Thursday, 22 March 2012

Skin Care Tips: Maintaining Healthy Skin While Traveling and Backpacking


Assumed status as one of the former Miss Indonesia was not cut off Nadine Chandrawinata adventurous spirit, to focus on the beauty business. Her love of traveling to different places all over Indonesia to explore the beauty of the mountains and the sea was carried out to test the adrenaline. "Travelling is my passion," said Nadine, at the launch of the book on account of the journey, Nadrenaline, the Scholastic Book Store, Matraman, East Jakarta.

Nadine's hobbies is quite extreme, especially her diving more backpacking trips in the following manner. Quite often she and her companion had a variety of unpleasant conditions. Sunbathe or even bask in the sun spray is not a taboo for him. No wonder her skin look darker now than ever before.

Maintain healthy skin
However, women born May 8, 1984 is still a woman who wanted to maintain the beauty and skin health. Many adventures and activities that happened, ranging from hiking, diving, traveling in hot weather to cold snowy, definitely makes the skin dry, blackened, and even broken. Then how Nadine maintain healthy skin?

"While traveling I also remain consistent to treat the skin, not only for beauty but also let the skin healthy," he told Compass Female.

Every journey, he did not forget to bring a variety of skin and facial care products in its carrier bags are oversized. Usually care products that must be carried packed in bottles travel-size so as not to take up space in the bag. "That must have taken and used for traveling the lotion, skin moisturizer, sunscreen cream, and hair conditioners," he explained.

These products are considered Nadine able to represent other products to treat, moisturize, and nourish the skin during the trip. He realized that the weather changes and extreme weather conditions often make the skin becomes very dry. Therefore, after every shower and when the weather is so hot or dry, lotions and skin moisturizers to be a savior to keep it moist.

Meanwhile, hair conditioner and sunscreen cream used to overcome the dryness of hair and skin to prevent too much exposure to sunlight due to diving. Nadine was not too worried about skin now looks increasingly blackened. More of sunscreen cream used to reduce exposure to ultraviolet light which is feared to be harmful to the skin.

Treatment after traveling
Recognizing the limitations of time to treat skin and body during a backpacking, Nadine was "revenge" after traveling to care for her beauty. "After a long journey, I usually do some ritual to restore skin beauty treatments," he said.

In addition to standard treatment as it does during the traveling, Nadine pamper the skin by making a mask to hydrate the skin throughout the body, and hair mask for beautiful long hair care. Not to forget he was performing maintenance such as pedicure and manicure.

Nail care is considered essential, and not just for style. "During the trip, hands and feet are touching the various objects and dirt, germs and bacteria so easy to get into the nail. So after traveling should be cleaned with a manicure and pedicure," he explained. Coupled with her bad habits when you're bored, that plays nails, make nails are damaged.

Regular and thorough maintenance usually starts since he returned from a trip, until it was time for venturing back to various places. Thus when in a place that is less friendly to the skin, it still has a "stock" healthy skin during the trip.

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Indonesian Woman Have More Healthy and Beautiful Skins


Each person would have a problem with a different skin. Not just because everyone's skin condition was the same, environmental factors also cause skin problems each person is different. "Different countries different skin problems that must be faced, because it indirectly skin structure and skin type is different," said Dr. Shahnaz Nadia Yusharyahya, GDSS, dermatologist and sex, in discussion with Vaseline on the Aston Hotel Brass, Brass, some time ago.

According to Nadia, doctors from Cipto Mangunkusumo are usually familiar, Indonesia women need not feel inferior because they do not have white skin like the women from European countries. Instead, we should be grateful to have an exotic brown skin. Because it has a brown skin pigment that serves to make the skin look more healthy, and protect the skin from sunlight and ultraviolet attack, which could increase the risk of skin cancer.

Skin pigment or melanin in the skin of women who are Asia, particularly Indonesia, it also has other useful functions to beautify the skin. "The pigments in the skin color is also possible to avoid skin wrinkles," he added.

When compared with European or American women's skin, the skin pigment that causes their skin color was pale white color. This causes their skin prone to wrinkles. "One of the problems faced by European and American women is wrinkles on the face, where the same age they will look older (than women in Indonesia)," he explained.

Problems facing not only the wrinkles caused by skin pigment that is not colored, but also other causes such as food eaten, habits and lifestyle, to cigarettes. On the other hand, the people of Indonesia have different skin problems, namely black spots or black spots that are around the face. "However, these spots can be avoided and overcome by performing skin care early on, starting from the age of 20, because the skin is still there in its heyday," he said.

Choosing Skin Moisturizer by This Active Ingredients


Many people are not aware that the age of 20 years was a "glory" period of the skins. At this age skin have the best moisture, elasticity, and the best color and evenly distributed throughout the skin. The regeneration of the skin is also running optimally so that the skin will be more easily absorb vitamins and other active ingredients found in skin care products.

