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Acne is the most common of all skin disorders. And acne has some types. It is about eighty percent of all people between the ages of twelve and twenty-four suffer some types of acne. It is a problem of the oil glands in the skin. In contrast to several conservative conceptions, it is a problem experienced not absolutely by teenagers. A number of people are overwhelmed their whole lives with endless outbreaks of acne.

There are various types of Acne. The most general type is Acne Vulgaris which is well-known as Acne Simplex too. Other types of Acne except Vulgaris are Cosmetica, Excriee, Cystic and Occupational Acne.

However, many other types of acne exist. Informations in relation to 5 types cited above are:

ACNE VULGARIS: This acne type is a chronic inflammatory condition wherein surplus fluid is formed by over-active oil and sweat glands. Hair follicles become congested with this surplus fluid which is incapable to run away. The trapped sebum could later lead to bacterial inflammation in and around the hair follicle. This type of Acne typically starts at puberty and comes out principally on the face as pimples, cysts and blackheads.

ACNE COSMETICA: it is caused by topical make-up. Typified by small pink bumps, acne cosmetica is typically somewhat mild, with little possibility of scarring. The protracted usage of cosmetics, particularly those including isopropyl myristate and greasy ingredients for example lanolin, may be responsible for this type of Acne. It has been advocated that around 25% of women have this type of Acne, the majority of who contain a history of heavy make-up use. The management is uncomplicated. Find out which cosmetic is leading to the Acne and end applying it.

ACNE EXCORIEE: This is one of acne types that typically discovered in young girls, beginning in adolescence. The girl might discover a pimple and begin scratching at it cruelly. The skin is injured by the fingernails and is not able to cure because of constant scratching, which leaves a broad, superficial scar. This must not be confused with an oblivious nervous practice. In this situation, minimal acne lesions on the face are worsened by neurotic pressing and squeezing of the pimples, trying to clear the contents with the fingers. Consequently, hyperpigmentation and stellate constricted scars take place, while frequently the original underlying acne has cured.

CYSTIC ACNE: One of the most ruthless types of acne, it arises when the infected contents of a pustule or pimple erupts under the skin, rather than on the surface. The body’s natural protections afterward attempt to combat the infection, causing swelling and pain. Cystic acne frequently leads to facial scarring. This type of Acne typically involves the back, upper arms, shoulders and neck. Cystic Acne frequently comes about in males and usually perseveres beyond 20 years of age and can cause enduring scarring. This type of Acne could be medically dealt with and needs specialist recommendation. In some situations it may be rather painful and can effect in the patient feeling unwell.

OCCUPATIONAL ACNE: This is one of acne types which typically shape as the effect of touch with mineral oil or petroleum. This acne type is a general condition had by motor mechanics that are often uncovered to oils and grease. The oil annoys the hair follicles leading to blackheads to shape profoundly in the skin and is hard to treat. Get in touch with the oil must be reduced or eliminated.

M Raflee
http://www.articlesbase.com/acne-articles/acne-types-5-types-of-acne-you-should-know-672362.html

The androgenic hormones, particularly testosterone, that increase at puberty, and the surge of premenstrual hormones, trigger increased production of sebum in the sweat glands. The pores become clogged with both sebum and dead skin cells creating a prime breeding ground for bacteria. These bacteria and the breakdown products of sebum cause irritation and inflammation in the pores. The result is acne – blackheads, whiteheads, pustules, and cysts in the skin.

Teenagers are not the only ones who can get acne. Adults, at least 50%, suffer from blemishes and acne also. Sometimes adult acne is a result of pregnancy, diet, menopause or emotional upset. For some people acne is due to genetics or hormones that create excessive oil production and this clogs the pores of the skin. Some cosmetics can block pores which will create pimples.

Severe acne can affect many facets of a person’s life, causing a great deal of embarrassment and stress. Some severe forms of acne like acne cysts may rupture and cause scars that can result in psychological effects on the sufferer. Having skin full of pimples and zits may significantly limit one’s social life and even diminish career prospects. Although acne is not considered to be a life threatening disorder, the psychological impact of acne can be quite profound as it affects the most visible parts of your body. If your acne condition is severe it can be disfiguring and require years of treatment.

Use a good toner. Spray onto face or wipe on with a cotton ball and wipe off with a clean, dry cotton ball. This gets rid of excess cleanser and tightens pores. Good, inexpensive choices include plain witch hazel for normal to dry skin, or 3% hydrogen peroxide for oily skin. 70% ethyl rubbing alcohol can also be used for severe oiliness, but it can really dry out your skin and irritate it more. Some toners are medicated, too, and this stage is the best for using a medicated product if you’re only going to use one medication. Lemon juice is a good option, too.

Nutritional supplements

Nutritional supplements for acne will decrease inflammation and infection and nourish the skin. If consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables is low, take a multi-vitamin supplement. Buy supplements at a health food store rather than a discount store or supermarket. The vitamin and mineral sources will be higher quality. Remember that foods provide a more balanced and absorbable form of nutrients than pills. Reliance on supplements as the only source of vitamins will not produce adequate results.

Vitamins B5 and B6 and B3 have been shown to have an amazing effect on acne outbreaks. Vitamin B5 was studied with people taking 10mg per day plus a 20% topical lotion of B5. Those with minor acne cleared up quickly and those with severe acne cleared up within 6 months. The safety of such high doses has not been determined, though.

Greens

They’re available at health stores and are basically vegetables that are powdered. If you want to get rid of acne quick you should try to eat around 5 tablespoons a day or more. This will greatly help with clearing up acne if you are eating right as well.

