Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Beauty, Healthy and Young Lip

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

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

Beautiful Skin with Reduce Stress

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

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

Fruit and Vegetable High Diet to Prevent Acne

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

Orange Essence for Anti Wrinkle Skin Care

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

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

Fruit for Skin Care

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

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

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Choose Sunscreen According to Your Skin Color

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunscreen as Skin Care to Protect Skin From Damage and Aging

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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