Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Aloe Vera for Skin Care

The Aloe vera plant is an African succulent that is popular as skin care ingredient. Now you will find Aloe vera outside Africa as it is a popular garden plant, especially in dry areas where gardens must be made with the climate in mind.

Aloe vera is commercially cultivated over the world to be used in skin care cosmetic. Outside Africa, you will find the largest Aloe vera farms in the Mediterranean region, the United States, the Caribbean and Japan. An Aloe vera plant will also do well indoors, but notice that it can grow very large and need re-potting.

The Greeks people, for example Alexander, applied the juice from the leaves to the wounds of his soldiers. In Egypt, Cleopatra, ever conscious of her beauty anointed her skin with many concoctions include aloe vera. It have been used in the Asian cultures of bygone days. Evidence is found of aloe vera usage in the ancient texts of China and India.

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.