Corwin Brown

You might disagree, but hear me out on this. My readers often have questions about the recommended vitamins for healthy hair and skin. Here’s what I tell them. To have the best looking hair and the healthiest skin, you need all of the basic, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, essential fatty acids, protein and carbohydrates. And, when it comes to the skin’s health, you need a good skincare routine.

When a person is deficient in any nutrient, it shows. The symptoms may be dark circles under the eyes, blemishes, uneven pigmentation, paleness or a specific skin condition like eczema or psoriasis. The hair may look dull and lifeless, instead of shiny and richly colored.

The cosmetic companies have allowed us to cover up these signs of nutritional deficiencies with makeup and hair coloring. Those things should only be necessary to highlight our features, emphasize the color of the eyes or the fullness of the lips. We should need them to conceal an underlying health problem.

Are there specific vitamins for healthy hair and skin? An excellent daily nutritional supplement provides everything that you need. The average ones that you see on store shelves are not of the highest quality. Most of them contain synthetic vitamin E, which regardless of what the manufacturer’s say, I cannot believe that a compound derived from crude oil is actually beneficial for a person’s health.

Once you find the best nutritional supplement, you should focus on getting rid of the toxic personal care products that you are using every day. Your shampoo and body wash, as well as the cosmetics that you use should be as natural as possible. Ingredients like petrolatum and mineral oil are also derived from crude oil. These substances clog your pores and are often contaminated with hazardous compounds, many of which cause cancer.

A mild all-natural cleanser is just as important as vitamins for healthy hair and skin. And, after cleansing your face, you should be using a nourishing moisturizer, both day and night.

Many people feel that their skin is too oily and that there is no need to use a moisturizer, but when you clean your face, the solution removes natural oils. If you don’t use a balancing moisturizer, the sebaceous glands will secrete even more oils to try to compensate. The moisturizer that I recommend contains grape seed oil, passion fruit extract, coenzyme Q10, natural vitamin E, kelp extracts and protein.

These ingredients contain many of the nutrients and vitamins for healthy hair and skin. Maracuja passion fruit extract helps to regulate sebum production, so that your skin will not be too oily or too dry. Coenzyme Q10 and natural vitamin E must be properly prepared or they cannot be used by the skin’s cells to protect them from free radicals and oxidation.

Do yourself a favor, to help maintain the health of the hair, scalp and the body, I recommend a showerhead filter for those people that have chlorine in their water supply. There are many other things that you can do, as well. These are just the basics of vitamins for healthy hair and skin. There’s always more to learn.

To learn more about vitamins for beautiful skin, and other incredible natural substances for natural healthy skin care, visit my website today.

Laurel Levine
http://www.articlesbase.com/skin-care-articles/a-guide-to-vitamins-for-healthy-hair-and-skin-738733.html

Everyone I know says I am spaced out.

My wife tells me I’m distracted and self-absorbed. She says I have no sense of time, lose things constantly, and cannot be trusted with small appliances. She says these things are evidence of my dysfunction.According to her, I fade in and out of reality all the time… but she doesn’t know the half of it.

My friends think I’m a pie-in-the-sky dreamer too, a guy who spends most of his time in La La Land. They’re too nice to say it, but half the time they think I act like I’m from another planet. That’s because when they see me, half the time I have just come back from another planet. I’ve been hiding this for a long time, but the truth is…I am a REAL space ranger and I have traveled all over the galaxy!

I try to tell my buddies what I have discovered about the inner workings of the universe, but their eyes just roll back in their heads like the reels in a slot machine. It happens so often I have taken to cupping my hands under their mouths on the hopes I will hit the jackpot. So far the only payoff I’ve gotten is a spray of spittle when they burst into laughter.

I know I am hoist on my own petard. It’s my own fault that people question my credibility. Part of my problem comes from publishing a newspaper in which fact is indistinguishable from fiction. In the past, I must admit I have written a few things that stretch the truth. Many people doubt my in-depth interviews with Santa Claus and Bigfoot.

I understand that some folks question whether the Register is really locked in a vicious print war with the New York Times; that our columnist is really over two hundred years old; or that Round Top’s Town Marshall is really 6’9” tall and rides tornadoes.

These are reasonable doubts, and I cannot deny that I might have played loose with the facts a time or two for the sake of art.

But in all fairness, anyone who studies physics will find what most of us think of as “the real world” doesn’t exist. One of the founders of quantum physics, Erwin Schrödinger, points out that at the atomic level, all matter performs in a “completely disorderly heat motion, which opposes itself to their orderly behavior and does not allow the events that happen between a small number of atoms to enroll themselves according to any recognizable physical laws.”

That means if you look closely at the building blocks of the universe from which everything is made – your car, your kids, your dinner, your new pair of shoes – you won’t find anything that looks like facts or reality.

Reality is just a story humans tell one another so we won’t be utterly overwhelmed by the incredible complexity of the world in which we live. The universe is incomprehensibly vast. Life is unfathomably complex. Few of us have the slightest idea what is going on around us, and for the most part, we don’t want to know.

Accepting the truth about our insignificance in the grand scheme of things is a real blow to the ego, so who wants to do it.

The fact that everyone makes up their own reality is just one of the basic truths that even the most backward of the galaxy’s species takes for granted, but here on the old home planet we are still having a hard time getting the message.

People on our planet often think there is some “real and objective” world that is the same for everyone. This kind of provincialism is very embarrassing for a space ranger like myself.

