Archive for July, 2007By: Ethan Miller Everyone looks into the mirror one day and suddenly there are deep lines around the eyes, mouth, and across the forehead. Laugh lines are no laughing matter, especially if your career is one where youth is associated with power, achievement, expertise, and profit. Many people fear aging. This is a simple fact of life. However, the fear of aging takes on significant experience in today’s world. Many people are afraid that their spouse will leave them for someone younger. While a high divorce rate is not common, especially among professionals – or in the past the nobility – it does not diminish the level of fear many people live with. Microdermabrasion, an anti-aging skin treatment, is gaining popularity for its ease of operation and the benefits that it offers. There are many benefits of microdermabrasion. Its procedure has the potential to meet a variety of your cosmetic objectives like the improvement of fine lines, wrinkles, hyper pigmentation, acne, scars and stretch marks. The microdermabrasion procedure has shown a lot of promise for the treatment of acne scars. Most people have got good results for the microdermabrasion treatment of their acne scars. These positive results have immensely contributed towards the success of microdermabrasion as a skin resurfacing treatment for acne scars. The best thing about microdermabrasion treatment is that it is a very mild procedure. It scores over both chemical peels and dermabrasion as ablative resurfacing technique by being less traumatic and less time consuming. With microdermabrasion treatment there is no downtime required for the recovery. There are other benefits of microdermabrasion as well. This treatment is a lunch time procedure which you can get done at any out patient’s clinic. The easy to operate procedure can easily be performed at an average skin-enhancement clinic. The procedure uses a closed-loop negative pressure microdermabrasion unit that passes aluminum oxide crystals for abrading the skin under the negative vacuum pressure. by: Janice Wee So many beautiful people seem to be searching for eternal youth. The ability to look unaffected by the passage of time. Wrinkle free faces at 50. The body of a 60 year old that looks like that of a svelte twenty year old. You see that quite often in Hollywood. First, there was plastic surgery Now there is botox. Where a toxin is injected into your face to paralyze your facial muscles, to erase the lines on your face. Scary isn’t it? Then again, if you were gorgeous in your youth, if your face were your fortune, wouldn’t you do everything possible to preserve your youthful appearance for as long as possible.
Natural remedies are touted by many for different types of skin conditions. Some do work whereas some are just myths. For example, in India researchers are experimenting with camel milk for lightening the skin. The government sponsored researchers have tried camel milk based cream on about 20 subjects and claim that it actually works in lightening their skin. In India, it’s a national obsession to have fair or light skin and defines beauty for women. Many types of creams, such as “Fair and Lovely” are sold on the market to lighten the skin and the market is huge for alternative treatments. Recently, there was an article debunking some of the myths around Apple Cider treatment for sunburned skin.
By Stephen Lau Fasting is anti-aging because it rids your body of toxins, which impair your longevity health. In addition, it helps to control your weight, which is often an aging factor. Fasting is the most efficient and effective way of detoxification. What is fasting? Fasting is not starvation which is abstinence continued beyond your body’s nutrient reserves. In other words, starvation may exhaust your body’s stored nutrients to the point of presenting health hazards, while fasting is still “consuming” the nutrient reserves stored in your body. There is a big difference. |