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Fruit Benefits For Your Face
September 2nd, 2010
Maybe you’ve often read that some types of fruit and vegetables are good for health, especially for the freshness of the skin face. No wonder so many masks are generally made from local fruits and imported fruits. Not only fruist, it turns out some foods are good for the skin face. Besides can be eaten, it can also be used as a mask.
There are some fruits and foods that deserve your attention: papaya, this fruit is very good as a natural eksfoliator. Its papin enzymes help the skin to regenerate and pelled off the dead skin cells. Carrot, this yellow vegetable is a source of beta-carotene and vitamin C and E which is needed by the skin. We suggest that you consume this regularly.
Strowberry, this fruit contains a substance that can clean and tighten the skin, when it’s used as a natural mask. Especially for those who have oily skin. Cucumber, this fruit is very refreshing for oily skin and and the ones that got pimples. Put a slice of cucumber on the skin face that has been cleaned. Therefore many toners are using cucumber extract. Aloe vera, Aloe vera is excellent for moisturizing the skin.
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August 30th, 2010
Treatment on each age is different, because the skin condition is always changing. The treatment of your skin when you reach 30’s is different while you’re still at the age of 20’s. For that reason then you should know the proper skin treatment on certain levels of age.
Age 20s. In the mid-20s, skin elasticity and collagen content is still very good. Of course, if your skin is often exposed to sunlight down then its condition become lower and it will change the texture. You may not realize it until the damage can be seen. Then your skin may be a bit oily on the side, which can clog the pores and causing acne. For the treatment, you should clean the pores regularly by using cleansing that contain salicylic acid. Using a sunblock is a must. Use the sunblock that contain SPF 15 or 20, as well as antioxidant to neutralize the free radicals which can trigger wrinkles.
Age 30s, facial lines have started to appear and also the blackspots. Exfoliating must start to do regularly to reduce black spots on the face. Use a scrub that conatins AHA at least three times a week. Overcome other signs of aging by using creams that contain active ingredients such as peptides, vitamin A derivatives, such as retinol, and vitamin C.
Treating Your Skin With Fruits
August 29th, 2010
One part of the body that can support your appearance is the face. you’ll be more confident to have clean and fresh face. There are many ways to maintain the freshness your face, one of them is by using vitamin content in fruits. The problem on the face is depending on the type of its skin. There is an oily skin, with the characteristics that oil come out on the face constantly around the forehead, nose, chin (“T” area), and around the cheek.
Generally, this type of skin is easily overgrown by pimples. For this type, then the cucumber can help them. This fruit is very useful to soften and relaxes the skin, helping to alleviate the pores and remove the waste from the skin. Thus the occurrence of the pimples can be prevented. Beside cucumber, tomatoes can also help restore the oil balance on oily skin, so the face can always become fresh and natural.
The second type is dry skin. Usually the skin looks dull or unshiny, sometimes feels tightened (dragged), scaly, and itchy. The pores often look withered and rough, and wrinkled, so someone would look older than his actual age. The fruit that is good to consume for this type of skin is carrots. Vitamin A in the carrots is required for the maintenance of epithelial tissue (a tissue that exists on the skin surface). Carotene in carrots also have function to keep skin moist, slows the emergence of wrinkles on the face, and making the face always looks glowing.