Put yourself in my shoes. You are at a cocktail party at a penthouse in an upscale tourist colony orbiting a gas giant in the Betelgeuse system, and your host, who looks a lot like a six foot tall oyster with chrome hood ornaments suddenly shouts “Humans believe what?” and the whole party breaks up in riotous laughter.

This kind of thing makes it very hard to act cool. Belonging to what many interstellar beings consider “one of the goofiest-looking species in the universe” is hard enough, but being an intellectual laughing stock just adds insult to injury.

That is one of the reasons I have decided to come clean about my secret life and try to explain what is really going on in the universe to the rest of humanity.

Salt Crystals on a String

My strange situation began a long time ago when I first became a space cadet. It began innocently enough. I had a big imagination as a child and was fascinated with the workings of the world – why salt crystals appeared on a string suspended in salt water; why the program in your hand shivers and quakes in a concert hall when the strings crescendo at certain notes; why snowflakes are all unique and other amazing mysteries of science.

When I was a kid, the world was a source of wonder for me, and that wondering set me to wandering in my mind…and the next thing you know I was a space cadet.

It all started when I met Tom Corbette and the Space Rangers.

Tom was as all-American boy, tried and true, and a fellow cadet at the Interplanetary Space Academy. He and I teamed up with two other young cadets. Roger, who was real wise guy but a crack navigator was the first, and Astro, our massive but good-natured engineer was the other. The four of us rocketed all over the solar system before I was out of the sixth grade.

In the summer after I graduated from elementary school, I discovered a book called Glory Road, and found myself hopping from one dimension to the next.

That was where all the trouble started. It was fun, flitting from one alternate universe to another battling impossible odds, but there are serious consequences when you defy the laws of physics, and before long I was paying the piper.

I first began to notice strange things happening when I was in the seventh grade. That school year I lost three watches and four coats. My mother assumed I was simply careless, but as far as I could tell those personal items just disappeared. Right away I knew they had slipped into another time/space continuum but it was hard to prove to my mom.

Sadly, a little known effect of such quantum phenomena is that there is a corresponding perturbation in the electro-chemical energies passing through the synapses of the brain when they occur…which means you can’t actually remember the alternate universe events when they happen to you.

I knew those watches – including the one with Roy Rogers and Trigger on the dial - must lie half buried beneath the purple sands of a distant world. They were probably being crushed under the twelve armored feet of a methane-breathing three-headed desert beast rather than lost in my school locker. But no matter how articulate my argument, I couldn’t convince my unimaginative mother. When I came home from school without my coat for the third time, she grounded me.

That’s when I realized my life as starfarer was better kept a secret.

Now all these years later, I realize that I am not alone. There are other people like me out there in the world, lonely and lost, never seeming to fit in, observing a universe that their friends and neighbors can’t perceive. They seem like normal people except for a few unusual quirks.

They tend to lose anything not chained to their belts. They are constantly looking for their keys, their cell phones, their screw drivers and wallets. Important papers vaporize on their desks at work. They have no sense of time. They have a hard time remembering names and phone numbers and never read directions. They leave lights on all over the house and can’t be trusted with toaster ovens.

They spend a lot of time lost in thought, staring off into space with wistful expressions on their faces. Sometimes they become fixated watching a cloud, or a crawling bug, or the reflection of light on water, and you have to shake them to get their attention.

In other words, they have the attention span of a four-year-old.

If there is anyone in your life like this, I ask you to be patient and forgiving. They may be annoying and hard to live with, but they’re behavior is an unfortunate side effect of an important mission.

They’re secretly defending the earth against invasion by the forces of galactic evil, so give them a break. It easy to get a little distracted when you’re standing alone against the death rays of the machine-beings from the Crab Nebula.

Facing such responsibility, anyone could forget a birthday or two. These people deserve your respect because they are performing a valuable public service. Defending the planet earth from total annihilation is a thankless job, but someone’s got to do it.

To my clients, friends and neighbors, I am a regular guy who happens to be a little eccentric. They assume that I lose things and can’t remember people’s names because I simply don’t pay attention, or because my brain was damaged in the 1960’s by recreational drugs.

Actually, I am constantly cycling from one dimension of space to another. I’ll be in Round Top talking on the cell phone or sitting at the drafting board trying to design someone’s country house…and then all of a sudden I’m taking four G’s as my spacecraft leaves the atmosphere of the fifth planet out from Alpha Centauri in pursuit of insectoid aliens bent on galactic domination.

Needless to say, these circumstances make it difficult for me to maintain my professional composure at my architecture firm. It’s hard to explain what is really going on, so I find it necessary to preserve the charade that I am simply a garden variety ditz.

This guise has long worked to my advantage. You learn a few things about the behavior of sentient life forms when you hang out with aliens from all over the galaxy. I’ve seen it over and over in fifty different star systems. When some species find out you are different – and Homo Sapiens are among them – it makes them afraid, and organisms that are afraid have a tendency to get nasty.

It’s long been my opinion that it’s better to take a little lip, than to have your lip busted. As a result, I have lived a double life. But now I am throwing caution to the wind. I’m going to tell everybody what I have found out in my travels about what is really going on here on the planet earth.

I have to run to the house because I forgot to turn off the coffee percolator and the Queen is afraid I am going to burn the house down. I’ll clue you in as soon as I get back.

The Ultimate Truths of Life on Earth

Whew! That was close. The bottom of the coffee pot was starting to look like a black hole. Now back to the facts about life on earth. There are a many such truths of course, more than I can tell you now, so I am going to focus on the top seven.

