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Anne Kasemets Recommends: At-Home Skincare in Autumn
With the arrival of autumn, the weather turns cooler, and the skin can also react to this in its own way. The skin may start to feel drier, tighter, and in need of more hydration. Beautician and Environ’s certified skincare specialist Anne Kasemets recommends reviewing your home skincare routine in autumn and paying more attention to moisturizing and protecting the skin. Anne’s Recommendations for Autumn 1. Add More Hydration to Your Skincare When the skin begins to turn drier in autumn, it is a good time to introduce more hydrating products. For this, Anne recommends ENVIRON® Vita-Complex Super Moisturiser — a product designed for more intensive hydration of the skin. Vita-Complex Super Moisturiser can be used together with a vitamin A cream to provide the skin with the additional hydration needed specifically in autumn. 2. Continue Using Vitamin A With the arrival of autumn, you do not have to set aside your existing vitamin A routine. On the contrary — Anne recommends continuing with the vitamin A cream and, if necessary, supplementing the routine with more hydrating products. Environ’s Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™ is based on a gradual approach: one starts from a lower vitamin A level, lets the skin adapt, and then moves forward step by step. It is precisely this consistency that Anne also highlights in her earlier story introducing Environ favorites (Anne Kasemets’s favorites from Environ). 3. Do Not Forget UV Protection Although there is less sun in autumn, this does not mean that UV protection can disappear from the skincare routine. Anne recommends continuing with daily UV protection in autumn as well. This is especially important if you use active ingredients in your skincare. 4. Anne’s Favorite: Alpha Hydroxy Derma-Lac® Lotion and Vitamin A, C & E Body Oil One combination that Anne herself gladly uses is ENVIRON® Alpha Hydroxy Derma-Lac® Lotion and ENVIRON® Vitamin A, C & E Body Oil. Alpha Hydroxy Derma-Lac® Lotion helps to gently exfoliate the skin, smooth skin texture, and improve hydration. Vitamin A, C & E Body Oil complements this care by providing the skin with vitamins and helping to lock moisture into the skin. 5. If the Skin Is Prone to Impurities If the skin exhibits more impurities or pimples, Anne recommends also paying attention to products designed for problematic skin. In Environ’s Focus Care Clarity+ range, examples for this include ENVIRON® Hydroxy Acid Sebu-Lac Lotion and ENVIRON® Vita-Botanical Sebu-ACE Oil. These products are meant for oily, congested, and blemish-prone skin, helping to combine care for problematic skin with hydration. If the skin exhibits inflammatory processes, acne, or symptoms characteristic of rosacea, it is definitely worthwhile to consult with a skincare specialist when selecting a suitable care routine. In Autumn, Listen to Your Skin’s Needs Anne’s recommendation is simple: with the arrival of autumn, you do not have to overhaul your entire skincare routine all at once. Rather, it is worth observing how the skin reacts to changing weather conditions and, if necessary, adding more hydration and protection.
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Sun Protection: Even More Care
ENVIRON® Even More Care product category complements your vitamin-based skincare routine, providing the final protective layer, antioxidant support, and the finishing touch to your care. Used after cleansing, serum, and moisturizing products, it helps keep the skin healthy, resilient, and radiant. Key Benefits Advanced daily protection — Broad-spectrum UVA/UVB sun protection products help protect the skin against premature aging and sun damage. Antioxidant protection — Neutralizes free radicals and supports the skin’s natural defenses. The perfect finish — Enhances skin radiance and helps maintain the skin’s strong condition throughout the day. Key Products RAD ACTIVÉ Antioxidant Sun Cream A lightweight, antioxidant-rich daily sun protection cream. RAD SHIELD Mineral Sunscreen A mineral broad-spectrum sunscreen. How To Use First, use ENVIRON® Essential Care products (cleanser, toner, and Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™ moisturizer). Add Focus Care products according to the skin’s needs, for example, to enhance hydration or radiance. Finish the care with Even More Care products, especially with sun protection, to help lock active ingredients into the skin and protect the skin against external factors. Why This Is Important Even the most effective serums and moisturizers need a protective final layer. This last step helps protect the skin against: The damaging effects of UV radiation. Free radicals and pollution. Environmental stressors that accelerate skin aging and increase sensitivity. In summary: ENVIRON® Even More Care helps protect, prolong, and perfect your skincare results so you can enjoy healthy, radiant, and well-protected skin every day.
