BEAUTY KLINIC

Wrinkle reduction as a beautifully fragrant experience? According to late-breaking anti aging research, this is apparently the case. The study shows that citrus fragrances - pink grapefruit in particular, can make you appear years younger than you are!

The Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, Illinois came to this shocking conclusion using a citrus fragrance-blend containing pink grapefruit. The study showed that when women in their 40′s and 50′s wore the pink grapefruit/citrus perfume, younger men consistently pinned them for being six years younger than their actual age. Talk about virtual wrinkle reduction! This study featured other fragrances as well, but they had no effect on age perception.

The doctor who led the study (Dr Hirsch) has been studying the effects of fragrance on human behavior for over twenty five years and has since developed his own proprietary perfume based on - you guessed it - the blend used in his studies.

…so throw caution to the wind, girls - toss those old spice and vanilla-based perfumes in the waste basket, get in the market for a fresh, citrus based fragrance, and enjoy your newfound 6-year age-drop.

If you want to turn 6 years younger into 10 years younger and beyond, consider investing twenty to thirty dollars in an at-home teeth-whitening kit (available at almost any store these days), as white teeth can take 5 years off your perceived age. Want to look even younger? Great - incorporate the daily use of a quality wrinkle reduction moisturizing cream. And don’t forget to drink plenty of water throughout your day.

Have a wonderful, anti-aging day!

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Tomorrow’s wrinkle reduction technology is here, right now. Today, we′re taking a look at what exciting, weird and wonderful wrinkle reduction and anti aging treatments scientists are cooking up for us.

Here’s my prediction-list for younger looking skin this year and beyond:

1. Instant facelifts. Seriously! Quick-lift skin creams based on extreme cooling technology have already been produced by space agency scientists and cosmetic chemists. This instant wrinkle reduction wonder, which claims to reduce wrinkles by over a third within an hour, is slated for public release this year.

2. Human Growth Factors. Not human growth hormone (HGH), but human growth factors (HGF) are a big focus for most big anti-aging skincare companies. HGF can be applied topically and have a large impact on collagen production as well as skin repair. The technology is here, now. The con with HGF is that it has an awful smell. In clinical trials with the product, patients reported their faces smelling like “wet, dirty dog″ when they were wearing it. How badly you want wrinkle reduction?!

3. Stem cell technology. With their unique ability to protect and repair skin tissue, stem cells offers both hope and controversy. Russian anti aging researchers are now using stem cells harvested from your own body to rejuvenate and renew your skin. The problem is that it is very expensive, besides being illegal in most of the world. In either case, at $30-40,000 a pop, it’s way beyond the reach of most of us.

4. Skull lifts. Apparently, facelifts aren’t enough. It turns out that the bones of your face sag with age, contributing to that aging look. Just when you thought that it’s just your skin that goes south with age! Not to worry though - the great news is that research is developing injections to prevent the bone sag rather than using the knife to correct it.

5. Super-anti-oxidants (Idebenone) and Acetyl Hexapeptide-3. Try saying that fast without stuttering. A LOT of wrinkle reduction creams boast having Hexapeptide, but what they don’t tell you is that it is in amounts so minute that your skin will never know. There are, however, anti wrinkle creams on the market that do get it right, giving you dramatic, actual wrinkle reduction. For more info on this, visit http://antiagingreviews.com

Vitamin A Plays An Important Role

Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that is sometimes referred to as Retinal. Vitamin A is very important for our eyesight in addition to helping our skin look and feel healthy as well as keeping our eyes and mucous membranes moist.

Vitamin A also helps to keep our immune system working properly so we can fight illness. It also helps with the process of reproduction. Vitamin A plays a large part in our vision. When we come from a dark room into the light, Vitamin A helps our eyes to adjust. Once again, our moms were right when they told us to eat our carrots so we wouldn’t go blind!

Benefits and Requirements of Vitamin A

Vitamin A does so many things for our bodies, there are almost too many to mention. In addition to utilizing the proteins you already have in your body; it also helps in the production and development of testosterone.

Many women know the way that Vitamin A keeps the skin around the eyes looking healthy and, therefore, get health care creams enriched with Vitamin A. It’s also good for keeping our intestinal tracts healthy. It helps our skin to act as a protective barrier against bacteria and viruses. Vitamin A also helps keep our white blood cells strong and healthy.

Vitamin A can be found in retinol, retinoid and cartenoids, which are organic pigments that can be found in many plants. To find out how much Vitamin A you need in your body, you can look for the retinol activity equivalent (RAE). The recommended amount of RAE regarding Vitamin A is 900 for men and 700 for women per day.

