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There is no need to argue against expert care. Not many can duplicate the services professional skin care practitioners render inside beauty shops. Which is why expert care is costly. But it does not mean these are all beyond what you can do. In fact by knowing what personal skin care is all about, you can be your own beauty expert. What you need is the basic inclination as well as the discipline to follow through and stick to your routine. You also need to know how to select the perfect personal skin care product for you, how they work, and the proper way of using them.

The first thing to do when you embark on a personal skin care regimen is to examine your skin type. You need to know whether your skin is normal, oily, dry or sensitive. And with that you need to choose the skin care product that suits your skin type. You might find it useful to test a number of products before you come to a final decision.

If you have a normal skin type, the following personal skin care regimen is suggested:

1. Cleansing. A good personal skin care program always starts with cleansing. Part of this step is the selection of a good cleanser. The three core cleanser ingredients of a cleanser are water, surfactants (also known as wetting agents) and oil. Surfactants and oil extract oil and dirt from the skin and the water flushes it out, thereby cleansing your skin. Again, you may have to try several cleansers first before picking your best choice.

Important considerations in cleansing include the use of non-soap or soap-free cleansers, the use of lukewarm water for cleansers to open up the skin pores, and the right amount of cleansers to apply. Note that overcleansing can damage your skin.

2. Exfoliation. Cleansing is usually followed by exfoliation. The skin has a natural maintenance and replacement process where it sheds dead skin cells off to be replaced by new ones. Dead skin cells tend to block the pores and the underlying skin layers. Aside from attracting bacterial infection, dead skin cells absorb skin care products but prevent the products from creating their desired effects. What exfoliation does then is facilitate the removal of these dead skin cells.

Ideally, exfoliation should be done 4 to 5 times a week for oily and normal skin and 1 to 2 times a week for dry and sensitive skin. The frequency needs to be increased further during hot and humid weather conditions and reduced during cooler times. The key to effective exfoliation is knowing just how often you need it to get the best results.

3. Moisturizing. This process is basic in personal skin care. Everyone should moisturize, including those whose skin is already oily. Moisturizers not only induce the skin cells to remain moist but also attract moisture from the air whenever needed. Be warned, however, that excessive amounts of moisturizers can clog the skin pores and end up harming your skin. Exactly how much moisturizing you need can be made manifest after a week or so of application, after which you can then start making adjustments. Remember further that moisturizers are best applied on damp skin.

4. Sunscreen. Good moisturizers are doubly beneficial because they come with UV protection. Nevertheless, you should always apply sunscreen irrespective of whether it is sunny or cloudy because sunlight contains UV rays, excessive exposure to which can be harmful to the skin.

Having said all of the above, there is not one best personal skin care regimen for all people. What works best will be for you to experiment on and decide. Just remember that for any sort of skin disorder, you need to consult a dermatologist as a basic step.

Abhishek Agarwal
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Fashion spells beauty and beauty is not defined as per part but as a whole. This means that getting the perfect look will not be satisfied by dressing up alone but by reflecting the perfect harmony of the body and the face through selective choices of clothing, make up and hair style. Yes, hairstyle. While many may have overlooked this factor, the style of the hair has a great impact into the fashion sense of a person. Therefore, you should create the hair that gets you what you want and have the character that you need with Bratz makeover hair games.

While some ladies find their hair troublesome and cannot control their unmanageable tresses, there are some who knows how to find the exact hair do that they need without touching their locks. Bratz makeover hair games can be truly helpful in having your wants visualized for the certain style of the occasion.

Explore the dresser and look for the hair styling must-haves. Find the gel, the mousse, the primping pair, comb and the mirror. Prepare the blower, the hair iron and the heat curlers, shampoo and the conditioner. All things must be set before the hair styling.

Get up with the groove and join the Bratz as they have the party tonight at the all-girls night out. But before coming to the event, make sure that all of you are really prepared for the party! Curl Cloe’s golden hair and let it dazzle with the party’s energy! Sasha has the undying reputation of being chic and sophisticated among the four. While many guys may have all their eyes stared at her, make all the girls do the same. Keep Sasha hair straight and silky and add an effect of sleek, side swept bangs before ironing her strands.

If you find the hair style lacking and something is missing, add accents to the hair. There are a lot of hair accessories that you could find and will perfectly work for the power dressing.

