Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Choose the Anti Wrinkle And Aging Skin Care Product

Recently, cosmetic markets are fulfilled with varying anti aging or anti wrinkle skin care product. How to choose? The key is: pay attention to your main skin problem. Example: smooth lines, lusterless skin, skin color difference with reddish part on it because of inflammation and others. Then choose the proper skin care product for you. Next, the compounds that commonly used in anti wrinkle or anti aging skin care product.

  • Retinol and retinoids
    Retinoid based cream or vitamin A take the first place of anti aging skin care product. The common side effect of this cream usage is red face skin and scaly. But, now the new skin care product without this risk is available. A part of this cream must be bought with doctor recommendation. But now the free products of this cream also available. This skin care product is smoother, so that need more long time to see the result. This compound can stimulate collagen production, a protein that fill and thicken the skin so can helps to refine the wrinkle.
  • Alpha or beta hydroxy acid
    According to a dermatologist, exfoliant like hydroxy acid, alpha or beta, will not give drastic change, but still an important part in skin care program. This natural acid (found in the plant and certain fruits) will accelerate outer skin cells peeling so the skin layer under it that more smooth and flat will appear.
  • Copper
    Copper is the important mineral for collagen formation. A research shows copper peptide helps the networks regeneration with stimulate new blood vessels formation and collagen synthesis, increase the growth in the elastic fiber networks that defend the skin elasticity.
  • Antioxidant
    One of the most effective ingredients in anti aging skin care product is antioxidant, compound that can eradicate free radicals, a non-stabile molecule caused by pollution, smoke and sunshine explode. This free radicals create many bad effect to the skin, start from hyper pigmentation (black flex and skin blackening) until skin cancer.
  • Antioxidant is a skin best friend because protects the skin from free radicals that cause aging, increase skin immune system so that the skin will protect itself better.
    One of the common used antioxidant is vitamin C, while the others are grape seed extract and vitamin E.

The skin care product form
The active ingredient in skin care product arrives in our skin in many ways that formulated in varying product.

  • Serum
    This high potent liquid will be absorbed directly in a short time and can be used under the other creams.
  • Cream
    Use this formula if you have dry skin because this product will more moisten.
  • Patches

Monday, May 14, 2007

Example of Face Massage for Skin Care

First article is about massage for your face. These are the example of face massage.

  • Practice this 2 massage
    Massage 1

    Put both of your ring fingers at inner corner of your eyes (point 1). Press slowly for 3 seconds. Release the pressure and move the fingers slowly under the eyes to the temples (point 8). When arrive to the temples, massage slowly in circle movement. Move the fingers slowly to the inner of eye corner again. Repeat 7 times.
    Massage 2
    Put the middle finger of right hand to the base of the nose (point 2). Move to the up and to the under of the nose tip (point 3) and back to the up for 10 times. Then use the middle finger tip of both of the hands, press slowly the face at the point which both of the check meet with nose hole (point 4).
    Release the pressure and with small circle movement, massage slowly along the line to the forehead. Follow the bone structure under the eyes. Do for 10 seconds. Massage the temples for 5 seconds and move the finger back to the start point with same way. Repeat 5 times.

  • Massage all the face
    Use your fingers massage start from the middle part of the chin with circle movement to along the jaw line then from the up of the lip to the ear and from behind of the nose to along the check bone.

  • Massage the forehead
    Put the finger in the middle of the forehead. Move slowly with a little pressure to the temples direct. Then back to the middle part. Repeat 2 times.

  • Massage the eye area
    Start from the temples, move your finger follow the eyes hole bone at the under part of eyes, then to the bridge of nose and along the eyebrow. Then massage again from the temples.

Monday, May 7, 2007

The Best Way to Smear Your Skin Care Product

Often happen, the same skin care products give the difficult result to different person. The expert say this is because everyone has different body chemistry substance. Sometime this is right, but that often occur is: the different result at different person because of the different way when smeared the skin care product to the face. But, the different result isn’t meant that you smear your skin care product in the wrong way. There is non-effective skin care product although you use the correct way. But also often occur, the skin care product isn’t effective because of the wrong way when smear it.
Product that smeared to the skin is a mixture of chemical substances. Some of these chemical substances are active ingredients (natural or synthetic compound for biological merit of the product). The remnants are non-active ingredients (compound that helps to protect and carry the active ingredient). The effectiveness of the product is depend to:

  • The active ingredients that really have merit.
  • The enough deep penetration into the skin in the enough amounts.

The first point is determined by the skin care product choice and about the second point, one of the factors is how we smear the product.

The ways to make sure that active ingredient penetration can work optimally:
Clean up the skin before smear the skin care product. The best time to smear the skin care product is after bath. At this time the skin isn’t only clean but also moist and can absorb the skin care product that smeared.

The important things when you smear your skin care product

  • Don’t wash your skin with hot water because can cause aging. Use warm water. If you want to smear the skin care product that comedogenic, wash your face with cold water to close the pores. Beside that, don’t take a bath for a long time to prevent the much exploded by chlorine.
  • The best time to smear the skin care product is when the skin still moist because active ingredient can penetrate well when dissolved. Once the cream become dry, its penetration level will decrease dramatically. So don’t rub your skin until dry after washing if you want to smear the skin care product. If your skin is wet, dry up with a little pressing with the towel.
  • The warm skin will absorb the ingredient well. Before smear the product, make sure your skin isn’t cold. If necessary, stick the towel that has soaked with warm water.
    The outer layer of the skin called stratum corneum, most of it contains dead and dry skin cells. If this layer become too thick (like in the become old skin and less of care), the active ingredient from our skin care product will difficult to enough deep penetration to give the wanted result.
  • Some peoples lift the stratum corneum with using chemistry exfoliant like alpha hydroxy acids, enzyme or other chemistry ingredients. Some exfoliants have the merit, but do it copiously can become bad for your skin. For most peoples, the smooth scrub that gives light exfoliating is a save choice. Beside that, face scrub also can be done with using natural cheap ingredient. For example: sand sugar can be used as scrub that light, save, effective and fresh. This natural scrub can increase the skin care product active ingredient absorption without break the skin.
    Face scrub can’t be use for more than 4 times in a week.
  • When smearing skin care product, use fast caress with middle pressing. The best is smeared your skin care product with middle finger. Don’t pull your skin. Don’t rub it. After smeared, slap lightly that area repeatedly with your fingers for ½ minute.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Skin Care for Your Body

Skin care for the hand
Your hand skin include in the part that shows aging sign faster, but less of attention than face. Because exploded by the elements continually and less of care, so your hand skin becomes dry, wrinkle and evokes the aging spots, also your blood vessels stick out. Most of hand creams now contain SPF and antioxidant to protect from UV light.
Give your hand the skin care as applied to the face. Exfoliate regularly to lift the dead skin cells and help the hand cream to absorb.
Moisten the hand with cream after wash the hand. Use skin care product with minimum SPF 15. Use hand gloves when work in the garden or other works. You should often smear the cream repeatedly. Put the cream in your bag, car and the table beside your bed.

Skin care for the neck and chest line
These parts will show aging sign faster than the hand and eyes. The skin of this part is more thin and dry with more less of sebaceous glands that give the natural protection with prevent the dampness lost.
Avoid the soap, detergent and perfume around the neck because can cause dryness and make the smooth neck skin become sensitive. Don’t often use polo neck and scarf. Always protect toward sunshine.
Give skin care at the jaw line, neck and chest. Clean up with face cleanser then smeared the moisturizer in the morning and night. Special cream for neck contains the very latest ingredients like retinol, AHA and enzyme to prevent aging.

Skin care for the elbow
This part is often coarse and dry. The continually rubbing with the dress causes dead skin cells pile. Brush with dry brush every day is one of the good ways to increase the circulation from up to the leg and make all skin become smooth. Exfoliate 2 times a week with the pressing on the coarse skin part.

Skin care for the leg
More than 70.000 nerve tips in the leg cause the leg is one of the most sensitive and responsive parts. In the middle age, the leg often experiences calloused and other problems. The regular exercise will increase the circulation and reduces infection and cold leg.
In the 30 years of old, try to visit chiropodist or podiatrist to give care to the leg, for example make the leg skin that very coarse lost or other care.
Soak the leg for 20 minutes with bath salt to subside the illness, increase the circulation and calm the dry skin. Use buffer to make the coarse skin disappear before soak the leg. If not, possibility too lots of skin that peeled that cause the skin became soft. Massage with much cream at the dry skin in the morning and night. Use leg cream that rich of moisturizer.

Skin care for the knee
Same as your leg, the knee has much burden, start from heavy burden up to the excessive exercise that makes your knee fast to become old. The pain in the knee usually caused by the excessive usage of the knee, the bad shape in the physical activity, not doing the warming up or cooling off or not enough stretching. Over weight body causes more big risk for knee problems in the future include osteoporosis.
If you rarely or never do exercise, increase your physical activity gradually. Choose walking than jogging and jogging than running. Avoid the activities that aggravate the pain in your knee. Do warming up before exercise and cooling off after that. Replace your sport shoes regularly and get the suggestion about the proper footwear.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Superstar Antioxidants for Skin Care, Prevent Aging and Danger Diseases

Since 1956, has known that oxidative stress causes free radicals production that became main contributor of aging and disease. Free radicals are produced when someone experiences: heavy disease, intensive sport and environment pollution explode. The excessive oxidative stress often flooded the body natural antioxidant. By have a role as electron donor, antioxidants like vitamin A, C and E neutralize the danger free radicals. This is important because this free radicals is not only good for our skin care (fight against aging), the excessive free radicals production also become the cause of almost all diseases, include Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, diabetes and hypertension. Next, some super antioxidants that give good synergy if added to main effective antioxidants: vitamin A, C and E.

