Creating Beauty From Within
Natural Anti-Aging
The Aging Process: Inevitable or Preventable?
Dec 28th
As little as 20 years ago, it was believed that the speed and degree to which your complexion crinkled was based largely on your genetic inheritance. We now know differently.
Certain hereditary factors influence how your skin will age. You inherit your skin type. You may also inherit a familial tendency More >
Preventing Wrinkles: Anti-Aging Facts
Dec 28th
When your skin is functioning at its best from 6 months to puberty:
- The stratum corneum is a smooth, tight wall of neat cells bound together by slippery ceramides and sebum – enough to keep the skin moist and supple, but not so much as to cause pore blockages and spots. More >
Old Before Your Time? Get the Anti-Aging Sun Protection Facts
Dec 27th
The genetically determined rate at which your skin ages is known as intrinsic ageing. But there is a far more powerful force in the aging equation: the sun. There are few among us who don’t grumble about getting old, too soon. In terms of your skin, the complaint is very valid because More >
Main Differences Between Cosmetic Surgery and Plastic Surgery
May 22nd
Plastic surgery is primarily involved with reconstruction, and cosmetic surgery with enhancing one’s appearance. Plastic surgeons attempt to restore functionality of a specific are of the body or return the appearance to ‘normal’, or near normal, following any sort of accident, hereditary malformation or illness. Whereas cosmetic surgery, has a psychological More >
Skin Type, How it Looks and Behaves
Feb 16th
Your Skin Type
The type of skin you have determines both how your skin feels and how it behaves. The following table will give you an indication of your skin type and how it looks and behaves.
Skin Type
How it looks
how it behaves
1Celtic
Fine pored, pale to very fair, red hair, More >
Whole Body Skincare
Feb 9th
Whole Body Skincare
The care of body skin, with its fewer oil and more sweat glands, does differ. But for most people, skincare below the neck is a matter of controlling dryness.
The most important thing about body skincare therefore is not to over cleanse and to bathe or shower in More >
Successful Skincare
Feb 8th
Successful Skincare
Are you confused about what you should or should not be putting on your face? Seductive marketing, coupled with a lack of good scientific data, makes it difficult for even the beauty literate to develop a clear idea of how best to care for her skin.
The skincare question More >
Factors that Affect the Aging Process
Feb 8th
Factors in the Aging Process
It is not only the sun that prematurely ages the skin. Anything that disrupts your skin’s optimum daily routine, pollutes it, or generates excessive free radical activity will also speed up its rate of decline.
Toxins and other triggers
Cigarette smoke
The effects are threefold. Firstly, smoking constricts More >
Wrinkle Free with Cosmetic Surgery Treatments
Oct 8th
Summing It All Up
In theory, we could all prevent our skin from wrinkling. If you could protect your face from the sun all the time, it would remain relatively young looking and wrinkle-free into old age. In the past, however, this has not tended to happen, particularly because people have More >
Anti-Aging Products – Natural Plant Sources
Sep 30th
Plant Sources
Phytochemicals or plant chemicals have had a major impact on anti-aging products for skincare. They may be the next antidote to maturing and withering.
Phytoestrogens
Phytoestrogens, called isoflavones, mimic the effects of the female hormone, oestrogen. Important phytoestrogens are genistein, daidzein, enterolactone and equol. These compounds may improve cholesterol, prevent More >