Pregnancy
Hormones surging through your body during pregnancy and an increased metabolic rate can make you hotter than usual and make your sweat glands more active. Be sure to drink enough fluid during those nine months to keep you and your baby hydrated. Once your baby arrives, you'll keep sweating more than usual for a few weeks as your body sheds the extra fluid it accumulated during pregnancy.
Love Can Make You Sweat
You might feel like you've lost your head, but falling in love actually starts in your brain, with a rush of adrenaline-like "love chemicals." These are responsible for the racing heart, sweaty palms, and other telltale physical signs that you're smitten.
Menopause and Hot Flashes
During menopause, plunging estrogen levels play tricks on the hypothalamus -- the body's temperature gauge. No matter how frigid it is outside, a hot flash will make your body think you're in the middle of a heat wave. In a desperate attempt to shed excess heat, the blood vessels in your skin dilate and your sweat glands go into overdrive, leaving you feeling flushed, sweaty, and yearning for a cold shower.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Healthy Foods = Healthy Skin Complexion
Perfect skin actually starts from the inside out...
All the expensive skin care products in the world won't achieve healthy skin without help from your diet. Here's how you can take smarter steps to help cleanse your skin from the inside out so you can look and feel great:
• Fish contains oils that will help nourish your skin by adding luster and softness to your complexion.
• Ground flaxseeds are an excellent source of omega-three fatty acids, which promote good skin health.
• Vitamin A is essential for healthy skin. This diet includes plenty of dark orange (carrots, sweet potatoes, winter squash) and dark green (broccoli, spinach, kale) vegetables -- all of which are high in vitamin A.
• Vitamin E helps promote great skin, so eat up more nuts such as hazelnuts and almonds -- which are high in vitamin E -- as snacks.
All the expensive skin care products in the world won't achieve healthy skin without help from your diet. Here's how you can take smarter steps to help cleanse your skin from the inside out so you can look and feel great:
• Fish contains oils that will help nourish your skin by adding luster and softness to your complexion.
• Ground flaxseeds are an excellent source of omega-three fatty acids, which promote good skin health.
• Vitamin A is essential for healthy skin. This diet includes plenty of dark orange (carrots, sweet potatoes, winter squash) and dark green (broccoli, spinach, kale) vegetables -- all of which are high in vitamin A.
• Vitamin E helps promote great skin, so eat up more nuts such as hazelnuts and almonds -- which are high in vitamin E -- as snacks.
Friday, June 3, 2011
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE....
SKIN SENSITIVITIES:
Eczema: use fragrance free cleansers and moisturizers. Those containing oat extract will help control the itching.
Psoriasis: avoiding common triggers such as stress and anything you are allergic to will help, but once you have a break out, try gently exfoliating the area by adding powdered milk to bath water. This will help soften the scales. Follow with a thick coat of hypoallergenic body cream.
Rosacea: use cleansing and moisturizing products with chamomile, aloe or green tea extracts.
Acne: exercising 30 minutes a day will help regulate hormone levels, which can result in fewer breakouts. Use a soothing cleanser, with chamomile extracts and an oil-free moisturizer with salicylic acid. Use a clay based facial masque twice a week. If you have breakouts along your hairline, make sure you re thoroughly cleaning off your hair products from that area. Two other instigators may be tanning, as it thickens the skin, trapping oil, etc. and too much meat or dairy (can be hormone laden!). Try to avoid squeezing! For a quick remedy, try hydrocortisone cream on the offending spot.
Brown Spots: to lighten spots, use products with azelaic or kojic acid, green tea or vitamin C. In about 12 weeks, you should see results. Using an SPF 30, every day, is also essential.
Eczema: use fragrance free cleansers and moisturizers. Those containing oat extract will help control the itching.
Psoriasis: avoiding common triggers such as stress and anything you are allergic to will help, but once you have a break out, try gently exfoliating the area by adding powdered milk to bath water. This will help soften the scales. Follow with a thick coat of hypoallergenic body cream.
Rosacea: use cleansing and moisturizing products with chamomile, aloe or green tea extracts.
Acne: exercising 30 minutes a day will help regulate hormone levels, which can result in fewer breakouts. Use a soothing cleanser, with chamomile extracts and an oil-free moisturizer with salicylic acid. Use a clay based facial masque twice a week. If you have breakouts along your hairline, make sure you re thoroughly cleaning off your hair products from that area. Two other instigators may be tanning, as it thickens the skin, trapping oil, etc. and too much meat or dairy (can be hormone laden!). Try to avoid squeezing! For a quick remedy, try hydrocortisone cream on the offending spot.
Brown Spots: to lighten spots, use products with azelaic or kojic acid, green tea or vitamin C. In about 12 weeks, you should see results. Using an SPF 30, every day, is also essential.
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