BAYFIELD – Sophie’s Aesthetics owner Sophie Owen watched her mother, Vickie Howard, struggle to find safe skin care products while battling Stage 4 breast cancer.
Now, Owen helps her mother, and other cancer patients, avoid potentially unsafe products at Bayfield’s only doctor-led medical aesthetics spa.
Owen is an oncology-trained aesthetician and owner of one of four beauty and wellness businesses housed at Face and Body Medi Day Spa. Oncology-focused aesthetics is a relatively new service, and it’s not the only way to make product choices. With confusing chemical ingredient lists to navigate, Owen wants her clients to know that she can help.
“You shouldn’t have to be scared of what makeup to put on to feel pretty,” Owen said. “I want to ... offer my knowledge in what women can now put on their skin.”
Some ingredients in beauty products could cause cancer or interact poorly with cancer treatments and medications, Owen said.
For example, petrolatum, or petroleum jelly, could be carcinogenic, depending on how the ingredient is refined, according to safecosmetics.org. Ongoing research has identified possible links between talcum powder, or baby powder, and ovarian cancer.
For her mother, the cancer treatment included eight rounds of chemotherapy and almost eight weeks of radiation in 2006, then six years of prescribed drugs. During that time, Howard lost all of the hair on her body. Her skin became dry, oily and red. Certain soaps could cause her scalp to bleed.
Once her body began to heal, her skin was new, almost like a baby, she said. Howard looked for products that would be safe for her, but the process was overwhelming.
“If there is something in this product I’m putting on my face that is known to cause cancer, or can cause cancer, then why do I want to do this again?” she said. “It was kind of scary.”
Owen connects her clients, cancer survivors or patients who just want healthful products, to “oncology-approved” products. Most of these products are approved by Oncology Spa Solutions, a training and spa services company.
During free consultations, Owen and her clients discuss treatment histories, product choices and future options for everything from makeup to sunscreen to shampoo.
Owen advises her clients to also watch out for ingredients like propylene glycol, hydroquinone, formaldehyde, parabens and petrochemicals. She encourages clients to follow instructions from medical professionals.
“I’m just here to offer more knowledge for the skin care side of it,” she said.
Still, oncology-approved aesthetician services are new (Oncology Spa Solutions was founded in 2013). Research articles about links between ingredients and cancer still disagree.
One Durango dermatologist, Mark Gaughan, was not familiar with the term, “oncology-approved.”
Gaughan said he and Owen both cautioned patients about some of the same ingredients. He tells his patients to look for dermatologist-recommended or approved products, which are approved by the American Academy of Dermatology. He recommended resources like SkinSAFE for further research.
For Howard, it was hard to feel beautiful during treatment – she was tired and too often prodded by needles. With that stress, just having product recommendations would have been helpful.
Now, with her daughter’s guidance, she can use beauty products without worrying about their ingredients.
“They go through a lot,” Owen said about her clients. “They should be able to have a spa day and not have to worry about it.”
smullane@durangoherald.com
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