The Changing Face of Beauty

by Cynthia Rowland

Not long ago, in the previous century/millennium, women and men aged gracefully. They proudly accepted the fate of their faces; no one was bothered by wrinkles, crevices or even gray hair.
The flower children are surely to blame. Those hippies of yesteryear firmly believed that they would always look like they did when they were swinging through the 60's, 70's and 80's.

It was when the drug companies formed an alliance with opportunistic physicians did they realize how desperately people clung to their youthful appearance. They began to formulate lotions and potions, injections that plump and paralyze and other modalities that would prop up aging faces and satisfy the longing caused by a nation preoccupied with looking young.

These temporary courses of treatment were soon accepted by the masses. In fact, the desired effect of just looking in the mirror became painful if the visage looking back was beginning to show signs of aging.

Spending after tax dollars to chase the youth factor has kept Big Pharma in the research and development business because they want to hook you into believing that you are not pretty or handsome if you are not using their products.

Celebrities were the first to use most every concoction distributed. It was and still is easy to spot those television and film stars who use fillers and paralyzing injections. Even though producers and directors might cringe because the scene lacks believability when emotions are thwarted if the face does not naturally respond, it does not stop the men and women on our screens from using these items.

The same goes for surgical procedures. These users of surgery and injections would like you to believe that that they look years younger because Mother Nature has been so very kind to them.

John Q. Public needs to know that fooling with your good looks can have dire consequences and that there is no need to go into debt or spend thousands of dollars needlessly on something that must be repeated and repeated year after year.

Consequences are increasing now that MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has reared its ugly head. These super strains of bacteria and infection produce grave health concerns.

The administration of anesthesia can also create unwanted side effects; couple that with risky procedures and you have the recipe for disaster ��" The Perfect Storm!

Every procedure, every injection is risky.

Cutting perfectly healthy tissue, re-draping the skin and suturing it back together should be thoroughly considered as a life-threatening event.

Allowing anyone to inject your body, your face with serums that have not been fully tested or explored is ludicrous. Most injections used by the medical community have not had extensive testing to show results for long-term use. You are pretty much on your own insofar as long term use is concerned.

Perhaps you are thinking there is no hope for your aging face. Well, there is and it doesn't involve anything that would cause harm, disfigurement or risk.

Treating the cause of an aging face begins and ends with exercise.

If you are wearing a droopy, sagging face, it is because the muscles that support the skin are no longer taut. Instead they are headed south because they lack exercise. Exercise for the face will plump up the muscles, force oxygenate blood to the tissues and help you look years younger when you dedicate only a few minutes per day to a routine.

Do not believe for one minute that surgery or injections will work faster, better, longer than facial exercise. They will not. Just because sutures have been removed and the suture line looks less red than it did initially, does not mean you are healed from an invasive procedure. It takes months and months, maybe even a year or more for complete healing to occur.

If you erroneously believe that those paralyzing and plumping injections have stopped the aging process, think again. Aging continues to affect the downward slide of your facial muscles even if they are propped up and paralyzed.

As the old adage says, "You cannot fool Mother Nature." Be safe, exercise your face and look recognizable for many years to come.

Cynthia Rowland “I Save Faces” http://www.rejenuve.com/FacialMagicSL.htm

About the Author
Cynthia Rowland is widely recognized as an expert in all natural facial fitness with over thirty years experience in health & beauty related fields. She has appeared on The View, Fit TV, HGTV and other popular shows. This author, speaker and television personality is leading the crusade to keep men and women looking vibrantly younger through natural techniques without spending their children’s inheritance.

Beauty Secrets

Submitted By: I Henman

All women have some sort of beauty secrets that they use to keep themselves looking young and feeling good about themselves. One must remember that all women are different and some beauty secrets that work for one women might not work for another. Stress is a sign of aging for men and women, so an obvious beauty secret would be to relieve stress. Although this is easier said then done some women enjoy spa days, massages and mud wraps to keep them selves relaxed and stress free.

Talking to friends and other women can help you share beauty secrets with one another. Although you should remember that some beauty secrets may work for one women but not for another. Its key to remember which beauty secret works best for you and stick to them. Some creams may work for you and others may not, so by keeping track of what you like and what works best for you will help you remember that particular skin cream as it is easy to forget with al the brands and options available for you out there.

Some women like to use dead sea products as these products come directly from the dead sea located in Israel. The dead seas chemical make up of high density of salts and minerals make it ideal for keeping skin feeling healthy and young. It is said that all the way back to biblical times queens and phroes would use the mysterious powers of the dead sea for their own beauty secrets. Thanks to modern day technologies you too can share the same beauty secrets of the dead sea by using dead sea mud and salt extracted from the dead sea itself. You can bathe like a queen without having to travel across the world.

