How To Prevent Wrinkles With This Quick Face Exercise

Acne

Acne is a common skin condition that affects most people at some point. It causes spots to develop on the skin, usually on the face, back and chest.

The spots can range from surface blackheads and whiteheads – which are often mild – to deep, inflamed, pus-filled pustules and cysts, which can be severe and long-lasting and lead to scarring.

What can I do if I have acne?

Keeping your skin clean is important, but will not prevent new spots developing. Wash the affected area twice a day with a mild soap or cleanser, but do not scrub the skin too hard to avoid irritating it. 

If your skin is dry, use a moisturiser (emollient). Most of these are now tested so they don't cause spots (non-comedogenic).

Although acne can't be cured, it can be controlled with treatment. Several creams, lotions and gels for treating spots are available at pharmacies.

If you develop acne, it's a good idea to speak to your pharmacist for advice. Products containing a low concentration of benzoyl peroxide may be recommended, but be careful as this can bleach clothing.

If your acne is severe or appears on your chest and back, it may need to be treated with antibiotics or stronger creams that are only available on prescription.

When to see your GP

See your GP if you cannot control your acne with over-the-counter medication or if it is causing you distress and making you feel unhappy.

Also see your GP if you develop nodules or cysts, as they will need to be treated properly to avoid scarring.  

Treatments can take up to three months to work, so don't expect results overnight. Once they do start to work, the results are usually good.

Try to resist the temptation to pick or squeeze the spots as this can lead to permanent scarring.

Why do I have acne?

Acne is most commonly linked to the changes in hormone levels during puberty, but can start at any age.

It affects the grease-producing glands next to the hair follicles in the skin. Certain hormones cause these glands to produce larger amounts of oil (abnormal sebum).

This abnormal sebum changes the activity of a usually harmless skin bacterium called P. acnes, which becomes more aggressive and causes inflammation and pus.

The hormones also thicken the inner lining of the hair follicle, causing blockage of the pores (opening of the hair follicles). Cleaning the skin does not help remove this blockage.

Acne is known to run in families. If both your mother and father had acne, it is likely that you will also have acne.

Hormonal changes, such as those that occur during the menstrual cycle or pregnancy, can also lead to episodes of acne in women.

There is no evidence that diet, poor hygiene or sexual activity play a role in acne.

Who is affected?

Acne is very common in teenagers and younger adults. About 80% of people between the ages of 11 and 30 will be affected by acne.

Acne is most common between the ages of 14 and 17 in girls, and boys between 16 and 19.

Most people have acne on and off for several years before their symptoms start to improve as they get older. Acne often disappears when a person is in their mid-twenties.

In some cases, acne can continue into adult life. About 5% of women and 1% of men have acne over the age of 25.

Source:nhs.uk/Conditions/Acne/Pages/Introduction.aspx

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                                        This facial massage is quick and simple to do

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5 Beauty Benefits of Vitamin C

Time and time again, we hear experts sing the praises of vitamin C. Why is it so incredibly essential? Well, Rianna Loving, founder of organic skincare brand ORGO Beauty, says the nutrient is responsible for creating and maintaining collagen—the "glue that holds the body together." Specifically, this antioxidant strengthens blood vessels and gives skin its elasticity and strength.

However, vitamin C is water-soluble. Meaning: Your body doesn't store or accumulate it. That's why daily intake is highly important, says Loving. Not convinced? See how a daily dose of vitamin C can improve your hair, nails, and skin:

It Promotes Hair Health
Vitamin C is one of the most effective nutrients to help grow and strengthen hair, says Loving. To give your locks a vital dose of vitamin C, blend a partially-boiled sweet potato, a half-cup of gooseberries, three strawberries, and half a small red bell pepper until you get a creamy smooth mixture. Then apply it to your scalp and hair. Leave the mask on for 15 to 25 minutes, then rinse it off with warm water.

It Makes You Look (And Feel) More Energized
In your diet, vitamin C plays a vital role in iron absorption—and iron contributes to your overall beauty and wellbeing, says Elisa Zied, author ofYounger Next Week: Your Ultimate Rx to Reverse the Clock, Boost Energy and Look and Feel Younger in 7 Days. "When you deplete your iron stores, you can develop anemia and experience fatigue and weakness," she says. "That certainly won't help you look and feel vibrant or energized."

