Holistic Skin Care
« Previous EntriesHabits That Keep Your Skin Healthy and Beautiful Part 1
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
There is consensus among scientists and physicians as to what habits are consistent with youthful, healthy skin. Follow their advice and you’ll maintain a youthful appearance for years and years.
Keep the weight you had in high school. Fat cells produce hormones that raise the risk of type 2 diabetes and even generate substances called cytokines that cause inflammation. Excessive weight contributes to the stiffening of the arteries and the malfunction of other organs. It has also been linked to a variety of some cancers.
Add alpha-lipoic acid and acetyl L-carnitine to your daily supplement regime. They appear exceedingly safe and readily available at stores. They are not expensive supplements either.
Reduce your overall daily caloric intake. You could see dramatic results by just skipping one meal a day. Calorie restrictions seem to improve blood insulin levels and protect from damage to the DNA. Eating less food, scientists believe, may reduce tissue wear and tear from excess blood sugar, inflammation and free radicals.
Welcome a pet to your home. Studies show that owning a pet reduces the number of visits to the doctor, prolongs survival after a heart attack and even wards off depression. Pets also protect against the main problem of aging: high blood pressure. Stress reduction is the key mechanism by which a pet can help you stay young. Remember, though, to choose your pet carefully. Strike a balance between your lifestyle and the needs of your chosen pet.
Manage chronic pain. Continuous pain damages the immune system and it can also cause deep depression and push up levels of the harmful stress hormone cortisol. Your mood will surely improve and your immune system will reap the benefits of a pain free daily existence.
Walk around the block. Walking will make the walls of your arteries twice as flexible as those of a sedentary individual. A 30 minute brisk walk daily, 5 days a week, will do the trick. Age and lack of exercise make the walls of your blood vessels brittle, and that is the reason why two-thirds individuals 60 and above have high blood pressure. Moderate exercise also reduces the risk of diabetes, cancer, depression, aging of the skin and early onset dementia.
Holistic Skin Care Solutions & What Products to Look For
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Holistic skin care routines require that you consider the health of your whole body, treating problems from the inside out and from the outside in. Caring for the mind or spirit is part of the equation, too.
It’s interesting to note that scientific research continues to prove that ancient Ayurvedic and other healthcare practitioners were right. Modern cosmetic companies were wrong. The mainstream medical community might not have the right ideas, either.
All of the systems of the body are interconnected. Things that affect a part of the whole will eventually affect all of it. Drugs that address only symptoms or only a piece of the equation are only modestly effective. Oftentimes, they work temporarily, but become ineffective over time, if they don’t make the problem worse.
Take for example, psoriasis. It’s a chronic inflammatory condition that causes the appearance of red spots on a person’s body. Eventually, the spots may become plaques composed of dead skin cells that cannot be sloughed off.
The mainstream medical community refers to psoriasis as an autoimmune disease, because inflammation occurs for no known reason. A holistic skin care practitioner would look for the underlying causes of inflammation, evaluating a person’s diet and the things that they put on the outside of their bodies.
At one time, doctors prescribed drugs for severe psoriasis that inhibited essential functions of the immune system. They stopped prescribing the drugs, because people died of serious brain infections as a result of a weakened immune system. What happened to “first do no harm”?
Most doctors know to look for infection and other signs of illness. They don’t always take the time to evaluate a person’s dietary or lifestyle habits. That’s a big mistake.
In holistic skin care, we recommend dietary changes in certain conditions. For example, in psoriasis, one of the things that we would recommend increased intake of omega-3 fatty acid, reduced intake of omega-6s to keep inflammation at bay, without negatively affecting the immune system.
For general health maintenance and to keep our faces and bodies looking as young as possible throughout our lives, we would recommend cutting simple carbohydrates out of the diet. Those include white bread, processed grains, white sugar and starchy Irish potatoes.
We would also recommend some good nutritional supplements, including omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil to reduce inflammation, antioxidants to prevent and repair free radical damage and a good dosage of basic essential vitamins and minerals.
The final key to holistic skin care is the use of good, all natural creams and cleansers. Installing a water purifier on your showerhead is a good idea, because of all of the chemicals in publicly treated supplies.
Using a gentle, all natural cleanser is important. One that is sulfur-based is beneficial for acne and other conditions, because it helps to normalize the skin’s pH level.
After cleansing, the regular use of a moisturizer is essential. Just be careful about the ingredients that you choose. Natural plant-based oils are the ones to look for. Petroleum-based oils and petrochemicals, of all kinds, should be avoided.
There are other tenets of holistic skin care, but if you start with the ones mentioned here, you will be well on your way to looking healthier and younger.
Sensitive Skin Needs Sensitive, All Natural Skin Care
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
In order for you to be able to successfully treat sensitive skin, the products that you choose have got to have the right ingredients.
What it is that you need are healthy, natural compounds that will provide your skin with the effective oils, antioxidants, and essential nutrients that it needs to be healthy.
Unfortunately, the products that you are using probably do not contain any of these things.
The ads that you see in magazines and on television touting the latest products from the major cosmetics companies as the safest and most effective skin care products ever made are pure works of fiction.
These companies will stop at nothing in order to save a dime, and the result of their greed is that you get to use products that are both ineffective, and potentially harmful to you.
What you will find in the typical formula designed to treat sensitive skin are chemicals. The cosmetics industry is infamous for their use of questionable chemical agents, instead of the natural ingredients that are just as, or more effective when fulfilling the same roles.
You may be wondering why it is that the use of these chemicals is a problem, and I am going to give you the most direct answer possible.
The chemical agents commonly used to make skin care products can actually kill you. While they may not seem to be having any sort of detrimental affect on your health right now, they are slowly building up in your system.
Some of these have been shown to cause such acute ailments as circulatory collapse, respiratory failure, coma, and even sudden death.
There are many chemical agents that are regularly used in sensitive skin formulas that cause the development of one type of cancer or another. These types of ingredients must be carefully avoided if you are to be assured of maintaining your health.
You need to boycott the companies that continue to endanger their customers through using these toxic agents in their products.
You already know what types of ingredients should go into your skin care formulas, so now let me tell you about a couple of specific compounds that can work wonders when it comes to altering your appearance.
They will actually reverse the processes that are responsible for the formation of the lines and wrinkles on your skin, and the effect that this has is simply unbelievable.
The ingredients that you should look for in sensitive skin products are Functional Keratin, and Phytessence Wakame Extract.
The first of these is a pair of keratin proteins that when used together cause your body to produce cells that spur a large increase in the production of collagen and elastin.
Phytessence Wakame Extract comes from kelp, and it will prevent the breakdown of your hyaluronic acid.
The higher levels of connective tissues produced by these ingredients in your sensitive skin care products will cause the lines and wrinkles on your face to simply disappear.
This is the kind of effective skin care that you deserve. Use these products from now on, and you will never have a doubt that your decision to switch was a smart one.
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