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Skincare Staples from a Certified Esthetician
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items As a certified esthetician, I’ve worked with a lot of products — but this list reflects the ones I actually use. It’s a mix of professional-grade skincare from Dermalogica and affordable gems that still deliver results.
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My Tried-and-True Routine ✨
Where I Shop & Save 🛍️
Timeless Skin Must-Haves ⏳
Gentle Yet Powerful 🌿
Beauty on a Budget 💸
Sunscreen That Slays ☀️
My Tried-and-True Routine ✨
These are the products I use daily and weekly to keep my skin balanced, hydrated, and glowing. Everything here has earned a permanent place in my rotation as a Certified Esthetician.
My personal daily cleanser! This top selling cleanser is safe for daily use on all skin conditions.
Special Cleansing Gel | Gentle-Foaming Face Wash Gel | Smooth And Clean Skin
Hands down the Best in the game! This award winning powder to foam exfoliant is safe and gentle enough for daily use on all skin types.
Daily Microfoliant | Powder Exfoliant | Rice Exfoliant | Achieve Brighter & ...
From the Age Smart line, this mask is designed for more mature skin, but you know what they say, its never too early to start your anti-aging skincare regime. For weekly use after cleansing & exfoliating, this mask repairs daily damage triggered ...
multivitamin power recovery masque
This Hydramist (toner), also from the Age Smart line and is the next step after my mask and or exfoliant and helps firm and hydrate the skin.
antioxidant hydramist
Collagen, a girls best friend! If theres anything you buy from this list, let it be this! “This Powerful serum helps promote, protect, and preserve skin’s collagen today, so you have more for tomorrow – supporting visibly plumper, more luminous skin and hydrating to help reduce the look of fine lines into the future.”-Dermalogica.ca
Pro-Collagen Banking Serum | Plump Skin + Preserve Collagen
Finish off my full skincare routine with amazing lotion, which helps to strengthen the skin's lipid barrier, rebalance the skin's microbiome and intensely moisturizes dry, depleted skin.
intensive moisture balance moisturizer
Where I Shop & Save 🛍️
Trusted places to shop the skincare products I love. These are reputable sources I’ve either purchased from myself or recommend.
Check out the Dermalogica website for details and prices all of the products i have listed here and more!
Dermalogica CA: Dermalogica Skin Care | Official Site
Hey, sometimes we need our skincare on a budget! Here's where i grab some of my budget friendly skincare products
Home page | Dollarama website
We love Walmart ! Everything you could ever need, am i right?
Online Shopping Canada: Everyday Low Prices at Walmart.ca!
The Ten Spot is a well-known Canadian beauty bar offering results-focused services like facials, chemical peels, waxing, laser hair removal, and nail care. I worked at the brand for about a year before transitioning into coaching and lifestyle work, ...
The Ten Spot Beauty Bar
Timeless Skin Must-Haves ⏳
Products that nourish, repair, and protect maturing skin. These picks are designed to support collagen, restore moisture, and bring radiance back — because aging should be honored, not feared.
Gotta love a good eye cream! This eye cream helps to reverse multiple signs of skin aging around the eyes.
age reversal eye complex
OMG! One of my FAV Dermalogica products on the market. We called this serum “botox in a bottle” at the spa i used to work at. Firms, lifts and revitalizes skin after JUST ONE application!
phyto-nature firming serum
Of course we gotta have the cream too!
Phyto Nature Oxygen Cream | Moisturizer for Dryness, Dehydration ...
One of out go to serums at The Ten Spot. The Biolumin-C Vitamin C serum is an award winning and helps dramatically reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Biolumin-C Serum | Signs of Skin Aging | Vitamin C Serum
Now this powerful product is a game changer for ageing skin! Helps retexturize skin showing signs of aging.
skin resurfacing lactic acid cleanser
Gentle Yet Powerful 🌿
Gentle, effective formulas that calm, soothe, and strengthen sensitive skin without triggering irritation. Perfect for barrier repair, redness, and reactive skin types.
For my sensitive skin girlies, this ones for you! A kit with all the essentials.
sensitive skin rescue kit
For my girlies with damaged skin this one is for you! Helps to strengthen skin to keep signs of sensitivity at bay.
stabilizing repair cream
Love, Love, Love this Hydramist (toner)!
ultracalming mist
Another one of my personal fav's, the Calm Water Gel is perfect for not only sensitive skin but oily prone skin as well.
Calm Water Gel
Ouu baby this is a good one! Known for being extremely gentle on the skin, this daily exfoliant made with oats and coconut gently polishes and relieves skin to reveal smoother, more vibrant skin.
daily milkfoliant
Beauty on a Budget 💸
Affordable skincare products I actually trust. These may be low-cost, but they deliver — no gimmicks, just effective ingredients and results that hold their own.
Grabbed her for under $5CAD at the dollar store. A steal if you ask me !
Brighten + Cool Eye Serum with Hyaluronic Acid
I use this eye balm daily after applying my eye serum and before makeup application.
Spascriptions Youth Reset Illuminate Eye Balm
You know how i feel about collagen! Lifting for less with this super budget friendly serum.
Clinicals Plumping Collagen Serum
Skin Secrets: Did you know that skin cell renewal and repair processes are significantly more active during sleep? Thats right, night time products are powerful tools for you skincare routine and this cream? GAME CHANGER!
Palmer's Skin Success Anti-Dark Spot Cream
Palmers love us and provided us with multiple options for the fade cream like an oily skin one! Love that for us!
Palmer's Skin Success Eventone Fade Cream 75g
Another amazing correcting cream to even the skin tone and reduce dark spots. Available at Walmart for $10.88CAD
Ponds Clarant B3 Dark Spot Correcting Cream
Sunscreen That Slays ☀️
Sun protection is non-negotiable. These SPFs are skin-safe, wearable, and won’t leave a white cast — perfect under makeup or on bare skin.
This top selling SPF moisturizer is a 3-in-1 daily moisturizer that visibly firms, hydrates skin and protects with Broad Spectrum SPF50
Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF 50 | Moisturizer | Signs of Skin Aging
This award winning sunscreen is a physical sunscreen for all skin tones.
invisible physical defense mineral sunscreen spf 30
This is what i personally use. No white cast. Light, hydrtaing and leaves me looking radient!
Hawaiian Tropic® Silk Hydration® FACE SPF 30
Where I Go IRL 📍
Dermalogica isn’t just a product line — they also offer professional skin services at select flagship locations, including face mapping, skin analysis, personalized treatments, virtual consultations, and access to licensed skin therapists. As a certi...
Dermalogica Toronto HQ: Official Canadian HQ — offers exclusive pro treatments & training
Flagship Store Dermalogica Canada Head Office
10-Spot Beauty Bar: Great for facials using Dermalogica products; ask for a facial
The Ten Spot Beauty Bar
Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa: Known for expert Dermalogica facials — calming and professional care.
Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa - Toronto Beaches
You know i'd NEVER gate keep from you guys! Marca College is one of the leading hair and esthetics colleges in Canada and provides discounted skincare and spa treatments to the public!
Marca College of Hair and Esthetics