1. The Aliens are getting restless.

For the last million years or so, most of galactic society has ignored human beings. I mean, there have been a few good sitcoms based on human beings, mostly comedies sort of like Bedtime for Bonzo, but for the most part no one really cared. Human beings were just funny monkeys scratching themselves. They felt safe from the various types of crazy violent madness we are so good at cooking up because we were stuck on our own planet.

But then Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and that changed everything. Those of us who were alive when that happened experienced a very rare event. Life on earth is roughly 3.8 billion years old. Each of us lives an average about 70 years. That means the odds that any individual organism would be alive when a representative of life on earth actually set foot on another world is 5,428,5714 to one.

It’s not just the Beatles that make us a unique generation and this fact is not lost on folks who live in neighboring star systems, especially because things are happening pretty fast. Our seed is spreading. Voyager I is now about 8.7 billion miles from earth and moving towards them at 46,000 miles an hour. They watch the History Channel. They know what maniacs we are and it is making them nervous.

Now what you need to understand is that most of our neighbors in the galaxy are pretty nice folks. They tend to be forgive and forget types. But there are races out there that view us the same way we view a venereal disease, and if they decide we need a dose of antibiotics, we are toast.

That’s the main reason I have decided to speak up. We need to get our act together in the next couple of generations, or our communal butts are going to be in a sling.

The second thing you need to know I already talked about above. It’s important truth number two.

2. You live in your own little world.

Each of us makes up our individual reality. I mean really. I’m not saying the material world doesn’t exist. There is a world out there, but each of us perceives it differently in significant ways.

Throughout the galaxy, every different organism has its own “real world.” Highly social species like us can coordinate our behavior by talking and mimicking each other, and by building a common living space to channel our actions, but those are just tricks our brains have evolved so we can get more food and make more babies than the other animals we compete with for survival.

Bottom line, you have to guess about what the other guy is thinking. After millions of years of evolution, our brains have gotten very good at guessing. But really…you don’t have the slightest idea what is going on in the minds of your wife, your husband, or your kids….let alone behind the fevered brows of Osama Bin Laden or Tom Delay.

There is no point in worrying about what other people think. There is no point in talking to other people about what they think other people think. There is no point to watching television shows or reading books about what other people think. You’ll never really know.

So just relax and pay attention, because the only way you are ever going to get any idea what a person thinks is by listening to them and watching their behavior.

On advanced worlds, listening and observing are competitive sports. You can get a Ph.D. in them. In many societies, talking is seen as an unpleasant but necessary metabolic process, something like urination or defecation. The smartest people never say a darn thing!

2. You are never alone. You just think you are.

You are really just a cell in a bigger organism. Every advanced society understands this. I know you think paying your own bills and having your own body makes you all grown up and independent, but the truth is that you and every other living thing is just a piece of the living earth.

All the incredibly diverse species that cover our planet are just specialized cells like those in your body. Some are liver cells. Some are stomach lining. Some are neurons.

I know this is a blow to your ego, but it is time to grown up and face the music. You aren’t really all that important in the grand scheme of things. Even humanity as a whole is not all that big a deal. Our living planet was growing and evolving just fine for billions of years before anyone invented a BMW. It may seem like the American Idol results show is the center of the universe, but it really isn’t.

The reason you think you are an individual is because all living systems are built of small pieces that must be distinct from one another if they are to work. Identity is necessary for their functioning, just as an individual cell is important to the functioning of your pancreas. What a liver cell thinks about the liver makes no difference. All that matters is whether it oozes bile.

The same is true for you. I know this is hard to swallow, but time is running out so I can’t afford to break it to you gently.

3. Everything in the universe is always running down.

Human scientists call this fact the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or entropy. Most physicists consider it the most general law of nature.

When the energy in any system – a star or a living organism – runs down to the point that it becomes a dead, inert lump of matter, it reaches a state that a physicist calls thermodynamic equilibrium, or maximum entropy. It can also be described as “greater order” as significant change in its form stops for all practical purposes.

Most substances degrade relatively rapidly from the relative disorder caused by heat to a more “stable order” as they cool to absolute zero, but the march towards maximum entropy exhibits itself in many other ways. When two solutions are mixed - for instance a jar of sugar water and a jar of plain water - the sugar has a “goal” of becoming equally distributed throughout the liquid water. When it reaches that state, maximum entropy is achieved.

Such effects occur throughout nature. For instance, Americans degrade the complex organisms we refer to as cattle at a mind-boggling rate. In the year 2000, somewhere around thirty-eight million of those highly organized and brilliantly functional organic systems, each capable of independently maintaining its energy level for a considerable number of years, were “degraded” to the more stable state we refer to as sewage by the process of our consumption.

That sewage is then consumed and degraded by specialized microorganisms even closer to thermodynamic equilibrium.

In that same year, each American converted an average of 195 pounds of red meat, poultry and fish into simpler forms. Every year of our lives, we convert more than our weight of other “higher life forms” into energy and protein which we use to battle the relentless march of entropy.

Each individual organism on earth is an efficient processing plant that is remarkably effective at making other organisms in the world around them - and even inorganic compounds - more “stable.”

Eating and finding food are so basic to the function of living things that in almost all organisms the brain is located near the entrance to the gut. There are several families of genes that govern both brain and gut development, which reflects the ancient relationship between the gut and the brain.

It is humbling to consider while pushing our carts through the grocery store that we may be utilizing the first and foremost purpose of our minds, but those are the facts. Like every other animal, our primary business in life is to find food that can be converted to energy to support the functioning of our bodies. What we do not use, we excrete as feces, urine, and perspiration.

