DR. SHAZIA

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I am 21 years old and barely use make-up; however; I want to start taking care of my skin. What products and in what order should I be using if my skin is combined? I tend to have acne around my forehead and chin but lately I have been developing them close to the jawbones and the neck.

A professional skin care regime is one of the most important parts of maintaining your skin’s health. Your skin is not a smooth surface like a sheet of glass. On the contrary, your skin is more like a riverbed, full of little lumps, bumps, crevasses and holes. You can give these dermatological names such as fine lines, pores, sebaceous glands, etc., but at the end of the day the fact remains your skin is far from a flat, smooth surface.Because of this and because your skin is a living, breathing part of your body and fulfils several major functions including temperature regulation, immune defence, protection from the external environment, etc., you will need to look after it if you wish to have it work at its optimal level and hope to have good, healthy skin into your late 70′s and beyond.What about the type of products I should use for my skin care regime?You should always choose natural skin care products as many commercially mass-produced skin care products utilise potentially toxic chemicals and highly modified ‘natural’ ingredients.Wildcrafted Herbal Products hand makes a range of holistically-natural skin care products suitable for your particular skin type. These products are based on traditional naturopathic principles and utilize herbal extracts and essential oils to produce lasting effects. Their products are designed to benefit your skin’s health for the long term and include only the best ingredients suitable for your specific skin type.

Daily Skin Care Regime

Cleansing your skin

Cleansing your skin is one of the most important steps if you want to maintain a healthy, vibrant and youthful looking skin. As well as providing the basis for an advanced skin care regime, effective cleansing can actually improve the quality of our skin, enhancing its radiance and keeping it looking younger for longer.Thorough cleansing is one of the most important steps of a complete skin care regime. Cleansing of your skin should be done morning and night to ensure the removal of surface impurities, make-up, and stale skin oils. When regularly performed cleansing will enhance the skin’s ability to breathe and maintain its other important functions. One of the best ways to do this is to make cleansing your skin part of your daily skin care regime.

This is how you do it:

First, moisten your face with lukewarm water. Then apply a small amount of facial cleanser. Gently spread the product over your skin, using light, circular movements. At this stage, spend an extra minute massaging the product into your face to boost your skin’s circulation and help decongestion.Secondly, be sure to be gentle, your skin is a delicate organ and needs to be treated with care and respect.Lastly, rinse off the cleanser, using lukewarm water and pat your face dry.If you are still using ordinary soap, STOP. You are seriously compromising the health of your skin. Throw it away and start using a quality cleanser.

Toning your skin

Toning is the second step in your daily skin care regime. These days, women often leave this step out and yet it is just as important as the cleansing of your skin or the moisturizing. It is a must include step. The one or two minutes it takes are worth every second if you desire to have healthy, vibrant skin with a minimum of lines and wrinkles. Don’t leave this step out.

You have just spent time cleaning your skin, ridding it of stale oils, makeup, dead skin cells and other impurities, now you have to tone your skin.

A quality cleanser may contain such ingredients as clay. This helps to remove dead skin cells and other impurities, but may not rinse off totally. This is why you need to use a quality toner.

Firstly, it removes every last bit of the cleanser such as the fine clay particles and other residues from the cleansing process.

Secondly it will close the skin’s pores to protect it from further loss of moisture, which invariably happens when cleansing your face.

Thirdly it provides nutrients and restores the pH balance of your skin.

Now that is worth spending a minute or two, isn’t it?

Moisturising your skin

This is the third part of your daily skin care regime and should also be done morning and night using a day crème in the morning and a night crème before retiring.

A quality moisturiser protects your facial skin from environmental damage, provides nutrients for the skin and prevents loss of moisture, thereby slowing down the aging process.

In addition, a moisturiser should help to maintain the acid mantle of your skin, which is part of your immune system and if the pH of your skin becomes too acidic or alkaline, the acid mantel is compromised.

Weekly Regime

To complete your skin care regime, you should set aside a few minutes once a week, preferably at the weekend to deeply cleanse and nourish your skin. Your weekly treats should include, the use of a Facial Mask and Exfoliation.

These treatments encourage cellular repair, step up collagen production and help strengthen, tone and firm up your skin.

Facial Clay Mask:

Using a clay mask will help to draw toxins from your skin, whilst moisturising and nourishing the skin at the same time. There are different clays that will work for specific skin types and choosing the right products containing the clay that is most suitable to your skin type is important. There are 3 basic clays: Green, Yellow and Red.

Exfoliation

Think of Exfoliation from this perspective. Exfoliation removes dead skin cells, soothes the skin and improves its tone. Dead skin cells are the very top layer of your skin. Applying moisturiser to dead skin cells does not make sense, does it? So exfoliation, removes the dead skin cells, promotes blood circulation and helps to invigorate and prepare the skin to more easily absorb any moisturising product you apply.

