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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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