Skin Care

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.

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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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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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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At-Home Skin Care Quick Fixes

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Mar 252010

I came across this video from DermTV earlier this morning. It’s under three minutes long, but contains some useful tips on how to cure a rash, pimples or lines and wrinkles so you can look your best for a big event:

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Natural Skin Care With Apple Stem Cells

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Mar 122010

I was wondering if there was a thing such as anti aging oil that will make my skin beautiful again. I hate my rough, old skin, and I could really use something like an anti aging oil. I just found this query on a Health blog, but there is no answer. My answer would be that of course there are many anti aging skin care products that can improve your appearance and reduce those lines and wrinkles. The problem most people have is knowing how to choose a product that is really effective and will do what it promises.

I noticed today that the old rhyme about An Apple a Day has now been reinvented to promote a product based on “apple stem cells”. “The latest buzz in skincare is a rare Swiss Apple called the Uttwiler Spatlauber. This “Super Apple” is so rare that only 20 trees are in existence. Researchers noted that when these super apples were punctured they healed themselves. They also boast an extremely long shelf life; they last 4 months longer than typical shriveled apples. This rare Swiss Apple has a self-renewal power that rejuvenates aging, saggy skin. Apple stem cells are rich in epigenetic factors and metabolites that assure the longevity of skin cells”.

While I have no inside knowledge of this product, I applaud the use of natural ingredients which I feel are always to be preferred over those made from chemicals. The skin care products that I recommend are made by the Xtend-Life Company which uses all natural ingredients in its creams and lotions.

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Anti Aging Natural Skin Care Products

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Mar 042010

I’ve just found this great article about natural skin care products and so thought I would share it with you:

Just imagine if there really were anti aging natural skin care products that actually delivered what they promised. Well, you don?t have to imagine. The good news is these products do exist. And if you?re willing to learn a few important facts and apply these facts to some old fashioned ?shopping? you can end up with the best anti aging skin care that will really help you turn back the clock on your appearance.

You probably know from personal experience that most products that are promoted as anti aging natural skin care don?t work?at least not in any long term, truly skin-improving way.

Because they?re made up of synthetic chemicals, you get a product that acts as a temporary filler of lines and wrinkles.

Companies use low quality ingredients, such as mineral oil, dioxane, parabens, alcohol and fragrances because they are inexpensive way to create a product that looks good, feels good and smells good. But don?t be fooled. They are not good for your skin.

What is good for your skin, however, are anti aging natural skin care products which stimulate your skin?s own natural ability to maintain its youthful firmness and elasticity. The best anti aging skin care promotes new collagen and elastin production in your skin.

Finding these effective anti aging natural skin care products is easy. It?s just a matter of reading the ingredients on the label.

You want to look for natural oils, vegetable-based waxes and silicones, reparative proteins, vitamins, antioxidants and plant extracts. The best anti aging skin care is also fragrance-free.

I don?t know about you, but I feel a lot better about putting natural ingredients on my face that I wouldn?t be afraid to eat. I know that sounds strange, but since your skin absorbs what you put on it, some of the active ingredients make it into your blood stream. So it?s just as if you?ve eaten it.

Make no mistake about it. This is good news about anti aging natural skin care products. You can make a healthy improvement in your appearance by taking what you?ve just learned and applying it to looking for the best anti aging skin care you can find.

And you will not be surprised to learn that the skin care products recommended by the author are made by Xtend-Life.

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Japanese Skincare

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Feb 242010

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I found this short article about Japanese Skincare – “4 Ways To Help Your Skin Look Great”. Top of the list comes diet and exercise pointing out that rice forms a large part of the Japanese diet. Second is a slower lifestyle which results in less stress and so promotes good health. Then there is an emphasis on natural skin care remedies which is something that I have often mentioned here before. The Fourth Way turns out to be an ingredient I have discussed many times – Phytessence Wakame the Japanese sea kelp which helps to build up hyaluronic acid in the skin. You can read the whole article here.

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