  • Alpha lipoid acid (ALA)
    ALA increases vitamin A, C and E strength, also important regenerator of glutathione, one of important antioxidant. ALA that dissolves in fat and water take actions inside and outside of the cell. ALA will cure diabetes, cancer and heavy metal poisoned, also have an important role for our skin care because it will prevent aging. ALA decreases lipid peroxide, an important measure of oxidative stress and aging.
    Dose: 100 mg, 2-3 times a day.
  • Green tea
    Green tea contains main antioxidant called polyphenol. Green tea has merit as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic. Hundreds of studies show that green tea has chemopreventive toward lung cancer, skin cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer and esophageal cancer. Green tea also can prevents heart disease, hypertension and high cholesterol. Epigallocatechin (EGCG) in green tea is useful to person with cardiovascular disease and stroke. Green tea also helps to reduce body weight.
    Dose: 1-3 cups a day and for extract supplement of green tea with total content of 80% of polyphenol and 55% of EGCG, drinks 300-400 mg/day.
  • Pycnogenol
    Pycnogenol came from casuarina tree (French Maritime). Flavonoid in pycnogenol will treat Alzheimer, atherosclerosis and high cholesterol. Pycnogenol can prevents heart attack and stroke with offered save alternative for they who can’t drink aspirin. Pycnogenol also prevents aging with improve bone marrow and immune in animal experiments.
    Dose: 50-200 mg/day.
  • Astaxanthin
    Astaxanthin is a kind of carotenoid that has many restorative powers as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and can fight against diseases. The antioxidant power is 100 times bigger than vitamin E and can fight against some diseases, especially cancer and peptic ulcers. Astaxanthin gives protection toward oxidative stress of UV light, key factor of skin cancer.
    Dose: 1 soft gel of 1 mg, 2 times/day with food.
  • CoQ10
    CoQ10 not only help to prevent heart disease, but also can help the ill heart. The deficiency of CoQ10 can signs an early Parkinson.
    Dose: 30-100 mg/day.
  • Glutathione
    Deficiency of glutathione is found in almost all diseases, include atherosclerosis, diabetes and stomach inflammation disease. Glutathione is popular with its ability to increase immune function, also as effective antioxidant.
    The glutathione function that disturbed has an important role in hypertension disease.
    Glutathione also so important toward healthy brain, because the brain consumes about 20% of O2 but only 2% part from the body weight, so the brain becomes oxidative stress target. The change of glutathione metabolism also found in a number of nerve diseases, include Alzheimer, Parkinson and multiple sclerosis.
    Dose: drink this supplement to increase body glutathione level: selenium (200 mcg), vitamin C (3 g) and L. glutamine (200 mg) / day.

Note: before get supplement always consult your doctor.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Simple Steps for Skin Care: Facial in Home

The facial result sometime isn’t like our hope. Not all assistants in a beauty parlor are skilled. The good news, we can do our facial in home. Beside cheap, the result can be as good as if we do in a beauty parlor. According to the expert, good cleaning, exfoliation and moisturizing at facial in home also can improve skin texture and brightness for a while. For the acne, it is suggested to not press it, because it can push the acne to the under part and leave reddish color and needs more long time to cure. Next, the steps to facial in home:

  • Comb your hair to back and use headband. Clean up your face with your cleanser. Rinse your skin with warm water at least 10 sprinkling.
  • Fill a big pan with water. Enter 4 tea bags of chamomile tea (contains antiseptic and anti inflammatory that can tranquilize the reddish and reduce the bacteria). Boil the water. While wait the boiling water, smeared the scrub that suitable to your skin type.
  • After boiling, lift the pan from fire. Direct/point your face to the pan with the space around 1 foot with closed eyes. Make a tent above your head with your towel so the smoke can be enclosed in. Wait for 3-5 minutes. Then rinse the scrub with warm water until really clean. Dry up with press it slowly with your towel.
  • Smeared the facemask that appropriate to your skin. Lay and relax until the mask is ready to lift (about the time that suggested is according to the label in package). Rinse well and dry up with towel with massage slowly.
  • When the skin still moist, smeared the moisturizer for your skin type thinly. Oil free skin care product for oily and combination skin. For dry skin use skin care product (moisturizer) that contains hyaluronic acid, glycerin or penthenol.

The important things for your skin care

  • If your skin is dry or sensitive, use cleanser that lift the dirt without make your natural skin oil to be lost.
  • Oily skin and susceptible toward acne is appropriate with face cleanser that contains salicylic acid to helps exfoliate and open the clogged pores.
  • The combination skin is suggested to use cleanser foam gel to lift the excessive oil without dry up the skin.
  • If your skin has the broken capillary vessels in your face or reddish (rosacea), don’t do steaming. Better if dip your scrubbing towel into the pan that filled with chamomile tea. Wait until you can hold your scrubbing towel with comfortable. Then cling to your face until your scrubbing towel become cold.
  • The very dry skin is suggested to avoid the scrub. Better to smeared moisturizer cream that contains hyaluronic acid, glycerin and penthenol thinly at the dry part. Let the smoke helps its penetration.
  • For oily skin or susceptible toward acne, the dermatologist suggested to use mask that contains sulphur. Sulphur contains natural anti bacteria substance that can prevent the acne and tranquilize the reddish skin.
    To overcome the swollen eyes, use cucumber slice while scrub your face.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

How You Get 5 Portions of Fruits and Vegetables for Your Skin Care and Staying Young

We know how important fruits and vegetables to get antioxidant for our skin care. So now how we get 5 portions that has suggested by the expert? Next are the tips.
Try to experiment with new recipe or mix the fruits and vegetables to make it more interesting. Boiled vegetable isn’t too interesting but vegetable that sautéing at high temperature can be cooked more fast, delicious and maintain the nutrients. Many vegetables can be roasted. Beside paprika and tomato, try carrot, cauliflower and broccoli. Better if use olive oil. Raw vegetable like carrot can be eaten in the form of salad and sandwich complement. Or enter into casseroles and soup. Enter the fruits in pie and pudding.
If all those methods are failed, try to get vitamin supplement. But remember that pill isn’t as good as natural food and doesn’t give fiber.

Tips for best diet for skin care and staying young

  • Choose organic fruits and vegetables.
  • Eat the fresh agricultural produce in the day when buy it.
  • Eat at least 3 portions of fresh fruits per day.
  • Eat at least 3 portions of raw vegetables or steamed at a short time per day.
  • Eat raw salad per day that contains as many as possible of plants, example: baby lettuce, watercress, spinach, carrot, pea, tomato, cucumber, sweet corn, bite, broccoli, nut and grains.
  • Try to fill your plate with 4 colors, contain of green color vegetable, yellow, red and orange.
  • Cook vegetable soup and heated it only when going to eat.
  • Avoid the food that smoked and pickles that ready to buy.
  • Eat low fat diet that give lower calorie than needed so will reduce your body weight slowly.
  • Reduce the foods that comes from animal, especially red meat, replace with fish and soybean.
  • Increase your nut consumption.
  • Avoid all polyunsaturated fat, margarine, vegetables shortening and hydrogenated fat.
    Better use olive oil and rapeseed oil.
  • Consider to drinks antioxidant supplement.

Special Portion For Skin Care and Staying Young

The experts now find antioxidant foods have biggest anti aging ability. Antioxidant can be found in fruits and vegetables. That is why fruits and vegetables are called anti-aging medicine because its vitamin and minerals content do many numbers of works. At least to fight against free radicals that damage.
This free radicals are formed when O2 join with other molecules, produce high energy chemistry substances that seek something to join and cause damage that can’t returned back.
Vitamin (A, C, E) and antioxidant minerals (zinc, copper, manganese, selenium) in fruits and vegetables can stop free radicals attack. Carotenoid vitamin is effective antioxidant that contains of betacaroten (in carrot), lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthine.
According to the expert, we need to consume antioxidant regularly in a big amount. The method is: eat 5 portions of fruits and vegetables everyday. Then what’s the meaning of 5 portions?

Five portions for your skin care and staying young

Portion is a terminology that used by nutritionist. The meaning isn’t always 1 piece or 1 slice. Portion here is determined by the fruit and vegetable kinds. For example: 1 apple is equivalent with 1 portion but 1 small pineapple is more than 1 portion.

One portion of fruit is equivalent with:
• 1 apple or orange or banana
• 1 big slice of melon or pineapple
• 2 small fruits (example: plum, kiwi, satsuma)
• 1 full cup of berry (raspberry, strawberry) or grape
• 2-3 tablespoon of fresh fruit salad, stewed or canned fruit
• 1 glass (150 ml) of fruit juice.

While 1 portion of vegetable is equivalent with:
• 1 full tablespoon of fresh vegetable, ripe that frozen
• 1 bowl of dessert full salad.

Vegetable and fruit are the best. Vegetable that frozen, canned and dried up is also good choice. Potato isn’t included as vegetable but is a good carbohydrate and fiber source if eaten with its shell.
If you can’t eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetable in a day, so try to eat as much as you can. Then the next article is about how you get those 5 portions.

Monday, April 30, 2007

Tips for Eyes Treatment

Black glasses can helps you to hide your eyes, but this can’t be done forever. Prevent is better than overcome. These tips to help you get health and beauty eyes.

• Get much water can reduce swollen and black circle that caused by dehydration.

• Protect your smooth skin around your eyes from sunlight damage. Smeared the sunblock and use black glasses that also contain UV light protector.

• Use eye cream skin care product that special for the skin around eyes that more thin, more sensitive than other part.

• To overcome the damage that has occurred, use cream skin care product that contains Retin-A to stimulates collagen production and elastine that will refresh the skin.

• Lay stretch out can reduces the fold in the check, forehead and swollen eyes that cause the skin loose.

• Reduce the swollen in eyes with cold cucumber slice compress or tea bag that has poured with boiling water and put in the refrigerator. Beside will tranquilize, this cold compress also make you seem more fresh.

