4. Always wear sunscreen. Make sure you always wear SPF 30+ on your face and around your eye area (make sure your SPF is suitable around eye area. Today everyone is aware of the damage that sun can do for our skin: dry skin, wrinkles, loss of elasticity, age spots and cancer. However it is good to have some sunlight that assist in vitamin D production in our skin. But choose morning and afternoon sun that is before 11am and after 3pm and it should be only for a short time – 5-10 minutes is enough for your skin.
5. Calcium. The adequate intake of calcium will help your skin look gorgeous. Get leafy vegetables that are rich in calcium. Diary is high in calcium but milk protein is not very well digested by our organism. So replace diary products with something like kale, broccoli and bok choy. Other good sources of calcium are canned sardines (with bones), mackerel and salmon (also with bones) and figs. Consider additional calcium intake as supplement to your diet if you think you don’t get enough calcium from the food you eat. You need about 1200-1500 mg of calcium in your early 20s, around 1000 mg between 20-40. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding you need 1200 mg of calcium daily. After menopause: if you are taking estrogen then daily calcium intake should be 1000 mg, if you are not taking estrogen – 1500 mg.
6. Exfoliate your skin regularly. If your skin is more on a dry side – once a week will be enough. If your skin is more on oily side – you can do that twice a week. Exfoliation removes dead skin cells that helps to make your skin smoother and also assists in better penetration of other creams you use to improve your skin. The simplest exfoliation can be done by using sugar. 2 table spoons of soft brown sugar mixed with 2 teaspoon of olive oil. Apply in circle motions on your face (for 30-60 seconds), wash it off thoroughly. You can use the same recipe to exfoliate your body. Simply increase the proportion of the sugar and oil (4 table spoons of sugar and 4 tea spoon of oil). For the body you can also use just white caster sugar to exfoliate your skin. Apply on dump skin (you can ad a little bit of water to sugar but be careful how much you add – otherwise sugar will dissolved completely. you can simply use slightly wet hand. The easiest way to use it is in the shower. Apply some body cream after.
7. Vitamin C. Another good friend for your skin and one of the first ingredients of beauty tips list is vitamin C. buy clomid online cheap Vitamin C helps protect skin cells from free radicals damage. It is an essential building material of collagen. Collagen is responsible for smoothness of our skin. Vitamin C is found in oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, mangoes, papayas, kiwis and cantaloupes. Other sources of vitamin C are vegetables like broccoli, bean sprouts, green and red delivery kamagra capsicum, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and leafy greens (like kale). We do not store vitamin C in our body therefore we need some vitamin C every day.
Posted by Olya | Under Beauty Tips
Wednesday Dec 3, 2008
propecia baldness style=”text-align: justify;”>Everyone wants to have a beautiful skin. Here are some simple beauty tips for you. Follow them and you will be on your way to having a beautiful skin:
kamagra cheap class=”MsoNormal” style=”text-align: justify;”>1. Cut on alcohol. Maybe 50 gm of red wine won’t harm your skin but everything else will most likely will. Alcohol dilates capillaries. If you consume alcohol excessively your blood vessels may stay dilated permanently. Conditions such as acne and rosacea will worsen. Alcohol depletes vitamin A in our body, that is a power anti-oxidant. Alcohol consumption dehydrates our body and our skin. Make sure to at least drink more water if you are drinking alcohol. If you had a big night out – make sure you take all your make up off before you go to bed. Exfoliate your skin in the morning, put some moisturising mask on and couple of thin slices of cucumber on your eyes.
2. Stop smoking. This tip is always on a list of the beauty tips. If you haven’t done so – you better do it as soon as possible. Your skin is becoming thinner and thinner, drier and wrinkles will appear earlier than if you didn’t smoke. If you have already wrinkles – they will worsen. It is not good for the skin colour either – your skin become yellowish-gray, it loses healthy glow. Smoking also uses up vitamin C in our body (about 35 mg for each cigarette). Vitamin C is one of the vitamins that responsible for making your skin look beautiful. Passive smoking moneygram (being in the environment where someone is smoking) has similar effect as active smoking.
3. Don’t stress. I know easier to be said than done. But you should always try to relax and stress as little as possible. Practice meditation and yoga (good for your body as well). Excessive oiliness or dryness, dull skin, appearance of wrinkles – all these are the result of the stress. Try a few very deep breaths if you are stressing out. Often when we are stressed our breath is very shallow and our brain just doesn’t get enough oxygen, therefore often we can’t make any good decisions while we are stressed.
Posted by Olya | Under About Skin
Tuesday Dec 2, 2008
There are some amazing facts about skin out there.
First of all – do you often think of your skin as simply a protective layer? Well it is! We would not look near attractive without our skin
So here are other interesting facts about skin:
It is the largest organ of our body – it weights about 4 kg (8.8 pounds).
Skin cells of the epidermis (outer layer) are growing from the bottom upwards and dead cells are shed from the surface. This process takes about 30 days to complete (for newborns it is only 72 hours).
We shed about 40 kg (88 pounds) of skin during our life.
Skin is thickest on our palms and soles (about 3mm) and thinnest around eyes generic propecia online and on our lips (less than 0.5 mm).
Nails and hair are a type of modified westernunion skin.
There was no white skin kamagra generic around 20,000-50,000 years ago. It happened when dark-skinned humans migrated to colder climates and lost most of their melanin pigment.
I also found a great video about skin on You Tube:
