Skin Care

Keeping sensitive skin seductive and smooth during is oft-reported to be a Herculean task. An article lists out top five tips to take care of sensitive skin during the winter season. They are as follows:-

1. Moisturize:- As winters dry your skin cells, you need to hydrate with a hypoallergenic moisturizer.

2. Shower Habits:- Taking showers off and on, would make your already dry skin drier. Therefore it is advisable that your water should contains aromatherapic oil that would soothe your skin and preferably the soap that you use should be rich in moisturizers.

3. Fabrics:- What stays in contact with your skin throughout winters is a load of fabrics, which soak essential moisture from your skin. Therefore, you should select woollen fabrics that keep your body warm and dont itch your dry skin.

4. Hydrate:- The best way to hydrate your skin is to drink lots of water, salads and fruits.

5. Controlling Room Temperature:- The dry air during winter season can make your skin worst, therefore it is better to maintain humidity inside your living space, prefereably with a humidifier.

Soybeans are not only good as a protein source for your system, but also for skin. The protein and vitamin B2 in soybeans will help to metabolize amino acids, which in return rejuvenate the skin and leave it soft and glowing. Moreover the essential fatty acids in soybeans, moisturize your skin naturally without any claims of being organic or otherwise.

Facts provide that soy bean curd were used earlier to cure skin infections as the isoflavones replaced the collagen into the skin, lost due to accident or physical damage. There are lots of soy-based skin care products, but the best way of having a foodstuff work for your skin is eat it. You can incorporate soybeans into your daily diet as stew, soups, curried, soybean milk or curd, tofu, with vegetables, dips and also in salads.

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Hydrosols are oft-reported to be healing waters for skin and the water soluble constituents of the plants in the distilled water have myriad of therapeutic properties. An article lists out the efficacy of hydrosols for treating dry skin and dry skin problems. They are as follows:

1. Lemon Balm: The anti-bacterial properties of lemon balm not only cure dry-skin abrasions, but also nourish dry skin.

2. Lemon Verbena - The hydrosol of lemon verbena exfoliates and hydrates dry skin.

3. Orange Flower - Orange flower produces neroli, which treats rosacea and other scars. Moreover, orange flower hydrosols blend Vitamin C to fight with wrinkles and hydrate dry skin.

4. Rose Geranium - This flower replenishes dry skin by hydrating and nourishing. The hydrosol mildly cleanses dry skin and removes scars.

5. Rose - The essential oils of rose balances moisture in dry skin and also relieves stressed skin.

Cranberry is oft-reported for its benefits on a anti-ageing skin. An article points out that cranberries being rich in antioxidants, fight with the free radicals that damage the skin and replace the collagen in the skin to give it a tightened feeling. Apart from being an antioxidant the antibacterial properties of detoxifies the skin. You can go for the following cranberry facial on a weekly basis:

1. Mix the pulp of cranberry with paste of the stem of witch hazel plant.

2. To it add sandalwood powder and honey. Mix it well.

3. Apply this on the face as an exfoliate and wash off when dry.

Ophthalmologist Dr. Richard Mauer is reported to have created a new skin care line, d’vine, based on wine extracts and grapes. Apparently, the cosmetic industry has made its foray into exploring the polyphenols in grape skin and seeds.

Therefore, there is nothing new in the manifestation of antioxidants from grapes in a line of cleansers, moisturizers, mists, masks, serums, eye creams and products for men. What might appeal consumers is the claims made in the names of the products as in Petite Sirah Cleanser, Zinfandel Scrub, Chardonnay Gel and Riesling Serum, to be made available in medical or destination spas, priced in between $40 to $92.

There has been evidences backed by dermatologists and editors of skin magazines that the trend of using grapes in skin care products is consolidated in the d’vine line with research into the biochemistry of wine and purity from the Californian grapes. Consumers might find a promising beginning to an anti-ageing skin with the promising benefits of polyphenols for skin from the d’vine line.

While cleansers are oft-reported to drive away moisture from skin cells, Hydrate and Cleanse by Olay claims to detoxify the skin cells and moisturise them at the same time. Facts provide that the cleanser cum moisturizer is enriched with antioxidants, Vitamin E and other skin hydrators to remove dirt from skin and leave it plump and fresh.

Hydrate and Cleanse is yet another manifestation of a functional skin care product that claims to fill-up in cleansers the feature of moisturing. Oil of Olay has been a very good moisturizer of its time and that might give some confidence to the consumers to trust this product with its moisturising capacities.

Hydrate and Cleanse Micro-Bead Cleansing Serum is available at the online retail store of Pricegrabber for $7.99.

The Green Apple collection from the Juice Beauty brands is yet another skin care product that claims to natural, organic and made from edible fruits. Apple being an antioxidant fights with the free radicals that causes, wrinkles, acne and other serious skin problems and therefore this products claims to blend it with other antioxidant juices like lemon juices, white grape juice, raw cane sugar, and willow bark extract for maximum benefits.

Available at the online retail store of Sephora the complete apple care is formed by cleanser, apple mask, antioxidant serum, moisturizer, under-eye cream and SPF15 sunscreen lotion. Ranging from $20 - $50 the complete Green Apple collection can be considered for daily skin care. Moreover, a product, which packs in the natural juices of apples just makes it sure that you don’t have to munch in apple’s goodness alll the time.

Via: Popgadget

An article gives all the fans of Uma Thurman 10 wonderful tips to look like her. Make-up artist Deborah Grayson gives the hint to look graceful like her in the following ways:

1. Get a fresh look with hydrated skin cells. Go for a hydrating moisturizer.

2. Enliven the eye by applying a flesh-tint eye shadow base under across eye shadows and under eyebrows.

3. Cover-up the eye shadow base with a matte eye shadow powder.

4. Line the lower lash line with a dove-gray eye pencil or kajal.

5. Add volume to your upper eye lashes with mascara.

6. Go for a non-sticky moisturizer.

7. Blend in a semi-opaque matte semisolid foundation all over your face.

8. Dust your cheekbones with a dusty-rose cream blush. Apply blush with fingertips on your cheekbones and blend it backward to your ears.

9. With your fingertips, apply a baby-pink translucent lip gloss on your lips.

10. Define your eyebrows with blonde-tinted eyebrow gel.

Via: MSN

Goji Berries are recently reported to be rated as number one with Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. The catch for Goji Berries in skin care is apparently not neglected by the cosmetic care industry in creams and lotions. But what is making news is the topical introduction of Goji Berries as an anti-ageing cream.

Facts provide that goji berries are high in antioxidants, amino acids, minerals and vitamins B1, B2, B6 and E. Therefore they are considered for curing cellulite, wrinkles and other problem skin. The curative properties of Goji berries might give another powerful antioxidant to the natural skin care sector. For those who want to avail of the benefits of Goji Berries can pick them fresh and eat it fresh as a part of regular diet for a glowing skin.

Amatokin a peptide based anti-ageing cream, developed by Russian scientists of Voss Laboratories is reportedly giving way to lots of controversy for the introducing stem cells, which might be borrowed from outside resources.

The technique that this cream claims to involve is called as the barrier-neutral emulsion, which might be putting in some lipids into the epidermis of skin.

Amatokin will be priced for $200 for a 30-day supply. However, the injection of elastin into skin and rubbing stem cells into skin does not have much difference. If the claims stand true then stem cell skin therapy, would more consolidated by the introduction of collagen in as a cell serum.

Via: Bodyhack