It Promotes Nail Growth
"Vitamin C helps maintain the integrity of our nails by strengthening our skin, connective tissue, bones, and blood vessel walls," says Loving.

It Helps Prevent Hangnails
Because vitamin C strengthens nails and helps them grow, it can also prevent hangnails. Ingesting vitamin C is the best route for optimal nail health, so be sure to eat citrus fruits often.

It Wards Off Signs of Aging
A 2007 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutritionfound that middle-aged women who consumed more vitamin C from food sources appeared to have fewer wrinkles and less skin dryness. Experts suggest that vitamin C might delay the signs of aging due to free radical damage.

For a vitamin C-rich facemask, blend one kiwi and a half-cup of papaya, and apply the mixture to your face. After 15 to 20 minutes, wash it off with cold water.

Source:womenshealthmag.com/beauty/vitamin-c-benefits

Is Your Beauty Regime Ageing Your Skin?

You may think that your extensive beauty regime stops ageing, but could all the harsh chemicals actually be speeding up the process?

How many products does it take to create you 'ready to meet the world' face? And of those, have you ever looked at the never-ending ingredients lists? Overload your skin and your anti-ageing regime could do more harm than good. Is it time for back to basics beauty?

One of your skin's key roles is to provide a barrier, but that doesn't mean it's impenetrable. In fact, it's estimated on average we absorb almost 5lb of chemicals each year form the cosmetics and toiletries we use. Given that, on average, women use 12 products every day, containing as many as 175 different chemicals, it's no wonder your skin can start to feel and look 'overloaded'. It can't always cope with a constant bombardment by synthetic substances.

Of course, beauty companies aren't in the habit of making their skincare products deliberately toxic and, used in moderation, they won't have any detrimental effect. But if you're using 20 products a day on already sensitive skin, it can result in inflammation, irritation and accelerated ageing. 

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have suggested that over-zealous bathing with harsh soaps and detergents may have contributed to a recent 40 per cent rise in cases of eczema in England.

Keep your skin happy by streamlining your regime, and avoid using two products when one will do. Give your bathroom cabinet an audit and get rid of any unnecessary - and money-wasting - extras!

Source:womensfitness.co.uk/health/484/your-beauty-regime-ageing-your-skin

4 Smart Anti-wrinkle Face Exercises

Smiling for just three minutes a day can help lift your neck, tone your lips and firm your cheeks, so keep smiling! Here are four more face-loving tricks to try

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Your workout regime might be in good shape, but how about the face that stares back at from the mirror every morning? It’s easy to forget one of the most important parts of your body, especially when you’re a busy mum. But with a few easy facial exercises, you can feel fresher and look younger. Try our face yoga workout…

Getting started

Here are four easy facial exercise routines to try.

• Do each of them every other day at first.
• Stand up straight in front of a mirror to do each exercise.
• Once you’ve mastered them, repeat once or twice a week. You could even do them in your break at work – a perfect way to relax and treat your skin.

Anti-wrinkle exercise 1: Posh pronunciation

This exercise involves fully articulating a series of vowels while laughing. This helps lift the neck and firm the corners of your mouth. It may also improve your word pronunciation!

• Breathe in deeply before you start.
• Try saying ‘A, E, I, O, U’ in a very deliberate, almost posh voice while smiling and laughing.
• Repeat the process three times in two minutes.

Anti-wrinkle exercise 2: Pucker up, baby

You might look like you’re a pouting fish, but this face exercise helps tone your cheeks and lips, and helps plump up the lower half of your face.

• Suck in your cheeks until your lips form a figure-of-eight shape.
• Hold this face yoga position for 10 seconds then release.
• Repeat the exercise 20 times in about three minutes.

Anti-wrinkle exercise 3: Say nothing!

By tensing up your lips you can effectively help prevent sagging of the skin surrounding the lips and give your smile a boost.

• With your mouth closed, pinch your lips shut tight.
• Stretch your mouth as widely as you can as if you’re trying to smile while your lips are glued shut.
• Hold this face yoga position for 20 seconds more before relaxing all the muscles. Repeat 10 or 12 times in three minutes.

