Simple Skincare & Beauty Tips ~ Just for You!
Glowing Skin Naturallly
The most beautiful, head-turning heart stopping women in this world today all have one thing in common: gorgeous, radiant skin. When your skin is healthy and vibrant, its like a light switch has been turn on inside of you, and the world is drawn to that light. You don’t need to be a celebrity to make a statement with your skin. Even if you feel your complexion is beyond repair, all you need is a few simple strategies to follow that will help get your skin back to being picture ready
Rule number 1: Healthy mind ~ Healthy body ~ meaning getting enough exercise, eating right and drinking lots of water. Getting enough sleep all adds up to beautiful skin. Simple huh?
Rule number 2: Never give up on your skin and your appearance!! It doesn’t matter how old you are, how heavy or thin you might be. There is always something you can do to help yourself improve the way your skin looks and feel. You just need to take the time to take care of number 1 ~ That means you!!!
Hormone changes through out our life’s can and will have a cause and affect on our skin. At adolescence, the effect is nearly always to produce excess oils.
This is why it’s a good idea to start caring for your skin while in your teens. Start building your own skincare routine and stick to it. Because it just seems so unfair that just as you are starting to be attracted to the opposite sex, you are very often suffering from oily skin, blackheads, blemishes or the biggest problem ever, Acne!
How do you care for your skin while it seems like all hell as broken free all over your face and you have a date? Start washing your face every morning and before going to bed to help keep that oil at bay. If you have really oily skin you may have to wash your face more than twice a day BUT don’t wash it more than three times a day because your face will react but you got it creating even more oil!
If you do have acne or just want to know the best way to take care of your face, visit your Dermatologist, she will be able to help set up the best skincare routine.
Also don’t worry, as we get older most of us more on to having clear skin and no matter what you felt all those times when you felt you had the biggest blemish ever and everyone was staring at it, sorry but they were not, they were too busy thinking the same about their own blemish.
Remember once you have found products that work, don’t go jumping around and trying something new all the time. Stick with what works for your face and you too will glow!
Copyright Kim M Snyder http://Overallbeauty.com
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck
~ Anonymous
Put simply, ‘natural skin care’ is caring for your skin in a natural and chemical-free way. Organic skincare products are gaining notice these days, from those you create in your kitchen to those you can buy. ‘Natural skin care’ advocates enabling the skin to take care of itself (without any assistance from synthetic materials/ chemicals). Just by reading the back of your favorite none organic/naturally created skincare is enough to scare you. Do you have any idea just how many chemicals are in your high-end skincare products?
‘Natural skin care’ is about inculcation of good habits in the way you lead your day to day life. A lot of natural skin care measures are actually the same as those for body care in general. Watching what you eat, do and who you are around.
Ever looked at your face and wonder why it looks so dry? It could be something as simple as lack of water. Well the first and the foremost natural skin care measure is – ‘Drink a lot of water’. Around 8 glasses of water is a must everyday. This is one of the big reasons bottled water is so popular these days. What ever it takes to get water not filled with chemicals into your system. Because water is one of the best ways for flushing out the toxins from the body, and the most natural way. It helps in the overall upkeep of the body and promotes good health for all organs (not just skin).
General cleanliness is another inexpensive way of natural skin care. Daily shower, wearing clean clothes and sleeping on a clean mattress/pillow are all part of general cleanliness. Sleeping on a pillowcase that is silk is really good for your face as well.Did you know that cotton pillowcases hold moisture and can help lead to you having acne?
Regular exercise is the next thing on the cards. Exercise increases the flow of blood that helps in getting rid of body toxins and keeping you healthy. Exercise also helps in beating stress which is the worst enemy of good health. Going for walks, working out in the pool and gym are all ways of dealing with your stress.
Healthy food and eating habits are also recommended for natural skin care. They say some types of food (e.g. pizza, french fries and other oily foods)is know to cause acne and should be avoided as much as possible. But its not really the true, per say. Its more the amount and lack of other things as well that can give you acne. If you do not cleanse your skin every morning and night before going to bed, this can lead to acne. As well as your diet should be a healthy mix of various nutrients providing foods. Raw fruits and vegetables are well known to good for your body and help in getting rid of body toxins.
A good sleep is also instrumental in maintaining good health and in beating stress. Sleep helps the body renew its self which is why its very good to get at least 6 to 8 hours of sleep a night.
Beating stress is another natural skin care therapy. Stress causes overall damage to body and health. Drinking a lot of water, getting a sound sleep and exercise has already been mentioned as stress busters. Indulging in a warm bubble bath, listening to soothing music and playing your favorite sport are also good ways of beating stress.
Check out this simple recipe for Lavender Bath Milk to help ease your stress.
Lavender Milk Bath
Ingredients:
1 cup of dry milk powder
3 drops of lavender essential oil ( find it at your natural foods store or natural area of your local store)
Instructions:
Thoroughly mix the lavender essential oil into the milk
powder and when well combined add it to your
running bath water.
