Month: April 2012

Dry, tight, uncomfortable itchy skin?

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The number one complaint or concern from my clients is: DRY SKIN. We weren’t born with dry skin, well the majority of us weren’t, so why now?
Well, a lifetime of sun, and eating processed foods and applying irritating products is catching up to us. Or, we are having an allergy to something that is finally surfacing on the skin.
More and more, milk allergies are developing. According to eating for Beauty and Dairy-free eating, after the age of 3 a human being does not need milk for growth and the body attempts to get rid of it as a foreign substance, signalling our immune systems into alarm mode which triggers our histamine response in our bodies to rid ourselves of the unwanted substances (itching, digestive issues, mucus, rashes, etc). This goes for all milk derived foods and drinks.  Give it a shot.

1. Try eliminating, or at least minimizing your intake of dairy and note if your condition improves at all.

2. Dramatically increase your water intake. Drink at least half your body weight in ounces a day.

3. Use a cream based body moisturizer or an all-natural alcohol free lotion. Alcohol is a common ingredient in body moisturizers. Sad, huh?
Onlyyourx has a great one! http://www.onlyyourx.com. I sell it because it has more than four times the vitamins and moisturizers than the average body moisturizer found over the counter.

4. Increase your vitamin A intake with foods and water based fruits and vegetables. Carrots, Kale, spinach, cucumbers,watermelon,etc. fresh,juicy fruits are best.

5. Moisturize right after your not HOT shower. Your pores are open even warm a warm shower and should retain more moisturizer this way. Do what I do. Before I towel off in the shower, apply your moisturizer- you’ll get even more hydration. You may need to apply 5-6 times a day for about a week until your skin begins to replenish its lost lipids, or natural oils.

There are some skincare lines that work. Yes, really.

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Think about this. If Estee or Lancome or Olay had the ‘Latest Beauty Breakthrough Miracle Anti-aging product’ we’d all look amazing! and yet, there are still wrinkles, spots, sagging, breakouts. It’s ALL advertising! At least the companies that spend millions and millions on it. Good for them. I’ve tried all of the above lines. I was not impressed. And, the so-called reps don’t even know the ingredients in their products, try it, ask them! I’ve done it.

I find it amusing. Try to sell me a product your company claims is for my skin,yet you know nothing about what makes my skin tick- it’s type, condition, tone, imbalances and therefore do not know ingredients to treat it or ingredients in that product you are trying to sell me. Pardon me, you will know what the bullet points tell you on the packaging or magazine page, I stand corrected.

Luckily, I know ingredients and I have found a couple (so far) outstanding lines that spend little to no money on advertising because nearly every penny goes into the product and proper training for use of products.
No extra fancy packaging, just great great products. See for yourself.

http://www.colorescience.com
http://www.onlyyourx.com

Organic vs All Natural – Should you care?

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Organic and all natural are being thrown around everywhere; like it’s the latest skin care fad and women eat it up as if it’s the latest denim style hot off the runway.  Ooh, Ulta is having a SALE on this brand NEW product, gotta get there  T O D A Y.  The last time I was in Ulta was Christmas time for a gift of perfume.  Let’s buy because of needs and not wants  or the catalog says ‘I need this’ yesterday!  Did you?  And did it satisfy all of your anti-aging needs??
While all natural and organic are the best ways to go, be weary of false labeling and read ingredient lists to get the most out of your skin care.  Any words that you can’t pronounce are chemicals, usually.  And those should come after any plant extracts and vitamins.  And the words ‘color or fragrance’ do nothing for the skin as far as anti-aging or acne control.
Please remember one thing: it is ALL advertising.  Did you get that?  Here, I’ll repeat it.  It is ALL advertising.  Companies spend millions and millions of dollars on the latest magazine, billboard, and commercial campaign just to get you to buy their product.  We fall for it.  It’s proven, once our emotions are targeted and hit, we are at the counter with that product in our hand.
Organic may be the closest thing to accurate,if you are buying your product from Whole Foods, or the like- you want this to say Certified Organic to know that the product went through proper testing.  And certain ingredients are better for your individual skin type than others.  Ask me or do your research.  By the way, you may not have as great results as with natural products that contain lab made vitamins.
A manufacturer can put one all natural ingredient in the product and label the bottle as “all natural”.  I take that to mean every ingredient is all natural. Not the case and not fair.  But, that is the world and we will be dooped if we are not aware.  Read ingredient labels NOT the front of labels.  More than half are lying in one way or another.  And, similar to hair care products, ingredients do not change enough from product to product to have, say: 20 different types of moisturizer.  Read the ingredients on some.
Half are chemicals, colorants, fillers, thickeners with about 5-10% active skin benefiting ingredients (vitamins and skin identical ingredients).  And, nearly all have the SAME! I’ve read and checked and know this to be true.  It’s all labeling.  Products with more chemicals than good ingredients.  “Active Soy Complex” by the way:  proves and does nothing in the skin.  A good moisturizing ingredient, however, can do oodles of good.
OnlyYourX (MY product line used in treatments and home care products) is 95-98% all natural.  It is the only  brand I use.  With natural preservatives -needed if you want your products to remain fresh after a month,  I prefer all natural because the skin needs Science-producing vitamins that can’t be found in organic ingredients.   Plus, if you have an allergy to organic products, it will be severe because of the 100% concentration of each ingredient.
You can view this product line at www.OnlyYourx.com.
It’s definitely worth caring about.  For decades, consumers were at the mercy of believing and using whatever they could to keep looking and feeling young. Even back then, marketing was at play.  All the chemicals we are finding are not good for our bodies or skin, make cell breakdown happen at a quicker pace than it needs to be.  This accelerates the aging process, the opposite of what we’re paying for.
…Especially if you have kids or babies.  Try the California Baby product line.  Very natural with the fewest amount of unnecessary chemicals as possible.  or if you found a line you like, please share.  Johnson and Johnson with chemical fragrance and colorants and surfactants is not my idea of a good baby bath product.