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2018 Year In Review
As 2018 has come to a close, the National Coalition of Estheticians Manufacturers/Distributors & Associations gives heartfelt best wishes to our members, partners, and other industry professionals a bright look into the new year. As we continue to reflect on the past year's top stories of NCEA News, here's a continued look at the next set of most popular articles from 2018. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 8.
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American Med Spa
From Oct. 17: The Federal Trade Commission recently announced their first ever enforcement action against a provider of intravenous therapy for making unsupported claims about the health benefits of their IV treatments. In brief, the FTC alleges that IV Bar's website contained multiple false, and unsubstantiated representations as to the clinical or scientific effectiveness of the treatments. Setting aside the merit of the FTC's claims, this case does highlight a hidden danger of medical spa and IV bar ownership: advertising.
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Digital Journal
From Sept. 26: Belia Skin & Beauty Spa is the only spa located in Las Vegas, NV, that provides cancer and chemotherapy patients with Oncology Facial and facial with Cannabis (CBD) infused skin care products.
Belia is an Indonesian term for "youthful." Going by the name, Belia Skin and Beauty Spa helps people look and feel young. It helps people to remain young.
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Associated Skin Care Professionals (ASCP) is an association for skin care professionals. ASCP helps members build successful careers by providing liability insurance, on-demand continuing education with industry leaders, the award-winning ASCP Skin Deep magazine, business and marketing tools, and member discounts. We have your back!
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WCBS-TV
From Oct. 17: Laser treatments can smooth and tighten skin, reduce sunspots, remove unwanted hair, and so much more. But depending on where you chose to have the popular procedure done, you could be putting yourself at greater risk of cancer.
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Men's Health
From Feb. 7: Chase McNary likes to see his friends squirm.
An avid massage-goer, the Bachelorette alum will often bring a few buddies to the spa or invite them over for a house call, courtesy of Zeel, an on-demand in-home massage service. Usually, his friends expect to receive a relaxing Swedish massage, but instead they'll usually get a sports massage, a treatment that targets muscles used in workouts to help speed recovery.
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KU Leuven via ScienceDaily
From Feb. 28: Researchers from KU Leuven and the universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, and Penn State have identified fifteen genes that determine our facial features. The findings were published in Nature Genetics.
Our DNA determines what we look like, including our facial features.
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Mashable
From Feb. 14: Weed and yoga might just be a match made in heaven. But despite pot's legal status in Denver, "ganja yoga" isn't permitted. Well, unless you get stoned yourself and then go to a yoga class. But maybe there's another option on the way ...
Owners of the Utopia All Natural Wellness Spa and Lounge submitted a social consumption application to the city of Denver in hopes of becoming the first "fully licensed, state-legal cannabis spa." Which means you'll be able to get baked and relax on the premises.
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NutraIngredients
From Jan. 23: Lack of melatonin has been widely linked to sleep disorders and disturbances in the human circadian rhythm or body clock. But the hormone may also benefit sleep-related aspects of other conditions, say researchers.
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By Cherie Buziak
From June 19: Ethical consumerism, along with the growing Muslim population, continues to further the appeal of halal-certified beauty products. To better understand this untapped market, one would have to ask themselves, "What exactly does halal-certified mean when it comes to personal care products?" Bringing clarity to this category was the New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists (NYSCC), who hosted an all-day event with qualified speakers on the topic.
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NewBeauty
From Sept. 19: With celebrities like Kim Kardashian West and Minka Kelly boasting the benefits of this in-office treatment, microneedling with PRP — also known as the Vampire Facial — has grown in popularity immensely over the last few years. However, even though results of this procedure are generally pretty great, recent news has some people reconsidering their anti-aging treatment of choice.
According to LiveScience, a spa in Albuquerque, New Mexico — which offers the Vampire Facial as a treatment in their facility — may have exposed clients to blood-borne infections like HIV or Hepatitis.
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COSMOPOLITAN
From May 1: Wish you could use a life-size loofah in the bath or shower? If your answer to that question is yes, Burke Williams Spa in Santa Monica, California, can make your giant loofah dreams a reality with the help of an absurdly large one made from stalks of wheat.
In their unusual spa treatment dubbed "Hunter's Retreat," your dead skin cells are first sloughed off with an exfoliating scrub. After that, you're further cleansed with a very large wheat stalk-made loofah that's previously been soaked in essential oils. INSIDER tested out the wheat-loofah rubdown in the video below; ahead, you be the judge on whether or not you find this experience to be relaxing or if the spaghetti-like stalks would just freak you out.
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