• Your complexion requires special care during the winter months.

    BioBalance Healthcast episode 60 Caring for Dry Skin

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    On episode 60 of the BioBalance Healthcast Dr. Maupin and Brett Newcomb discuss the problem and treatment of dry skin. Dr. Maupin is medical director of Halina André Cosmeceuticals when she created a her own botanical, spa-quality skin care products. The line includes a products made specifically for dry skin, which are available for purchase online at biobalanceskin.com.

    The dry air and low humidity winter brings affects our skin. It is important to establish and stick to a skin cleansing routine for your face and your body. A nightly routine is not just about removing makeup, it’s about keeping your skin healthy.

    Start your routine by washing with a cream-based wash. Using an alcohol based wash during the cold months will speed up the drying of skin. After you’ve washed your face, apply a toner to open pores and clean off all dead skin. Wiping with a toner will remove what your wash left behind and prepare your face for moisturizer. Moisturizer is meant to put a mask over the skin so all of the moisture produced in your face is held in while you sleep. Dehydration leads to dry skin regardless of the amount of moisturizer used.

    For your eye’s, you first need to use an eye makeup remover. BioBalance Health has one with the same PH as tears and is therefore hypoallergenic. You then need to use a product that contains vitamin K to lighten dark circles and arnica to stop puffiness. The gel dries but does not dehydrate under the eyes. It moves fluid located beneath the skin’s survace and mobilizes it.

    These products are not just for women and they’re not just used to make you look better. They are for overall healthiness of the skin on your face. For men, shaving exfoliates and aftershave acts as a toner, so some products for men are already doing the job.

    Vitamin C serum is to be used for brown spots and dry dull skin, and is applied after toner but before moisturizer. Then, the moisturizer holds this in on your skin and heals overnight.

    Smoking keeps oxygen from getting to your skin which leads to wrinkles and bad skin. It keeps you from healing quickly and from losing dead skin. Most smokers have bad lines over lips and deep wrinkles. Washing your body removes the essential oils that keep your body naturally moisturized. You can apply a body conditioner to keep in oil but still rid the body of dead skin.

  • Look years younger with Botox®, Juvederm® and Radiesse®

    BioBalance Healthcast episode 54 - Medical Esthetics—Injectables and Dermal Fillers

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    BioBalance Healthcast episode 54, is titled Medical Esthetics—Injectables and Dermal Fillers. Co-host Brett Newcomb and I welcome Cosmetic Nurse Practitioner, Abbie Calabio to talk about the work she does with the esthetic injectables Botox®, Juvederm® and Radiesse®.

    Abbie joined my practice in August of this year, and is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner and esthetic skin specialist. She’s unique because she is only one of three in the St. Louis area. In addition, she has five years of expertise in the area of cosmetic injections and laser skin treatments.

    All of our skin treatments at BioBalance Health begin with a consultation where Abbie asks the patient what they feel their skin issues are. She then addresses those concerns with the best medical solution.

    Botox® works by blocking the muscle contractions that cause wrinkles. When injected around the eyes, it gives a refreshed look, brightening the eyes. When injected between the eyebrows, it removes what is known as “elevens.” Outside the eyes, it gets rid of “crows feet.”

    Radiesse® and Juviderm® are dermal or facial fillers. Radiesse® is a volumizing filler, a calcium based filler that helps enhance the volume, bringing fullness back to the patient’s cheeks. It fills and lifts, helping with sagging cheeks and jowls. It’s a non-invasive, non surgical procedure that is like getting a liquid facelift. It lasts up to a year.

    Juviderm is a hyalironic gel for filling in the parentheses around the mouth, and add fullness to the boarders of the lips.

    The goal is to return the look of the face to the age 10 to 20 years younger. Abbie recommends that new patients bring with them a photo of themselves when they were younger. Her approach is always conservative, assuring them results that look natural.

    The Visia is a photography- and computer-based system that reveals and analyzes the degrees of the patient’s wrinkles, UVE damage, redness, and more. It compares the patient’s skin to women in the same age range. A printout is given to the patient that helps them decide what treatments they want to receive.

    This episode is part one of a two-part series. Next week we’ll talk about esthetic laser treatments.

  • Our bioidentical hormone treatment makes you feel good, our skin rejuvenation makes you look great!

    BioBalance Healthcast episode 43, BioBalance Health Skin Rejuvenation image

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    In BioBalance Healthcast episode 43 we review our skin rejuvenation services.

    • Pixel Fractional Skin Resurfacing removes wrinkles, stimulates collagen, improves Rosacea and tightens skin. Because this treatment can be painful, we administer pain medication before and after treatments.
    • Intermittent Pulse Laser (IPL) Skin Rejuvenation treats age spots, fine lines, sun damage, melasma and poor skin tone.
    • Jet Peel exfoliates and hydrates the face and neck. It delivers moisture, vitamins and nutrients into your skin with a jet of micro-droplets.

    In addition to our BioBalance Health Skin Rejuvenation services, we offer a full line of botanical skin care products.

  • Spa-quality skin care products help you look as good as you feel.

    BioBalance Healthcast episode 42, Botanical Skin Care Products image

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    BioBalance Healthcast episode 42 is a review of the collection of botanical skin care products I developed as Medical Director of Halina Andre. Brett Newcomb and I talk about the skin care needs of men and women and how I carefully selected and formulated products that are superior to what is on the market.

