5 Things Every Acne Patient Should Know…
The Skin Type Guide – How to Best Care for Your Skin
How the DUTCH test can clear your skin
I frequently see patients who have struggled with acne since puberty and tried just about everything to get it under control without success. Quite often these patients are frustrated and feel like nothing will improve their skin but desperately want to get to the...
The Truth About Vitamin A & Retinoids
Often I am faced with patients who need to start from scratch with their skincare routine. It may be that they have been fans of “soap and water and cold cream” which they were able to get away with in their twenties and thirties, but is in their forties, fifties,...
10 Clean Cosmetics Brands That You Need To Try
How to keep your skin healthy over the holidays
Why Antibiotics Fail to Treat Acne Effectively
Most of the patients I see have seen dermatologists and been prescribed antibiotics as the first course of action to treat their acne. I have patients, previous to being treated at my clinic, who took antibiotics for years! My question to them was, if it was going...
Why You Should Get a Chemical Peel this Winter
Chemical peels offer one of the least invasive ways to improve the look and texture of your skin. Benefits of Chemical Peels: Dramatic reduction of wrinkles and fine lines Improved skin texture Cost-effective procedure Even skin tone and a vibrant glowing...
When is acne not acne? When it’s perioral dermatitis…
I have had a recent influx of patients presenting with a troublesome and persistant facial eruption that is being mislabeled and misdiagnosed as acne or eczema when in reality it is a condition known as perioral dermatitis. The patient presenting with this concern...
Is Your Dandruff Due to a Dry Scalp or Do You Have a Yeast Infection?
This past week I have had a number of patients come in with the chief complaint of a flakey, itchy scalp. Most arrive thinking it is simple, persistent dandruff caused by a dry scalp but what most of them actually have is a case of yeast overgrowth on the scalp...

