Add Volume or Length in Minutes! Valerie's Extension Transformation!

I absolutely LOVE Platinum Extensions. I use them on a wide array of my clients.  These quick-applicated extensions are harmless and can add volume, length, or just a splash of color!

I applied Valerie's extensions in 25 minutes. Her hair length was just reaching her shoulders - -

LONG LOCKS OF LOVE - IT'S A TRANSFORMATION!

From the Beginning....

authentic  Made with 100% of the finest Remy human hair available!

touchable No lumps, bumps, clips, sewn wefts, skin wefts, metal, plastic, or glue in hair to feel or see; completely natural to touch!

fashionable Available in 36 colors, natural and fantasy shades, and in straight or wavy styles!

virtually invisible Paper thin, soft, flexible, absolutely flat, weightless attachments look and feel just like your natural hair!

versatile Wear and style however you like without fear of revealing attachments, no need to remove even when retouching your hair color!

comfortable No pain or discomfort…from the moment they are applied!

convenient Applied in less than two hours, removed in 30 minutes, damage free, and easy to maintain!

Contact Kasia Organic Salon for any questions!  Add volume, bulk, length, or color in minutes!  

Phone: 612.824.7611   or   Email:  Kassie@kasiaorganicsalon.com

Bronzed Beauties: How to Get Glowing the Natural—and Safe!—Way

It’s officially summer —and finally warm here! The sun is out, the sky is blue and we’re wearing our favorite summer uniform of a breezy lace tank and comfy cutoffs. Other summer staples we make sure to always have on hand: sunscreen and self-tanner. Because even though that sun-kissed look makes us feel healthy and radiant, overexposure to the sun’s warm rays means damaging free radicals (read: lines and wrinkles!) and the increased chance of skin cancer.

Ready for a bronzed glow that’s as safe and natural as they come? Pick up Kasia Organic’s Honey-Dip Natural Sunless Tanner and Anti-Aging Cream. Reformulated with nourishing, anti-aging ingredients and an ultra-lightweight feel, it effortlessly gives skin a healthy glow. With 10% naturally-derived DHA, Honey-Dip offers a flawless, buildable tan, and perhaps most importantly, it smells divine and won’t ever look orange or have a typical self-tanner aroma. Perfect for getting that day-at-the-beach tan without damaging your skin!

Also currently slathered all over our face and body is Kasia’s Good Day Sunshine Sunshield. The SPF 35 product packs a vitamin- and antioxidant-rich, anti-aging punch that hydrates skin while protecting it from the sun’s harmful rays. It smells light and fresh, goes on smooth and comes in a mineral non-nano formula that means it’s safe for the entire family.

What’s all the hype about nano particles? Kasia founder Kassandra Kuehl explains:

“Sunscreens have been closely watched both by the consumer and the regulating organizations for the past few years, and rightfully so. With a brother who passed away from skin cancer at the young age of 24, I have been personally invested in formulating a sunscreen that is safe for all ages. Within the past two years, broad spectrum sunscreens have exposed a new danger: Sunscreen manufacturers are now adding nano particles to sunscreens with titanium and zinc oxide to make application more smooth and clear (versus the traditional white effect). Unfortunately, nano particles are being added without appropriate labeling or reliable safety information, as they pose potential long-term risk to health.”

At Kasia, we put your "beautiful health" first and foremost. We are committed to using non-nano ingredients and have formulated a blend of broad-spectrum UVA/UVB protection with food-grade certified organic ingredients and antioxidant-rich oils to hydrate, protect, combat free radicals and promote youthful, flawless skin.

Contact our team at 612.824.7611 or Kassie@kasiaorganicsalon.com

Sip coconut for better metabolism and beautiful health. What's not there to LOVE!

What isn't there to LOVE about COCONUT!

There are times when your body runs on that "flight or fight" mode for way too long.   This causes the pH levels in the deeper digestive system to fall. That's when the coconut can step in to heal. It is capable of ridding toxins, helping to purify the digestive system. Tender coconut simply balances acid levels and cools the system. This makes it superior to other herbs and fruits that can cool down the body.

Coconut Benefits!

• Coconut is a natural stress-buster.

• Combined with spices like cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves, cumin, coriander, and turmeric, coconut is not only delicious and versatile, but also facilitates healing in the digestive system and promotes better metabolism.

• The juice of tender coconut has been billed "the world's safest natural soft drink" for being a nutritious thirst-quencher.

• Combined with poppy seeds and ghee, coconut can help you sleep better!

• Coconut has  properties that  improves hair quality. Applying coconut oil to hair every day-maintains the proteins and nurtures your long, lustrous locks.

