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4 UNEXPECTED WAYS WAXING BENEFITS YOUR SKIN

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4 UNEXPECTED WAYS WAXING BENEFITS YOUR SKIN

You shave those pesky hairs off, and they regrow, regrow, and simply keep doing it! So why do you keep going through the same routine day after day, week after week? Do you know that waxing is a much better alternative over shaving? Some of you do, but most likely not all. Perhaps, the latter may argue professing the utility of conventional shaving, but as you read on, your argument may simply fizzle out!

SKIN BENEFITS:

Body waxing is a way to remove hair temporarily, though the results are much longer lasting than the results of shaving and other temporary hair removal techniques. It can be done in a professional spa or at home. The wax is applied to the skin before being removed by paper, cloth strips, or by removing the wax itself, at which point it removes the unwanted hair.

Compared to other temporary hair removal techniques, waxing is cheaper and easier, though a single session can be somewhat time-consuming. Following are a few unexpected ways that waxing benefits your skin:

Improved skin texture. In addition to removing excess, unwanted hair, waxing also removes the top layer of dry, dead skin cells. The result is skin that is far more smooth and even, something that cannot be achieved through hair removal creams or shaving.

No skin irritation or allergies. Unlike hair removal creams and shaving gels, the wax that is normally used for body waxing procedures does not contain extra ingredients that can cause skin irritation or allergies.

No cuts and minimal bruising. It can be frustrating to try and improve your skin’s appearance through a method that results in things that adversely affect its appearance, such as cuts and bruises.

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7 Easy, Natural Ways to Protect Your Vision

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7 Easy, Natural Ways to Protect Your Vision

If you haven’t had an eye exam lately, that’s essential. Many eye problems, such as glaucoma, progress slowly with vision loss unnoticed until the disease is advanced.

In addition to having regular eye exams, changing some habits and improving your diet can enhance your chance of maintaining good eyesight well into advanced age. But it’s not a slam dunk. Millions of Americans have a visual impairment; many have chronic, age-related diseases such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, and retinopathy.

Since 2000, rates of diabetic retinopathy have risen 89 percent — driven by an increase in diabetes, with 8 million people over 40 now showing signs of it. Some 2 million Americans 50 and older are affected by macular degeneration. Cataracts and glaucoma are also on the rise in people over 40. At the same time, funding for research into these diseases has been cut dramatically.

Taking care of your own eye health has never been more important. These tips from 500 Time-Tested Home Remedies and the Science Behind Them will help you do just that:

1. Go for a Daily Walk

Regular physical activity helps you stave off cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes — two risk factors for chronic eye disease.

2. Keep Your Weight in a Healthy Zone

Being overweight or obese increases inflammation and elevates the risk of high blood pressure, arterial disease, and diabetes — all enemies of the eye.

3. Wear Sunglasses

Ultraviolet light damages the eyes. The reflective power of snow, sand, and water magnifies the effects. And yes, UV penetrates clouds. Sunglasses should block 99 to 100 percent of UVA and UVS (two bands of ultraviolet light). A hat helps, too.

4. Manage Your Blood Glucose

High blood sugar contributes to cataracts and damages small arteries, including the delicate blood vessels in the retina, leading to diabetic retinopathy.

5. Avoid Tobacco Smoke

Smoking generates free radicals (chemicals that react with membranes and genetic material to destroy cells and tissues), damages the eyes, and escalates the risk of arterial disease.

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Homemade Brightening Face Masks DIY

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Homemade Brightening Face Masks DIY

Homemade Brightening Face Masks. Everyone wants to have a bright and smooth skin, because naturally glowing skin is a sign of health and youth.

Due to the changes in our climate and lifestyle, our skin’s condition changes over time. Skin brightening remedies improve your skin’s appearance by lightening and removing dark spots or discoloration from the skin and bring it a vibrant healthy glow.

Natural remedies are undoubtedly the best in having a smooth, brighter, and youthful-looking skin. Many of skin brightening ingredients that are used in expensive skin brightening products can be found right in your pantry or kitchen.

In fact, natural ingredients give you the assurance that no hazardous chemical components such as parabens, phthalates harm your skin. You can use an array of fruits, vegetables, and spices that are not only good for cooking but also as brightening beauty products.

Most common ingredients that can be combined to create homemade face brightening masks are honey, egg, papaya, lemon, cucumber, turmeric, milk and oats.

Many celebrities have been using DIY (Do It Yourself) face treatments on regular basis. In this article, you will find some of the greatest and effective skin brightening face masks that you can make yourself at home.

