By Elizabeth Hall

You Are What You Eat: Organic Salad Ingredients for Your Skin

It is amazing how many traditional salad ingredients are making their way into skin care products. Why use a harsh skin cream or treatment when there are naturally farmed organic remedies that offer non-invasive healing properties and general well-being? Vegetables offer a rich natural source of nutrients that are easily absorbed into the skin.

Ingredients such as olives and olive oil have been used for centuries as a means to obtain more youthful skin. Olives are rich in vitamin E, which protects the skin against free radial damage. When taken internally or used externally, olive oil is also anti-inflammatory thus protecting the skin and body both inside and out.

Tomatoes and carrots are rich in antioxidants and help fight against cell damage and other environmental stresses that can take a toll on your skin and body. Tomatoes, packed full of vitamins A and C as well as lycopene, help to maintain moisture, reduce inflammation and protect against and heal skin damaged by the sun.

Avocados, which contain fatty acids and are rich in vitamins B, C, E and K, also aid in heeling skin damaged from sun exposure. Products containing avocado are absorbed evenly and smoothly into skin, helping to sooth red or blotchy irritated skin.

Lettuce and cucumbers are both extremely effective ingredients in organic eye treatments. They help to reduce puffiness and dark circles without harsh invasive chemicals. Additionally, chlorophyll, a holistic ingredient known for creating healthy looking skin, and found in rich dark green lettuce helps to diminish signs of aging.

The daily consumption of vegetables is essential way to provide your body with the vitamins and nutrients it needs, both topically and internally. Dark and richly colored vegetables are full of antioxidants that keep free radicals at bay and promote balance, beauty in body and skin.

For the best organic skin care products look for and order them on our online store and save 10% off of your first order. Receive your code with your welcome email and click redeem during the check out process. At Joanna Vargas Skin Care we only use organic skin care products in our treatments. So call our salon in New York City and make your appointment at 212.949.2350. You can also email us with any questions or concern at Salon@JoannaVargas.com

Source: New York Post, Page Six
January 25 2009
By Fiorella Valdesolo

Fiorella Valdesolo braves the brutal bone-chilling winter temperatures and treks the island of Manhattan to pick the hottest and best deals from New York City’s high-end salons to help you stay looking your best. She of course picked Joanna Vargas Skin Care as we are having a 15% off $175 of our basic cleansing facial, The Purifying Facial.

This facial uses the Diamond Peel, a unique form of microdermabrasion, that uses a diamond tip wand to gently remove the top layer of dead skin without irritating the skin. And of course Joanna Vargas customizes the facial with a blend of organic skin care products to bring alive your skin and make it glow in this dreary winter weather.

To make your appointment NOW and to take advantage of this offer please call Joanna Vargas Skin Care at 212.949.2350 or email us at salon@joannavargas.com and experience a new level of skin care.

Please read and find the other picks by Fiorella Valdesolo and follow the link to Page Six of the New York Post.

“There’s no better time than the depths of dreary January to embark on a series of beauty-minded resolutions. And you don’t have to break the bank to do it: A number of the Big Apple’s high-end salons and spas are helping to lessen the financial burden of beautifying by offering limited-time deals on the hottest grooming services. So read on for eight terrific treatments to keep you looking and feeling great this winter.” —Fiorella Valdesolo

By C.A. Vargas

The New Year is here and the weather could not be any colder unless you were in the North Pole. So why not come in for a Full Body microdermabrasion to help you start the New year. The Full Body Microdermabrasion removes dead skin, impurities and helps over time to eliminate sun damage.

This treatment helps with sunspots, leathery skin from the sun or cold winter weather, any impurities as well as fine lines and wrinkles. The full body microdermabrasion is followed by a hot towel cleanse that prepars the body for a french organic body moisturizer that is applied to the whole body, which leaves your body smooth and silky.