Anti-wrinkle exercise 4: The Kiss

This facial exercise helps firm the lips and smooth out the fine lines and wrinkles around the mouth. You can max the impact by holding your face yoga kiss-pose in position with an extra squeeze between your fingers.

• Push the lips forward into an extreme pout, as if puckering up for a kiss.
• Hold this position for about 30 seconds.
• Repeat the process four times in two minutes.

Source: www.supersavvyme.co.uk/beauty-recommended/skin-care/article/4-smart-anti-wrinkle-exercises?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=beauty&utm_content=7157

Facial Exercises To Tighten Chubby Cheeks, Lose Face Fat, Reduce Double Chin, And Tone Skin

These are quick exercises for toning the face. You can practice them as the video takes you through the instructions. I did these and afterwards my face felt warm and relaxed.

It is a good easy exercise to do daily and can easily be done whilst watching TV.

Get Younger-Looking Skin

I like to advocate a natural, non-surgical approach to looking good and improving the skin, ensuring that our treatments work in harmony with appropriate nutrition and lifestyle, so my tips are based on an integrated, holistic and more natural approach to aesthetic medicine. It’s not about a quick injection here or there, but a more thorough approach for better results.

1. Exfoliate – Removing the top layer of dead skin cells instantly brightens the complexion. You can use a simple facial scrub or peel off mask at home, but intensive exfoliation at a professional clinic (using a chemical peel or microdermabrasion) will go deeper and also stimulate the skin’s renewal mechanisms, helping to smooth out fine lines.

2. Stop smoking – skin will improve within days as the oxygen supply is increased. Stopping smoking has a wide range of well publicised health benefits and you know it’s good for you. It isn’t easy, but the NHS produces lots of helpful information, advice and support. If you’re struggling, consider hypnotherapy, which has excellent outcomes in helping smokers to quit.

3. Tackle the eye area – for patients struggling with signs of tiredness, improving the dark circles and opening up the eye area is far more beneficial than targeting frown lines on the forehead. The Eyedealise treatment at ClinicBe is an exclusive combination of treatments to revitalise the eyes.

4. Nutrition – Making big dietary changes to a healthy lifestyle is fabulous, but in reality it’s hard to achieve and maintain when you are stressed and tired. Instead, start with a few simple changes that you can manage - switch chocolate fixes for fruit, swap crisps for nuts, have a salad every day instead of a sandwich for lunch. These simple changes are a great way to get started.

5. Dermal roller treatment – a professional Dermaroller micro-needling treatment in the clinic is a fantastic way to stimulate the skin and kick-start collagen production, but where costs and time are prohibitive, home dermal rollers are a good investment, as they can be used more regularly. Ensure that you get one from a reputable supplier that has been designed for DIY use.

6. Get Outdoors – Take time out of your busy schedule to get outside, even if it’s only a walk round the block at lunch. If you can get to an open ‘green’ area, such as a park, it’s a great way to reconnect with nature. You’ll be breathing fresher air, letting your mind recharge and return to work feeling more relaxed. Daily exposure to the sun will also give a healthy glow, but ALWAYS use a high protection sunscreen e.g. Heliocare SPF50+, which can be applied in the morning under makeup.

7. Daily Routine – get your cleansing and moisturising routine nailed and check you are using the best products for your skin. Consider a daily exfoliating skin wash, such as the Neo Strata Skin Active Exfoliating Wash which lightly exfoliates without over-drying, so that skin can absorb moisturiser or serum.

8. Hydration – many patients suffer from dry skin due to lack of hydration – we can literally see it in the skin. At ClinicBe, we offer all patients Kangen alkalised water, which is the purest way to hydrate and offers a range of health benefits. Reducing caffeine and soft drinks in favour of water will give clearer and healthier skin.

9. Facials – a proper facial by a qualified cosmetologist is a perfect fix for improving the skin. Taking out 30 minutes for a treat is invaluable.

10. Sleep – too many adults don’t get enough sleep. Stress and busy social lives often mean not getting to bed early enough, while young children that wake in the night are an additional challenge. Sleep is a complex issue, but try to understand the problems and face them, whether it’s sleep-training a toddler, cutting out use of tablets and smartphones after 9pm or getting a new mattress, sorting out your sleep will give massive benefits to how you look and feel.