• Choose the glasses that contain UV light protector. That glasses can prevents sunlight that can break the smooth skin under your eyes.

Main Enemy of Your Beauty

Your skin care is an investment. Your skin in advanced age is the result of your skin care in young age. Be careful with these things that can influence your skin care.

Smoke
SmokingSmoking will wrinkles the blood vessels, reduce O2 that inhaled, make the skin become gray and use up vitamin C that needed for collagen formation.
Cause wrinkle and fold around the mouth caused by inhale the cigarette.
Pollution
Pollution influences your skin with the same way like smoking. The difference is, pollution isn’t cause the mouth became wrinkle and fold.
Dry air
Your skin is ease to thirsty and dry. Use moisturizer and prepare water spray to moisten your face skin when you are in a place with dry air.
Reduction and increase of body weight
Your skin isn’t rubber, although it is enough elastic. Skin can become loose, not tight or has stretch mark because of diet.
Pull the skin copiously
Skin care products (makeup or facial) should smear with soft caress. Pull the skin can cause skin become loose.
Cleansing or exfoliation copiously
Scrubbing towel and face scrub is designed to exfoliate the skin with clean up it. If you scrub the skin copiously, your skin will irritate.
Alcohol
Alcohol cause dehydration in the body, make your liver works hard and use up vitamin B in the body.
Medicines
Some medicines can cause photosensitivity (sensitivity toward sunlight), dry skin even light acne.
Constipation
Toxin can accumulate in the body if excrete isn’t smooth. Some toxin passes some canals and often that canal is our skin. Many drink plain water and many fibers can help to accelerate the excretion.
Sunshine
Copiously sunlight explode can make your skin dry, wrinkle and early aging even skin cancer.
To get the sunlight that needed for vitamin D formation, get before 10.30 a.m. or after 16.30 p.m.

Does Your Foods Make You Look Old?

The foods give a big contribution to your skin care. So with bad habits like smoking.
Certain foods can worsen and force your liver, heart and kidney to work hard. The other foods will arise inflammatory response that cause aging.
These are the foods that will support your skin care program.

  • Choose fresh fruit and vegetables
    Fruit and vegetable contain many nutrients for health skin. Eat at least 2 portions of fruits.
    To get maximum result, choose organic and local product. Fruit and vegetable that packaged attend to lose many nutrients because too long time in the supermarket rack that lighted by lamp.
    Avoid cultivated food and junk food that contain high additive chemistry, sugar and salt that worsen our body and produce free radicals.
  • Plain water
    Plain water has a big role for your skin care.
    Get around 1.5 l plain water every day. You can drink 1 l water and get the remains from your drink like herbal tea, soup, fruit juice and vegetables.
    Try to limit your tea, coffee and soft drink and alcohol consumption. These drinks can cause dehydration. Caffeine also increases cortisol hormone and insuline level that accelerate cells damage. If you can avoid it, get caffeine drink not more than 3 cups a day. For alcohol drink only 1 or 2 portions.

  • ProteinProtein deficiency can speed up aging. Get fish as a best source of quality protein. Example: salmon, mackerel and tuna, also bean, yogurt and legumes of various shorts. Avoid high saturated fat red meat that can cause high cholesterol and difficult to digested so will worsen the body.
    Limit your steak consumption and avoid cultivated meat because usually contain many salt and additive.
  • Get health fat
    Not all fat are bad. Essential fatty acid like found in grains, bean, lindseed have important role in your skin care because can maintain immune function and wholeness cells function. So it is very important for health skin.
    Avoid consume saturated fat in a big amount. Example: fatty red meat, cheese, margarine, biscuit because will worsen the body. Eat in a few ammount only.

Cucumber as Natural Skin Care

Cucumber as natural skin care can be used to get fresh and shiny face skin, also can overcome swollen eyes. Some natural skin care tips from cucumber:
Cucumber astringent

  • For reduce oil in oily skin.
    Prepare ½ part of cucumber. Remove its shells. Cut and enter into blender until refine. Smeared to your face for 15 minutes. Rinse with cold water. Dry up with slowly massage with towel.
  • Cucumber – avocado mask
    Gives nutrients to the skin, minimize the pore, lifts the dead skin cells.
    Put these ingredients into blender: ½ cup of cucumber that has peeled, ½ cup avocado, 1 egg, 2 teaspoon of milk powder. After refine, save in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Smeared to face and neck for 30 minutes. Rinse with warm water then with cold water and dry up with towel.
  • Cleanser mask
    If you seek skin care treatment for pimply skin, try this method.
    Put in blender: ½ part of cucumber that has peeled, 1 teaspoon of milk powder, 1 teaspoon of plain yogurt. Smeared to your face. Let it for 20 minutes then rinse.
  • Cucumber for lusterless skin
    If your skin is lusterless and oily, you need this natural skin care ingredient.
    Get 1 teaspoon of cucumber slices, give a few rose water, put on your face, let for 15 minutes then rinse with warm water.
  • Overcome swollen eyes
    Slice the cucumber and put on your eyes for 15 minutes.
  • Reduce black circle under the eyes
    This natural skin care can tighten the loose skin under your eyes. There are 2 ways:
  1. Put cucumber slice under your eyes or mix it with carrot essence. Let it for 20 minutes. Rinse with cold water.
  2. Mix cucumber slice with milk. Save in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Put on your face under your eyes for 20 minutes. Rinse with cold water.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

When You Should use Cleanser?

pingThe first step in your skin care is keeps the clean skin. Some ways to clean up your skin that have suggested now are assumed wrong. Scrub face excessively can cause sensitivity and dry skin. The best is smooth cleaning with clean hand. If in the past, we are suggested to use scrubbing towel, now a part of dermatologist are suggested to leave it. Scrubbing towel can abrasive your face and become a bacteria place.

When you have to clean up your face?
You certainly know with this role: don’t go to bed without clean up your face. The dirt that clings at the face can cause black head, white head and clogged the pore. Some dermatologists suggested to clean the face up for 2 times: in the morning and the night. Clean up the face in the morning may depend on your choice, but clean up the face in the night is compulsory.
The other expert suggested that cleaning frequency is depends on lifestyle. You can clean up your face in the morning if you exercise or much sweaty or use night cream skin care product.
If you clean up your face in the morning, to save your time, you can do it with take bath. Use special cleanser for face. The body soap and cleanser can make your face dry and irritate.

The Steps to Clean up the Face

Good cleaning is a part of your whole skin care.

  • Wash your hand to avoid bacteria and dirt.
  • Wet your face completely with warm water. Avoid hot water because can lose natural oil skin protector.
  • Pour your cleanser. With your fingers tip massage your cleanser slowly with circle movement.
  • Start from forehead, nose and check. Rub slowly in a proper time, not less than 20 seconds and not more than 1 minute.
  • Rinse your face with water repeatedly.
  • Dry up with clean and smooth towel with press the towel without rub it.
  • Give moisturizer to your skin to lock the water inside.

Skin care tips
If you use anti dandruff shampoo, wash your face after take a bath, because anti dandruff shampoo contains salicylic acid or sulphur that can irritate your skin.

Natural Cheap Skin Care to Get Healthy Skin

smiThese are natural ingredients that cheap and good to support your skin care.

  • Garlic
    Contains sulphur as natural antibiotic and clean up the whole body system. To avoid mouth smell, chew parsley. Or choose odorless garlic tablet. Consult with your doctor.
  • Vitamin C
    Our body can’t make and save it. Vitamin C helps to form collagen that will keep young skin and tight. Vitamin C is best if consume with bioflavonoid, both have synergic effect. Can be found in berry fruits and brocolli.
  • Brocolli
    Also contains vitamin A that against infection from inside. Best for pimply skin.
  • Carrot
    Carotenoid source, include betacaroten that by body is changed to vitamin A. Betacaroten is absorbed into the skin and can protects your skin from UV light. Also contains alpha carotene that protects skin from free radicals damage. Eat carrot also the good way to get vitamin A because the excess of carotenoid is taken out from the body. Too much vitamin A is toxic for our body.
  • Green leaf vegetable
    Zinc source that make your skin get enough O2 and zinc is good to overcome acne. Found in kale and spinach.
  • Parsley
    Parsley is rich of nutrient that good for skin. Also contain betacarotene, chlorophyl, vitamin B12, folic acid (for tight skin), vitamin C and zinc.
  • Olive oil
    Good for your skin care especially for dry and wrinkle skin. Contains unsaturated fatty acid and antioxidant. Smeared to your skin after bath.
  • Flaxseed and flax oil
    Also known as lindseed. Good for your skin care because contains omega-3 oil that can’t be found in many foods. Flaxseed contains fiber and phytoestrogen that balance body hormone to make skin young.
  • Avocado
    Good for dry skin. Although has high fat but that is single unsaturated fat that will make dry skin become refine. Contain glutathione, an effective antioxidant to prevent cell damage for all skin types. Also contain high of potassium.
  • Plain water
    Get much plain water to helps take out the toxin and moisten the skin.
  • Protein
    To replace and repair cells. Choose low fat protein trough milk, cheese, nut jam, thin meat and fish.
  • Fruit and vegetable
    If you eat many junk food, get a certain day to eat healthy food and plain water. Then, increase it day by day.


Do you need vitamin and supplement for your skin care?

Some experts have opinion that all vitamin and mineral that we need can be got from the food. But the others say that supplement is important because this time our daily life is full of stress that use up vitamin B, smoke will use up vitamin C then long time food storage also reduces natural vitamin in food.
In relation with our skin care, pollution and some bad habits like eat junk food and smoking will produce free radicals in the body that cause skin aging. To neutralize those free radicals, we need antioxidant that found in betacaroten (for example) that in our body will be changed to vitamin A. We also need vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, lycopene and zinc.
Consult with your doctor before get supplement.

How to Get Extra Effective Skin Care from Your Sunscreen?

