The Power of Protons

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is considered a metabolic / endocrine disorder, affecting up to 20% of women during their reproductive stage of life. Today we’re exploring this multifaceted condition for the impact it yields on our integumentary system, the skin, the oil glands, and the hair follicles, which as we know, are heavily influenced by our hormones. We explore some of the leading symptoms that present and whether a gold-standard treatment program exists?

Increasing volumes of reports, studies and anecdotal evidence lands vaping in hot water - not only for the deleterious effects it has on overall health, but for this issues it has potential for causing with your skin. Vaping has been linked to increased trans-epidermal water loss and dehydration, dryness, acne flare-ups, inflamed skin disorders like dermatitis, accelerated skin ageing and impaired healing ability. Therefore, it serves as an important line of questioning when consulting with clients and patients, especially if advanced treatment modalities and skincare infused with active ingredients is the proposed treatment avenue. And there's a high chance that a sector of your clients regularly vape! This episode of The Power of Protons will unveil how vaping affects the skin, why it can have this negative affect and what the latest regulations are here in Australia. Enjoy https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Pages/e-cigarettes.aspx

Everything you need to know about the changes that occur to the skin during pregnancy and how you can adapt your pHformula homecare routine for greater safety and peace of mind during this important life phase. www.phformula.com.au

It’s time we redefine the meaning of a ‘chemical peel’, afterall, technology and techniques evolve and certainly in the case of chemical peels they’ve evolved in leaps and bounds since the 90s where they became mainstream treatments. Rewind 15 years and pHformula was (already) ahead of the times in developing a new generation of acid based treatments that offered the happy benefits associated with the concept of ‘peeling’ yet removed the sad side effects that would often result. At pHformula we have always taken the untraditional approach, redefining what has always been, challenging the status quo and offering our formulas exclusively to the professional skin specialist who can work with optimised precision to achieve the most beautiful results for their clients and patients. This episode will explore the philosophy of controlled chemical skin resurfacing and how it differs from traditional chemical peeling techniques. If you're curious to learn more, be sure to join our email list so that you're first in line to register for our upcoming webinar series :-) www.phformula.com.au/joinouremaillist

It’s time we get a firmer understanding of the bait before we click or act. The P-word is thrown around a lot in our industry – and it’s certainly used as a form of bait to sell everything from coaching courses to seminars, equipment to product. It’s also used frequently in our industry as a metric of success – the more profit, the healthier your business is. But it's not accounting profits that actually determine the true health and wealth (or sustainability) of your business! Today we’re exploring the world of profit, the types of profit that we can analyse and why profit is actually NOT as important as CASHFLOWS – money in, money out, and the timing of these cashflows. Strap yourself in and get ready for this thought-provoking discussion :-) This podcast episode has been developed and published by pHformula Australia. www.phformula.com.au

Historically the skin has been treated in silo – it’s been beautified topically and managed for the symptoms that present at various stages of our lives. It's been regarded as no more than a barrier for our body and the important organs it houses, like our brain our heart and our lungs. Over the last couple of decades, the available research showcasing the skin as more than just a barrier has become overwhelming. The skin is an organ with neuro aspects, endocrine aspects and immune aspects – creating a trinity of sister systems that orchestrate its performance, its appearance and its ability to respond. And the magic is that this sisterly relationship is bidirectional – the skin provides feedback to its sisters at various stages with the ultimate goal being to maintain its dynamic state of balance, homeostasis. In episode 37 today we’re diving into skin science and exploring these relationships and how when we speak to the skin, we’re also speaking to the immune system, the nervous system and the endocrine system. www.phformula.com.au Life | Free Full-Text | The Trinity of Skin: Skin Homeostasis as a Neuro–Endocrine–Immune Organ (mdpi.com)

