Sensitive skin requires facial skin care that caters to that sensitivity. The facial care that many products offer is simply too harsh for the special needs of sensitive skin. This makes it important to choose the right products as well as to treat the skin right day and night.
When looking for a moisturizer, wrinkle cream or a cream for your oily skin, also keep in mind its sensitive nature. That doesn’t mean buying one just because it says “Sensitive Skin” on the label. That usually means that the active ingredients have been diluted or that they’ve added aloe to the mix. What sensitive skin really needs is to have a product that uses ingredients that are so pure and natural that they work well with any skin type.
There are products that use gentle natural ingredients that are affective against skin problems without being too harsh for sensitive skin. This is accomplished by using active ingredients that repair the skin rather than only providing it with moisture.
The proper facial skin care also depends on how the products are applied. There are a number of ways to apply skin creams, gels and masks. Unfortunately, most of them are wrong for sensitive skin. The rough sponges, loofahs and washcloths that are often used are too rough for use with sensitive skin.
A soft cloth that is made for sensitive skin or a soft shower gel pouf are much better ways to apply facial care products. But perhaps an easier way is to simply use the fingertips to work the products gently into the skin. The product should be rubbed into the skin gently to avoid damaging the skin and causing redness and an uneven tone.
Sensitive skin should also be kept away from the elements whenever possible. Sunlight, wind and cold can all aggravate skin of any type, but sensitive skin responds particularly poorly. Finding shade and positioning yourself to face away from the wind will keep the skin from becoming irritated.
The kind of facial skin care that is best for sensitive skin requires the right products and the right handling of the skin. The way the skin is touched by the hands and by the elements can have a big effect on the way it looks and feels. Facial care that is done correctly can soothe sensitive skin and make it feel better and look smooth and radiant.
By: Maricha Jordan
Most men will debate that “masculine” skincare is an obvious oxymoron. Skin care products have primarily been marketed for women for some years now thus it’s not very stunning that the idea that they need to apply skincare products is hard for men to perceive, although they usually do put a little bit of exertion into their appearance. Is there really such thinga as masculine skincare or are the products commercialized no differently than the ones developed for women?
The thought of “manly” skin creams turns on the idea of why males actually are utilizing skin care products. There are two primary reasons why both men and women actually use such products. The 1st is due to the fact that they all genuinely want to manage care of their skin, and the 2nd is that women and men both want to appear better looking and young again. It can be difficult to get men to conceive of this, and that it’s that it is important for men to take care of their skin.
This will only work if males see skincare products as being more rather than just for women. The 2nd aforesaid reason may probably result with more male skin care cream sales. Nevertheless, some of these males may not be worried about the “masculinity” of the skincare product they are using to begin with. The will to improve their appearance can be a compelling motivation.
Skincare companies try to show off their products in a not so feminine way by using packaging that portrays masculinity. In contrast to the presentation of women’s skin care products, males’s products usually use red, blue, or black colors and use phrases that evoke tribal images. The idea that packaging and presentation helps make a skincare product masculine is a shallow one. These products must, after all, do their task of seeing to males’s skin care desires. Until men begin understanding more that they must have skincare products, good ones will be hard to find.
By: Marianne E. Arnesson
In this day and age, the era of self medication has really turned a blind corner and leapt off the cliff. Now everyone claims to be an expert in some medical field and has some ingredient that they say can save lives. Flashbacks to the days when Canadians would picket outside the house of parliament demanding that the medical use of marijuana be recognised – while manufacturers of hemp would look on in amusement now appear to me like a normal day in the park. Unless you have a medical degree in dermatology, no one and I mean no one should even be trying their hand at home made skin care products. Grandma looked good because she was born in a time when the world’s atmosphere wasn’t inundated with a 70% acidity level, where CO2 wasn’t slowly taking over O2 as air we are breathing and where chemical factories and their chimneys were not pumping more than a million natural and synthetic toxins into our atmosphere. Grandma looked good because the world was good, not because of her secret recipe gumbo that doubled as skin cream.
Always be wary of those people who try to sell their home made skin cream because you are dealing with your skin. Yes it re-generates but there are only so many layers possible in the skin to refresh itself. How beautiful or attractive you look also depends on the condition of the skin so are you going to trust it with some home made product you have never heard of? Remedies which are brewed in the kitchens of houses should not be placed on the same level as retail ones. The retail skin care products have gone through a battery of scientific research, a host of FDA approval checks and gone through countless tests and retests. The final product is clean and approved, with ingredients used for safe consumption. One other thing you have to be aware of is the fact that home made skin creams don’t have a US FDA approved list of ingredients written in a neat black and white sticker on the back. This is bad for two reasons. You can’t check the ingredients being used and you cannot be sure if anything is being held back from you. This secret ingredient could be fatal and trigger a rash or reaction that could land you in a hospital bed looking like a porcupine that fought with a lobster.
To say that they are affective, there has not been a report of a ‘home sourced’ skin cream being anywhere remotely effective. Don’t be fooled. Sitting out there isn’t some genius dermatologist of the century with the secret formula for immortality. Don’t believe the hype. It does not exist. Always trust the brands and the advice of the dermatologist. To answer the question posed at first, ‘Can homemade skin care products be as effective as retail ones?’ -the answer is no. Would you go to a tool shed to do a triple bypass? Then you have your answer as well. If you must have a home made solution, then go only to trusted sources that only promote the use of all natural ingredients. That is the only way you can be sure of a safe and secure way to treat your skin problems.
By: Ray A. Rubio