ESTHETICIAN

The largest and heaviest organ of the body is the skin.  Covering the body it consists of a superficial layer of thin epithelial tissue and a deeper thicker layer of connective tissue anchored to the subcutaneous layer to keep it in place.  This largest organ of a normal body weighs in at ten to eleven pounds and will cover approximately twenty two square feet.  Although we primarily think of the skin as a protective coat against micro organisms in our environment it serves many more functions.  Some of these functions are regulating our body temperature through sweating or shivering, telling us if there is something touching us, if the pressure is painful, hot or cold, eliminating toxins, helping with immunity, acting as a blood reservoir containing approximately eight to ten percent of our body blood, and synthesizing vitamin D when exposed to UV rays from the sun.  All these functions of the skin certainly warrant our attention as they keep the health of our body.  Not only will our skin keep us healthy, healthy skin will keep us looking healthy.

Estheticians focus on skin care to keep our skin smooth and wrinkle free.  Among some of the treatments we find that they commonly do are facials, skin peels, remove unwanted hair, mud baths, and use aromatherapy.  These treatments are becoming more popular and these services can be experienced at most beauty spas, hair salons, resorts and cruise ships.  These treatments are relaxing, therapeutic, and leave the skin feeling clean and soft. The client receiving the treatment feels very relaxed and refreshed, as well as feeling good about themselves.

Many estheticians expand their basic schooling to aesthetic practitioner, make up artist, and cosmetic tattooist.  In today’s world of advancing technologies the estheticians have available to them skin scanners that can help analyze the skin and aid in designing a treatment regimen. The desire to promote a well rounded, wholistic approach to skin care  treatments often leads the esthetician to Dr. Vodder’s Manual Lymph Drainage.

Developed in Europe by a husband and wife team, the method is taught in the original form today by the Dr. Vodder Schools.  Doctor Emil and Estrid Vodder were working on the French Riviera treating patients coming from the northern climates. They noticed these patients often had colds, as well as swollen lymph nodes.  In the 1930s it was taboo to tamper with the lymphatic system due to the medical profession’s poor understanding of this system of the body. The Vodders were not deterred by this and in 1932 began to study the lymph system and developed careful hand movements to cause lymph movement. In 1936 after four years of research they introduced this technique to the world in Paris, France. They spent the rest of their lives demonstrating and teaching this method. This careful hand movement, that stretches the skin to move the lymph, sets the gold standard for Manual Lymph Drainage.

The original Vodder method of Manual Lymph Drainage has been proven to help with estheticians treating healthy skin, problem skin and more. The esthetician’s Dr. Vodder training consists of thorough understanding of the lymphatic system, its structure, responsibilities, and how the lymphatic system functions. They will also understand the importance of balanced fluid movement in the dermis, and how congestion may develop in the dermis when fluid movement is stagnating. The careful hand movements taught, are the proven original hand techniques, learned in the Vodder classes, to enhance the cleansing of the skin and the underlying tissue, thus promoting healthy, glowing skin.

Estheticians may choose to focus on neck and face areas, or the whole body.  They may choose to use just the Basic training or both the Basic and the Advanced. The Dr. Vodder classes have lectures based on the latest research.  Refresher courses allow them to have their hand movements checked, and learn the latest research to maintain the highest possible standard in their treatments.