Author: Indiann Davinos
Source: isnare.com
Drop Dead Gorgeous
How far would you go to be the fairest of them all? In Elizabethan times, women rubbed lead on their face and mercury in their lips to achieve beauty. The health problems were innumerable and serious. During the Italian Renaissance, a certain Signor Toffano created an arsenic-laced face powder. This lovely little gimmick was marketed as a way for rich women to rid themselves of their unwanted husbands. One flick of a powder puff was enough to see him buried. Today we would baulk at such a risk but we still happily slather ourselves in chemicals so strong they are handled with protective clothing in laboratories. Is it possible the cosmetic industry is still peddling beauty to die for? How do we know, after all just reading the ingredient list in a moisturiser seems to require a biology degree.
Lets start with the ubiquitous sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS). This chemical is used in almost everything from toothpaste to shampoos. But its side effects can include eczema, irritated eyes and skin (with prolonged exposure) and possible inflammation and infection of the urinary tract and vagina. Checking children's products to make sure they use the less harsh sodium laureth sulphate is a good idea as SLS has been shown to permanently damage children's eyes.
Other dodgy ingredients include EDC's. These gender-bending chemicals are linked to falling sperm counts in men. Some, like Nonylphenol used in cosmetics, Butylated hydroxy anisole (BHA) and E320 (which can leach into cosmetics from PVC containers) are restricted by the EU with a defined tolerable daily intake. However, overtime they build up in our body tissues, face painting ideas for children
, and some experts consider there is no safe level for use.
Alpha hydroxy Acid (AHA). The cosmetic industrys favourite discovery AHA and BHAs are fruit and milk sugar exfoliates respectively. They work by rubbing off the outer layer of skin to expose the younger-looking? skin beneath. They cannot, as advertisers suggest, permanently improve your skin. In fact, they could ruin it. The epidermis (top layer) of skin, face painting ideas for children
, is an important barrier protecting the body from UV rays and chemicals we come in contact with. The body's natural reaction to having it rubbed away is to create a thicker tougher epidermis, trapping you into a cycle of exfoliating. If you choose to regularly use products containing AHA's then you will also need, face painting ideas for children
, to use a stronger sunscreen. AHA's have only been around ten years and their long-term effects are still unknown.
Natural products and extracts show the beauty industry has got wise to our desire for a more natural life. But too often "natural" ranges are just repackaged old products with small amounts of "extracts" added to keep the consumer happy. Really ?natural? products may also need higher levels of preservatives to keep them from going off, and so end up with the same number of chemicals found in all cosmetics and toiletries. Finally of course natural products such as plants and animal extracts can easily be as poisonous as chemicals.
Baby soft skinBabies and young children are particularly susceptible to infection, so products for children under three must have 50 times less microbes then adult products- according to EU law. This does, face painting ideas for children
, mean they have many more preservatives in them- including benzoates. Benzoates can cause gastric irritation, mouth numbing and urticara and are often used in baby wipes. Perhaps the best option is to choose products with the smallest list of ingredients possible, and use baby soap and water where possible.
Animal magicThe Romans once painted their nails with a mixture of animal blood and fat. While this would horrify the, face painting, face painting ideas for children
, ideas for children
, public today there are a surprising number of animal products on our bathroom shelves. If you are a vegetarian this can make life difficult. Some animal-derived ingredients are pretty easy to spot other telltale, face painting ideas for children
, names include:
Tallow, CI 77267, CI 77268, Collagen, Elastin, Gelatin, Hyaluronic Acid Keratin, Musk, Serum Albumin,, face painting ideas for children
, Unipertan
Even if cosmetics say they have not been tested on animals, the individual ingredients are sure to have been tested, but not necessarily, face painting ideas for children
, by the manufacturer.
Are you worth it?
Before you get too alarmed remember few people suffer serious health problems from cosmetics although many find certain products don't agree with them. Buying simpler products, that don't make us pay for wildly unrealistic advertising is probably a good idea. Cosmetics and toiletries can clean us, make us smell sweeter and enhance our looks but for real health and beauty, throwing money at the beauty counter is not an answer.
