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Are cosmetics healthy or a source of slow poisoning for us?
We like to take care of our body and spoil it with all kinds of lotions, creams and perfumes. Also, a lot of us enjoy wearing make-up and so, we try a lot of products that enchant our senses with their lovely aspect and scent trying to convince our ears that they are only protecting the skin against aging, pollution, extreme weather and other dangerous factors for our healthy exterior aspect. But have you ever wondered if these products we use are really good for us?
Let’s take hair dye for example. We use it to change our aspect or to maintain the initial color of the hair when we age and the hair looses its pigment. The bad thing about this cosmetic product is the fact that it contains aromatic amines like toluene and another two compounds that seem to trigger cancer: para-phenylenediamine and tetrahydro-6-nitroquinoxaline. Until now possible cancerous effects of these substances have been proven on animals. Also, a study made by the University of Southern California stated that using permanent hair dyes every month exposes women to bladder cancer. The solution would be using natural hair dyes, or semi-permanent or temporary hair dyes.
6 mistakes that make you age premature
Everybody wants to look great and maintain a young, healthy aspect of their skin for as long as they can. A lot of these people go for plastic surgery and pay a lot of money to keep on looking young. If you are not a fan of esthetic surgery or you don’t afford to go to a surgeon for a rejuvenation surgery, than you should know there are a few mistakes you must avoid doing and you will prolong your beauty for more years than you would have ever expected.
1. Give up smoking. Smoking has ravishing effects upon the skin’s beauty. Premature wrinkles, an unhealthy color of the skin and its dehydration are only a few damages that smoking causes, not to mention about cancer.
Beauty key elements you should consider when you are 20, 30, 40 and 50
The key to having a great body even when you are 50 is to take care of your body and insist on certain aspects when the time is right. Every decade added to our age brings certain problems that can go away nicely or leave behind deep marks to our body if we don’t take measures at the proper moment.
When you are 20
Learn how to immediately treat skin burns.
House keeping and cooking are not easy jobs. They imply a lot of physical energy and some risks too. Skin burnings are number one on the list of most painful and dangerous house accidents. They can be caused by hot water, steam, electricity, or chemical compounds used for cleaning surfaces.
Depending on the substance that causes the burn and on the time the skin remains in contact with the aggressive agent, skin burns can be minor, limited to the superficial skin layers or more complicated involving painful blisters or even nerve destructions.
The way we treat a skin burn is quite important as the first aid measures we apply influence greatly the following healing process of the wound.
1. Keep the burned area under cold water for 10 to 15 minutes. Cold water acts like a barrier against the extension of the burning. Plus, it diminishes the pain and the sensation of heat.
You love to sleep? 7 reasons why you should sleep more
Due to the fact that our body and mind are working intensely many hours a day, rest is needed for a quick battery recharge. It is not enough to eat healthy and exercise three times a week in order to maintain a proper functioning of your organism. Sleep is also needed as it is a physiological process of cell rejuvenation. But have you ever thought that sleeping more could have benefic effects upon you? Here are some arguments that could convince you that sleeping more is great for you:
1. As you might have known, specialists recommend us to sleep at least 8 hours a night. But at least I have never understood why we should do that. The explanations come from Loughborough’s University Sleep Research Centre: it seems that for each hour we loose from those eight of sleeping, one point from of IQ gets lost too. So, it is not the end of the world if you sleep seven ours one night, but imagine the disastrous effects of not sleeping enough time a whole week!