By Retno Kuswantoro

Skin Peeling

Skin peels is a skin treatment technique used to improve and smooth the texture of the skin. Usually a chemical peel is used to exfoliate and rejuvenate the skin. That chemical solution is applied to the skin, and works by dissolving the upper layers of the skin. As the tissue is dissolved, a wound is created on the skin which stimulates the body’s healing response, causes the dead skin to slough off and eventually peel off, and then new tissue emerge.

Skin peels is used for many skin conditions, such as fine lines, acne, acne scar, deep wrinkles, and age spots. The depth and strength of the ‘peel’ varies based upon the strength of the chemicals used and the length of time the solution is applied.

Here are some common questions about skin peels:

Q: Do skin peels contain natural chemicals?

A: Glycolic acid, the most common peel, is derived from sugar cane. Lactic acid peels are from milk sugar (lactose) and there are many other fruit sugars that are used for chemical peeling.

Q: Can I do a skin peels at-home?

A: Skin peels, especially chemical peels are a category of treatments that use acid to exfoliate and refresh the skin. The risks of using chemical peels are pain, discomfort, temporary pigmentation changes, permanent discoloration, scar tissue, and hypertrophic scarring. FDA restricts the sale of potent chemical acids to physicians only to prevent the overuse of the products by inexperienced practitioners and patients.

Q: Can I start wearing makeup a day after skin peels?

A: It depends on the depth of the chemical peel and the rate at which your skin heals. Skin is vulnerable after peels and application of makeup prematurely will delay healing and risk causing infection, pigmentation changes, or scarring. You should to minimize the risk after skin peels. If you do very superficial peels, such as low strength glycolic acid, you may be able to start wearing makeup the next day. With deeper peels, makeup can be usually being worn approximately 7 to 10 days after a deeper peel.

Q: Will skin peels be safe on sensitive skin?

A: Chemical peels can be used on sensitive skin for wrinkles and discolorations and work quite well if done gently and repetitively but they usually do nothing for true depressed scars.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Healthy and glowing skin is a reflection of a good habit of caring your skin. Just doing these 7 Skin Care Tips with a little time everyday, you will get amazing benefits of it.

These are 7 Skin Care Tips for you:

Skin Cleanser

Skin Care Tips #1: Cleanse your skin

If you have normal to dry skin, it is better to cleanse your skin with cream cleanser. But if you have normal to oily skin, foaming cleanser is the best. This cream cleanser for sensitive skin has pH balance which is essential to maintaining clear, healthy skin.

Phisoderm Cream Cleanser For Sensitive Skin with extra-gentle formula removes dirt and oil without ingredients that can dry or irritate skin. Also contains vitamin E replenishes nutrients, while special emollients help moisturize even the most sensitive skin.

Toner

Skin Care Tips #2: Apply toner

Applying toner after cleansing your skin: wet your face, moisten a cotton ball with toner and apply to face in a gentle stroking motion. Avoid delicate eye area. Do not rinse.

One of good product is Neutrogena Deep Clean Invigorating Dual Action Toner. This toner cleans deep in your pores and leaves your skin feeling awake and energized, for a lasting refreshing feel.

This unique toner works in 2 ways. First, the tingly formula penetrates deep into pores to completely clean away dirt and oil. Then, the cooling surge of invigoration tightens pores and seals in the revitalizing sensation, leaving your skin refreshingly energized.

Eye Cream

Skin Care Tips #3: Give attention for your eyes

This eye cream works to reduce the appearance of dark circles and puffiness, and gives the skin around the eyes left softer, stronger and younger-looking.

With fragrance- and colorant-free, Lumiere Bio-Restorative Eye Cream is ultra-gentle for the delicate eye area.

Apply once or twice daily to the skin area surrounding the eye, or follow the recommendations of your skin professional. Store below 86F and do not expose to direct sunlight.

Skin Moisturizer

Skin Care Tips #4: Apply moisturizer

With 7 vitamins and minerals it fights 7 signs of aging: 1. diminishes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. 2. Smoothes skin texture – visibly and to the touch. 3. Evens skin tone for younger-looking, more balanced color. 4. Improves surface dullness, giving skin a radiant, healthy glow. 5. Minimizes the appearance of pores. 6. Visibly reduces the appearance of blotches and age spots. 7. Soothes dry skin and hydrating.

