Selasa, 13 Oktober 2009

From India to Your Beauty

Indian women have a natural beauty: thick eyebrows, beautiful eyes, and hair are jet and shiny. Beauty is becoming more visible because they apply the principles of ayurveda, which makes the energy balance and harmony with life. Massage, yoga, and meditation are some of the ayurvedic routine ritual.

Hair care, facial, and body too principled ayurveda, Ingredients Indian herbs and spices used to give nutrients to the body. Revitalize the nervous system, and body system as a whole.

1. Body Care Udwartanam
What is unique because of the treatment is done by 2 people and only use materials made from powder, not using oil at all commonly used in other body treatments.

The first step is to rub the body with a soft brush to help blood circulation and open pores skin. Then do the process of scrubbing with coffee scrub and body massage to help remove fat under the skin by using herbal powders. Last bodies steamed in the steamer, in which there is herbal concoction. The skin will be bright and smooth. This treatment is believed to be very good to tighten and improve skin quality, and eliminate cellulite.

2. Hair Care Henna
Henna is mixed with tea or coffee is used for coloring hair. However, henna itself is useful for hair care because it does not contain chemicals that can damage the hair. Transparent Henna is used to treat hair for hair to become strong, healthy scalp, and protects hair against external influence, such as ultraviolet light.

For oily hair, henna is mixed with yogurt. Meanwhile, for dry hair, henna is mixed with herbal oils. Each mixture, either for treatment or staining, usually added to chicken eggs are useful moisturize and soften hair. After applied to the hair, henna for about 2 hours, then rinsed with water. Treatment with henna caused a sensation of cold so that the scalp feels lighter. In addition, the use of henna will also slow the emergence of gray in your hair.

3. Face Treatment with Facial Ayurveda
Facial skin is not just a fix to be more healthy, smooth, and bright. Stress also can be lost after this facial. Like most facials, facial skin cleaned first using a facial cleanser from natural ingredients to suit your skin type. After the face steamed to open pores and provide oxygen to the skin so that skin will update, ready to face given the rose water. Water rose to suit all skin types will increase the water content, cooling, and reducing inflammation of the skin. Then facial massage with traditional Indian massage, which focuses on Marma points (vital points in the body).

Finally, given a face mask containing natural plant extract from India who making healthy skin, shrink pores and smooth the skin, this mask also protects the skin against the influence of sunlight and pollution.

After the facial, can also be followed by threading, this is an ancient way of eliminating the hairs on the face (usually the eyebrows and mustache) with the help thread. The result is more durable and looks neat.

Jumat, 02 Oktober 2009

The Neck should be Pampered Pun

Often times we focus more attention on the face alone and tend to forget about the neck. In fact, the neck skin was more dry and sensitive than facial skin. Maintenance alone can improvise easily form the black lines, sagging and wrinkles, and dehydration of the skin of the neck.

Although at the time of the neck face facials
usually participate masker, nutrition mask actually intended for facial skin, not the neck. Therefore the skin of the neck also need get vitamins and special nutrients that will help brighten and tighten. The results may not be as perfect as if a face lift to the face and neck. However, with continuous treatment, problems such as wrinkles, uneven color, doubled chin, or the lines on the neck can be resolved with the maximum. Here are two special treatments for neck that you can choose.

Minggu, 13 September 2009

Beauty in 3 Steps

Having a facial skin smooth, clean, and healthy capital has become the basis for performance excellence. Especially for today's active woman who always claimed to be perfect every time.

But the healthy skin not only will clean the rest of the cosmetics and dirt, but also should have been upgraded and has a natural moisture balance. This can be obtained by diligent cleaning your face properly.

1. Start with Soap Cleaner
Do not use any soap. We recommend that you select a special soap gentle face, does not cause allergies, and do not contain fragrance. Try Clinique facial soap is very soft textured and capable of raising the rest of sebum and cosmetics, as well as moisturize the skin.

Not only that the content of petrolatum serve to protect the vitality of the skin, and glycerin efficacious give comfort to the skin. The formula is suitable for all skin types, ranging from mild to extra-dry skin type, mild to normal skin, oily skin and oily skin with a formula for extra refreshment. In fact, even for sensitive skin, soap cleanser will give a sense of comfort, clean and fresh.

