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This month’s featured product is the very popular AHA Marine Moisture Creme. This product is a high potency moisturizer with 15% concentrated glycolic acid combined with marine derived peptides. This combination visibly reduces wrinkles,...

Caring for the skin around your eyes is as important, if not more important, than caring for the skin on the rest of your face.  The skin around the eyes shows more visible signs of aging earlier because it is thinner, has decreased oil production,...

A very popular product that is used daily by many of our clients and patients has been chosen as the Product Of The Month for January 2019.  This month, we are highlighting our own Vita-C Peptide Spray, and it is very popular for a reason. Vita-C...

What is a skin tag? Skin tags are basically areas of excess skin that form on the stalk. Skin tags usually develop around areas of loose skin such as the neckline, under the arms, in the groin area, and under the breasts (for men and women). Nobody...

We here at Maine Laser Skin Care and Medispa are proud to be the first in the state of Maine to offer Secret RF Micro Needling.  This innovative technology combines the power of radio frequency with the known tightening features of micro needling...

I have been claiming for over four years that skin care procedures that use platelet rich plasma, or PRP, work to improve the skin. These operations are also known as vampire procedures, and include the Vampire Facelift, Vampire Facial, and Vampire...

Over the past several years, we at Maine Laser Skin Care have carried a number of product kits that include several individual skin care products. Each item within a certain batch works well for a particular skin condition, such as acne, or for...

For the past several years, we here at Maine Laser Skin Care have been using micro needling on patients to improve their skin texture, reduce the crêpiness of particular people’s skin, and reduce the appearance of scars and stretch marks.  We also...

As some of you know, one of the taglines of CoolSculpting claims, “If you can squeeze it, we can freeze it!”  Indeed, the United States’ Food and Drug Administration has already approved this groundbreaking fat-freezing technology for treating...

This photo you see below is just a portion of the Botox we here at Maine Laser Skin Care have administered just over the past year. It gives you an idea of how we got to be a Diamond level practice with Allergan, and therefore able to pass multiple...

As I have preached for many years, applying sunscreen on a daily basis is the most powerful preventive tool to protect against the appearance of aging skin.  Increasing clinical evidence shows that if you use sunscreen every day, you will not only...

There has long been thought to be a connection between acne and diet.  Individual studies have linked acne with “junk foods” and also with dairy products, especially milk itself. However, does eating junk food actually increase acne, or is it...

Acne is a very common and very visible skin condition that we commonly treat here at Maine Laser Skin Care.  As a result, our patients ask us lots of questions that revolve around how to prevent outbreaks or how to manage acne when outbreaks have...

We here at Maine Laser Skin Care and Medispa realize that people can be curious about undergoing a procedure that is new to them, but also nervous at the same time. Coolsculpting is certainly no exception to this rule. Despite abundant evidence to...