For getting amazing of using this product, try to use Olay Total Effects Moisturizing Vitamin Complex in shower or bath: Squeeze a small amount of product onto wet puff, then lather and rinse. Store bottle upside down to ease dispense.

Sunscreen

Skin Care Tips #5: Don’t forget sunscreen

This sunscreen has effective sun protection with broad-spectrum UVA/UVB SPF 15. It prevents premature signs of aging caused by everyday exposure to sun’s damaging rays.

Choose oil-free formula, it absorbs quickly and won’t clog pores, which can cause breakouts. Use two pumps and apply all over face and neck.

Use daily, alone or under makeup.

I have try this product: Neutrogena Oil-Free Moisture SPF 15. It absorbs quickly without oily feeling in my skin.

Facial Mask

Skin Care Tips #6: Facial mask

With age, skin loses it firmness and elasticity. I suppose you to try Advanced RevitaLift Intense Lift Treatment Mask with encapsulated Pro-Retinol A and Par-Elastyl.

Upon application, you will feel a lifting effect: lines are diminished; skin is smoother, skin feels firmed, revitalized and re-hydrated. Your skin is deeply hydrated and appears fuller and firmer. It contains 4 disposable cloth masks. Each cloth mask is infused with a generous amount of ultra-concentrated anti-wrinkle and firming treatment.

Night Cream

Skin Care Tips #7: Finished by Night cream

This product leaves skin soft and optimally moisturized all night. Its moisture-rich night formula extends skin’s own ability to build and hold on to moisture by treating dry skin deep within skin’s surface. With dermatologist tested and non-comedogenic formula, it is no doubt to use it.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Exfoliation

Talking about skin care brush is thinking about brushes for getting amazing benefits for caring your skin. There are two kind skin brushes, one is called makeup brushes, and another is skin care brushes. You will get finest touch when apply cosmetics by using makeup brushes such as lip brush, and rough brush. Make sure you clean the brush after every use.

Our skin is one of the most important organs in the body and needs caring for in the proper way. People are drawn in to buying soaps, anti wrinkle cream, scrubs, and oils every day. Those products promise of younger, firmer, wrinkle free skin by stopping the skin from becoming dry, sore and cracked; and many can even reduce acne and help smooth out fine lines. But there is an old practice of skin care brushing named dry skin brushing can boast the all around cleansing benefits.

A skin care brush using as a dry brush exfoliation can be done in the morning before you shower. In this case you’ll need a soft, natural bristle brush. This skin care brush eliminates dead skin cells, and leaves new cells behind, improves blood circulation and decrease puffiness, giving you a healthy glow as well as younger and smoother looking skin.

Skin care brush as dry brush exfoliation also improves lymph circulation. It can help kick start the lymphatic system by stimulating the lymph canals, which helps detoxify the blood and reduces the toxic build up that can cause cellulite. Just a simple practice, it takes only five minutes while in the bath or shower. But that little time could just be the secret to looking and feeling younger.

Applying mask with skin care brush, called facial mask brush, is better than just using your fingers. The best facial mask brushes are small; with a brush head of 1 to 1.25 inches is ideal. The mask material with a fine brush will get into wrinkles and lines that you cannot see and allow the mask to be most effective. Facial mask brushes made out of boar’s bristles or any other material that is a fine and flexible are the best.

Skin care brush takes a long time to wear out. Make sure you always clean it after use. But if you find your brush has lost its shape or that the bristles have become rough and irritate the skin, replace the brush immediately to avoid skin damage.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Many skin care products barrage the market. Which one should we choose? Is our decision to buy is right? There is a smart thing you should do before you purchase appropriate skin care products. It is about reading skin care reviews.

Skincare Reviews

Skin care reviews means articles that give opinion of skin care products. Person who writes reviews must be customers who have used those skin care products, they called reviewers. Reviewers have to focuses on review specific features of the product and the experience with it. The best reviews contains opinion about whether the reviewer liked or disliked a product include the reason. When write a skin care review, the reviewer is free to talk about other related products and how this item rates in comparison.