Susie knows, her nose is susceptible toward sunburn. So she regularly smeared sunscreen at that part before go outside, to the beach or swimming. How shock her when the doctor diagnoses that there are pre cancer cells on her nose. Moreover, there is a mistake that she has done: doesn’t smeared sunscreen every 2 hours. The good news is: now the expert finds the other way to make our sunscreen become more effective.

  • Smeared vitamin C and vitamin E skin care cream
    Smeared moisturizer that contains vitamin C and E under your sunscreen can increase sunscreen effectiveness until 400% according to American Academy of Dermatology.
  • Eat carrot
    Eat 1 carrot everyday for 12 weeks will give enough betacaroten to increase natural SPF that only 2.4. The result is sunburn risk is 29% lower.
  • Avoid the common mistake
    Smeared your sunscreen and repeat it in not enough amount is the common mistake. The expert suggests to use about ½ teaspoon per 12 inch of skin. The good news is, the expensive skin care product isn’t always means that that product is better than the cheap one. It is important to smear your sunscreen and always remember to repeat it.

Choose Cleanser According to Your Skin Type

The wrong choice of your skin care product can cause skin problem. One method to know whether a cleanser is good for your skin is watch on its foam. When you rub it to your face, more much its foam it is mean that product can make your skin dry.
Now, many cleansers can be found in the market, in the form of bar until lotion and gel. Choose according to your skin type.

  • Normal skin
    Choose foam. This skin care formula is suitable for all skin types, except for too sensitive skin. Choose that contains smooth exfoliant and glycerine to prevent the dampness. If your skin is normal to dry, choose cleanser foam that contains moisturizer like hexylene glycol. If your skin is normal to oily, use foam that contains alpha hydroxy acids to lift the oil.
  • Oily skin or the skin that susceptible toward acne
    Choose foaming gel. Gel is more aggressive than other cleanser that will tie the dirt particles and oil and clean it. If your skin is oily or pimply, use gel skin care product with beta hydroxy acid or benzol peroxide.
  • Sensitive skin
    Use bar. This skin care product only contains a little ingredient that evokes foam. The weakness is: can be bacteria place. To prevent it, rinse the soap after use then save in the airtight place.
  • Normal to dry skin
    Use lotion. Now, many lotions contain smooth substance to lift dead skin cells and emmolient like glycerine and cetyl alcohol (an alcohol that doesn’t make the skin become dry and came from natural oil).
  • Dry and sensitive skin
    Use cream cleanser. Now many cream cleanser contain substances that can composure the skin like aloe vera and chamomile. Choose that contains moisturizer ingredient, like cetearyl alcohol.

How to know your skin type
To choose the proper form of skin care product, you need to know your skin type.
Try to wash your face with cleanser that suitable for normal skin. Dry it. Wait for 20 minutes and watch your skin. If your skin shiny, it mean yours in oily skin. But if felt tight, pulled when you smile, and your finger felt dragging than slide when moves on your face, it means you have dry skin. If after 20 minutes your skin experiences no changes, so your skin is normal.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Nutrient to Prevent Early Aging

To prevent early aging and skin cancer because of sunshine explode, the expert suggest to consume sunshine antioxidants and fatty acid:

  • Vitamin A: 4.000 IU/day
  • Vitamin C: 500-1.000 mg/day
  • Vitamin E: 400 IU/day
  • Betacaroten: 25.000 IU/day
  • Omega-3 fatty acid: 500-1.000 mg/day for grade pharmaceutical oil fish that contain DHA and EPA
  • Green tea: 125-500 mg/day from its extract with at least 60% of polyphenols
  • Pychogenol: 50 mg/day
  • Alpha-lipoic acid: 50-100 mg/day
  • CoQ10: 30 mg/day

Choose 2 or 3 from above ingredients. Make sure to get omega-3 fatty acid plus pycnogenol or CoQ10. Drink it after you get eat. Like usual, before drink supplement consult with your doctor.
Although you get sunshine protector nutrient, always use the hat and sunscreen with SPF at least 25 that contain UVA and UVB protector. Natural sunscreen contain non toxic ingredient like titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, mineral from the earth, PABA (para-amino-benzoic-acid), that include in vitamin B member, and octyl methoxycinnamate that came from cinnamon.

More Young in Daily Skin Care

Effective skin care plus the proper skin care product can make you appear more young and beauty only in a month. Check these daily skin care tips.
Clean your face at morning and night
Choose cleanser that contains alpha hydroxy acids (AHA), retinol or coenzym Q10. Massage the cleanser to the skin with your fingers tip with circle movement then rinse with warm water.

  • Fresh
    If your skin is oily, wet the cotton with toner, then slap repeatedly to the face that have cleaned. Give attention to T area. If the skin is normal or dry, use toner only in the night. Choose toner that doesn’t contain alcohol or hypoallergenic that contain sedative compound like chamomile or aloe.
  • Exfoliate
    Use smooth face scrub 2 times a week after clean the face, to lift dead skin cells and make smooth skin. For sensitive skin, wet the cotton with milk. Then wipe off to the face once a week. Milk contain lactic acid, that contain smooth exfoliate substance.
  • Moist
    For daytime, use moisturizer that contains sunblock. If you use moisturizer and sunscreen separately, dab sunscreen at last as protector layer. Choose lotion that contains anti aging ingredient like retinol, vitamin A (low level retinol), vitamin C and AHA to helps skin regeneration. The humidity key is dab body lotion at wet skin. Choose body moisturizer that contains emmolient like petrolatum, lanolin, cocoa butter and other moisturizer ingredients like vitamin E and aloe.
  • Use night cream
    This formula is more moisten than daytime cream and make anti aging ingredient works without diluted by makeup or sunscreen.
  • Dab eye cream at daytime and night
    Smooth skin around the eyes needs more delicate care. Seek product that contains hyaluronic acid to overcome dryness and retinol or kinetin for smooth lines. Try gel formula for swollen eyes (save in refrigerator for extra abate the swollen). Dab the cream at clean skin and let it absorb before dab makeup.

Other skin care tips

  • Overcome age spot
    Overcome brown spot and part that experiences color changes with topical whitener or bleaching cream that contain ingredient like kojic acid or licorice extract.
  • Overcome smooth lines
    Care the wrinkle susceptible area like forehead, check and jaw line with dab skin care product that contain more high AHA or retinol directly at that area. Use in small amount until the skin adapts because this ingredient can cause irritate and dryness.
  • Keep lip always smooth
    Lift dead skin cells with wet scrub towel then moisten with balm that contains vitamin E or jojoba.
  • Clean the pore
    Use mud mask to clean and detoxification, smooth and minimize the pore. Clay and mud can clean the bacteria that cause acne before the acne evokes without too dry up.
    If the skin still dry, repeat mask the face with mask that very moisten every week. If your problem is big pore, clean with mud mask. Other choice: tighten the skin with white egg mask. Mix 2 of white eggs with a little milk. Dab to the clean skin. Let it for 10 minutes then rinse with water.

Makeup at Cosmetic Counter is Danger

Try makeup cosmetic in cosmetic counter make us have risk to dab danger bacteria at lip or eyes. Because used by many persons, makeup cosmetic product will be contaminated easily and clung by bacteria.
Research in Rowan University, New Jersey that tests cosmetic samples in many counter department stores finds that more than 2/3 of cosmetics that prepared to tried are contaminated. Most of its are contaminated by microbes like staph, staphylococcus aureus.
According to Center for Disease Control America, staph microbes commonly aren’t danger except if enter into surgery injury that can cause serious infection or pneumonia. But also can cause eyes infection, for example: red eyes. If you have to try cosmetic before buy, protect your self with these tips:

  • Don’t ask beauty advisor to dab lipstick or eye makeup, although she uses cotton bud. This beauty advisor does makeup for many persons, so they get bacteria easily and pollute makeup product.
  • Try makeup when there aren’t many visitors in that counter.
  • After try it, clean your makeup. Wash your face with soap and water.
  • Seek makeup person in cosmetic counter that dip the sample into alcohol to kill the bacteria.

Beauty Problems that Caused by Your Skin Care Products

Some skin care products sometime don’t give good result like promised. Even sometime cause problems. Next, the expert suggestions to overcome problems that caused by your skin care product.

  • Lusterless skin
    Some face mask contains clay, for example is caolin that make skin lusterless and dry
    How to prevent: Don’t use mask more than once a week. After use mask, always dab your moisturizer that contains vitamin C to refine the skin.
  • Swollen eyes
    Some anti aging creams make eyes become swollen.
    How to prevent: Seek ingredient like rosemary, green tea extract or alpha lipoic acid to tighten skin.
  • Chapped lips
    Medicated lip balm can cause chapped lips. Balm that contains camphor or menthol can lose the dampness.
    How to prevent: Choose lip balm with ingredient like petrolatum, coconut oil and shea butter. Avoid lip balm with ‘mediated’ label.
  • Scrub face excessively and now your skin become coarse and irritate
    Outer skin layer has function as protection layer. If too often scrubbed, the skin become red, scaly and irritate. This case can occur if too much exfoliated with physical scrub microdermabration care in home or peel. Or dab some kinds of high potential renewal skin care ingredient like retinol, alpha hydroxy acids (AHA) and vitamin C (after dab 1 layer of skin care product with retinol, in the up side dabbed again skin care product that contains AHA and in the up of it, dabbed vitamin C skin care product).
    How to prevent: Stop the skin care product usage and toner, especially if contains alcohol that make the skin become dry. Give time to the skin to take a rest about 7 days. During that time, only clean your skin to give moisturizer. Use the smooth skin care product. After that, dab sunblock every morning to protects the skin that now become susceptible toward sunshine after every exfoliate. After that, use regularly skin care product for sensitive skin at least for 2 weeks.
    After some weeks, you can do this skin care: in the morning clean your face, give moisturizer and protection. Save renewal products (antioxidant cream, anti aging lotion and others) for used in the night. Don’t dab cosmetics in layers again without medical suggestion because can make exfoliate effect become so strong. Exfoliate once a week. If you still get irritate, maybe you use the wrong product.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Beauty, Healthy and Young Lip

How to get the complete skin care, include for your lip? The way isn’t difficult, try these tips.

