Tweet Getting a good night’s rest is a well known way to feel energized, help to avoid getting those cold and flu bugs that go around, and generally extending your longevity, since sleep is connected to how long people live. However, I don’t think anyone really gave the old time saying “get your beauty rest” any real credence. Now, it seems that a new study is actually proving that getting your eight hours of rest every night really does in fact make you look much more attractive and appealing to other people. A study that was commissioned recently had...
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Skin Care Tips
Acne skin care tips. As stated before, people with acne need to take special care of their skin. This category is a collection of tips over time to help you get clear, beautiful skin.
Teens Still Tanning
Tweet It’s pretty much a well established understanding the tanning in indoor tanning beds can be very hazardous to your health. But I’m not all together against it, because I think that with the right amount of going tanning, and for therapeutic benefit to get UVB light and therefore vitamin D, especially in the winter, it can serve a purpose. But the absolute rule of course is that you don’t over do it, exposing yourself several days a week, and you don’t EVER get burnt, because this is where the real genetic damage and sun damage comes in, which...
One Day in Sun Gave Me Freckles/Age Spots!
Tweet I normally don’t write too much about skin issues other than acne, but this experience really made me think about how important it is to keep at least your face out of the direct sunlight as much as possible as you age. My skin seems to be especially susceptible to photo damage (which is damage caused by the sun, such as age spots, liver spots, and fine lines and wrinkles and generally uneven pigmentation and tone). This is probably mostly due to my genetics. You see, I’m all European. I’m part Irish – fifty percent to be exact...
Things I Do to De-Stress (and Help Beat Breakouts)
Tweet Stress is one of the MAJOR components of breakouts. For me at least. And I suspect and have been told by many readers that it is also the cause of many unfortunate breakouts for others as well. Stress causes hormonal changes and triggers a chain of events in the body that facilitates acne flareups. It causes hormonal disruption by throwing off the balance between estrogens and androgens in your body. Androgens, which are male hormones, are actually the biggest hormonal culprit of hormonally based acne as a matter of fact. Since stress is one of the major factors...
Can Sleeping on Your Side Affect Aging of Your Skin?
Tweet I know this is a blog about acne, but sometimes I like to address the many other skin problems we face. Wrinkles and aging skin is a biggie, it’s something that eventually happens to all of us, like it or not. And something funny led me to tell you about this common theory. I just woke my husband up this morning and laughed at him because he had creases going allover his forehead and all down the side of his face that he slept on all night. He’s a big time side sleeper, whereas I’m more of a...
Eczema and Probiotics
Tweet I got an interesting comment from one of our readers last week, and because I had never heard of this natural remedy before, it prompted me to research a little about it and write about the possibilities it offered for those that have the eczema skin condition. Eczema is basically a skin irritation that appears outwardly as scaly, sometimes oozing and usually itchy skin rashes. Needless to say this condition could be both very bothersome and embarrassing as well. It can appear anywhere on the body but it most commonly appears on the face and scalp, and also...
How to Help Shrink Your Pores
Tweet The pores are places where the glands open on the surface of the skin. With the surface of the skin they are associated with channels These glands are situated, in particular, on the face but also on the whole body. Faulty skin is a result of the glands distributed on the whole human body. During the summer heat, many of us have this problem – excessive sweating. Nobody wants to sweat, to feel like his clothes are plastered on the body, to see those white and wet circles under the armpits of the shirts … not to mention...
The Importance of Good Circulation for Your Skin
Tweet If you think of how your body works, the main action of the blood moving from cell to cell is of great importance to your health and longevity. Therefore, how does blood circulation affect our health? In many ways, the circulation affects the whole body and its functions, and is a basic precondition to maintain good health. Healthy skin is energized by good circulation which is stimulated from the heart pumping, so a good walk or jog will not only keep your muscles strong but also gets your heart to work faster. Have you ever noticed how awesome...
Dry Air Can Wreck Havoc on Your Skin
Tweet Boy oh boy, was the point of dry frigid air not being good for your skin hammered home for me today. My husband and I decided to go to our alma mater where we both went to college, Kent State University, to the ice arena and go ice skating. Yes, neither of us is very good at it, and haven’t been in a while, so we though it would be fun to see if we could still do it. Well, to make a long story short to that end, he ended up falling on his bum several times,...
Extreme Dieting Linked to Bad Skin
Tweet There is a famous woman who is very skinny. I won’t mention her name, but she is a very beautiful, rich and powerful woman. She is extremely, sometimes painfully thin, and I believe that she really tries at it, perhaps even resorting to diet pills or drinking caffeine or simply deprivation to achieve that level of thinness. No one is that thin without trying, and because of her previous more shapely body, I believe that her extreme thinness is due to her dieting habits. She also happens to have skin that can look bad at times. I’ve known...
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