Source: naturalhealthmagazine.co.uk/post/get-younger-looking-skin

You really ARE what you eat

Forget sunbathing, munching just two extra portions of fruit and veg a day gives you a more attractive skin glow than a suntan.

• Eating plenty of fruit and vegetables gives skin a golden 'carotenoid' glow.
• Majority of people rated this yellow glow more attractive than a suntan.
• Carotenoids are important for our immune and reproductive systems.
• Scientists suggest 'carotenoid' glow signals health to potential mates.

You might be lamenting your fading tan as summer becomes a distant memory. But fear not - all you need to do is reach for a carrot or two.

Scientists now say that eating more fruit and vegetables really does lead to a golden skin glow, which signals good health to potential mates and increases your attractiveness.

High levels of red and yellow pigments in vegetables give the skin a yellow glow, whereas tanning in the sun makes the skin go brown.

This is because skin can become coloured either through a process called 'cartenoid colorisation', eating a diet rich in fruit and vegetables, or through a process called 'melanin colorisation', where the skin becomes tanned by the sun. 

Wanting to explore the importance of skin colour in facial attractiveness, the British scientists asked 60 volunteers to rate how attractive they found faces digitally enhanced to show pigmentation caused by ‘carotenoid coloration’ from eating fruit and vegetables, or ‘melanin coloration’ caused by tanning in the sun.

Golden glow: Scientists digitally enhanced images to show the effects of high cartenoid coloration- the golden glow achieved from eating a diet rich in fruit and vegetables (pictured top right)- compared with low cartenoid coloration (pictured top left). This was rated more attractive than images enhanced to show high melanin coloration from the sun (pictured bottom right) compared to low melanin coloration (pictured bottom left)

In the study, published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, more than three quarters of respondents (76 per cent) said the yellow glow from eating lots of brightly coloured vegetables was more attractive than the brown glow achieved through a sun tan. 

Carotenoids are antioxidants that help soak up damaging compounds produced by the stresses of everyday living, and are important for our immune and reproductive systems.

So researchers suggest that the golden skin from fruit and vegetables sends a signal of general health to potential mates and increases attractiveness.

FOODS WITH HIGH CAROTENOID LEVELS TO GET THE BEST GLOW 

• Sweet potatoes
• Melons 
• Carrots
• Tomato juice
• Pumpkin
• Spinach
• Broccoli 

The study's co-author Dr Carol Lefevre, from of the Centre for Decision Research, at Leeds University, told MailOnline the research clearly exposes ‘the importance of carotenoid coloration as a cue to current health and attractiveness'. 

'It may be pivotal in mate choices,' she added. 

The research follows on from a previous study which found that eating two extra portions of fruit and vegetables a day led to a noticeable change in skin colour in just six weeks.

Scientists at St Andrews University tracked changes in the diet of 35 students over a 6 week period, measuring natural changes in their diet and skin colour.

Those individuals that improved their diet over the six weeks showed an increase in the desired golden skin tone, while the colour reduced in those whose diet had slipped.

Lead researcher Dr Ross Whitehead, Research Fellow at the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews said he was surprised how even small improvements in diet produced results.

He said: ‘People who eat more fruit and vegetables have a ‘golden’ skin tone that looks healthy and attractive. Our latest research finds that even small improvements in diet produces visible benefits to skin colour. We were very surprised by how quick the changes were.

Source:
dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2737569/You-really-ARE-eat-Forget-sunbathing-munching-just-two-extra-portions-fruit-beg-day-gives-better-skin-glow-suntan.html#ixzz3BoNXvfqd 

Tone a Double Chin

This exercise can help tone up a double chin. Do daily for best results, then maintain 3-4 times a week once toned.

Sitting upright in a chair, tilt your head back to look up at the ceiling. Keep your lips closed and relaxed.

Keeping in this position, pucker your lips together as if you are going to kiss someone. Stretch to kiss like your trying to kiss the ceiling.

Keep your lips puckered while counting to 15 to yourself. Relax and bring your head back to normal.

Repeat five times.

Yoga Facial Exercises To Help Lift Sagging Jowls / Jawline

http://youtu.be/3ZEIDvY0jHc

Watch this video for quick facial exercises for toning the face.