The Skin Cycle - How Hormones Effect the Skin

The Skin Cycle - How Hormones Effect the Skin

Your skin, the largest and one of the most important organs in your body, is subject to changes and reactions stemming from various sources, such as puberty or hormonal cycles, especially on and around the face. Most of us know that the skin changes due to a variety of factors, such as the weather, age, and even different environments.
What They Didn't Tell You About Artificial Tanning

What They Didn't Tell You About Artificial Tanning

Many of us still haven’t heard of the harmful effects of self-tanners. Whether it be tanning beds or self tanner products, the lotions, sprays, and gels that are applied on the skin, it’s important to know how these can effect your skin, both in the short and long term. After looking for some answers, we found that self tanning is rarely, if ever, a healthy tanning option. 
Put an End to Animal Cruelty

Put an End to Animal Cruelty

There are many animals suffering today without reason due to a number of companies that are torturing and killing about 200,000 animals every year in order to test out their body care products, such as soaps, shampoos, and other beauty and cosmetics products. These animals, ranging from rats and mice to rabbits and guinea pigs, have things jammed down their throats, poured into their eyes, and smeared  on their skin until they’re unnecessarily killed.
Natural Healing Remedies - Then and Now

Natural Healing Remedies - Then and Now

What’s with all the hype around natural products? Statistics show a tremendous increase in the customer’s choice of natural products over products using chemicals and preservatives. The “natural” trend is currently the most significant trend in the personal care industry. 
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Know Your Burns

There are many different types and even degrees of burns that can afflict somebodies skin. These factors are largely dependent upon the reason of the burn and how critically the skin was damaged. For example “open flames” are generally among the usual causes of people getting burned. However, there are various other causes. These include friction burns, cold burns, thermal burns, radiation burns, chemical burns, and electric burns. The degree to which the skin is damaged is also grouped into four categories by medical experts as first, second, third, and fourth degree burns.