Does it ever feel like finding the right skincare routine is a second job? It seems like the most common advice regarding skincare emphasises the importance of keeping it simple, but even that feels complicated. Suddenly, healthy skin requires deciphering a skincare dictionary filled with terms like retinol, niacinamide, and glycerin—to name a few.
At Regain Functional Medicine + Aesthetics, it’s our full-time job to take the guesswork out of skincare in Leawood. Through personalized recommendations, thorough consultations, and our extensive knowledge of ingredients and application techniques, we make achieving your skincare goals easy and enjoyable.
We address a full range of concerns, including acne, sun damage, sagging skin, volume loss, and wrinkles. With our skincare products and supplements, we go deeper than the surface level to treat your skin from within.
So why is skincare so confusing? Skincare is both seasonal and personal, adapting to weather changes and life stages. Let’s dive a little deeper into these changes:
Seasonal Changes
For those of us in Leawood, we experience dramatic changes in the weather consistently. One day it’s 50 degrees, the next it’s 70. Like you, your skin has trouble adapting to shifts in temperature, air, and moisture levels. Winter’s lower temperatures and dry air leave your skin feeling dehydrated, demanding richer moisturizers compared to summer’s warmth. However, when the temperature rises, so does moisture in the air, meaning our increased sebum production can create clogged pores.
These changes may seem straightforward—cold air equals more moisturizer, warm air equals less. The reality is slightly more complicated. For instance, we always recommend moisturizing at least twice daily. Furthermore, your individual skin type may require additional steps for effective skincare in Leawood, such as exfoliation, toners, and specialized creams. The frequency of these steps also varies depending on your skin type and the season.
Something we can’t stress enough is that throughout every season—summer, fall, winter, or spring—we always recommend wearing sunscreen daily. Sunscreen protects your skin from skin cancer, which anyone can get regardless of age, gender, or skin tone. SPF also helps prevent premature signs of aging, such as sunspots and wrinkles caused by UV exposure.
Life Stages
Your skincare can change depending on your age. For those in their twenties, a simple skincare routine that consists of 3 steps should suffice. However, as you age, your skin becomes thinner and paler, and it loses elasticity. We can blame a decline in collagen and elastin production. Collagen acts as your skin’s scaffolding, providing firmness and preventing sagging. Elastin works alongside collagen to give your skin its flexible, “snap back” quality.
With age, hormonal changes also affect your skin. Women especially notice adult-onset acne due to hormonal fluctuations around their period, during pregnancy, menopause, or when starting or stopping birth control pills. Estrogen, the main female sex hormone, helps prevent skin aging by boosting skin moisture through increased hyaluronic acid (a naturally occurring substance in your body that retains moisture).
If hormonal acne causes you distress, we offer hormonal medications like spironolactone and topical and oral antibiotics along with professional skin treatments to get the best results.
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Why Come to Regain?
Everyone knows they need to cleanse and moisturize their skin, with additional targeted treatments to address other concerns. The problem is that even those simple steps have nuances. Do you need a gel-based or cream-based cleanser? Why does your skin still feel dry even though you bought that moisturizer that has 5-star reviews? If acne is hormonal, what type of products can fix it?
When you come to Regain for your skincare in Leawood, we save you time and money by simplifying the process. You could spend hours on Google learning about the ingredients and the different brands, but you’re still left with the trial-and-error of finding the best routine that works for you.
Our team understands the nuances of skin care, how diet, age, hormones, and environmental factors affect your skin. We can help identify your skin type, the cause of your concerns, and the best treatment, starting with a consultation.
Want to start now? Try our skin care products quiz, where you mention your concerns, and we build a routine for you.
Consultation: Exploring the Depths of Your Skin Health
When you come in for a consultation, we discuss your concerns, goals, and current products that you use. We examine your skin and identify your skin type. Skin types vary. You may fall under the following categories:
- Dry Skin: Not producing enough sebum, causing dullness and a feeling of tightness.
- Oily Skin: Having an overproduction of sebum, causing enlarged pores and a shiny complexion.
- Combination Skin: This means some areas of your skin (like your forehead, nose, and chin) are oily, while others (like your cheeks and under-eyes) may feel more dry.
