Iqoníc Spa Center ‘Silk Touch for Cancer Care’ Division
‘Soothing Skin Care and Specialized Massage for Medical Conditions’
Iqonic Center opens “Silk Touch” Oncology Skin and Body Care Division
As a new addition to Rolf Lohse’s beautiful Iqonic Center, our ‘Silk Touch’ division is devoted to helping the oncology patient prevent, manage, and speed up recovery from the range of difficult conditions that sometimes occur during cancer treatment.
To also meet the growing demands of the modern skin and body care professional, Rolf Lohse is also opening the Academy for Oncology Aesthetics.
Therapeutic Support combined with Client Indulgence
While the Iconic Center is not a medical facility, all of our ‘Silk Touch for Cancer Care’ staff are medically trained to help manage a variety of skin complications, muscle tension, special needs, and range of stressful conditions caused by oncology therapy or other medical treatment.
It’s our belief that people under the stress of medical treatment (including those already in recovery) are in need of special attention, attractive but non-allergic rejuvenating products, physically soothing, and even emotional luxurious nurturing.
Sadly, until now, most oncology client’s go without spa services (or comfort therapies) because they’re understandably hesitant to approach a less understanding, non-medically-cleared spa facility. Physicians are also justifiably cautious about support therapies—trying to simplify and reduce any risk of complication.
Because treatment is a difficult journey, our Iqonic Spa Center is designed as a nurturing and supportive environment. With our experience, range of services, and network of contacts we can answer all your questions, provide you with supportive home products, give you science-based techniques to both make you more comfortable and to speed up your recovery.
Although we’re still under development, we expect to open our German and Arizona “Silk Touch” division in 2009.
A new type of Medical Support Spa Service
Our ‘Silk Touch for Cancer Care’ division has four wonderful missions;
1. Providing medically sensitive skin care and body work.
2. Offering the best skin soothing products in the world—nurturing, luxurious, non- allergenic, non-carcinogenic.
3. Also providing a full range of regular ‘beauty spa’ services but carefully tailored to manage any level of medical condition.
4. Providing a specialized education in the area of Oncology Aesthetics.
1. Soothing and Luxurious Services
Our therapists and aestheticians are trained to perform health- oriented spa therapies on clients struggling with, or recovering from, cancer treatment.
• Skin Care - facial services, scalp massage, brow services, hair removal services, other spa therapies and makeup.
• Nails - manicures and pedicures.
• Massage – oncology massage therapy, manual lymphatic drainage and various bodywork modalities.
• Permanent Makeup - permanent makeup for brows, eye liners, lip lines and areola’s on the breast areas.
When appropriate, other helpful therapies such as deep relaxation, sound therapy, and even light exercise/stretching therapies will be performed by therapists certified in Oncology Aesthetics and Oncology Massage Therapy.
2. ‘IQ Pink’ Skin Care Line
Our IQ Pink skin care products are specifically formulated to support clients undergoing, or recovering from cancer therapies. Laboratory certified for purity and cellular support, our Iqonic Pink line of skin care and makeup helps the recovery client heal, feel, and look better.
IQ Pink utilizes a unique blend of soothing anti-inflammatory, and nourishing botanicals that promotes cellular recovery without preservatives, fragrances, or acidic irritants. Iqonic’s clinically developed ingredients improve dry skin, itchy skin, hyperpigmentation, photosensitivity, radiation recall, rashes, dermatitis, and scarring.
Designed to make the client more comfortable and to encourage healing, our IQ Pink line (when medically appropriate) especially targets the following:
• Oncology surgery – hydration, wounds, scarring.
• Chemotherapy – bruising, bleeding, rashes, hyperpigmentation, drying, thinning, over sensitivity, infections, injection site reactions, rashes.
• Hormonal or biologic therapies – hair growth, rashes, dry and thin skin, erythema, injection site reactions.
Staff Education and Oncology Certification
All Iqonic ‘Silk Touch for Cancer Care’ estheticians and therapists perform services in compliance with their state board licensures as well as having received advanced education on all aspects of cancer therapy, recovery, associated health improvement, and supporting emotional-physical healing.
3. Rolf Lohse’s Academy for Oncology Aesthetics - ‘Silk Touch’ Approach
Our “Silk Touch” oriented Academy for Oncology Aesthetics provides the professional skin and body care therapist with the knowledge, techniques, and experience required to safely and effectively work with oncology patients, those already in recovery, and those with other medically-sensitive skin issues.
While generally not a medical facility, the modern and well-trained professional spa is uniquely positioned to complement medical intervention by assisting with the client’s comfort, helping minimize side-effects, and (when treatment is done) help encourage the recovery process. It’s becoming more obvious to both physician and patient that side-effect mitigation; stress and fatigue management; emotional nurturing, celebration, and distraction; and appearance and self-esteem are contributing factors in modern oncology management.
Our Academy for Oncology Aesthetics (AOA) provides a range of opportunities: International Online Continuing Education, Classroom Intensives, Workshop intensives, Hands- On Spa Practicum’s and Mentoring. Our AOA Academy provides Continuing Education Credits, offers a bookstore of the best literature and media, and publishes a quarterly newsletter of both science-based and therapy developments. CEU’s may be applicable to Aestheticians, Cosmetologists, RN’s, Nail Technicians, and various forms of body therapists (must first check with your licensure board).
According to more than 100 studies at the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine, touch in the form of massage during aesthetic treatments helps reduce pain, poor moods (anger, anxiety, depression, confusion) and fatigue in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. For example, combining face, hands and feet massage with aesthetic therapy can provide excellent therapy to aid pain relief and relaxation. Massage can be safely given to clients/patients living with cancer as long as the massage therapist is properly trained for certain precautions.
Professional Associates:
The AOA Board consists of a full range of top medical and therapeutic experts.