Bratz makeover hair games can also bring you the magic of seemingly a different person. Play with the highlights and color the hair of Yasmin. If you find it not that good, you can just erase the style with a single click.
You do not need to be a hairstyle expert to play Bratz makeover hair games. In fact, it does not have any requirements except for one thing: the heart for fashion. Have fun and find the fashion that you need. Modify your work with less hassle and see the beauty that you created among Jade, Cloe, Sasha and Yasmin. Have fun and feel the magic of fashion hair makeover.

Lea Smith
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We know that Parabens are in almost everything we eat and use on our skin and hair daily!

• Parabens prevent mold, bacterial and fungal contamination. Widespread types of parabens include: Methylparaben, which is readily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract or through the skin. More importantly  p-hydroxybenzoic acid is rapidly excreted without accumulation in the body, which is good news as it is the one paraben found in most products use daily. Ethylparaben, Propylparaben, Isobutylparaben, Butylparaben and Benzylparaben. Are used as well. I am not writing an article on parabens, the only reason I bring them up is if you have skin issues that are caused by parabens, then read the label of your cosmetics to see if they are listed.

• I would like to put my 2 cents in on the use of parabens. Although their function to prevent mold, bacterial and fungal contamination; think what might happen to the products that don’t have any parabens in them? Take mascara, my studies found that paraben free mascara was useless. As without parabens, it makes mascara flaky, and worse the overall texture were clumpy! Do you remember the 1% or less rules I told you in part one? Well, my research showed that mascara’s that had even the smallest amount of parabens like 1/10th of 1 percent and as low as 0.15 of 1 percent of parabens. Was amazingly great mascara in that they didn’t flake or clump and the ones that had a cream base stayed all day! Creating beautiful eyelashes, and they were as low as 0.15 of one percent containing parabens!!!

• There are some cosmetics that don’t ever need parabens. Take eyeliners and lip liners. If they contain natural plant parts and custom mineral blends. With the base formula of oils and natural waxes with ingredients like vitamin E (made from the soy plant) as well as Mica, Iron Oxides and Titanium Dioxide.

• Quality Mineral lipsticks also don’t need any parabens in them. My own lipstick research taught me that if a formulator uses quality ingredients. One can delete all dyes, fillers and lakes and only uses pure pigment for coloring. Ingredients like Castor Oil, Sesame Oil, Coconut Oil, Fractionated, Cocoa Oil, Candelilla Wax, Meadowfoam Seed Oil, Cocoa butter, Mango butter, Shea butter and Vitamin E. The results are: lipstick that will never bleed and moistens your lips all-day. Then you add mica, Iron Oxide and Titanium Dioxide, and you have the perfect formula. Of course this lipstick is not cheap, however quality should never suffer ingredients and women should get what they pay for and rightfully so!!!
• Natural preservatives: such as rosemary extract, vitamin C and E, citric acid, green and white tea extract (antioxidant), grape, apricot or pomegranate seed extract (Antioxidants) Vitamin B17 in apricot seeds has been said to be Anticarcinogenic. Tea tree extract as an antibacterial to also prevent spoiling. If one uses natural preservatives (in especially liquids), there will be no need for parabens.
• Organic Cosmetics:  Found in some high-end mineral cosmetics, however I would like to let you know the true amount found sometimes is questionable in that do they really do anything? Here is where the rule of one percent or less may come in to play! While it’s stated that if a product has one percent or less it doesn’t have to be listed as an ingredient!

Some cosmetic companies may list organic names like the list above of natural plant parts, when in fact they could be as little as one 10th of a percent or much lower. Remember even with this small amount of organic additives one can claim their cosmetics have natural or organic ingredients. The reason then for using the word organic drives the price up about 30% more than the standard pure minerals.

• Here is some food for thought: during my research on organic extraction of plants I found out there could be as many as 200 chemicals in one plant. Now try to imagine processing only 3 or 4 chemicals that are pure enough to use as an additive. This means the overall process is time-consuming and time is money right? This is what lead me to believe that it would only stand to reason for one adding a specific additive that has a value may cost $35.00 for only a few grams or a mere 1/8 of an oz. How much product would a formulator add to a so called organic cosmetic. Of course then one might consider some additives may even cost more and after all profit is the results needed to stay in business.

Please realize that a plant has different parts, such as the steam that feeds the leaf and then there are the feeding veins to nourish the plant. During this natural process, insect’s fungus, mold and all of earth’s free radicals attack the plant life and often destroy or alter the plants (Anti-oxidants). Further some plants can only be grown and harvest at certain times of the year, for full benefits.