• Coconut is cooling, so it is good for curing stomach disorders.

• Due to its soma-enhancing or nurturing value, coconut heals hot flashes and restores emotional stability in menopausal women.

• Coconut improves the complexion. You can make coconut-based skin packs at home. Mix coconut oil with oatmeal powder and a little bit of lavender to make a soothing facial pack.

• A burning sensation in hands and feet is cooled down by drinking coconut water/milk. Also make a paste of crushed middle-aged coconut and apply it on hands and feet.

• Coconut is traditionally considered a wound healer, especially effective at preventing the formation of scars if applied topically.

• If you have urine retention from heat, then coconut water helps stimulate excess fluid from the system. Similarly, liver problems, such as inflammation, are also soothed by drinking tender coconut water

• Recent research suggests that coconut is good for burning fat and lowering cholesterol.

• Coconut helps detoxify and remove toxins from the body.  Best of all, it is delicious!

Coconut Cooking 101

• You can drink the liquid that comes out of a coconut, but don't use it in cooking.

• Fresh coconut is always best, but if it is not readily available, you can generally find good quality dried, grated coconut and coconut chips in natural food stores. Use the unsweetened type, which is free of chemical ingredients.

• Tender coconuts, or ones with pulp and water, are generally available at grocery stores. Slash off the top with a sharp knife (the store will sometimes help open coconuts), insert a straw, and enjoy!

• Use coconut milk the same day. Grate fresh coconut and blend with a little warm water. Squeeze to get the rich first extraction. Add more water re-blend and squeeze again to get a thinner second extraction. Strain.

• The hot days of summer are great for cooking-and cooling-with coconut.

• Coconut oil is so yummy for your hair, face, and body!

Summer DIY Love and Care for your Feet

Did you know? Each foot has 26 bones, 33 joints, 19 muscles, and 107 ligaments.  As my feet age every year, they let me know it!   As a vivid runner and a hairstylist, I am constantly on my feet. I used to be able to get by with a flat pair of flip flops from the local Target - but that day is NO MORE!    I have become smarter in what I purchase for quality  shoes or sandels, knowing I have many more years to go in a career that I love so dear!

DIY and self care tips for putting your best foot forward:

Warm Water Soak

To provide at-home TLC, try one of these warm water soaks!

Option: Add Epsom or sea salts (natural exfoliators) to relax the feet and soften rough, dry patches of skin.

Option: Add  2 cups of pure  pineapple juice to a foot soak. Enzymes from the bromelain naturally sloughs off dry skin.

Option:  shower or bathe to soften skin, then scrub calloused areas with a mixture of 1 tablespoon sea salt and 1 tablespoon sweet almond oil. A pumice stone and gentle body wash also work. Rinse, towel off, moisturize, then don fluffy organic cotton socks. 

Foot Massage

Massage encourages better blood flow, and it just plain feels good. When you release tension in your feet, your mind-body physiology follows. Use a small amount of pure jojoba oil with a few drops of  sessional oils.

Suggestions Oils:    Lemongrass, lavender, patchouli, or tea tree essential oil.  All possess potent anti-bacterial effects. Distribute the oil or lotion through the hands and rub onto the soles, then massage the rest of the feet with small strokes. Put on cotton socks, and it’s time for bed!

Let Your Feet Breathe

Our feet can perspire through about 250,000 sweat glands and up to 8 ounces of sweat a day.

**Don’t use harsh products that attempt to block foot perspiration — it’s your body’s way of eliminating toxins.

Take a footbath using essential oils with toning, astringent, and antiseptic properties. Oil options like eucalyptus, juniper, lavender, rosemary, and tea tree are great. Add 2 to 6 drops to warm water. The toning properties firm foot skin tissue, reducing the amount of oil and perspiration excreted. The antiseptic quality helps with potential odor.

 Keep the Blood Flowing

It’s quite a ways from your heart to the toes. For healthy, comfortable feet, it’s important to encourage blood flow. Massage and exercise play important roles, as do well-fitting shoes!

As noted earlier, don’t forfeit comfort for style or you may walk a painful path, possibly filled with bunions, calluses, plantar fasciitis, deformSummer is ed toes, and various other potential long term issues. 

Get a Pedi! 

Nothing is better than a relaxing pedicure -- allowing someone else to do the "labor."  Receive a Natural Pedicure at Kasia Organic Salon TODAY!  Learn more about our services and top of the market  non-toxic nail polishes.   

Acquarella’s Non-toxic Polishes

Hydrates Nail and Tissue – Promotes healthy growth
 Hydration of the nail is an indirect, qualitative look at the following properties of the nail: color, strength, flexibility, and growth rate. Normally, strength is inversely proportional to flexibility with use of conventional products.