Boring but true: the only way to make your skin and hair healthier, and eyes brighter are the old tried and tested methods of health and nutrition. This means eating a balanced diet, drinking plenty of water and getting enough sleep. It also means staying out of the sun, exercising regularly and quitting smoking. It may not come in the most glamorous package- but your body and health are definitely worth it.
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Is Your Men's Facial Cleanser a Big Con? Two Tests to Find Out
Author: Ranae Pritchard
Source: articlesbase.com
You know the old phrase, a wolf, face painting supplies , in sheep's clothing? It's easy to watch out, face painting supplies , for those "wolves" in the midst of business deals and "free offers" on the Internet. But have you seriously looked at your men's facial cleanser? 96% of the facial cleansers out there for men are, at best; useless...and at worst; harmful. Luckily...there's still that 4%! And even luckier are 2 simple tests you can take to find out if your men's facial cleanser is in the follow-the-crowd group of 96% or the rebel-with-a-cause group of 4% that actually work. Men's Facial Cleanser Test #1: The Money Tree Is your cleanser endorsed by celebrities? Does it run a, face painting supplies , Super Bowl ad this year? There's nothing wrong with marketing (heck, most of our jobs wouldn't exist without marketing!). The problem isn't marketing, per se. It's the amount of marketing. If they are spending billions on getting you to pick up the product, are they spending trillions on researching to make sure that product is top-of-the-line and healthy for your body to use? In the pharmaceutical world, the majority of their expenses (outside labor) are focused around research and development. Should you expect anything less in the world of skin care? After all, your body absorbs those products just as though you were popping a pill. What you put on your face ends up in your bloodstream eventually. Should we not expect the same standard of research quality in your men's facial cleanser than we do in pharmaceuticals? Most likely, if your product is popping up every 10 minutes in commercials or is on celebrity-endorsed posters all over the city, the company is spending more on getting you as a customer than they are on giving you (the customer) something worth buying. Instead, search for smaller skin care manufacturers. Ask around. Search on Google. The smaller manufacturer's can't afford to sell shoddy products. They don't have the marketing machine to cover up crap. They have to make and sell stuff that works. Plus..supply and demand laws dictate they can't charge you a lot more than the big-wigs, because then no one would buy! You win on both ends: quality and affordability. Personally, we've been happy customers of a little New Zealand skin care company for quite a while., face painting supplies , (I don't have space here to talk about our personal,, face painting supplies , face painting supplies , skin care choices and research, since that's not my current topic, but feel free to visit my website below for our "adventures in skin care research," if that interests you.) Still not convinced and ready to throw out the men's facial cleanser in the bathroom? There's two more rules to go! See how it does. Men's Facial Cleanser Test #2: Effective, face painting supplies , Ingredients = Effective Products How tempting it is to fudge on the ingredients in our hurry for "results". We pay the cheapo-deapo price for car,, face painting supplies , only to discover two weeks later it's a lemon that needs a new engine. Dave Ramsey refers to those rushed and poor choices as "Stupid Tax". Everyone on the planet has paid it (don't ask, I'm not telling mine!). You make a foolish investment. You buy on the cheap and pay on the back-end in repairs. The slimmed-down lesson is this: junky old parts don't make shiny new cars. You can buff, scrape, paint, and refinish, but at the end of the day the rusted engine is still a rusted engine. The same thing goes for your men's facial cleanser. If the ingredients aren't good, the product isn't good. It may work on the short-term (like that lemon car), but eventually it's going to plateau or even damage your skin. In the business world, margins are everything. Most skin care manufacturers (96% actually) use low-cost, low-grade ingredients to keep their production costs as low as possible. (After all, those celebrity endorsements don't come cheap!) What are these low-cost, low grade ingredients? Chemical agents and by-products. Does your men's facial cleanser have a scent? Dermatologists say that's a no-no. Those scent chemicals, added during, face painting supplies , production have been widely blamed for causing a majority, face painting supplies , of the (skin related) allergic reactions they see every year. And that's the least of your worries. Many of these ingredients have been proven to be organ toxins, endocrine system disruptors, neurotoxins, and cancer causing