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Whole Foods Magazine
Lifelong health advocate Nancy Trent writes: "I personally grew up in the spa industry having worked in the global wellness community since opening my healthy lifestyle PR firm 30 years ago. It has always been my professional mission to make spas a showroom for a healthy lifestyle. Attending this year's annual International Spa Association conference, Sept. 13–15 in Las Vegas, showed me my dream is coming to fruition. The mainstreaming of spa and the recognition of spa as a training ground and platform of what's new and cool was everywhere. The show was a mélange of fringe spa concepts and brands like aromatherapy and gem therapy and halo therapy becoming part of the mainstream vernacular with high-end branded products and mainstream brands edging into spas.
Here are some of the new products and trends I spotted on the show floor."
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iDIVA
Technology seems to have established a strong foothold in the beauty industry with a bunch of innovative products being launched ever so often. So, we decided to share with you a round-up of a two of the newest ones, and what they do. Plus, if you missed our last beauty-tech update, here it is.
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Natural Products Insider
"Nutricosmetics" and "beauty from within" are industry terms for dietary supplements that are promoted for uses that historically have been associated with topical cosmetic products. Healthy, glowing skin, fewer wrinkles and thicker, more luxurious hair are just a few examples of claims for beauty pills. And conventional foods are getting in on the action too, with new functional beauty foods (even chocolates!) popping up all the time.
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"I was very impressed with the NCEA Certification program. It challenged me to increase my knowledge about esthetics and I am grateful. I am a better esthetician because of the NCEA! NCEA is a wonderful association to be a part of. I encourage every esthetician to be NCEA Certified."
— Nikki Credic-Barrett, Mount Ranier, aryland
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By Elizabeth Donat
 As a licensed esthetician, I always end my sessions with home-care and post-care recommendations. The truth is what happens after your facial is just as important as what happens during your facial. Bottom line, during most facials the skin's pH is being altered, exfoliation treatments are performed and extractions open up the skin. Therefore, knowing how to care for your skin once you leave the spa is key for skin care success.
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The Huffington Post
Does your business have a visible positive strategy, or do your customers and employees still see your primary focus as closing more sales and killing competitors? Certainly that has been the strategy of many companies, and has worked in the past, but today's customers and workers are looking for more. They want relationships, positive experiences, and a win-win for society.
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Business 2 Community
Across the globe, over 3 billion people use the internet. That’s just under half of the world’s population. The fact that so many people are connected to the web means that there is a massive global market available to anyone who has a business and a working internet connection.
The growth of the global market has seen a new kind of gold rush. But Instead of staking an actual claim, companies fight for their share of the audience’s attention and the best digital ad placements.
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By Emma Fitzpatrick
 Facebook's 1.5 billion users certainly do more than scroll through their news feed — liking another artful food pic or watching the third cat video of the day. Now, the social network is proving its power beyond conversation. Facebook has been testing ways to not just cultivate and engage their community, but also to inspire them to action. Now, Facebook has developed new tools and features to help businesses seize that momentum.
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Curr Opin Immunol via PubMed
Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease of the skin that leads to life-altering depigmentation and remains difficult to treat. However, clinical observations and translational studies over 30-40 years have led to the development of an insightful working model of disease pathogenesis: Genetic risk spanning both immune and melanocyte functions is pushed over a threshold by known and suspected environmental factors to initiate autoimmune T cell-mediated killing of melanocytes.
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TeachThought
Becoming a better teacher is likely a big part of why you're here.
Based on reader feedback, surveys, comments and other observations we've noticed over the years, the vast majority of you are already "good" at what you do.
Few incompetent professionals that consistently seek to improve remain incompetent. If you're here — or at edutopia, or knee-deep in a book from ASCD, for example — reading and skimming and sharing and responding to ideas, it'll be difficult for you to resist growing.
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Faculty Focus
lassroom Assessment Techniques, or CATs, are simple ways to evaluate students' understanding of key concepts before they get to the weekly, unit, or other summative-type assessment (Angelo & Cross, 1993). CATs were first made popular in the face-to-face teaching environment by Angelo and Cross as a way to allow teachers to better understand what their students were learning and how improvements might be made in real time during the course of instruction. But the same principle can apply to online teaching as well.
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NCEA
Did you know ... It is the position of the NCEA that:
- Chemical exfoliation procedures should be performed by estheticians.
- In addition to manufacturer supplied, product specific education, estheticians shall complete a course of study equivalent to that recommended by the NCEA.
- If estheticians wish to perform chemical exfoliation procedures, they should take the necessary education to include theoretical and practical application as part of their core curriculum or as continuing education modules.
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Approved classes from the Society of Dermatology Skin Care Specialists
How does the skincare specialist balance the competing needs of patients, employer and other staff, in today’s busy medical practice in challenging economic times? Sometimes, meeting the needs of everyone involved can be frustrating and may affect patient satisfaction. This presentation will provide information about keeping balance in competing needs and protecting your value. 1.0 CE through February 7, 2017
Meeting Expectations Of Your Practice As Well As Your Patients
Presented by Pamela Matheny, MBA/HCM, CMPE, MoPM, CPC
About the webinar:
Attendees will learn how to gain, train and retain quality staff members and understand the costs associated with all of the above items, grow their practice by allowing their employees more autonomy. In addition, attendees will learn how to handle infectious employees and proper and legal methods of eliminating them.
At the conclusion of this presentation the skin care specialist will be able to:
- Understand the need to balance competing needs.
- Develop and encourage engagement of all staff.
- Define leadership responsibility for role modeling desirable behaviors.
- Identify how social exchange theory influences provider/patient/employee/leader interactions.
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(Important! Once purchased, the webinar link will only be valid for 24 hours.)
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