Since Acquarella contains water and allows the nail to “breathe”, it creates a permeable environment where the nail can exhibit both qualities. We assert that consumers will see a change in their bare nails with pro- longed, repeated use.

This visible trail of evidence will allow you to see the nail turn from a state of discoloration to an ultimately clearer state (a natural French manicure). This will require a long-term observation. Over the course of months, newer healthy nail will re- place old, chemically damaged or stained nail structure and will be visibly different than nail closer to the cuticle.

Contact Kasia Organic Salon to book your summer lovin' pedi today!  612.824.7611

Retinaldehyde vs. Retinols - Which is best for your anti-aging skin?

 What is Retin A do?  What are retinols?

Vitamin A - also known as Retinaldehyde, is your multi-purpose skincare ingredient keeping your skin young and healthy.

Kasia Organic Skin Treatments use the safest and most effective form of Retinaldehyde through our Skindeep Organic Medi-Peel.

Let's take a deep look at what makes Retinaldehyde so beneficial and why we use this anti-aging power packed ingredient in Kasia treatments. 

Retinaldehyde is the most exciting and well researched skin care ingredient on the market today!  For years is has been researched and applauded as one of the most active ingredients in the skin but has been too expensive to use in skin care products.  Through our unique partnerships with industry leaders, we are able to bring to you our liposome coated Retinaldehyde.

 

In our bodies we convert Beta-Carotene into Retinol,  Retinol into Retinaldehyde, and then Retinaldehyde into Retinoic Acid (Retin A).  All of these retinoids have important and proven activity in the skin in an escalating level from Beta-Carotene to Retinoic Acid, respectively.  Retinoic Acid is the only retinoid that requires a prescription even though Retinaldehyde has a similar activity level.  Both Retinoic Acid and Retinaldehyde are substantially more active (500 times more!) than their Vitamin A counterparts which means we can use smaller amounts to achieve desired results.  The importance of this will be explained shortly.

 

All of the retinoids have a tough time penetrating through the epidermis because of their large particle size.  One study showed that only 2% of a topically applied retinol penetrated through the upper barrier of the skin.  Therefore, to have an effect on the dermis, larger volumes are often required.  Unfortunately, that means that 98% of those larger volumes of retinol are sitting on top of the skin doing nothing but working against you by irritating and over-exfoliating.  The advantage of using Retinaldehyde or Retinoic Acid is that smaller amounts, with much higher activity levels, can be used very effectively.

 

 Retinoic Acid and all retinoids are most effective in their "all-trans" configuration and that is how most Retin A  is delivered.....The bad new is that "all-trans" retinols are significantly more expensive and by law are identified on the labels are "all-trans"....(not L-retinol AGP, Retinyl Palmitate, Retinol/Vitamin A)  The other bad news is that All-trans Retinol has a defect in its methodology... 

 


Once the skin converts Retinaldehyde to Retinoic Acid, it cannot be reconverted to a form of Vitamin A that can be stored in the skin!  That is why the skin converts only enough to perform the desired function and leaves the rest in the skin's storage units in forms of Retinaldehyde and/or Retinol.

 

If you apply topical Retin A (tm), the skin cannot shut it off which results in two things; irritation from over-stimulation and over-exfoliation and a probability for the Retinoic Acid receptors to down regulate.  All-trans Retinoic Acid has, by far, the most receptors of any retinoids and that is what makes it so potent.  However, chronic stimulation (as in the case for every receptor in the body), results in fewer active receptors and thus diminished results over time.

 

 Retinaldehyde is the best form possible from the above listed retinoids.  In addition to having its own receptor activity, it is the immediate precursor of Retinoic Acid so the skin will convert a significant amount to that form upon application.  The good news is that there will never be an over-stimulation problem because the skin regulates that conversion and uses just what it needs.

Research has repeatedly shown that Retinaldehyde has a similar activity profile to Retin A ,but with much less irritation.

The issue of penetration remains the same for retinaldehyde as is does for the other forms.  To fix this problem we have incorporated liposomes to enhance the penetration of Retinaldehyde. Coating this ingredient in liposomes also helps to prevent oxidation which occurs with all retinoids.

Until recently, this ingredient was far too expensive to use in skin care formulations.  But through our unique lab partnership, we are able to use the highest percentage of this active ingredient and bring it to the professional marketplace.

Get Top of the Line Facial Results at Kasia!

Kasia Organic Medi-Facial

A revolutionary facial treatment that will have you rethinking the average facial “peel.” This treatment is safe, painless, and will not strip or damage your skin.

