Sun damage in the Okanagan is slow, cumulative and easy to dismiss until it isn't. After three decades working with local skin, here's what I've learned about SPF, mineral formulas and the spots most people forget to protect.

Stress doesn't stay in your head. It moves into your body and tends to settle in the same places every time. Here's why that happens, and what a focused treatment can do about it.

Hot summers, cold winters, and an outdoor lifestyle add up. For a lot of people in Lake Country, a professional pedicure has shifted from an occasional treat to something their feet genuinely need. Here's why.

Cooler, dry, winter air tends to create a perfect storm for creating or exacerbating a compromised barrier with dry, irritated, red skin. Skin likes around 60% relative humidity. Winter in the Okanagan is around 30-40%. It’s why skin goes from a raisin-like to grape-like shortly after you step off the plane in Mexico.

Hand Washing & Moisturizing The peanut butter and jelly of skin care

It's incredibly important to wash our hands. Also important is using moisturizer to replenish what's lost when we constantly strip the skin through washing and use of harsh sanitizers.