Whenever applying a new type of cream or lotion to your skin you should always remember to test a bit on your arm before you apply it to your face. I’ve seen many cases when women have used a new product without testing resulting in hives all over their face as well as their skin color temporarily changing due to allergic reactions. You never know how your skin will react to a new product especially when it has become accustomed to a certain product of r many years.

Believe it or not a healthy diet can also be a beauty secret. Staying in shape, exercising and eating right will not only make you feel and look younger it will also improve your health. Remember beauty secrets are our little possessions that help us feel young and good about ourselves. Staying in shape, relaxed and stress free will keep you feeling young and beautiful for years to come.

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10 Skin-Care Tips: Look Stunning in Your 40s

by Farrell Seah

Stay Beautiful in Your 40s

Deeper wrinkles and reduced elasticity and firmness are the most common skin problems in this decade, as years of sun exposure and declining estrogen take their toll.

As you age, decreasing estrogen levels influence the production of other substances in your body. For example, the amount of hyaluronic acid, a naturally occurring chemical that helps keep skin firm, begins to decline, affecting your skin's ability to retain moisture.

Oil production also slows down, reducing natural lubrication. To help counteract these changes, use creams that contain humectants (like glycerin, citric acid, propylene glycol, urea, and phospholipids) and emollients (such as petrolatum, shea butter, and cetyl alcohol) to seal in moisture.

Skin Care Tips

1. Amp up your regimen. Look for cleansers and toners with more moisturizing capacity. Exfoliate more often.

2. Check your eyes. The skin around your eyes is thinner and may develop more obvious lines, discoloration or puffiness. Use specialized spot treatments for the eye area.

3. Choose multi-tasking makeup. Many modern cosmetics gently treat as they cover. Use those especially designed for aging or damaged skin. Caution: Hold back on coloration as heavy makeup can make imperfections more glaring.

4. Pour on some body love. Indulge your body to improve your mood and alleviate the discomforts of hot flashes and night sweats. Use shower gels and lotions liberally.

5. Practice a regular cleansing routine. Cleanse, exfoliate, tone and moisturize...this daily routine should carry you on your way toward healthier skin. Select a gentle skin cleansing solution that works for your specific type of skin - dry, oily, normal.

Using your selected product, cleanse face in a circular motion and rinse with lukewarm water, as hot water zaps skin's moisture.

6. Daily use of sunscreen products with at least an SPF of 15 and antioxidants along with protective clothing such as full-brimmed hats, long sleeved blouses and shirts, and slacks instead of shorts will greatly reduce the aging of the skin and the possibility of skin cancer.

7. Facial skin care should also be of concern and sunglasses should be worn while outside. This will protect the eyelids from aging and will help reduce crows feet by reducing the squinting which comes from sun exposure without eye protection.

8. Scaly patches of skin can be a disappointment if you are planning to bare your skin. These spots are 'eczema', which presents itself in a number of ways, including itching, rashes and thickened brown patches of skin. People who suffer from hay fever and other allergies may be at greater risk of developing eczema.

Keep the affected areas well moisturized using a thick moisturizing cream. You can also try experimenting with a lotion containing AHAs to slough off the thickened skin. Avoid picking or scratching at the patches as this can lead to bleeding and scarring. Visit a dermatologist if the problem persists.

9. Frequent weight gains and losses can also dramatically affect the elasticity of the skin. When the weight is gained, the skin stretches to accommodate the excess weight. When a lot of weight is lost, quickly, the skin doesn't have time to accommodate the changing contours and sagging and premature wrinkling can occur.

Gradual weight loss should not impact the skin, although a reduced calorie diet can cause the skin to look dull and lifeless unless the diet is well balanced.

10. Many studies have been done over the years demonstrating the healing and physiological properties of bovine colostrum. Colostrum helps the immune system to function more efficiently, maintain peak performance and fight acne causing bacteria.

Colostrum supplies growth factors (hormones) as well as stimulating the endocrine system to keep producing its own supply of hormones. Research strongly indicates that the combination of growth and immune factors in colostrum works together to create a potent anti-aging effect, including tighter skin, and regrowth of cells and tissue of organs that normally decrease in size with age.

Daily supplementation on Bovine Colostrum allows the body to have improved resilience against any type of stress. Overall health and well being is accomplished when the body has all of the necessary factors it needs for defense, healing and repair.

If you have special skin issues, such as stubborn acne, rosacea, or extremely sensitive or oily skin, the best thing to do is to seek out the advice of a professional dermatologist.

Pretty, healthy skin is well within your grasp, with a little bit of awareness, determination and persistence on your part. The results are definitely worth it. Live juicy and be happy with your largest organ!

Note: None of the information in this article is scientifically based, but it does work, based on the personal experiences of myself and many others.

