"Sometimes you also have to be honest with your clients: some problems simply lie within the body"
Watch episode 7 of The Cosmetics Conspiracy: the podcast. What exactly is a skin therapist, and how scientific is their training? Dr. Barbara Geusens talks to Danielle Buitendijk, known from @thesocialskincoach and co-founder of Huid Rotterdam and Den Haag, about her own skin problems and how anti-aging can work for clients with problem skin.
"In the Netherlands, skin therapist is a recognized profession. It requires a 4-year HBO education and we are paramedics."
There is quite a difference between a beautician, a skin therapist and a dermatologist in the Netherlands. What exactly do they do differently? While a beautician mainly focuses on making healthy skin more beautiful, a skin therapist focuses on skin problems and improves them, without medication.
"As skin therapists, we rarely do basic care, because it doesn't do much."
"A basic cleansing is done a lot by beauticians. This consists of cleansing, squeezing, a mask and then a cream. We do this very little, and the reason for that is that it does not work on the causes of acne: accumulation of dead skin cells, sebum and bacteria. All you do is squeeze it out and thus remove the blockages. While scientifically speaking, this has no advantages at all."