2. By Clarifying and Exfoliating Lotion
Do you know every day the skin to form a new layer of dead skin cells? Meanwhile, new skin cell turnover cycle occurs naturally between 14-28 days. However, due to age and lifestyle factors, regeneration of new skin cells could be inhibited not as expected.

It can’t be ignored, because if not prompted to accelerate the turnover of new skin cells, skin conditions will seem dull and rough. So, to help the regeneration of new skin cells, after the face is cleaned with soap, made the second step, the exfoliating or sloughing off dead skin cells on a regular basis 2 times a day (morning and evening).

In addition to making more radiant skin, exfoliation is also a way to disguise fine lines, slow down premature aging, and help open clogged pores, without causing irritation. As a result, skin looks more clean and healthy, moisturizer will work better and make-up looks more natural look

3. Skin need humidity
The final step in skin care is to apply moisturizer to the skin, which makes the skin more healthy with natural moisture balance. Tropical climates and are often located in air-conditioned room is very easy to quickly dry skin conditions and dehydrated. For that, apply moisturizer to the entire face and neck regularly.

A good lotion is easy to absorb into the skin, such as dramatically different moisturizing lotion. This lotion also will provide comfort and make the skin feel softer. The formula is refreshing, very useful for providing moisture to all skin types.

Rabu, 02 September 2009

Vitamin E, for Beautiful Skin

Vitamin E is one vitamin antioxidants that serve to protect damage to the body's cells from free radicals. Its function is to reduce the risk of blood clots, blood coagulant, prevent blockage of blood vessels, strengthens capillary walls of blood vessels, increase the formation of red blood cells, reduce blood sugar levels, improved insulin work, and increase muscle strength and stamina.

In addition, vitamin E can affect the hormones, prevent nerve degeneration of vision, preventing damage to nerve cells, increase sexual arousal, as well as maintain and strengthen the immune white blood cells. Vitamin E is also known as 'virtility vitamin', because it plays an important role for human fertility.

Another interesting thing of the benefits of vitamin E is very good for the skin, among which is to protect skin cells from free radicals, protect DNA damage to skin cells which can prevent the occurrence of skin cancer, improve the regeneration of skin cells, and can prevent damage to collagen and elastin fibers that trigger the occurrence of wrinkles and sagging skin. Vitamin E also can be used to treat acne, inflammation and scar tissue formation, and can accelerate the wound healing process. Therefore if vitamin E is consumed regularly and rubs directly on the skin before exposure to sunlight, 'combination' that can help improve the 'natural sun protector' skin.

The rise of beauty products with vitamin E, need to be addressed by intelligent and careful. Do not get swept away and seduced by the tantalizing promotion only, because it can be non-optimal results are satisfactory, but the damaged skin. The reason is not a few manufacturers who keep production costs down by using synthetic vitamin E (dl-alpha tocopherol). Synthetic Vitamin E is what it could cost as well as skin poison, because the vitamin is derived from petroleum products.

Jumat, 28 Agustus 2009

The Benefits of Vitamin-C for Skin Beauty

The experts never tired of working and developing vitamin C to be used as the main ingredient of a variety of beauty products, especially skin care products. The reason, according to the invention as well as research that has been done for years, they discover the benefits of vitamin C which is very good for maintaining health and beauty skin.

1. Why Vitamin C?
Since the discovery of dozens of years ago, vitamin C has been known to have the ability and power of work is so amazing. In addition to boost the immune system, vitamin C is also useful to maintain the strength of connective tissue (which serves to accelerate healing of wounds, burns, and broken bones), strengthening the elasticity of the connective tissue and cartilage on the sidelines of the joints in the spine (thus preventing the occurrence back pain and sports injuries), increased absorption of calcium for bone formation, influenced the formation of red blood cells in bone marrow, even inhibit the formation of nitrosamines which are substances that can cause cancer.

Other studies have found that vitamin C functions as an antioxidant that can prevent the oxidation of saturated fat to form peroxides that are harmful to the body and can impair the cardiovascular system (the originator of high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, stroke, etc.). This is useful for the manufacture of collagen network which serves to strengthen the skin, cartilage, tendons, and blood vessel walls. Collagen contained in it can help stimulate skin cell rejuvenation process, which helps prevent premature aging and overcome various skin problems.

