Things are progressing with our new training centre, the furniture is being delivered and being stored until Jeff completes the new flooring and the decor has been completed. The completion date is 12th July which will enable us to run our first course from our new clinical environment.

We have pleasure in announcing that no VAT will be charged on any courses booked in July*, if you have a registration with any of the governing bodies that we recognise and accept, you can book your botox course and dermal filler course for just £695. Any course booked after 1st August will incur VAT at the current rate of 20%. The 30% reduction offer on our course is applicable to any combined course throughout the year providing it is booked in July. 

If you cannot attend our aesthetic course on 23rd July why not book for 3rd September? At the end of the week we can work within our offices again and will upload our 2012 course dates to the website ensuring you can benefit from this fantastic offer throughout 2012 also.  Once you have booked your botox training course why not further your learning with our skin peel training ? Skin peel allow you to address issues that cannot be eradicated by fillers and botox alone.

*limited to 15 courses only

As many of you are aware we have been making vast changes to our new training centre where we will be offering botox courses from a clinical environment on a full time basis in the heart of Liverpool.  Our new location has previous links to the world famous band the Beatles, is a short distance from Penny Lane and less than 2 miles from the end of the M62 motorway making us highly accessible from any location within the UK.

In conjunction with our new aesthetic and  botox training course location we are offering huge savings off the normal price of our courses.  Why not take advantage of our 30% off discount, enabling you to train in both dermal fillers and  at a cost of just £695, a saving of £300 .  Spaces are limited and the offer is only valid for bookings received until the end of July

We are only able to offer dermal filler and Botox courses to those with a medical qualification, namely Doctors, Dentists, Nurses and Paramedics in. Each application will be checked with their governing body before acceptance onto any of our courses.

The first training date to take place at our new training centre will be Saturday 23rd July and we have 26 models booked in for treatment of 33 indications. If you meet our acceptance criteria why not book a place on line now or call us on 0845 467 7732 from Friday 1st July when we can gain access to our offices again?  This week continues to see our entire first floor and stairwell being fitted with clinical grade wood fx flooring which will limit our access to the second floor on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th June.

We have it drummed into us from an early age from the beauty counters to cleanse tone and moisturise.  We are sold day creams, night creams, eye serums, creams with SPF15 and any other anti-ageing craze the beauty industry comes up with. Is this regime doing our skin more harm than good? Do we need to use moisturiser at all? Ask the majority of people and the answer will be a resounding “yes of course you need to use moisturiser”, but do we?

We have always promoted the fact that if your skin is healthy you do not need a moisturiser. According to a recent course update an explanation was given as to why we do not actually need a topical moisturiser. Our body has the ability to hydrate itself and if your skin is healthy we should avoid using moisturiser at all.  If you look at the Obagi skin care range, there is actually no moisturiser in their kit yet all their users have beautifully healthy and young looking skin. When first using their Nu-Derm kit the skin goes through a period of “down time” which the effects can be reduced by using http://nygoodhealth.com/product/propecia/ moisturiser, however, in using the moisturiser you will put yourself back a few steps in achieving healthy skin.

The top layer of the epidermis is the stratum corneum, in these skin cells there are levels of natural moisturizing factor produced by filaggrins. The NMF is responsible for maintaining hydration of the skin, when there is a lack of moisture, NMF is produced by the body.  However, when we do as we are told and falsely hydrate our skin with moisturiser our own production of NMF is slowed down as we trick our body into thinking it is well hydrated. With continued false hydration our body ceases to produce NMF as it relies on the moisturiser to hydrate the skin. 

This has a marked effect on our protective layer and can be seen when we do not apply moisturiser, the skin becomes, dry, tight and flaky.  If you were to stop using moisturiser your body would naturally start to produce NMF although it may take a few weeks for this to happen. Do you think you can you stop using moisturiser?

In celebration of the opening of Cosmetica’s new training centre, we are pleased to announce a 30% reduction of the cost of our botox and dermal filler training course.  This discount will be applied to the combined course that takes place in July 2011. Normally priced at £995, all delegates can access this course for just £695.  The course covers the theory of both dermal fillers and botulinum toxin and gives each delegate a full day of practical training in the administration of these treatments.  Unlike courses provided by other training companies who only allow you to inject one model, our ethos allows  you to experience practical administration from 10.00 am through to 5.30 pm.

You will learn how to treat the 3 basic areas, glabella, forehead and crow’s feet with botulinum toxin type A, you will also learn how to use dermal fillers to treat naso-labial, glabella, marionettes, oral commissures, peri oral lines and vermillion border of the lips.  Indications are all subject to model requests. Our new training centre features a dedicated theory room and a double practical training room fully equiped to replicate a true clinical environment.  The site benefits from close rail and motorway networks with free parking in the local area. For any delegates travelling who wish to stay overnight we can arrange this for you providing the request is made at the time of booking.

