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This post was actually published on Cozycot.com early this year. I was one of the bloggers who was invited to contribute a monthly post on their Articles section. However, I couldn’t locate the section anymore and I believe they have removed the section due to low readership.
Not to waste it, I decided to post it [...]
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Inflammation is important for another reason : It is a major cause of free radical formation. Free radicals lead the attack on lipids in the cell walls, which leads to water loss. So with sunburn, for instance, you have destruction from the free radicals that are created in the process. Free radicals are both a [...]
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Circles under the eyes that are an overall dark color and not caused by the shadow cast by fat pads are often inherited by people of darker-skinned ethnicities, such as Italian, Indian, African-American, Greek, Portuguese, and Latino.
In these cases, the entire under-eye area is dark, not just a circle. This is also an inherited feature [...]
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If you are troubled by under-eye circles, look at your eye area and answer the following question: Do you have deep wrinkles under the eyes? If not, if the skin is relatively tight, then the problem is not inherent to the skin. Look deeper. You may not realize that there is a fat pad protruding [...]
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If you feel that dry skin is your most serious problem, start an aggressive exfoliation and collagen stimulation program, even though it is counterintuitive, and see how your skin responds.
Be sure to use the right lipids, the skin-identical kind. You can know you are using the right lipids on your skin if the serum or [...]
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The five goals of skin beauty
Every morning, as soon as I get up, I look in the mirror to inspect my face. Are my cheeks dry? Is my skin looking dull? Are there circles under my eyes? At the same time, I also assess how I can make myself look better.
It helps to have a [...]
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Beautiful skin is a reflection of health that encompasses a person’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. The foundation - the base of the pyramid - is the absence of disease. When illness or injury does occur, prompt, state-of-the-art treatment is imperative, for without a solid healthy foundation, everything else is weakened.
A sense of well-being, the [...]
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Skin with a good complexion makes a woman look healthy and young, as well as enhancing the effect of makeup. While physical wellness is of course one factor affecting the condition of your skin, many other hazards can ruin its clarity and complexion, such as dead cells clinging to the surface and thickening the skin, [...]
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Toners are another way to add hydrating ingredients to the skin along with water. A spray of a toner that contains humectant ingredients followed quickly while the skin is still damp with a hydrating moisturizer or treatment product can flood the upper layers of the skin with water and ingredients to keep it there.
Exfoliation is [...]
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Learn from a linen handkerchief
Have you ever wondered why babies have such smooth skin? It’s because their skin hasn’t been exposed to UV rays or dryness - much like the condition of a brand-new white handkerchief. Unused white handkerchiefs are crisply starched and spotless, without a single thread out of place. This is like the [...]
