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Hi guys! This is Eva from Bay Harbour Med Spa. So somebody sent me an email and asked
me if it is ok to take a hot bath or a hot shower after they did the mandelic acid treatment
on their skin. So guess what the answer is? No. N.O. It's not ok. It's not logical that
you would take heat on something that's already irritated. Guys, listen to me carefully: even
though when you put the mandelic acid and you wash it off by neutralizing it, you don't
feel any stinging, any burning, that does not mean that we haven't done something to
your skin. So I want you out there to use your common sense and logic. If I have a cut
on my finger, even if it doesn't hurt me, would I put this finger in heat or in steam?
No, I don't want it to swell. I don't want to get more blood circulating to it, I don't
want to irritate it, I don't want it to open because heat will open it. No. I will treat
it with respect. I will leave it out of the heat, out of the sun. I will treat it with
respect until it heals. This is my answer. When you do the mandelic acid treatments or
the lightening treatment, or you use microdermabrasion, please don't be harsh on your skin. Don't
use hot steam or hot showers, not on that area. Protect that area, be sensible. Yeah,
you can wash with warm water but not hot water. No you don't have to use cold water but you
can do warm water or lukewarm water, let's say you did your face. But you don't want
to put steam and you don't want to go into a steam room and you don't want to go for
a facial after you did the lightening treatment. You want the skin to relax. Remember the best
thing the way human skin heals is when it is in the relaxed mode- when it doesn't have
to overwork or underwork, when it doesn't have to protect itself. So all you want to
do when you use mandelic acid, the area that you treat, even if you don't feel anything,
you don't want to use any harsh soaps, any harsh scrubs, any loofas, any steam, any harsh
products, any hot water, any waschlothes rubbing the skin. No, you want to be kind and gentle
to your skin. You want to be kind to yourself. You want to keep it nice and moist. You don't
want to irritate it. How long you're asking? Well, let me tell you something: if you started
to use it, and you are doing it the way I prescribed it which said 2-3 times per week
for the first 21 days. Then for the better period of the 21 days you shouldn't irritate
it, you shouldn't use anything harsh on it, you shouldn't stimulate more blood circulating,
you shouldn't stimulate it too dry. So, therefore, I would say you can use warm water but not
hot water. You don't do steam on your face when you do mandelic acid. You don't want
to change or irritate the balance of your skin- you want your skin to be like this so
it can do it's job, it can work slowly but naturally. So, there is my answer. You can
use warm water but you don't want to use steam. Can you exercise? Yes, you can exercise. There
was another question someone asked me, can you exercise. Yes. Do I suggest that you exercise
the day that you use the mandelic acid treatment if you do it too soon, no. Wait 24 hours then
go to exercise. Why, you want to know? I'll tell you why: when you really exercise and
you don't play around but you exercise, you sweat. Sweat has salt in it. So if you sweat
the salt will drip on the skin, and remember the skin i snow irritated even if you really
don't see. But the mandelic acid is doing something and in one of the previous videos
I describe how it's actually helping to slough off the top layer of the skin which is actually
an irritation in a way. So then if this is dry or irritates, or is peeling, and then
you sweat and salt in the sweat comes it will burn you. It will make you uncomfortable.
It won't kill you, but it will make you uncomfortable. Therefor I suggest waiting 24 hours before
you go to the gym and you work out. 24 hours later it's ok. Make sure that you moisturize
the skin, make sure that you keep the skin clean, make sure that you take some sterile
wipes when you go to the gym to wipe your face. And guys, another thing, please make
sure when you go to the gym and you use the gym equipment that you have a two-colored
towel. It's something I talk to my clients about. But you use a towel that has two colors
or has two patterns. It's white on one side and has another pattern on the other side
and I'll tell you why. Since you are doing the lightening treatments and you are doing
something to your skin, your skin is now in the process of sloughing off of peeling off,
something is happening- you don't want any infection or any irritation to the skin. However,
you also don't want to take a towel, so let's say, let's look at this towel. This is a towel.
So if you are in the gym, say you are taking a white towel- if you are taking a one-color
towel, both sides, you go to an exercise machine, you put the towel down and you put your face
down on the towel. Then you pick it up and you go to another machine. Guys, do you remember
which way the towel went down on the machine? No. You don't. Now you take the towel and
the side of the towel that before you had down on the machine is now up because it's
one color, you can't know. And now you pick up all the sweat and the germs and the bacteria
from the other people that were there. Your skin is now susceptible to dirt and infection
because it's drying out. So, you're pushing germs and bacteria of other people- this is
why I suggest common sense, take a towel that has two different designs or two different
colors so that you remember. Say that the side is white or the side that is red is always
down. And only one side which you will remember which side it is because it has a pattern
or different design, will be the one you will put your face on. Very important, ok? So I
hope it makes sense to you. I personally would also suggest that you don't wipe your face
on the same towel that you put on the machines, but that you take a little ziploc bag, and
most of you that watch me have my toners, and take the little pads that you buy in the
drug store, the cotton pads, take 2-3-4 of those, make them wet before you come with
my toner. Put them in a little sandwich ziploc bag and take them with you to the gym. Put
it in your pocket with you and when you are finished and you are sweating take one of
those pads, wipe your face, throw it away, you still have 2-3 left. It's sterile, it's
clean. Ok, guys? Very, very important. A lot of germs, even if they clean the machines,
they don't clean it after every single person and you can pick up a lot of yucky stuff from
machines, so protect yourself, particularly when your skin is being treated and is more
susceptible to pick up stuff. Ok, I'm done talking. Bye guys, I hope it makes sense to
you, it makes sense to me. Bye! Eva. Thank you!