Sunday, July 12, 2009

Basics Of Moisturizers

Moisturizers are very essential for healthy skin. Moisture less your skin immediately become dry and flaky and sometimes even peels out. Moisturizers are important in keeping your skin well hydrated and protecting your skin from harmful sun rays and weather conditions. Moisturizers work not by replacing moisture to the skin but by retaining your skin’s moisture from evaporating. Moisturizers form a barrier between the skin and air successfully retain the water in the skin which keeps it smooth and soft..

Moisturizers are of different types and choosing the right one for your skin is very important to the best results. If you choose the wrong type of moisturizer can eventually result in more problems. It is also important to know using too much moisturizer excessively can also be harmful. Moisturizers are to protect the skin from dryness for this they attract moisture into deep skin cells making the tissues rich with water. Using moisturizer immediately after shower on the damp skin gives better results for dehydrated skin.

You have to select the moisturizer depending on you skin type such as oily, dry, sensitive, and normal skins. There are balms and creams which are the thick moisturizers types recommended for dry skin. Lotions and light oils are recommended for oily skin where the moisturizer contains more moisture and less retaining factor like oils, as the skin though having enough oil lacks moisture. There are gel based moisturizers which are suitable to normal skin and other slightly dry and oil skins.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Best Way To Use Moisturizers

Moisturizing your skin is very important to maintain a young glowing skin, but is what areas of your body covered by the skin should be moisturized. It is important to know that you should not over moisturize your skin however dry it may be. This over moisturizing often results in clogging the sweat pores. Generally, our foreheads, nose, and cheeks with either be drier than the other parts of skin in our face or they will be oilier than other parts depending on the skin type.
You have to know this difference in your skin and have to moisturize the areas accordingly. Moisturizers specified different skin types contains different ingredients in them and you have to use the moisturizers best suited to your skin and before going to the type of the moisturizer you have to make sure of your skin type.

The requirement of moisturizer and quantity of moisturizers required changes from season to season. Oily skin tends to become drier in winter season and may need a stronger moisturizer

Friday, March 20, 2009

The Secrets Of Best Moisturizers-Natural Ingredients

The best moisturizer is the one which do not contain any chemical ingredients. Moisture is the wetness caused by water not chemical. The job of moisturizes is to maintain the mositure content of the skin. To maintain this many products contain mineral oils, alcohol etc which can be very harsh on your skin.


Moisturizers also contain and with additional benefits of skin care ingredients for collagen growth and also the growth of elastin which are important to keep your skin firm giving it a youthful glow. Good moisturizers can also protect your skin from growth of free radicals which are generated due to UV rays when exposed to sun. This property of moisturizers works as an anti aging skin cream.


Now the most important thing is to know about the skin type. The oily skin naturally retains the moisture and hence the moisturizers contain less oily substance and more water based creams for oily skin. Dry skin type lack this natural moisturizing capacity and may contain a lot of oil based ingredients in to. And the normal skin moisturizer is a good balance of the two types.

As it is not good to have harsh chemicals in moisturizes, the ever developing natural organic based moisturizers are best and there are better and better organic moisturizers are being developed. These moisturizers contain ingredients which are natural like cynergy TK, vitamin E, jojoba oil, avocado oil, babussa oil etc. These natural organic moisturizers are considered to be the best form of moisturizers by many beauty experts

The Secrets Of Best Moisturizers-Natural Ingredients

The best moisturizer is the one which do not contain any chemical ingredients. Moisture is the wetness caused by water not chemical. The job of moisturizes is to maintain the mositure content of the skin. To maintain this many products contain mineral oils, alcohol etc which can be very harsh on your skin.

Moisturizers also contain and with additional benefits of skin care ingredients for collagen growth and also the growth of elastin which are important to keep your skin firm giving it a youthful glow. Good moisturizers can also protect your skin from growth of free radicals which are generated due to UV rays when exposed to sun. This property of moisturizers works as an anti aging skin cream.

Now the most important thing is to know about the skin type. The oily skin naturally retains the moisture and hence the moisturizers contain less oily substance and more water based creams for oily skin. Dry skin type lack this natural moisturizing capacity and may contain a lot of oil based ingredients in to. And the normal skin moisturizer is a good balance of the two types.

As it is not good to have harsh chemicals in moisturizes, the ever developing natural organic based moisturizers are best and there are better and better organic moisturizers are being developed. These moisturizers contain ingredients which are natural like cynergy TK, vitamin E, jojoba oil, avocado oil, babussa oil etc. These natural organic moisturizers are considered to be the best form of moisturizers by many beauty experts

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Skin Care With Cabbage

Do you know that cabbage can be used as a face mask. Cabbage has a quality of cleansing your skin it can also moisturizes your skin and can make it soft. You can use cabbage for any type of skin. About three two five ounces of cabbage is enough for any type of face. For normal skin you can cut fresh cabbage into very small pieces and place those small pieces on your face covering the entire face. Place a warm wet napkin on the pieces of the cabbage. Leave it for about half an hour and then wash the face with cold water.

Likewise for the dry skin you can used about one table spoon of almond oil mix them well and apply the face and wash the face after about twenty minutes. You can also use milk with the cabbage make it a paste and apply the paste to the face. Wash the mask after about thirty minutes with cold water.


Coming to the oily skin obviously you cannot mix any oil with the cabbage. Make a paste of cabbage leaves and then mix the paste with either with egg white and put the mix on the face and then wash with warm water, you can also a tablespoon of wheat flour if you like to for better results for oily skin.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Preservatives in Skin Care

Preservatives And Their Importance In Facial Moisturizers
To stop bacteria or alage growing in the tubes of your moisturizers, preservatives are used. But these good preservatives are actually a necessary evil. Not only your facial creams and lotions and even edible products which contain water in them have preservatives in them. The reason for this is simple, the products which contain water in them will be a great medium for bacteria to thrive.

To prevent this preservatives are used. Preservatives are always synthetic in nature. There is a preservative called phenoxethanol which they say is natural. These preservatives as every one know are not good for health but without them using face creams is also not healthy because of the of the bacteria and mould that grow rapidly without preservatives.


There are many products which says preservative free, common everone knows that no edible or water containing product has a long self life without preservative. There are some products where they use essential oils for preservation but this is not effective for very long life.
They are still have to develop a natural preservative which is not harmful when used into or on your body. Till then we have to go with these synthetics ones with satisfaction that there are mild.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Caring For Your Skin While Pregnant

Pregnancy is one of the main reasons for developing stretch. Hardly anybody would want to develop stretch marks. The fact is that almost 80 percent to 90 percent of women develop stretch marks during pregnancy. Stretch marks is one of the unpleasant effect of pregnancy. So what can you do prevent stretch marks while your are pregnant. My experts give a number of solutions for prevention of stretch marks during pregnancy but the fact is genetics is one of the main reasons why many women develop stretch marks and some don't. Which means that if your mother or grandmother developed stretch marks during prenancy, you have much of chances to develop them as well.

So what can be done. Taking care of your skin during pregnancy would be one of the best ways to prevent stretch marks. There are many stretch mark creams avialable which when applied during pregnancy increase the elasticity of the skin and can prevent or at least minimize the developement of stretch marks. Drinking a lot of water is another best way to minimize the stretch marks as water tends to moisturize the skin and make it less susseptible to the stretch marks. Using body brush massage for the skin also increase blood circulation and minimize development the stretch marks.
Eating healthy diet, controlled weight gain (during pregnancy), hydration by drinking a lot of water, taking your prenatal vitamins, and as said earlier moisutrizing the skin would keep your skin elastic and control stretch marks.