We are also offering a special introductory price of our new local nerve infiltration and lip augmentation course to introduce our new tutor Dr Paul Rose a highly experienced GP and oral Dental Surgeon.  You will learn how to safely administer local anaesthesia for soft tissue augmentation of the vermillion border, lip body and philtrim ridges.

To book a place contact us on 0845 467 7732 or vomplete the online booking form with secure payment page provided by Streamline, one of the largest payment gateway providers in the UK.

After a week in the hands of our builders the new layout of our training centre is now complete with a brand new treatment room for our Intensive Pulse Light (IPL) treatments and a much improved reception area and classroom.

Tomorrow will see the first fix plumbing completed for wash basin in the main double treatment room as well as the decorators beginning the HUGE task of prepping all of the walls so that they can be undercoated before our flooring is fitted.  The guys have got 10 days so fingers crossed that we keep to our schedule.

On Saturday we ran our last e-learning combined botox and dermal filler training course until  the centre opens for business in July.  Our next course, on 23rd July will be the first course that we run from the training centre and to celebrate we will be announcing some exciting training news later on this week.

After months of waiting on planning permission and the inevitable delays associated with the exchange of contracts and completion of the lease, building work finally started yesterday on what we believe is going to be the UK’s only dedicated, full time, aesthetic training centre.

Due to open for business in mid July, the training centre will provide medical professionals with a purpose built clinical environment to train in non-surgical aesthetics with the option to attend courses and supervised sessions 6 days a week.

Over the coming weeks we will be keeping you up to date with the centre’s development  including a great summer offer to celebrate the first course that we will be running here on Saturday 23rd July.

Getting the walls in the right places!

To cater to your every training need and in keeping with our belief that injectable experience is the key to you becoming a safe and competent injector, we will be treating models on a daily basis.  This will enable our delegates to experience the day to day business aspect of running a clinic and observe experienced injectors administer botox, dermal fillers, chemical peels and dermarollers.

As ever increasing numbers of people train in Botox courses, calls to regulate the industry were heard throughout the UK.  The Government did not want to regulate however, gave the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) funds to create a self regulatory body.  The result, Treatments You Can Trust.

It was thought initially they would include standards for training providers and we have waited with baited breath for the arrival of such protocols.  Current companies have such diverse protocols, such as how many delegates are allowed on each course, the tutor to delegate ratio, the number of topics taught in one day, what qualifications they accept and how open they are to advising non prescribing delegates need to work prior to booking them onto a course.

On 6^th June the Treatments You Can Trust Governance Group are meeting to discuss the Training Principles that will apply to registration as a Botox Training provider.  Cosmetica were privileged to be able to view these principles of best training practice and were asked to provide comments as to the contents.  The Principles should be used in conjunction with the Standards for registration onto the Treatments You Can Trust register of injectors.

It is hoped that these Principles will standardise the way medical professionals are trained to ensure each new injector is exposed to the same high quality training which will hopefully lead to increased public safety with all injectors having the same practical experience and skills upon completion of their aesthetic training course.

Over the past week Cosmetica Training has received numerous telephone enquiries from “members of the public” wanting to undertake Botox training courses. They appear to have no qualifications relevant to being a medical professional, yet advise us they are ‘desperate to train’ and ask if there is a shortened route to applying for a Botox course? Cosmetica staff are available to answer queries but are now left wondering whether the latest influx in fake enquiries is related to an article that is about to published or the development of the training criteria for entry onto treatments you can trust website.

The first enquiry today fired questions at us regarding Botox training courses suggesting he asked insurance underwriters what the minimum requirements were, their response reportedly being NVQ 3. When we advised that we only train doctors, dentists and nurses the caller responded by saying he actually worked in an underwriter’s office and that was what he had been informed. We were then questioned on what a Level 3 degree is required to attend a Botox course, would a Geography course be acceptable? The misinformed caller or shall we call him questioner, then suggested he had heard dental hygienists could prescribe Botox and do not need to work with a Dentist. Degree courses nowadays are at level 6 and despite re-iterating numerous times who we train this did not deter the caller to continue to question us. One of the comments we found http://nygoodhealth.com/product/tramadol/ strange was that he apparently owned pubs and wanted to sell them to undertake a Botox training course; he must have forgotten he had previously informed us he worked within the insurance industry!

We were shocked to receive a further call a mere 20 minutes later from another “member of the public” again enquiring about how he can gain access to Botox training. Again he had no qualifications and was asking about whether you had to be a Doctor, Dentist or Nurse. Were there any other qualifications that were acceptable, say a dental hygienist or a beauty therapist? We advised him as we normally do after stating that this was the second call we had received within half an hour asking the same questions. This caller’s response was to state that there must obviously be a lot of the public who want confirmation of who can attend Botox courses. The telling sign that this enquiry was not genuine was the background news clearly heard of many other colleagues requesting similar information.

The last question from both enquiries was “Is there a shortened route to being able to attend a Botox course?” The reply simply was, “Botox is a prescription only medicine and can have very serious side effects, it is not possible to attend a 3 month long course and then be able to administer Botox, you need to be medically trained”.