Combined, the amount of waste generated by living things, both in life and in death, has altered a significant portion of the earth’s crust. Soil and limestone deposits, both results of millions of years of processing by living things, cover our planet.

All life is knee deep in birth and death, two extremes of a powerful entropic process. This universal contest is present not only in the grand scheme of nature, but also in the daily existence of everything in creation.

Our sun is a powerful generator of energy, but like all sources of energy, that energy is slowly suffering the attrition of entropy. The powerful heat and pressures within the core of our planet create complex mineral deposits, which emerge through volcanic activity and other geological phenomena to create mountains and other grand features, which are in turn worn down by wind, rain, glaciers and other natural forces, and turned into sand and soil.

Our bodies face entropy each day. Millions of years of evolution have built a grand engine in the human physique. Each human body has incredible abilities to persist in the face of entropy’s relentless march - but in the end - every individual living organism, every mountain, every energy source…wears down.

So the bottom line is that your decline is inevitable. No matter how much you work out and how well you eat, you are still on the way out. All you are ever going to do is eat, poop and die. I know that sounds like bad news, but every cloud has a silver lining.

Entropy means that there will always be plenty of work for doctors, remodeling contractors, cosmetics sales people and washing machine repairmen.

4. You only exist as a relationship.

Now this might be hard to understand, so I will use a metaphor that makes it easier. First, I have to tell you that you are what is called a “dissipative structure.” Such a structure accelerates the pace of entropy by taking energy from the world around it and hastening it towards thermodynamic equilibrium.

Dissipative structures are easily observable in nature. Whirlpools and tornadoes are two common examples, but galaxies and eco-systems also qualify.

When barometric pressure rises in a storm front, a regular form with a recognizable structure emerges. We call it a tornado. A tornado allows the high barometric pressure to dissipate more effectively in exchange for maintaining its structure. It has to have a thermodynamic imbalance to exist. When the build up of pressure is equalized, the tornado disappears.

In the early 1990’s, earth scientists performed a thermal analysis while flying over several varied ecosystems and discovered that the more developed the eco-system, the colder its surface temperature. They discovered what the rest of the galaxy already knows, that complex living systems dissipate the sun’s energy more effectively than those that are less diverse. The more complex the living system, the more effective dissipater it is.

Your body is a complex living system too, just like a jungle. The city you live in is also complex living system. Both you and the city are dissipative structures. You take energy out of the world around you like a tornado, and use that energy to avoid the impact of entropy. As pointed out above, you are very effective at turning cows into poop. You do this so you can continue being yourself. The cow is sacrificed to maintain your structure.

A tornado’s identity is a relationship between a high pressure storm system and a low pressure layer of air. A tornado is an identifiable thing, but though it has a structure you can see and it can blow a piece of straw through a fence post, all its parts are parts of other things. It has no distinct content. Its behavior is the only thing unique about it, and that behavior is completely determined by its environment.

So is yours. You are merely a relationship between your physical and cultural environment, and the genes you inherited from your family. The only thing that is “you” is how you act, and how you act is almost entirely determined by your instincts and your environment.

Sorry. I know it’s hard to feel like the most important thing in the universe when someone is trying to say you make decisions like a termite, but…well…you do.

5. Your brain is not designed to make you happy.

Have you ever noticed that it is incredibly difficult to get happy and stay that way?

We have been evolving for several million years. The amazingly brilliant brains in our skulls make us smart enough to get to the moon. Since almost all of us want to be happy, you would think natural selection would have done a better job of getting us that way.

The problem is that natural selection doesn’t care if you are happy unless your happiness makes your genes more likely to make it to the next generation. Genes are very selfish. They have their own agenda, and don’t care a whit about your happiness.

Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker makes this point as follows: “People don’t selfishly spread their genes; genes selfishly spread themselves. They do it by the way they build our brains. By making us enjoy life, health, sex, friends, and children, the genes buy a lottery ticket for representation in the next generation.”

So you see, your brain isn’t designed to make you happy. It is designed to give you grandchildren, and if they make you happy, that is because your genes want you to throw yourself in front of a lion so they can have grandchildren.

After they are born, you see, you are expendable. The reason for this is perhaps the most important truth of all for human beings.

6. All that really matters is sex.

There are plenty of galactic races that don’t have sex. They reproduce with spores, or through binary fission like a paramecium, or are manufactured in a factory. I met an alien one time that reproduced using a Xerox machine. There are many different ways to do it.

But in the long run for human beings, sex is all that matters. Ultimately, every man is a sperm, wiggling his little tail while racing all the other little men up the birth canal for a one-in-a-million chance of getting laid. Every woman is an egg, waiting for first few suitors to arrive, and then being picky about which one she lets penetrate her cell membrane.

That’s about it. Sex is the point of all human existence. Money, power, beauty, kindness, love, morality, success, and all our other cherished ideals are merely various strategies for making babies and helping them survive so they can make more babies.

There are currently about 6,451,058,790 human beings on earth. One year ago there were 6,376,863,118. That’s 74,195,672 more in a year. In 1950, the global population was 2,556,517,137. That’s more than a 250% increase in only 55 years. At that rate, in 110 years there will be about forty billion of us.

You can see why our galactic neighbors are so worried about what will happen if we move into their neighborhoods.

Christopher K. Travis
http://www.articlesbase.com/humor-articles/spaced-out-my-life-as-a-space-ranger-696400.html

How do you find the top natural skin care products? You probably need some help. First, you need to know that an organic natural skin care product that is made in the US might contain non-organic ingredients, because the label is not regulated, and those manufactured anywhere in the world could contain unwanted contaminants, because manufactures are not required to test for contaminants.

