Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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.