Showing posts with label skin care product. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skin care product. Show all posts

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 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.

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.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

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

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.

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.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

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.

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.

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.