Skin Care

Author:  Dr Edward F. Group III, DC, Ph.D, ND, DACBN

Your skin is your armor, your shield from the elements. Yet when was the last time you really thought about what you need to do to take care of it? Throughout your life, genetic and environmental factors will cause a lot of wear and tear to your skin. But you are never too young or too old to start taking care of your skin. In fact, skin care and protection should be an essential part of your health, fitness, and beauty regime. If you take care of your skin, your skin will take care of you! If your stuck in a skin care rut, or if you are just looking to learn a bit more about the basics of skin care, read on to learn more about this important step in your daily activities.  The Essentials of Skin Care  The first step to taking care of your skin is preventing damage. Sun, wind, pollutants, and simply aging can degrade the condition of your skin. Common complaints include dry and itchy skin, wrinkles, sagging, color changes, and age spots. There are steps that you can take to keep you skin looking and feeling its best.  Exercise, rest, and good nutrition lay the foundation for beautiful, healthy skin, inside and out. A proper diet is not only good for your overall health, it also helps to ensure that your skin will receive all of the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that it needs to maintain and repair cells. Drinking purified water is another good way to keep your skin healthy. Water helps to hydrate the skin and move waste and nutrients through the system. It is very effective mixing a teaspoon or capful of Organic Apple Cider Vinegar in with your water. Do not drink Tap Water.  The most important way to care for your skin is to protect it from the damaging rays of the sun. Ultraviolet radiation damages the skin and can lead to wrinkles, premature aging, age spots, and cancer. Take extra precautions to make sure your skin is not exposed to the sun�s rays. Use a natural sunscreen, or a moisturizer that contains sunscreen (at least SPF 15) everyday. Your skin does need some sunlight 10-15 minutes of direct exposure daily.  Dry skin is very common, especially with age. Older skin has fewer sweat and oil glands than younger skin. Dry skin may be caused by frequent baths, certain cosmetics or medications. But whatever the cause, there are ways to alleviate the itchiness associated with it. Avoid using harsh soaps when bathing, and if possible, cut back on the number of baths or showers each week. A sponge bath with warm water may help to clean and revive skin without stripping the skin of its valuable moisturizers. When you do use soap, try using a natural very mild soap that does not contain any dyes, parabens or perfumes. Follow up the bath with a moisturizing lotion. A good all natural moisturizer is one of the foundations for a healthy skin care regimen. Continue moisturizing throughout the day to keep skin healthy. Your hands and face are particularly susceptible to daily damage, and may need to be moisturized several times. A Skin Care Routine  A skin care routine does not have to be elaborate in order to be effective. But you should develop some kind of skin care routine based on your skin type, daily activities, and nutritional needs so that you can be sure you are taking the very best care of your skin. Following a daily skin care regime will also allow you to more closely evaluate your skin for abnormalities. Here's a simple routine that you can adapt to fit your needs:

1. Cleanse: Wash your skin thoroughly on a daily basis to remove the dirt, debris, pollutants, and perspiration that accumulates on a daily basis. If you have dry or sensitive skin, use only warm water to wash your skin and use a mild natural cleanser every few days. If you have normal or oily skin, be sure to wash with a gentle cleanser on a daily basis. Be sure to brush your teeth before washing your face, as toothpaste residue can irritate sensitive facial skin.
   
2. Moisturize: Unless your skin is very oily, you will want to use a moisturizer everyday to keep your skin hydrated and healthy. Your skin needs moisturizer all year long as both the indoor winter heat, and summer sun can be equally damaging to your skin.  
   
3. Protect: Use a natural sunscreen when possible, regardless of whether or not you plan on spending much time in the sun. The sun's rays are very damaging and if you get in the habit of applying sunscreen everyday, you will never be left without protection. The suns most beneficial rays occur at sunrise and sunset.

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Honey as Moisturizer - The Secret to Soft, Healthy and Young-Looking Skin Revealed!

Author:  Marcia Kruger


Have you ever imagined using honey as moisturizer in your skincare? It is a little unusual, however, if your skin gets exposed to harsh environmental conditions you need to take a look at honey in a skincare moisturizer.

