5 steps to curl your hair with a Flat Iron

Curling your hair with a Flat Iron is easy to do!  You need to start with a flat iron that is quality made so it won’t pull or snag your hair and will heat up to at least 400 degrees.  The high heat is important to help seal your hair strands.  The most commonly used size plates are 1.5″; but you can use varying sizes to create many sizes of curls.  Short hair is best with a .5″ flat iron.

Step 1: With clean, combed hair divide strands into 2″sections.

Step 2: Place a 2″section of hair between the hot (400 degrees) Titianium Plates

Step 3: Quickly turn the flat iron a full 180 degree rotation, be sure to have the ends of hair remain in path of the flat iron plates.

Step 4: Gently pull the flat iron through the length of your hair strands, all the way to the ends.  Note: the slower you move the tighter your curls will be, faster movements will result in more beachy type waves.

Step 5: Twist the results around your finger to keep ringlets, or run your fingers through them to create a stylish, messy look.  Then hairspray!

See how easy it is in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKpFXLDlNw

Get yours today!  Don’t forget to check out the amazing and transformative Hair Serum and Hair Mask too!  Be sure to be our Fan on Facebook and join our Email list for exclusive offers.  Have questions?  Call us at 1.800.282.3223 or leave a message here.

Professional Hair Tools with Shiny Titanium & Infrared

GS Products has teamed together with ProFashion Professional Hair Products to introduce an exceptional line of hair tools and products to wholesale and consumer clients.  Designed for the professional but easy enough for anyone to use, these stand-out ionic tools make it easy to style hair in a variety of ways with less time, while sealing hair cuticles providing strength and shine.

8 professional grade hair tools are manufactured with the highest quality parts, including shiny titanium, tourmaline, and far-infrared technology.  The craftsmanship of each tool is reflected in every piece and backed with a warranty, giving customers years of carefree operation.

Titanium plates allows for faster heat, up to 450°.  Titanium plates are also scratch resistant, allowing your flat iron treatments to be snag and hassle free.  Even distribution of the far-infrared heat helps to soothe, smooth and seal hair cuticles leaving the user with frizz free, shiny hair. Titanium works to enhance they hydration of each hair strand, leaving it softer and healthier with a boost of negative ions.  These negative ions work rapidly to improve the health of hair strands by neutralizing the positive charge that allows hair pores to remain open, causes a loss of hydration and leaves hair feeling brittle.

Tourmaline is a semi-precious gemstone that generates negative ions, enhancing the texture of the hair by treating the core of each hair strand first, effectively moving from the inside to the outside of the hair, causing less damage.  This permanently negatively charged stone also produces negative ions for far-infrared heat.   Tourmaline can be found in each of the curlers from the line of professional products now available from GS Products.

Far-Infrared heat technology is a breakthrough way to apply heat to hair strands, preserving the integrity of the hair shaft, sealing damaged cuticles and penetrates the hair’s damaged cells restoring healthy shine and beauty.

In addition to these cutting edge technologies, GS Products is providing clients with must-have hair treatment products and stylish accessories.  All ProFashion Professional Hair Styling Products can be found at www.gerdaspillmann.com and retail starting at $69.00

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Skin Renaissance Revival

Gerda Spillmann is dedicated to beautiful, healthy skin at any and all ages and stages of life.  If your skin has suffered damage, neglect or extreme changes then perhaps it is time for a Renaissance.

Renaissance Age Serum

This silky, light-weight serum works quickly to improve skin texture by aiding in production of collagen; limiting the loss of collagen; eliminating free-radicals; aids the skin in creating new, healthy cells and retaining skin’s essential hydration. Proven to be highly effective in Swiss laboratory studies, high performing Amino Acids and Tamarind Seed Extract, help to quickly repair irritated or damaged skin. Tamarind Seed Extract significantly improves skin elasticity, hydration and smoothness. In a recent study, this extract was found to outperform Hyaluronic Acid. Naturally grown Swiss Edelweiss has been established as a significant free-radical reducer, preventing further damage to the skin. These ingredients effectively work with the skin to give both immediate and long-lasting anti-aging effects.

