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Natural Anti Aging and Rosacea Blog keeps readers informed about new products, ingredients and treatments to help in the war against ageing and skin problems. Articles include all aspects of skin health and home care.

HYDRATING FACE MASK FOR COLD WEATHER

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Hydrate and Mask to keep Your Skin in Top Condition


In cold, dry weather moisture escapes from your skin much faster than in summer. Cold and dry means low humidity, often made much worse by heating.

When your skin feels tight or hot it is usually dehydrated. Remember dehydration is lack of moisture (water).

An easy way to rehydrate your precious face, neck and decolletege is to apply a Hydrating Face Mask weekly for an anti ageing pick-up.

Think about what you'd like to achieve.

A GLOWING COMPLEXION

For this you need to:

  • Restore moisture levels
  • Increase oil levels
  • Remove toxins
  • Make skin very soft and velvety
  • Condition your skin to accept serums and moisturisers more readily 
  • Skin Rejuvenation
There is a very easy way to reach all the goals above. Apply MiSMo PHP Treatment Mask weekly or whenever you feel like a boost. Dry skin is a regular problem in winter so let's deal with it.

Important ingredients to achieve all requirements are:

Hyaluronic Acid which holds up to 1,000 times its own weight in water
Pure natural oils to lubricate the skin
Oatmeal and Kaolin Clay to remove toxins
Manuka honey for moisturising
MSM and Aloe Vera for penetration and skin health

How to: Cleanse, exfoliate (best, but not essential if time is short), apply PHP Treatment Mask to face, neck and chest. Leave for about 7 minutes or as much time as you have. Remove with a moist cloth.

ADD SOME LUXURY LIKE A BEAUTY SALON:  Apply a pump of A-C-E Vitamin Serum first.

Don't forget your hands. They show your age long before your face simply because we look after the face. Hands are on display all the time and exposed to sun, wind, washing up solutions and soap many times a day.

These are good reasons to treat your hands regularly. How to go about it:

  1. Exfoliate
  2. Apply a serum - A-C-E Vitamin C serum is perfect
  3. Apply about a teaspoon of PHP Treatment Mask
Leave on for about 5 minutes and then massage in circular movements. You will find the Mask "rolls off" taking extra dead skin cells with it. Lightly rinse and apply your favourite hand cream. Beautiful plumped, soft hands will be the order of the day.

**Tip**   Using A-C-E Vitamin C serum daily will rejuvenate your hands and reduce unsightly age spots. Vitamin C is magic for reducing pigmentation.

Add a weekly Mask to your routine for Anti Aging Treatments.


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Anti Aging Winter Skin Care - Layer

Friday, June 25, 2010

We are used to layering our clothes to suit the seasons. If you want the best results for your skin in winter the solution is exactly the same.

Conditions in  winter are usually dry and cold. Your skin dries out, is irritated, red, burning and doesn't look fantastic. Does this sound like you?

What happens that you can look and feel so bad. The skin behaves differently in dry, cold conditions and  is often subjected to many temperature changes in a day. You start in the house which may be very warm if heated, walk outside to get the paper go to the car, walk to the bus, school or work.

Once in your transport the temperature will change again. Destination cold, indoors warm. You get the drift.

  • The easy way to keep your skin in prime condition in winter is to layer. After cleansing:
  • Apply a serum for hydrating the lower layers of your skin. This ideally be a gel form containing Hyaluronic Acid to replace lost moisture - water not oil.
  • Layer with a vitamin serum in a light oil. Best choices are vitamins C with A and E. This is your protect and repair layer.
  • Finish with a nourishing moisturiser as your sealing layer.

Immediately apply makeup while skin moisturiser is warm and moist. You will see the best finish this way.
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Dehydrated or Dry Skin - Discover the Difference

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Dry Skin or Dehydrated Skin

 discover the difference and glow

The term “dehydrated skin” has taken on a life of its own in recent years. Dry skin and dehydrated skin are very different conditions.

Most beauty counter assistants at a department store will tell you your skin is dehydrated. It seems to have been a standard practice for years and has to be the best sales pitch of all times.

How many times have you been sold over-rated products based on how bad you felt after having your skin pronounced "Dehydrated" with a solemn shake of the head?

Equipment used by beauty therapists helps confirm an initial visual diagnosis by the therapist whether the skin is dry, normal or oily type. From this point a diagnosis of dehydrated may be made. Any skin ‘type’ can be dehydrated. A magnifying lamp is a  piece of equipment used by beauty therapists to help accurately analyse the skin. Cleansed skin is required to perform an accurate assessment.

A beauty counter assistant with no tools is not in a position to judge skin dehydrated. The customer is often wearing make-up which makes a diagnosis more difficult.

There is a vast difference between dry skin and dehydrated skin. Dry skin is a skin condition and means skin is lacking in oil (lipids). Dehydrated skin is lacking in moisture (water) and can cause by many other skin conditions.

Oily skin, as well as dry skin can be dehydrated.

Dehydrated skin is directly affected by the fluid intake of a person. If fluid intake is not correctly maintained daily dehydrated skin will result. Drinking coffee, tea, soft drinks and alcohol will exacerbate dehydrated skin.

Other skin problems such as excess keratinisation (excessive dead skin cells), impaired lymphatic system and accelerated skin ageing can also be caused by dehydrated skin.

Weather conditions directly affect hydration of the skin. In summer when humidity is higher water loss through the skin is minimized. In winter water loss (trans- epidermal water loss) is much greater.

Dehydrated skin can be improved quickly by increasing water intake and with the use of quality skin care containing humectants and glycoaminoglycans (or GAG’s for short). These ingredients include glycerin, sodium PCA, Lactic Acid, Lecithin, Urea and Hyaluronic Acid.

The king of hydrators is Hyaluronic Acid is also known as Sodium Hyaluronate or Hyaluronan. The beauty of this ingredient is that it can hold up to 1000 times its own weight in water. Because Hyaluronic Acid is naturally present in the skin it is a huge bonus to be able to supplement skin topically.

MiSMo Rejuvenating Gel will help improve dehydrated skin tremendously.

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