For example, a consumer advocacy group recently tested a variety of organic natural skin care cleansers. They found that most of them contained Dioxane. Chemically, it is organic, but it certainly is not safe. It is either a possible, probable or known human carcinogen, depending on which list of cancer-causing substances you are looking at.

At one time, applying cancer-causing substances topically was not considered particularly dangerous. It was thought that they did not penetrate the epidermis and could do little or no damage. Now, we know that this is not true. Research has shown that these substances pass through the skin’s layers, enter the tissues, the blood stream and lodge in the organs.

The top natural skin care products, in my book, are ones that do not contain anything that is even suspected of causing cancer or other health problems. I believe in the Ayurvedic approach to skincare, which means that if I would not eat it, I should not apply it to my face or body.

I am sure that anyone who is shopping for an organic natural skin care solution has the same idea. It’s just that the cosmetic industry doesn’t see it that way. They still recommend the use of coal tar for eczema and dandruff. The primary components of most cosmetics are petrochemicals, byproducts created when crude oil is converted to gasoline. Why would you want to put that on your face or body?

The top natural skin care products contain “yummy” ingredients. Passion fruit is one of my favorites.

Like any other organ of the human body, the skin’s layers need nutrients. Vitamin C is a cofactor necessary for creating strong collagen fibers. Vitamin A is needed to maintain the skin’s health. Potassium is needed to maintain the skin’s moisture balance. Passion fruit is rich in all three of these nutrients.

One of the best organic natural skin care ingredients is grape seed oil. It can be used for everything from a shaving lubricant to a moisturizer. It is rich in natural vitamin E and essential fatty acids that are similar to the skin’s own sebum. It has a unique filming ability which helps keep dirt and makeup out of the pores, while locking in moisture.

Only the top natural skin care products contain grape seed oil. It isn’t that expensive. It’s just that it is not as cheap as mineral oil, one of the petrochemicals that cosmetic companies rely on.

When you shop for organic natural skin care solutions, be sure to learn a little bit about the manufacturer’s philosophy. That’s how you’ll find the top natural skin care products.

To learn more about vitamins for healthy skin, and other incredible natural substances for natural healthy skin care, visit my website today.

Laurel Levine
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You might disagree, but hear me out on this. My readers often have questions about the recommended vitamins for healthy hair and skin. Here’s what I tell them. To have the best looking hair and the healthiest skin, you need all of the basic, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, essential fatty acids, protein and carbohydrates. And, when it comes to the skin’s health, you need a good skincare routine.

When a person is deficient in any nutrient, it shows. The symptoms may be dark circles under the eyes, blemishes, uneven pigmentation, paleness or a specific skin condition like eczema or psoriasis. The hair may look dull and lifeless, instead of shiny and richly colored.

The cosmetic companies have allowed us to cover up these signs of nutritional deficiencies with makeup and hair coloring. Those things should only be necessary to highlight our features, emphasize the color of the eyes or the fullness of the lips. We should need them to conceal an underlying health problem.

Are there specific vitamins for healthy hair and skin? An excellent daily nutritional supplement provides everything that you need. The average ones that you see on store shelves are not of the highest quality. Most of them contain synthetic vitamin E, which regardless of what the manufacturer’s say, I cannot believe that a compound derived from crude oil is actually beneficial for a person’s health.

Once you find the best nutritional supplement, you should focus on getting rid of the toxic personal care products that you are using every day. Your shampoo and body wash, as well as the cosmetics that you use should be as natural as possible. Ingredients like petrolatum and mineral oil are also derived from crude oil. These substances clog your pores and are often contaminated with hazardous compounds, many of which cause cancer.

A mild all-natural cleanser is just as important as vitamins for healthy hair and skin. And, after cleansing your face, you should be using a nourishing moisturizer, both day and night.

Many people feel that their skin is too oily and that there is no need to use a moisturizer, but when you clean your face, the solution removes natural oils. If you don’t use a balancing moisturizer, the sebaceous glands will secrete even more oils to try to compensate. The moisturizer that I recommend contains grape seed oil, passion fruit extract, coenzyme Q10, natural vitamin E, kelp extracts and protein.

These ingredients contain many of the nutrients and vitamins for healthy hair and skin. Maracuja passion fruit extract helps to regulate sebum production, so that your skin will not be too oily or too dry. Coenzyme Q10 and natural vitamin E must be properly prepared or they cannot be used by the skin’s cells to protect them from free radicals and oxidation.

Do yourself a favor, to help maintain the health of the hair, scalp and the body, I recommend a showerhead filter for those people that have chlorine in their water supply. There are many other things that you can do, as well. These are just the basics of vitamins for healthy hair and skin. There’s always more to learn.

To learn more about vitamins for beautiful skin, and other incredible natural substances for natural healthy skin care, visit my website today.

Laurel Levine
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Do you know why some products are designed specifically for oily skin care?  It’s because one of the major components in cosmetics is an ingredient called petrolatum, which clogs the pores and causes greasiness.  So, the oily skincare products from the major cosmetic companies do not contain that ingredient, but the ingredients that they do contain can cause other problems. 

The first question that I ask clients is their age.  Teen-agers tend to have over-active sebaceous glands.  It is sebum, secreted by the sebaceous glands that can naturally cause that greasy feeling.  Then, I ask a few other questions about diet, environment, cleansers and the other personal care products that the person uses, so that we can come up with a complete plan. 

You see, my goal is to discover the cause of the excessive oiliness.  If it is overactive sebaceous glands, then there are specific ingredients that address that issue.  But, I like to rule out other causes, first. 

