I’ve received a lot of different emails asking me what type of cosmetic products can help conceal acne, and thankfully there are simple methods of using cosmetic products to minimize the appearance of acne, in the event you are having a flare-up.
For starters, absolutely make sure that you are using hypoallergenic products that match your [...]
Just the mention of the word “acne” fills some people with dread. They envision having to spend long hours caring for their skin by scrubbing it, applying expensive creams to it, and avoiding the foods they most love to eat in order to prevent pimples from breaking out all over their faces.
The great news is [...]
In the past few decades there have been more and more complaints in dermatologists’ offices from young women about hair loss, steady, progressive, diffuse, mysterious hair loss. There are very few medical conditions that produce more emotional trauma than thinning of scalp hair in young and middleaged, healthy women.
Years ago, doctors rarely saw cases of [...]
Women who have excessive hair, on the body or the face, can suffer deep embarrassment. It isn’t a problem you get rid of by saying “presto,” but there are ways of dealing with the problem.
A normal woman (that is, one who has no hormonal disease or disturbance) can conceal or remove excess hair in a [...]
One of the unhappiest women I know is a young lady with an excess amount of dark hair on her upper lip, her chin, and her chest. She is not alone. There are thousands of young women with the same cosmetic problem-superfluous hair-hair that doesn’t look sporty in the locker room, hair where nobody wants [...]
Compare your hair to a cashmere sweater. How long would that sweater last if you constantly were to wash, shampoo, comb, brush, color, tint, bleach, tease, straighten, curl, roll, pull, twist, and twirl it? What if you constantly exposed it to the sun, wind, rain, snow, and sleet and to extremes of heat and cold? [...]
To prevent hair breakage and maintain a healthier-looking head of hair, avoid excessive manipulation and physical injury to the hair shaft as much as possible. Hair normally “wears out,” and increased manipulation, in whatever form, speeds up the process.
Here are some specific tips:
Brush and comb less often. (The so-called 100-strokes-a-day brushing or combing is not [...]
When does acne start?
Acne usually starts at the onset of puberty. In girls, this may be almost. a year before true puberty starts and at this stage, acne is so slight that it often passes unnoticed. There are those who remain free of it in later puberty as well. Even so, it is more common [...]
Common man or woman, identifies dandruff when there are flaky dry particles (dead skin) in the hair with an oily sheen. Dandruff arises from oily scalps and not dry scalps. Most of the people ‘think that dandruff can be removed by washing with medicated shampoo available in the market. To some extent it is true. [...]
AGEING IS the natural process in the body, but how fast you age is within your control. If you get gray hair in your teens and menopause in your thirties, then your body is not working at an optimum level, something is definitely going wrong within your body and this deterioration is mostly due to [...]