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.