The DANNÉ Concept Of Skin Revision
Remove
We have never relied on the conventional popularity of so-called 'peeling' techniques. The human skin is not really like an onion as so often depicted in advertisements selling peels. Under microscopic view, human skin is actually a series of hill and valleys, old cells, new cells always changing and always inter-connected. Thus skin cannot be peeled or removed by “layer,” revealing new skin underneath. Skin, as most professionals know, is in sections – the epidermis, the dermis, and the subcutaneous section, each having many complicated mechanisms but each section synergistically connected to the next.
When we remove the excessive cuticle build-up known as dry or wrinkled skin, we must also remove gases, impurities and other effluvia from the newer cells in the epidermis that would shorten their life span. In addition, this type of removal helps to regulate the secretive glands, the immune system of the skin (Langerhans cells) and melanogenesis (color and tone of skin).
We accomplish this through a process we call hydrolyzation – or turning dead keratin or dead protein into a weak acid and flushing it out of the tissues. This removal system, using a sophisticated and exclusive group of enzymes and co-enzymes is the first step to any full skin revision results. It is nearly infallible with results observed from the very first treatment – yet there are no known contraindications and no age limits as to clients who are candidates.
The DANNÉ enzyme removal system also progressively tightens loose skin, helps build sagging muscle on the face and body and opens the door to further collagen enhancing treatments in the 'Rebuild' category of the concept.
Other removal systems in the concept may include, ‘playing the piano on the pH scale.’ In other words, we have formulas that can dramatically lower the pH of the skin so cell material is removed either hygroscopically with our unique approach to alpha hydroxy acids, or through hardening of the superficial corneum at such a rate it becomes brittle and detaches from the underlying newer cells of the skin.
Or we can jump to the other end of the pH scale – the alkaline side with a compound that desquamates or softens all hair on the skin, pustules, folliculitis, congested follicle and hyper pigmentation – all in four minutes flat.
The DANNÉ Team also employs the use of the world’s first patented Microdermabrador, a devise we use in removal of scar tissue or stretch marks in conjunction with the DANNÉ revision treatments.
Rebuild
If removal is like ‘cleaning the house,’ then rebuilding is like ‘repairing the house.’ Most signs of aging or disorders start in the underlying tissues – however the surface dead cell structure may appear to be aged, lightly wrinkled, dry skin. This dead excess corneum is actually not dry skin at all. In fact dry skin is a misnomer, it is actually just dead skin and once hydrolyzed away, the newer, still alive cells can then be kept alive a bit longer – this would be referred to as 'anti-aging'. In order to keep these cells alive, we must provide them with the chemistry they recognise and need as food, i.e.; products containing amino acids, other proteins as building blocks and certain vitamins. In order to maintain moisture balance, secretions from the sebaceous glands and the suderiferous glands (oil and water) need to be imitated. This would take two products – a highly fractionated, antioxidant oil and a polarised water containing herbs and minerals that mock the suderiferous secretion. This is the only way to truly moisturise the skin.
Then a transdermal crème must be applied over this moist, acid mantle created by the two above-mentioned products. The crème would be a protein, amino acid and vitamin crème, which would deliver the nutrients to the skin systematically all day long.
This in turn would feed other cell structures that are important to the re-building process. Namely, the collagen fibers. Collagen fibers look a bit like little wires or cables that branch freely throughout the connective tissues, keeping the skin firm and tight. When these fibers break and fray, they sag and the skin also sags. Injured areas may heal very slowly due to this depletion of collagen.
However, there are hardworking amino acids that actually make baby collagen inside the fibroblast cells – rather like workers at a factory. The boss of this factory and of the amino acid workers is vitamin C. It is clear that the role of vitamin C is two-fold; as both a free radical scavenger and as a precursor to new collagen production in aging skin. There are many controversies about vitamin C and which is the best and which is the most powerful – or stabilised. The word stabilised is often used wrong in advertising. Stabilised ingredients do not necessarily always mean the ingredient is better than an unstable ingredient. It means that it will not de-nature as quickly as a product as an unstable ingredient, which can be far more powerful and effective. I have had to wrestle with a great many highly effective ingredients in my time – trying to keep them in-solution in a product or active for any length of time. But thirty years ago, when we first started to work with vitamin C after observing its important role in the body from reading Grey’s Anatomy 35th British Edition, and the works of Linus Pauling, we never thought to make a big marketing scheme just based on vitamin C products, which is currently the popular misleading trend.
We use other vitamins as well, each coordinated to its specific role in the skin – such as vitamin E as the first line of free radical defense, vitamin A as a lock and key cell growth enhancer, etc.
Protect
Once the skin is rebuilt back to its normal status quo, it is vital to protect the result indefinitely. Protection from the sun is vital. Solar radiation is responsible for 90 percent of all aging and is also a free radical. There is no compromise. Newly revised skin will quickly revert back to aging or troubled skin if exposed to the sun excessively (beyond 10 a.m. and before 4 p.m. in most countries).
The DANNÉ Sun Block is unique in the fact that it is transdermal and has no greasy feel or smell of coconut oil. For women it can be worn over all of their other DANNÉ products and makeup without feeling heavy.
For men, the DANNÉ transdermal sunblock disappears into the skin without any trace at all and does not run into the eyes and sting during sports activities.
It was the preferred sun block for skiers during the winter Olympics in Lillihammer, Norway in 1994 and is one of the top sellers in Australia, Singapore and South Africa due to its anti-hyperpigmentation power. Of all my formulas, including my first formula, Seba-E (Sebum in a bottle), I am proudest of the transdermal sunblock.
Maintain
Maintain and protect go hand in hand. The physician or advanced therapist who performs DANNÉ procedures will never sell a DANNÉ product for home use. They will prescribe the proper home prescriptives according to the condition, not the type of skin the patient or client has. All DANNÉ home prescriptives are modified versions of the professional treatments and must be used on a daily basis for progressive results. Any other product used in combination with DANNÉ formulas, no matter how innocuous, will abort and negate effects of the treatment – wasting the practitioner’s time and the client’s money.