Vendor such as Amazon offers so many skin care products. These are steps to use skin care reviews:

1. Choose some nomination of skin care products you want to buy.
2. Click Product Review.
3. Read skin care reviews about the products, and you will get fair opinion from customers who have used it. Choose to read most helpful reviews first than newest first. It will help you find the most helpful reviews.
4. Some vendors include stars to describe customer level satisfaction. Usually more stars more satisfied.
5. Choose some skin care products which have enough reviews that describe high level customer satisfaction (average 4-5 stars).
6. Finally compare the prices between skin care products which have the best reviews.

Need more reviews about anti aging products? Read more…

By Retno Kuswantoro

Permanent laser hair removal

Hair, its absence and style, is an aspect in the culture of human society. Its presence normally is as a part of body protection processes. You know, hair is growth in almost surface of human body. In some people, there are hair that growth in unwanted place of their body, or if hair growth in appropriate place but its growth is too dense. It is about aesthetics. In this condition, most people practice permanent hair removal.

Hair removal is the practice of removing body hair. Many hair removal methods can be used to gain the result. There is temporary and permanent hair removal.

You can remove hair to the level of the skin, lasts several hours to several days, or remove the entire hair from the root, lasts several days to several weeks. They called temporary hair removal. Shaving, trimming, and using depilatories such as creams, are the example. Almost temporary hair removal, except shaving, are painful, can cause medical problems and permanent damage, or have very high costs. In the market many products have proven fraudulent. Many other products exaggerate the results or ease of use.

Permanent hair removal involves several imperfect options. Some of these methods such as Electoepilation and Photoepilation such as laser hair removal are still in the testing phase and their methods have not been clinically proven. A number of methods have been developed that use chemicals, energy of varying types, or a combination to target the areas that regulate hair growth. Permanently destroying these areas to prevent hair from ever growing in the unwanted spot again, truly, is a difficult challenge, and also has high in cost.

Maybe you interested in my another article, anti aging product.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Skin care products appear in many forms: cream, lotion, and gel. Each of them has specific characteristic related to active ingredients and ease of utilizing. A gel is a solid, jelly-like material that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough. Skin care product which comes into gel form are hair gel, face cleanser, body wash gel, shampoo, eye gel, acne gel, face mask, exfoliating gel, etc.

Face gel

Facial gel

Eye gel

Compared with skin care cream and skin care lotion, skin care gel contains much water in its formulation, and usually oil-free. If applying on your skin this product give you light feeling and cool sensation. They also easily cleanse with water. If you have oily skin this form is a good choice.

In the same time, ease cleansing with water can become both its advantage and disadvantage. If you want active ingredients stay long on your skin, such as antibiotics in acne medication, or sunscreen, skin care gel is not a good choice. Active ingredients can be easily removed by sweat. Better you choose skin care cream or lotion instead.

Another disadvantage of skin care gel is this form can not contains fat soluble vitamins and other fat soluble active ingredients such as vitamin A and E, and natural oil. If you need skin care to moisturize your skin, skin care gel is not a right choice.

Dryness and feel tighten in your skin may come if skin care gel is applied in dry skin or sensitive skin type. It makes aging lines in your skin obviously. So don’t choose anti aging products that comes into gel form.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Nowadays, emphasis on image of youthfulness by the mass media and fashion, people like to have younger appearance. As we age skin sagging and wrinkles may occur because of loss of soft tissue and fat. Since ancient time people have tried to find procedures which give them younger skin. Skin Rejuvenation is any procedure used to increase or restore the appearance of a younger age to someone’s face. For specific term it refers to a set of surgical procedures.

Rejuvenate skin

Combinations of procedures usually do together depend on face area which needs corrections. They are combinations of brow lift, elimination of eye bags, eyelids lift, elimination of senile spots, skin aging, face lift and physical or chemical peeling, chin lift (reduction of double chin), restoration of facial hairline, etc. And don’t forget, clear acne take apart of younger appearance too.

Other medically effective to skin rejuvenations are: Botox injections, DMAE creams, facial toning, collagen injection, and microdermabrasion. Important thing you should aware is make sure all of those skin rejuvenations are done by dermatologist or doctor who trained and have experiences to do those procedures. These procedures are usually successful and in some cases achieve striking results.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Tighten skin

A lot of skin tightening products is rushed to the market to meet the demand of everyone who dreams to look younger. Their forms may come in creams, serum, or mask.

