While the products you use are very dependent on your skin type (dry, oily, combination) your actual basic routine will be consistent. If you start skipping steps, you are not doing yourself or your products justice. Here’s the steps and why each is important.
1. Cleanse
Yes, we’ve all done it. Even me. We’ve had that long night and slipped into bed sans washing our face. Once or twice a month won’t ruin you, but more often than that and you are doing yourself an injustice. Why? We accumulate dirt and oil though out the day. Even if you have dry skin, your skin still needs cleansing. It’s especially important for those of us with oily skin, acne or who wear foundation. Bare Escentuals and other mineral makeups like to brag that it is safe to sleep in their makeup. I agree with them, it is safe to sleep in their makeup. While it’s safe, it really doesn’t mean that you should. First, there’s the obvious. You’re leaving the grime of the day on your face overnight. Would you take pollution, dust, pollen, etc and make a mask out of it? I didn’t think so. Secondly, you’re getting your pillow case dirty. Since you slept with an unclean face the night before, even if you wash your face the next night you’re rubbing your face all over that same dirt you left behind before.
2. Tone
Note that I said tone. Not use astringent. Astringent has a purpose, which I will reveal later, but it is never to be used all over your face. Let me say that again as it’s such an important point. Astringent is never to be used over your entire face. You should choose an alcohol free toner. The purpose of toner is generally a mystery to most. It seems like such a non-essential step when it is highly critical. Toner is specifically designed to bring your skin back to the proper pH after cleansing and using water on your skin. I could write pages on why pH is important but in short your skin is naturally slightly acidic to fight bacteria. It’s called the ‘acid mantle’ and is a protective barrier. This rebalances your pH and makes your skin receptive to the hydrating treatment you will apply next.
Yes, it’s very tempting to use your toner as a cleanser and I will confess to doing it myself in a pinch. However, it is not made to be a cleanser and will not be very effective. Better than nothing but don’t make a habit of it. Don’t skip the toner either.
3. Hydrate
All skin needs hydration. From really oily to super dry, you need to end your routine with hydration. You have just stripped all moisture from your skin and you really need to replace it. Why? For dry skin, you’re already lacking moisture. For oily skin, your skin will react quickly to a lack of oil by producing more oil, causing you to become even more oily at a rapid pace. For those in the middle, well, both points apply.
To get the most benefit from hydration, you really should consider a day and a night cream. Your day cream will generally be lighter and should always contain a minimum of spf 15. Your night cream will be a heavier formulation to give your skin a boost of nutrients at night when it is eager to absorb the ingredients and is working on regenerating itself. Avoid anything occlusive, also known as comdogenic, especially at night when your skin needs to breathe to regenerate. Things such as mineral oil and other petroleum products will keep your skin from being able to breathe.
Wash, rinse, repeat
Repeat these steps twice, once upon arising and once before going to bed. In the morning you are washing to rid yourself of any oil or skin build up overnight and to prepare your skin for your morning products. In the evening it’s to clean the impurities from the day and prep your skin for your intensive night products. That’s it. Do not be tempted to wash your skin any more than that or you will be over stripping your skin and irritating it.
Bonus points
Exfoliation
All skin needs exfoliation. The type and the frequency will depend on skin type. However, helping your skin by removing the top layer of cells will not only refreshes and brighten tired skin, it will help acne by unclogging pores, give dry skin a boost by removing the flaking layer and will allow your products to have greater penetration into the skins layers. I will be writing a whole article on exfoliation, so keep an eye out.
Masks, serums, specialized treatments
These are very much dependent on skin type and issue. You can …
Month: May 2021
New Chapter – Organic Supplements For Optimum Nutrition
They tell us we are what we eat and that is a scary thought considering the way many of us indulge nowadays. We eat on the run and simply grab whatever is quick and easy. This is far from what Mother Nature intended for us and so we need additional supplements to our diet in order to be healthy and have strong bones and muscles and immune systems. New Chapter Vitamins and supplements can help bolster the immune system and give us the added ingredients for a healthful daily diet.
The whole food approach to health
There is a long list of supplements that an average person may require in order to maintain top health and vitality. Some of the best in immune support include:
Vitamin C for it’s immune support and cell protective capability. A proven cold and virus fighter, vitamin C is available in many natural sources as well as part of an organic vitamin regimen.
Elderberry (dark purple berries) grows throughout Europe, especially in Austria. They are noted for super support of the immune system.
Ginger is considered a “super herb” with many healing benefits as well as being highly effective at reducing nausea in chemotherapy patients. Ginger has been used for immune support for thousands of years.
Garlic has long been renowned as an antioxidant and for its cardiovascular benefits. Ginger and Garlic work well together to maximize free radical scavenging in a product called New Chapter Garlicforce.
Echinacea comes from a flower and is considered herbal. This tiny flower is super beneficial in its immunoactive effects and is also enhanced by Ginger in New Chapter Immune Support-Echinacea Ginger Tonic.
Probiotics healthy bacteria, is what our digestive system needs to fight off the infections and viruses that attack our bodies every day. Probiotics are cultured in immune boosting organics including fruits and vegetables such as spinach, parsley, oregano, ginger, elderberry, and nutritional yeast to give a boost to the immune system our bodies need.