2. Drunk or applied
Vitamin C can be consumed directly or applied to the skin. Highly recommended to take vitamin C regularly, to maintain health and increase endurance, it is advisable to take vitamin C with doses between 500 to 1,000 mg / day. To maintain skin beauty needs of vitamin C with doses of 500-2000 mg / day. Meanwhile, to reduce the spots blackish on the skin of vitamin C is recommended to consume between 2,000 to 4,000 mg / day in the form of buffer (no acid) that can be consumed 1-1.5 hours after a meal. Although safe to consume in high doses and is soluble in water, while taking vitamin C is recommended to augment drinking water to avoid the occurrence of crystallization in the kidney.

Today, vitamin C widely used as the main ingredient in many skin care products. For example, if applied to the skin, vitamin C will act immediately to protect the skin against oxidative-stress (free radicals) that occurs due to exposure to ultraviolet rays that cause premature aging of the skin problem.

3. Skin Care Products Right
In the midst of an offer skin care products containing vitamin C, of course you should be more vigilant in choosing. Moreover, vitamin C has a pH or acid level is high, so that if excessive will give unfavorable effects to the skin. So that was the wrong choice, note the following:
- Because vitamin C is generally unstable and easily oxidized, so that its benefits may be reduced or lost altogether, select skin care products that contain vitamin C that looks stable, such as Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate. Vitamin C that looks less stable is Ascorbyl-6-palmitate, while the much less stable is L-Ascorbyl Acid (active form). Products with vitamin C is stable is usually very expensive.

- Choose skin care products that contain vitamin C it has been through the process of Nano-Technology. Typically, the products have been through this process the size of the active molecules or particles smaller than the pores of the skin, so it can soak into the skin optimally.

- Choose skin care products with a dosage or concentration of vitamin C content of at least 10%, because the dose is effective in improving tissue biosynthesis of collagen and elastin network, while lowering (up to 52%) the effect of UVB in causing the signs of sunburn (erythema), reduce the number of cell- the burned skin cells from the sun to 40% -60%, and can tarnish black vlek caused hyperpigmentation and improve wrinkles.

- In general, skin care products containing vitamin C can be used for all skin types. The important note is the foundation or base of the product.


Jumat, 14 Agustus 2009

Simple Way Happier

How do you calm down when he was uncomfortable with the situation, sad, or depressed? Contemplation while enjoying a cup of hot chocolate, call your friends to confide in an all-out, or just pick a day of sitting in the room?

Whatever your choice, it is most important is its effectiveness. If you can regardless of the pressure after that, then how do you go through successfully, other than a few ways that have been mentioned earlier, here are some simple tips to banish stress:

1. Open the old photo album
Flipping through old photo album that stores your most beautiful moments with your partner, family, or friends, can help you escape from stress. A study in the United Kingdom's Open University revealed, the mood someone is going to improve until 11% after looking at photo albums, while the effects of alcohol or watching entertainment shows on television only affects about 1% to the improvement of mood. To keep your mood, try to put up photos of loved ones at your desk. Or, save it as a computer screensaver.

2. Snack nuts
Instead of taking a box of chocolates to boost sagging morale back due to stress better grab a handful of peanuts. Omega-3 fats in nuts. according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh was able to reduce depression. Fats in nuts are also will not make you fat.

3. Breathe Aromatherapy
Some people love the smell like the aroma of fresh fruits to evoke mood. Others are choosing the scent of lavender or chamomile to make the mind stay calm and focused. Please select according to your needs and your indulgence.

4. Open doors and windows
In the morning when waked up, open wide your bedroom window. Let the cool breeze in the morning came in, too warm sun rays. When you have lots of time, eat breakfast in the open (or at least near the window). Believe me, your mind will be much fresher, you also become better prepared to start the activity.

If the workplace were no windows overlooking the open space, take a few times a day to just get out, walk around the office, to enjoy the outdoor atmosphere. According to research Daniel Kripke of the University of California, a person the opportunity to enjoy the sun more easily overcome depression and sleep more soundly at night.