- Normal Skin: This means you have enough oil production to maintain a glow, but not cause acne.
- Sensitive Skin: You may have underlying issues, like eczema or rosacea, that cause reactions in your skin. Sensitive skin types especially should seek guidance when deciding their products for skincare in Leawood.
We also look deeper than surface level using our Visia Photo Imaging System for facial skin analysis. This technology improves our assessment of your skin to recommend optimal products and treatments for your skincare.
Customizable Treatments
We offer more than skincare products and supplements. We also help kick start your journey to smooth, radiant skin with a variety of skin rejuvenation treatments and facials.
These treatments we recommend vary depending on your concerns and skin type, but to give you an idea, we can address sun damage, loss of elasticity, loss of volume, and wrinkles with laser resurfacing, chemical peels, and our Vampire Facial.
Our facials also help boost hydration, clear pores, and address signs of aging. For your skincare, we may recommend our HydraFacial, Fire & Ice Facial, or a custom facial tailored specifically to your needs.
These treatments work best in combination with a proper skincare routine; they enhance your skin’s health, and your routine helps maintain the results.
Medical-Grade Skincare
Medical-grade skincare in Leawood contains higher concentrations of active ingredients than over-the-counter products. We customize your skincare routine, showing you the best product order and application frequency for optimal results. We only use product lines that we believe in, including the following:
SkinCeuticals
SkinCeuticals remains a leader in advanced and integrated skincare. They emphasize research and innovation to craft science-based products for quality skincare solutions. SkinCeuticals takes sustainable initiatives to transform the lives of their customers, the environment, and the medical community. With integration in mind, this brand pairs well with our facials and other rejuvenating treatments to enhance your results.
Alastin
Alastin developed the TriHex Technology, a proprietary blend of peptides and botanicals that support collagen and elastin production. These active components help boost your skin’s natural processes, enhancing skin repair and regeneration to reduce signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles. These products promote a healthy, youthful radiance and graceful aging.
Image MD
Image MD is a clinical skincare brand that uses safe, proven botanical ingredients to help you achieve healthy skin. They craft their line with the intention of only using ingredients that your skin truly needs.
Restore Your Skin From Within With Supplements
You’ve been hearing since you were a child the importance of maintaining a balanced, healthy diet. For most instances, this is because a healthy diet can protect you from chronic diseases like heart disease or cancer. Food gives us energy and nourishes us with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
This applies to your skin health as well. Proper nutrition supports your skin’s structure, health, and barrier function. Your diet can affect everything from acne and eczema, to how quickly your skin ages and how it handles sun exposure. By focusing on the right nutrients, you can restore and enhance your skin and repair it from the inside out. Let’s talk about antioxidants:
Antioxidants
Many recommendations for skincare in Leawood revolve around antioxidants. In fact, vitamin A, the cornerstone of Environ’s philosophy, is an antioxidant. But what are they?
Antioxidants act as your body’s defense against free radicals, which are unstable molecules generated by bodily processes like your metabolism. However, external factors like pollution, UV radiation, smoking, and stress also contribute to free radical formation. When free radicals build up, they can damage your cells and DNA in a process known as oxidative stress. Antioxidants work to calm this down, attaching to free radicals and preventing them from causing damage.
To increase your antioxidant intake, we recommend supplements that contain the following:
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin C
These vitamins can promote wound healing, cellular growth, collagen production, and even your skin tone.
It’s best to come to Regain for a supplement recommendation so we can get you the dosage that works best for you.
We also have a beauty and anti-aging IV therapy option to deliver vitamins and nutrients directly to the bloodstream where they can reach the cells most effectively.
Simplify Your Skincare Routine
We take all aspects of wellness seriously. Although they say “beauty is only skin deep,” that’s not necessarily true. How you look externally mirrors your internal well-being because skincare is healthcare. To get started, you can book a consultation with us and discuss your concerns in person.
Start using our treatment planning tool now to pinpoint specific areas and concerns.
Beyond skincare in Leawood, we also offer treatments like hormone replacement therapy and weight loss management, like semaglutide, at our weight loss clinic. We offer telehealth in Lawrence and telehealth in Leawood for our wellness treatments.