New Chapter Vitamins, supplements, probiotics, and all other organics offer the purest of ingredients and the most effective boost to our immune system.…
Get To Know the Four Types of Dental Bridges
Bridges can improve your smile when they fill in the gaps from missing teeth. A bridge covers the gap between teeth to improve your confidence and your dental health. There are four main types of bridges to consider when you want to add teeth to your mouth and prevent your other teeth from shifting out of place.
Traditional Dental Bridge
The most common type of dental bridges Montgomery TX used by dentists is the traditional bridge This is used when a crown can be installed on the teeth surrounding the gap. The crowns become the anchor points with the fake tooth sitting in the middle. The downfall of this type of bridge is the necessity of shaping otherwise healthy teeth to fit a new crown on top.
Implant Supported Bridge
This type of bridge is used when there is more than one missing tooth in a gap. Similar to traditional bridges, this type uses implants instead of installing crowns on the surrounding teeth. It is more invasive and has a longer recovery time, but the strength and durability might be worth it.
Cantilever Dental Bridge
Instead of using two teeth as anchor points like a traditional bridge, this type of bridge only uses one adjacent tooth as an anchor. This can save money, but isn’t as strong and is generally only recommended for use in the front of the mouth.
Maryland Bonded Bridge
A metal framework is used to anchor the fake tooth in this type of bridge. The metal pieces adhere to the back of the teeth and offer a less expensive option than a traditional bridge. The strength depends on the type of adhesive and metal used in the process.
When you need to replace missing teeth, a dental bridge can be the answer. Talk with your dentist to help you decide which option is best for your mouth.…
Alternatives To (Re)Activate Your Lifestyle.
Sport is one of the exercises with the main positive effect on wellbeing assurance and sickness counteraction. The advantages of actual exercise are various and shifted, and its relationship with physical, mental, and social wellbeing is grounded.
Before getting into the subject, it is fundamental to distinguish between busy work and actual exercise. Active work is any development performed by an individual (for example, carrying a shopping sack). Essential exercise is a development completed within the system of a pretty much-organized program, for a given time, with a given method, and in the quest for explicit goals (like swimming in 25 pools).
Actual exercise can be polished by everybody, paying little heed to age and condition. Doing sport can likewise help forestall malignant growth and improve mindset and personal satisfaction in individuals who have been determined to have the disease.
Exercise comes in various structures and intensities. Every individual can find the one that suits their needs: Losing weight, increasing muscle tone, improving cardiovascular capacity, regaining portability, and so on. When all is said in done, 30 minutes every day of actual moderate exercise, at any rate, five days seven days is suggested. You can generally exercise all alone. However, since a long time ago run, it turns out to be quite dull. Step by step, you will feel less and less persuaded; the ideal approach to keep away from this is to employ an in home personal trainer.
Personal training expects to make accessible to the customer all the innovation, assets, and time that a certified proficient can offer to accomplish the best outcomes in the briefest time and most adequately and securely. This help looks for the most excellent proficiency in the cycles, the most extreme adequacy in the items, and minimal wellbeing.
If the actual guidance is planned and continued correctly, it will improve the individual’s state of being and heart and respiratory limit, and general condition of wellbeing; this is the capacity of a personal trainer.
A personal trainer is wellness proficient, qualified in busy work, endorses exercises, inspires, and lays out objectives individually, taking into account every one of his customers’ states of being and goals.
Yet, assume you are not one of those individuals who feel good going to an exercise center, either due to shame, since you don’t care for swarms, or because you don’t have any desire to get back to public space after confinement by COVID-19. You can generally decide to recruit the administrations of an in-home personal trainer.
At home, we are, in every case, looser and put ourselves out there considerably more productively contrasted with customary exercise centers. Being at home, you will have more certainty, so you will be substantially more propelled to arrive at your objectives.
During the meetings proposed by your in-home personal trainer, the individual will be concerned with the nature of the exercises and your wellbeing. For a personal trainer, it is vital to offer you safe training, providing you with the correct hardware for great practice.
Security likewise relies upon the great stances to receive when performing the various exercises. Being at home will give you more trust in yourself, and you won’t spare a moment to pose every one of the inquiries that strike a chord better to comprehend your home personal trainer’s instructions.
Your in-home personal trainer will realize how to adjust and propose exercises according to the space you have accessible and adapted to your personality.…
CanTeen Bandana – Good Cause But No Solution at All
NZ Herald website: “CanTeen was established to ensure that no young person in New Zealand living with cancer should ever have to feel alone”. Listen to this: “…ensure that the kids with cancer would not feel alone”.
That is a very nice thought. I do not say that CanTeen should stop their activity as they are doing a great job in keeping kids happy, kids who have cancer should be looked after, and it is a great cause. All I am saying is that there is already a proven solution for cancer, just as much as there is a proven solution for other chronic diseases.