The daily requirements for Vitamin A will differ from person to person, however. For instance, a grown man is going to require a different amount than a young child or a pregnant woman for that matter. It’s best to seek the advice of your doctor to determine the correct amount of RAE for your body.

Vitamin A Sources

There are many excellent food sources where you can get Vitamin A including liver, eggs, and whole milk. Good sources of provitamin A carotenoids are orange fruits and green vegetables. (Remember Mom telling us “eat your vegetables”?) In an effort to keep us healthier, many food manufacturers are fortifying their foods with Vitamin A including pastries, breads, breakfast cereals, cereal grain bars, crackers and other foods.

Make sure to read the label on the food item to make sure if they have Vitamin A and, if so, how much. Many people aren’t aware that coffee and alcohol will deplete Vitamin C from your body so keep this in mind.

If you think you do not need to start a course of facial massage, think about this. When you go into the bathroom first thing in the morning, are you scared? Who is that pale creature with lines and a certain puffiness that is staring back? Don’t panic, all is not lost, help is at hand, your hands actually as you can kick start your system with a facial massage. Firstly, apart from your normal lines, the big crease have probably come from you pillow and will soon disappear. As for the rest, well it is quite natural and it is just the way the body works. At night, while you sleep, the body goes into tick over mode, the heart rate drops leading to a slowing down of the blood circulation. This has a twofold effect, first there is less oxygen getting to the skin and secondly, the lymph glands are not removing as many toxins from the skin, hence the pale. puffy look. There are other factors at work as well. Pollution, lack of exercise, shallow breathing and poor nutrition can all slow down the circulation, leading to a build up of toxins.

Doing facial exercises will be able to kick start your circulation, and bring a glow to your face which indicates that the blood is now flowing at a good rate, which in turn allows your lymphatic system to start getting rid of those nasty toxins. This will improve your immune system giving you a much healthier complexion. As approximately half of all lymph glands are sited in your neck area, it is really important to get the facial tissues′ blood flow working properly.

To understand the ageing process you need to know a little about the skin. It is built from three layers which are called the epidermis, dermis and hyhypodermis. The dermis is the layer we all see, its role is to protect and allow water evaporation to cool us down. Under this lies the dermis, the work horse of the skin. It is packed with collagen and elastin to give the skin its structure and stretch and it houses the tiny blood vessels and nerve endings. It also has the tops of the sweat and sebaceous glands and it is this layer that regulates the bodys′ temperature. The final layer is the hypodermis which consists of fatty tissue and water and has the bottom of the sweat and sebaceous glands in it. It is from this layer that the fatty deposits leave as you get older, giving the skin its flattish look. Even though the skin is the same construction all over the body, it has different variations in specific parts. The finger tips, for instance have a higher number of nerve endings to assist the sense of touch. Facial skin is connected to a larger number of muscles than anywhere else in the body to facilitate non verbal communication. It is also quite sensitive and is important for monitoring the ambient temperature and humidity.

Skin will age in several different ways, depending on each of the three levels. When we are young, our skin cells last almost twice as long but as we grow older, elastin disappears which disrupts the collagen and tends to flatten the skin. Added to this, the hypodermis will lose moisture and the fatty tissues head south due to gravity making the skin lose tone and elasticity. With a life time of frowning, smiling, scowling and all the other faces we pull, lines begin to develop. Not only that but the action of the sun, poor diet, smoking and other pollutants, stress and even the chemicals in make up add to the ageing process. Which means the sooner you start your facial massage, the sooner you can maybe put the brakes on the ageing process.

You will get a good idea of what is happening when you give yourself a facial massage if you just squeeze or press an area of skin. Notice how it gets red? This is the increased blood flow surging into the area, bringing life giving oxygen to the skin and then removing the harmful toxins. Of course your facial massage will be gentler, but the effects will be the same. It will promote blood flow and stimulate the lymph glands to give your skin that healthy glow.

Although massaging your face will have some effect, if you do it too hard it will be a detrimental one, a more systematic approach will give the skin a real boost. We have all heard about acupuncture, that Eastern traditional medical practice of inserting needles to restore ones health. Well a facial massage that incorporates these points will give a real boost to the effects on your skin. It is called Acupoint facial massage and you only need to gently rub on these points to get the effect needed. These points are connected to the meridians of the body where the energy or Qi flows. Massaging will stimulate these points and, as well as improving the blood flow, will unblock and stimulate the Qi as well.

To compliment your acupoint facial massage, essential oils can be used to help repair and nourish the skin. These should not be used neat but mixed with vegetable based carrier oils that will also be beneficial to the skin. There are a wide range of these, such as grape seed, olive, wheat germ and almond, and you can find the right one to compliment your personal skin type. You do not need to add a lot of essential oils to them, ten drops at the most, and you can combine different essential oils for a variety of different skin conditions. Although these are perfectly safe, they are not advised to be used by pregnant women, particularly in the early stages of development.