    My products for women are available for dry and sensitive skin; oily and problem skin, and normal skin. My Men’s products are for normal skin and oily skin. I also offer products that can be used for all skin types. They include Azelaic Toner, Soothing Rehydrating Gel, Eye Make-up Remover, and more.

    In addition to our botanical skin care products available for purchase at our online store, BioBalance Health in St. Louis, Missouri provides esthetic and skin rejuvenation services including, jet peel and laser treatments to remove hair, spots and stretch marks.

  • After we balance your hormones, we treat your skin; You’ll look as good as you feel!

     

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    In episode 24 of the BioBalance Health Podcast Brett Newcomb and I present an overview of the reverse-aging services offered at BioBalance Health.

    Soon after I discovered and found success with bioidentical hormone pellets for treatment of symptoms of aging, I began to offer additional treatments that contribute to the reverse-aging process. I use a detailed process to find the most natural and highest quality vitamin supplements including DIM, B12 and Vemma—a liquid general vitamin that improves the immune system and decreases cardiac CRP and blood sugar.

    At BioBalance Health, we also focus on weight loss and lifestyle changes that solve a range of our patient’s health problems.

    Skin care is another service we offer at BioBalance Health. I have developed my own line of botanical skin care products which assists in making patients look as good as they feel.

    Laser and atheistic services are available at our St. Louis office. With three laser specialist and an esthetician on staff, patients can get treatment including removal of hair, brown spots and wrinkles, and reduction of stretch marks and scars.

  • Why BioBalance Skin Care products are more effective than other products.

    I created my skin care products because I was dissatisfied with all other non-prescription products on the market. I found them expensive, ineffective, with terrible odors and confusing to buy. My response to dilemmas like this has always been to create a better product or treatment than anyone else. I did that with BioBalance Skin Care and my reverse-aging practice BioBalance Health.

    First let me assure you that I have tried products from the exclusive spas in the U.S. and in Europe, “natural” products and the high-end products made by large cosmetic firms. I tried products in spas in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Hawaii, Italy, South America, Sicily, and Belize. I really did my homework, and for me, this is my passion as well as an intellectual pursuit!

    After reviewing the active ingredients in thousands of products, I determined which ones actually transform skin and which ones are for show. I made a list of what my products should include, and the qualities I desired to assure they are superior. These qualities are:

    • Highest Quality Botanical Ingredients
    • Limited amount of preservatives
    • Based on Science and knowledge of organic chemistry and medicine
    • Transient pleasant scent from essential oils, or herbs, that one enjoys while applying, but disappears so that your chosen scent(perfume) is not mixed with the scent of skin care products
    • Skin quality is transformed and improved with the products in a month
    • Skin is fed with the ingredients, so that it is exfoliated and healthier
    • The pH of the product matches the area of the face that it is applied to, e.g. BioBalance gentle Eye-makeup remover is the same pH as tears, and hypoallergenic!
    • Easy to choose based on color coding system that divides them by skin type, e.g. blue is Dry and Sensitive Skin, green is Normal Skin, lavender is Oily and Problem Skin, and fuscia is All Skin Types.
    • Ethnic neutrality. BioBalance products can be used by anyone!
    • Lastly, my products are a work of love and care for my patients as well as a gift to myself. My skin has NEVER looked so good!

    How my BioBalance Skin Care line was created is an interesting story, and one that I think was assisted by fate.

    In 2006 I was on the Board of Aeterna Medical Spa. We used popular products before and after our treatments, but nothing that actually improved the outcomes for most of our patients. We did have a line products invented by doctors, but they smelled terrible and they literally didn’t work for people over 40; most of our patients.

    I went on a search for a lab that would formulate products for us based on the criteria I listed above. None of the dermatologists or plastic surgeons on the Aeterna board had an interest or the expertise to choose an appropriate line, and then add the active ingredients I desired that would improve skin texture and health, especially for people who just had laser and IPL treatments.

    I finally found Halina-Andre, a lab in Austin Texas, that was owned by and old friend of mine. The story of that business was an amazing one, indeed! Halina, an esthetician, and her husband, Andre, a chemist at University of Texas, Austin, began making products in their kitchen for Halina’s customers. They had immigrated from Germany, after being prisoners in Auschwitz, during World War II. They came to America for a new life and began their collaboration to make better products than could be found on the market anywhere.

    Halina told Andre what she wanted for her esthetic clients and he created it. They then found they had compiled a large and outstanding collection of formulations, so they formed their business and began to sell these botanical products based on chemistry and esthetics, to high-end spas.

    When I was introduced to their products, they had retired and sold their business to Scott Sims, a Missouri native and a friend from University of Missouri. Scott allowed me to not only private label these amazing formulations, but he also allowed me to add herbs, vitamins and other natural elements that made them even more effective!

    BioBalance now has the most effective, affordable and unique formulations for your skin. They are made with natural ingredients and can’t be obtained elsewhere outside of high-end spas!

    Try these amazing products, and watch your skin be transformed, exfoliated and made healthy and glowing!

  • I put most of the BioBalance Botanical Skin Care products on sale for Mother’s Day. See deep discounts on select products all skin types:

    Normal Skin: Skin with a lack of shine, with normal pore openings and a look that is fresh and supple.

    Oily and Problem Skin: Skin with a shiny appearance, open pores, often with acne, oily all over, pimples, with few wrinkles and facial lines.

    Dry and Sensitive Skin: Skin that is dry and sometimes flakes, small poor openings, thin and a lack of moisture, that feels dry.

    We also offer a selection of products suitable for all skin types.

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