"So actually, at the age of 20 is the perfect time to begin to treat the skin to keep skin healthy and youthful," said Dr. Nadia Yusharyahya Shannaz, GDSS, dermatologist and sex, while discussions with Vaseline in Aston Brass Suites, South Jakarta, some time ago.

To protect and nourish the skin, Nadia suggested for routine use moisturizer and sunblock. In order to get the benefits of moisturizing the skin is the maximum, consider the active ingredients contained in the formula. According to Nadia, there are several active ingredients to be found in moisturizers, namely:

1. Retinol
Retinol is a derivative of vitamin A is beneficial to increase the collagen in the skin to maintain skin elasticity one. In addition, retinol also serves to help speed up the regeneration of dead skin cells and replace them with new skin cells healthy.

"Usually the change of skin takes place every 28 days, but in the 30s, leather dressing process is getting slower. Retinol helps to keep normal," he said. The process is easily visible skin change when taking a bath. When rubbing the skin, dead skin cells that are black (you know him as dirt) will be shed and replaced with a new skin epidermal cells.

2. Alpha Acid hidroxy
Hidroxy Alpha Acid (AHA) derived from various natural materials such as plants or fruit. Like, glicolic acid derived from sugar cane, lactic acid from milk, citric acid from citrus or orange, and malic acid from apples. "Of all the variants of the AHA, the most popular is the citric acid from citrus fruits," he said.

AHA also has a function that is not less important, which helps reduce wrinkles, and helps the formation of the stratum corneum (the skin on the epidermis, or outer skin, called skin off). In addition, the content of AHA moisturizers help increase production of collagen in the skin layer.

3. Vitamin B3
The content of vitamin B3 helps to support skin barrier function. Barrier function of skin is skin that could help deter a variety of dirt or pollutants that enter and attack the skin. Vitamin B3 also works to increase the production of skin's natural emollients to help improve the process of hydration to keep skin moist and healthy. Vitamin B3 also serves to reduce uneven pigmentation or dark spots on the skin, and helps disguise the stain.

4. Antioxidants
Exposure to sunlight, or room air-cooled, make the skin dry and damaged easily. One way to avoid skin damage is to use a moisturizer that contains antioxidants. Antioxidants can scavenge free radicals, prevent wrinkles, reduce skin pigmentation, and improve skin color tone.

Antioxidants are divided into two groups: water soluble antioxidants such as vitamin C, glutathione, lipoic acid, and uric acid. There are also fat-soluble antioxidants such as carotenes, vitamin E, and co-enzyme Q.

4 Basic Causes of Dry Skins


DROUGHT in the skin becomes a cause looks to be less beautiful. To work around this, know the cause of the dry skin attack. Dry skin can attack due to various things. In addition to its skin disorder, no matter the weather factors also affect the skin to a skin condition. Symptoms usually become scaly skin and tend to itch. Here are some causes, such as described by Besthealthmag.

Premature Aging
When entering a mature age, aging is a factor threatening. For that use anti-aging lotion can provide benefits to the skin. You can use the serum to rejuvenate skin and repair damaged DNA, eliminating free radicals, and increased production of collagen and elastin.

Winter weather
Cold weather can cause impaired skin conditions. When you travel to the outside for example, threats can attack dry skin. For that, you need to close the skin as possible and do not forget to use moisturizer containing shea butter or other moisturizing ingredients.

The Influence of Drugs
The use of drugs that are too strong to get rid of acne or certain medications can also cause dry skin. Therefore, use a moisturizer to help skin dehydrated.

Excessive Washing
This action will result in problems at hand. Because the issues at hand dermatitis can be caused by water and soap. Therefore advised to use gloves when you do work related to water, such as cooking and washing dishes. Then, after doing the job, avoid harsh soaps which contain antiseptic. Be sure to use moisturizer after washing your hands in the sink.

20 Benefits of Aloe Vera for Your Skins


Aloe vera, you must be familiar with this one plant. Green plants are known to function nourish the hair and smooth skin is the type of vegetation that we often encounter on the home garden. But do you know if this plant has many other benefits in addition to cosmetics. Here are some of the benefits of aloe vera plant:


1. Cooling the burned skin because of sunlight, especially for those who often works outdoors.

2. Skin problems caused by weather, such as dry skin, redness, peeling, and mild irritation or rash.

3. Diminish the reddish color of the bruises on the body.

4. Cope with the discomfort caused by a razor.

5. Cope with minor burns.

6. Relieve the blisters.

7. Can be used as an anti-aging cream or to address wrinkles.

8. Treat the rash due to exposure to the sap of plants.

9. Relieve itching from insect bites.

10. Use every day to diminish scars and strecth marks, streaks of white or red due to pregnancy.

11. Care for minor injuries caused by a knife cut or scratched.

12. Tarnish spots blackish spots on the skin.

13. Can be useful as a substitute for hair conditioners and jelly.

14. Can be used to reduce acne.

15. Used to speed healing of canker sores.

16. Can be used as a natural body lotion.

17. To relieve muscle cramps or tightening.

18. Used to reduce the complaints on the issue of gum.

19. Reduce the dandruff on the head.

20. Overcome the water fleas.

Friday, 6 January 2012

5 Importan Facts About Anti Aging Creams

5 Importan Facts About Anti Aging Creams. One method used to reduce the signs of aging is by using anti-aging cream. One compound that plays an important role in anti-aging cream is retinol content is a derivative of vitamin A. Retinol, which is also called Retin-A or Renova, becoming the main standard in the products anti-aging creams. However, many consumers who do not know the facts about retinol, which may affect how much work a maximum of retinol in the cream.

Here are some facts of anti aging cream.
1. Retinol damaged if exposed to light and air. Light and air can cause damage to retinol in the cream. Retinol is very sensitive to light, and if exposed to direct light, most likely this material will no longer be effective when used. A study conducted in 2004 and published in the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy showed that retinol is a substance that is not stable when exposed to oxygen in the air too much and often.

After using the cream for a month, usually cream is not going to work a maximum again as when first opened. This is caused due to damage caused by retinol exposure to air. You can delay the destruction of retinol in anti-aging cream by putting the cream in a dark room, or in an airtight container to maintain stable longer.

2. Retinol works better when used separately with products that contain acid. To work optimally, retinol requires a neutral pH. If we use a variety of cream products for the face, avoiding the use of anti-aging creams along with other products that contain salicylic acid, glycolic acid, or vitamin C. If you must use products that contain this acid, you should use separately and in the distance a long time. For example, use of vitamin C in the morning, and anti-aging cream at night.

3. Strength depends on the levels of retinol. The concentration of retinol in the cream affect the content of their effectiveness in work, and remove wrinkles on the face velocity. Typically, an anti-aging cream contains about 0.025 percent retinol. The content of this show the most out after use for 6 weeks, but not strong enough to remove wrinkles and black spots on the face completely.

4. Retinol improves skin to slough off your dead skin. How it works retinol is to make your skin look first to peel off the dead skin before it makes it look better. The best you have to do is use a cream with the lowest retinol content gradually until your skin has improved and no peeling. This will usually take between 6-8 weeks. Retinol will also make your skin more sensitive to the sun. So it is very important for you to use a sunscreen with minimum SPF 30 during the day.

5. Retinol work best at night. Anti-aging cream is best applied at night. This is caused by exposure to UV light less than during the day, and the highest temperature reached during the night. This will help the absorption of retinol into the skin so that it can work with the maximum. When sleeping, use a silk pillowcase to prevent the cream stick to the fabric.

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Long Lasting Makeup - How to Keep Your Make-up For a Long Time

Looking for ways to keep your make-up for a long time? Living in a tropical country like Indonesia make us should to have a way in terms of beauty treatments. The use of cosmetics is one that must be considered by the women in this country. The temperature of the heat would make the body hooked to sweat. At the time you need a mandatory activity using cosmetics for a long time, you are looking for ways to keep your make-up for a long time.

Clean hands
Quoted from Beauty Tips, one of the causes of your makeup fade in the middle of the activity is the touch of your dirty hands. In addition to fade, dirty hands also increase bacteria on the skin of your face so that even provoke acne in the long run. Hand hygiene is the main thing when you decide to dress up the face.

Make sure the face is also clean
Washing your face is also the most basic things to make your makeup last longer. The content of water and oil in the skin becomes so ready coated neutral make-up. For better results, use additional paper to contribute to balance the oil control how much oil on your face.

Use a moisturizer that does not contain oil
Some moisturizers contain toxins that allegedly actually makes your skin is damaged. In this case, products such as Lanolin is considered toxic, as quoted from Medline Plus. Lanolin is a substance made from the wool of sheep with the effects of excess skin oil. Products containing these substances are not recommended for use for the sake of making your makeup durable in the face. Contain moisturizers without oil smeared all over his face and allowed to stand for ten minutes.

Primer before foundation
Jolie Hair and Beauty Academy recommends using a primer before foundation to ensure the make-up can be attached either on the face in a long time. How it works is very simple primer on the face, protect the foundation located on the face and make sure the skin is ready dressed but still healthy. The surface of the skin is smeared primary becomes more soft and perfect.

Foundation and powder
As quoted from Beauty Tips, three basic layers in making the make-up last a long time is the primary, foundation and powder. Functions one of which is the foundation makeup color affirm that you will keep it pairs with the natural. Dab powder to taste and not too excessive. No need to worry about shortages because earlier primer and foundation makeup is ready to maintain the durability of your face in a long time.

End with your own creations
Adjust to your taste with the guard without exaggeration, because the make-up is good is the result of natural and not excessive, which means it will not damage your skin in a long time.