Crisp mornings...hoodies at night...and pumpkin everything.  Fall is here!  Sip on a Pumpkin Spiced Latte and read about all the benefits pumpkin has for your skin.

Pumpkin is naturally full of enzymes.  Enzymes digest and dissolve away surface dead skin cells, revealing smoother, brighter, and softer skin. Enzymes are my personal favorite method of exfoliation because they are gentle, non-abrasive, and can be used on pretty much every skin type.  

Pumpkin is also loaded with essential nutrients for your skin.  Vitamins A, C, E, Omega-3 and Omega-6 deliver mutliple benefits to the skin including pore-refining, hydration, and skin brightening.  Pumpkin products give such a beautiful glow to your complexion. 

Fall is known as peel season for spas and salons.  The summer sunshine is gone so we can be a little bit more diligent with exfoliation without risking sun sensitivity.   It is the best time to correct any sun damage your skin may have picked up over the summer.  Talk with your esthetician about adding a peel at your next facial.

A weekly pumpkin treatment is a great at-home option to compliment and maintain in-salon treatments.  Once a week is great, but thicker skin types can handle twice a week.  I recommend Pumpkin Peel.  This deliciously spicy pumpkin treatment will renew and revitalize your skin this fall. A few of it's key ingredients include:

• Pumpkin Puree exfoliating, softening, and nourishing
• Panthenol Pro Vitamin B5 attracts and holds moisture in the skin
• Retinyl Palmitate helps increase skin elasticity and normalizes dry parched skin.
• Hyaluronic Acid Plumps & improves skin barrier function by attracting & retaining moisture
• Cucumber Extract moisture-binding, moisture-regulating, soothing, tightening, anti-itching, refreshing, healing, and anti-inflammatory

Pump the product directly onto the mask brush and apply generously to clean, dry skin, avoiding the eye area.  Sit back and watch your favorite show and remove with a damp washcloth after about 10 minutes.  Then follow with your toner, serum, and moisturizer.  Keep applying sunscreen every morning come rain or shine.  Sunscreen is not just for summer!  Sunscreen every day keeps the wrinkles away.

I hope you have a blessed Fall season, enjoying the changing leaves and cozy times at home with your families.  After all, Fall shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.