In order to be able to massage the correct areas, you will need a diagram of the face explaining the different points. A good example is Facelift At Your Fingertips by Pierre Jean Cousin which not only has excellent illustrations but also has a lot of information in the use of essential oils. Incorporating a good acupoint facial massage into your usual beauty routine will repay your effort tenfold. Now all you have to worry about is the jealous looks of your girl friends.

Are you one of those people who think that facial massage is for other people and not you? Lets face it, when you look in the mirror in the morning, do you recognise yourself? Can that pale, creased, puffy person looking back, really be yourself? How did you end up looking like this? Well don’t worry, the creases will have come from the folds in your pillow but the rest is down to the natural circulation slow down that occurs during sleep. During the night, the body slows down, the heart rate decreases which means that the blood flow decreases. The lymph glands are responsible for getting rid of the toxins in the body and they rely on the blood circulation to transport it. As the blood flow has diminished, so the toxins have built up, which accounts for the bad looks. It is not only sleep that can slow down your circulation, lack of exercise, poor nutrition, pollution and shallow breathing can affect it, thus also interrupting the draining of toxins.

You need to get that blood flowing so you should commence your facial exercises straight away. As you start bringing the new blood to the skin, so it will start to flush away the toxins. Waking up the lymph nodes, half of which are situated in the neck, which also is a boost for your immune system. You will be surprised at the difference it will make, not only will you start looking good but you will be feeling good as well.

What is skin? It is the bodys′ largest organ and consists of three layers. The base is the hypodermis which is made from fatty tissue with a high water content. In this layer sits the sweat, sebaceous and follicle glands. Just above this is the dermis, where most of the action takes place. It consists of collagen, elastin, which makes our skin stretch, small blood vessels, nerve endings and the tops of the sweat and sebaceous glands. It is this layer that circulates, secretes, adjusts the temperature of the body and feels. The final level is the one that everybody sees, the epidermis. This is our protection against the world and its secondary function is to allow the evaporation of water. The skin is the same all over the body but it does take on variations, depending on the area. The arm pits will have a larger concentration of sweat glands for instance. The skin on the face is connected to a large number of muscles which are used for non-verbal communications and it also monitors our surrounding atmosphere and temperature. It is also quite sensitive to the touch, for obvious reasons.

When it comes to the ageing process, there are different process that affect it. The older we get, the quicker we loose skin cells. A child’s may a hundred days but that will drop to around 50 in later life. The elastin goes, affecting the collagen and in the hypodermis the fatty tissue goes and the water content is reduced with the overall effect of giving flattened, ageing and dry skin. Our face with its repertoire of scowling, frowning, smiling and laughing will develop the lines we know as wrinkles. These are further enhanced by exposure to the sun, air pollution, smoking and even a poor diet, so it really makes sense to start your facial massage as soon as possible.

The bodys′ reaction to squeezing and pressing is to get red which means that the blood is flowing into the area. When this happens, it starts to bring more oxygenated blood which is really beneficial to your skin. This, in a more gentler way, is what happens when you have a facial massage. The act of massage will promote the blood flow with the added bonus of stimulating the lymphatic system to drain away the toxins which leads to a healthier looking skin.

Although massaging your face will have some effect, if you do it too hard it will be a detrimental one, a more systematic approach will give the skin a real boost. We have all heard about acupuncture, that Eastern traditional medical practice of inserting needles to restore ones health. Well a facial massage that incorporates these points will give a real boost to the effects on your skin. It is called Acupoint facial massage and you only need to gently rub on these points to get the effect needed. These points are connected to the meridians of the body where the energy or Qi flows. Massaging will stimulate these points and, as well as improving the blood flow, will unblock and stimulate the Qi as well.

To compliment your acupoint facial massage, essential oils can be used to help repair and nourish the skin. These should not be used neat but mixed with vegetable based carrier oils that will also be beneficial to the skin. There are a wide range of these, such as grape seed, olive, wheat germ and almond, and you can find the right one to compliment your personal skin type. You do not need to add a lot of essential oils to them, ten drops at the most, and you can combine different essential oils for a variety of different skin conditions. Although these are perfectly safe, they are not advised to be used by pregnant women, particularly in the early stages of development.

When using this type of massage, a gentle pressure is all that is needed, provided you are touching the correct acupoints. To find out where they are, a good book to read is Facelift At Your Fingertips by Pierre Jean Cousin which not only clearly shows you where they are, but has further information on how to use essential oils. Using a regular acupoint facial massage, together with your normal beauty regime will really help in the anti aging process. Who knows, one morning you may look in the mirror and think you are looking at your daughter.