Best natural skin brightening ingredients: 

Citrus fruits/Lemon Oil

Lemon, orange, and grapefruit are citrus fruits bursting with Vitamin C that naturally bleaches and removes skin pigmentation, making the skin lighter and more radiant.

Lemon oil is great for skin lightening and skin brightening homemade face masks. It has two natural bleaching components which are limonene and citric acid. Both components are able to lighten dark spots, fight hyperpigmentation, and also diminish the appearance of scars.

Honey

Honey is another effective ingredient that helps to brighten skin complexion. It also has natural moisturizing and age-defying properties. Raw organic honey does not expire like other natural ingredients, which means it can be used for a long time.

Turmeric

Curcumin, a substance in turmeric, has anti-inflammatory properties which eliminate harmful free radicals that are damaging the skin. It also aids in producing collagen that makes skin soft, elastic, and radiant.

Aloe Vera

Aloe Vera is bursting with vitamins A, C, E, B1, B2, B3, B6, and B12. These vitamins can heal and rejuvenate skin leaving it radiant, smooth, and moisturized. Aloe Vera is great ingredient to any DIY face brightening masks.

Cucumber

Cucumber is a great skin cooling agent. It helps to restore dull skin to its youthful glow. Cucumber also tightens pores and evens out the tone. Fresh cucumber mask can correct and enhance your skin complexion. Read more…………….

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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Hormonal Acne and Aging

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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Hormonal Acne and Aging

Those habitual breakouts you get right. About the same time you get your period? It turns out that’s not the only time your hormones influence the appearance of your skin. To help us understand our hormones better, we talked to Dr. Rebecca Booth, board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and co-founder of VENeffect Anti-Aging Skin Care. Here, Dr. Booth outlined the many ways our hormones impact our skin and overall health and what we can do to keep our hormones under control for clearer, healthier skin.

1. Your skin is also on a 28-day cycle.

Dr. Booth: Hormones affect virtually every organ in the human body, and most certainly our skin. Much like our reproductive cycle, our skin is also on a twenty-eight-day cycle, regenerating and renewing itself as the body’s largest organ.

Before menopause a surge in estrogen during the fertile window, what I call the “Venus Week,” contributes to a healthy glow by increasing collagen, elastin, and other elements of beautiful, supple skin. At the same time this effect, coupled with peaking testosterone just before ovulation, results in increased lubricity, augmenting a glow that is clearly designed by Nature to optimize our appearance when we are most fertile. Estrogen keeps a “check” on testosterone by increasing binding proteins in the bloodstream. After ovulation, estrogen and testosterone drop a bit, and even later in the cycle, during the typical PMS days, estrogen takes a steep dive down, prompting a slight surge in testosterone causing unchecked oiliness, enlarged pores, and resultant acne breakouts.

2. Testosterone is mainly responsible for hormonal acne.

Almost all instances of acne are aggravated by testosterone, or an imbalance in the ratio of testosterone and estrogen. Testosterone increases both pore size and sebum (the oil of skin) production. Read more 

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5 Things You Need to Know When Starting a New Skin Care Regimen

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5 Things You Need to Know When Starting a New Skin Care Regimen

Opening up a brand-spanking-new bag of beauty goodies feels like a chance to celebrate your birthday whenever you want. From testing the texture and taking a whiff to see if it tickles your nose to watching your skin transform, there’s a reason why shopping for skin care and makeup is, well, super fun. The only downside to changing your skin regimen is that your face might not always demonstrate the outcome that you’d hoped for. (Especially if you have sensitive, finicky skin, then you know how it feels to try a trendy-sounding moisturizer and suddenly find yourself completely broken out.)

To guide you through your new skin care journey, we spoke with dermatologist Dr. Tsippora Shainhouse M.D., FAAD to get her best tips on what to expect when trying out a new daily skin care routine.

1. There’s a difference between normal skin reaction and allergic reaction.

According to Dr. Shainhouse, whether your skin is happy with the new concoction or not, you’re bound to notice a reaction, which can range from mild stinging, burning and itching to red rashes, skin swelling and blisters. “It can be an expected irritation reaction—like the mild stinging from an acid toner or the peeling and redness from using a topical retinoid,” Shainhouse says.

