The Corneotherapy Consultant™
Reimagining functional skin health with True Corneotherapy.
12/11/2025
I read a quote in an article that said microdermabrasion ‘𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨’ the skin.
What are we, a piece of wood? 🤨
Needless to say, microdermabrasion is not corneotherapeutic.
The precious epidermis will have a much better chance of doing its job, if we don’t scratch or ‘sand’ it off. Not surprising really!
It’s time to stop breaking the skin to mend the skin, and while we’re about it, perhaps it’s time to remove microdermabrasion from the curriculum.
It does not serve the skin.
What are your thoughts?
Maria ✨
05/11/2025
I’ve been in this industry a long time, and I could tell you a story or two.
Back in the day, I worked in Henley on Thames, where many a high-profile client would visit the salon.
My boss was very much impressed by status and would regularly cancel or move our regular and loyal clients to have a celebrity or duchess frequent her establishment.
They were often late, demanding, had abysmal manners and to top it all were often given a freebie.
She didn’t seem to care that she was rewarding the wrong people and ostracising her bread and butter. But it fed her ego, I guess!
To me, Cleaner or Queen of Sheba, the experience should be same. All our clients should be made to feel special.
How about you, how do you like your clients to feel?
Maria x
30/10/2025
Controversial POV: In clinic treatment is not the priority when advising your client.
As corneotherapists our aim is to improve the health and vitality of our clients skin right?
Right!
But in order to do this we have to embed and build on the right foundations.
If they eat McDonald’s everyday, are stressed and sun-worship for example, skin health will always be a stretch, irrespective of what we do.
Therefore the lifestyle of our client should always be their biggest consideration and it’s our job to guide them towards the right choices.
A functional, corneotherapeutic approach to skin health may not offer your clients a quick fix, but the good things in life always take time to nurture!
Who agrees?
Maria x
27/10/2025
The difference between guessing and knowing is education.
Corneotherapist’s shut out the noise a long time ago, choosing to focus on the facts about skin function.
Are you ready to empower yourself too?
Comment 𝙎𝙠𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 now and I’ll open your eyes to a whole new way of considering skin.
Maria ✨
20/10/2025
GLASS SKIN IS NOT HEALTHY SKIN!
Glass skin originated in Korea, encouraging the adoption of multiple skincare steps (sometimes 12 or more) to create smooth, clear, translucent skin.
Whilst it could be considered a great marketing coup, as people lined up to buy an abundance of products, the practice could never be corneotherapuetic for many reasons, but primarily because it unnecessarily overworks the skin.
The skin may look and feel great initially, but not for long! As I’m sure all those influencers have since discovered.
Yet sadly that’s not the worst of it…
Glass skin has now been taken to a whole ‘other’ level and when corneotherapist’s see it, a little piece of us dies inside, because we know the truth.
There are Skin Therapists who are unashamedly using ablative and aggressive in-clinic treatments in combination to create so called glowing, smooth and healthy skin and to further enhance the fallacy, they slather on oil and shine a mag lamp over the top.
It’s all smoke and mirrors, and it’s just horrendous for the skin.
That bright red, glowing skin is not healthy skin it’s inflammation.
That shiny, smooth skin is not healthy skin either it’s an epidermis in crisis. Its natural defences wiped out in the name of vanity.
Believe me skin health is not achieved by forcing the skin into submission. It is achieved by understanding why the skin is misbehaving in the first place.
Corneotherapists care about skin and supporting its natural function is our priority.
So what are your thoughts on glass skin?
Maria x
16/10/2025
I simply love to watch others FLOURISH.
Thank you for trusting me to mentor you on your journey and thank you for sharing your experience thus far. It’s an absolute pleasure to work with you. I truly wish the industry was filled with more drive and dedication like yours.
Maria 💫
14/10/2025
Here’s one of my sayings that I’ve lived and died by as a skin therapist and one that sums up corneotherapy in nutshell.
Who hasn’t had a client who thought the answer to their flaky, rough, dehydrated skin was to relentlessly exfoliate! Trapping them in a viscous cycle of symptoms that were misunderstood.
Do you have any sayings of your own?
Maria x
09/10/2025
Thank you for printing this in the latest Vitality magazine. It was a lovely surprise when I picked up my copy. This industry has given me such a wonderful career and I couldn’t be prouder to be part of The International Association for Applied Corneotherapy team.
Please do come and learn more about us as an association.
You can follow us on Instagram or you can head to our website. You’ll find the link in bio.
Maria 💫
08/10/2025
You can invest in every new technology and brand on the market, but without knowledge, it means nothing.
Knowledge is your greatest power. It gives you confidence, authority and the ability to think critically about the skin in front of you.
When you invest in understanding why the skin behaves as it does, you elevate not just your results, but the standards of our entire industry.
Own your power!
Epidermal Skin Health – A Corneotherapist’s Essential Guide is a great foundation for that understanding.
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In the beauty industry there is a growing trend towards more advanced treatments. As an aesthetician with a keen interest in skin function and skincare it too is a direction I have followed. However, your skin health has and always will be at the forefront of the treatments I offer and those I will actually perform on you!
Your skin has a barrier for a reason, it is, its natural defence and quite frankly and in my opinion this trend to throw everything at a skin in one hit overworks it leaving it overly compromised!!
As a professional I will not be led by you! I will only guide you towards the advanced arena, if I think it will be of benefit to your skin.
A gentle, less is more approach is my preferred methodology and realistically managing your expectations is key.
Having been in this industry for 30 years many beauty fads have come and gone....and generally if it seems to good to be true, it usually is!
With every treatment I offer I consider it’s efficacy. It needs to sit well with my personal and business ethics and I make sure I am suitably qualified and insured to deliver it to you!
There are no quick fixes with me, we will look at you, your skin and your lifestyle as a whole in a bid to take you on a journey to strong, healthy skin.
If my philosophy resonates with you, let's work together. I look forward to seeing you soon..
