Bolingbrook’s Most Passionate Estheticians
Get to know and meet the team dedicated to your skin health. We build connections with our clients to better understand their personal goals and deliver amazing results.
Meet Our Owner and Founder
Samantha Dench is a licensed esthetician, functional medicine practitioner, entrepreneur, and educator with over two decades of experience helping clients achieve healthy, clear skin from the inside out. Since earning her esthetics license, Samantha has combined her passion for esthetics with a deep curiosity about the body’s interconnected systems. In 2010, she founded Skin Deep Esthetics, where she has become known for her holistic approach, addressing not only surface-level concerns but also the internal factors that influence skin health.
Samantha received her doctorate in functional medicine in December 2025 and has now expanded her expertise to bridge the gap between internal wellness and external beauty. This has deepened her understanding of how nutrition, hormones, gut health, and lifestyle directly impact the skin. The integration of functional medicine into esthetics allows Samantha to offer personalized care and a unique, results-driven approach that empowers clients to heal their skin by addressing their root causes.
Her dedication to education extends beyond the treatment room. As creator and host of The Functional Aesthetician podcast, Samantha shares insights and evidence-based discussions to inspire both professionals and clients. She launched the podcast to blend the worlds of esthetics and functional medicine, encouraging a deeper understanding of skin health through a whole-body lens.
Samantha is also the founder of Zozo Skincare, a skincare line for kids, inspired by her daughter to protect her and her friends from using harmful skincare products. Committed to transparency and education, she created Zozo Skincare to empower girls to make informed skincare choices in a social media-driven world.
As a single mom of three teenagers, Samantha’s personal journey fuels her mission to empower women to embrace their natural beauty, simplify their routines, and cultivate confidence at any age. When she’s not in the treatment room or behind the mic, Samantha enjoys spending time with her children. Samantha finds balance through journaling, reading, baths, walking in nature when possible, and cooking.
Where Skin Health Begins Within
At Skin Deep Esthetics, we believe your skin tells a story, one that’s deeply connected to your overall health. As an esthetician and functional medicine doctor, I combine advanced skincare practices with root-cause wellness to help you understand what your body is trying to communicate. Skin concerns are rarely just surface-level issues; they often reflect imbalances in the gut, hormones, or lifestyle. My mission is to help you decode those messages so you can heal from the inside out.
Our Inside-Out Approach
Healthy skin starts with a healthy, nourished body. That’s why your journey here goes beyond traditional spa services. We utilize functional hormone and gut testing to identify the underlying causes of your skin challenges, whether it’s acne, inflammation, premature aging, or chronic inflammation. These insights guide your personalized plan, allowing us to address both symptoms and the systems behind them.
With customized protocols, nutrition guidance, targeted supplementation when appropriate, and step-by-step lifestyle support, we work together to restore balance to your body and confidence to your skin. Every recommendation is tailored to you, your needs, and your unique physiology.
Empowering You With Education and Support
Knowledge is one of the most powerful tools for lifelong wellness. A core part of our work is teaching you how to listen to your body; its cues, its shifts, and its needs. When you understand what your symptoms mean, you gain the freedom to make informed choices that support long-term healing.
Our goal isn’t just to transform your skin.
Our goal is to empower you with clarity, confidence, and the tools to stay healthy for years to come.
A Partnership in Healing
Healing isn’t a one-size-fits-all process. It’s a partnership.
At Skin Deep Esthetics, we walk with you through every step, from your initial testing and consultations to your personalized wellness plan and ongoing support. You’re never navigating your health alone; we’re here to guide, encourage, and celebrate your progress.
Together, we build a plan that nourishes your health, restores balance, and helps your skin heal from the inside out. Because when your body thrives, your skin naturally glows.
Empowering Women Through Education and Functional Wellness
At Skin Deep Esthetics, our mission is to empower women with the knowledge, clarity, and support they need to take control of their health, because true healing begins with understanding your body. We believe skincare is more than products and treatments; it’s a reflection of your internal balance, emotional well-being, and everyday habits.
That’s why we blend esthetics with functional medicine. Through comprehensive gut and hormone testing, personalized wellness protocols, nutrition guidance, and intentional lifestyle support, we help you uncover the deeper causes behind your skin concerns. Our approach isn’t about quick fixes; it’s about sustainable, meaningful, inside-out transformation.
We are committed to creating a space where women feel informed, understood, and supported at every step of their journey. By teaching you how to listen to your body’s signals and make choices that nourish your health, we help you build confidence not only in your skin but in your ability to stay well for life.
At the heart of our mission is a simple truth:
When you understand your body, you gain the power to heal it.
And when your body heals, your skin naturally follows.
Our Owner Samantha’s Story
As a teenager, I rarely had breakouts. It came as a big surprise when I went off birth control to get pregnant that suddenly I was suffering from full-blown adult acne. Thankfully, with each of my pregnancies, my skin cleared up, which I assumed was due to hormones.
After my daughter, Zoe, was born in 2012, I decided to do a gut cleanse to lose the last of my baby weight. To my surprise, eliminating inflammatory foods from my diet cleared my skin up in less than two weeks!
Like most of us, I was good for a while and stuck to healthy eating habits, then went back to my old ways of eating, which was healthy MOST of the time. When I wasn’t eating well, my skin showed it. I would use the excuse that I’m only human and was here to live my life and enjoy food. Those ugly, huge breakouts and large dark patches of skin would pop up and remind me that I wasn’t as healthy as I told myself.
I learned that even though we think we are healthy and eating well, many of the “healthy foods” we eat are highly inflammatory. My partner Clint and I are always a work in progress, and we have changed the way we eat and look at food. At the age of 47, my skin has never looked better! It was as simple as cutting out foods that cause inflammation in the body.
Schedule Your Appointment Today
Ready to unlock the secret to radiant, glowing skin? Our team of expert estheticians at Skin Deep Esthetics is dedicated to helping you achieve your skin goals and unlock your full potential. With our personalized approach to the skin, we’ll work with you to identify the root causes of your skin concerns and develop a customized treatment plan tailored to your unique needs.
Whether you’re looking to address acne and hyperpigmentation or simply want to maintain a healthy, youthful complexion, our luxurious facials are designed to leave you feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, and confident in your own skin. Book your appointment today and experience the transformative power of our expert skincare services for yourself!