ruth i learned a lot over the past month or so but one of the key things that i learned at both skin is that our skin is supple sixteen percent of our body weight huge sixteen percent of our body weight welcome to discover a new future a show geared at empowering women to be the best versions of themselves i'm your host faith saunders today we're going to be talking about skin care specifically how to care for skin as we spring into summer and that's just a play on words here but my guest today is a skin care expert and i learned a lot over the past month speaking to her and i also did some research on my own and before and to do some i guess i'd like to share with you some interesting facts that i phone with a boat skin the first thing i learnt was that sixty percent of our body sixty percent of our body weight is skitt that's that's that's huge and i also learned that eighteen point five square feet of our body our skin cover eighteen point five square feet that's a lot of our entire body so i won't go into the o and maybe i put them in a little bit later but i'm really excited to start speaking to ruth and to hear a little bit here a little bit more a ball with this whole phenomena of skin something that we take for granted so often so rule with without any further ado i want to and she said certified and licensed care specialist i just wanted to make sure that i said it right and talking about someone who knows about skin we have an expert here i had the pleasure of going t for one thing i thought that all skin is the same skin so let's even start there is all skin the same skin in terms of all parts of our body let me talk to about face what a pleasure by the way to be here thank you very much i know it's that and that's a good question and you have some great statistics there as well but our body skin is different than skin her facial skin demand something a little bit different so the peach for the face generally about a five point seven in her body skin is a different ph which can handle different products ok so not all products are created the same as you and i discuss and so body products go in the body and  products are designed for the face for that reason well more sensitivity in the skin for instance i'm glad that i found that out because i'm going to share my secret i was just taking lotion and just put it on my face but  hard did you get into a little bit about yourself and how you get out here doing this wonderful work yeah so i actually was in a retail business and morristown and someone kind of sought me out a little bit and said you know you'd really be good in skincare she had a little studio there so she said they are going to separate the cosmetologist from the skin care specialist you don't want me to do your hair so it's going to be better for me so she said you present yourself well and i thought well ok this is good and i got into it at the right time and life in my thirty's so i was a little bit more open to listen to about what's going care would be about so i went through schooling and was mentor by her and then i moved on to the spine and st eventually the medical industry working for plastic surgeons locally here in princeton plains world and west orange was my last we're able to work off one another and if you like that type of setting that's the place for special treatment that's really the place for you if a person likes the spa setting this may not be their little niche but it's very cosy believe me ye i love it so you're just journey into this career path as taking domania pass i can see now you're an entrepreneur but initially working in the medical field and so forth so in terms of working in the medical field what were some of the things that you you do in terms of educating people about yeah the medical field is quite interesting you learn so much i mean i don't i can't count on one hand certainly on to even how many seminars that i've been to  the people that i've met the doors that i've opened as a result and just the different skincare lines that you learn about along the way and the shows that you would tell and with the different vendors just really a phenomenal thing so the difference really in a spa setting and a doctor setting is the product line and that you're working on a little bit more of the serious tone chemical peels may be a little bit stronger  in the same scan so that's one thing but i've heard people talk about normal dry skin and i'm like how do you really figure that out what so could you kind of just and lightning and so that we can have a better understanding of what what what we're talking about here so when i meet with a person as you well gathered they fill out a form and then when they lay down on the band be able to assess the skin but more importantly i feel the skin and that usually the poor's which each one is designed for that so for instance i have dry skin so i am going to need something that's going to hydrate my skin as opposed to someone coming nations can they really have that well right to their skin that's good to know yeah so so good to know point even confusing what we really need and so in terms of transitioning from say spring because we have all these different seasons is there any special skin cure protocol that we need to follow for you know as we get going to different seasons or just broadly and then we'll talk about the spring into the yeah when each season as a different thing if you will or condition perhaps to her skin from her winter into spring you have perhaps a lot of dryness from the winter cold weather from the heat and so will have experienced more dryness  mindful of well i always encourage and i think we discussed that we were together encourage good skin care home so that's why i like to review skincare with people when when we're together and making sure that they're using their products the right way and that's helpful because you may have different products and you have no idea what they're useful for until we've reviewed them in your leg up well that's what that's for right so from spring to summer a lot of again a dryness to the skin and people again with allergies may be experiencing sensitivity to the skin and so on what i really encourage faith is drinking a lot of water and that's a real issue because a lot of people don't like to drink water salt and it's kind of yeah negates what we're trying to do with water ok can't can't you know what are some water we need to drink it for like you mentioned how much water or how much skin we have much water we need our so in terms of water