Your skin needs extra care during the winter, because your circulation is decreased by harsh, cold winter weather. You also don’t perspire as much, and believe it or not, perspiration helps keep your skin from drying out. In winter time, you absolutely must hydrate and revitalize your skin. Exfoliate: Exfoliation gently removes layers of old dead skin which accumulate during winter. When you exfoliate, you stimulate the production of new skin cells and your circulation, [...]

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If you’re heading back to school – either high school or college – you want your skin to look its very best. You’ll start the school year fresh-faced and glowing when you follow this very simple regimen. Wash your face twice a day with a gentle cleanser. Using harsh cleansers that strip all the oils from your face actually make your oil glands produce more oil. Harsh cleansers or exfoliants can also irritate any bumps [...]

Are you so busy taking care of everyone else that you don’t have time to take care of yourself? It’s a common problem with women – the ‘Superwoman Syndrome’. If you put everyone’s needs at the top of the list and let yours go to the bottom, you might be setting yourself up for a fall. In order to lead a balanced life, you need to take care of yourself, along with everyone else. Your [...]

We all want to keep our skin dewy, taut, and young looking. We don’t want to turn back time – well, maybe we do a little – we just want to age gracefully, with as little sun damage and wrinkles as possible. I don’t like that botox ‘frozen’ look that a lot of people sport when trying to cover up the signs of aging. I prefer natural looking skin. Luckily, there are lots of things [...]

Do you wear a daily moisturizer with sunscreen? If you don’t, you should be. Protecting the delicate skin of your face, neck, and chest from the damaging rays of the sun is a must in the fight against aging skin. When it comes to a daily moisturizer, expensive isn’t always better. A recent study in Consumer Reports studied the effect of face creams, and here is what they had to say. Consumer Reports magazine recently [...]

Skin that is fine and poreless looks better – and smoother – and we’re always looking for ways to minimize pores. Can you really shrink your pores? Unfortunately, the answer is no. You can, however, make your pores appear smaller, which is practically the same thing. When pores get clogged with dirt and dead skin, they look larger. They can also enlarge. One of the best things you can do to make your pores look [...]

Are expensive skin care products really worth the money? According to skin care specialist Leslie Baumann, M.D., the answer is no. In a nutshell, beauty behemoths … have deep pockets, so they have more resources to research, develop and test their products. When large personal care companies like the ones mentioned earlier start the product development process, it can take years (and millions of dollars) for the actual product to hit store shelves. They undergo [...]

Is the skin on your hands rough? Do you work in an office and handle paper all day? How about a job that requires you to wash your hands a lot, or overdo the hand sanitizer? All these things can cause the skin of your hands to roughen. Water, paper, and hand sanitizer are all culprits in the rough skin game. Your hands don’t have many oil glands, so it’s easy for the skin there [...]

What’s the difference between a daily moisturizer and a night moisturizer? Do you need both, or can you make do with just one for daytime? That depends. What kind of skin type do you have, and what age are you? If you have normal or oily skin and you’re under 40, you’re probably not going to need a night cream. Night creams are usually thicker than a daily moisturizer, and almost all of them contain [...]