Everyday you wash, shave, shampoo, clip your nails, wash, and dry your hair. Personal grooming, for most people, is a series of well-entrenched habits. And in most cases it is over done. Would you be willing to change your routine if doing so made your skin look more attractive and created a better-looking you?
Most adults whom are over thirty commit one big mistake when it comes to washing: The do too much of it. They shower in the morning, another after the gym, maybe even one before bedtime. If you spend twelve minutes in the shower, that's too long. Cut your time in the shower to five minutes for your skin's sake.
Too much washing results not just in cleanliness but in removing too much oil from your skin, and itchy and irritated skin, particularly in the winter months.
If you are using a shower without a water filter and with the steam build up, you are subjecting yourself and your skin to excess chlorine.
Below are bathing tips that you can benefit from:
1. Avoid using a washcloth on delicate areas, especially the mucous membranes. Do use a soft sponge to massage your skin. Use a glycerine soap and sponge and move in one direction toward your heart.
2. Use medium-warm water in the shower, the cooler the better, but not too cold.
3. If you have normal to dry skin, use Dove Unscented or Basis for Sensitive Skin on your body and either a soap free cleanser or nothing at all on mucous membranes. Do use many of the commercial bar soap, since they are harsh on the skin.
4. If you tend to have oily skin, then use good gylcerine soap. I use this type of soap and it removes just enough oil without drying my skin.
5. Skip a shower as often as you can. This may not seem like appealing advice but the more time you have in between showers the better. Skip a shower for a whole day once or twice a week, especially in the winter. Allow your skin to produce and maintain its natural oils. Or if this does not appeal to you, make your shower extra short on some days.
6. Make sure you use shampoos that contain mostly natural ingredients. A lot of commercial products contain synthetic chemicals, petrochemicals, and various dyes and artificial coloring. All of these un-natural chemicals are extremely bad for you health. Learn which chemicals to avoid.
So that you can improve the health of your skin, takes some time to look over your shower habits, Decrease the time in your shower, use a water filter to remove toxins from the water, massage your skin, and use only natural products for your skin and hair.
About the Author : Rudy Silva is a natural nutritionist. If you want to learn more about which chemicals to avoid in skin care creams and how to take care of your skin go to: http://www.for--you.com/SkinCareTreatment
Friday, 3 July 2009
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Saturday, 27 June 2009
Skin Care Products With Collogen And Elastin
It is becoming seemingly more and more difficult to find an anti aging skin care product that works effectively. This is partly because of the flood of anti aging skin care products that have come onto the market over the last few years, and partly because the majority of these products are not worth the money that you paid for them.
The average anti aging skin care product that you see being turned out in droves by the major cosmetics companies, are not worth wasting either your time or your money on. That is because these companies simply aren't trying to provide for you a product that will truly do what they say that it will do.
All that you have to do in order to be able to tell whether or not the anti aging skin care products that you're thinking about buying are worthy of you buying them is to take a quick look at the ingredients label. If you see things on the label that you haven't seen since your high school chemistry class then it is best to leave this item on the shelf.
You see, the cosmetics companies for the most part like to use chemicals and synthetics in manufacturing an anti aging skin care product, because these types of ingredients are simply cheaper to use due to the fact that they are available in abundance and they require little processing in order to be suitable for use in cosmetics.
The majority of the cosmetics industry doesn't seem inclined to want to put the extra money into their anti aging skin care products to make them effective. What these products need to contain in order to give you the results that you want are wholesome, 100% all natural ingredients.
Not many companies are willing to pay what it costs to process these ingredients though. If you want an anti aging skin care product that contains all natural ingredients then you're going to have to search a little harder in order to find them, but they are available.
Many of these products have been formulated in such a way as to be able to accomplish things that none of their poorly made counterparts could even dream of. Take for example the anti aging skin care products that a mid-sized company in New Zealand is producing.
Their all natural products contain two ingredients, Phytessence Wakame kelp extract and a strain of proteins called Functional Keratin, which are changing the art of how aging skin is treated. These ingredients in an anti aging skin care product will act to safely, and naturally raise your levels of hyaluronic acid, and they will promote greater production of both collagen and elastin.
These are things that no other anti aging skin care products have been able to even come remotely close to accomplishing. If you want an anti aging skin care product that will truly make you look younger then this is the company that you definitely need to buy from.
About the Author
I have been researching skin care products for twenty-five years.All natural products have given me the results i desired. Click Here www.access-natural-health.com.