Renaissance Pro Age

The newest product in the Gerda Spillmann line of Swiss products, the Renaissance Pro Age is a decadent 24-hour cream quickly absorbs to help dry and damaged skin feel revived and look more youthful by hydrating and repairing the skin’s cells. Extracts of Wild Yam, Lemon, Cucumber and Avocado combine with the potent power of Amino Acids to effectively fight against aging and damaged skin while nourishing and protecting the epidermis. Swiss Edelweiss works to eliminate free-radicals, caused by UV exposure, environmental irritants and even the natural process of aging, protecting against further damage. Renaissance Pro Age helps to reduce the breakdown of essential collagen in the skin, reducing the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin and gives you a natural, healthy and youthful glow.

Recently named The Must Have Anti-Aging Product by a panel of Skin Care Experts.

Make your products even more effective by combining them with a Galvanic Wand!

Galvanic Wand

Use the same technology found in the big Galvanic Systems at your favorite spa or salon in the privacy of your own home.  This revolutionary Galvanic Wand uses a positive charge to promote increased effeciveness from the products you apply.  This gentle Galvanic current may also help to stimulate collagen and elastin within the epidermis to fight fine lines, wrinkles and crows feet.  This is safe enough to use around your eyes!

Renaissance: a renewal of life, vigor, interest, etc.; rebirth; revival

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Friday Feature – Lisa Frehner, Beauty Expert

Meet Lisa, Beauty Consultant who specializes in helping her clients look their best.  Lisa is a woman of many talents, helping her clients achieve natural beauty from head to toe.  She is a huge fan of Gerda Spillmann’s Bio Fond Foundation because of the amazing coverage and flawless, natural beauty it gives anyone.  She believes so much in not just the power of beauty, but the power of skin care she uses the entire GS line on herself too.

“I love Gerda Spillmann Bio Fond Foundation! My clients have told me again and again how natural and fresh they feel while wearing it, and it even improves their skin! It doesn’t feel or look like makeup, but it gives you a totally flawless glow. Everyday I use Bio Fond coupled with a Gerda Spillmann skin care regime, and my skin has never looked or felt better than it does now! The natural healing ingredients in the Bio Fond keep me from breaking out and help to heal any problem areas. This foundation is perfect for everyday use, as well as weddings, parties, photo shoots or anything else. Thanks to Gerda Spillmann, I love my skin and I have found the perfect product for my clients as well.”

Check out more about Lisa on her Facebook Page (LisaFrehner@Metropolitan) or watch her YouTube Video and subscribe to her to see what she does next!

For more information about Bio Fond Foundation or Gerda Spillmann Swiss Skin Care visit our website, check us out on Facebook or give us a call – 1.800.282.3223.

Why Anti-Oxidants are important to the Skin

To understand why Anti-Oxidants are important we need to first understand what Free Radicals are.

From Rice University:  Free radicals are atoms or groups of atoms with an odd (unpaired) number of electrons and can be formed when oxygen interacts with certain molecules. Once formed these highly reactive radicals can start a chain reaction, like dominoes. Their chief danger comes from the damage they can do when they react with important cellular components such as DNA, or the cell membrane. Cells may function poorly or die if this occurs. To prevent free radical damage the body has a defense system of antioxidants.

A large number of the Free Radicals found on our skin are caused by radiation from the sun and damaging particles found in polluted air. These Free Radicals cause the same damage to your skin that they cause to our internal cells. When these Free Radicals break down the collagen in your skin, you may get fine lines, wrinkles and crow’s feet from a loss of elasticity. When Free Radicals damage your melanocytes, you get age spots. So of course our best course of protection is to apply products that will protect our skin before going out for the day and then to wash it all off and apply rejuvenating products at night.