There is a belief that cancer breakthrough is near. But reality is that cancer patients continue to die and the next new drug for cancer is actually causing cancer simply because most cancer drugs are full of toxins themselves. The whole point of chemotherapy is that it is by itself cell toxins. It is designed to penetrate the cancerous cells and poison them so that they stop replicate, and whooof you are cured. Are you really?! I am sorry to say that the exact opposite happens to you. Because if you will be exposed to more toxins how on earth will you be cured of cancer. Would you not think that these toxins will penetrate into healthy cells as well?
The Solution for Cancer is here Every Culture knows it
Ask people in the Amazon rain forest, indigenous people in Japan called the Okinawans and other indigenous people around the world. They all know that it boils down to the food they eat. I have been told that the native people in the Amazon eat two litter of acai berry every day. Acai berry is a very small berry with a very thin skin around its stone, so to eat two litter of it they need to consume massive amounts of it. They remain young and healthy for a very long time, sometime a life time.
I found lately a program on the net that suggests that you can treat and even reverse cancer. It is all done through consuming a lot of organic fruit and vegetable juice in order to put enough antioxidants in your body to combat the free radicals that causing havoc in there already, making your cells to lose their electron and replicate themselves. Chemo is OK but as well as killing the sick cells it will destroy your healthy cells that are nearby. Fruit and vegetable juice will solely add value to your immune system by providing lots of antioxidants to your body.
The CanTeen bandanas program is great fits cause, but it does not cure kids with cancer. I suggest that they add a lot of organic fresh juices to those kids while taking programs with CanTeen to really improve their lives. Again, I 100% support this initiative but do not think that all the money we donate by buying a CanTeen bandana will actually help heal kids with cancer. In the end of the day it is about providing them with the right food so that they physically get better.…
Do You Get Enough Omega 3 Through Your Diet Alone?
Did you know approximately 70% of the fats in our brain are omega 3? So it wouldn’t be any surprise to you that omega 3s improve various brain functions such as your learning capacity, mood and focus. So if we’re going off of the age old saying “You are what you eat” (or thousands of medical literature) than would it be safe to say that it could be a good idea to consume an optimal amount omega 3s from your diet? Omega 3s are not just important for brain function, memory and focus. They are also important for almost every function in your body, from skin quality to heart health – to your overall sense of wellbeing and libido. Just make sure you’re getting in enough omega 3 fats, okay?
Right, so we’ve talked about the difference between Pharmaceutical Grade GMP’s and Food Grade GMP’s. Now this goes for ALL products – Not just multivitamins. Omega 3s are found in abundance in Wild Salmon, Shrimp, Walnuts and Chia Seeds; however getting enough from your diet can sometimes be difficult. For example, to get an optimal dose of omega 3 you would be looking at consuming 100g of Wild Atlantic Salmon or 18grams of Walnuts daily. So if you can’t see yourself consuming those quantities on a regular basis then it could be wise to look for a quality fish oil supplement.
Again, do your research and make sure you’re picking one that is molecular distilled and free of any PCB’s or toxic contaminants such as mercury.
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For All Single Parent Families – How to Have Sound Nutrition on a Limited Budget
Realizing sound nutrition for your family on a limited budget is synonymous to just eating cheap. Beans, potatoes, bananas, oranges, apples, grains, rice, carrots, oats, macaroni, spaghetti, flour, additional fruits, and vegetables all can be bought at economical prices. The opposite of this is true for unhealthy foods. With this in mind, lets look at ways you can put your food bills on a diet and still have sound nutrition.
Make More Meatless Meals
You can reduce the amount of expensive meat and poultry you buy by changing your recipe repertoire to include meatless meals. If you don’t want to do without your favorite meats altogether, use them ( along with a lot with poultry and fish) as flavor enhancers, rather than the main course. Add chopped meat, chicken, and fish to omelets, pasta, rice dishes, salads, and stews. You will not be skimping on the flavor, only on the budget.
Be a Savvy Shopper
If you want to be the smartest shopping in the neighborhood, shop only in perimeter of the supermarket. That way you will buy healthier groceries. Whole foods, such as produce, meat, and dairy products are always on the outer edge of the store. Generally, the inside aisles are filled with processed and more expensive foods.
Eliminate JunkA�Foods
Just say no to junk food. Food with little or no nutritional value has no place in a frugal shopping cart. Make your own cookies, pop your own popcorn, and make iced herbal teas and other healthful beverages. Don’t buy packaged deserts. Eat more fruit. It’s a healthier choice and will fill you up faster. Avoid sugar filled sodas and drink more water.
Be Careful in the Cereal Aisle
Cold cereal is overpriced and overrated. If you have coupons, use them, especially when there is a sale. But the most frugal solution is to get your family hooked on oatmeal. It is more healthful and cost less. Buy the least expensiveA�brand and dress it up with some with raisins, cinnamon, sliced or dried fruit, or anything else that delights your taste buds.
Create a Personal Pricing Guide
Buy a small notebook and keep track of the prices of items you buy every week. Compare prices at all of the local supermarkets. You’ll likely find one store that sells your favorite flour, cereal, or pasta for much less than another market. An easy way to start a personal guide is to keep your register receipts so that you can record your item costs. Once you finished your guide, you will find that it will take a little longer to get your shopping done, especially if you shop at three different stores, but you’ll spend less money in the long run.…