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Preventing Sun Damage

mikkel — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:40:44 +0000

Sun damage is one of the major culprits you will find for skin damage, for premature aging, and otherwise. It should be a major culprit, because it puts you at higher risk for skin cancer, it really does damage your body, and otherwise it’s really not any good for you. This being said, frankly speaking, it’s not that hard to prevent sun damage. The big thing is to wear sunscreen. You have to remember it wherever you go. It’s not just when you’re out at the beach. It’s wearing it on even cloudy days, when you’re driving around in your car, at times when it frankly speaking seems inconsequential. Second, limit your sun exposure, especially between the hours of 10 and 4. This makes a huge difference in your chances of experiencing problems. Third, actually stay away from the tanning booths. No, they are not safer than tanning in the sun, they are actually more concentrated and can cause more burning and damage to the skin in general. Now if you wear sunscreen, you should be able to naturally avoid more severe sunburns, and frankly speaking, if you apply your sunscreen regularly, it should definitely help. And always remember, though having dark skin doesn’t exempt you from the risks, having lighter skin puts you at a higher risk.

Second Hand Smoking & Wrinkles

mikkel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:20:15 +0000

They are always talking it seems about second hand smoke. They talk about the effects of smoking on your body and skin, but apparently for both body and skin, secondhand smoke could potentially be even worse. This could explain why you get people who get smoking related lung cancer when they have never actually smoked a cigarette in their lives. This being said, the tendency is for smokers to develop wrinkles before non smokers do in general. You can of course use the best eye cream. But it can only do so much. Basically speaking, the heat and the smoke constrict the blood vessels running through your skin, thereby disallowing nutrients, moisture, and otherwise to get through the skin. It causes free radicals to build up, and frankly while we all want to fight free radicals, it causes more trouble in that area. Generally speaking, we use the best eye cream in part because it has antioxidants to kill off free radicals. But again, you can really only put so many ingredients of any kind into any given eye cream, let alone the best eye cream. They even say that your skin is less protected from the sun’s potential damage when you smoke or for that matter when your skin is exposed to the same exact smoke from other people’s cigarettes.

Weight Loss & Skincare

mikkel — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:19:27 +0000

In some ways, I wish diet pills were better. I could imagine all these possibilities, but I can’t create it. I mean other people have in some ways tried to create my idea, but they never come through and they do it as cheaply as possible, sacrificing the actual results. For example, in dance classes I had brilliant ideas or at least so I thought about choreography. But in order to illustrate it properly to teach others to do it, you have to be able to do it yourself, and that’s a problem when as much as you can think of it, you’re not at that skill level, especially when you are making up a new move in your head. Then you can’t call it by a name and expect people to just do it. It doesn’t work that way. But likewise, the best weight loss supplements to me would be for men and women alike. But they would have certain ingredients in addition to the weight loss ingredients such as for example peptides. I am saying they would be extremely skin specific, because the biggest problem with losing weight sometimes is the fact that your skin has this horrible tendency to sag. It happens to the best of us, and there’s nothing you can do about it. So ideally, with the best weight loss supplements, if you could address the skin and weight loss at the same time, wouldn’t that be better than before?

Keeping Youthful Skin

mikkel — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:52:54 +0000

If you are looking for glowing and youthful skin, there are a few basic things you can do for yourself, and I have seen classic examples of this actually over the years. It’s best to start when you’re young and when your skin already has the better natural elasticity among other things. It’s much easier to keep it rather than try to get it back. So the first thing to do is to make your own mix of facial ingredients such as vitamin C and vitamin E powders. These will help to fight off damage as powerful antioxidants and they are definitely essential vitamins to say the least. Likewise, exercising on a regular basis will keep the blood flow going throughout your skin and otherwise help you to see greater benefits in general. Likewise drink plenty of water and eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. This will also help you to maintain more beautiful skin and otherwise help you to maintain your body, youth, and health in general, which can definitely help you to see all the benefits you are looking for. These in general don’t really cost you extra money and you can definitely afford to do it more than you can afford not to do it as a whole.

Love Causing Aging

mikkel — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:47:30 +0000

Sometimes I find that love ages you more. It’s supposed to help you to maintain more youthful skin, a healthier body, etc. But it’s not something you control, and you really can’t control who you fall in love with. This being said, there are plenty of rumors about people dying from a broken heart. But stress plays a big part in wrinkles and aging in general. So basically, when something happens that breaks your heart, sometimes when they’re sad or hurting, sometimes when they decide they don’t love you anymore, etc, obviously that puts people under quite a large amount of stress. And I’ve seen people actually lose significant amounts of weight, have a breakdown, and otherwise age about 10 years in the space of a very short period of time with that happening. It really takes a genuine kind of love, which doesn’t happen as often as we sometimes think. And frankly a lot of times relationships are stressful anyway with financial issues and everything else. But I wonder if it’s really a good thing in all reality sometimes.

Cosmetics, Cosmeceuticals, And Drugs

mikkel — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:58:59 +0000

I’ve never really thought there was a difference between cosmetics and a cosmeceutical, but obviously drugs are different. Drugs can of course be found over the counter or for that matter in prescription form. However, apparently shampoo is a cosmetic as is deodorant, toothpaste, makeup, and retinol. And some of those have been used to either reduce wrinkles or at least hide them. But apparently cosmeceutical isn’t even a valid description of anything. It doesn’t mean anything, so what you define as a cosmeceutical, well that’s really up to you. Drugs are meant to treat some existing problem. There are some prescription drugs that are meant to reduce wrinkles, but most of them are nothing more than antioxidants or products meant to repair the skin or help it to heal itself after surgery or some other major procedure. So realistically, to me at least, that’s not a wrinkle cream. So I have to wonder well most over the counter products are the same way, but is one really any better than the other? The difference is there are some cosmetics that actually do the job right and have the proven ingredients. I just wonder why the prescriptions don’t.

Oily Or Wrinkled?

mikkel — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:58:42 +0000

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.

Taking Care Of Your Skin

mikkel — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:27:17 +0000

In 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.