It takes 60 minutes and the price is $200 dollars. If you mention this article you will receive 10% off the regular price. Please call Joanna Vargas Skin care Salon in New York City for your appointment at 212.949.2350. Or email us at Salon@JoannaVargas.com

By Elizabeth Hall

Your lips, hands and face are the first areas to show signs of the unavoidable wear and tear of winter. Humidity is low and moisture is stripped and denied from the skin. Dry chapped and cracked skin is often painful and embarrassing, but with the right healing and preventative measures, you can remedy the problematic areas and maintain soft, conditioned skin.

Chapped lips are one of the worst consequences of harsh winter weather. Used throughout the day, a lip balm containing shea butter helps to restore moisture and reduce irritation. Balms containing beeswax, such as the Citrus Lip Balm by Eminence actually help form a protective barrier for the lips and help trap moisture to condition the affected area. This aids in protecting your lips against future irritation and dryness.

Hand cream is also essential to use throughout the day. Anakiri’s Flower Fusion Hand Cream is a vitamin reach cream made up of herbal extracts including elderflower and calendula which help to condition the skin and cuticles.

During winter especially, an effective and nutrient rich face cream should be applied both morning and night. A thicker day cream such as Phyt’s Cream Reviderm helps to reduce redness while nurturing sensitive and delicate skin. At night, try Anakiri’s Renewal Night Cream, filled with antioxidants and vitamins and minerals that restore and replenish the skin while you sleep.

There are further preventative measures one can take to help moisturize and heal the skin. A humidifier helps to replenish moisture in the air as you sleep. With your windows and closed and the heat on, dry skin seems almost unavoidable and a humidifier helps circulate moist air throughout your home. Also, try to reduce your shower time and frequency, if only slightly, as hot water and long baths and showers tend to dry out the skin.

And perhaps most importantly, remember to wear sunscreen! Sun protection is not only for the summer, apply an organic sunscreen to your hands and face every day, more frequently if you are outside often.

You can always call Joanna Vargas Skin Care Salon In New York City and place your orders directly with the salon at 212.949.2350 or shop at http://www.joannavargas.com/catalog/

By C.A. Vargas

One of the most well known and reputable online services for finding spas and day spas anywhere in the world is Spa Finder. The spas found in this online treasure trove, nearly 5000 of them, range from the ultra-luxurious to the relaxing local spas.

Spa Finder offers gift certificates for all of their spas and most spas offer discounts that might not be available except for Spa FInder members. Joanna Vargas Skin Care has team-up with Spa Finder in order to widen its reach and to also offer discounts to its members.

Presently Joanna Vargas Skin Care is offering a 15% discount to all Spa Finder members for the salon’s signature facial, The Triple Crown. This three step facial is the favorite of our celebrity clients and the chic women of New York City.

However, celebrity or not, this is a great opportunity for you to experience one of the most sought after treatments in the industry. The Triple Crown is unique in that all of the three steps are known for their rejuvenating effects. It starts with microdermabrasion that exfoliates dead skin and triggers the skin’s healing mechanism as the first step in eliminating fine lines and wrinkles.

The second step was discovered by a doctor working on patients with facial paralysis when it became apparent that they looked younger after treatments. This step uses microcurrent and this will workout the facial muscles and skin. Making it firmer and younger looking, usually in one treatment. Microcurrent has been known to boost collagen and elastin by as much as 500%.

Collagen and elastin are two vital proteins for youthful and beautiful skin. And the boosting of it in such quantities results in spectacular beneficial changes for the skin and the persons appearance.

And it ends with one of the most healing and nurturing elements on earth, pure oxygen. Joanna uses hyperbaric oxygen, which is hospital grade, 98% pure and she infuses it with a lifting serum that contains various antioxidants and other well known ingredients that heal, nurture, rejuvenate and moisturize the skin.
And of course Joanna Vargas uses only organic products as they are a source of essential vitamins that nurture the skin making it more radiant and beautiful. And they will not damage the skin like their chemical counterparts as they are not harsh or abrasive.

You can also call Joanna Vargas Skin Care Salon directly at 212.949.2350 and receive 15% off The Triple Crown directly from the salon. Please add $75 dollars for all services with Joanna Vargas.