Environmental factors like chemicals, pollution and smoke, but the sun and wind are the two main reasons why your skin becomes dry and damaged. Because it feels rough and sore, you reach for the closest bottle of lotion and hope it helps.

Did you know that honey as an ingredient is good for you and your skin's health? It not only soothes your skin, it's also an effective skincare aid.

Honey as a moisturizer is nothing new. It has been around for centuries and used in natural skin care. Cleopatra used honey as moisturizer to keep her beauty undamaged.

That was then -- but, let's look at how honey is use as a natural moisturizer for your skin nowadays.

Because of those environmental factors, your skin has a hard time staying moisturized. Over exposure to the sun's damaging UV rays and strong winds diminish skin's natural oils leading to dry skin. Chemical ingredients in soaps also cause skin dryness.

Therefore, protecting your skin from environmental factors is important. Avoid too much direct sunlight, wear a hat and protective clothing and make sure you use mild, unscented soap.

So, using honey as moisturizer helps your skin dryness. But, not a regular honey...a natural substance called Active Manuka Honey which does more than just moisturize your skin.

This particular honey is obtained from the manuka bush thus the name manuka honey. Because of the presence of unique enzymes containing antibacterial properties, known as the Unique Manuka Factor (UMF), it's effective in healing skin sores and blemishes including acne and even more serious skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis.

This particular type of honey penetrates deeply into your skin to nourish, rejuvenate and to make it look younger and softer. And, because it's a strong antioxidant, it protects skin from damage caused by free radicals found in environmental pollutants.

Using this honey as moisturizer also supports the skin�s own cell renewal process. Because it promotes the production of collagen and elastin in your skin, the two proteins keep your skin firm, elastic and wrinkle-free.

So, go ahead and use honey as moisturizer on your skin. Not only will it moisturize your skin, it'll nourish, heal and keep your skin young-looking and radiant.

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Reducing Cellulite Appearance as a Vegetarian

Author:  Laura Ng

Honestly, you can't cure cellulite because cellulite forms part of your body fat structure beneath the skin. However, you can reduce your cellulite appearance dramatically and make it almost invisible to human eyes even in broad daylight.

Unfortunately, women tend to get the most headaches from this ugly dimpling appearance on their skins, even after they've become a vegetarian. Why women and not men? Have you seen men seeking cellulite treatment thus far?

Let me give you a quick rundown on the difference between men and women in terms of their cellulite structure so that you know how to treat your cellulite problem more effectively when we get down to the natural ways to reducing cellulite appearance.

For women, the connective tissue structure is arranged into large upright cubicles to hold the fat. When poor lymphatic circulation takes place, toxic wastes and fluid will accumulate within the fat tissues, which cause these cubicles to become swollen and start to push up against the skin, forming cellulite appearance.

In men, these fat cubicles are arranged in cross-linked structure that actually limits the quantity of fat stored, hold the fat in better and store them deeper under the skin. Also, men have thicker skin as better cover-ups and generally, their hormones behave less erratically than women.

That's why cellulite bothers women more than men. Now you roughly know how your cellulite comes about. Now, let's see what we can do to reduce the cellulite appearance and make it less noticeable.

How to Reduce Your Cellulite Appearance as a Vegetarian

As I just mentioned, your cellulite appears due to poor lymphatic circulation. So, first thing you must do as a vegetarian is improve your lymphatic circulation by ingesting quality vegetarian diet and cutting back on your processed vegetarian food intake.

Though processed vegetarian food may not be as toxic as meat, it does contain high amount of sugar, salt and bad saturated fat that can impede your blood flow and trigger a metabolic disorder. On the contrary, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes etc provide key nutrients for optimal lymphatic circulation, thus reducing your cellulite appearance dramatically.

Oh, factoring in exercises help to reduce cellulite appearance too by reducing the fat content within the fat structure. Remember, when you fat cells shrink, the push-up effect will be less intense, and the dimpling appearance will subside.

Strictly speaking, you can't remove cellulite completely because it is not an entity in your body that you can simply take it away. Hence, whether you like it or not, you just had to learn to live with cellulite. But good news is, you can reduce your cellulite appearance by applying the aforementioned natural ways.