Exfoliation also helps speed up the rate of cell turn over. Another word for exfoliation is scrubbing. Using a facial scrub at least once a week, makes your skin more receptive to creams and treatments. However care must be taken not to over exfoliate.

The aim is to remove any dead cells from the skins surface without disturbing the healthy cells beneath.

In conclusion, to follow a skin care regime is like taking out an insurance policy on the health and vitality of your skin. Can you afford not to follow a complete, daily skin care regime?

There are lots of skin care myths out there. Some of them are based upon fact, while others are just plain comical. Have you ever wondered about skin care myths? Below, you will find some of the most outlandish myths out there…and you may even come across one or two that aren’t myths at all. Let’s begin with beloved chocolate. Many people believe that chocolate makes the skin break out. Not only is this a cruel way to think about chocolate, it is also…you guessed it…a myth. The truth is that food doesn’t make your skin break out in any manner. While some people believe that the skin will absorb food, this simply isn’t true. Some things that will make your face break out include: stress, steroids, poor quality skin care creams; or creams that block pores. Now, on to that next myth: tanning. A lot of people believe that tanning will help to clear up acne. This just isn’t the case. In fact, tanning is so bad for your skin…it actually damages your skin more than it helps your skin.The only way that a tan will help to hide your acne is if you burn your skin. Then, the red color from that burn may actually hide any acne scarring. Of course, this will lead to skin cancer, so it’s really not recommended. Speaking of tanning…another great myth is the one that goes something like this: “if I use a stronger sunscreen, I can stay in the sun for a longer period of time.”This, of course, isn’t true. You shouldn’t spend any lengthy amount of time in the sun if you want to avoid skin damage. The best course of action is to use a sunscreen with an ingredient called Parsol. The most important thing is to make sure that the sunscreen you do use has UVB protection included in it. Otherwise, your skin will simply burn. Let’s talk about lips for a moment. There is a rumour floating around out there that it is possible to become addicted to lip balm if you use it too often. Once again, this isn’t true. If you find that you have dry lips often, think about the number of times that you lick them. Licking your lips will cause them to dry out…but lip balm does not cause any kind of lip addiction. See how silly some of these skin myths can be? So, the next time that someone tells you not to eat spicy food because…it will make you break out, tell them that you know better than to believe skin myths. The truth is that knowing all you can about your skin is the only way to protect it. If you aren’t sure about something you heard about skin, make sure to do your research.The good news is that there are lots of great skin resources out there to choose from. When you want to know something about your skin, all you have to do is look for the answer. Skin may seem hard to understand with all of that false information floating around out there, but it’s actually easy to handle if you just pay attention to it.

If you are concerned regarding skin care, then many of possible natural skin care elements are available in your homes like dairy things, citrus fruits, salt, sugar, honey, aspirin, oat meal, tea bags, vinegars and olive oil. You just need to make a decision about natural skin care components that can best tackle your skin category and skin care problems and concerns. It is suggestion for every one that build up a natural skin care schedule that includes toning, scrub, moisturizing skin, a cleansing process by using the natural elements that most excellent grouped for your skin category. Always try to be happy and take good care of your self and not to catch over tense, uneasy, worried and nervous about any thing.You can save you skin by moisture tips, you can make use of manufactured goods with all natural component and apply item for uses that do not include alcohol. Always go for such products that are without fragrance. Before buying any moistening product, make sure that it does not contain any pretense.  Always try to stay out of the light of direct sun rays. You skin care products should contain plant oils merely. Make sure that you are using skin care moisture products that contain useful ingredients such as Coenzyme Q10, Jojoba oil and Grape seed oil. Skin care means being affectionate with your skin. Items such as, use of low class products and appliance of tough chemical supported products are harmful for freshness of your skin. Using great amount of products as frequently as feasible is not skin care, rather it can damage your skin. Skin at the age of 20 is at its greatest, fresh, rosy, lithe, young and glowing. So in this age, you must take proper care of your skin and should not take it for granted by thinking that there is no need to worry about. At this period, it is very significant to establish a good skin care schedule to avoid early aging. Skin at the age of 30’s and 40’s is demanding more care then ever before. In this stage of life, wrinkles and lines stats appearing on face and it is very important to concentrate on them and never try to neglect the symptoms to avoid early aging. At this stage you can start best care of your skin by using natural skin care regime. Even at age of 40’s, you can do many things for your skin care like eating right, early sleep, late night parting as well as proper skin care. In this way, you can enhance your skin beauty if start for skin care by cleansing, moisturizing and toning.  Doing three basic steps daily can give you an excellent results.

So I’ve been growing out my relaxed hair for about 5 or 6 months now and my natural hair is really really really thick! I can’t even put my hair into one pontytail with out lumps and bumps on the side, even with gel, damp or any other products!
I use a ponytail puff to wear my hair everyday and now the ends are breaking off and the hair is becoming dry.

Is there a hair care regime to soften my hair and to make it more managable?
(preferably organic)

How do you manage your natural hair/ new growth?