Tweet I remember looking at pages and pages of acne literature, product reviews, you name it, when I was suffering from terrible acne in my teens. One word I would always come across that I didn’t understant at first (until of course I looked it up in the dictionary) was “comedone”. So, what is a comedone, and what does it have to do with acne? Well, a comedone is an acne blemish basically. A comedone is described dermatologically as a plugged pore of sebaceous (oil) and dead skin particles which are stuck in the opening of a hair follicle. Further, there are...
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Bare Minerals Foundation and My Oily Skin
Tweet Well, I know I’ve written about the Bare Minerals products before, but I had unfortunately never tried them to give you the “personal scoop” of how the products did on oily skin. Well, now I have gone and bought the Bare Minerals starter kit at a local Sephora cosmetics store, and am happy to tell you, I think this product is working well for my oily skin, and better yet, is not causing any breakouts. The Bare Minerals products are really a set of three powders made of pure 100% natural minerals – no chemicals or preservatives or...
Does 90% of Skin’s Sun Damage Really Occur in Our Youth?
Tweet We’ve all heard that sort of hopeless cliche, and I used to take it as fact – that is until now. A lot of skin care specialists and dermatologists used to tell us that 90% or even possibly more, of the sun damage that occurs to our skin, usually has already occurred by the time we even reach our teens. I always felt a sense of helplessness hearing this, that no matter what I did, now that I was actually aware and concscientious of the damage the sun’s UV rays could do to my skin, I would always...
Zits in Your Ears?
Tweet I’ve gotten a pimple in my ear before, and it was not pleasant at all. As a matter of fact, it was in an obscure fold of my ear that was very hard to reach to try to dab any acne treatment product on or at least swab it out with some sort of drying or anti-infection agent. It also hurt like heck, so it was just an overall annoyance, although I was thankful that for once I had a pimple in an area that was only known to me, and was not at all visible to the...
What is Chloracne?
Tweet Do you remember the huge news story from the Ukraine, where a politician who was running for government in a heated battle against his opponent was poisoned with dioxin? The man, who’s name is Viktor Yushchenko , was almost certainly poisoned by someone with ill intentions on his opposing political party, the poison most likely being added to his food somehow. The before and after pictures of Yushchenko are absolutely shocking. You see, large amounts of the poisonous material dioxin, which is a toxic byproduct of chemical processes, causes a skin condition, amongst other life threatening conditions, called...
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