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Old age and anti-aging solutions

by Edward Nelinger

In the days today it is known that the aging is not the only reason for the crowfeet emergence, wrinkles, stains and other aging signs. Several studies show that frequent tan provokes the emergence of wrinkles in younger age. After one hour to pass daily in tan bed, a woman informed the emergence of lines marking to the twenty-nine years of age. To present these lines in this age is not normal.
Another problem that can harm the skin is the use is the makeup. His excessive use can steal the naturalness of the skin.

Also the action of washing the face, hair and other areas of the body in surplus can eliminate the biological oil layers that protect the skin naturally. Then solutions anti-aging based on moisturizing oils, as well as the use make-up excessively it will turn the sensitive skin blocking the pores and causing acne. The teaching of that is that products anti-aging in excess, shampoos, moisturizers, other synthetic cosmetics and the use make-up excessively can age the person more quickly.

I ask. Should not we worry about solutions anti-aging that they can speed up the aging process? In mine to understand, reviews are the best road to find products anti-aging that not contain ingredients prejudicial to our skin and that can really turn her healthier.

New studies show that certain make-ups count CARCINOGEN, ingredient that can cause cancer. Then if the product in analysis for purchase to possess this ingredient, be far away from him. Another discovery, is that some deodorants have chemical substances that can cause cancer.

Now it is possible to analyze several products existent anti-aging in the market and to verify their ingredients can do badly to you.

In agreement with scientists, Dream-to-Weigh it is around a product available anti-aging in the market of $90, whose ingredients help the supposedly to reduce wrinkles, baby fats and other fatty tissues around of the facial area. Years of research were consumed in research of this product anti-aging, before his/her liberation for the market according to the scientists.

The increase of hormones is the focus of the products anti-aging. One of the main aspects that they determine the success in the fight against the aging, second a writer, is HGH that brings loss benefits of it weighs and other. Then, it is said that the supplements anti-aging helps the maintenance of the weight, while they reduce fats around of the face, providing the person a younger aspect after the consumption of the supplements. As general rule, look at the market and read the reports of the government about the use of the supplements anti-aging before spending with the purchase of these. Babies fat is able to turn the most attractive person if it is natural.

Another product available anti-aging in the market is Ultra Young, presented in spray form for oral application. Be careful! Any product that you sprinkle in his/her mouth should be much more analyzed, therefore the damage can be immediate. This product supposedly, stretches out the skin, it increases the energy, it improves the sleep, eliminate the depression strengthens the bones, it prevents heart diseases and it reduces fats.

Product anti-aging that makes everything this? Well, vitamin B6 that is good, zinc that is not bad, HGH, amino acids that I question, Extracts of Chinese Wolfberry, Coniza Candensis, and several other ingredients. Any proof of accessible effectiveness not exist or I study published about the product. I question a pair of ingredients and desire to know more information about the effects. In case you want more information about solutions anti-aging researches in the internet and to read the analyses.

Know the Anti-aging Fitness Program

About the Author
Edward Nelinger is a specialist of the area of methods anti aging. He always tries to emphasize the readers the benefits and mainly the risks associated to the use of these methods.

Anti Aging beauty tips that might surprise you

by John Deeprose

A by-product of writing an article on miracle foods was an incredible database of information that I collected on foods and techniques that slow down and even reverse the signs of ageing.
I was stunned to find hundreds of red hot anti aging tips that quite honestly blew me away and I have decided to share a few with my female readers.

Vitamin C is the ONLY antioxidant you can use directly on your skin which is proven to prevent oxidation of tissue, keeping it young and supple. So take a vitamin C tablet (the strongest you can find) and dissolve it in half a teaspoon of boiling water. Let the water cool until it is comfortable to the touch. Add it to a small amount of eye cream and pat gently under your eyes and around your mouth. A couple of weeks should show some good results.

Tighten the skin around your eyes by applying egg white and leaving it to dry. As it dries, your skin will tighten, visibly reducing the signs of ageing.

Invest in a satin pillowcase to keep your skin smooth. Research findings have shown that some wrinkles are formed at night when you are lying on either side of your face. Slippery satin discourages the wrinkling effect.

Eliminate cracks and rough patches on your hands and feet. Apply a mashed potato mixed with a teaspoon of olive oil, and leave for 15 minutes before rinsing with cool water

Brazil nuts are rich in Selenium, a powerful anti-oxidant shown to be good for the skin.

Emu oil, discovered by aborigines thousands of years ago is considered to be one of the worlds leading moisturising products and possibly the best cosmetic ingredient in the world, check it out

To find out more miracle food facts please visit www.themiraclesuperfoods.com

About the Author
John is an avid writer on a variety of diverse topics that he hopes will be both interesting and informative to his world wide readership.