Many companies may claim to have Anti-Oxidants in their products but often times these lower quality ingredients become inactive and ineffective once they are introduced to the air.  High Quality Anti-Oxidants are found, carefully extracted and included in these products.  Our ingredients and formulas are exclusive and offered only in the GS line of products because of our extensive history in the skin care industry, for almost 70 years.  One such ingredient, naturally grown Swiss Edelweiss is carefully cultivated with the strictest quality control guidelines in the industry, and has been proven to be a potent Anti-Oxidant extract that will help to protect the skin and give you long lasting skin health.

For more information visit  our website, call us at 1.800.282.3223, leave us a comment or send us an email at Info@GSskincare.com.  We look forward to hearing from you soon!

New! Renaissance Pro Age Amino Acid Complex Moisturizer

Renaissance Pro Age is the ideal product for aging, damaged or undernourished skin with a unique proprietary blend of Amino Acids, Swiss Edelweiss, and natural age fighting extracts from Wild Yam, Lemon, Cucumber and Avocado.

This is a decadent cream that quickly absorbs to help dry and damaged skin feel revitalized and look more youthful by hydrating and repairing the skin’s cells with an Amino Acid Complex.

Proline Amino Acids found in Renaissance Pro Age, are crucially needed for collagen production. This provides the skin’s cells with cellular repair maintenance and aids in cell reconstruction to improve skin texture, elasticity and hydration.  Amino Acids are naturally found within our bodies to protect joints, produce cartilage, keep muscles flexible and break down proteins to create new, healthy cells.  Proline is biosynthetically derived from enzymes that allow topical products to absorb quickly and deeply into the epidermis.  These cutting edge Proline Amino Acids improve skin texture allowing skin to appear more youthful, radiant and with less wrinkle or fine line depth.

Renaissance Pro Age also contains Swiss Edelweiss, found to be twice as potent at Vitamin C, which works to eliminate free-radicals that are caused by UV exposure, environmental irritants and even the process of aging.  Renaissance Pro Age is Paraben Free, Mineral Oil Free and Animal Testing Free.  All GS Products have received the Swiss Crossbow of Excellence.

Initial reviews on this advanced cream have been given glowing approval for the improvement seen in the skin in just a few weeks.  Brittany Harris, an industry expert and Master Esthetician, who is sought after for her extraordinary ingredient knowledge has called Renaissance Pro Age “the newest and greatest anti-aging cream for anyone over 25.”

For more information visit our website, call us 1.800.282.3223 or send us an email.

DIY Steps for a Hydrating Facial at Home

Has it been a long day?  A long week?  Nothing helps to soothe my winter skin (and soul) better than a facial.  How do you do this without going to the spa every week though?  Follow these steps with GS Products, things you already have at home, to DIY.

Wash the day off.  The makeup and Free-Radicals too.  Start with a gentle, non-foaming cleanser that will whisk away all the contaminants and surface bacteria from your skin.  Wash all the way to your hairline and down your neck, even behind your ears.

Do it Again.  But this time wash it with a moderate, exfoliating scrub that contains both AHA and physical exfoliation to clean your pores and remove any left behind dead skin cells.  Starting to feel better already, huh?

Go Deep.  Using a toner wasn’t just for our mothers, it is a necessary and important step that shouldn’t get skipped.  Toners help to prime the skin by deep cleaning, give us an additional level of anti-bacterial control and help moisturizers absorb deeper into the skin.  If you have sensitive skin look for one without alcohol, if you have oily or problematic skin a toner with Rose Petal Oil will help to calm and soothe the skin.

Thin like Skin.  Apply your Anti-Aging products with the lightest weight consistency first.  Products with silky, serum textures should be the closest products to your skin to help with their absorption and by following this step with a moisturizer you help to seal these potent products in giving better protection to long-lasting effects.

Lay it on Thick.  A pearl sized drop is enough to cover your face and neck with the concentrated moisturizer formulas from GS.  However, when taking the time to spoil your skin add a drop or two of the RAO Oil, apply generously, and then repeat with another moisture layer in 20 minutes.

 

Do you have other tips for facials at home with GS?  Leave us a message here!  You can also call us at 1.800.282.3223, email us, visit us at www.gerdaspillmann.com or join us on Facebook.

 

Here’s to looking good in 2012!  Happy New Year!