  • Exfoliation
    Exfoliate lip helps keep your lip smooth. Use clean teeth brush. Dab a little Vaseline at brush feather. Then rub to the lip slowly for some seconds. You also can use special scrub for lip.
  • Moist with balm
    Dab lip balm or lip conditioner regularly. The ingredient that also good for lip are beeswax or glycerine, vitamin C and E.
  • Lip lines
    Lip lines emerge with age. Retinol is effective to against wrinkle. So with laser nonablative or intense light treatment. The other ways that also often done are collagen injection or hyaluronic acid. Recently, some cosmetic producers also release lip care product that helps to get optimal lip collagen condition and location around lip so reduce vertical lines around lip and horizontal lines at lip because of age.
  • Protect your lip from sunshine
    Lip don’t have natural protection toward sunshine because only has a few melanine. To protect your lip from bad effect of sunshine, always dab lip balm with SPF.

Beautiful Skin with Reduce Stress

Have stress an affect in your skin care program? The answer is ‘yes’. The Germany experts in Free University Berlin find the relation within acne with stress.
When stress, the brain release stress hormone called androgen and cortisol into the body. Everytime we stress, adrenal gland release more much androgen hormone. This hormone increase oil secretion that can be enclosed in dead skin cells that accumulated at skin surface. This pile together with bacteria in the pore can cause acne.
How to overcome your stress in order to not disturb your skin care program?

  • Handle your stress with every way you can. For example: sport, even if only walking can help you to reduce stress.
  • Do skin care regularly. When stress, we attend to forget our skin care. Clean your skin in the morning and night. Use toner to clean excess oil and dab product that contains salicylic acid, benzoil peroxide or retinol that can clean the pore to prevent acne.
  • Continue and increase your exercise. When busy, we attend to reduce exercise and more much eat. Both aren’t only increase body weight, but can trigger the guilty feeling that cause stress.

Fruit and Vegetable High Diet to Prevent Acne

In the past, we have informed that consume some foods like chocolate and potato crisp will cause acne. Then, the dermatologist say that the food isn’t cause acne. Now, the expert find, what we eat can cause acne. So, how is the relation with your skin care?
According to the newst study in Archives of Dermatology, the western diet that rich of refined carbohydrate and sugar become the cause of more than 95% of acne in teenagers. Research team spend 7 weeks of time to observate the skin and lifestyle of a village in Papua New Guinea. The result shows, there isn’t acne at more than 1.200 persons that observed, include 300 persons on the age within 15-25 years.
Different with American teenagers, most of the peoples in that village consume low fat diet that rich of fruits and vegetables that keep their insuline level low. The research show, if insuline level is increase, hormone production like testosterone will increase , trigger oil production in the pore. By the time, the pores are clogged and the acne occur. So, consume the food that can keep low insuline level is a step to free acne skin.

Orange Essence for Anti Wrinkle Skin Care

Citroes fruits are rich of vitamin C that useful for body. Beside prevent scurry, orange that rich of alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) and astringent that reduce oil, also natural anti wrinkle exterminator. Include minimize the pores, overcome acne, increase the hair shine and other.

  • Cleanser that refine and smooth the skin
    Let AHA and vitamin C in orange essence increase skin smoothness and refine skin. Dab orange essence on face like cleanser. Then rinse.
  • Pore minimizer
    Wet the cotton with orange essence and cling to the pore without rinse it.
  • Overcome acne
    Can applied for acne at back, breast and face. Mix honey and orange essence with same proportion. Dab at acne part. Let it for 5 minutes, then rinse with warm water. Honey is natural medicine, while astringent in orange essence can helps dry the excessive oil.
  • Hair shiner rinse
    Squeeze the essence from 1 small orange. Mix with water in same proportion. Add 1 spoon of honey. Dab it at wet hair that have finished from using shampoo. Let it for 5-10 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
  • Face fresher mask
    This ingredient give nutrient to the skin.
    Mix 1 spoon plain yogurt tea (that isn’t given with flavor) with the essence of ¼ part of orange. Dab to the face. Let it for 5 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
  • Ingredient for overcome wrinkle
    Mix: 1 white egg (mix), 2 teaspoon of orange juice, ½ teaspoon of lemon juice, some droplets of sweet almond oil. Dab at face. Let it for 30 minutes. Then rinse with warm water.

Fruit for Skin Care

Fruits are rich of vitamin, enzyme and acids that will give nutrient to the skin and hair. Next, some simple ingredients that can be made by our self.

  • Fruit ingredient for face
    Papaya for bright skin
    Enzyme content in papaya lift dead skin cells.
    How to make: Refine a papaya. Mix with 2 tablespoon of honey and havermut until thick dough is formed. Dab to the skin. Let it for 10 minutes. Then wash.
    Lemon for acne
    Acids in lemon will dry the overactive oil gland.
    How to make: Mix 1 tablespoon lemon water, 2 cups of mineral water and 1 tablespoon witch hazel. Save in refrigerator. Dab as toner at skin that has dried.
  • Body care
    Pineapple scrub for bright skin
    Pineapple contains vitamin C and bromelain.
    How to make: Prepare 8 ounces of pineapple. Refine and mix with 1/3 cup of sand sugar until a dough formed. Rub slowly to the body. Wash cleanly.
    Peach to refine skin
    Peach is rich of vitamin and mineral.
    How to make: Refine 4 ounces of canned peach. Mix with 1 ounce of heavy cream, 2 tablespoon honey and havermut to make a dough. Rub slowly to the body. Let it for 5 minutes. Wash cleanly and take a bath like usual.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Choose Sunscreen According to Your Skin Color

White skin
The more white skin usually more thin and has more little oil gland so it has more big possibility to get irritation when use sunscreen.
Avoid reddish color caused by sunscreen with choose non chemistry sunblock or physical sunblock that less irritate. For example: that contains titanium dioxide or zinc oxide. Avoid sunscreen that contains avobenzone or parsol 1789. Choose at least SPF 30.

Repair the damage
Wrinkle lines and brown spots caused by sunshine explode can occur at all skin types, but more visible at white skin. Because the skin is more thin, also more susceptible toward wrinkle. There is a good news for white skin. A study shows that dab skin care product that contains antioxidant vitamin C and E regularly helps increase skin natural protection toward sunshine.

Middle skin color
According to a study in Preventive Medicine Journal, many peoples that estimate their skin are more dark that it is actually are. This assume can be danger, because dark skin has more pigment that become natural protector toward sunshine. If you assume your skin is more dark than its actual condition, it is possible that you don’t do the action that required to protect your skin.
To know your actual skin color, try to see your skin under your breast because that part surely is not exploded by sunshine. If your skin really has middle color, you can choose more low SPF within 15-20. But it is important to dab it everyday.

Improve the damage
Aging signs that evoke at white skin in the middle of 20 years old of age, usually will appear in your skin in the early of 30 years old of age.
Use skin care cream that contains Retin-A for bright brown spots, refine lines and tranquilize white steroids. The cream only can be bought with doctor recipe. Or choose cream that free sold, that contains retinol. Start with twice a week, then increase with everyday.

Dark skin
Skin damage caused by sunshine attend to appear lately at dark skin, but UV light injury still happen under the skin surface. So, it is need to dab SPF repeatedly. Middle and dark color of skin attend to more oily compare with white skin. But, don’t leave sunscreen because assume it oily. Choose oil free formula.

Improve the damage
First signs of sunshine damage are white or dark spot, shows that the cells produce melanine too little or too much. Dark spot can be brightened with skin brightener compound that free sold. Important to know, bright the skin with thick bleaching is difficult. If do excessively can cause the white skin became more pale.

Sunscreen as Skin Care to Protect Skin From Damage and Aging

Sunscreen can cause skin dry, pigmentation, early aging even skin cancer. To protect skin from this threat, it is important to use sunscreen everytime. How to choose the proper sunscreen? It is also some important terminology when buy sunscreen.

SPF number
SPF number shows the number of protection that you will get if dab sunscreen on your face. How to know how much protection you get when see SPF number? Check here. When the time has finished, you have to dab again the sunscreen.
In the fact, we are difficult to get protection level as SPF says because the protection itself also depend on the quantity of sunscreen we have dabbed, the climate and our skin type. Most peoples dab too little sunscreen, so the result that gained is reduced became 50-80% from SPF number.
There isn’t a sunscreen that give 100% protection from UV light. More high SPF number, more little sunshine burn radiation that reach the skin. But, always remember that this little amount if accumulated can cause skin is burned if too long exploded by direct sunshine.

UVA
Caused aging on skin. Include long wave light so can penetrate until dermis layer or most deep layer. Also cause free radicals that break elastine and collagen that support skin structure and helps make skin appear young. UVA light is found all along the year.

UVB
UVB is short wave light that only reach skin surface. Can cause sunburn and cancer. The most hard of UVB is on summer when the sun has the most hot shine.

Infra red
Although the quantity that radiated by the sun isn’t danger, infra red make your skin became hot so it is susceptible toward UVA and UVB light damage.

Vitamin E/ antioxidant
Vitamin E and antioxidant in sunscreen neutralize free radicals that caused by sunshine.

Photostable
Sunscreen that in its lable is found ‘photostable’ terminology has mean that its effective level isn’t reduced because of sunshine. Sunscreen that isn’t photostable can lose its protection ability.

Broad spectrum
It is mean that the sunscreen give protection toward all UVB light and almost all of UVA light.

