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Tips
and Myths For Great Skin
"Beauty
Myths"
Some
beauty tips are handed down from generation to generation but
alas, are pure mythology, and really deserve to be forgotten.
Here's a few you can dismiss for all time.
- Drinking
eight glasses of water will hydrate your skin. Don't get
us wrong - drinking water is a great health tip and good for
your whole body - inside. However, your skin becomes dry from
external aggressors - cold, sun, wind, pollution, even room
heaters and air conditioners, so it needs something that works
from the outside in, i.e., moisturizer.
- The
Real Deal. Right after you wash your face or shower, massage
in your moisturizer while skin is still damp to get the benefits
of the water and the moisturizer.
- Smoking
and caffeine cause dry skin. Tests show that caffeine has
no direct effect on your skin, but it does deplete water from
the body. Smoking only works indirectly to make your skin old
before its time, by decreasing circulation so the skin doesn't
get as much oxygen - which is essential in creating and maintaining
healthy skin cells. In addition, the repetitive eye squinting
and pursing of the lips while you smoke can cause premature
wrinkling around the eyes and the mouth.
- Baby
oil or petroleum jelly heals dry, chapped skin better than moisturizer.
Baby Oil and Petroleum Jelly are good barriers to help prevent
further moisture loss - but they don't put anything back in
the bank. Moisturize dry, chapped areas - then, if you want,
seal the added hydration in, with a thin layer of baby oil or
petroleum jelly.
- You
can scrub acne away. Coarse, heavy-grained exfoliators are
often recommended for acne-prone, oily skin. But used too often
and too vigorously they can actually aggravate acne by opening
the cysts and by encouraging the skin to produce even more oil
to compensate for what's being ruthlessly stripped away. Instead,
use a medium strength exfoliator, suspended in a gel or paste,
and don't overdo it.
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