Eating a lot of fried or greasy foods is a problem for oily skin care.  Try eating more fresh fruits and vegetables.  Grill or bake your meat, instead of frying it. 

If you live or work in a humid environment, particularly a restaurant, you will need specific oily skincare products for cleansing and you may need to clean your face two or three times per day, at least at first.  The best cleansers for oily skin care are plain orange oil, tea tree oil or manuka honey. 

Orange oil and tea tree oil are not “oils” in the way that most people think of them.  They are actually natural astringents.  They have antioxidant activity and tea tree oil has antibacterial activity, which is highly beneficial for those with acne. 

The most popular oily skincare products for cleansing contain salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide, both of these cause redness, burning and irritation.  It is possible to remove excessive oils, without doing any of those things. 

Manuka honey must be properly formulated for use in oily skincare products.  Obviously, rubbing honey on your face will not clean it.  Companies are able to include it by dehydrating it to a powder form and then adding it to an emulsifier.  This process allows it to retain its antibacterial and antioxidant activity.  Manuka is highly beneficial for treating acne.

If cosmetics were properly manufactured, they would not need separate lines for dry and oily skin care.  The companies cause many problems for their customers, because of ingredients like petrolatum.  So, look at the products that you are currently using and if they contain petrolatum or mineral oil, stop using them.

Once you have done that, watched your diet and purchased effective cleansers, there are some effective oily skincare products that you use on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, depending on how severe your problem is.  They are masks that contain bentone gel and kaolin, clay extracts that absorb excessive oils and pull dirt out of the pores.  Those are the basics of oily skin care.  Hope that helps!

Visit my website today to learn more about the natural substances that are excellent for keeping your skin healthy.

Rachel Hammond
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Wrinkles form when the skin loses its elasticity. As long as the skin is supple, any creasing of the skin disappears as soon as you stop making the expression that caused it. Over time these lines deepen into wrinkles. Some wrinkling is inevitable, as a result of aging. The first line of wrinkles usually appear in the delicate tissue around the eyes-smile lines or “crow’s feet.” The cheeks and lips are next. As we age, our skin becomes both thinner and dryer, both of which contribute to the formation of wrinkles. Other factors include diet and nutrition, muscle tone, stress, proper skin care, exposure to environmental pollutants, and lifestyle habits such as smoking. Heredity also plays a role.

The most important factor of all is sun exposure, which not only dries out the skin but also leads to the generation of free radicals that can damage skin cells. It is estimated that as much as 90% of what we think of as signs of age are actually signs of overexposure. Overexposure is more than sunbathing or sunburn, approximately 70% of sun damage is incurred with everyday activities as driving and walking to and from your car. The sun effects are cumulative.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Eat a well-balanced diet that includes many and varied fruits and vegetables, preferably raw to provide the nutrients your skin needs. Also eat whole grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes.
Drink at least 2 quarts of water each day.

Obtain fatty acids from cold-pressed vegetable oils. Avoid saturated and animal fats.
Do not smoke and avoid alcohol and caffeine. These substances dry out the skin, making it more vulnerable to wrinkling.

Regardless of age or skin type, protect yourself from the sun.. Always apply a sunscreen with a SPF of at least 15. Sun exposure is the single greatest source of skin damage.

Get regular exercise. This increases the circulation of blood to the skin.
Exercise your face. Sit in a chair and extend your jaw in an exaggerated chewing motion. Laying on a slant board for fifteen minutes a day is also good.
Avoid alcohol-based toning products. Use witch hazel or an herbal/floral water instead.

Avoid using harsh soaps or solid cleansing creams such as cold cream on your face. Use natural oils such as avocado oil instead to remove dirt and old makeup. Apply it gently and rinse it off with warm water.

Do not share your cosmetics, and replace them every three months.
Be careful in selecting skin care products. Seek products containing natural ingredients, and avoid those that contain petrolatum, mineral oil, or any hydrogenated oils.

To add color to sallow skin-mash ½ cups of strawberries in a blender and apply for 10 minutes, then rinse with tepid water.
To alleviate puffiness in the eye area, place cool cucumber slices for 10 minutes or more.

To cleanse the pores, rub mashed tomato over your face.
To help protect your skin from free radical damage-add a few drops of green tea extract to your lotions, astringents, and other beauty products.
To moisturize your skin, mash together grapes with enough honey to make a paste, and apply the mixture to your face as a mask. Leave for20-30 minutes while you relax, then rinse it off.

To remove dead surface skin cells, gently rub a small handful of dry short-grained rice against your face for a few minutes.
To soften and nourish the skin, mash half of an avocado and apply to your face. Leave it on until it dries, and then rinse off with warm water.
To tighten and refine pores, whip up the white of an egg off with a pinch of alum and apply to your face as a mask for 15-20 minutes before rinsing with lukewarm water.