Look Young in Every Age with Appropriate Skin Care

In 20 years of age, our skin still in its best condition, with its natural elasticity and smoothness. In this age, we don’t need so many skin care products, but sunscreen is always the one someone always need. So with skin care product for clean our face.
Then how about our skin care at 30, 40, 50 and 60 years of age? Please check these skin care tips for every age.

Skin care in 30 years old
Exfoliation
In this age we need to start exfoliation. Smooth lines begin to appear and skin shine start to decrease. One of the causes is cells regeneration that start to slower, so must be helped with exfoliation.
The expert suggest to consider AHA (alpha-hydroxy acids) usage. Beside to speed up exfoliate procces, AHA also helps to conceal smooth lines and make our skin appear more bright.
Choose scrub with smooth grains and moisturizer that contain AHA.
In this age, the expert also suggest to use eye cream.

Skin care in 40 years old
Use vitamin A
Skin damage because of sunlight, the skin lose its elasticity make women in this age start to think about solution.
Vitamin A that sold in doctor recipe product: retinoin or product that free sold in the form of retinol, will effective to overcome this problem.
When the age is increase, the outer layer epidermis become more thick caused by sunlight. Beside subdermal layer became more thin because the cells became weak and damage.
Vitamin A that dissolve in fat can bypass epidermis and directly to subdermal network. Here, this vitamin have double roles: build cells that form skin support structure and push natural exfoliation, peel the dead skin cells (lusterless skin), so can evoke young cells that bright.

Skin care in 50 years old
Oil is important
The expert called the less oil skin as alipoid. Alipoid skin is common happened in 50 years of age, when oil production almost stopped. Because of that, its important to replace that oil.
Start to read the ingredients precisely when buy moisturizer. Choose moisturizer that contains jojoba oil, evening primrose or even sesame oil. Also pay attention to cream sensitivity. In this age, you need rich and thick cream, not lotion milky.

Skin care in 60 years old
Bright the skin

Age increase make melanocytes, cells that give color to the skin are reduced. Skin face color maybe quite yellow or gray.
Product that contains hydroquinone may can help. But use carefully, don’t exceesively because can make your skin burn. Some cosmetics use natural ingredient or holistic to press melanine production and bright the skin.
Consider vitamin C, natural skin brightener that found in many skin cream products.

Skin Care Product Myths and Facts

Skin care product that sells in market claim has certain merit. We often difficult to distinguish within really effective skin care product and skin care product with smart marketing technique. Next, some myths around beauty skin care product.

The merit included at label
Always read the label accurately. Although the government in every country has a rule about a product claim, some companies use a smart marketing. For example, the government prohibits to saying that a product will prevent aging, but should say: help to prevent aging signs. Do your research about a skin care product ingredients before try a new product.

Can lessen the pores
The pore doesn’t have a muscle to make it open or close. The pore size also will not change if we dab the toner or astringent although this product can make our skin feel more tighten. Open the pore with smoke and close it with cold water also not useful. There isn’t a method that proved can lessen the pore permanently, with cream or with laser.

Shave the hair will make the new hair became coarse
Although the new hairs feel more thick and coarse, the cause is you cut your hair in the middle of its long part, this is the most wide of hair part. The hair grows with its tip that tapers so look thicker after shaved.

More expensive a skin care product will better
It is often happens, skin care product that has different price is made by the same parent company, in the same factory. But its package and marketing are different. Because of that, often happens, a product with lower price than an expensive product, is actually also good.

All vitamin creams are same
Studies find that vitamin A, C and E possibility effective to prevent aging caused by sunshine if dabbed topically. But the certain cream that enriched with vitamin has more merit compare with others because vitamin is very reactive toward air and water. And only a little creams that contain vitamin in its stable form.

Pigmentation can be removed
Some products that free sold contain hydroquinone level about 2%. This product can dim the pigment because of sunshine damage hormonal changes, but can’t remove it at all.
Products that contain monobenzone have pulled form market because can bleach skin melanine cells that give the color to the skin.
Hidroquinone plus or minus AHA can dim pigmentation but can remove it at all and only success to about 60% peoples.

Chocolate and frying food cause acne
The expert doesn’t find the relation within eat chocolate and acne. There isn’t a study that proven a relation about it.
Smell the chocolate will stimulate a chemistry compound that can cause pleasant taste called endorphine.

Acid is good for skin
Many companies that produce skin product that contain alpha hydroxy acid (AHA), beta hydroxy acid (BHA). The excessively usage can cause skin damage because of sunlight. Use exfoliant product like AHA and BHA increase UV light penetration. If you use exfoliant product, use wide spectrum sunblock.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Choose the Proper Skin Care Product to Clean Your Skin

Recently, many skin care products are found in the market. According to the expert, there are many ways to clean face from dirt and oil. But the best way to choose skin care product is based on skin type and your life style.

  • Face cleanser soap
    Many expert suggest to not using soap to clean face. Cleanser without soap or soap free may used to clean face, depend on skin sensitivity, called syndet. Beauty soap (beauty bar), mild cleansing bar and sensitive skin bar are examples of syndet. Also syntetic detergent that has pH more low. Cleanser with pH more high, more alkaline, maybe will break natural protector layer of face skin. This product can’t lift oil and dirt from very oily skin. Most liquid face cleanser include in this kind.
  • Free oil cleanser
    Liquid free oil cleanser is liquid product that clean without use oil or fat. Best for very dry skin or sensitive skin. But not very effective to lift environment dirt and oil and only suggested for get minimal cleansing.
    Ingredients that found in this skin care product are glycerin, cetyl alcohol, steary alcohol, sodium laurel and sulfate.
    Leave thin moist layer so it isn’t appropriate for acne skin.
  • Cream cleanser
    Cream cleanser is very popular among advance age when this cream was the only alternative in the past. Most of cleanser cream contain water, mineral oil, petrolatum and wax so it is appropriate for dry skin. Cream cleanser is one pleasant step to lift cosmetics with clean face.
  • Abbrasive scrub
    Abbrasive scrub contain variety ingredients that not only will clean face but also give exfoliate until certain level. Exfoliate will make skin more soft. But the problem is big scrub grains can cause irritation, reddish or small wound at face. The most abbrasive scrub contain ingredients like aluminium oxide particles and fruit seeds. This particle with coarse edge isn’t appropriate for sensitive skin. But, most skin type can accept light face scrub that contain polyethylene that smooth and round or sodium tetraborate decahydrate, grains that smooth and dissolve when used.

Natural Supplement for Skin Care

Your skin needs many nutrient for regeneration, so our skin will appear bright and tight. For getting good, young and health skin, we need some nutrients that useful for skin care.

  • Essential fatty acid
    The skin needs good fatty acid such as omega-3 and omega-6. This oil helps skin againts acne, eczema and others.
    Omega-3 can be got from cold water fish and flaxseed oil and also supplement.
    Omega-6 from evening primrose oil or borage oil. The other sources are egg, bird, some vegetable oils and wheat bread.
  • Antioxidant for skin care
    Deficiency of zinc can retard wound recovery or active acne. Zinc helps skin growth and regeneration. Zinc can be found in egg, meat and wheat germ.
  • Iodine
    Help thyroid to run proper function. Less of iodine cause dry hair and other skin condition. Can be found in seafood and salt that given with iodine.
  • Selenium
    Antioxidant that works with vitamin E to make our skin young. Can be found in fish, whole grain and innards (entrails as food).
  • Potassium
    Help your skin tight and regeneration. Can be found in potato, banana, whole grain and green leaf vegetables.
  • Phosphorus
    For health skin and bone. Rich protein food give us this nutrient.
  • Zinc
    Give energy. Work with other mineral to produce haemoglobine in the blood. Choose green leaf vegetables and meat.
  • Copper
    Important for skin elasticity and tightness, also help nerve system. Can be found in green leaf vegetables and seafod.
  • Calcium
    Very important for women, for health teeth and bone, hormonal balance and skin care. Find in milk, milk product, include cheese, brocolli, soybean product and sardine.
  • Chromium
    Chromium againts acne because decrease infection. Get in the form of chromium iodinate or chromium polynicotinate.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Detox for Beautiful Skin

Everyday, about 0,5 toxin are taken out from the body in the form of sweat, through the skin. The excretion with this way only possible to occur if the pore, the place where the sweat take out, isn’t clogged. The other organs that also important for detoxification are liver, kidney and lung. The blood also important, bring the gas like CO2 to the lung and then replace it with O2 through respiration. Liver and kidney help to detox the blood with take outside the rubbish in the form of liquid and solid rubbish.

The benefit of detoxification for the skin
Skin is protection layer that can be penetrated. The product that dabbed to the skin can enter the body through this protector. Toxin can leave the body through the skin. Free radicals and UV light in the environment also can damage the skin, finally show aging skin signs.
Everyday our skin cells regeneration when old skin cells are dead and the new skin cells created. When the age getting old, this procces become slower. So, dead skin cells that phussed to the skin surface are difficult to flee and accumulate at the skin, make the skin seems lusterless. This accumulation clogs the pore so make the toxin is difficult to take out from the cells.
The best way to detoxification are: eat the balance diet, regular and measured exercise, exfoliate, use the organic product. Before do the detoxification, consult with your doctor. The pregnant women can’t do it.