5. Clean-up
Activities clean room or home can make you better, because it does not require much energy to think, all of them systematically. After all fine and neat, you'll feel better.

6. Place the happy face
As bad as any situation, no matter how sad you feel, try to smile. According to some research, smiles will make the facial muscles to give signals to the brain that you are okay, and ultimately, improve your mood.

Kamis, 09 Juli 2009

10 Things never do Before the age of 30 years

At the age between 20 to 30 years, skin is in most excellent condition. Too much care it will result in less good for the skin. If there are treatments that can be done usually more problematic in the skin or to keep skin in top condition, anything, really, the things that do not need to be done before the age of 30?

1. Avoid heavy peels Microdermabrasion or chemical peels such as excessive.
Done if the face problems with acne / freckles appear, Should do at the end of the age of 20, the Solution is Perform periodic scrubbing with the product is safe, lightweight, maximum 3 times a week

2. Not to need botox.
Botox is allowed only to improve muscle disorders, such as repetitive twitch. You do not need botox to address facial wrinkles, because skin cells are still active and could be improved the skin elasticity.
Solution: In order to beautify the face, perform routine maintenance, keep the food, enough sleep, and exercise. Do not forget to take care of skin elasticity with a moisturizer in the morning and night cream before bed.

3. Avoid aggressive anti-aging products such as filler or injectable hormones.
Your skin is still in good shape, so do not need filler or injectable hormones, because Hormones that excessive negative impact, such as the emergence and vlek spots on the skin.
Solution: Use anti-aging product that is safe and mild, such as cream or vitamin antioxidants anti wrinkle

4. Do not try any skin whitener
Not a few whitening products that contain mercury. This bleach does give instant results in a short time. If used in the long run, mercury deposition will occur on the skin. If you stop, the skin looks more like black than the original, similarly hidroquinone content in bleach, so use of hidroquinone in a long time to make an uneven skin color.

Solution: Use a bleach product officially registered. Should always consult a doctor for skin health continues to be monitored. If you already have one of these skin problems over the internet, please intensive care at a dermatologist. The skin can return to its original state, provided that you perform regular maintenance in the long term.

5. Do not be easily tempted Collagen cosmetics.
Collagen does make the skin supple and youthful, but, can’t be absorbed only by applied. Collagen injections should be postponed, because the age of 20 muscle tissue and skin conditions are still very healthy.
Solution: To stimulate collagen, you can eat foods or supplements containing protein and amino acids. In addition, you can use a topical product containing tretinoin in light levels, with the supervision of a doctor.

6. Not to need injections of vitamin C.
Vitamin C is the best antioxidant for the skin, which can prevent premature aging. At the age below 30 years, the need for vitamin C is still to be addressed effectively by oral consumption.
Solution: Include fruits and vegetables high in vitamin C contents meals daily.

7. Do not indiscriminate taking supplements.
Supplements are good for the skin that contains antioxidants including vitamins C and E. Do not over-taking supplements, basically, the contents of supplements to each other almost the same.
Solution: Pay attention to the content of supplements that you consume. For ages below 30, which is needed is a supplement of antioxidants such as vitamin C tablets and E. Use according to the recommended daily dose.

8. Liposuction (liposuction) is not necessary.
Fat body begins deposited at the age of 30 years. Before that age, our body systems are working well, so no need to do liposuction.
Solution: Exercise regularly setting up fiber-rich diet can prevent fat accumulation.

9. Postpone surgery facial attractiveness (facelift).
At age was 20-30 years, suppleness and elasticity of the skin is still very good. So, do not need a facelift.
Solution: Apply anti wrinkle cream containing tretinoin (a derivative of vitamin A to resist the aging process, prevent the ill effects of the sun, and the depletion of collagen).

10. Postpone surgery tummy tuck or get rid of fat and skin in the abdominal area.
Sagging stomach due to give birth makes many women feel the need to do tummy tuck. But, you should not do it. Before age 30, usually the body's metabolic system is still very good, so the skin area can return to normal with the help of sports and topical creams.
Solution: Avoid fatty foods and do exercise regularly muscle formation.