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Antioxidants – Are They The Answer To Your Skin Care Problems?

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May 102011

Free radicals are responsible for damaging the skin. This damage is caused by the degradation of the collagen and the elastin in the skin, thereby reducing the skins ability to renew damaged cells.

Antioxidants help to fight off these free radicals and are naturally occurring substances that are not harmful to the skin. When applied directly to the skin antioxidants reduce the free radicals and some believe that they can actually reverse mild damage that has occurred over the years.

The vitamins A, C and E are the most popular antioxidants used in skin care products and these have shown in scientific tests to improve the condition of the skin and help prevent any additional damage from occurring.

One antioxidant that has gained a lot of respect for its properties in recent years is grape seed extract. Grape seed extract has specific properties that help to reduce inflammation of the skin. It has also shown to help strengthen the capillary walls and more skin care products are adding grape seed extract due to these positive effects on the skin.

Another natural product is green tea extract and this antioxidant is well worth mentioning here due to the active ingredient catechins. This ingredient of green tea has been shown in tests to reduce the size of pre-cancerous skin lesions.

Many of the best skin care creams have some form of antioxidants in their ingredients, as the manufacturers are aware of the benefits of including them for their customers.

Normal Service To Be Resumed

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Apr 272011

As you can see there have been no new posts on this blog for nearly a year. The reason for this is that back last May the blog was hacked/infected with malware with the result that I was unable to login to correct the problem. Despite trying several different methods I was unsuccesful in solving the problem and so left it to concentrate on other things. Recently I was advised that certain trademark issues meant that I needed to access the blog to alter some of the older posts and so I made a fresh attempt to gain access. As you see the blog has now been resurrected using a new look and normal skin care posts will resume in the near future.

How To Tell Whether Ingredients Are Natural Or Synthetic

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May 312010

If you have read any of the earlier posts you will have noticed that I return again and again to the importance of choosing skin care products that are made from natural ingredients. It seems incredible, but many skin care products are loaded with ingredients that actually harm your skin over time. So it is essential to read the small print on the product label to check the ingredients it contains.

But there is a complication in that some ingredients are natural and some are synthetic, but both have the same scientific name. In this case the name on the label will not enable you to know whether the ingredient is derived from natural materials or synthetic chemicals. For this reason the people at Xtend-Life have published a revised table listing all the ingredients used in their products with both the common name and scientific name of each and details of the natural matter from which each is derived. You can find the full list here.

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Welcome To My New Look Blog

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May 282010

Welcome to the new look for my blog. I have been wanting to make a change for some time, but have only now managed to find a theme that I like. As you see the latest six posts are shown on the front page in a clear format and there are links to older items in the sidebar.

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Natural Skin Care v Gold Face Cream

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May 262010

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Since I spend my time writing about the benefits of natural skin care products, you may wonder why I should even mention a skin cream that has as one of its ingredients a metal, even if it is as precious as gold. The reason is that I found this fascinating article by Jennifer Kingson in the New York Times. She starts by describing a golden collagen facial mask which she describes as “a visual and tactile delight: gelatinous, face-shaped and thoroughly golden, it arrives in a sheer plastic enclosure that invites you to squish it the way that bubble wrap begs you to pop it”. Unfortunately after using this “delight” her face developed a severe rash.

After this unpromising start you might think that this would be the end of the matter, but no, it seems that the gold was not the cause of the rash rather another ingredient of the mask. The article goes on to consider the whole question of using gold in skin care products. The gold is incorporated in many ways, as flakes which are visible or in nano form known as as colloid. Creams with visible gold flecks are claimed to warm the skin, whereas those which include microscopic particles suggest that this is essential to enable the gold to penetrate the outer layers of the skin.

This question is does gold have any therapeutic qualities? The answer you get depends on who you ask. Sellers of gold skin cream say yes, but dermatologists reply that gold cannot help you and can be harmful. On the other hand gold was named “allergen of the year” in 2001 by the American Cotact Dermatitis Society. You can read the full article here.

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Skin Care And Top Ten Makeup Tips

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May 192010

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Writing in the Pittsburgh Makeup Examiner Patty Bell has ten tips which she calls her “Golden Rules of Makeup”. What interested me was that her Rule number 3 is Moisturize EVERYTHING! And this is followed by “Stay out of the sun and tanning beds -period”. This is all good skin care advice that you will have read here before. After some specific makeup tips she adds as Rule number 9 “Get yourself on a good skin care routine” because as she says “Good skin is the perfect canvas to the best makeup application”.

You can read the full article here.