Light a candle and soak your stress away.
Or try this recipe
Golden Chamomile Milk Bath
Ingredients:
4 cups of dry milk powder
1 cup of boiled water (takes 6 minutes in most microwaves)
6 chamomile tea bags (organic is best)
Instructions:
Steep the chamomile tea in your boiled water for about twenty
minutes. After twenty minutes add the tea bag liquid to the
milk powder mix it well and then add it to your warm running
bath water.
Drinking Chamomile tea is also one of the best ways to relax before going to sleep at night.
Take yourself for a long walk around the park, get away from others that are causing you to have too much stress. Families and work are always going to be stress creators why not try yoga as a way of beating stress; it is fast gaining popularity amongst the masses. Yoga has been around for years, only now that has it started to really gain popularity because of the many actors who do it.
Avoiding excessive exposure to sun (by wearing long sleeved clothes, hat and umbrella etc), is another natural skin care strategy. Always use Sunscreen before going outside. Sunshine gives us Vit. D which is very helpful but too much sun without sunscreen can lead to cancer.
Taking care of your skin can be as simple as cleansing it every night to watching what you eat. A lot of traditional and home made natural skin care products/ measures are also known to be very effective.
Great article for Homemade Facials
Taking care of yourself, using natural/organic skincare products, eating healthier is all part of a natural skincare system that will help lead to less stress in your life overall.
And help you live longer with less wrinkles.
Copyright 2008 Kim Snyder owner of Overall Beauty. Where beauty can be found in everything from our personal line mineral eye shadows, magic lash, organic massage candles, and more. A little beauty attitude goes a long way, why not check us out on the web at http://overallbeauty.comtoday!
I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me!
~ Author Unknown
Ageless Beauty! Jojoba acts as a moisturizer and a tonic, its naturally hypoallergenic and it is PH balanced, making it sustainable for all skin types – especially African-American women’s skin.
2 Aging Secrets beat with Jojoba Oil
• As we grow older, personally I like the phrase “As we Mature”, our skin starts to dry up due to a decrease in sebum production in the body. Jojoba Oil acts as a supplement of the sebum. It is actually chemically similar to sebum, so your body recognizes it as sebum and readily absorbs it into your system. Because it is absorbed, jojoba oil works to effectively restore the normal oil balance of your skin, helping to prevent dryness.
• The different antioxidant properties of Jojoba Oil help prevent any Further damage to your skin due to the aging process.
Although the term Jojoba oil includes the word oil, it really isn’t oil at all! Jojoba oil is actually a liquid wax – meaning it won’t clog your pores. Jojoba Oil is great for African-American women with skin problems such as eczema, acne scars, and psoriasis, since Jojoba Oil has anti-inflammatory ingredients.
Jojoba Oil is ideal for African-American women with oily skin because it does not block your pores and does not irritate acne.
Jojoba Oil Benefits:
-Helps soften skin and reduce wrinkles and crows feet
-Helps heal skin from bruises, cuts and scrapes, while reducing scarring
-Great to use for acne, psoriasis, and other minor skin disorders
-Helps reducing irritation and soothes skin after shaving
-Great moisturizer for dry skin, cuticles, lips, and hands
Using Jojoba Oil to assist you in nullifying the appearance of wrinkles is sustainable for all skin types, especially African-American women. Jojoba Oil is actually more preferable over any other anti-wrinkle creams due to the fact that it does not contain any toxic contents. It is hypoallergenic and also very rarely causes any type of skin irritations.
*Be careful though! When purchasing Jojoba Oil make sure to read the label carefully while making sure to select the one that has the most pure and natural form of Jojoba Oil.
One of the most common side effects of aging or maturing African American skin has to do with loss of hydration. Basically, your skin gets more dry as you get older.
Jojoba Oil helps to keep your skin hydrated. It works to protect African American skin from toxins. It is also great for smoothing wrinkles over. It does this by forming a lipid (oil) layer over your skin while easily being absorbed.
When shopping for moisturizers, cleansers, soaps and sunscreens, take note of the ingredients. For your African American skin care regimen, buy products that have jojoba oil as one of the top 3 ingredients to insure the protection of your skin.
Jojoba oil can be used to help nourish and moisturize all types of face and body skin. As an example, applying some jojoba oil to your African American skin can give it a glowing essence not to mention make it look gorgeous.
Or, if you’re in need to remove your makeup, you can use jojoba oil to cleanse your face without any worries for possible allergies or irritations.
Last but certainly not least, Jojoba oil can also be applied to African-American women’s skin in order to fight such conditions as athlete’s foot, warts, cold sores and others. So don’t be afraid to rub the jojoba oil all over your body.
Are you an Ageless Beauty? You bet your beautiful skin you are!
Authors Bio
Juliette Samuel is a person who definitely knows beautiful when she sees it. Juliette has had a very eclectic career working in and around the beauty industry. She has worked as an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has also been a Professional Image Consultant.
