There is one thing I’ve noticed. Sometimes you complain about having oily skin, blotchy skin, etc, and it’s bad. I mean you always have grease all over, it really does get red and blotchy, and it’s hard to combine that with makeup even, because it seems to make a negative impact every time. However, if you’ve not noticed, those people who suffer through this oily skin and likewise most of the time don’t suffer through wrinkles for a while. It’s little consolation I realize. I mean red and oily skin, in some ways is worse than a few wrinkles earlier in life that you can work to prevent, and it definitely seems like a crisis right then, whether it actually is or not. Either way, it’s not something fun. But I get this because the skin so often loses moisture as you age. So if you have all that extra oil, obviously your skin isn’t really getting dry any time soon. It may lose some oil, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing for you. But it’s one of those things that with skin, it’s a trade off. It seems like you can’t just get the best of both worlds, your skin in the beginning chooses for you which one it wants to be.
Archive for August, 2009
Oily Or Wrinkled?
Friday, August 28th, 2009Wheelchair Workouts
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Some of the most impressive athletes I’ve seen were in wheelchairs. It seems strange. But honestly, they can get downright mean and competitive, and they’re good. I think it’s partly the challenge of most feeling they stand at some disadvantage, but it’s empowering when they can really get back in the game. Now if you’re hoping to dunk a basketball, chances are that isn’t going to happen. But frankly, beyond that, wow. Granted, I have my butt kicked on a regular basis by anybody. It doesn’t matter really, I’m not that great at basketball, volleyball, and I don’t really bother in general. Now if I got my butt kicked in rugby or football, I would be more frustrated. But the whole tackling and all of that would be far more interesting with a wheelchair I must say. That being said, if you are in a wheelchair, what I’m saying is don’t let that stop you from these kinds of things. Many think that they will become obese and otherwise if they can’t do that. But the fact is that there are still so many exercises available, still diet is always available, you get the basic idea. It’s a matter of putting your mind to it and really there are various options that open up.
Taking Care Of Your Skin
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009In order to have beautiful and healthy skin, there are a few basic things to do. First, maintain your diet. If you gain and lose weight, it will stretch out your skin, and over time, your skin will not actually bounce back. Second, be sure to use moisturizers and sunscreen. These will protect your skin from the sun of course while maintaining it and no allowing the elements to get to it at the same rate as it might have otherwise. Third, and almost most importantly, stop smoking. Smoking will actually cause of course the blood vessels to restrict and other problems in general to happen. Next, turn down your heat, use your air conditioner, and get a humidifier. Higher temperatures in your home in general will cause greater problems as a whole and your skin may become dry, parched, and restricted. And finally, remove makeup before workouts and before bed. If you cleanse on a regular basis, this of course helps too. But the simple reality is that quite frankly these can clog your pores, and if combined with the sweat and otherwise of exercise, it just makes it worse. So wash your face, remember to remove your makeup, and otherwise you can take care of your skin at a more exponential rate in general terms.
Carboxy Therapy
Monday, August 24th, 2009Carboxy therapy has been used in many ways to reduce wrinkles and otherwise get the results you want in also reducing scars, discolorations, and otherwise. It is very popular in Europe and South America, and it’s used in the treatment of skin aging. The long term results are based on exercise, diet, nutritional supplements, and otherwise a healthy lifestyle in general. Essentially speaking, as the skin thins and ages, fats, fluids, and toxins get trapped in the skin causing cellulite, causing wrinkles, etc. But they inject carbon dioxide into the skin below the surface with a fine needle. It stimulates collagen production in the process, and it can help you to achieve other results. It can be used on any part of the body, and they say it provides a certain amount of skin rejuvenation in general. it interacts with the normal metabolism in the human body, and they recommend 15 20 minute sessions in order to eliminate cellulite or other periods of time depending on what you actually want to achieve in general terms. It has led the skin to apparently become thicker over time, and it has also been used to treat diabetic ulcers, psoriasis, and erectile dysfunction.
Repairing Sun Damage
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009If you want to repair sun damage, well the best thing is not to sustain that sun damage in the first place. However, if it’s already too late, which happens to the best of us, you can do something to reverse that sun damage to some degree. You won’t reverse any wrinkles that have already developed. However, you will be able to reverse some sun damage, which is more serious in the long run to be honest, and you can prevent more premature wrinkles from developing in general terms. This you can do by first of all using antioxidants and second of all using moisturizers. You won’t prevent actual aging in general, just premature aging, and frankly you won’t actually help yourself in other ways to reduce wrinkles that have already occurred. However, moisturized and antioxidant hit skin is brighter skin, more luminous skin, smoother skin, and otherwise less sun damaged skin. So while we would definitely prefer that you not sustain the skin damage in the first place, there are certainly ways to reverse it and otherwise deal with it in general terms. It is more of a matter of being prepared than anything else.
Don’t Forget Your Hands
Friday, August 21st, 2009One thing I’ve noticed that people often forget about is their hands. An associate of mine for example actually uses all the best cosmetics on his face, and his face looks great, fine, good. But the problem is he has forgotten about his hands, which have subsequently developed wrinkles, age spots, etc. He didn’t even use any kind of lotion on them leaving them dried out to say the least. So remember your hands. There are specific hand creams that can increase the collagen and elastin production in that skin therefore keeping it young. But for most people, frankly speaking, you could easily get away with just using a good lotion. Lubriderm in fact, a brand you find at your grocery store, would be just fine. Anything you find at bath & body would be just fine. Those moisturize, and that is fine. You just have to remember to take care of your hands the same way you actually remember to take care of your face and other areas of the body in general. Otherwise, your hands will easily give away your age, and therefore you will not look quite as young as you want to or otherwise get quite the results you are looking for.
Mistakes In Adult Acne
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Sometimes, it seems so desperate. You want to get rid of your adult acne, and yet you don’t know what to do about it. It’s horrifying to some degree, because you were supposed to grow out of that stage of life once you hit 18, or at least many of us like to believe that common myth. However, there are many ways in which we try to treat adult acne and we actually make our skin age faster, damage it, and otherwise don’t really help ourselves making quite serious mistakes. For example, many try skipping out on the moisturizer. Whether you are trying to prevent aging or actually prevent acne from getting worse or coming back, your skin needs some moisture, and frankly a lot of acne treatments can be damaging, which really means you need a moisturizer. That brings me to my next point. You need to stay away from irritating ingredients such as benzoyl peroxide. These will actually cause greater damage to your skin now than they would have even when you are a teen, and they definitely accelerate your rate of aging. So you are far better off finding something else that will actually give you greater results as a whole and not damage your skin.
The Truth About Argireline
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Argireline, it’s one of the most popularly used peptides out there, that should actually tell you something. It works of course, but the fact that it’s so popular means it’s cheap, and realistically it’s not really one of the best peptides currently available. That’s just how it goes. In the case of argireline, it is currently the only peptide we’ve seen that does not actually reduce wrinkles permanently or rather on a long term basis. It is the only peptide that does not actually produce more collagen and elastin. Instead, it actually relaxes facial muscles just as botox freezes facial muscles, making it the official alternative to botox. They make a lot of claims about it to say the least, and frankly only some of them are all that valid. You see visible results after about 4 weeks, which is like botox in some ways. And frankly, it shows significant results. The problem is that when you stop using it, you stop seeing results. By this, I mean that it goes back to the way it was over time, because it has no collagen and elastin holding it up, and too much can cause facial sag plain and simple. It’s not completely useless, it’s actually quite good. The trick is just having realistic expectations and having another something to back it up.