we say or drink water but how much water is adequate or it varies well i just spoke to a friend the other day who happens to be a nurse and i think there are probably all sorts of formulas but the formula she gave me which i think was the to take in as much as we and i'm guilty of it times too so well that's interesting yeah so take your half whatever your weight is and then take half of that and that's what you're supposed to be drinking in terms of water ok that's interesting so what else do we need to do intake so we drink water drinking water at least half of our body of water each day we help with our scan but what else do we need to do as we move into this the warm weather so we want to be sure that our products are proper for that particular have combination skin for instance in the winter months i may have needed something a little bit more nourishing for the skin to keep it moist now when the summer time comes in i don't need that so for combination skin to oily skin is quite helpful for blocking the sun and for the skin and always follow the instructions you know i love when people say oh i put it on this morning and i still got burned i said well did you reapply it no they didn't so yeah so that's really that's not tell proof so you do need to reply by the way that's interesting because i'm one of those people with being guilty of that and that just putting him on on and i think also for people of color i say you know sometimes we feel i felt that i really didn't need a sun block because you can well ye skin usually is very sensitive in that area so say if it was on the nose like i said you had a burn years ago then you and i go how did you know them because there's still a sensitivity there there might be some bertus in the skin that's left behind  seminar and they were talking about the s p f and certain blocking factors such as your titanium dioxide as i mentioned before it's really the time how much you put it on or how long you put it on for so if the if it's a thirty for instance and it says you can be exposed to the sun for one hour then you need to reapply it's really been following the instructions and it's kind of monitoring a certain time period as to when you should reapply and you know if we're going from work to you know home to work we're still going to suppose you're in the car i think that's what a lot of people forget you know there are windows in our car  maybe that's next thank you maybe on to something there but you know what's interesting sometimes people said in the winter you need to have protection is that true well yes and no again it depends on where you live but here in new jersey you're still going to get a certain amount of sun we don't need the vitamin d you know naturally it's good to get them but if where else side for instance if we worked outside in a sun block would be important which is something that's found in the pineapple you just want to break down that dry did so again because even in the summertime you know we get that dry did skin from the sun from the sun damage so whether we're you know know on their skin those are things that certainly can be discussed with each individual that i deal with and certainly facials and even in summer time are very helpful to the skin looking healthy so is there any sp special way to actually like when you're doing one of those acts putting on the the mask or whatever you're putting on exhilaration right is there any special for way to put it on our to rub it in our i'm just curious i'm just going to buy ok i mix mine with my cleanser so i just put it on and i give myself a little rope down you know nothing too serious so hard not too harsh and some people feel like they have to really and the tone is very important what the tone or do you know good good question faith of the toners helpful after you reach your skin specially at night if you were makeup very important the tone or you put on a little cotton pattern and it could you know kind of the well for the body this is where it kind of differentiates ok for it so for the body after being a person could use baby oil coconut oil is very very good for the body a lot of people say they're using it on their face but they could cause some congestion to the poor black kids could result or even some breakouts could happen so the body products for the body and then facial products for the face but i would go through and i do that generally with people go through their products and see what's in them that's what was redeeming for their skin and again it's all about nourishment petroleum will just sit on top of the skin it's not going to again it's a protection it really doesn't you know the molecules are not small and right to nourish that skin really has to do about it all about chemistry and in the world of the cosmos who can well tell us a little bit about all  i've known heather for many years so i went to her and i said what do you think about possibly me joining you here is there room for me here and what a perfect set up if you if you will  priests and an official list so she said well come and check it out because what's what's the worst that's going to happen is i was just going to say no it's ok wait another time so i went and i said this is perfect my room's got a sink in her room doesn't it's all good and she says well there's another person involved so check with her so was all we all agreed that this would be a perfect fit so although she has her own business i have mine it's a nice fit  can't tell you ok so i just recently obtained a paraffin paraffin wax pot and it's a wonderful therapy special people the earth right as people are having a lot of difficulties in the winter months with dryness of their skin so if you remember it's full you did your skin years your hands and then you rinsed it off and then you just put your hands in the hot paraffin and then you sit and warm it for about five five ten fifteen minutes viewers and why well skin is the most amazing organ his you've just indicated our bodies are amazingly made and we want to take care of it because this is exposed most take care of your so i was a real pleasure speaking with you thank you for anything i'm so glad that we had a chance to actually speak and to really educate our viewers about how to take care of this scandal during a special in the summer months because we're all on the go we don't want to be inside so so with this in mind i just want to say to my view is that take care of yourself cantin you think positive again thank you for being here thank you for you have a good day