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Improved Appearance: Focus Care Skin Tech+
ENVIRON® Focus Care Skin Tech+ combines innovative technology with vitamin-rich skincare products to improve the absorption of active ingredients, target problem areas, and amplify the results of your skincare routine. These devices and instruments are designed to complement your Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™ and help skincare products work deeper and more effectively. How It Works Better absorption of active ingredients — helps serums and creams penetrate deeper into the skin. Targeted care — focuses on fine lines, skin firmness, and texture. Supports the deeper layers of the skin — helps to strengthen the skin’s underlying structures over time. Key Devices and Instruments Electro-Sonic DF Mobile Skincare Technology — improves the absorption of active ingredients, firms the skin, reduces fine lines, and increases skin radiance. Other instruments, such as the Roll-CIT® (Micro-Needling Cosmetic Roll-CIT®, Micro-Needling Gold Cosmetic Roll-CIT®, Micro-Needling Body Cosmetic Roll-CIT®) and Focus-CIT® (Micro-Needling Cosmetic Focus-CIT®), allow for targeted care on specific problem areas. How To Use Cleanse and tone the skin with your preferred Environ products. Use the Roll-CIT® or Focus-CIT® instrument on the desired areas according to the user manual. Apply an Environ serum or cream. If using the DF Mobile Skincare Technology device, apply serum to that area beforehand according to the user manual. Finish the treatment with an Environ moisturiser or sunscreen (SPF). Who It Is For Those who already use a vitamin-based skincare routine. Those who desire even more noticeable results. People who want to reduce fine lines, improve skin texture, or restore skin firmness. Those who like science- and technology-based skincare solutions. In summary: ENVIRON® Focus Care Skin Tech+ enhances your existing skincare routine, helping active ingredients reach deeper into the skin and providing more targeted, effective, and visible results alongside Environ’s vitamin-based products.
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Aging Skin: Focus Care Youth+
ENVIRON® Focus Care Youth+ offers targeted anti-aging solutions for mature skin or skin with signs of aging. Used together with the Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™, these products help reduce fine lines, wrinkles, and skin sagging, and improve skin texture, tone, and radiance. Main Benefits Helps reduce fine lines and wrinkles. Supports a smoother and more youthful-looking skin texture. Increases skin hydration and resilience. Complements the daily vitamin-based skincare routine. Key Products Tri-Peptide Complex Avance DFP312® Moisturiser — smooths the skin and increases its radiance. Hydro-Lipidic 3DSynergé Filler Crème — helps reduce deeper wrinkles and loss of volume. Malachite-NP Complex Seriénce Night Serum — reduces stress-related changes overnight. Peptide Enriched Frown Serum — softens expression lines. Concentrated Alpha Hydroxy Toner — improves the skin’s surface texture. Tri-Peptide Complex Avance DFP312® Elixir — supports skin resilience and radiance. Tri BioBotanical Revival Masque — “face lift in a jar” — brightens and renews the skin’s texture. Tri-Retinoid Complex Retinol Serum — boosts the effect of vitamin A overnight. Tri-Retinoid Complex Retinol Serum Forte — boosts the effect of vitamin A overnight. How To Use Cleanse and tone — prepare the skin. Apply ENVIRON® Focus Care Youth+ treatment products — serums and targeted products. Finish with vitamin-rich moisturizers — lock the nutrients into the skin. Start gradually — follow the Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™ to achieve the best results. Who Is It For Everyone who notices fine lines, wrinkles, or changes in skin texture. Those who wish to enhance their existing vitamin-based skincare routine. Those who are looking for more targeted solutions than standard skincare. In summary: ENVIRON® Focus Care Youth+ offers advanced and science-based anti-aging care, helping the skin to become smoother, firmer, and more youthful, while working in harmony with your vitamin-based skincare routine.