NUTRIENTS

Supplement Suggested Dosage
Very Important

Primrose oil 1,000 mg 3 times daily

Or
Black currant seed oil As directed on label
Vitamin A 25,000 IU daily for 3 months, then reduce to 15,000 daily

Plus
Natural carotenoid complex (Betatene) As directed on label
Vitamin B complex As directed on label

Plus extra vitamin B12 300-1,000 mg daily

Important

Kelp 1,000-1,500 mg daily
Selenium 200 mg daily
Silica As directed on label
Vitamin C with bioflavonolds 3,000-5,000 mg daily in divided doses
Vitamin E Start with 400IU daily, increase slowly to 800IU daily
Zinc 50 mg daily, do not exceed total of 100 mg daily from

Plus all supplements
Copper 3 mg daily

Helpful

Ageless Beauty from Biotec Foods As directed on label
Aloe Vera
Calcium and 1,500 mg daily
Magnesium 750 mg daily
Collagen cream Apply topically as directed on label
Elastin cream Apply topically as directed on label
Flaxseed oil capsules or 1,000 mg daily
Liquid or 1 tsp. Daily
Ultimate Oil from Nature’s Secret As directed on label
GH3 cream from Gero Vita Apply topically as directed on label
Glucosamine sulfate or As directed on label
N-Acetylglucosamine (NAG from Source Nat.) As directed on label
Herpanacine from Diamond Herpanacine Assc. As directed on label
Pycogenol As directed on label
Super oxide dismutase (SOD) As directed on label
Tretinoin (Retin-A) As prescribed by physician
Vitamin D 400 IU daily

HERBS

Alfalfa, burdock root, chamomile, horsetail, oat straw and thyme are all good for general nourishment of the hair, skin, and nails
Aloe Vera has soothing, healing, and moisturizing properties. Apply pure aloe Vera gel to dry skin as directed on the product label
Other beneficial herbs for skin tone include borage seed, flaxseed, ginger root lemongrass, parsley, and pumpkin seed

Dr. Lisa Christine Christiansen

Cosmetics for younger looking skin are all over the stores and highly advertised on TV.  Do they work?  Are they safe to put on your skin?  Probably not.  But there are effective skin care products for younger looking skin.  I’m going to show you what ingredients to look for and those to avoid.  Also here are a few tips on how to keep skin young looking.

1. Diet

There are several steps that you can take to keep skin young looking.  Focusing on your overall health and well-being is a good place to start.  Your diet should include enough protein, omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil is a good choice) and basic vitamins like A, C and E. A good source for natural supplements that I found is at:  healthybodysupplements.com.  These are needed for the body to build new skin-cells and for the sebaceous glands to produce sebum, the skin’s natural moisturizer.  Drink plenty of purified water  because it helps to flush toxins from the body, some of which are secreted through perspiration. A good source that I found for this is at cleanwaterpure.com.  Purified water doesn’t necessarily come bottled, it can be contaminated.  Using a good water filter both in the shower and kitchen is essential for good health.

2. Sleep
 
Get plenty of sleep and before you go to bed, apply one of the better skin care products for younger looking skin.  Natural rejuvenation processes go on while you are sleeping.  New cells are created and old ones slough off.  If you don’t get enough sleep, you’ll have bags and dark circles under your eyes.  Most of the cosmetics for younger looking skin are simply designed to “cover-up” problems like those.

3. Cleansing Skin

In order to keep skin young looking, you should use gentle cleansers, not exfoliants, on a daily basis.  Look for all natural ones that contain tea tree oil, manuka honey or orange oil, if you need something a little “stronger”.  Colloidal oatmeal makes a good safe scrub and it is also soothing.  Your goal in cleansing is to remove dirt, dead cells and excessive oils, without causing redness or irritation.

4.  Use NO  Synthetics or Artificial Preservatives

If you use cosmetics for younger looking skin, be sure that they do not contain artificial preservatives or other additives.  Try to find out if the dyes included in your makeup are safe and lead-free. The company you choose should have online access revealing the ingredients in the skin care products. One such company I found does this, see author box for source.  Safety advocates have found lead in everything from hair dye to lipstick.  Lead is absorbed through the dermal layers (skin) and can cause health problems in later life.

The best skin care products for younger looking skin are all free of artificial preservatives and additives, because those things are the leading causes of adverse reactions.  If you really want to keep skin young looking, you need to avoid ingredients that can cause adverse reactions.

5. Use NO Petroleum By Products

In addition to avoiding the artificial additives, avoid products that contain petrolatum, paraffin and mineral oil.  Those ingredients are not moisturizing.  They clog the pores and inhibit the natural rejuvenation processes.

Best Ingredients for Beautiful Skin

The best skin care products for younger looking skin support and stimulate rejuvenation.  The ingredients to look for include Cynergy TK,  Nanolipobelle Heq10 and Wakame kelp. 

Cynergy TK is a protein-based solution that has been shown to increase production of new cells and fibers.  Heq10 is a special formulation of CoQ10 and vitamin E that was created using nanotechnology, so that the solution will penetrate deeply.  Wakame kelp prevents the break down of hyaluronic acid, one of the skin’s most important components.

Those are the keys to keep skin young looking, because they address the primary causes of an aged appearance, which are decreased collagen production, lower levels of hyaluronic acid and free radical damage.  

If you follow these recommendations and only use the safest cosmetics for younger looking skin, you should be able to keep skin young looking for many years to come.  Your face doesn’t have to tell your age.  - Margaret Bell

Margaret Bell
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So, I want to start covering up my dark spots. I’ve always tried, but I can never make it look natural. I’ve heard that mineral make-up is the best overall, so i wanted to get Bare Escentuals, but i don’t think I can afford to keep using it more than once. I’ve read that these other brands work as well or even better than BE but i’m not exactly sure which to get. Which do you think is the best? Which is best for the price? Which should I eliminate from my list? By the way, I’m thinking about getting the BE brushes, even if I get a different make-up, because I’ve read that they work best, do they?

I think Bare Escentuals is best, and they will last a long time if you just use a bit. Ulta has a promotion going on that you can find on their homepage. You can get a free sample with a $25 purchase, so I would buy one of their foundations (which conveniently, is $25) and then get another as a sample.