• It’s in my option that organic research needs more investigation. However not by the FDA rather a private sector that is not basis and short handed. Perhaps organic matter that is pure belongs in our system through diet! Ingredient labels are important to read, as you now well know. 3 to 7 % of women can have an allergic reaction to certain organic plants and bi-products there of is why the FDA requires ingredient labels in the first place. The FDA has little control of ingredients with over 5000 listed in cosmetics! You can well bet some are rated at the 10 scales as being harmful as a rule these are laden chemical cosmetics.

• Micronized and Nanoparticles: This falls in to common sense the smaller a particle is the deeper it can penetrate your skin. This defeats mineral cosmetics, because your pores will clog. Mineral cosmetics should’t clog your pores thus leaving you with a light protective covering that has a light feeling on your face.

This is one more reason I only use loose mineral cosmetics on my models, clients as well as students!  Micronized and Nanoparticles are the result of minerals that our crushed or put in a blender. Most often used in preesed powders, because a chemical has to be added to press the powder. Yet most women like pressed powders because they are less missie than loose minerals. Perhap those of you who lean towards pressed powders should give them a second thought especaily knowing you most likely are’t getting what you pay for?

I give loose mineral cosmetics five stars for the simple reasons above and it appears fewer ingredients are needed and the best part is loose minerals will never require parabens or filers. While pressed minerals only get three stars because of additives most commonly used and micro as well as Nano particle size are not good for your pores.

James Bayliss
http://www.articlesbase.com/cosmetics-articles/mineral-cosmetics-and-their-ingredients-part-two-680348.html

Ladies we know how important it is to look our best no matter what age we are, and we know how hard it can be to find beauty products that actually work. You buy product after product and get absolutely no results. The products either make your skin too dry or too oily, it seems that you cannot find one that really works. Now you can relax and allow yourself to indulge in luxury with Clarins Beauty Flash Balm.

Clarins has been in business since 1954, and the international market since 1970, has 19 distribution subsidiaries in over 150 countries, and they have an exceptional reputation. Clarins uses only high quality ingredients in all of their products. Clarins does not use animals for testing or in any of their products, and they are environmentally safe.

We’ve all hear of Clarins, but how many of us have actually tried Clarins products? Clarins has a complete line of beauty products so you never need to shop anywhere else. These products include everything you need for cleansing, hydrating, moisturising, firming, and toning your face, neck, and body. There is a wonderful line of fragrances that not only make you smell great, but they make you feel great too. You can purchase all of your makeup through Clarins, and there is even a line of Clarins products for men. There are just so many products available through Clarins that you must really take a look for yourself, you will not be disappointed.

One particular cult Clarins product is Clarins Beauty Flash Balm. Beauty Flash Balm is a must have product for everyone. This product revitalises, soothes, and softens the skin. Clarins Beauty Flash Balm works for every skin type and the results are just absolutely amazing. It erases signs of stress and fatigue giving you a refreshed appearance even if you have been up all night. We all know how it is to wake up and put on makeup only to still look tired and worn out. With beauty Flash Balm those problems are eliminated. Even if you did party all night no one will ever know! You will look like you had a perfect night’s sleep.

Clarins Beauty Flash Balm is lightweight, tightens the skin, reduces wrinkles and fine lines giving your face an all over younger and more radiant appearance. It can be used in the morning or evening and is a great foundation for your makeup. When you use Clarins Beauty Flash Balm underneath your makeup you will find that you have an exceptionally radiant glow that you do not get from just applying makeup alone. This is a product that you just cannot live without.

You can purchase Clarins Beauty Flash Balm online, so do not wait, go out and try it for yourself today!

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As you can see I keep my routine very simple. I use the same face wash and moisturizer in the morning and at night. I only exfoliate or use a scrub about once a week. I forgot to mention that I still mostly only drink water. Also, I haven’t started using an eye cream yet but I really should!

Products mentioned:

Used regularly:
-Neutrogena Oil-free Eye Makeup Remover
-Walgreens Cleansing and Make-up Removing Towelettes
-The Body Shop Tea Tree Oil Facial Wash
-Olay Complete All Day Moisture Lotion spf15 combo/oily skin

Used Occasionally:
-Queen Helene Mint Julep Mask
-St Ives Apricot Scrub
-Neutrogena Acne Stress Control Power-Clear Scrub
-Lush Ocean Salt Face and Body Scrub
-Jurlique Daily Exfoliating Cream

Stopped Using:
-Lush Fresh Farmacy

Include in new routine:
-Cetaphil Daily Facial Moisturizer spf15

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