  • Eat the balance diet for skin care
    Nutrient that needed to get good skin are essential fatty acid, antioxidant vitamin C, E and betacaroten, zinc and selenium, vitamin B6 and vitamin A, potassium and water.
    Certain food contain nutrient that can take out the toxin from body, like: apple, avocado, artichoke, cruciferous vegetarian, garlic, ciwi, prune, seaweed, watercress, asparagus, banana, serealia bran, brazil nut, carrot, egg, tofu.
  • Avoid sugar, alcohol, cafein and nicotine
    As possible, avoid sugar for your skin care program. Sugar can increase free radicals that can cause skin aging, heart disease and cancer. Cosume sugar not more than 40 gr/day.
  • Exfoliation
    Exfoliation is one of skin care program because skin cells are continually grow and release. Dead skin cells are accumulated at upper epidermis, make your skin appear lusterless. Exfoliation can stimulate skin growth. Natural exfoliation can be done with: lift with scrubbing towel, use organic scrub when take a bath and use scrubbing towel when take a bath.
  • Regular and measured exercise
    Regular exerciuse is a part of skin care program because it can enter O2 into the body and skin. O2 will decrease damage effect frm free radicals and early aging.
    Be sweaty will push toxin releasing from the skin.
  • Reduce stress
    Reduce stress is important for detoxification for your skin care. Reducing stress can be done with: light sport, reduce your coffee consumption, get carbohydrate for lunch, get vitamin B, walking 10 minutes can help detox, sleep 8 hours a day and others.
  • Get supplement
    Certain supplement can help some damages because of unproper detoxification, it will good for your skin care. Example: vitamin B12 helps build cells in the lung, vitamin B3 open the cells that broken by nicotine.

Tomato as Your Nature Skin Care

Tomato that known with its lycopene, guessed can prevent wrinkle and black spot caused by sunlight. Since a long time, dermatologist said that 80% of wrinkle caused by sunlight. Lycopene, one of the effective antioxidant, can stop aging process that caused by sunlight explode.
A study in Germany shows, eat tomato paste that rich of lycopene reduces skin damage caused by sunlight dramatically.
Lycopene is antioxidant that very effective to prevent skin damage caused by free radicals.

How to add tomato in your diet

  • Add some tomato that cooked in your menu. Example: spaghetti, pizza, tomato soup, salsa and others.
  • If possible, choose tomato that cooked than raw tomato, because cook processing will increase lycopene level until 4 times.
  • Add slices of raw tomato in sandwich and hamburger with tomato paste.
  • Drink 1 glass of tomato juice everyday than orange juice. Beside get lycopene, you also get vitamin C.
  • For they who don’t like tomato, can use lycopene supplement. Consult with your doctor first.

Lycopene also popular with its merit to prevent cancer.

Cosmetic Age

Your cosmetic can’t be kept for a long time. If your rack is full with cosmetics that often used, it is time to choose, which is good and which should throw away.

  • Lenghten the skin care product age
    Most of cosmetic products have age within 12-18 months even only 6-12 months for some products like mascara, foundation and eyebrow pencil.
    To lenghten your skin care product, don’t touch it with hand. Use small brush and make up sponge. This way will prevent the bacteria take the new placee and create the small community in the cosmetic.
    Wash makeup aplicator at least once a week. You can use rub alcohol at sintetic brush feather. For natural brush feather and sponge, wash with water and soap. Let it dry.
  • Skin care product age
    Most of skin care products, except if only contain natural ingredient, can endure about 1 year.
    Usually skin care product that used everyday will finish within 1-6 month. Everything in your rack for more than a year must be throwed away.
    Avoid the skin care product toward direct sunlight. Make sure its cover is tight. Wash the hand well before dab the product to the skin. Take the cream with spatula can lenghten product age and stop contamination. Product that aren’t contain preservation only can be kept within 1 week-3 months.

Friday, April 6, 2007

Beautiful and Ageless Skin with Internal and External Skin Care

The studies show that growth skin cells take vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acid from blood stream continually. These nutrients are needed by growth cells, so can be formed perfectly when arrive in the skin surface. The cells that formed perfectly will produce smooth, soft, moist and beautiful skin. Deficiency of nutrients will disturb skin cells ability to achieve full growth state, so cause coarse, dry, scaly skin or arise some skin problem. Only dab cream and lotion or other skin care product can’t improve these problems permanently. Indeed, lotion, cream and skin care product will give benefit until certain skin layer. But it can’t give the important nutrient to deeper skin layer, that needed to produce healthy and beauty skin. Next, some skin care tips:

  • Give the good fat
    The main key to improve the skin refinement and softness is by give the body essential fatty acid that needed to make special hormone in the skin called prostaglandin. The prostaglandin hormone number and kind that formed in the growth skin cells will determine how soft and refine your skin.
    Studies show that prostaglandin hormone is made from non saturated fat that we eat or get from supplement. This essential fatty acid is carried by the blood stream to the growth skin cells. In the growth skin cells omega-3 fat (from black currant, borage seed and evening primrose oil) will be changed soon became prostaglandin that make the skin soft and refine.
    Unfortunately, most of us consume non saturated fat that produce prostaglandin PG-2 hormone that make the skin became more coarse, dry, scaly and less moist compare with it should be. So we are suggested to consume low fat animal product such as chicken, turkey, fish, nonfat milk and yogurt and cheese that contains milk fat less than 4%. Besides, supplement with flaxseed, GLA and fish oil everyday. It will be also good if we consume olive oil, canola oil and peanut oil than other vegetable oils to help to decrease non saturated fat intake.
    To change this essential fat became prostaglandin hormone in the wanted kind and number, also needed special vitamins and minerals to produce biochemistry reaction that can produce prostaglandin hormone. Drink multi vitamin or high potential mineral everyday can help to make sure you get these important nutrients for your skin care.
  • Retard aging with antioxidant
    The skin cells that growing contains oxygen that can be changed to free radicals after absorb the energy from UV light from sunlight. Free radicals also produced in the body if you smoking or drink some glass of alcohol in 24 hours. These free radicals damage many parts of skin cells so that will speed up aging, increase wrinkle growth even increase skin cancer risk.
    Same with other cells in our body, skin cells also contain antioxidant enzyme that remove and neutralize free radicals, help protect skin cells from damage. Unfortunately, this enzyme can’t prevent skin damage because of UV light only by itself, and need food antioxidant addition, like vitamin A, C and E, beta caroten, selenium and zinc. Research shows, people that drink antioxidant supplement experience skin inflammation depreciation, sunburn reaction and other skin damage compare with they who don’t get antioxidant supplement.
    Besides protect our skin from external factor like reduce UV light explode, wear cloth that protect and use skin care lotion product that enriched with antioxidant with SPF 15 or more, the scientific proof is very suggested us to get high antioxidant in multivitamin formula. The suggested dosage is 1.000 mg of vitamin C, 400 IU of vitamin E, 10.000 IU of beta caroten, 2.500 IU vitamin A, 15 mg of zinc and 100 mg selenium.
  • Moist the skin
    Hyaluronic acid (HA) is natural compound that produced by skin cells that many found in young skin, in dermis and epidermis. HA is used for keep the skin elastic, soft, tighten and moist. HA seems also used for water magnet in the skin, pull water molecules from blood stream. So, HA has special ability for keep the skin moist, young, elastic and soften the wrinkle lines in skin surface.
    After pass 20 years of age, the skin will lose its ability to form HA in optimum number, that significantly cause skin aging. In 50th, HA number will reduce up to half.
    Clinical test shows, topical HA usage with ultra pure level can complement the skin with more young level HA. This unique HA form can reach all skin layers include the most deep dermis layer. Once dabbed, HA will improve the skin softness and appearance soon. If dabbed continually, will produce significant changes and durable.
    HA is best dabbed in the morning, before make up and in the night after cleaning face but before dab the night cream. HA is also antioxidant that helps prevent skin damage from free radicals from UV light.
    The also important thing is moist the skin. Water is needed by every cell in the body for fertilizing and take out the rubbish from the body. For moist the skin from inside, drink 8 glasses or more water in a day.
  • Enough sleep
    When sleep the skin cells will growth and get its treatment and repairing. Get at least 8 hours or more of sleep. Less from that will emerge stress in the body and tire can aggravate the skin problems like acne and produce the less clean skin.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

The Good Beauty Suggestions for Your Skin Care Treatment

A part of beauty suggestion about skin care that we often hear obviously only a myth. Next are the good beauty suggestions for skin care.

  • Be patience with skin care
    Don't fast capitulate with a skin care product only because the result isn’t seen soon. Most of skin care products need time at least 2 until 3 weeks to begin to show the merit.
  • Overcame your acne with natural way
    Dab organic pure yogurt to skin that has been cleaned. Let it for several minutes to kill the acne cause bacteria. For cure your acne, refine an aspirin that contains salicylid acid. Give a drop of water to make pasta. Then dab only to your acne. If your skin reacts, wash it soon.
  • Increase circulation
    Brush the body use strong hairy brush in circle movement, start from your leg to up every morning. Brush the body in dry condition will increase the circulation and exfoliate the dry skin.
  • Submerged without moist the skin
    To gain the merit that relax from submerged bathe without make your skin became dry, dab oil on the body before come into the tub.
  • The health nail secret is in its cuticle
    To keep your nail health and free from bacteria, push back every morning and dab the cuticle cream the way you brush your teeth every morning and night.
  • Refine the leg
    Exfoliate the leg 2 times a month with leg scrub and after that dab the shea butter cream. Wrap the leg with plastic pocket. Then wear sock. Let it for 15 minutes. Then release and dry.

Internal Skin Care Treatment from Nature

Since long time has known that beauty skin care needs external skin care treatment and internal skin care treatment. External skin care treatment can be reached with cosmetic usage and internal skin care treatment from foods. For internal skin care, Nicholas Perricone, M.D. in The Wrinkle Cure suggests 5 ingredients for internal skin care treatment:

  • Olive oil
    Olive oil is rich of good fat and antioxidant. Olive oil is natural emollient that keep your skin face refine and moist. Used for sautéing, salad flavor or pasta.
  • Melon
    Eat ½ cup of cantaloupe helps to overcome dry skin. Cantaloupe is rich of betacaroten that helps to keep skin health and moist. According to Dr. Perricone, eat cantaloupe for dessert in the night make skin seems better in the morning.
  • Soybean
    Drink 1 cup of soybean milk gives enough estrogen for body to stimulate connection network and skin regeneration.
  • Seafood
    Try salmon and halibut. Both are rich of omega-3 fatty acid that helps to moist skin and prevent skin chips clog the pores.
  • Nut
    Eat 2 spoons of walnut or almond (can be bought in supermarket) several times a week make your face health and beam. Nut contains essential fatty acid that keeps skin cells flexibility, cells liquid and its flexibility. Healthy skin cells make your skin health and beam.