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Dark Circles Under the Eyes

Author:  Dr. Grossman

Possible Causes:

Black or dark circles under or around the eyes can be caused by many different factors. Most people inherit the tendency for dark circles. The following are the most common causes of those unattractive dark circles.

1. Heredity: Like varicose veins, dark circles under the eyes are usually an inherited trait. If you have dark circles, there is a good chance that others in your family also have them. The skin under the eye is very thin. When blood passes through the large veins close to the surface of the skin it can produce a bluish tint. The more transparent your skin, also an inherited trait, the darker the circles appear.

2. Exposure to the Sun: Even in darker skinned people, exposure to sunlight, especially during the summer months, can cause a higher-than-normal level of skin pigmentation (melanin) under the eyes. People get suntans because exposure to the sun increases the natural pigmentation of the skin and draws that pigmentation to the surface. The same principle applies to the skin under the eyes.

3. Allergies, Asthma and Eczema: Any condition that you have that causes your eyes to itch can contribute to darker circles under the eyes because rubbing or scratching the skin can darken the skin. Hay fever sufferers particularly will notice under-eye "smudges" during the height of the allergy season. Some food allergies can also cause the area under the eyes to appear darker.

4. Medications: Any medications that you are taking that causes blood vessels to dilate, can cause circles under the eyes to darken. Because the skin under the eyes is very delicate, any increase blood flow shows through the skin.

5. Nutrition: The lack of nutrients in the diet, or the lack of a balance diet, can contribute to the discoloration of the area under the eyes.

6. Fatigue, lack of sleep: A lack of sleep or excessive tiredness can cause paleness of the skin, which again allows the blood underneath the skin to become more visible and appear more blue or darker.

7. Pregnancy and Menstruation: The skin can also become more pale during pregnancy and menstruation, which again allows the underlying veins under the eyes to become more visible.

8. Age: If you have a propensity to have dark circles under you eyes, as you grow older, they are likely to become more noticeable and permanent. Excess folds of skin under the eyes will also make dark circles more pronounced.

Natural Remedies

1. TEA BAG TREATMENT

Try applying a cold compress of rosemary tea to increase circulation, which helps reduce swelling around the eyes. Make tea by bringing a half-cup of fresh rosemary and a quart of water to a boil. Steep for 20 minutes, then strain and chill. Soak a washcloth in the tea, ring out extra liquid anal place over eyes for 15 to 20 minutes, once a day, as needed.

2. Acupressure: Another circulation-boosting treatment is acupressure. This is an easy exercise that you can also do every day. Close your eyes and gently press your ring finger underneath one eye, moving from the inside corner to the outside corner. Do this 10 to 15 times. Then repeat on the other eye.

3. Cold compress: Close your eyes and cover them with a cold washcloth for about five minutes, says Dr. Monica. Repeat several times throughout the day. That will help constrict your blood vessels, minimizing darkness, and it may help minimize tissue swelling and eliminate some of the darkness.

4. Moisturizer: To minimize the appearance of bags, plump up skin with moisturizer, one that contains vitamin C, an antioxidant that protects skin cells from damage and supports collagen production; licorice (or fennel) extract, an anti-inflammatory; and stabilized oxygen, a form of hydrogen peroxide that promotes circulation.

5. Freeze some parsley in ice cubes. Use the parsley cubes instead of eye creams to diminish dark circles and puffiness. Parsley is packed with chlorophyll which helps fade darkness, while the ice cubes reduce the swelling.

6. Eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet, drinking plenty of water (eight 8-ounce glasses daily), and avoiding alcohol, coffee, tea and caffeinated soft drinks also go a long way in preventing bags, circles and wrinkles.

7. Spread on the sunscreen. Use a sunscreen especially made for the face with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15, but preferably 20, "all day every day," to keep the sun's rays from darkening the skin under your eyes,

8. Eight hours of sleep is a must for all of us, especially for people having dark circles under their eyes.

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How Can You Cure Droopy Eyelids?

Author:  Zach Smith

Are you always being made fun of because of your droopy eyelids? This skin condition does have a way of making your eyes look funny. But levity aside, this condition can really put a damper to your self-esteem.