agents. For example, the popular ingredient dioxane was studied and then acknowledged by the State of California, face painting supplies , to cause cancer. (see California's, face painting supplies , "Proposition 65".) You need effective products that will let you live (and have good skin) well into your 90's. That's really not such an impossible task. (After all, at least 4% of the skin care manufacturers are managing to do it!) In a nutshell, you need products that use all-natural ingredients. These compounds will greatly enhance the health of your skin, because they contain properties that are very similar to the natural oil that your skin naturally produces. (Talk about deception!, face painting supplies , Your skin will be completely fooled into, face painting supplies , producing great results!) Plant-based emollients work the best. They are powerful antioxidants (fighting acne-causing bacteria) and add omega fatty acids to your skin (healthy glow). In particular, two of the best natural ingredients you can find in a men's facial cleanser are Kaolin and Bentone gel. These are both extracts from special New Zealand clay. They work together to draw dirt and grime from deep within your skin. (What else can you expect from a men's facial cleanser?) As an extra bonus, they also soak up any excess oil that can block pores and cause acne infections or rashes. Kaolin, in particular, is a strong disinfectant that heals blemishes and inflammation (those blotchy sections on your skin). There you have it. Two simple rules that will help you easily identify those "wolves" hiding in your skin care medicine cabinet. So are you being conned? Well, is your men's facial cleanser being pushed on TV, magazines, billboards, etc. Does it seem excessive? Does it seem to keep up with medical advancements? Or is it essentially the same stuff of 10 years ago with a new package? (If so, alarms should be going off in your wallet.) Look at the ingredients. Do you need a medical dictionary handy to read them? Does the company have a commitment to all-natural ingredients, face painting supplies , (ALL-natural, not just 1% natural!). Your skin will absorb everything you put on it, in varying degrees. It will end up inside your body, just like your lunch. Think before you use!, face painting supplies , A long life with strong healthy skin is a little price, face painting supplies , to pay for finding and using effective scientifically-proven and constantly-researched skin care products. If you are at all interested to see where our journey into all-natural skin care (including men's facial cleanser) took my husband and me, click on the website, face painting supplies , below. It's a small site, but full of information. (I'm a "get to the point" kind of gal.) Otherwise, happy hunting!
Source: articlesbase.com
You know the old phrase, a wolf, face painting supplies , in sheep's clothing? It's easy to watch out, face painting supplies , for those "wolves" in the midst of business deals and "free offers" on the Internet. But have you seriously looked at your men's facial cleanser? 96% of the facial cleansers out there for men are, at best; useless...and at worst; harmful. Luckily...there's still that 4%! And even luckier are 2 simple tests you can take to find out if your men's facial cleanser is in the follow-the-crowd group of 96% or the rebel-with-a-cause group of 4% that actually work. Men's Facial Cleanser Test #1: The Money Tree Is your cleanser endorsed by celebrities? Does it run a, face painting supplies , Super Bowl ad this year? There's nothing wrong with marketing (heck, most of our jobs wouldn't exist without marketing!). The problem isn't marketing, per se. It's the amount of marketing. If they are spending billions on getting you to pick up the product, are they spending trillions on researching to make sure that product is top-of-the-line and healthy for your body to use? In the pharmaceutical world, the majority of their expenses (outside labor) are focused around research and development. Should you expect anything less in the world of skin care? After all, your body absorbs those products just as though you were popping a pill. What you put on your face ends up in your bloodstream eventually. Should we not expect the same standard of research quality in your men's facial cleanser than we do in pharmaceuticals? Most likely, if your product is popping up every 10 minutes in commercials or is on celebrity-endorsed posters all over the city, the company is spending more on getting you as a customer than they are on giving you (the customer) something worth buying. Instead, search for smaller skin care manufacturers. Ask around. Search on Google. The smaller manufacturer's can't afford to sell shoddy products. They don't have the marketing machine to cover up crap. They have to make and sell stuff that works. Plus..supply and demand laws dictate they can't charge you a lot more than the big-wigs, because then no one would buy! You win on both ends: quality and affordability. Personally, we've