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Beautiful Skin Overnight – The Truth About Instant Beauty
If your skin is less than perfect, or perhaps even in very bad shape, you may hope and dream for an instant remedy that will give your beautiful skin overnight. I hate to say it, but there is no magical way to get rid of your skin problems overnight, be it dry or oily skin, wrinkles, sagginess or age spots – except perhaps surgery, but that is much too expensive and drastic for most of us, not to mention how dangerous cosmetic surgery actually is.
You can improve your skin condition rapidly “over night”, though, by using a high quality night cream! Especially if your problem is aging skin or dryness, a natural, high-quality skin cream specially designed for night use will be of tremendous help for you.
Good night creams should be able to moisturize your skin deeply and naturally. Look for creams that have no petroleum-based ingredients in them, like mineral oil or petrolatum jelly. Petroleum-based glycerins cannot be optimally used by your skin, nor will they provide real moisture to your skin. Look for plant-based oils and emulsions instead.
If you are looking for an anti-aging effect as well, look for a night cream with active anti-wrinkle ingredients like Xtend-TK and Nano-Lipobelle H EQ10 and high-quality plant oils like avocado oil or shea butter, which moisturize and nourish especially aging skin.
Xtend-TK is a wonderful anti-aging substance that is not yet available in many product series. It boosts your own collagen production and stimulates the growth of new cells. Combined with Nano-Lipobelle H EQ10, which is a special form of Coenzyme Q10 that the skin can use especially well, Xtend-TK will certainly make a difference in your skin condition – perhaps night overnight but quicker than you might expect.
The very well moisturizing avocado oil can also boost the collagen production in your skin, and shea butter softens the skin and also helps to reduce brown spots on the skin. In addition to that, it also smooths away wrinkles and even stretch marks.
If you combine a good night cream with a healthy lifestyle and diet plus a daily skin care regime with high-quality skin care products, you can start seeing results for your efforts almost overnight. Indeed, if your skin was very dry, just one night’s use of a rich night cream might give you visible results – reduction of flakey skin and irritations. The same goes for deep wrinkles – one night of deeply moisturizing might make a big difference on how deep your lines and wrinkles look like in the morning.
Just keep at it, and your skin will stay beautiful! Don’t believe anyone who says you can get beautiful skin overnight, permanently – but trust me when I say you can achieve it with constantly taking care of your health and skin. If you’d like to know more about how to get beautiful skin and natural skin care in general, please visit my website where I’ve gathered perhaps even surprising information about skincare.
Supplements for Hair Loss
Posted on July 22, 2011 | Hair Loss, Supplements.
The best vitamins, minerals and other supplements to take if you suffer from nutrition-based hair loss (or in any case, to help your hair) are:
Vitamin A
Great for skin and scalp conditions per se and because of its good anti-oxidant properties (which clear your skin and scalp of toxins, excess oil and even bacterial affections); always follow the recommended doses as you must never overdose on Vitamin A. However, some dermatologist do prescribe high doses of Vitamin A for a limited period of time (always checking the patient often enough) to ‘boost’ hair follicle nutrition. If you are buying over the counter Vitamin A (pure, not from Carotene), make sure you understand what’s a safe, daily dose by reading the instructions on the label. At the same time, if you are already taking a multi-vitamin supplement you need to take it into consideration, since they all have small amounts of Vitamin A.
Vitamin C and Iron
This is particularly the case for pre-menopausal women, whose iron levels are often lower than recommended. Vitamin C helps the absorption of iron and together they contribute to a healthy blood supply to your hair follicles; vitamin C is also a great anti-oxidant (see explanation in the Vitamin A section).
Vitamin E
often taken with Vitamin A, as they work well together to promote scalp health; another great anti-oxidant.
Biotin
One of the most commonly ‘recommended’ Vitamin against hair loss is biotin or vitamin H. Biotin has been considered to somewhat prevent hair loss, as well as prevent excessive or premature gray hair, to a certain extent. Biotin is part of the Vitamin B complex; however, some people should not take additional Vitamin B complex supplements since some are susceptible to the ‘negative’ effects that Vitamin B6 may have on DHT and a greasy scalp (as we are!). If in doubt, ask your dermatologist. Ours told us not to take too much Vitamin B6.
Zinc and Magnesium
Zinc has been considered helpful in promoting hormonal balances, including the levels of DHT on your scalp. However, do not overdose on Zinc and keep to the recommended dosages as indicated on the bottle (around 11mg), otherwise its balancing effects on the hormones will no longer take place and may even reverse; the only times when higher amounts of Zinc is indicated is if you are suffering from stress, if you drink or smoke a lot, if you are recovering from the flu or if you do rigorous, athlete-like exercise regularly. Check with your doctor if you are unsure.
Magnesium has anti-inflammatory properties (inflammatory ‘messengers’ have been associated with hair loss); besides that, because of its properties it also seems to keep your levels of cortisol ‘in check’: cortisol (which is an anti-inflammatory hormone released by the body in response to stress, sleep deprivation, starvation or fasting, unstable blood sugar levels and chronic inflammation) can trigger telogen effluvium, which is hair falling from all areas of your scalp in significant amounts. Magnesium, Calcium and Vitamin D seem to be the best combination for your health (and hair).
Omega 3 and Omega 6 Supplements (in particular black currant oil ) encourage hair growth and promote hair strength; this takes place in different ways, from providing moisture to your hair, which is essential both to hair and follicle, to encouraging nutrients to the follicle through a healthy blood flow and combating (in some way) the ‘dreaded’ DHT hair-loss hormone.