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Hyperpigmented Skin: Focus Care Radiance+
ENVIRON® Focus Care Radiance+ helps reduce uneven skin tone, pigmentation spots, and dull complexion by using a science-based, step-by-step skincare system that complements your vitamin-based skincare routine. Its MelaSmart System™ combines vitamins, botanical extracts, and skin-brightening active ingredients to support more even, radiant, and healthier-looking skin. How It Works Prepare the skin for a brighter complexion — Multi-Bioactive Mela-Prep Lotion prepares the skin and helps reduce surface dullness. Reduce uneven skin tone — Vita-Botanical Mela-Fade Serum System (A + B) works in the deeper layers of the skin, helping to reduce pigmentation. Boost skin radiance — Intense C-Boost Mela-Even Cream helps maintain results and strengthens the skin’s protective barrier. Main Benefits Helps achieve a more even skin tone and a brighter complexion. Contains scientifically researched skin-brightening active ingredients. Is excellent for use together with the Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™. Suitable for most skin types. For the Best Results Use the product consistently together with your vitamin-based skincare routine. Apply the products in the following order: preparation → serum → cream. Finish your morning skincare routine with broad-spectrum SPF protection to help prevent the formation of new pigmentation spots. In summary: ENVIRON® Focus Care Radiance+ offers a targeted and vitamin-rich approach to making the skin brighter, evening out skin tone, and achieving a naturally radiant and healthy-looking complexion over time.
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Dehydrated Skin: Focus Care Moisture+
ENVIRON® Focus Care Moisture+ is designed for dry, dehydrated, or dull-looking skin, providing deep hydration, support for the skin’s protective barrier, and a plumper, refreshed appearance. When used together with the Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™, it delivers targeted moisture exactly where it is needed most. Main Benefits Restores the skin’s moisture balance Supports the normal functioning of the skin’s protective barrier Smooths rough, tight, or dull skin Enhances the effect of vitamin-based skincare Key Products Vita-Antioxidant Hydrating Oil Capsules — concentrated vitamin-rich hydration in the form of oil capsules HA Intensive Hydrating Serum — deeply hydrating serum with hyaluronic acid Vita-Complex Super Moisturiser — restores the skin’s softness and moisture balance Alpha Hydroxy Night Cream — improves skin texture during sleep How To Use Apply serums and moisturisers to the skin after cleansing and toning, both morning and evening Use the night cream for deeper recovery and care Who Is It For Dry or dehydrated skin Skin that feels tight, rough, or looks lifeless Anyone who needs more hydration than basic moisturising creams provide In summary: ENVIRON® Focus Care Moisture+ provides targeted, science-based hydration, helping the skin appear plumper, softer, and healthier-looking while increasing its overall resilience and feeling of comfort.
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Good Skincare Under the Sun
Treatment of sun-damaged skin begins with avoiding the sun or at least minimizing sun exposure. Sunscreens help prevent the skin from burning, but it is important to remember that even the strongest sunscreens cannot completely prevent the damage caused by the sun. The Vitamin A deficiency caused by solar radiation can be compensated with vitamin A creams. Retinoic acid (tretinoin) helps to restore and improve the skin. The challenge is that tretinoin can irritate the skin, causing redness and tingling. Retinyl palmitate is a derivative of vitamin A that irritates less and is converted in the skin into tretinoin, producing the same cellular effects as retinoic acid itself. Sensitivity to vitamin A follows a Gaussian curve: some people are very sensitive to vitamin A creams, while others tolerate even very strong formulations, with most people falling between these two extremes. Therefore, treatment is started with very mild vitamin A creams and, depending on the skin’s reaction, stronger creams can gradually be introduced step by step. Redness and mild irritation indicate that the maximum strength has been reached and it is time to step back one level. In general, significant sun exposure requires slightly stronger creams. As sun-damaged, thinned skin, begins to recover, the absorption of creams may decrease, and additional treatments can help improve absorption. Different microneedling devices can create tiny channels in the skin through which active ingredients are absorbed. It is sufficient that the needles penetrate the thin outer layer of the skin, which means that even very short and painless needles are enough. It is important that only scientifically tested products are applied to the skin, not random ingredients with unclear or potentially harmful effects. The microchannels close within 24 hours and are so small that they do not leave scars. To improve absorption, professional cosmetic treatments such as heat, iontophoresis, or ultrasound treatments may be helpful. Heat expands the skin’s pores and improves absorption. Iontophoresis uses electric current to deliver electrically charged substances into the skin, while ultrasound improves absorption through cavitation. Surgery does not replace good skin care, but good skin care helps maintain the results of surgical procedures for as long as possible. I have successfully used Environ skin care products for my patients for over 25 years. And finally: the skin also needs sufficient moisturizing creams to remain elastic and healthy. — Asko SalmiMD, PhD, plastic surgeon. Sairaala KL / Christinas Clinic.
