Best Face Forward with Votre Vu Skin Care

Do you struggle with knowing what products to use when? Everyone seems to have a different opinion to how many steps you should have in your daily skin care regimen but most people would agree to a basic 3 step regimen of cleanse, tone and moisturize. The French would add one more step – in between toning and moisturizing that is – Serums. A serum is your power step. The job of most serums is to repair your skin from damage from the environment. Paired with a great moisturizer, your skin will look better then ever. These 4 steps should be done daily – am and pm.

STEP 1: Cleanser

Cleanse your face to remove any dirt, make-up or night cremes. You don’t want to use the same type of soap on your face as you would your body. The skin on your face is different and should be treated differently.

Votre Vu’s cleanser are very gentle AND nourishing to the skin. Milk-based for Sensitive, Normal-Dry and Mature line. Gel-based cleanser for troubled line focused to remove excess oil and bacteria.

Apply: Wet your hands with water. Use one or two pumps of the cleanser and rub gentle into your skin. Depending on your preferance, either remove cleanser with cloth/cotton pad or rinse with water.

STEP 2: Tonique (Toner)

Most people have used a toner at one time or another but most don’t understand the importance of this step. Using a toner will help removes all cleanser residue and bring your skin’s PH balance to it’s most optimal level of 7.5 so that other ingredients (serums and cremes) can be fully absorbed into skin.

STEP 3: Serum or Repair product

This may be a new step for many but it really is an important step in repairing damage done to your skin by the surrounding environment. Serums perform different functions depending on the needs of each skin type.

Votre Vu offers a serum for each skin type + 2 specialty serums (Mal-ligne & Les Sorbet)

1. Mal-ligne: Packed with ingredients to hydrate and antioxidants to combat the free radicals and heal skin but it also has an ingredient called SEC which works to smooth crow’s feet, brow lines and lines around the face. Like botox without the needles.

2. Les Sorbet: Our anti-aging superstar! Frozen to retain ingredients in their perfect state it is shipped to you in dry ice! 40 % of the product is marine-elastin and collagen which are both heavy hitters in both prevention and restoring our skin. It also contains gautaline, a new high end ingredient touted for it’s anti aging properties.

STEP 4: Face Cremes (Moisturizer)

Your crème is not only your moisturizing step that brings the most hydration to your skin but it also seals and protects your skin. Cremes seal in moisture and all the powerful ingredients of our serum. To get the most from your shut-eye time, use a night time crème.

Other important skin care steps:

Exfoliate – As your Votre Vu skin care consultant, I recommend using a gentle scrub to exfoliate once to twice a week. Grainy scrubs may be OK for your body but your face scrub needs to be gentle. Check out our organic Royal Highness Gentle Pearl Scrub to restore radiance and scrub away dull, dry skin. Perfect for all skin types.

Masques – To get the most from your masques, use them on the same day you exfoliate (1X – 2X a week). A masques helps reach down deep into the skin to carry away impurities and leave your skin refreshed and clean looking. Votre Vu offers two masques: In the Pink (Normal/Dry, Oily/Troubled, Mature) & Calm, Cool and Collected (Sensitive)

Eye Care – The skin around your eye is very delicate and is the first place to show the signs of aging. If you are over 20, you should be using a product targeted to this special area. Use daily. Votre Vu offers two eye products: Tout le Monde & Luxee Yeux. Tout le Monde is the best product I have ever used for puffiness and dark circles. You will feel the cooling sensation right away. Need more hydration to combat those deeper wrinkles, Luxee Yeux is your anwer. I use them both!