How It Works

The skin is an active structure with two surfaces, an external surface, or epidermis, and an internal surface, or the dermis, that together form a dynamic living wall. The epidermis serves as a barrier to the outside world, keeping out water sunlight, insects, germs, heat and cold, dirt, and gases. It keeps in fluids, such as water and blood, minerals, vitamins, hormones, proteins and heat. With the dermis it provides for heat regulation of the entire body by controlling sweat evaporation and dermal blood flow. It provides a waterproof outer layer, yet permits water to carry nutrients to the outermost living cells. It serves as a waste disposal system, ridding the body of many toxic substances, and it provides a tough outer layer to resist friction, abrasion and pressure. Most of human life hangs on this multi-layered 0.0030 inch-thick "horn layer." It's our only real solid protection against the whole environmental world. That it is so thin is truly startling.*

The epidermis is also very active metabolically. It provides a system that allows replacement of the outer cells lost to the environment. How fast these dead skin cells fall off and are replaced determines the condition of your skin, and the goal of good skin care has always been to speed up the natural exfoliation process which by mid-life slows down to 45 days. Children and teenagers have softer, smoother looking skin simply because it is renewed more often.
"New You" has the right balance of depth, speed and protection necessary to reawaken and maintain the same frequency of renewal that accounts for the bloom in the radiant complexions of children.

Epidermal Kinetics vs. Inflammation In Stimulating Skin Replacement

Invasive products exploit your body's capacity to heal. The desired re-epithelization of the skin occurs because of an increase in cellular proliferation stimulated by the destruction of tissue. It is injury by design, which is unnatural and unhealthy while the benefits are not long-term, and permanent damage could result. Furthermore, the elastosis produced from inflammation actually accelerates wrinkling.

"New You" cooperates with your body's natural ability to correct itself by stimulating the production of Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) which occurs in response to the dramatic shedding of skin. With extended use, an increase in rate of cell turnover occurs as a result of your skin's biochemical need to keep its valuable protective barrier continually reinstated, called "epidermal kinetics."

In fact, all the growth activity of the epidermis is in preparation for a new corneum. The basal cell layer contains the living cells that divide and differentiate several times until they reach the surface where they must become inanimate to serve their purpose. The rate at which these cells fall off and are replaced slows down with age and other factors, including the possible lack of essential nutrients associated with your body's ability to effectively shed dead skin. If allowed to accumulate they begin to obstruct the regeneration process.

Invasive and irritating products burn into and even beyond the basal cell layer, disrupting the biochemical pathways of natural skin replacement. The resulting inflammatory reaction goes through stages of resolution designed to first destroy the invaders, then the undamaged basal cells regroup or migrate and proliferate in areas where the epidermis may need to be rebuilt from scratch, in which case skin never attains its full normal strength, and visible scarring can occur.

"Considering all the peels used by physicians and estheticians, it could be assumed that all is known about the desquamation process, the basic chemistry of the stratum corneum. This is not the case. Although enough has been learned in the past five years to understand some of the things that must be known to keep this process normal, perhaps no other area of skin care is neglected as much."*

Regardless of all the new scientific findings, the rest of the industry is still promoting invasive techniques! This is because they can not come up with a better solution to remove the stratum corneum and only the stratum corneum without overpenetrating or over peeling. Bé Bé Visage alone has got the secret and has re-invented skin resurfacing as we know it, making invasive techniques obsolete years ahead of the rest!

"New You" is the outcome of honoring the vital necessity of keeping the desquamation process normal. Our focus on the centuries-old medicinal use of Aloe for skin coincidentally lead us to the discovery of an enzyme that not only effectively removes the corneum, it protects the very sophisticated bio- chemical reactions that spawn and govern the maturation of new epidermal cells in the process.

It is, without exception, the most advanced and exciting facial in the marketplace today. Bé Bé Visage, meaning baby face, restores the silky smooth and baby soft complexion you may have forgotten you ever had!

All the Products Work Synergistically Together

Four other products in addition to the enzyme exfoliator, "Enzyme Force," come in the kit and are used on a daily basis. The products are all designed to work synergistically together:

Hydrating Cleanser. This is a special cleanser designed to prep the skin for the exfoliating enzyme. You cannot use water, you wipe it off. You can use water with it on a daily basis between weekly facials.

The Jojoba Bead Scrub is an exceptional, light, gentle granular scrub that massages the skin. Jojoba micro beads gently buff away remaining cellular debris after the New You facial. It fine polishes the skin to a radiant glow without abrading and accentuates your skin's response to the facial. On a daily basis it removes surface debris that clogs pores and dulls skin, gently opens congested pores and sweeps away dulling surface oil and flakes.

Nature's Pearls in the kit (ceramides) restores lipids. Your skin metabolizes lipids which are its only source of energy for cellular movement. They are lost with everyday cleansing, let alone exfoliation. In addition to exfoliation, the major factors to healthy and younger looking skin are fighting off free radical invasion with nutritional antioxidants, and restoring the lipid barrier of the skin. Ceramides are the building blocks of the lipid barrier. Antioxidants are the special nutrient ingredients that fight free radical invasion (healthy cell disease or degeneration).

Ceramides make up approximately 40% to 65% of the total lipids of the stratum corneum (second layer of the epidermis). Ceramides major role in the skin is to provide structure of the skin and to maintain the lipid barrier function of the skin. There are six ceramide families in the human epidermis, each serving a different purpose. They are recognized as important regulators of cell-proliferation and differentiation. Ceramides are highly insoluble, and are ideal building blocks for the lipid barrier. The lipid barrier is the skin's first line of defense for aging.

Additionally, Ceramides reduces depth of winkles by approximately 30%, retain longer-lasting water retaining capacity, decrease skin roughness, help correct structure, maintain constant quality and improve elasticity, improve the barrier function, restore detergent-damaged human skin, protects healthy human skin against detergent-induced dermatitis.

So in addition to the system containing the most powerful as well as non-invasive exfoliator, it addresses all the other important areas of skin care and is the only skin care you will ever need.

The fifth product in the kit is the Replenishing Moisture Creme, a non-clogging nourishing Aloe-based moisturizer. There are 5 products in the kit with Aloe at the top of the list of ingredients in 4 of the supporting products used on a daily basis. Aloe of itself is powerful medicine for the skin. Its natural anti-microbial qualities enable the body to fight infection and promote healing; it contains bio-chemical compounds which help rid your body of cellular debris; it helps your skin attract and hold oxygen; it reduces oil in oily skin, balances combination skin, produces a definite tightening, and reduces the size of pores.

For acne/oily skin WLA5X Gelly is sold separately (only $9) and is used in place of Nature's Pearls until the skin becomes balanced out.

The whole kit represents a savings of $45 over buying the items individually, and you don't always have to buy the whole kit. After your initial kit you can purchase the products individually as they begin to run out. There are 10 tubes of enzyme, enough for 10 weekly facials, so they will run out first.

Remember, health is perceived as youth. The epidermis has no blood supply of its own, so its nourishment depends upon healthy blood circulating in the dermis. The healthier your lifestyle, like a wholesome diet, exercise, enough sleep, no smoking, limited consumption of alcohol and the use of sunblocks, the better you will feel and the more youthful you will look, not to mention how much healthier your new replacement skin cells will become.