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Sensitive Skin: Focus Care Comfort+
ENVIRON® Focus Care Comfort+ is designed for sensitive, easily irritated, and stressed skin, providing gentle yet effective care and helping to strengthen the skin’s natural resilience. When used together with the Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™, it helps the skin look healthier, more balanced, and better protected against daily environmental stressors. Main Benefits Soothes sensitive and irritated skin Helps protect against environmental stressors and pollution Reduces redness and discomfort Supports the skin’s natural barrier Products in the Range Vita-Enriched Antioxidant GelA cooling antioxidant-rich gel containing plant-based vitamins A, C, and E. Vita-Enriched Colostrum GelA soothing serum with colostrum, vitamins, and green tea extract that helps support sensitive skin. Purifying Anti-Pollution MasqueA mask that helps remove pollution particles accumulated on the skin while also hydrating and soothing the skin. Complete Anti-Pollution SpritzA protective facial spray for daily use that helps reduce the impact of environmental stressors on the skin. How To Use Suitable for use together with the Vitamin STEP-UP SYSTEM™ Suitable for both beginners and experienced users Can be used on top of a moisturising cream or added into an anti-ageing routine for extra protection and comfort Who It Is For For sensitive and easily irritated skin For skin exposed to pollution, stress, and other environmental stressors For anyone seeking gentle, nourishing, and protective skincare In summary: ENVIRON® Focus Care Comfort+ helps sensitive skin feel calmer, stronger, and healthier, offering science-based care and protection against daily external stressors.
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Skin Aging
Plastic surgeon, Dr Des Fernandes, has dedicated his life to researching and treating skin aging. Over time, the skin becomes thinner and more wrinkled — for some people earlier, for others later. Time is relentless. In addition to genetic factors, skin aging is also influenced by many external factors that we ourselves can affect. Healthy nutrition is one important factor. The Mediterranean diet is generally considered the standard of healthy eating, so on the Costa del Sol the situation should be quite good in this respect. It is known that smoking has no positive health effects, and this also applies here: in people who smoke continuously, the skin may appear up to 10 years older than their actual age. Other forms of air pollution also accelerate skin aging. As pleasant as tanning may be, the sun is undeniably the main cause of premature skin aging and wrinkles. Ultraviolet radiation penetrates the skin and causes cellular changes, thinning of the skin, and the formation of wrinkles. Aged skin is thin, its outermost layer (the horny layer, or stratum corneum) is thickened, and the renewal of collagen and elastin slows down. According to Dr Des, sunlight destroys the vitamin A that is essential for the skin. Constant exposure to the sun creates a chronic vitamin A deficiency in the skin, which manifests itself as skin aging. Naturally, vitamin A obtained from food also reaches the skin, but rather slowly, too late, and in insufficient quantities. All this can be corrected with an active daily vitamin A cream. Studies show that vitamin A thins the dead outer layer of the skin, increases cell division and the production of collagen and elastin, and may thicken the skin by 30–50% within a few months. Vitamin A has several chemically different forms, some of which may irritate the skin, while others are better tolerated. Another challenge is absorption: as the skin becomes healthier, the absorption of creams may actually become more difficult, which is why different methods are needed to help active ingredients penetrate into the skin. A third issue is individual sensitivity to vitamin A. Some people are highly sensitive even to small amounts and develop redness and irritation (a vitamin A reaction), while others tolerate much larger doses. The most important things when being in the sun are: Good physical protection. Whether it is a hat, a terrace, or shade. A good sunscreen, while keeping in mind that even the strongest sunscreen cannot completely prevent sun damage. A daily vitamin A cream combined with a moisturizing cream. — Asko SalmiMD, PhD, plastic surgeon. Sairaala KL / Christinas Clinic.
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