If you’re working within the professional beauty, dermal, aesthetic medicine or allied health sector, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you would know Chiza Westcarr. Chiza is a dynamic beauty therapist, dermal clinician, clinical nutritionist and is now embarking on a PhD that I know will reveal groundbreaking finding finds around the role of nutrition and exercise on cardiometabolic health in menopausal women. She is a wealth of knowledge and a born educator - and today is revealing everything you need to know to kick start your understanding of the role menopause plays in skin health. In Chiza’s words, “an ageing [female] skin is a menopausal skin”. In this thought-provoking podcast Chiza shares her passion for skin and nutrition with an added lens that highlights the significant impact that estrogen has on the skin and therefore the impact that peri-menopausal, menopausal and post-menopausal life phases has on the appearance and function of our body's largest organ, the skin. Beyond the skin symptoms associated with menopausal skin, we will discuss the fine line surrounding treatments that aim to stimulate new cells and new proteins in the hope that the skin will bounce back looking tighter and firmer versus what becomes a declining ability to naturally and optimally respond to such procedures as we age. I know you will love this discussion, that it will spark your curiosity, as it did for me, to learn more and to upgrade the education you can pay forward to your clients and patients who may be battling with the symptoms associated with this life phase. Connect with Chiza via: https://www.instagram.com/glowskinandnutrition/https://www.instagram.com/thenutritionalskincareacademy/ Discover more about the very first dedicated Menopause Conference in Australia, Thriving Through Menopause: https://www.instagram.com/thrivingthroughmenopausebycw/ https://thrivingthroughmenopause.com.au/ The Power of Protons is proudly brought to you by pHformula Australia. Learn how you can introduce the innovative art of controlled skin resurfacing into your clinic in 2024 via our website www.phformula.com.au Visit the international pHformula website at www.phformula.com

Niacinamide would have to be one of the hardest working ingredients in skincare. It delivers myriad benefits and can assist in supporting and managing skin conditions spanning from hyperpigmentation to redness, acne to ageing. On today’s episode we’re deep diving into the science that underpins the performance of this active ingredient, the conditions that may benefit from a program that includes its presence and what key pHformula products contain this miracle worker. Enjoy x D www.phformula.com.au

Meet Saan Burey, the positively charged skin specialist and owner of Bare Skin Aesthetics in Wagga Wagga, NSW. Saan is on a mission to educate and empower every face that walks through her clinic door. Striving to stay ahead of the latest advancements, Saan is nearing completion of her Dermal Science degree, an endeavour that sees her elevating the level of technical expertise and education that can pay forward into the advanced treatment programs she develops. With a heartwarming ability to connect and empathise with clients on a personal level, Saan has become a trusted leader in dermal therapy, educating her community to achieve skin confidence. In this unscripted chat we explore the art of balancing university with running a skin clinic and raising a young family, the power of education, partnering with pHformula and how to stay positive in challenging times. Connect with Saan: https://www.instagram.com/bareskinaestheticswagga/ Become a pHformula Australia Partner: www.phformula.com.au

Ageing is a four-dimensional process resulting in a loss of functional and structural integrity. It’s an unwelcomed, yet unavoidable sequence of events that deteriorates cellular metabolism and subsequently, the function and performance of each cell entity that composes the body – including our skin cells. Whilst the anti-ageing market is often dubbed as being vain and self-centered, the degenerative modifications associated with ageing are more than simply a cosmetic hurdle. Ep. 32 of The Power of Protons will explore the 9 hallmarks of cutaneous ageing, the structural and functional changes that skin undergoes and what the visible symptoms are that we often look to address in our skincare programs.   Enjoy x

Traditionally, free, unbuffered acids have been associated with some pretty negative side effects like irritation, inflammation, superficial burn and post inflammatory hyperpigmentation. Yet, the more you learn about the chemistry of acids, the more you learn about how acids truly work in the skin and why buffering significantly harnesses their ability to effectuate the regenerative effects we seek when correcting and managing undesired skin conditions. When it comes to ACIDS working effectively in skincare formulas and professional solutions, the holy grail is to maximise the potential yield of protons (so keeping the acids in their free form), yet carefully calibrate the formula to work with the most precise activity, ensuring negative side effects are minimised. This episode of The Power of Protons will take you on a behind the scenes tour of the engine powering pHformula, the PH-DVC™ and they key to controlling the delivery of acids into the skin. www.phformula.com.au

