Enlightened Beauty

MARCH 24, 2025

You get the Fitzpatrick type, you follow a standard protocol, and boom results. Understanding the Fitzpatrick scale is important, but its not the whole story. Confidence in this area grows the more you understand your tools, your ingredients, and your clients. Learn the science behind your tools. Skin is nuanced.

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Associated Skin Care Professionals

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Fitzpatrick Scale The Fitzpatrick Scale was not developed until 1975 by Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, chairman of Harvard Medical School, but it has become the trusted gold standard of skin typing. 1 The original purpose of the Fitzpatrick Scale was to measure the skin’s ability to tolerate UV light.

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Tricoci University

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Fitzpatrick Scale categorizes skin by color and light sensitivity. As an esthetician, you can decide whether the Fitzpatrick Scale is relevant for your clients. Esthetician schools and training programs can provide you the tools and learning to give your clients great chemical peels.

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Lydia Sarfati

MAY 16, 2023

This includes avoiding sun exposure during the times of the sun’s strongest UV light, between 10 am and 3 pm, and wearing the appropriate SPF for the skin’s Fitzpatrick scale, as well as using a full-spectrum, non-chemical physical blocker that includes zinc and titanium dioxide. Let us know in the comments!

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