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ABOUT US
Mission statement:
Our purpose is to raise our client’s opinion of
themselves by improving their looks through the use and
application of the best and latest medical aesthetics
available. We pledge to make their care and satisfaction
our number one priority.
Valerie Wright
Licensed Clinical Aesthetician
Founding Director of Desert Skin Apeel
Licensed to practice:
Valerie has been practicing these services in the Palm
Desert and the La Quinta communities for over 13 years.
Since 2006 she has been an integral part of the Dr. Lynn
and Dr. Allan practices in La Quinta.
SKIN
The largest and heaviest
organ of the body is the skin. Covering the body it
consists of a superficial layer of thin epithelial
tissue and a deeper thicker layer of connective tissue
anchored to the subcutaneous layer to keep it in place.
This largest organ of a
normal body weighs in at ten to eleven pounds and will
cover approximately twenty two square feet. Although we
primarily think of the skin as a protective coat against
micro organisms in our environment it serves many more
functions.
Some of these functions are
regulating our body temperature through sweating or
shivering, telling us if there is something touching us,
if the pressure is painful, hot or cold, eliminating
toxins, helping with immunity, acting as a blood
reservoir containing approximately eight to ten percent
of our body blood, and synthesizing vitamin D when
exposed to UV rays from the sun.
All these functions of the
skin certainly warrant our attention as they keep the
health of our body. Not only will our skin keep us
healthy, healthy skin will keep us looking healthy.
Estheticians focus on skin care to keep our skin smooth
and wrinkle free. Among some of the treatments we find
that they commonly do are facials, skin peels, remove
unwanted hair, mud baths, and use aromatherapy.
These treatments are
becoming more popular and these services can be
experienced at most beauty spas, hair salons, resorts
and cruise ships. These treatments are relaxing,
therapeutic, and leave the skin feeling clean and soft.
The client receiving the treatment feels very relaxed
and refreshed, as well as feeling good about themselves.
Many estheticians expand their basic schooling to
aesthetic practitioner, make up artist, and cosmetic
tattooist. In today’s world of advancing technologies
the estheticians have available to them skin scanners
that can help analyze the skin and aid in designing a
treatment regimen.
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