Our faces are a powerful communication tool. The expressions our face can make depict our love and admiration of something or someone, our dissatisfaction or anger, our fear, our frustration, our level of relaxation – basically, our mood at any given time. Whether we’re smiling, emphasising a point, or frowning, it’s our facial muscles that provide the face movement and govern the shapes in which our face can create. As skin specialists, we work alongside (or more specifically on top of) the facial muscular system, and we can enhance circulation and nutrient supply to the dermis and epidermis through facial massage. On today’s episode of the Power of Protons, we’re exploring the muscles that populate our face, the benefits of facial massage and how we can incorporate this manual technique into a pHformula controlled chemical skin resurfacing procedure.

A couple of weeks ago we had the privilege to travel to the pHformula Art Club nestled in the heart of El Born, Barcelona. Accompanied by five enthusiastic skin therapists, we fully immersed ourselves in the culture, the science and the heart of pHformula where we learnt more about the skin, advanced resurfacing techniques, and elevating value that we can offer our communities. Just like our manifesto reads, here, there is no room for conventional.  No room for complacency. There is only space for the experimental ones that want to learn, to teach, to play and (in the case of our family of skin specialists across the globe) to solve the skin of the world. There were countless take-homes that we gathered as a group, across our 5 days in Barcelona, 3 of which were at the Art Club. pHformula’s Internation Education Team took us on a journey filled with passion that really did reignite our sparks and shared wo many valuable tips and trips that will amplify the treatments we can perform and the way we ensure optimal outcomes from our homecare prescriptions. This episode is our Art Club Diary entry – with the top 7 takeaways that we want to share with this audience in the hope that they will not only educate but also inspire a little spark in you too. www.phformula.com.au

Gone are the days when the only light source was the sun, and people could only connect in person! These days, our lives are heavily reliant on ubiquitous technology that empowers us to connect, communicate, and process. Technology is highly relied upon for us to do business, deliver education, launch new products, connect with friends and run seminars and conferences. But what effect does this heightened exposure to artificial energy (specifically, high energy blue light) have on the human mechanism and the function of our body's largest organ, the skin. The studies are in and there is some hard evidence that links excessive exposure to impaired barrier function, DNA damage, tissue breakdown and accelerated cutaneous ageing. Today we’re diving into blue light, reviewing some of the science that links exposure to skin dysfunction, how much is too much and what are the side effects, and exploring some practical steps that can assist in managing the side effects.

Meet Danielle Renee, the powerhouse behind the brand Bobbie Charles. Recently, I had the pleasure to have a candid chat with Danielle and explore some juicy topics like leadership, grace, culture, change, value and innovation. Danielle is an award-winning dermal therapist and owner of the two multi-award-winning Brisbane clinics, Bobbie Charles. Bobbie Charles, the brand, is synonymous with exceptional aesthetic transformations, raising standards within the aesthetic field, and empowering the next generation of industry experts. As part of Danielle's commitment to the betterment of the dermal and aesthetics industry, Bobbie Charles also delivers education through the Bobbie Charles Academy and business consultancy services to fellow clinic owners across Australia. If you have met Danielle in person, you’ll understand why many gravitate towards her. There’s a genuine passion, care and purpose, all wrapped up with a kind of grace that instantly makes you feel appreciated and important. Today, we’re kicking things off with a conversation about grace and how interacting with grace can improve your ability to lead and build a powerful culture. We will explore the power of team, value exchange, seeking feedback, and crafting meaningful interactions in clinic as well as navigating a busy marketplace of trends and innovations and the importance of evidence-based practice. LINKS - Connect with Danielle Renee As an extra special bonus, Danielle has generously shared a unique code for you to be involved in her interactive group coaching workshops. Head on over to https://courses.bobbiecharlesacademy.com.au/virtual-ceo for more information on the value Danielle can share with you and use the CODE: PHCOACHING20 for your special discount! If you're interested in connecting with Danielle 1-on-1, you can also explore her private coaching sessions at https://shop.bobbiecharlesacademy.com.au/collections/frontpage/products/business-coaching-call?variant=45712568320284 And lastly, be sure to follow Danielle on the gram ;-) https://www.instagram.com/bobbiecharlesau/ https://www.instagram.com/danielle_bobbiecharles/ CONNECT WITH pHformula AUSTRALIA www.phformula.com.au

