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Monday 9:30am - 6pm Tuesday 9:30am - 6pm Wednesday 9:30am - 6pm Thursday 9:30am - 6pm Friday 9:30am - 4pm Saturday 9:30am - 2pm

Skin Theory

The first step to healthy, glowing skin is to believe you are worth it. 🫶

01/26/2026

8 weeks difference. Even in most extreme cold temps your skin can go from rosacea flaring, red, dry and irritated to healthy, hydrated and even toned.

This client showed signs of barrier impairment. No matter how much moisturizer she out on her skin it didn’t help. Why?

👉 Her skin needed more than just a moisturizer. We needed to address dehydration and optimize essential nutrients needed ti repair and get back her skin health.

👉 Dry skin lacks oil.
👉Dehydrated skin lacks water.

In this case she had both dry skin and dehydrated skin leading to chronic inflammation.

💦 You can have dry skin and be dehydrated
💦 You can have oily skin and be dehydrated.
💦 You can have normal skin and be dehydrated.

This is where most clients need help with identifying the issues causing their concerns. They need a plan. If you are dehydrated no amount of moisture will help if you don’t have water 💧 in the skin for the moisture to lock in.

Signs of dehydration: premature fine lines and wrinkles, sudden worsening of wrinkles, tight “dry” feeling skin, skin begin to look more oily especially in tzone, rosace gets worse, breakouts worsen. Increased sensitivity.

For Dehydration:
Your skin requires water binding ingredients that draw moisture into the skin and support barrier function.
That is where we love layering in hydration such as Epicutis Lipid Serum or PCA Hyaluronic Acid Boosting Seem with Mixi Plus Hydrating Toner

Signs of Dry Skin: pores barely visible, year round/ a skin type

For Dry Skin:
Your skin needs essential lipids. Essential lipids not only help strengthen and rebuild the skin barrier, they help seal in water reducing transepidermal water loss a major contributor to worsening of redness and rosacea. They also help cell membranes function better, optimizing receptors that promote collagen production.
We love Neogenesis Barrier Renewal Cream and Osmosis Nourish Face Oil
Both nourish dry skin in essential lipids and seal in hydration.

If your moisturizer isn’t helping, working with a specialist can help you figure out what your skin needs.

01/23/2026

Winter skin can make breakouts worse and just make all conditions including wrinkles look worse. — The good news?

It can be fixed to bring back a healthy, smoother, natural glow even in the coldest of temperatures! ❄️

Save this as your winter skin reset

01/02/2026

Same skin, different chapter. Before: combination both oily and dry, acne break outs and congested skin. 😡 After: clear, smooth, balanced, hydrated and glowing. ✨

In place of strong and aggressive that caused lots of stopping and discontinuation, we went lower and consistent. 🫶

12/24/2025

All is calm, all is bright. ✨ Merry Christmas Glen Ellyn. We have been booked solid for weeks and happy to be part of helping you look and feel your best. Our little store and spa is closed December 24th and 25th. Back on December 26th! 🎁

12/15/2025

Breaking out? It’s probably NOT what you think…

Comment “LINK” for help. 👇

10/22/2025

From acne and barrier impairment to glowing, hydrated, clear skin ✨ — this is what consistency and the right care can do!

So proud of this client’s transformation. 💥 Your skin story can change too. 💫

Comment LINK for details ✨

06/03/2025

She just got married with the best skin of her life! 💍 This is really tricky acne, a combination of both inflammatory acne and comedonal acne in the very hormanslly-driven mouth and jaw area. Dealing with hormonal acne? Comment “COMBO ACNE” for a link to her protocol and every product she uses to get clear and keep clear. ✨✨✨

05/05/2025

Want to know our secret to clearing skin?

✨ Step #1: Get a Full Consultation. One of the biggest, most important parts of clearing is a consultation. For us, we evaluate a clients skin, get a baseline count of inflammatory lesions and amount of acne comedones and note any other conditions along with skin type, history of sensitivity, allergies, reactions, what they have tried, what’s made a client worse. Taking the time to play detective and really understand all the parts is essential to clearing success.

For this client, he flew in to see us after 5 doctors weren’t able to help him. He tried lasers (???), retinoids, accutane. Having his history, evaluating his skin, spending time uncovering everything was the most important step to clearing him.

✨ Step #2: Implement a plan for clearing addressing the main concerns and what the skin needs.

For this client we got him clear in 6 months by addressing his inflammation in multiple ways which in this case was the following:

➡️ We changed his shaving habits, moving to single blade disposable razors to reduce open cuts and abrasions.

➡️ We started him on Restorative Serum to keep his compromised skin barrier supported and accelerate healing.

➡️ We had him use our exclusive benzoyl peroxide with sulfur to reduce inflammation and support clearing and prevention of both acne and future staph.

✨ Step #3: Start customized targeted treatments once skin is preconditioned and ready to avoid irritation and purging. With acne we start treatments after 2 weeks of pre-conditioning and then begin using enzymes and then peels to bring back healthy, glowing skin.

Click follow to get more of our acne tips. 😉

05/01/2025

After seeing 4 dermatologists over a couple years she found us. ✨ In just 2 weeks we transformed her skin with carefully selected skincare and . No more redness or irritation. 🌷

09/27/2024

The secret to figuring out if you have acne or fungal acne. 💡

Acne and fungal acne have different symptoms and characteristics but they can be present at the same time.

Before thinking you may have fungal acne, there are considerations to take into account. Swipe through to see how we determine fungal acne and our recommendations. We love Urea Water Cream at the start to help build barrier while also clearing your skin. 🍃

In need of help? Schedule a virtual or in-person acne client consultation with our talented team of acne clearing estheticians.😉

09/26/2024

Serving results. Last year this client was struggling to clear his inflammatory acne and bumpy comedonal acne that caused texture issues.

We modified his routine to fit his lifestyle and had him in for bi-weekly acne program peels. In place now is smooth, balanced skin. ✨

Holistic clearing requires patience and dedication but the results speak for themselves. 🍃

09/10/2024

The RIGHT product can do wonders for your skin. 🫶

This cutie has dealt with acne her entire adult life. In just 5 months of in-clinic acne program we not only helped clear her acne but the scarring as well.

Not sure what to use? Does everything make your skin worse?

Book our 12 week Acne Program Consultation to help you clear your skin. ✨

Address

520 Hillside Avenue
Glen Ellyn, IL

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 6pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 6pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 6pm
Thursday	9:30am - 6pm
Friday	9:30am - 4pm
Saturday	9:30am - 2pm

Telephone

+16304886334

Website

http://www.skintheoryspa.com/

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