To Reverse Wrinkles You Need The Right Type Of Vitamin C In Your Wrinkle Cream - Part 2

by Marcus Ryan

If you've ever looked at the ingredients list of your wrinkle cream, you may have noticed that Vitamin C is an ingredient that's often used. Dr Linus Pauling, who had been awarded a Nobel Prize was in fact the person who discovered and made well known the benefits of Vitamin C on our skin.
In part 1, we looked at the 2 types of Vitamin C used in anti aging creams. And now in part 2, we're going to look at what Vitamin C does for your skin, the problems of adding vitamin C to wrinkle creams, and how this problem is solved.

Well, the claims that Vitamin C can decrease the appearance of wrinkles and provide an overall improvement in the skin's appearance are backed by scientific proof.

But that's not the issue.

The issue is whether or not all the skin care products which contain Vitamin C will actually work, and unfortunately, the answer is a resounding "No!" Most of these anti aging and anti wrinkle, Vitamin C enriched products do not only fail to reduce wrinkles; they will actually cause more wrinkles to appear!

That's probably not what you wanted to read, but if you understand how Vitamin C actually works to improve the skin, as opposed to how the form of Vitamin C used in most wrinkle creams affects the skin, you'll see what the problem is, and how to avoid it.

What Vitamin C can do for your skin:

Your skin is far more than what you see when you look in the mirror. Over 70% of you skin tissue, in fact, consists of the connective tissue collagen, which supports your surface skin and keeps it firm. Your collagen is in a constant cycle of breaking down and repairing itself, but it can repair itself much less efficiently as time passes. The visible result is a surface skin both lacking tone plagued with wrinkles.

The magic of Vitamin C lies in its collagen production stimulating properties, which will help your body maintain the level of collagen repair it had during your youth. The greater the amount of Vitamin C your skin can absorb, the more wrinkle free and toned your skin will remain.

There are, of course, collagen injections, but they not only cost a lot; the collagen used breaks down at an accelerated rate, so you will need to be re-injected on a regular and continuing basis. Any time you inject a foreign substance into your skin you are taking a risk, so if you have a natural and safe, non-invasive alternative, why not check it out?

Vitamin C not only improves the collagen repair process; it is an antioxidant powerhouse which fights the free radical molecules which cause so much cellular damage to your skin. The anti oxidant effects of Vitamin C, in fact, reach all levels of your skin from its surface down to the collagen level.

Vitamin C even strengthens the walls of your capillaries, the tiny blood vessels which transport nutrients and oxygen to the skin cells. It will prevent your capillaries from breaking, as it improves your skin's color and tone. You'll notice fewer of those embarrassing age spots, as you complexion is clarified and its blotchiness disappears.

So where's the problem with Vitamin C enriched wrinkle creams?

More than three decades of research examining the effects of Vitamin C on the skin have shown that before Vitamin C can work its magic on your skin, it must first be absorbed into your skin's cells in sufficient amounts, but the form of Vitamin C which has this level of absorbability is expensive to produce. Most of the skin care product makers who are touting Vitamin C in their offerings simply don't want to spend the money to use it in this advanced form.

Most of the Vitamin C added to skin care creams is the L-Ascorbic Acid form of Vitamin C, and therein lies the problem. Ascorbic acid is simply far too unstable, and when it is exposed to the air, or even stored closed for too long, it begins to deteriorate. It is also highly acidic, causing inflammation and redness in those with sensitive skin.

As this form of Vitamin C deteriorates, it can actually become a free radical and begin causing the same sort of skin damage which you are trying to stop!

But there is a form of Vitamin C which is both stable and gentle on sensitive skin. Called Ascorbyl Palmitate, it will be easily absorbed and in amounts large enough to both repair collagen and battle free radical damage occurring in all of your skin's layers. This is because unlike L-Ascorbic Acid, Ascorbyl Palmitate is fat soluble, and research from Proctor & Gamble has proven that its rate of absorption is ten times greater than that of L-Ascorbic Acid.

The wrinkle cream that has this safe and effective form of Vitamin C is Lifecell cream. For recent customer reviews, see this page on LifeCell skin wrinkle cream reviews.

Ascorbyl Palmitate, in other words, will provide your skin with all the benefits of Vitamin C, and none of the negative side effects of the L-Ascorbic Acid form. As Dr. Linus Pauling has shown, Vitamin C has dramatic anti aging effects, provided that it is a stable and non irritating form of Vitamin C. So when you start shopping for a wrinkle cream enriched with Vitamin C, remember that you want Ascorbyl Palmitate.

There's a jar out there with your name on it!

So go ahead and use a wrinkle cream that will work for you to give you all these benefits of Vitamin C, to get younger looking skin.

About the Author
Go ahead and get your free trial of the breakthrough cream Lifecell skin wrinkle cream that works, at Marcus Ryan's www.wrinklecreamsreview.com. Go for it and look 10 to 20 years before your very eyes! It's an incredible feeling when you see this.