been happy customers of a little New Zealand skin care company for quite a while., face painting supplies , (I don't have space here to talk about our personal,, face painting supplies , face painting supplies , skin care choices and research, since that's not my current topic, but feel free to visit my website below for our "adventures in skin care research," if that interests you.) Still not convinced and ready to throw out the men's facial cleanser in the bathroom? There's two more rules to go! See how it does. Men's Facial Cleanser Test #2: Effective, face painting supplies , Ingredients = Effective Products How tempting it is to fudge on the ingredients in our hurry for "results". We pay the cheapo-deapo price for car,, face painting supplies , only to discover two weeks later it's a lemon that needs a new engine. Dave Ramsey refers to those rushed and poor choices as "Stupid Tax". Everyone on the planet has paid it (don't ask, I'm not telling mine!). You make a foolish investment. You buy on the cheap and pay on the back-end in repairs. The slimmed-down lesson is this: junky old parts don't make shiny new cars. You can buff, scrape, paint, and refinish, but at the end of the day the rusted engine is still a rusted engine. The same thing goes for your men's facial cleanser. If the ingredients aren't good, the product isn't good. It may work on the short-term (like that lemon car), but eventually it's going to plateau or even damage your skin. In the business world, margins are everything. Most skin care manufacturers (96% actually) use low-cost, low-grade ingredients to keep their production costs as low as possible. (After all, those celebrity endorsements don't come cheap!) What are these low-cost, low grade ingredients? Chemical agents and by-products. Does your men's facial cleanser have a scent? Dermatologists say that's a no-no. Those scent chemicals, added during, face painting supplies , production have been widely blamed for causing a majority, face painting supplies , of the (skin related) allergic reactions they see every year. And that's the least of your worries. Many of these ingredients have been proven to be organ toxins, endocrine system disruptors, neurotoxins, and cancer causing agents. For example, the popular ingredient dioxane was studied and then acknowledged by the State of California, face painting supplies , to cause cancer. (see California's, face painting supplies , "Proposition 65".) You need effective products that will let you live (and have good skin) well into your 90's. That's really not such an impossible task. (After all, at least 4% of the skin care manufacturers are managing to do it!) In a nutshell, you need products that use all-natural ingredients. These compounds will greatly enhance the health of your skin, because they contain properties that are very similar to the natural oil that your skin naturally produces. (Talk about deception!, face painting supplies , Your skin will be completely fooled into, face painting supplies , producing great results!) Plant-based emollients work the best. They are powerful antioxidants (fighting acne-causing bacteria) and add omega fatty acids to your skin (healthy glow). In particular, two of the best natural ingredients you can find in a men's facial cleanser are Kaolin and Bentone gel. These are both extracts from special New Zealand clay. They work together to draw dirt and grime from deep within your skin. (What else can you expect from a men's facial cleanser?) As an extra bonus, they also soak up any excess oil that can block pores and cause acne infections or rashes. Kaolin, in particular, is a strong disinfectant that heals blemishes and inflammation (those blotchy sections on your skin). There you have it. Two simple rules that will help you easily identify those "wolves" hiding in your skin care medicine cabinet. So are you being conned? Well, is your men's facial cleanser being pushed on TV, magazines, billboards, etc. Does it seem excessive? Does it seem to keep up with medical advancements? Or is it essentially the same stuff of 10 years ago with a new package? (If so, alarms should be going off in your wallet.) Look at the ingredients. Do you need a medical dictionary handy to read them? Does the company have a commitment to all-natural ingredients, face painting supplies , (ALL-natural, not just 1% natural!). Your skin will absorb everything you put on it, in varying degrees. It will end up inside your body, just like your lunch. Think before you use!, face painting supplies , A long life with strong healthy skin is a little price, face painting supplies , to pay for finding and using effective scientifically-proven and constantly-researched skin care products. If you are at all interested to see where our journey into all-natural skin care (including men's facial cleanser) took my husband and me, click on the website, face painting supplies , below. It's a small site, but full of information. (I'm a "get to the point" kind of gal.) Otherwise, happy hunting!