Natural skin care treatment for sensitive skin
Often exploded by elements can make your skin became sensitive. To calm irritation and help to cure red cheek, try warm compress with chamomile tea (can be bought in supermarket). Chamomile contains azulene, compound that can tranquilize your skin. The way is pour boiling water into 2 cups of thick chamomile. Let it became warm. Plunge the scrubbing towel into the tea. Press its excess water and compress to your face for 3 minutes. Repeat 3 times.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Choose the Sunscreen as Skin Care According to Your Skin Type

UVC, UVB and UVA lights
Sunshine before 09.00 a.m. is good for your skin, but after 09.00 until 15.00 a.m., that isn’t good. It contains 3 kinds of UV lights, UVC, UVB and UVA. Almost all of UVC be absorbed by ozon layer, but artificial UVC can be emerged by lamp that has mercury content in it, xenon and germicidal lamp. UVB influences external skin layer so your skin will produce melanin (skin protection and dye substance), so it became darker in color. When your body doesn’t enough more to produce melanin, sun burn will happen. Fortunately, UVB isn’t strong enough to penetrate the glass. But when you are outside, UVA can penetrate your skin until dermis layer, under external skin layer, the place which collagen is present. Beside can cause skin damage, UV light also can cause cataract to your eye.

How to choose sunscreen
Two factors you can consider to choose the appropriate sunscreen are SPF (sun protector factor) and your skin type.

  • SPF
    The way to choose the correct SPF you need is to know how long time your skin start became florid (sun burn symptom) when under the sunshine. Take an example it needs 30 minutes, so if you choose SPF 15, you will get sunlight protection in 15 X 30 = 450 minutes. Commonly, if you often work in the room, you need SPF 15 but if you do many outdoor activities, you need SPF 30.
    May be you ever heard people called sunscreen and others called sun block. Sun block (contains titanium dioxide and zinc oxide) physically bounces back UV light and must be dabbed more thick. While sunscreen or sun filter (usually contains avobenzone and benzophenone) chemically will absorbs UV light and enough to dab it thinly.
  • Skin type
    Oily and pimply skin or when someone in puberty phase, better to choose lotion or gel and anti-acne sunscreen. While dry skin, more than 40 years old and often in AC room, better to choose cream sunscreen product. When do exercise or outdoor activity choose lotion, gel or syringe form.

Be careful when choose sunscreen that equipped with moisturizer, whitening and vitamin because active substance of this kind of sunscreen will work more fast so it will has more short usage time. Don’t use again if there are changes in color, smell and shape, but if only change in form, for example if melt, you can prior to save it in refrigerator before use it.

The correct way to use sunscreen
You should use sunscreen at least 0.5 hours before go outdoor, because the active ingredient in sunscreen, even the waterproof ingredient is need time to be absorbed by the skin. The sunscreen use also must be repeated.

For daily use, you can dab your moisturizer, wait 10-20 minutes, then use sunscreen, wait 20-30 minutes again, then you can dab your face powder. When you repeat to use sunscreen, first dry your sweat, wash face if needed, dry it, dab your sunscreen and wait 20-30 minutes before face with sunshine again.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Look Younger with Natural Skin Care Treatment

Want look younger? You shouldn’t only consider to injection or surgical operation. The simple change in your life can do. Next, natural skin care tips to keep your skin beautiful.

  • Get effective enzyme
    You can do raw vegetable diet. According to the expert, the food in natural condition contain special enzyme that arouse energy and make the useful nutrient more ease to reach the skin. Try 1 or 2 days eat raw food, such as fruit juice, salad, nut that isn’t fried or toasted. You will felt different.
  • Brush your body to increase circulation
    Before take a bath in the morning, brush your body with natural ingredient feather to increase circulation and lift dead cells. According to some studies, it will cause efficient fat metabolism that help to overcome cellulite.
  • Get chromium
    Some expert say this mineral is difficult to find in foods, even from super food like brocolli, barley, heart, lobster, wheat, shrimp and mushroom. Chromium can balance blood sugar, increase thin body mass and increase ageless hormone production, ‘DEHA’. The result is stronger memory, better immune response and bone.
  • Try ginseng
    Help brain from free radicals, reduce stress and overcome sleep problem.
  • Eat seaweed
    Seaweed has equal composition with blood plasma, rich of nutrients and minerals. Good for skin care because it can help for detoxification, moist and give nutrition to the skin, fight against free radicals.
  • Walking
    Walking as much as possible to help to give O2 to the body and increase blood stream.
  • Assuage stress
    Stress cause aging process more fast 10 years.
  • Many drink plain water
    Get 1,8 l water per day.
  • Bathe with essential oil
    Add 5 drops frankincense oil to your bathe water. Or add at your face cream to overcome wrinkle at eye skin.
  • Strengthen the muscle
    One of the causes of aging is carnosine loss, a natural compound in the muscle that will decrease when getting old. Eat chicken breast, thin beef, duck and turkey.
  • Drink vitamin supplement
    A study in France shows vitamin A, C and E supplement help to prevent some skin aging changes and skin damage because of sunshine.
  • Anti aging diet
    Best anti aging diet are 50% vegetables, 20% protein, 20% fruits and 10% rice.
  • Eat many proteins
    Eat many proteins that important for collagen and elastin production. Make sure 15-20% of your diet is protein. Good protein source are thin meat, fish, egg, cheese, bean, soybean and lentil.
  • Increase antioxidant
    Anti aging foods help to absorb free radicals that increase aging process. Eat orange, plum, red wine, raspberry, cherry, kiwi, pink grapefruit, blueberry, blackberry, strawberry, prune, sweet potato creeps, tomato, alfalfa sprouts, brocolli, bit, red paprika and green leaf vegetables.
  • Eat nut
    Only eat 1 brazil nut a day will get enough selenium, one of natural anti aging ingredients. Selenium is important for beauty skin.
  • Stop smoking
    Smoking will reduce O2 to skin and trigger enzyme that broken collagen.
  • Avoid sugar
    Sugar actually isn’t good for your skin care because will make your skin became old such as it because of smoking and sunlight damage.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Some Good Habits for Your Skin Care

Skin need some habits to keep it’s healthy. Next some good treatments in your skin care program.

  • Use sunscreen everyday. Sunshine explanation just in 10-15 minutes can causes wrinkle and hyper pigmentation. The worst, can cause skin cancer. Dab wide spectrum sunscreen with SPF 15 to your skin face everyday.
  • If you use makeup, clean it before wash your skin face. Don’t just rely on your face cleanser to do double tasks. First, clean makeup with cleansing milk, then wash with foam to make bacteria disappear.
  • Keep away your hand from your face to avoid dirt transfer.
    Use makeup only in the place that needs. Avoid clog your pores and give place for bacteria to grow and cause acne.
  • Use hair comb with natural ingredient on its feathers. So your hair will healthy with spread natural oil from scalp to hair tip.

Consider to applying those good habits to give a plus in your skin care treatment.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Bad Habits for Your Skin Care

Some bad habits aren’t good for your skin care program. The good news is, there are easy ways to correct the consequences that have happened to your face skin. If you need some skin care tips on your certain problem, may this info can help you.

  • Go to sleep without cleaning face or make up
    Maybe there are acnes in your face skin, because the skin is sweat when we sleep so the bacteria will be enclosed in your skin.
    You can lift your flake skin that contains dirt with soft exfoliant skin care product in mask form. For pull the dirt from your pores use clay mask. At least use face tissues before sleep if you feel lazy to clean your face skin.
  • Press the acne
    You can get infection, because the bacteria can spread under the skin and evoke more acne.
    If want to take your acne outside, prior to steam your face then wrap your finger tip with tissue and give slow pressing at both sides of acne. Then dab skin care anti-bacteria product.
  • Sleep lateness
    Your eyes will swell, as your body sign to defend water because tire.
    Dab skin care product for face that contains cafein, one of natural diuretic to pull water out from skin. Do light sport. If still swollen, compress with cold cucumber. Or use eyepads to help to release the water.

Monday, March 5, 2007

Natural Skin Care for Your Skin Problems

Since a long time ago, natural skin care from China has been so popular among peoples. According to natural medicine from China, external beauty is a mirror for internal beauty and health. One of the external beauty parameter can be reached trough a good skin care. So, these are some tips for you to get a good alternative for your skin care.

  • How to get more brightly eyes
    There are 2 ways to get more brightly eyes. First is get solution for your emotional problem, second is get the appropriate food such as animal heart and drying raspberry.
  • Have a poke under your eyes ?
    The solution for this skin problem is increase energy and don’t over work. Get many move and consume anti-allergenic food. The good foods for this problem are black cohosh, walnut and shell.
  • Acne
    Acne can be caused by hot in face. Try the good foods for your skin care : green peanut, seaweed. Avoid hot food, oily food and frying food. Try to eat raw vegetables.
  • Dry skin
    How the appropriate skin care for dry skin ? Several kind of foods can be functioned as moisturizer for skin such as soy bean, spinach, asparagus, barley, seaweed, apple, tangerine orange, pinenut, kasemek (smooth-skinned sweet fruit the size of an apple and eaten fresh), peanut, pear, honey, shell and remise.
  • Eczema
    Try to eat potato, Asian dandelion and guava. Avoid oily and frying foods.
  • Early gray hair
    Try black soybean and dry kasemek.
  • Early aging
    Try walnut, duck, chicken, China jinsom and ang co.