An actual allergic reaction, in contrast, could be painful and long-lived, instead of a mild bout of side effects. If you’re ever concerned, stop using the product immediately and call your dermatologist ASAP. “If a product stings your skin, wash it off. Beauty does not equal pain in this case. You can try the product again in a few days, and see if your skin can tolerate it,” Shainhouse says. Read more 

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Can Vitamin C Get Rid of Dark Circles?

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Can Vitamin C Get Rid of Dark Circles?

Vitamin C for dark circles is one of the best antioxidants and a powerful tool to take of your skin. This is the perfect vitamin and your solution to a majority of skin issues, dullness, dark skin, ageing, scars, etc. Vitamin C has been used since ages in beauty to achieve youthful glow and to brighten up skin. Vitamin C is extremely potent. It is almost impossible to get vitamin C in its purest form. You won’t be able to get more than 5% of vitamin C in your creams because it is highly unstable and loses its efficacy upon exposure to air and light, but vitamin C these days is readily available in the form of serums and creams.

Vitamin C Esters for Dark Circles:

There are vitamin C ester supplements available in the market to take care of your dark circles. They strengthen the blood vessels and thus reduces the appearance of dark circles gradually. Vitamin C ester helps in thinning the skin and increasing collagen production on the skin. Topical treatments formulated with alpha lipoic acid (ALA) helps in healthy production of nitric oxide which further help in increasing the blood flow to your under-eye area.

Homemade Made Vitamin C Serum For Dark Circles:

Here’s a completely homemade Vitamin C serum that you can yourself make with minimal ingredients at home. Just make sure to store the serum in a cool, dark place, in a tightly-closed, amber color glass bottle.

Ingredients Needed

  • Pure vitamin c powder (l-ascorbic acid) 1/4 tsp or you can use Celin tablets from local medical store or pharmacy. Take two tablets only to make a serum with 5% potency. Do not pick effervescent or chewable vitamin C tablets because they contain sugar and glucose in it.
  • Distilled water (or rose water) – 2 tsp.
  • Glycerine 1 tsp.
  • Vitamin E gel capsule 1 capsule (vitamin E helps keep vitamin C stable for long).
  • An empty, amber-colored glass bottle to store your serum (you could clean and use an old paediatric medicine bottle).

Method to Make Homemade vitamin C Serum:
Step 1: Dissolve the vitamin c powder in the distilled water completely. Just drop the two tablets into the bottle and add distilled water to it. Shake the bottle until the tablets dissolve completely. This way no contamination will take place by multiple handling of products.
Step 2: Add the glycerine to the mix obtained in step 1.
Step 3: Puncture and add the contents of 1 Vitamin E gel capsule. This will help keep your serum stable and add the benefits of vitamin E oil.
Step 4: Store this concoction in a cool and dark place. Read More…………

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Home remedies for dry hair

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Home remedies for dry hair

Dry hair does not absorb or retain enough moisture to keep its texture and brightness, so it may look lacklustre and be fragile and brittle. Although it may look unhealthy, most of the time, it is unlikely to be a health problem that causes dry hair.

Dry hair can be caused by factors, including:

  • nutritional deficiencies
  • excessive sun exposure
  • contact with chlorinated water
  • excessive hair wash
  • use of styling products and tools
  • use of harsh hair products

Some possible medical causes of dry hair may be anorexia nervosa, Menkes disease, hypoparathyroidism, hypothyroidism, and other hormone abnormalities.

Home remedies for dry hair

People can use home remedies to treat hair if it becomes dry and brittle. Listed below are 12 different home remedies that can be tried:

1. Using hot oils

Hot oils can be massaged into the scalp and add shine to dry hair.

Olive oil is one of the most popular home remedies for fizzy hair. Besides olive oil, the following can also be used with good results:

All of these oils are rich in vitamin E and antioxidants and help to seal the outer hair layer or cuticle with moisture, thus repairing the damage.

To prepare this home remedy:

  1. Warm but do not boil around half a cup of oil.
  2. Gently massage it into the hair for some minutes.
  3. Cover the hair with a warm towel.
  4. Leave for 30−45 minutes or overnight.
  5. After this time, shampoo and rinse the hair.

This treatment will strengthen and add shine to fizzy hair.

2. Using good hair care products specific to your hair type

A person may want to try using gentle, sulfate-free shampoos and hair conditioners.

Also, they can shampoo less frequently, for example, only once or twice a week.

3. Using beer as a hair conditioner

Beer contains a protein that helps to repair the hair cuticles, making the hair smooth and shiny.

If someone shampoos their hair as usual and then sprays on some drops of beer, allowing it to dry naturally, it will work as a good conditioner without leaving any smell on the hair.