The  Kasia Skindeep Organic Medi-Peel and/or Facial have a 2.0% Retinaldehyde, making it the only non-acid peel that will infuse the dermis with fibroblast stimulators, immune boosters, antioxidants, pigment lighteners, and calming anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial ingredients.

Expect results with this powerful synergy that rejuvenates the skin by increasing collagen production, fighting free radical damage, scavenging scar tissue and helping reduce hyperpigmentation making it an amazing treatment for any skin type or condition.

Reference:  
Pure Skin Junkie

Kasia HONEY-DIP makes BEAUTY BETS Best of Self Tanners 2013

Kasia HONEY-DIP makes BEAUTY BETS  *Best of Self Tanners 2013*

by:  Elizabeth Dehn, a beauty writer + lifestyle editor

A few years ago, my super-healthy, June Cleaver of a mother announced that she was giving up broccoli. She didn’t like it, never had, and she was done beating herself up about it. That’s how I feel about self-tanners with built-in bronzers.

Sure they offer instant gratification, but I can’t handle the stain they leave on my hands or the mess they leave on my white towels and fluffy robe. I know there are mitts and gloves for this sort of thing, but who has time? When I step out of the shower already behind schedule, all I want is to slap on some lotion and go. No matter how many self-tanners are in my beauty closet (at last count: 23), I find myself reaching for the same handful of no-muss, no-fuss products that also happen to tan like the dickens.  An excellent shade for fair skin types.

I didn’t think Kasia Honey-Dip Natural Sunless Tanner and Anti-Aging Cream ($29) could get any better, but it’s been reformulated with even more organic ingredients and an even yummier scent. I can’t express how beautifully this darkens or how long it lasts. MIND BLOWN.

From Beauty Bets: Learn more here!

Purchase Kasia Honey-Dip Natural Sunless Tanner and Anti-Aging Cream HERE!

Thank you, Elizabeth!  oxox

50th & Bryant Street Fest - June 22 + Kasia Annual Sizzling Summer Sidewalk Sale!

Saturday, June 22, 2013 from 12-3 

stop by the corner of 50^th & Bryant for:

 

• Free music by Karen Page and the KGB Band on Bryant Avenue South

• Andrew Zimmern’s food truck, AZ Canteen, in front of Casa Verde Design

• Face Painter and Balloon Artist for kids

• Minneapolis Fire Department Fire Truck, if available

• Sidewalk Sales at the Shops & Restaurants

• Food & Refreshments at The Malt Shop, George & The Dragon and The Lynn

• Raffle for FREE Services at Kasia’s Organic Salon

• Special Discounts & Events at the Retail Shops

 

Kasia Sizzling Summer  Specials (One Day Only!)

• Raffle for FREE Services

  

• Purchase $150 Gift Card and receive $15 Credit on Kasia Products

• Instant Face Lift!  $12 Brow Waxes on June 22^nd  (By appointment availability only. Walk in's by availability)

Up to 50% OFF Natural and Organic Products!

• Kasia Body Scrubs

• Kasia BIG BAR Organic Artisan Soaps

  

• Organic Laundry Items

• Kasia Therapeutic Body Oils

• John Masters Hair Care

• Children's Babo hair and body line

This is a great time to celebrate summer and get to know all of the independent small businesses at the corner of 50^th & Bryant!

Contact our team at 612.824.7611 to schedule your $12 Brow Wax! Smashin' Deal! 

Research Suggests Daily Sunscreen Reduces Aging by 24%

A team of international scientists have released research results that is said to prove that using sunscreen regularly can reduce the signs of skin aging significantly.

The research, which was funded by the National Health and Medical research Council of Australia, focused on a group of 903 randomly chosen adults that were all aged under 55.

The purpose of the study was to determine to what extent regular use of sunscreen slowed skin aging measured by degree of photoaging, compared with discretionary use of sunscreen in combination with β-carotene antioxidant supplements and a placebo

The study was assigned to 4 groups: daily use of broad-spectrum sunscreen and 30mg of β-carotene, daily use of sunscreen and placebo, discretionary use of sunscreen and 30mg of β-carotene, and discretionary use of sunscreen and placebo.

The groups that used sunscreen daily were asked to apply SPF 15+ to their head, neck, arms and hands each morning and after bathing, as well as during sun exposure and after heavy sweating.

The assessments were made over a four and a half year period using microscopic impressions of the subject’s hands to determine how much damage was visible.

The images showed that the group using sunscreen on a daily basis showed no detectable signs of skin aging, while skin aging from the baseline to the end of the trail was 24 percent less in the daily sunscreen group, compared to the discretionary group.

Article: by Simon Pitman from www.cosmeticsdesign.com