Here are a few more items I have found in the news today:

Seven layers of vanity: Japanese men need better skin care | CNNGo.com

A recent study discovers that Japanese men don’t use as many skin care products as their women want them to. And this from the land of ‘herbivore men’?

Publish Date: 05/19/2010 4:00

http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/none/japanese-women-men-use-more-skin-care-products-763344

Daily Skin Care Tips | Skin Care Guide And Tips

Your skin is not a part of your body that you can forget about (like an appendix or a kidney), assuming that it will look after itself. It is a.

Publish Date: 05/18/2010 20:39

http://www.skincaretipsguide.info/facial-skincare/daily-skin-care-tips.html

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Natural Skin Care Inside Out

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May 112010

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Have you noticed how the skin care experts always advise you to stay out of the sun as this is the major cause of damage to the skin and premature aging? Yet it is also clear that some sunlight is good for you because it is a source of vitamin D.

Then again some people believe that all skin creams should contain sunscreen while forgetting that most of us spend more time indoors than outside exposed to the sun. What prompted these thoughts was an article I found which explained how our diet can provide a form of natural sunscreen by protecting our skin from the inside. It’s all to do with antioxidants and increasing levels of these by eating the correct diet. Vegetables such as turnip greens and kale as well as broccoli, spinach, peas, watercress and corn are just a few that the author suggests. However do not go overboard on carrots or your skin may take on an orange tinge. Read more..

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Why You Should Always Choose Natural Skin Care Products

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Apr 192010

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As someone who takes a keen interest in skin care I naturally keep an eye on items in the news. Over the weekend I came across this piece:

“Lead on my lips and mercury on my eyelashes, carcinogenic and endocrine disruptive creams on my skin. We have a long history of doing dangerous things in the name of beauty. The Egyptians applied copper for skin tone, Romans used chalk. In the Middle Ages, Europeans covered faces with arsenic-laced powder and leaches to whiten skin. The EU has banned 1,110-plus ingredients in cosmetics, compared to only 10 in the US. With one-third of the products on shelves containing an ingredient linked to cancer, why do “beauty” companies continue to slather our faces and bodies with chemicals in the name of healthy skin?”

And further on I read:

“As one of 600 companies that signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, this body and cosmetic collection is vegan-friendly and doesn’t test on animals. There are no phthalates, parabens or artificial fragrance. It specializes in bioactive ingredients that have a “therapeutic effect on living tissue,” like magnolia which is an anti-inflammatory and pumpkin which acts as an anti-oxidant.”

This sounds just like Xtend-Life although it is in fact one of the other 600 companies mentioned above.

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Is Skin Care For Men A Taboo Subject?

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Apr 062010

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I’ve just found this article by Aparna Karthikeyan who takes a light hearted look at the way men view skin care.

“Look, I do not, as a rule, e-mail men and ask them what they like to do in the bathroom ? but, trust me, I did it only because of a recent tragic incident? A dear old friend went to a wedding all sunshine and smiles, but came back a broken man. Several people there had complimented him on his pretty daughter. And when, through clenched teeth, he explained it was his wife, a few men dug him in the ribs and said wasn’t he a lucky thing, married to this stunner half his age! Naturally, the friend was gutted? the wife was merely a few months his junior, but managed to knock decades off ? thanks partly to dewy good looks, but mostly to timely cosmetic interventions!”

“Why are men so far behind women when it comes to skin care?” she asks, but is unable to find an answer. Of course there are plenty of skin care products for men including those from Xtend-Life, but you can read the rest of her article by clicking this link.

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Should Skin Care Products Include Sunscreen?

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Apr 022010

Or to put the question the other way round “Why do all skincare products not contain a high SPF sunscreen?”. We are always being told that the main causes of damage to our skin are smoking and excessive exposure to the sun. So it obviously makes sense for sunscreen to be included in the skin care products that we use. Doesn’t it?

Well, it turns our that the answer is no, it does not. The reason is that what causes the skin damage is excessive exposure to the sun. The operative word is excessive by which is meant spending long periods outside in a hot summer sun. For the average person who works in an office building there is clearly no need for protection and using a sunscreen fulltime can actually be harmful.

Vitamin D is one of the essential requirements of a healthy body and the best source of this vitamin is sunlight. So walking in the sunshine is beneficial so long as the exposure is not excessive. In addition there are concerns that certain chemicals used in the manufacture of suncreams can be harmful so it makes sense to restrict their use to the times when you are outside in a strong sun.

So you can see that there is no need to include a sunscreen in skin care moisturizers and lotions. In fact it would be counter productive since it would block the natural way of acquiring vitamin D from sunlight.

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