What Women Think About….

American women are taking better care of their skin, seeking out sophisticated serums and lotions that will prevent or lessen signs of aging.  With today’s technology and medical advances a longer life span demands even greater discipline and understanding for anti aging skin care.  Serious skin care regimes include cleansers, moisturizers, body lotions, eye cream, and sunscreens.

The skin around the eyes is the most prone to premature aging, showing signs of stress with wrinkles, crows feet and sagging.  Rapid weight loss can also cause wrinkles by reducing the volume of fat cells that cushion the face.  Relax; a tense face encourages the formation of wrinkles, especially around the outer eyes, bridge of nose, and on the forehead.  By the age of 20 early signs of damage and wrinkles in skin are visible.  Protecting your skin from exposure to ultraviolet radiation is the most significant thing you can do to prevent wrinkles, sagging, and discoloration.  UV light creates free radicals, which induce lipids peroxidation, which leads to skin damage, wrinkles and skin cancer.  Both UVA and UVB rays cause damage leading to wrinkles, lower immunity against infection, ageing skin disorders, and cancer.  Did you know that dermatologists can identify the side of the face you sleep on just by looking at your wrinkles.

Botox injections have been used to reduce wrinkles on the face, and remove the frown lines on the forehead.  Produced by bacteria, Botox is a chemical agent, which has the ability to paralyze these muscles, and thus reduce or “soften” wrinkles.  Retinoids are also clinically proven to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and may boost skin-firming collagen production.

When vitamin C is properly delivered into skin cells, there is a good chance to reduce wrinkles and improve skin texture.  In addition, regular use of cucumber peels and lotions prevents pimples, blackheads, wrinkles, and dryness of the face.  Cleansers are also an essential skin care product since they aid in the removal or dirt, make-up and dead skin cells from the skin.  By far, the most important skin care product available to prevent wrinkles and skin cancer is sunscreen, but most people do not use sunscreen correctly.

Young people are realizing the necessity of following an anti aging skin care regimen that incorporates quality of physical, psychological and spiritual health.  In order to keep the skin healthy – take care of it and your daily regimen of skin care will take care of you.  Drink plenty of water in your daily skin care regimen, especially after exercising.  A good skin care regimen need not take hours every day, but must be, without fail, be attended to every day.

Drink plenty of water in your daily skin care regimen, especially after exercising.  In fact, skin care and protection should be an essential part of your health, fitness, and beauty regime.  If you are thinking about a skin-rejuvenating treatment of any type, think carefully about your expectations and discuss them with your plastic surgeon.

Fitness and beauty can be one and the same. Being fit and healthy will automatically make you look better. A healthy inside creates a healthy outside. Fitness through exercise can help you to maintain a healthy body weight and improve muscle tone.

Our looks reflect the sum total of who we are and how we live, and the best we can do in life is to make the best of what nature has given is, without excuse, apology, or pretense.

If we try to live otherwise, we find ourselves acting on a stage with other actors and actresses–great pretenders without real friends, without real lovers, without real relationships. While we realize that there is such a thing as “natural beauty,” which  is beyond all standards of culture and history in some sense, there are also “relative” standards of beauty.

We all know about fads, styles, and adornments that are “in” one season and “out” the next. This includes cosmetics, hair styles, clothing, and even body weight and size.

These standards may vary from country to country, year to year, or even
among different age groups in the same country and year. For example,
full figures are considered the ideal in some historical periods, but slender figures are valued now–at least in Western countries.

The point is that cultural standards change–and we may choose to follow or ignore them–because the cultivation of natural beauty is not dependent upon fads.

In order to get along harmoniously, whether at the level of dating,
courtship, or marriage, men and women have to get past physical looks
and into the more important qualities that make up human relationships,
such as kindness, friendship, and areas of mutual interest.

There is such a thing as a beautiful personality. There can be beauty
in the way a person thinks. An attitude or smile can be beautiful. Love is certainly beautiful, and all of life is beautiful when we are in love.

A person is truly beautiful when he or she is healthy. Any disease or illness affects all parts of the body, sometimes for many years before the symptoms are manifested. If the body and mind are not healthy, then a person cannot feel or be truly attractive.

Good health brings a glow to the skin, a ring to the voice, a twinkle
to the eye, and a spring to the step that no beauty school can teach.