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Skin Care Nitty-Gritty

specials — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:00:00 +0000

While the shelves labeled beauty care are laden with various types of products to help you with your skin, confusion lies in choosing the right product. So what is the best bet? To choose a new entrant on the block or wait for something which might still be much better. Also "whether this will suit my skin type'
remains unanswered. It is important to know how to deal with our skin. Skin is not any just surface wherein you try and test various concoctions in pursuit of beauty.

Smartness lies not in believing the promises of the product and experimenting for experiments sake but understanding the true type and texture of your skin and caring for it wisely.
Cosmetics come in many form and deciding what is good for your is often a matter of personal taste. Here is a basic skin care advice that every woman should know.

- Cleansers cleanse the skin of impurities and restore the natural oil balance. Liquid cleansers are available in the market for all skin types. A good cleanser deep cleanses, opens the pores, and removes excess oil and makeup. Cream based cleansers are good for dry skin. For oily skin, grains coarse cleanser should be used. Medicated soaps should be used for acne and problem skin and hypoallergenic soaps for sensitive skin.
For touch ups throughout the day, use pad cleansers.

- Refreshers complete the cleansing process. They tone, soothe and hydrate the skin and keep the complexion clear and clean.
Astringents for oily and normal skin types, toners for normal and dry skin and fresheners are meant for dry sensitive or problem skin.

- Moisturizers refuel your skin's moisture and nourish it.
Moisturizers form a protective shield to minimize moisture evaporation and dehydration of dry area. They help restore skin's natural moisture balance. While oil control moisturizers control excess oil and prevent blemishes, emollients are creams for dry skin that replenish the natural supply of the skin's oil.

- Masks exfoliate dead cells from the surface of the skin while hydrating and moisturizing it. Facial masks for dry skin remove dry flaky skin, while oily skin facial masks fine tune the skin's texture, deep cleanse it and control sebum.

- Foundation protects the skin by keeping the moisture in and dirt out besides giving the skin a flawless look. To choose the right shade of foundation, test the colour on your jaw line and it should be the same colour as your complexion. Use full coverage foundations for normal to dry skin and medium coverage ones for normal to oily skin.

Whatever is your skin type, take care of it through cleansing, toning and moisturizing ritual everyday. Apart from external help and topical application the skin could do much better with some effort for the system. Exercise, facial massage and a healthy diet regime can complement your skincare routine and help the skin look healthy and nourished always.

About the author:
Kevin Pederson manages Natural Skin care related websites. It tells you how to keep your skin healthy and beautiful with home made skin care recipes and tips on skin nutrition.

Natural Skin Care - Just Open Your Kitchen Cabinet

specials — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:19:00 +0000

By John Edwards

Safer, less expensive, and easy-to-use natural skin care can be as easy as opening your kitchen cabinet, coupled with a few minutes of preparation.

Healthy, radiant, glowing skin is something every person wants.
Yet, few of us even think to use what's really the best for out
skin: natural skin care products.

Each year, millions of dollars are spent chasing after perfectly healthy, ageless skin. The environment, stress, and less than healthy eating habits, all play a major role in the quality of your skin.

The answers to achieving radiant, glowing complexion are within arm's reach. Many of the items in your kitchen right now can provide natural skin care that's even better thank those expensive, chemical filled products that cost an arm and a leg.

Skin Care Throughout Life

From the day we are born, our skin requires much care to remain smooth and healthy. It begins with soap to keep us clean. Then, there are creams, powders, and ointments to keep diaper rash from our bottoms. During the first few years of our lives, our skin will do well with soap for cleaning and the occasional lotion or cream for moisture. Then come the teen years. Our raging hormones bring out the oily skin, the pimples, and a host of other conditions.

It's important to understand that everything that comes in contact with our body affects our health and the condition of our skin. That's why choosing natural skin care products and ingredients is important. The liver filters the toxins and poisons from the food we eat, but whatever we place on our skin is directly absorbed. This includes deodorant, lotions, gels, cleansers, toners, make-up, perfumes, and more.

As we age, our skin becomes more sensitive, and we need to be even more careful with the beauty treatments we use.

