Staying Young

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Stay In and Stay Young

It's hard to imagine aging when you're always in your home. No sun, no wrinkles. No free radicals, no need for antioxidants. However, if you're still feeling grumpy; grumpy like you're aging and you can't do anything about it, you can use some at-home tips to do wonders.

De-Stress at Home
Look around you. If there's so much clutter, dust, dirty laundry, these can really ignite your temper. Clean your home and fill it with soothing scents. Ever wonder why a sunset on a really clean bay with the sun glistening on the clear water looks so relaxing? That's it, cleanliness = good mood.

Save yourself from some self-nagging. Start picking the broom up and clean your surroundings. Classify the things that you need and not need in your desk. Your working area should also be clean so you can focus on your work faster and focus on your rest longer.

Speaking of rest, try putting lavender or chamomile powder on your sheets just before you sleep. These scents induce sleep-sanctifying hormones to help you get the sleep you deserve. You can also add candles, apply scented oil on your wrists and have feel-good books by the bedside table. Stay away from stressing self-help books. Experts advise love/happiness poetry, fast food fictions or even a diary. Keeping a diary is like befriending yourself. You can use an extra friend, right?

Check Your Ventilation
Your pores fluctuate depending on the humidity of the area. If it's cold, your pores will close. If it's warm, your pores will open. The ventilation in your home should be just right so your pores will not be very overworked. Notice that when it's too cold, your skin will also lack the moisture it needs. If your skin lacks moisture, when you get out of that cold area, your skin will overcompensate by producing more oil than usual. Yes, cold weather can breed unhealthy skin too.

If it's also hot, your natural oils (moisture) will mix with your sweat. And that's dangerous. Sweat is dirt. Oil WILL become dirt. The equation to acne is actually dead cells/dirt + oil. There are different ways to look young, but to fake teenage acne is surely not the way to go.

Use Organic Toiletries
Your skin is like a sponge. It absorbs all the things that is placed and applied into it.It is important that you take note of the chemicals that you put on your skin. Read and analyze very carefully. Let's say you use a facial wash, a toner, a moisturizer and a face powder every day. Let's also assume that each of these things contain 20 chemicals.Actually, that's a conservative approximate.

Take a peek at the pack of your facial wash and toners; they contain compounds which you almost cannot read.) So every day, excluding the chemicals that may get to your skin when you go out, you take in at least 80 kinds of chemicals on your skin. It sounds glaring, right? However, the effects are not seen abruptly.

The best that you can do is to choose your toiletries right. Choose the most organic cosmetics, soaps, lotions, etc. There are a lot of cosmetic and toiletry product lines in the market which swear to be hypo-allergenic, non-comedogenic won't clog your pores and were not tested on animals. They may be a tad more expensive but trust me, they're worth it.

Staying young involves more than just taking care of your skin and your body. Remember to also keep a happy and optimistic state-of-mind to compliment the glow you have on your face!

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Looking Young in Your Twenties, Thirties, and Forties

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No matter how young you are, it’s never too early to start taking care of your skin. If you have children, you should start guarding their skin from the sun during infancy and teaching them good skin care habits while they are learning hygiene.

Twenties
Depending on how well you took care of your skin during childhood and your teenage years, you may start seeing fine lines around your eyes and frown lines in your forehead as early as your mid-twenties.

Typically, this kind of premature aging comes from tanning or sheer carelessness during outdoor activities in your teens. People with fair skin are more likely to have early sun-induced wrinkles.

If you haven’t been protecting yourself fro UV rays, now is the time to start. Make sunscreen a part of your daily ritual, even if you don’t plan to be out in the sun. Drop the tanning sessions and pick up a good self tanner. Start beefing up on the antioxidants in your diet and in your skincare products.

BOTOX can be used at this point as a preventative measure, and to minimize the appearance of existing lines and wrinkles. A mild chemical peel or microdermabrasion may be enough to get rid of fine lines entirely at this stage in life.

Thirties
Pregnancy and childbirth can leave you feeling self conscious about your body, even after the extra weight is gone. Chances are, taking care of little ones has thrown you off of your beauty routine for a few years, too.

Diet and exercise can help you lose the weight and regain your original muscle tone, but some parts of your body may not cooperate. A “mommy makeover” can be just the thing to get your body and your sex life back in your thirties. Procedures to consider include:
• Breast lift
• Breast augmentation
• Tummy tuck or mini-tuck
• Liposuction
• Vaginal rejuvenation

Hormonal changes during pregnancy can your skin to develop dark blotches, often referred to as a pregnancy mask, and acne. Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) can be an effective treatment for discoloration and acne scars.

Forties
In your forties you want to focus on hydration and fitness. This is a good time to start talking to your doctor about the hormonal changes associated with menopause, and find out how you can ease through the transition with minimal weight gain and skin discoloration, not to mention minimizing other, more unpleasant symptoms and problems which can be life-threatening such as magnesium deficiency.

Sun damage can start showing up as dry, scaly patches of skin, and often precancerous cells. Get any suspicious skin changes and any questionable moles checked out as soon as you notice them. It can save your life!

Fortunately precancerous cells can be removed with some chemical peels, stimulating collagen production and rejuvenating your skin at the same time.

Most women are not ready for a face lift at forty, but you may want to consider blepharoplasty to open up your eyes, and injectable fillers to reduce the folds around your mouth.

Understanding the effects of aging early in life can help you get a jump star on staying young.

Talk to your cosmetic surgeon about aging and beauty today.

PATRICIA WOLOCH