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.

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.

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.