How to get rid of Dermatitis and Eczema

What is Dermatitis?

Dermatitis is the skin's reaction to chemicals or environmental elements. It will cause our skin to become irritated and inflamed, itchy and red, dry and flaky.

When certain substances contact the skin and causes an allergic reaction, the reaction is called "contact dermatitis".

Examples of such substances causing contact dermatitis are deodorants, bra closures, chemicals, clothing dyes, cosmetics, detergents, hair coloring, hair perm solutions, leather processing chemicals, nickel in jewelry, perfumes and fragrances, poison ivy, solvents, wrist watches and zippers.

How to get rid of Dermatitis

Eliminate or minimize exposure of whatever causes the problem as much as possible.
Many cases of dermatitis improve after bathing the skin in seaweed (also known as "algae" or "sea moss").

Sea salt has a healing effect to the skin. Seaweed can help to heal skin problems through its detoxification and balancing action as well as by re-mineralizing the skin with high concentrations of trace minerals.

Soak in an aromatherapy bath that consists of aromatherapy herbal oils using the formulation (Dead Sea Salt, Juniper, Dandelion, Burdock, Lavender, Lemongrass and Cedar Leaf) in your Bath.

Add to a rub of warm water. Soak for 20 minutes twice weekly. This blend of essentials oils can also be used for skin rashes, irritation, insects’ bites, chicken pox, measles and dry skin.


What is Eczema?

Eczema appears as dry patches of skin with cracking, crusting, redness and swelling, often with weeping sores or watery blisters.

The skin becomes hot, inflamed and itchy. Stress, cleaning compounds, colognes, cosmetics, detergents, food allergies, household chemicals, soaps and synthetic perfumes can cause or aggravate eczema.


How to get rid of Eczema

Minimize stress and avoid fragrant cosmetics, synthetic perfumes, and harsh chemicals.

Applied Borage oil externally and internally to eases symptoms of eczema.

Soak in an aromatherapy bath that consists of aromatherapy herbal oils using the formulation (Dead Sea Salt, Juniper, Dandelion, Burdock, Lavender, Lemongrass and Cedar Leaf) in your Bath.

A blend of jojoba oil and herbal oils also help to treat eczema. Apply a blend of 3/4 jojoba oil with one or more combination of herbal oils such as: eucalyptus oil, aloe vera oil, chamomile oil, clove oil, tea tree oil and Echinacea, to the affected area once or twice daily.

Deficiency in any of the B vitamins can also cause eczema, and these vitamins should be present in our diet in adequate amounts. Borage oil, vitamin E, vitamin B6 taken internally have been found to cure infants who have dermatitis and eczema.

Vitamin A is also essential for maintaining healthy skin tissue. A protein deficiency can cause chronic eczema and also a deficiency of water intake.

Hope it helps and see you on 27/03/2009

How to get rid of your Age Spots

A. What are Age Spots?

Age spots — they are also called liver spots. They are flat, gray, brown or black spots. Our skin has melanin pigment which absorbs sunlight and helps naturally protect our skin from UV rays.

However as we age, our skin's natural ability to fend off UV rays from the sun begins to deteriorate, and we see the development of age spots.

They vary in size and usually appear on the face, hands, shoulders and arms — the areas that are most commonly exposed to the sun*.

Though age spots are very common in adults older than age 40, they can affect younger people as well.

True age spots are harmless and do not required treatment, but they can appear like cancerous growths.

B. 2 Ways to remove AGE SPOTS

For cosmetic reasons, age spots can be lightened with skin-bleaching products or removed.

To prevent having age spots on your skin, avoid direct exposure to the sun and use sunscreen.

p.s Tanning our skin in the hot sun is the most direct way to kill our skin, tan skin is not healthy skin and the tan colour on our skin is telling us our skin has been damaged.

As we undergo UVA and UVB light exposure from the sun’s rays or from tanning beds, we are damaging our skin, which will lead to age spots (solar lentigines), sun spots, liver spots, poikiloderma (reddish–brown areas of discoloration) and melasma (mottled brownish areas).

The 4 types of common skin problems you should know-Part 1 of 4 ACNE

Imagine this situation-You spent over a thousand dollars on clothes and accessories over the weekend hoping to create a good impression from your superiors and colleagues. You are dressed up and arrived in the office, your bosses and colleagues commented well about your dressing but one of your superiors make a remark that perhaps you should also pay some attention to your face. How would you feel?

Do you know that skin problems can actually affect the way you look?

