Beauty Therapy Courses

Whilst on your course, our aim is to teach you the skills that you will need to become a professional Beauty Therapist and support you in achieving your qualification. You will learn about the function of our skin, different skin types and conditions that affect the skin.

What type of skin do you have?

1. Look at your own skin, cleanse your skin before you go to bed, do not put any night creams or products on your face. When you wake up, look, touch and feel your skin. What do you see? Write it down.
2. Research the four main skin types and the common characteristics which may accompany them.
3. As an extension activity, you could research different skin conditions and factors that affect them, such as environmental conditions like heat.

Present your findings in whatever form you want. Remember to include images. Does your skin fit with any one of those descriptions?

How to Know Your Skin Type

Treating Oily Skin with Surface Dehydration

Did you know?

• Every 28 days your skin completely renews itself. This is why it is important to start eating healthily; in 28 days your skin will have totally renewed itself with healthier vitamins! We shed between 30,000 and 40,000 dead skin cells a day, so the top layer of the skin you are looking at now will be dust in a month’s time.
• The skin is the largest organ in the body; it has specific vital functions. It protects against heat, sunlight, injury and infection.
• The thinnest skin is found on your eyelids, where it is only 0.02 mm thick. The thickest skin is found on your feet, where it is 1.4 mm thick.
• The skin on your knuckles can stretch way more than the skin on your arms.
• The average person’s skin weighs 9 pounds and spans 21 square feet.
• Lighter skin tones appeared roughly 20,000 to 50,000 years ago as people migrated to colder climates and evolved lighter skin to facilitate vitamin D production.
• Your skin can release up to 3 gallons of sweat in hot weather!

Beauty Therapy has progressed tremendously throughout the years and, with new technology ever-emerging, we are a fast-paced and innovative industry. Historically, different cultures used different natural products to enhance beauty. Have a go at the task below to explore the interesting evolution of Beauty Therapy.

For this task, you need to produce fact sheets explaining how Beauty Therapy has evolved through the ages and within different ethnic cultures.

You should base your work around the following cultures:

• Indian
• Hawaiian
• Egyptian
• Greek
• Chinese

Please include the following information for each culture:

• The treatments or beauty products they used historically
• Why they used them
• The benefits of using them
• If they are still used today

Treatments

The below videos are a taste of some of the treatments you will come across in your research, although there are many more to discover.

Get ahead and read areas of interest in your course textbook: Level 2 Technical Certificate in Beauty Therapy (ISBN – 978-1-5104-1622-2)

Please email your activity responses to Glenda Jones – glenda.jones@hsdc.ac.uk & Sonia Ford – sonia.ford@hsdc.ac.uk