Simple Solutions for Better Skin

Here are a just a few natural skin care solutions for you to try. You'll be very pleased with the results:

-once a week, rub your skin with baking soda while in the shower, for a smooth, silky feeling. You can also do this on your face to remove black heads.

-fresh tomatoes are great for the oily areas of your face.
(Please make sure to try the tomato juice on your arm first, as your skin may be sensitive to it). Rinse thoroughly immediately after using the tomato juice.

-for a great moisturizer try olive oil: this healthy fat is good for you, and is great for your skin. You can also use it to soothe sunburned skin.

-vinegar can work wonders for smelly feet and armpits. Mix water and vinegar 50/50, and use in place of deodorant: it will keep the unpleasant sweat smell away, without any irritation. As for your feet, if you suffer with athlete's foot, a week of vinegar foot bath will help a lot, sometimes completely getting rid of your condition.

-egg yolk mixed with honey makes for a really great mask: put on your skin, leave it on for 20 minutes, and rinse off. Excellent for sensitive skin. Honey gives a tingling/ticklish sensation, so if you are sensitive to that, use the egg yolk alone.

-another use for egg yolk: for those with eczema, use it instead of soap. It doesn't smell great, but it will heal your damaged skin.

-a great treatment for dry skin is avocados: mash it, smooth it onto your face, and rinse off after 20 minutes.

Lastly, make sure you drink 8 glasses of water every day to keep your skin cared from the inside out.

About the author:

Find more beauty tips
at: http://www.beauty-makeup-tips-online.com

Enjoy a Massage at Every Vacation

specials — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:11:00 +0000

Author: J. Martin

You may associate a massage service with a fast-paced executive lifestyle. Toward the end of a long week or during a harrying marketing campaign, you hear power executives talking about how much they're looking forward to a getaway at the beach, or the spa, and how they would like a good, long massage on top of everything. The way massage is being talked about, you'd imagine the benefits of a massage were exclusive to the rich and the powerful -- but this is a common misconception.

Everyone deserves the chance to enjoy the benefits of a massage.
Saving up for a trip to the spa at month's end is actually saving up not for an extravagant splurging date, but for a healthy break. Massage is good for the body and for the mind, in cleaning away negative thoughts and the buildup of toxins inside the body's system.

Healing Benefits of a Massage

Unbeknownst to many, massage actually helps in the treatment of certain ailments. Anemic people are avail of the healing benefits of massage because massage dilates blood vessels, improves blood circulation, and increases red blood cells.
Paralytic patients definitely benefit from the physical therapy value of regular massage, as this prevents or delays muscular atrophy caused by inactivity. While massage pushes out waste substances from the body, it also heightens the body's retention of essential substances, such as nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, which aid in repairing bone fractures. Massage also lessens swelling and inflammation in the joints by improving circulation around the joints, and letting the body's nutrients flow into them more easily.

Benefits of a Massage During Pregnancy

The benefits of a massage need not pass by pregnant women! In fact, it is arguably when one is pregnant that one most needs to relax and detoxify one's body. Massage also stabilizes hormones by stimulating the glandular functions, resulting in less discomfort. Cramping and nervousness are eased by massage, which would enable both mommy and the baby inside her to sleep better!

Pregnancy is a uniquely delicate state, however. Great care must be taken in moving limbs and applying pressure to the muscles.

The use of certain essential oils may also be harmful, so it is best to have massage conducted only by an expert aromatherapist.

About the author:

J. Martin is the webmaster of the Aromatherapy Spot, your source for information on aromatherapy.

This article came from the bath
& massage section of the site.

Vinotheraphy - what is it?

specials — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:50:00 +0000

Grapes known for their many uses, now have use on the outside as well as the inside. Vinotheraphy is one of the latest developments originating from the Bordeaux region of France at the Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte.

A range of different treatments are available from Jacuzzis filled with grape-seed extract, wine-based massages, wraps of honey and wine yeast and various facials.

The principle is that the seeds, skin and juice from the grapes contains a high level of antioxidants and polyphenols that help heal skin damage and improve circulation, moisturise and improve the texture of the skin.