In this issue, let us take a look one of the common skin problem-ACNE in the following structure:
A. Why do we have skin problems?
B. What is Acne?
C. Causes of Acne
D. How to reduce Acne

A. First and foremost, why do we have skin problems?

It is because skin problems show that within our body, something is out of proportion internally and externally. Nothing occurs in isolation in the body, and when something appears on the surface, it is the result of something taking place on the inside.

B. What is Acne?

What is Acne? Now, Acne is defined as a common disorder of the oil glands when overactive sebaceous (oil) glands secrete too much oil (sebum) in the skin.

How do we know we have acne is when we have recurring formation of blackheads, white heads, and pimples on our face. Acne usually occurs primarily on the face but they also can sometimes form on the back, shoulders and arms.

C. Causes of Acne

We start to develop acne during puberty and adolescence period. Stress, emotional problems, menstruation, menopause, and exercising can also influence the excess secretion of oil glands.

Another cause of acne could be dirt, oil and dead skin that are accumulated inside the pores, plugging our pores and preventing the flow of sebum. When bacteria build up on our blocked pores, pimples can easily form and acne may develop.

Other causes of Acne could be allergies, a poor diet, dehydration, environmental pollution, heredity, sun over exposure, and weaken immunity.

D. How to reduce Acne

Firstly, please resist the temptation to touch or squeeze out your acnes. Your touching and squeezing will aggravates them, makes them last longer and further infection.

Next, your diet is also very important. Have a balanced diet and follow a sensible, daily skin - care program with a weekly facial scrub followed by a facial mask.

Treat your acnes with a formulation of essential oils such as tea tree, neroli oil, lemon oil, and/or aloe vera can actually help to heal your acnes at a faster rate.

These herbal oils can help fight bacteria which can cause acne. Just dab on a blend of jojoba oil together with one or more of these herbal oils on each acne several times daily. Often, these acnes should disappear within a few days.

This combination of herbal oils can also be used for cold sores, insect bites, cuts, and in-growth nails.

Hope it help! See you on 16/03/09

If I can just change the look of my hair-Romantic and Aristocrat

How many times in our life we badly need a new hairdo for a different occasion or maybe yourself, your bosses and colleagues are tired of your look and you really need a new hair style without much hassle?

Let continue from the past issue when I left off with the ‘Savage Idol’ look. In this issue, let look at how to we can create two very different types of hairstyles for ladies mainly:
A. Romantic Feel and,
B. Aristocrat

A. Romantic Feel-If you have the need to express yourself non-verbally in a very romantic sense or you are meeting your knight of shining armour for a moonlight adventure, hesitate no more for this hairstyle is created for you

The steps are as follow:
1. Apply Oil-In-Cream (OLEO-CURL Oil-In-Cream) onto your entire length of hair (make sure your hair is dry) with your palm.

2. Use ceramic plates to press your hair starting from the top. Make sure you only do once.

3. Use the curling iron to create a smooth base on the lower part of your hair and to create a contrast with the waves.

4. Next divide your hair into two equal sections. Use the curling iron to create curls into ringlets.

5. With the curling iron, use it on the lower part of your hair with the curling iron held vertically. Roll your hair from mid-length to the tips to achieve soft, romantic curls. You should sweep the curling iron forwards as you reached the tip of your hair.

6. If your hair is framing your face, use a curling iron that has a larger diameter to curl your hair horizontally from mid-length down. The top curls are then swept backward to create a care free movement.

B. Aristocrat

You woke up and you feel like you are a ruler by self-appointment or dictator of a absolute monarch, then the ‘Aristocrat’ look is definitely for you.

The steps are as follow:
1. Wet your hair thoroughly and apply Oil-In-Cream onto your hair.

2. Next, apply roughly the size of a 50-cent coin sized amount of styling cream onto your palms and spread it over your hair starting from the middle to the tips of your hair.

3. To create more volume, bend forward and repeat this step till you are satisfy with the texture.

4. Dry your hair using a diffuser.

5. Once your hair is dry, spray Oil-In-Milk (Kerastase) to style curls without having to weight them (hair) down. Using a curling iron and randomly pick a few curls to coil it.

6. While coiling your hair, arrange these curls to one side of your face. This will create a mysterious, arrogant beauty.

That all for this week sharing. We shall look at our skin and how to beautify them in the next few issues..In addition, this blog will be updated on a weekly issue.

Feature Product of this Issue

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This piece is titled "Untitled Woman 1".

Dimension:
Condition-----------------New
Material------------------100% Cotton

CottonTag Size------------M

Color ---------------------Black
Name of Painting----------Untitled Woman 1

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Length--------------------25.5"
Width---------------------19.5"

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