The Malibu Wellness Solution
Step 1: EC Mode Vitamin C Original Serum with FREE Refill
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After having on and off bouts with a difficult skin infection for years, my Dermatologist, Dr. Robin Fleck of Prescott, Arizona, suggested I try the EC Mode Vitamin C Original Serum. This is the first product we found that worked! I now use the product daily. I have found I can skip the application for a week with no outbreak but I like the way my skin feels with regular use. I also use the Wrinkle-Less Moisturizer as a skin soothing after-shave. These are good products.
Thank You,
David K.
Phoenix, AZ
When Teresa finished cosmetology school in 1989, her hands were a mess from all the chemicals she used when applying color and processing perms. “I was in terrible, excruciating pain every time my hands touched plain water. The skin was cracked and broken,” says Teresa, who is from Madison, Minn. “If you could have only seen how deep the blisters and cracks were; 85% of the skin on my hands and on my wrists was just raw. I would use gloves at the salon and try all kinds of lotions, but one time I woke up in the middle of the night with my finger bleeding from the ring cutting into my finger. It was so bad that I had to get my wedding ring cut off. It was that extreme.”
The doctors told Teresa she would need to leave the profession and enter a new career because there was no way she was going to be able do hair. They said she was allergic to permanent and tint solutions. But it was her life’s dream to be a cosmetologist since she was a little girl. “I’ve been told that I’m stubborn and I guess because of that, I wasn’t about to give up on that dream. So I took my state boards anyway, and received my license and accepted a job at an in-store salon at the JC Penney department store. But since this was a full service salon that did color and perms, I didn’t know how to make it work. Luckily, for me, the manager of the salon told me about a product called Malibu 2000 Crystal Gel Normalizer.”
The manager said to her, “What if I told you that you will be able to do colors and perms? Give yourself a month working here with these Malibu products. If in a month you can’t handle the chemicals, you can just do haircuts.”
When Theresa first started working at the salon, she did all the Malibu Vitamin C Crystal Gel Treatments for clients. “That put my hands in the Vitamin C all the time. At the end of the first week, I was better! So, I just continued to use the Malibu 2000 Crystal Gel Normalizer on all my chemical service clients and on my hands and all of the shampoos. I realized that I was not allergic to perms and colors, but that my skin was just over-oxidized!
“I’ve learned to keep my hands ‘In the Mode.’ My scar tissue on my hands is gone now. You’d never see the signs now. I make sure that I stay ‘In the Mode’ with the Vitamin C on my skin all the time.
Teresa
Madison, Minnesota
When Rod cuts hair on stage, there’s a spotlight, huge audiences of adoring stylists, dancers, and lots of loud rock ‘n roll!
Besides operating his own salon called “Images by Rod & Co.” in Rantoul, Ill., he’s an international platform artist with Sexy Hair Concepts® and travels the globe as the main attraction for important hair shows. He wields the tools of his trade almost like the main character in the movie “Edward Scissorhands”.
The finished cutting edge haircut he brings to his models elicits “oohs and aahs” from the professionals in the audience who clap and whistle like fans at a rock concert. In that rock concert mode, he teaches stylists the latest techniques, with skilled hands that have sculpted thousands of haircuts.
Today, he’s a star in the business, but about 15 years ago, he almost had to quit the profession that has brought him fame. The hands that masterfully cut, nearly failed him because of the exposure to oxidating chemicals , such as peroxide, used in hair coloring/bleaching solutions and perms.
“When I got my cosmetology license and first started working with colors and especially perms, my hands would break out terribly. I would have open sores that cracked and bled, like dermatitis. It actually began when I was in school to get my cosmetology license. I wasn’t sure at all that I could go on,” he said.
For awhile, he thought he might have to give up the part of his profession that included using color and perm chemicals. He went to physicians for help, but found no relief in the steroid creams they prescribed. “When I would go to the doctors they would treat the symptoms with creams for dermatitis. But they didn’t know how to fix the actual problem, because they didn’t understand the oxidation processes that were going on in the salon and how to manage them.”
That changed when Rod found Malibu Wellness. Once he understood Total Oxidation Management, he had control of his hands and most of his challenges that he had with the chemicals in his salon. Rod learned about Total Oxidation Management and how to use this new concept in the salon to insure the health of both his clients’ hair and his own skin.
“Tom Porter and Dr. Ault taught me about Total Oxidation Management. They taught me how to treat the problems, not the symptoms. First, I began using Malibu Wellness EC Mode® Crystal Gel Normalizer before and after my services to prepare the hair then stop the oxidation that was in the water and in the chemicals. I learned that water itself is an oxidizer due to the chlorine and then you just add more oxidation with peroxide. You’re in “total oxidization” until you use the EC Mode® Crystal Gel Normalizer to stop the processing. Without it, well, it was like putting layers of Velcro® over my hands! Over time, at the end of the day, they just eat at your skin. You can stop oxidation on the client’s hair and on your skin with the freshdried vitamins in the EC Mode® Crystal Gel Normalizer.”
Rod began teaching Total Oxidation Management to clients and other professionals and to this day, Rod is still a part of the Malibu Wellness Salon network. Once he began getting his skin “In the Mode,” the improvement in the condition of his hands was incredible. He added more products to his own regimen by including EC Mode® Hand Guardian lotion.
“Hand Guardian is like an invisible glove, it’s really something else that’s great in the Malibu collection. The Malibu Wellness collection complements the other products we have in our salon and onstage with Sexy Hair Concepts®. I use them both all the time. In fact, because I do a ton of color all the time, I truly believe that a stylist can not be a good colorist unless he or she understands the principles of oxidation and uses EC Mode® Crystal Gel Normalizers to control it. Unfortunately, I believe that 90% of all hairdressers out there still do not understand how to control oxidation. When their clients leave the salon, their hair is still oxidizing.”
Today, Rod Sickler makes it a point to emphasize information about managing oxidation when he teaches stylists in his salon and at his shows. He remembers how badly his own hands hurt from exposure to oxidizing chemicals and passes on what he has learned to others in the business. “I hoped that I’ve saved the skin of other professionals, as well as, of course, helping the clients’ hair!”
To this day, Rod makes sure his own skin stays “In the Mode.” As he puts it, “I still use EC Mode® Hand Guardian every day. And right before I go to bed, I continue what I’ve been doing for more than ten years by putting the EC Mode® Vitamin C Serum and 5% Vitamin E Hydro-Driver Moisturizer on my face. People sometimes guess my age to be 10 to 15 years younger!”
Rod, International Artist
Rantoul, Illinois
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