Ranae Pritchard is passionate about balancing "effectiveness" and "good for you" in skin care products. She believes beauty is much more than just skin deep. What you put on your skin is just as important as what you put in your mouth.
On her website, Ranae shares the things she learned on her quest for beautiful, smooth, naturally perfect skin. You can follow her discoveries and mishaps on her website, http://www.Naturally-Perfect-Skin.com.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Paradise Makeup AQ
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
Paradise AQ Architecture is a saturated blush, baptisms soluble, semi-soft, damp block architecture for face and body painting building, face painting design
, . Use of baptisms and manage anon to the skin. It works terribly valid with either a broom or sponge. Paradise AQ Architecture is admirable in 18 colors. What makes this new architecture is absolutely typical of our dismal different alloy ingredients. Aloe and chamomile blend to reach Paradise Architecture AQ safe and friendly for the skin. Glycerin, avocado oil and lick amber syrup suitable for rich, vibrant, saturated flushing coverage. He washes off peacefully with only water and soap. No matching movers needed. Brushes and sponges calm and apple-pie will take longer. Two top quality, 8-color palettes are offered - œBasic โ € โ € and โ € โ € œPastel. Backup medium refill pans available colors are often used to provide or just after your palette to adjust. Each flushing is also accessible in a solid, 40 grams admeasurement is bundled with clear screw-on lid, face painting design
, . Ideal for the active architecture artist. Companion articles in the Paradise 6-band coverage of distinctive, custom designed, treated acrylic face and build and paint brushes, face painting design
, Detailz ยฎ. Detailz is a decoration of aqueous face and body building architecture closely advised the creation of actual completed lines, intricate drawings, diagrams, completely annular dots and small spots, face painting design
, . Detailz have another ultra-fine tip applicator that artisan definitely pull on the skin allows. Detailz is available in 6 colors. Architecture and Paradise AQ Detailz food โ, face painting design
, € "July 2003
Source: free-articles
Paradise AQ Architecture is a saturated blush, baptisms soluble, semi-soft, damp block architecture for face and body painting building, face painting design
, . Use of baptisms and manage anon to the skin. It works terribly valid with either a broom or sponge. Paradise AQ Architecture is admirable in 18 colors. What makes this new architecture is absolutely typical of our dismal different alloy ingredients. Aloe and chamomile blend to reach Paradise Architecture AQ safe and friendly for the skin. Glycerin, avocado oil and lick amber syrup suitable for rich, vibrant, saturated flushing coverage. He washes off peacefully with only water and soap. No matching movers needed. Brushes and sponges calm and apple-pie will take longer. Two top quality, 8-color palettes are offered - œBasic โ € โ € and โ € โ € œPastel. Backup medium refill pans available colors are often used to provide or just after your palette to adjust. Each flushing is also accessible in a solid, 40 grams admeasurement is bundled with clear screw-on lid, face painting design
, . Ideal for the active architecture artist. Companion articles in the Paradise 6-band coverage of distinctive, custom designed, treated acrylic face and build and paint brushes, face painting design
, Detailz ยฎ. Detailz is a decoration of aqueous face and body building architecture closely advised the creation of actual completed lines, intricate drawings, diagrams, completely annular dots and small spots, face painting design
, . Detailz have another ultra-fine tip applicator that artisan definitely pull on the skin allows. Detailz is available in 6 colors. Architecture and Paradise AQ Detailz food โ, face painting design
, € "July 2003
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