Description
Title: Beyond the Textbook: Approaches to Managing Acne Vulgaris
Speaker: Dr. Rob Ayoup ND
The goal in this course is to complement, yet extend beyond, the standard ‘textbook’ Naturopathic approaches to managing acne. With a primary focus on topical therapies, this course is designed to provide a variety of unique facets for acne care in your Naturopathic Aesthetics practice, including:
-Assessment tools to establish and monitor acne lesion severity, sebum severity, clinical photography tips, and patient-experience measures;
-To determine those acne-appropriate types of skin cleansers, moisturizers, serums, toners, spot-treatments, and oil-absorbing products;
-Recommendations for frequency of skin cleansing;
-To explore the acne-related research behind, and methods to maintain, an optimal skin barrier, skin pH and skin microbiome;
-A detailed review of both established cosmeceutical ingredients (including retinoids, salicylic acid and tea tree oil), as well as emerging cosmeceutical ingredients (including ceramide-based topicals, niacinamide, topical probiotics, and Vitamin C) for acne treatment;
-A review of unique oral supplements to consider (including probiotics and green tea).
This course will also provide a series of quick-reference charts outlining those cosmeceutical ingredients to consider for managing: skin oiliness; reducing inflammation; preventing post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (at the spot of previous acne lesion); and in managing skin erythema and sensitivity.
Learning objectives:
- Identify cosmeceutical active ingredients for managing acne-associated facial redness and skin sensitivity
- Identify and distinguish between inflammatory and non-inflammatory acne lesions
- Understand the role and benefit of an acne-focused patient reported outcomes measure assessment, along with a perceived stress assessment, in acne management
- Explore and discuss common myths surrounding acne and cosmeceutical product use
- Explore the structure, nomenclature, and evidence-based use of ceramide-containing cosmeceuticals in managing acne
- Identify which cleanser types are best for use in acne management
- Understand the recommended, and research-based, frequency of facial skin cleansing
- Understand the role of toners, facial masks, and oil-absorbing ingredients/products in managing acne
- Explore cosmeceuticals used in acne lesion spot treatments
- Understand the role and connections between skin pH and acne
- Identify methods to maintain an optimal skin pH
- Identify cosmeceutical active ingredients beneficial in limiting excess oiliness/surface sebum
- Identify cosmeceutical active ingredients providing an anti-inflammatory action
- Identify cosmeceutical active ingredients for the prevention of acne-associated post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation
