Thursday, September 16, 2010

Skin food

Skin food is a cosmetics brand in South Korea with headquarters in Seoul. The owner has been related with the skin care business in 1957. Skin food becomes renowned in many countries especially in Asia. The selling point of this brand is the use of natural materials and the price is not high which anybody can afford it. Particularly, in Thailand Skin food is more popular because their price and the packaging attractive Thai women. Moreover, Thai women would like to get a healthy skin like Korean women and Korean trendy is directly impact to Thai women now.
Their products vary from skin care, makeup, body, hair care, baby care and man care. Sung Yu Ri was a presenter in Skin food Korea commercials.
The best-selling items are Tomato Whitening, Aloe Sun BB Cream, Peach Sake skincare line, Black Sugar Mask Wash-Off, Rice Mask Wash-Off, Coffee Body Scrub and Carrot Collagen Eye Sheet. But for me, I like Fresh Juice C Serum because I feel my skin get strong and moisture.

Credit picture and content from: Wikipedia

Tips from buying skin care.

1. Buy as needed
It will help you to save money and also prevent you from buying unnecessary skin care. To keep many skin cares for a long time, the skin care will change color, odor and the quality of skin care. Then, skin care becomes garbage and loses money. Moreover, it will destroy the environment by adding unnecessary junk as well.
2. Do not buy because of the advertisement or mimic
3. Thinking about economic status
Since there are plenty of skin cares in the market which are necessary and unnecessary, so before buying you should consider about appropriateness and the price. You should notice as follows:
- Foreign cosmetics are expensive due to tax import. Both manufacturers in foreign countries and importers need gain. Therefore, price is high.
- Some cosmetics are high because of the popularity in brand and trademark.
- Local brands have a same quality as foreign country. Also, they have many price levels, so customers can afford the product with their economic status.
- The high cost of cosmetics does not mean that when the users use it, it will not be allergic or dangerous with skin. On the contrary, it depends on individual.
4. Buying appropriate with the users
- To suit with age ex. teenager, adult, etc. Choosing cosmetics, you have to think about the age of users, skin type, resistance of the skin and the need of difference age group.
- To suit with the habit of users. Owing to there are many kind of cosmetic brands in the market for different skin types and groups such as dry skin, oily skin and normal skin.
5. Buy from a trusted source distribution
You should buy from the sources which are available at the exact address because if you have any problem, you can be back to check or ask information about the product.
6. Buy cosmetics with label require
Cosmetics law wants customer to receive the right information. Then, there are regulations that all type of cosmetics must be labeled as define for each type of cosmetics.
7. Consider type and the packaging of skin care (cosmetics)
- You should notice the type of cosmetics in packaging in terms of color, odor or changing.
- Considering that packaging is in the good state, safe, no crack, no leak and no risk of contamination.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Oily skin care’s fact.

To begin talking on oily skin care, it’s essential to understand the cause of oily skin. To make it simple, oily skin is related to exceeding production of sebum (an oily material that is naturally produced by skin). As everyone knew, exceed of everything is not good; so exceeding sebum is not good too. It causes to be clogging of skin pores, leading to accumulate of dead cells and hence building of pimples/acne. Moreover, oily skin affects your looks too. So, ‘oily skin care’ is as important as the ‘skin care’ for solving types of skin.

The objective of ‘oily skin care’ is getting rid of exceeding sebum or oil from the skin. However, oily skin care procedures should not cause to complete get rid of oil. ‘Oily skin care’ begins with the use of cleanser. And not all cleansers will good for your skin. You need a cleanser which consists of salicylic acid i.e. a beta-hydroxy acid that slows down the rate of sebum production. Cleansing should be done two times a day (and even more in hot and humid states).

Most of the oily skin care products are free of oil; however, it is always the best way when you check the ingredients of the product, before you buy it. This is especially important if a product is marked as ‘right for all skin types’, instead of ‘oily skin care product’. ‘Oily skin care’ is also rely on the degree of oiliness, if you aren’t too oily, so some of these ‘suitable for all’- type of products might be good for you too. For people who get an extremely oily skin, only oily skin care products are suitable. Your oily skin care routine can contain an alcohol based toner (for an exceeding oily skin). This can be the second step in your oily skin care habit i.e. just after cleanse your face. However, using more toning can damage your skin.

The next step in your oily skin care habit is to use a mild moisturizer. The degree of oiliness in your skin will define whether you need to use this in your oily skin care habit. If you want to include a moisturizer in your procedures, be certain to use skin care that is oil-free, wax-free and lipid-free. You can also use mask (once a week) as an oily skin care procedure.

Before buying the oily skin care products, you might need to test a few before you arrive at the one that is really right for your skin.

If these procedures don’t give you the pleasant result, consult a good dermatologist for advice. He could designate stronger oily skin care products like vitamin A creams, retinoids, sulphur creams etc , which can help you to face with the problems of oily skin.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Skin Care

To take care and get the skin healthy, you can do in three easy steps: cleansing, moisturizing and makeup. Skin care is not just a tool to protect or take care your skin in various parts of the face. It helps to reveal some details or hide a scar from others. A good skin care is done in three easy steps: Cleansing – This step is very important. In everyday life, you have to face with pollution, smog, dust and dead cells that are inevitably on the skin. A good cleansing is the first important step to be taken daily. Hydration - The skin is continually subjected to external things, which may directly effect to the skin hydration. Cold and dry air in winter, indoor heated excessively, poor nutrition liquids and fresh foods can reduce the degree of skin hydration and elasticity. Therefore, to adopt a diet of liquids and fresh foods and use the right products to keep skin hydrated, supple and fresh are needed. Cosmetics – People who take care of skin can then optionally decide to use cosmetics to enhance and highlight (or hide) some details of the face and body. Existing products in the market are a lot of make-up, specific to the problem of the face. It’s available in many materials to meet the needs of the skin and there are lots of colors to suit your image. Skincare always begins with a good daily cleansing.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

What skin care product is the best for you?

It is hard to identify that the best skin care product for one person is the best for another because skin care products function differently for different people (grounded on the skin type to some extent). A product that is the best for one person can be the worst for another. Therefore, it raise a question to ask ‘What is the best skin care product for my type skin?’. Still, this is not wholly logical. We likely to divide people into 4 groups grounded on their skin types – i.e. dry skin, oily skin, normal skin, combination skin and sensitive skin. However, this categorization is just too general to be used definitively in identifying the best skin care product. We can say ‘best skin care product for a normal skin’ or ‘best skin care product for a sensitive skin’ are rather statements than just ‘best skin care product’. But in reality, that is what it is – ‘better’; still not correct. Hence, it has to come to rewriting the question to ‘What the best skin care product is the best for me?’. This is an absolutely the question that we should be asking ourselves, and unluckily there is no easy answer for this. Regarding to the best skin care product for self, we will need some exertion on our part. First, we need to perceive how the skin care products function. This is easy. We can think all skin care products to be consisted of 2 types of ingredients – active and inactive. The active ingredients are the ones that actually function on our skin. The inactive ones just support in delivering these active ingredients to our skin. Both the ingredients need to function for our skin, for the product to be effective (and come to be the best skin care product for us). In terms of the ingredients, the way we use to our skin care products is considered equally important. This is even more important. If we do not know how to use skin care products, we might forever be finding for the best skin care product for ourselves, when that has already passed us. It is also important to make a decision on the frequency of using the skin care product. The environmental factors such as temperature, humidity and pollution level, also affect the choice of best skin care product. Here are a few disciplines that we could use to make sure that our best skin care product is really the best for us: * Cleanse our skin before using the best skin care product. * Use a makeup remover to replace of plain water and remove your makeup before going to bed. * The productiveness of active ingredients is decreased when used over another product such as over moisturizer. So use that best skin care product first and then use a bit of moisturizer if required. * Use the products on moist and warm skin. * We will have to test with a few products before we buy at the one that is the best skin care product for us. * Do not exfoliate too much or too hard on our skin. * Change our skin care habit as per the seasons (winter/summer/rainy season), changes in environmental factors and changes in our skin type It can be noted the best skin care product cannot be known overnight. It is only through experiment that we can find the ‘Best skin care product’ (for us).

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Facial skin care product: selecting a facial skin care product.

When we talk about skin care or facial skin care, this topic looks like to top in the chart. There are many products of facial skin care which we can buy in the market. The most shared facial skin care products are ones that we used as our part of daily habit. It consists of things like cleansers and moisturizers. Toners and exfoliation ones are well perceived as an optional. The general categorization of facial skin care products is grounded on the following: * Gender (so they are many facial skin care products for men and they are many facial skin care products for women) * Skin type (facial skin products for oily skin, dry skin, normal skin, combination skin and sensitive skin) * Age (facial skin care products for old and young) * Skin disorder (i.e. facial skin care products for treatment of various skin orders like eczema, acne and so on) So as to our beginning point for selecting a facial skin care product that appropriates us. A good means to start is by identifying our skin type first. It can be noted that the skin type changes with age, therefore the facial skin product that appropriates us today, might not appropriate us in the future. So, we have to enduringly assess the usefulness of our facial skin care product. The facial skin care products are obtainable in many forms such as creams, lotions, gels, masks etc. And many people try to pit one oppose to the other in their discussion on which form is the best. Yet, one cannot really evaluate one form as better than another form. What appropriates us is the best form of facial skin care product for us, really. Still, it is important to observe that these products function differently for different people. Then, the best thing is to put the facial skin care product on a small area of skin (e.g. ear lobes) before using it. Another thing that important to have a consideration is the state of our skin. If we have a skin disorder of any kind, it is best to find the suggestion of a doctor before we make a decision to choose it and start applying a facial skin care product. Once we have chosen the facial skin care product for ourselves, we need to make sure that we use the facial skin care product in the correct way. For example, do following right methods for using, apply the right quantity and make the facial product to be a part of our skin care habit.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Skin care for acne

Acne is determined as a disordered condition of the skin that relates to the hair and oil glands. It is classified by pimples, black/white heads, reddishness and cysts. Face acne can damage your look to a considerable degree and acne which appears in the body can destroy your life by making you feel uncomfortable. Regarding to acne as a minor problem, some people likely to neglect the subject of ‘Acne skin care’. However, the core of ‘Acne skin care’ cannot be wrecked in any way. Acne skin care should really begin much before the acne actually happens. ‘Acne skin care’ is more about relating be proactive than reactive. Acne skin care is about being realized of preventive methods. Using acne skin care, we have to do following daily skin care habits with all disciplines. Therefore, let’s have a look closer at how ‘acne skin care’ can be used to our daily habit. ‘Acne skin care’ deals with the most basic thing - cleanliness. In the morning, to have a shower is the most basic thing of maintaining the skin clean. Generally, many people give important to have a night shower too (it is not only help in maintaining your skin clean but also gives relaxation to your body and helps us to have a deep sleep). If we are in a hot and/or humid place, we must have a night shower. A shower is suggested after any activity which causes high levels of sweat to emerge. Still, acne skin care is not just showers or cleaning, but it is also about wearing clean clothes and sleeping on clean pillows. Furthermore, tight clothes may cause sweat to collect quickly; so silky and comfortable cotton clothes are suggested, particularly if we already have acne. In the same way, ‘acne skin care’ also supports normal cleaning of our make-up brush and any cosmetics that you apply on your body. Besides, you should also use a soft, water-dissolvent, oil-free and soap-free cleansing for maintaining your face, neck and arms clean. Cleanser is the most important factor of any acne skin care habit. Cleaners are the simplest and the most productive way of cleansing dirt, grease, pollutants and excess oil from our skin; hence decreasing the possibility of acne happening. Acne skin care also suggests washing our make up and using a make up remover, and this should occur before we go to bed. If we have acne, do not touch them or scratch them; it can cause permanent marks. ‘Acne skin care’ supports soft cleanser and cleaning of the affected area applying an over-the-counter medication and a clean/soft cotton pad. There are many acne skin care creams and lotions which can buy from over-the-counter (many of these acne skin care products are really cleansers). Yet, if these ‘acne skin care’ methods do not give us the best outcome, consult with a doctor for ‘acne skin care’ suggestion and the way to take care them.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Skin care cosmetic is healthful or damaging?

To be beautiful and get a healthy skin is a thing that many people concern in this time. Some people are naturally beautiful inbuilt, so they do not use any skin care cosmetic. But they are some people who do not use skin care cosmetic because of their indolence. Some people thought skin care cosmetic can destroy their skin, thus they relinquish to use of skin care cosmetic. Still, there are many people who like to use skin care cosmetic. For you, is skin care cosmetic healthful, or is it damaging? The opinions are spilt. In positive way, to be beautiful is the thing that many women are desirable. In negative way, using skin care cosmetic too much can be damaging to the skin. You have to consider the outline and do follow the skin care habit first because it helps to maintain your skin to be healthy and free of disease. The common suggestion is to clean and moist your skin every day, and using toner and exfoliate your skin when needed occasionally. Next are the skin care cosmetics that you would be used as an option like beauty enhancers. Skin care cosmetic is part of your skin care habit and maybe use on special occasions such as entering in the party. The most important thing you have to consider with the special occasions is its selection. The following is a set of rules that you should use when choosing any skin care cosmetic: * Use skin care products which are appropriate with your skin type. This is all people have to be known when buying them and check the label to see what it says like this product is ‘for dry skin only’ or ‘for all skin types’. * Test the skin care cosmetic before applying it. This can be complete when applying the skin care cosmetic on a small area of the skin e.g. ear lobes and checking the response of your skin to that product. * Look at the ingredients of the product for chemicals that maybe you will be allergic to. Do not use products that are severe on skin e.g. products with high alcohol; these cosmetics might be good for once but can cause a long-lasting destroy your skin. * ‘More isn’t better’. Make sure that you use the products in correct quantity (not less or more). Also, be soft with your skin and do follow the right methods for application of skin care products. Rubbing too much or trying to press acne can cause damage to your skin for long. * Lastly, if you have a skin problem such as acne. You should consult with your doctor before applying any skin care cosmetic product.

Tips of top 10 skin care

To get a healthy skin is the most important factor for improving beauty. These tips send the messages about the 10 best skin care tips to you. The list of tips has limited as ten since more than this are hard to remember and shadow the more important skin care tips. See the top ten skin care tips below: * The most important of skin care tip is to know your skin type. It is essential because not everybody can find skin care products which appropriate with. All skin care products indicate the type of skin they provide too. * You should ‘drink a lot of water’. It is not only to keep you skin moist but also help you to be healthy (which effects to your skin). Someone might seem a bit weird with this tip but this is necessary for skin care tip. * You have to clean your skin often (one or two times per day). A best skin care can help in clearing up the dirt and other harsh elements from your skin. Cleansing is particularly essential when you are out of your home (you have to face with more pollutants, dirt and dust). This tip also helps the use of Luke warm water for cleansing (hot and cold water, both, can destroy your skin). * Be soft to your skin. Do not scrub/exfoliate too much or too often. Likely, do not use too much or too many skin care products. Must follow the tips. * Try to keep your skin most all the time. This is the most important skin care tip. Do not let your skin get dry. Dryness can destroy the outer layer of your skin, leading to be a harsh and unattractive appearance. Use moisturizers/ emollients. Moisturizers do best when using while the skin is still moist. * Escape from the use of soap on your face since soap appropriate to use from under the neck. * Before going out, you should use sunscreen to protect yourself from sun’s harmful UV radiations. You can use skin care for day-time like day-time moisturizers which have sunscreen create into them. Use them even when it is not sunny. UV radiations are understood as leading skin cancer, therefore do follow this skin care tip every step. * Exercise and sleep well are needed too. Not just for your skin but it is good for your health. Insufficient of sleep causes to build crow’s feet and lack of exercise lead your skin to slack. Furthermore, exercise and sleep can reduce stress. * Take care of skin problems with care. This tip is about concerning any skin problems. Discuss with your doctor before you use a skin care product. * Beat the stress. The effects of stress are understood to everyone. But sometimes stating clear is essential too (and hence this skin care tip found its place here). So, take a break or do whatever you like such as indulge in a warm bubble bath or just get a good sleep.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

It’s all about facial skin care.

‘Facial skin care’ is more a subject of self-control than others. A facial skin care habit is what we need (and we have to follow and we have to follow the facial skin care habit with cover many skin problems). Therefore, we have to check out what components a productive facial skin care habit. It is very simple, a facial skin care should follow the procedures as follows: * Cleansing * Toning * Exfoliating * Moisturizing Cleansing is the thing we have to consider first in facial skin care habit. It helps in cleansing dust, pollutant and oil from our skin, for protecting destroy to our skin. Focus our face and neck with a good product of cleansing lotion or cream with soft massage into our skin using upward touches. Apply a gentle face tissue or cotton wipe our face in a soft patting (do not rub). This procedure should be complete minimally two times a day like in the morning and evening. Water solvent cleansers are good for adding in our facial skin care habit. Toning or toner is the next procedure in taking care facial skin care habit. This is an elective of facial skin care habit. Generally, cleansing can use instead of toning. It helps to take all traces of dirt, grease and excess cleanser away. In place of including it to a part of our everyday facial skin care habit, we can apply toning sometimes. For example, when we disclose to especially severe environment/pollution. Exfoliation is kind of an elective step in everyday habit for facial skin care. It is essential minimally two or three times a week (relying on the skin type and the environmental circumstances). Exfoliation discovers its place in facial skin care habit since the natural of skin tend to recreate the skin cells every 3 or 4 weeks. In technique, it helps in cleansing the dead skin cells that obstruct the pores. Hence, it helps the skin in the natural procedure. However, inordinate or severe exfoliation can lead to destroy to our skin; so we need to keep balancing it. The next procedure is moisturizing. In fact, it is the most important in taking care of facial skin habit. Moisturizers protect our skin from getting dry. Dry skin is the skin that nobody really desirable since it causes the upper layer skin to be damaged, bringing to dead skin cells. Using light upward touches can make the moisturizer more efficient. Moisturizers function the best when used on warm and damp skin. Therefore, do not try to move all the moisture in the previous steps of facial skin care habit away. In addition, the habit for normal skin, we should do the following for facial skin care: * Use make-up remover instead of washing it away * Pay attention to our skin type and the environment around us, when selecting facial skin care products. * Before we start using a new facial skin care product, we have to try it by using it on a short area of skin e.g. ear lobes. * Never wash our skin harsh. * Use sunscreen lotion before going out for protection against sun.

Monday, June 28, 2010

The significance of taking care your skin.

Packaging is considered the most important thing to attract the customers. Like, skin of yours, it is important the same as your inner. It can appeal and present the identity of the owner. Many people aware taking care of the skin. This is the cause why there are various kinds of product in the market and most of them look like pretty well. In general, we are likely to relate to the skin care whose appearance look good or beautiful. There are many advantages with relate to a healthy and bright skin. The first, it has a direct influence on you. Skin care makes you feel good and active. You can do more work and do everything quickly. Moreover, the freshness increases your enjoyment and makes you feel relax. And healthy skin plays a role in creating confidence and image which can make you achieve in doing things. From this, you will get a positive effect like people around you, they are friendlier with you than before and you will get respect from others. They are more receptive to your request and face with your freshness that spread around you. People will love to work with you and to do things for you. That’s how it functions. Someone may ask you about the skin care you use, it is up to you to reveal or tell them. It can be said that skin can be a tool for creating a satisfying and friendly environment around you. On the contrary, unconcern or ignorant on the appearance can make you look uninteresting and tiresome. You will not only look tiresome but also feel tiresome. You skill in doing things can be reduced. Even the people you encounter with might not be as friendly with you. In fact, it might cause to the aging process getting started earlier. Therefore, the significance of skin care cannot be neglect and is not hard to know at all. There are many types of skin care in the market which can select one that suit with your skin. Moreover, skin care is classified in many ways which help you to understand in each type better and choose those products. *The first division is grounded on the type of skin – you have skin care products which suit to your skin such as oily, skin, combination skin, dry skin and sensitive skin. * Another way is to classify products which rely on their usage like moisturizer, cleanser, exfoliation, toner and so on. * Next, you have products for nurture of many types of skin for skin problems such as products for pimple, fine lines, wrinkle, etc. *Another separation is grounded on the ingredient such as herbal skin care products, organic skin care products, cosmeceuticcals skin care products, etc. Skin care products are not the only hope for skin care. Skin structure has to create some basic skin care method in your everyday life.

Skincare is important for the personal’s routine.

We know that personal skincare is necessary in personal life. The notion of personal skincare is different from one to one. Many people believe that going to beauty counter brands almost every day is personal skin care or routine. Some people believe that personal skin care is just like using cream or serum on our skin. But there are some people who think personal skin care is an action that will infrequently occur. They always busy with themselves in personal skin care. Considering with the benefit, skin care is easy to use and inexpensive when compare with the advantageous we will obtain. Personal skin care is the need of routine or a method for moisturing our skin. Before using skin care, we have to know our skin-type (oily, dry, sensitive, normal and combination skin) and choose the products appropriate for skin. Here is the suggestion for many people who have a normal skin. In personal skincare routine, we have to cleanse our skin first. There are three main elements of cleanser including oil, water and surfactants. Oil and surfactants use for extracting dirt and oil away from our skin and water, then cleans it out. Hence, it makes our skin clean. Before choosing the products that suit with our skin, we have to try a few of cleansers. We can use soap-free cleansers or Luke warm water for cleansing (both hot and cold water can destroy to our skin). Beware that we don’t over-cleanse our skin and end up destroying our skin. Second method in skin care routine is exfoliation. It is the way to remove the dead cells and change to a new skin. Exfoliation helps the skin in this method. Dead skin cells are an obstruction to prevent skin from getting a new one. Therefore, getting a new skin is necessary for increase capability of the skin care products. This method will occur after cleansing. Moreover, we have to know that how many times the skin needs to exfoliate. Around 4-5 times per week for oily/normal skin and 1-2 times per week for dry/sensitive skin. Next method is moisturizers. This is the most things we cannot neglect in personal skin care. We cannot deny that almost everybody needs moisturizers. It is not only cover moisture in the skin cells, but also appeal moisture whenever the skin wanted. The amount of moisturizer our skin need is dependent on ours within one week that we are using the moisturizer. Also, using the moisturizer is the best when your skin is still humid. The last is sunscreen. Many moisturizers (day-time creams/moisturizers) have UV protection – so we can get double advantages from them. For example, moisturizers are suggested for all days (whether it is sunny or cloudy). Test with many different personal skin care products with the amount of our skin need to use. To get a best result is the best personal skin care serve for you. If you have a problem with the skin, you should consult with dermatologist before begin using skin care products.

Lotion versus Cream

There is no scarcity of skin care cream and lotion in the department store. You can discover a ton of skin care cream, lotion and other products. Due to keep doing on doing research and increasing demands, the number of products of skin care is on increase. Lotion and cream are the most favorite forms which are obtainable and lead to a debate on a topic in which forms in better. There do not have conclusive answer to this. It is a subject of personal selection. However, oily cream is less extensively as compared to the non-oily (or less oily) ones. Because of the usage of skin care cream is easier, they are likely to be preferred than lotion in case of the skin care products are not to be taken away instantly after using. Therefore, cream is likely to be more popular as moisturizer than as cleanser or toner. For toner, lotion is rather preferred than cream. There are some skin care creams that use as toner too. But normally toners are seen in liquid form only. For cleansing, lotion and cream are equally popular; however, the tilt is likely being more towards lotion. Cream is largely realized to be the most efficient in maintaining skin moist; therefore, the most popular form of cream is moisturizer. Because of the same reason, many people incline to relate skin care to dry and sensitive skin. Even, it is a fact that cream are not only just for dry skin, but also are used for oily skin e.g. vitamin A cream and sulphur cream help decrease the rate of sebum production. Cream is used for creating that provide to skin abnormal particularly for abnormal that necessary the use of product over a small limited area. This is to re[peat since cream is e4asier to use on the affected area. Yet, regarding to where skin require to bge cleaned using a medicine/product, lotion is better option. Largely, the manufacturers perceive this information, making it simple for you to select between lotion and cream. Eye-cream and anti-aging are other samples where cream is favored over its lotion complement. No matter what your option be, knowing how to apply it productive, is more crucial than others.