You can experience Vinotheraphy treatments in spa across the country or via mail-order products which include Grape & Lavendar Exfoliating masks, Pinot noir body cream and combined with chocolate theraphy products. One example of spas and mail order products can be found at Re-aqua. They have spas the following locations.

Bramhall,Cheshire | Holmes Place, Kensington London | Hales Barns, Cheshire | Preston, Cheshire | Wimbledon Village, London | Poulton Le Fylde, Lancs | Ormskirk, Lancs | Formby, Merseyside

This is one one the wish list of treatments so I would love to hear from anyone who has experienced vinotheraphy, on the outside, first hand.

Best Beauty Buys For 2005 Summer

specials — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:22:00 +0000

by Sher Matsen

So many beauty products, which to buy? Each of us is different so our suggestions may not work for all but they are a good place to start. We’ve had 20 staff members test each product and then compiled their opinions to give you our 25 best beauty buys.

1. Sue Devitt Pencil Liner is nice and creamy with a velvety texture and is available in 10 shades
2. Mac Eye Shadow has a wide selection of colors. If the color is available from mother nature than Mac has it. Rich texture and blends easily
3. Revlon Eye Shadow is expensive and has a huge selection of shades. The colors are up todate and apply easily
4. Maybelline Great Lash Waterproof Mascara is dependable and affordable. Comes with a nice fine brush that grabs every eyelash and the formula is nice and rich and doesn’t flake
5. Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Filler has a great color selection and applies easily with a brush
6. Stila Convertible Color Blush creates natural looking rosy cheeks. Creamy formula blends well producing a very natural look.
7. Revlon Skinlights Bronzer is inexpensive. It’s rich and smooth texture is easy to apply and it is enriched with vitamins A, C, and E. Available in 6 shades and has a SPF15.
8. Tarte Cheek Stain is an oil free push up blush available in 5 natural tones.
9. Max Factor Erace Concealer is inexpensive with a sheer texture so it can be used around the eyes, but covers well enough to hide those more prominent imperfections.
10. Mac Pressed Powder is ultra translucent and you can be sure no shine will creep through.
11. Mac Lipstick is available in over 200 shades. They won’t bleed and have a good lasting power.
12. Mario Badescu Lip wax is soothing and not waxy. It is enriched with Vitamins C & E and has a SPF15.
13. Lancome Juicy Tubes Lip Gloss can be worn by itself or layered over your lipstick, resulting in luscious glistening lips
14. Cetaphil Facial Cleanser is highly recommended by dermatologists. No perfumes or irritants, powerful mild cleansing.
15. Kinara Lactic Acid facial Exfloiator is a light hydrating serum that easily absorbs into the skin. Non abrasive exfoliant that cleans deep
16. Olay Regnerist Anti Wrinkle Cream is enhanced with pentapeptides and amino acids that encourage production of collagen for firmer skin.
17. Lancome Heavy Duty Moisturizer is a nonsticky cream that contains glycerin, wild yam extract, sea algae, and soy restore moisture.
18. Dove Facial Cleanser is mild and easily rinses away makeup and oil leaving skin feeling fresh and clean
19. Aveeno Facial Moisturizer is an excellent emoillience but it is scented. Oil-free lotion enriched with skin softening soy extract
20. Murad Acne Kit consists of 4 steps – cleanser with triclosan and salicylic acid to fight bacteria, pore cleaning gel with glycolic and salicylic acids, exfoliating lotion with retinol, and spot treatment with sulphur
21. Kiehl’s Blue Herbal Pimple Healer Spot Treatement is a fast acting blemish fighting gel. Contains Salicylic acid, and glycolic acid as well as herbal incredients such as cinnamon bark and ginger root
22. Lancome Eye Makeup Remover will even remove waterproof mascara. Very gentle so perfect for sensitive skin
23. L’Oreal Home Microdermabrasion is a two part system. Smooth skin with aluminum oxide crystals and moisturize with vitamin E cream
24. Neutrogena T/Gel Dandruff Shampoo is soothing and calms the scalp eliminating flakes and relieving itchy scalp
25. Pantene Pro V Overall Conditioner is inexpensive and hairstylists say its great. Frizz fighting rich nourishing formula rich in vitamins is easily absorbed by the hair

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