Currently Juliette works as a Skin Care Therapist, acting President and Chief Nose for NYRAJU Skin Care. As such she is in charge of product formulation, development of all scents produced for the line and understands a thing or two about maturing skin.
Juliette is also a member of NAHA-The National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy, The Society of Cosmetic Chemist and is the Fragrance Editor for BellaOnline.
What does that do for you? It keeps Juliette on her toes when it comes to the type of information that she’ll be able to share with you as readers of her blog or articles that she publishes on and off the web.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections
~ Saint Francis de Sales
This is part two in our series of Basics of Skincare, Tools of the Trade. You can read part one here: Basics of Skincare, Tools of the Trade – Part One
What are moisturizers?
They come in many names, types and ingredients. From your real basic to eye creams, serums, wrinkle cream, day and night creams, anti-aging, dry skin, oily skin, acne. Each moisturizer type is meant to do it’s job working with the rest of what you apply. Serums are applied first, eye cream and then your moisturizer best suited for your skin type, your age and need. “Layering” your moisturizers makes best use of everything you apply; as you get older the more types of specially moisturizers and serums you will need. No matter their price tag, no one moisturizer will give your mature skin what it needs. Depending on your skins needs, age and even time and seasons all play a part in which moisturizer will be needed. Moisturizers are usually a lotion or cream meant to help your skin retain moisture. They also return some of the natural oils lost during cleansing /toning process. Moisturizers stay on your skins surface depending on type and ingredients and only penetrate just deep enough to help your skin renew itself. One of the big reasons why cleansing and moisturizing your face at night is so important. Moisturizers slow down moisture loss with a protective film. They also help offset any tightness and help plump up the fine lines so they are less noticeable, making your skin feel softer. Night creams generally are heavier than day creams. Eye creams usually contain active ingredients to tighten under your eyes, help fight dark circles and help smooth away fine lines and delay the formulation of wrinkles.
What are other products you would use in your skincare?
Other products are used to exfoliate and remove dead skin cells on the top layer of your skin so that it speeds up cell regeneration. They are not products you would use every day, most are used no more than twice a week. They include your mud mask, and other products that exfoliates made with ingredients like fruit seeds, oatmeal, clay for example. They help improve your skin texture and appearance. Masks are best used once a week due to the fact most are made with clays and can be over-drying. Most Exfoliates can come in different ingredients that make them not as hard on your face as clay masks can be. In fact you can find lots of recipes for both masks and exfoliates you can make with items found in your kitchen! Always test before trying anything new you create on the inside of your elbow and wait 24 hours before using on your face.
Check with your dermatologist if you got questions.
There you go! Next time you go to buy something new to help keep Mother Nature a bit longer away, I hope this helps.
Products we recommend for your anti-aging skincare routine:
Reviva Labs 5% Glycolic Acid Cream Exfoliation & Cell Renewal for Mature Skin
Light Skin Peel ~ All skin types!
Men’s Care Repair Moisturizer by Natural Empathy
Essential Fatty Acid (EFAs) Cream For Thin Delicate Skin
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states
~ Carol Welch
This is a two part series on what you need for caring for your skin the best way possible. Not many care for their skin, taking care of it takes time and not many really know or understand what that might take. Here is a quick run down of what you will need, to help your skin stay looking as young as possible.
Basics of Skincare -Tools of the Trade
Did you know for basic skincare the magic number is four? There are three basic steps you do twice a day and one step you do twice a week at most.
The three basic everyday skincare needs are:
1- cleansing
2- toners
3- moisturizers
4- would be your specialty products such as mud masks, exfoliation for example.
What are cleansers?
These are specialty formulated products meant to remove grime, and makeup from your skin, without over-drying it. They clean off old makeup, dirt, oils. They come in different types, creams, lotions, gels and bars of soap. Cleansing with a bar soap is one of the oldest most efficient cleanser, but it may not be the best for your skin. Creams and lotions are easy to use; just massage into your skin to lift dirt and remove with warm water or tissue it off.
What are toners, fresheners, astringents?
They are specialty formulated liquids mostly with alcohol as one of the main ingredient. Alcohol is usually the active ingredient in toners; it makes your skin feel fresh and cool because it evaporates quickly. It can also temporarily minimize your pores by plumping up the skin around them. The percentage of alcohol differs from product to product. In fact you may find that astringent, toners, and fresheners as part of the label for the same product. The three are pretty much interchangeable in meaning as well as product.
There are a few differences to point out, astringents usually have the highest percentage of alcohol and mostly used for acne care. There are water-based toners that are formulated especially for mature skin or any skin type that cannot tolerate the over-drying that alcohol can do. When checking labels, look for products where the word alcohol is closest to the last on the list of ingredients.
Products we recommend for your skincare:
The Skin Society
Skin Vision US
Men’s Skincare Lines
Ella Blue Skincare
The rest of this article will be posted in a few days. 
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets
~ Author Unknown
