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All about sensitive skin care

‘Sensitive skin care’ is governed by a few basic rules. However, even before we delve into the rules for sensitive skin care, it’s important to understand what a sensitive skin is. Sensitive skin is one which is unable to tolerate any unfavourable conditions (environmental/other), and which easily gets irritated on contact with foreign materials (including skin care products). For this reason, some products are especially labelled as sensitive skin care products. The degree of sensitivity can however vary from person to person (and depending on that, the sensitive skin care procedures vary too).

Generally, all skin types respond negatively to detergents and other chemical based products. However, the damage starts generally beyond a defined threshold (or tolerance level). This tolerance level is very low for sensitive skin types, leading to skin getting damaged very easily and quickly.  Sensitive skin care products either avoid the potential irritants or keep them at very low concentrations.

Here are a few tips for sensitive skin care:

  • Use sensitive skin care products only (i.e. the products that are marked for sensitive skin care only). Also, check the instructions/ notes on the product to see if there are specific restrictions/warnings associated with the product).
  • Even within the range of sensitive skin care products, choose the one that has minimum preservatives, colourings and other additives
  • Do not use toners. Most of them are alcohol based and are not recommended for sensitive skin.
  • Wear protective gloves when doing laundry or other chemical based cleaning.  If you are allergic to rubber, you can wear cotton gloves below the rubber ones.
  • Another important tip for ‘sensitive skin care’ is to avoid excessive exposure to sun. Apply sunscreen lotion before getting out in the sun.
  • Avoiding exposure to dust and other pollutants is also important for sensitive skin care. So, cover yourself adequately before going out.
  • Use hypoallergenic, noncomedogenic moisturizer as a sensitive skin care product (if there is none specifically labelled as a sensitive skin care product)
  • Use soap-free and alcohol free cleansers. Cleanse your face whenever you return from spending time out doors.
  • Do not scrub or exfoliate too hard. It can cause reddishness and even inflammation.
  • Do not leave the makeup on for too long. Use hypoallergenic makeup- removers.

So, sensitive skin care is very different from the normal skin care. Sensitive skin care is more about being careful with your skin (both in terms of sensitive skin care products and protection against environments atrocities on skin).

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Acne and its treatment

Acne is a menace. However, it’s not something that cannot be tackled. There are loads of acne skin care products around. We can classify acne skin care products into 3 broad categories –

  • Preventive or general acne skin care products
  • Over-the-counter, specialised acne skin care products
  • On-prescription acne skin care products.

The general acne skin care products are the ones that are used as acne-prevention measure. These include cleansers, make-up removers and similar products that help prevent acne. In the real sense, these acne skin care products are just those that should anyway be part of your daily routine. However, some of these are more oriented to act like an acne skin care product. These acne skin care products act against the causes of acne e.g. limiting the production of sebum/oil and preventing clogging of skin pores. Basically, these acne skin care products prevent the oil from getting trapped in pores and hence hamper the growth of bacteria that lead to acne. The general acne skin care products also include exfoliation products like skin peels. These work towards removing dead skin cells, hence reducing the possibility of pore-clogging and bacteria development.

Then there are specialised acne skin care products that are available over-the-counter i.e. without the need of a prescription. These include products like vanishing creams which extract the extra oil from the skin. Most of these acne skin care products are based on benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid, both of which are the enemies of bacteria (and hence acne). You should start with a product that has lower concentration of benzoyl peroxide (e.g. 5%) and see how your skin responds to it. Alpha-hydroxy-acid based moisturizers are also popular as acne skin care products. You might have to try a few, before you zero-in on the acne skin care product that is effective for you. If nothing seems to work, you should contact a dermatologist.

On-prescription acne skin care products are the ones that are prescribed by a dermatologist. This can include ointments that can be applied on the affected area or oral antibiotics or just any topical treatment. Dermatologist could also suggest a minor surgical procedure to remove the contents of pustules. However, never try to squeeze or do this by yourself, it can lead to permanent damage of your skin. Your doctor could also prescribe a hormone-based treatment (since hormonal changes are also known to cause acne). Such acne skin care products are known to be very effective in some cases.
So, with all those acne skin care products, tackling acne is not that difficult.

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How to Restore Collagen to Your Face

Do you want to know how to restore collagen to your face? If you are troubled by wrinkles, fine lines and age spots, then you will surely be interested to know how to rid them safely and naturally.

In order to revive your dull looking complexion, many have resorted to collagen skin repair products. However, such “miracle creams” which claims to brighten your skin is more often hype that real. In fact, if you want to remove those dead cells and regenerate new skin cells, you cannot rely on these creams.

The reason why I say so is because collagen protein does not fit into our skin pores. It is too large and bulky to be able to penetrate effectively into our skin. If they can’t get through, the only other way is to inject collagen juice into your face or skin. Now, that is very expensive, painful and the results mostly non-permanent.

One of the reasons why we start having lines and wrinkles as we get older is the gradual depletion of collagen in our skin. So a better approach is to turn to substances that can naturally stimulate your body to reproduce more collagen and elastin on its own. One such substance is called Cynergy TK. This ingredient has been proven in numerous trials to be effective in stimulating the regrowth of collagen.

In fact, it can also help to boost another important protein called elastin which is also responsible for good looking skin.

Cynergy TK contains zinc in low amount. As you may have already know, zinc is essential for skin repair and maintenance. It is well known for its ability to help the skin restore its former suppleness and radiance. Another protein complexes within Cynergy TK is copper. When copper is bound to zinc, it forms a synergy towards regenerating newer skin cells by improving the fusion of both collagen and elastin.

If you want to restore collagen to your face, I would strongly recommend you to check out what this ingredient has to offer. Besides promoting skin firmness and increasing elasticity in your skin, Cynergy TK can help your skin to retain moisture and prevent further dryness.

In actual fact, I am using it daily. Compared to other products I have used previously, I find my face now more creamier with an even looking tone.

And to help you get clearer and younger looking skin, I would like to share with you one anti aging skin care range of products that I discovered. They contain more active ingredients than any other cream on the market. These ingredients are effective moisturizers, because they penetrate deeply to “nourish” the skin. So, they never feel greasy.

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