Droopy eyelids are usually caused by the loss of skin elasticity in this area. It can also be caused by the loss of the essential fats that support skin tissues. While there are surgical ways to treat droopy eyelids, the following tips can help improve the health of your skin and can eventually get rid of this problem:

1. Try eating more fresh water fishes or taking omega-3 fatty acids food supplements daily. Fresh water fishes such as Salmon and Tuna are great sources of omega-3 fatty acids. These fatty acids are essential in preventing cellular inflammation. Cellular inflammation is one of the primary culprits in the weakening of skin functions.

Studies have shown that taking omega-3 fatty acids daily can help prolong young looking skin. In fact, this can also bring back the elastic and resilient structure of the dermis.

2. Try using a reliable eye cream product that has been loaded with CynergyTK, Phytessence Wakame and Eyeliss.

CynergyTK is an ingredient that has been extracted from the wool of sheep. It supplies your skin with a functional protein called Keratin. Keratin is one of the vital components of the skin that helps in the regeneration of collagen and elastin. These dermis components can maintain strong and elastic dermis structure. Phytessence Wakame is a type of Japanese sea kelp capable of preventing the loss of hyaluronic acid. This acid is vital for effective collagen lubrication. Eyeliss is composed of natural peptides. Natural peptides help improve the production of collagen in the skin.

3. Try using papaya juice and safflower oil as a topical treatment. Papaya juice contains beta carotene. This is a derivative of Vitamin A. Vitamin A helps prevent the loss of dermis structure. It also helps correct damaged skin tissues. Safflower oil, on the other hand, maintains firm skin structure. It contains linoleic acid, a form of omega-6 fatty acid that bridges the gaps in skin tissues and cells.

Taking Vitamin A and omega-6 fatty acids in supplement form is also ideal. These nutrients help improve inner health.

Combine these treatments if you really want to get rid of droopy eyelids condition. These remedies do not only work for this skin problem. It also helps get rid of skin issues in the other parts of your body.

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How to Tighten the Skin on Your Arms - The Key is Replenishing Firmness and Elasticity

Author:  Laurel Levine

Have you been wondering how to tighten the skin on your arms effectively, or how to tighten up the skin in any region for that matter? The truly effective way to return firmness and elasticity to aging skin is a mystery to most people, and the cosmetic companies don't want to offer you a viable way to achieve your goals. If they gave you the answer to looking younger, you wouldn't spend so much money with them.

After all, if they presented you with a formula that provided all of the necessary antioxidants, a way to stimulate the creation of an abundance of fresh collagen and elastin, and a method of slowing down the decomposition of your tissues and polymer, then why would you need to buy so many products from them? Skin that has returned to its old form is easy to maintain, but achieving your old form costs money.

The cosmetic companies really don't want to give you the answer as to how to tighten the skin on your arms, because that success might make you content. They want you to be frantic over the lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin you are experiencing, because being frantic will draw you into buying everything in sight in order to firm and smooth your skin. The products they are selling to you are intended to have you fail.

This may not be the real reason behind why they sell you totally ineffective products, but it is one of the few reasons that I can think of. Why else would they offer products that contained livestock derived collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid, when it has been scientifically proven that these compounds cannot be absorbed by your skin? How about formulas that have the potential to permanently debilitate your facial muscles?

There is one company out there that is not afraid to let you in on how to tighten the skin on your arms, because your success is actually their goal. This corporation prides itself on the quality of the all natural ingredients it uses, like active Manuka honey, Maracuja passion fruit extract, Babassu wax, and grape seed oil. These compounds supply you with all of the antioxidants you need for younger looking, healthy skin.

Grape seed oil is one of the more interesting ingredients they use, because it can control the behavior of the collagenase, elastase, and hyaluronidase enzymes responsible for tissue and polymer loss. This company teams grape seed oil with another ingredient know to control these enzymes behavior, which is Phytessence Wakame kelp extract. Together these compounds will help you preserve the most tissue possible.

Make no mistake about it. With Phytessence Wakame and grape seed oil standing guard, Cynergy TK and Nano-lipobelle H EQ10 can do their job. The proteins and enzymes in Cynergy TK, and the nano- emulsified coenzyme Q10 dramatically increase the production of new collagen and elastin. The creation and preservation of these tissues is how to tighten the skin on your arms effectively, and it's a good thing to know that at least one company will provide you with what you need.

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