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Healhty skin is just a few short steps away: it’s all in what you EAT!  A healthy diet and lifestyle shows on your complexion and gives your skin a boost to look and feel healthy. Experts in dermatology will tell you, a healthy diet is important for improving and maintaining healthy skin.   Start using these healthy tips today and you will see a difference, no matter what your age.

5 Healthy Skin Diet Tips:

1) Trade in those Carbs

Replace refined carbohydrate foods like white breads, donuts, cookies, bagels and pasta with their whole-grain cousins. Not only do whole grains provide more anti-aging antioxidants, they also provide the key element of a healthy skin diet – fiber.  Try whole wheat bread, Continue Reading

Skin cancer is abnormal multiplication of skin cells.Skin cancer usually appears in the epidermis of skin.

Skin cancer begins with a change in particular area of skin usually inn an area particularly exposed to sunlight.Discoloration can then be seen in other areas of the skin and spreads faster.Changes start to appear in the mole.A ringed border may be seen.Also itching and bleeding can be seen.In the same area lumps can be detected often with discoloration.Moles can be in irregular shape,size and colour.

A self examintaion of your body will help you to detect skin cancer at an early stage.Usually skin growths are not cancerous .But check with your doctor.Skin growth which changes in colour,size and they remain as sores that do not heal.

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Detecting skin cancer in its earliest stages not only significantly increases the patient’s chance of making a full recovery, it can also save the patient from having to go through aggressive treatments which can have severe side effects. The key to early detection is in finding skin irregularities and recognizing them as possible skin tumors, and promptly having them examined by a doctor. Some background information along with skin cancer photos can help you recognize what symptoms to look for.

Skin cancer is much more likely to be detected within its earliest stages of development if the patient has taken an active part in the process. You need to perform regular skin self-examinations, searching every part of your body for any irregularities with a basic idea of what Continue Reading

Whether it is the perceived notion that a fairer (lighter) complexion will improve one’s social and economic status quo or the desire to have an even complexion, the use of skin lightening creams is on the increase.

With a large number of these creams having mercury derivatives, hydroquinone and tropical steroids, it is imperative that one is aware of the dangers of using products with these ingredients.

The use of mercury based skin whitening products is probably the most discussed.

The immediate effects of mercury based products is rashes, skin irritation and changes to the skin.

While this might seem like a little pain to achieve a desired effect, the long term effects are more damaging and harder if not impossible to reverse.

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For dry skin beneath eyes and on other areas of the face, the solution is oil.  The problem is that most cosmetic companies use the wrong type of oils for dry skin around eyes and they end up doing more harm than good. 

The sebaceous glands, beneath the skin’s layers produce a substance called sebum.  Its purpose is, among other things, to moisturize the outer layer of skin-cells.  In order to be effective, a cream for dry skin beneath eyes must contain oil that is molecularly similar to sebum.

Mineral oils and petrolatum are the industry’s standard to treat and correct dry skin around eyes.  Petrolatum is simply white petroleum jelly.  Mineral oils are simply liquid petrolatum.  They are byproducts of the process through which crude oil is Continue Reading