Companies claim that those skin tightening can tighten, firming, and reduce the visible signs of aging – fine lines, wrinkles, age spots and sagging skin. With look appealing of their jar or bottles and their advertisement with youthful looking model or a well known celebrity, those products may confuse you

The reality is most people simply won’t take any time to research products and understand what ingredients work and what ingredients are actually bad for your skin.

These are some tips to choose skin tightening products:

1. Start by looking for active ingredients found in skin tightening products. Make sure the skincare products contain pure, natural ingredients. Many product lines often contain chemicals and synthetic ingredients that will harm your skin if used over long periods of time such as parabens and mineral oil.
2. Some ingredients are well known can tighten and firming skin. When choosing a skin tightening product, it’s not just about find out good ingredients in its label; you should choose products that contain good ingredients in high concentration to get best result.
3. Don’t neglect another people’s experiences about using those skin tightening products. If you consider buying these products via internet better you read customer reviews first. They can help you to make a decision.
4. Be patient. Efficient products can heal your skin, make it tighten and firming after a few days of normal use. There is no products can fade away the visible signs of aging – fine lines, wrinkles, age spots and sagging skin dramatically. If you have acne, better you delay applying skin tightening products on your skin until you get clear acne.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Acne skin care for men

Both men and women can suffer from acne and to control acne they need acne skin care. Usually men have more oily skin and bigger pore than women, so actually they should need special acne skin care.

Acne skin care for men are not a new products, it comes in the market to meet men demand. But in fact, many men are not too aware of acne care products because men usually do not like doing excessively care they skin with skin care.

Nowadays, healthy and clear skin may increase someone’s performance and it is helpful to get a job, friends, love, etc. So for men, caring skin, especially men with acne, is a necessity.

For men who do not like excessively apply skin care on your skin these are simple acne skin care for you:

1. Skin cleanser: healthy and clear skin comes from good habit cleansing your skin everyday. Just twice a day, with mild cleanser. Better you avoid astringent or toner that contains alcohol. They may stimulate sebaceous gland to produce more oil.
2. Moisturizer: even you have oily skin, you should not discard moisturizer. Choose oil-free, non-comedogenic, and non-acnegenic formula. For simplify steps applying skin care, choose moisturizer contains sunscreen.
3. Shaving cream: be careful shaving can cause cuts, scars and irritation which only make acne worse. Choose shaving cream for sensitive skin, it is appropriate for men who have acne.

It is so simple, isn’t it? So there are no reasons to neglect caring your skin. Find out my other info about clear acne.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Men skin care products

Nowadays, men are increasingly taking care of their skin. Specially formulated men skin care products have transformed the way men look after their skin. No matter what personality or career they have, all men want to look good. Whether it’s looking good for a business meeting or a hot date, or face is the first thing people see, thus having a clean face is an important part of our aspect. It’s a good realize that men taking care of their skin not just about looking good, but it’s primarily about health.

You will have a refreshed skin, which looks health and gives you a youthful appearance if you start with a skin care routine. Men skin care products provide complete care for men’s type of skin and work to rejuvenate it, so that it remains healthy.  First you should start getting to know your skin: sensitive skin, dry skin, or oily skin.  Here is men skin care you will need.

1. Face Wash: use face wash for men according to your skin type.

2. Face Scrub: face scrub is used to exfoliate your dead skin cells. Use a face scrub only 2-3 times a week, preferably on the days you shave.

3. Shaving Cream: spread shaving cream. After rinse it will give your skin feeling soft and smooth.

4. Astringent: it will reduce excess oil and dirt on your face which the cleanser may have missed. An astringent is more potent than a toner and will contain more alcohol. Astringents are more useful for oily skin.

5. Acne care product

6. Moisturizer. I suggest you to choose men skin care moisturizer containing these ingredients:

• CynergyTK: This ingredient stimulates the growth of collagen and elastin for men’s young healthy looking skin.
• Nanobelle Coenzyme Q10: It seeps through seven layers of skin to remove effect of wrinkles and give a smooth skin texture.
• Natural vitamin E and active Manuka honey: It gives men’s skin youthfulness and plenty of nourishment.