cleansing in the morning and then cleansing in the night. So in the morning time you will cleanse your skin. If you're using my cleansers, you would choose either undo or low foam. You do not need to double cleanse in the morning. You would pick one. Also fun fact, you can actually combine these cleansers. So you could do two pumps of undo, two pumps of low foam, cocktail that together. I actually really love this as a sort of pre fall cleanser or a cleanser that's kind of in between a cream cleanser and a gel cleanser. So you cleanse your skin for a full minute, then you are going to follow with your treatment steps. This could be using toner or going straight into serums such as Complex. Then and I will also add to that. You can use vitamin C. You could use what whatever daytime treatments or serums you normally use. It's not going to interfere with any exfoliating treatments if you do do that in the morning and then follow with your eye treatment. So I would recommend multi applying that to the eye area. Next would be your moisturizing step. So that's where safe Glaze would go. I wanted to mention one of the unique elements of this treatment is the packaging. Feedback I heard over and over again was that you don't want to dig your fingers into jars. So I knew and this also took a lot of time to find aesthetic airless packaging. Not as easy as I thought. But this way we do not introduce new bacteria to the product, which I don't think is the the biggest deal if you have a product that is a jar that you dip your fingers into. But I just heard this was more and more of a need and something customers are looking for. And so I always want to get ahead of those trends. So one pump of Safeglaze is your perfect treatment amount. So you don't have to guess how much product to use if you're treating the neck and the chest and the decollete, which I do recommend you use Safeglaze to treat these areas because we want our face to match our neck and not have the face look dramatically younger than the neck and chest. In that case, you could do two pumps of Safeglaze for face, neck and chest. This is not a sunscreen, so you do need to apply your sunscreen after safeglaze, you don't necessarily have to wait in between steps, but just apply the treatment and allow it to absorb before you move on to sunscreen. And so that's your daytime routine. In the evening time, this is when ideally you will double cleanse. I recommend using undo on dry skin for a full minute, rinse that off followed by low foam. For low foam, you really want to get your hands wet. I don't know if I emphasize this enough, but you really want wet hands for low foam and you want to rub the gel cleanser vigorously in your hands. It should look like ocean froth, like it should look really frothy. And to get this product more foamy, add more water, not necessarily more soap. This is how you really activate the suds in the cleanser and get better cleansing action. So you will cleanse with low foam as your second cleanse for a full minute, rinse thoroughly and then just like the morning time, you will follow with your treatment steps. So toner and serums. You can use your retinoids, you can use your glycolic acid.

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Eczema isn't always obvious, but it's real. And so is the relief from EBGLIS. After an initial dosing phase. About 44 in 10 people taking EBGLIS achieved itch relief and clear or almost clear skin at 16 weeks. And most of those people maintain skin that's still more clear at one year with monthly dosing.

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EBGLIS Librekizumab LBKZ a 250mg per 2ml injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema, also called atopic dermatitis, that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topic topical therapies. EBGLIS can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you're allergic to ebglis. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. Eye problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with Epglis. Before starting Epglis, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection searching for real relief?

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Ask your doctor about ebglis and visit epglis.lily.com or call 1-800-lilyrx or 1-800-545-5979 abercrombie.

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