So often when we look at skincare formulas, we first read the impressive claims and see the shiny marketing images. And whilst most raw ingredients that are widely formulated with come with their own scientific evidence, what becomes of a finished product containing a cocktail of ingredients? This episode of The Power of Protons will take you on a behind the scenes tour of the most recent clinical study undertaken by pHformula. With Mariona Jimenez, pHformula's Head of R & D, as your guide, you will be amazed to learn what goes on behind the scenes of a clinical study, that 1+1 doesn’t always equal 2 in formulating terms and most importantly, what the results of our Chronic Redness Study were!  https://www.phformula.com.au/chronicredness

As we make our way towards the cooler months here in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s likely that your clients will be looking to reverse some of the effects of summer – specifically new pigmentation and brown spots that have been stimulated to the surface. For decades, the professional beauty, dermal and aesthetics industry have approached the treatment of pigmentation with modalities like IPL and Laser, alongside chemical peels, microneedling and possibly microdermabrasion – procedures that aim to get rid of the old, over pigmented cells and stimulate the proliferation of new fresh daughter cells that hopefully find their way back up to the surface without the same over-population of melanin as their predecessors. Unfortunately, despite best intentions, we can overlook the fact that the hyper pigmentation has often been triggered by trauma, inflammation and possibly a hormonal influence in the case of melasma for example and that rehabilitating the temperamental melanocyte takes a very careful balance so as not to overstimulate him again and cause a rebounding pigment stream that comes back with a vengeance to better protect the new cells. So how do we best avoid pigment bounce back whilst still offering the measurable and long-lasting results that our clients are seeking? Listen up – this episode will explore the process of melanogenesis, treatments that hold risk to trigger pigment bounce back and prudent measures to reduce the risks in our treatment programs.

In today’s episode we are travelling alongside a daughter keratinocyte in her journey from the mother cells in the stratum basale layer all the way up through the epidermis to our skin’s surface, the cells we see when we look in the mirror. This journey is perfectly orchestrated, complex and dependent on several reactions taking place to ensure our skin serves up a sophisticated barrier that protects us in our environment. At the very heart of the journey is a transformation – where our living keratinocytes originating in the stratum basale, fully differentiate into their anucleate corneocyte versions, equipped with strong protein that forms part of our protective barrier. As this journey takes place, the keratinocyte travels through the strata of the epidermis, through a gradient of pH, that is, different zones of acidity and is subject to influencing factors that clock on and clock off to support the transformation of these evolving cells. This episode will highlight the stages of skin cell lifecycle, from proliferation, early differentiation, terminal differentiation, cornification and eventually, desquamation. We'll highlight a handful of skin conditions linked to a dysfunctional journey and explore some prudent measures to consider when designing a topical skin care routine that supports this key process of skin regeneration and barrier health :-) www.phformula.com.au

I went away from what would usually be a positive way to start my morning feeling icky and thinking "how unprofessional"! And so it got me thinking about professionalism - is it a subjective metric and how can we best deliver professional services within the skin management industry so as to elevate and champion our offering, rather than speaking negatively about someone else's? On this episode, I'll be sharing what went down at my last Pilates class, how we can define 'professionalism' in business and some pointers for navigating our patient communications when we're asked questions like "what do you think about this product" or "I'm thinking to have Treatment X, what do you think". Hope you enjoy x Danielle