4. Applying a coconut oil mask

 

A coconut oil mask may minimize dry hair

 

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7 Important Things to Consider When Buying Sunscreen

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7 Important Things to Consider When Buying Sunscreen

It’s no secret that good sunscreen is a healthy skin essential all year long, but there’s a lot of information to keep track of when buying sunscreen. Sunscreen is not a one-size-fits-all, and there are so many kinds of sunscreen out there because different people may have different sunscreen needs. Some people may just need it for everyday wear, while others are looking for water-resistant or sweat-proof protection. Your skin type may also help to determine the best option.

Here’s how to ensure you find your next favorite sunscreen so you can get a safer dose of the sun.

1. Start with SPF 30, Go as High as 50

Both UVA and UVB rays can lead to skin cancer, plus UVA rays cause wrinkles and speed up signs of aging, and UVB rays cause sunburns. The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) recommends a minimum of SPF 30, which protects against 97% of the sun’s UVB rays. Higher SPFs are better for the fair skinned or those who burn easily, but keep in mind that improvements are minimal—SPF 15 provides 93% protection, so it’s not like 30 is “twice” as effective. The AAD recommends SPF 50 for the fair skinned or those who burn easily, but don’t insist upon maxing out your SPF. Why? “No sunscreen can block 100 percent of the sun’s rays,” according to the Academy, and there’s actually no evidence that SPFs higher than 50 protect any better.

2. Know Your Sunscreen’s Key Ingredients

A quick look through the ingredients list can help ensure you have the quality and coverage you need. You’ll want to ensure you have both UVA and UVB protection, so look for the term “broad spectrum” in the label. Mineral (or physical) sunscreen works by using natural minerals zinc oxide or titanium dioxide to reflect the sun’s rays from your skin. On the other hand, chemical sunscreens use chemical compounds like bemotrizinol, avobenzone and biscotizole—all of which provide broad-spectrum protection.

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Can Facial Acupuncture Really Make You Look Younger?

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Can Facial Acupuncture Really Make You Look Younger?

This cosmetic treatment is an extension of traditional acupuncture. It’s said to naturally help make the skin look younger, smoother, and all-around healthier. And unlike injection procedures, facial acupuncture addresses not only signs of aging, but also the skin’s overall health.

The science behind facial acupuncture:

After a regular full-body acupuncture treatment, the acupuncturist will move on to the facial portion of the treatment. If the practitioner only does the facial part of the treatment, Basel doesn’t recommend it.

“If you were just going to put a large number of needles in the face and not the full body, this would result in energy congestion in the face,” she says. “A client can experience dullness, headache, and discomfort.” When you start with the body, you can experience a full flow of energy that helps support the facial acupuncture.

How much does it cost?

The average cost of a facial treatment can range wildly from $25 to $1,500, according to RealSelf.com. Of course, this depends on your location, studio, and whether you get a facial plus full-body treatment or only a facial.

What are the long-term expectations?

The focus is to create long-term changes in the health of the skin and body, not short-term quick fixes.

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Is olive oil a Good Moisturizer for your face?

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Is olive oil a Good Moisturizer for your face?

Olive oil is derived from olives and is a staple of the Mediterranean diet. The oil has many nutritional benefits when consumed, but it is also frequently applied to the skin and hair.

It’s rich in vitamins

Olive oil does have some reported benefits to the skin. According to the International Olive Council, olive oil has many vitamins, including A, D, and K, as well as vitamin E.

It has antioxidant properties

Olive oil is also an antioxidant, so it might help prevent or reverse damage from cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation. It has a very high concentration of an ingredient called squalene as compared to the other types of fats and oils that humans normally eat. The squalene is what gives olive oil the extra antioxidant boost.

It moisturizes and fights bacteria

If you’re prone to acne, using a soap made with olive oil decrease your acne by killing off the bacteria that causes the acne. Olive oil is also known to moisturize and hydrate your skin.

How can you use olive oil on your face?

It’s possible to use olive oil as a moisturizer without any added ingredients by applying it directly onto your skin. From there, you can blot off any excess oil with a towel or cloth. It may be especially helpful to use olive oil as a moisturizer after you’ve been exposed to the sun or suffered a sunburn.

Risks and warnings

If you have sensitive skin, do an allergy test before applying it to your face. Rub a dime-sized amount on your forearm with the brand of olive oil that you plan to use. If you observe no reaction in 24 to 48 hours, it should be safe to use.

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