Why Using a Toner as Part of Your Skin Care Regime is Important
As women are experiencing ever increasing demands on their time, many have opted out of using a toner in their daily skin care regime and only use cleansing and moisturising as the key steps to keeping their skin looking healthy, vibrant and young.
This is however a big mistake, as toning is a very important part of a daily skin care regime. Toning follows the cleansing routine and actually serves some important functions.
Toning closes the pores of the skin. Once cleansing of the skin has been completed, the pores tend to be open and therefore slightly enlarged. As a result, moisture can leave the skin, which in return dehydrates the skin. This is not a desired effect on the contrary loss of moisture from the skin is highly undesirable.
Closing of the pores has another benefit. It stops dust and other air born particles from settling in the pores and potentially causing problems. In addition, good quality, natural toners are anti-septic and provides moisture and nutrients to the skin, preparing the skin for the third step in a skin care regime – Moisturising.
Some skin care companies have tried to eliminate the need for this step combining the cleansing and toning steps into one step and formulated their cleansers to include toning functions.
Now think about this for a second and you will realise how ridiculous this concept is. A cleanser is supposed to open the pores and remove dirt and stale natural oils from the pores and thus cleansing the skin. A toner, as we discussed above, is designed to close to pores… See the contradiction? It cannot possibly work.
Any astringent (substance that closes the pores) cannot be applied to the skin at the same time as a product that is supposed to open and cleanse the pores. It just does not work. The whole idea is just to market a product to time-poor women by telling them they can combine these to steps and thus save time.
Unfortunately most women do not fully understand just how their skin care products work. They like them, their skin may even look good and the products therefore appear to be doing their job. In reality however, these types of skin care products are only doing a moderate amount of caring for the skin and the bulk of the products do very little at all except look good on the shelf and cost money.
The three steps in any good daily skin care regime must include cleansing, toning and moisturising. In addition, you should always consider using wildcrafted.com.au natural skin care products, as there are too many synthetic and artificial chemicals in commercially made skin care products which may actually do you harm.
Let’s look at a natural toner and it’s ingredients to understand how they actually work.
The Wild Herb Toner from Wildcrafted Herbal Products is used for oily skin and has a number of specifically chosen ingredients, which include:
Rosemary, Witch hazel, Juniper Berry and Peppermint. These herbs and essential oils are chosen for their toning and invigorating effects on the skin, while Grapefruit, Niaouli and Sweet Orange refresh the skin and combine to maintain normal sebum (oil) secretion.
As you can see, it is important to understand the functions a particular product is supposed to have and how these functions interact with the other steps in your daily skin care regime. Knowing this you will now probably understand why toning is a necessary part of your daily skin care regime.
Danny Siegenthaler is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and together with his wife Susan, a medical herbalist and Aromatherapist, they have created wildcrafted.com.au Natural Skin Care Products by Wildcrafted Herbal Products to share their 40 years of combined expertise with you.
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Silver Bullet for Acne? – I Don’t Think So!
I read a report recently discussing the success of the project to sequence the genome of the bacteria that is said to cause acne, Propionibacterium acnes, and how this may lead to new ways to treat Acne.
It made me think how easily we can jump to conclusions, that may not be supported by the evidence, or by common sense. Don’t get me wrong, I wholeheartedly support the research that the scientific community is doing in the field of Acne, and I am hopeful that it will lead to better treatments, or better understanding of what acne treatments are likely to work.
The article started by saying “European scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a bacterial species involved in many cases of acne, and they’re already working on potential new treatments based on that achievement”. That is fine but it then continued with the assumption that having found the bacteria which caused acne, and decoded it’s genome, it was only a matter of time before the problem of acne was solved.
It is a huge step to go from sequencing the genome of a bacteria involved in many cases of acne, to curing acne.
If a bacteria was the cause of acne, then people who had the bacteria would have acne, and people who didn’t have the bacteria would not. Also it would be possible to pass acne to someone else, by physical contact. It may be true that this bacteria is involved in many cases of acne, but, in my opinion, it is not true that it causes acne.
The successful treatment of acne requires a number of steps, and often lifestyle changes. The good news is that in most cases acne can be cured by completely natural means. For more information go to acneabc.com/directory/natural-acne-cure.html www.acneabc.com
This article was written by Tony McGlinn who runs the mypowerfulmind.com mypowerfulmind.com website.
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Bodybuilding – Bodybuilding Diet For A Shrimp
If you’re a little guy, like I was only 6 months ago(132lbs) it’s probably because you eat like one! A good bodybuilding diet is all you need, and maybe some extra ‘you know what’ downstairs! The majority of small guys out there are small people they eat small, not because they don’t train hard enough, but because they don’t eat like how real men do. I know I didn’t until I learnt how much I really needed to eat in order to gain some muscle mass.
Breakfast
I don’t care what anyone says, breakfast is the MOST IMPORTANT meal of the day. I know a lot of little guys out there that don’t even eat breakfast! They go 3 hours without a meal from when they wake up, which is absolutely crazy! You’re teaching your body that it doesn’t need to eat and as a result it can stay small because it has no muscle to feed!
For breakfast 6 months ago I remember that all I ate was a small bowl of cereal. Now I eat a large bowl of cereal plus 4 eggs and two pieces of toast, as well as a protein shake and guess what? That’s not even much. I’m sure there’s someone reading this that eats way more than that and I plan to start eating more too. Increasing the amount of food in a day, combined with a heavy weight training regime is the only way to push through a plateau. So with that, make sure you always take time to eat a massive breakfast(you should be nauseous afterward).
Other Meals During The Day
Now I know you’ve definitely heard this one, but in order to put on any significant weight, you should be eating at least 6 solid meals a day. If you’re not and you can’t imagine eating that many times during the day, then let me break it down for you:
- Breakfast(make sure it’s a big one!)
- Prelunch(as I like to call it)
- Lunch
- Post lunch(pre workout)
- Post workout
- Dinner
There’s 6 manageable meals and if you think you can’t handle that, then you don’t really deserve to be big, sorry if that sounded a little harsh but it needed to be said! I eat 7 meals a day at the moment, one more after dinner, which you should seriously consider once you have gotten over the initial plateau and you’ve stopped gaining again.
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What Cabbage Soup Diet Is All About
Another diet program that is making the rounds in the American dieting circles is the cabbage soup diet.
From the name itself, the cabbage soup diet is a program that involves the cabbage soup as the central figure. It may seem absurd at first and quite different from other diet programs such as the Atkins diet and the South Beach diet but it actually has a rationale.
The cabbage soup diet is based on the assumption that diets that contain high fiber but low in fat can help the body lose weight. The cabbage soup is usually made of cabbage, onions and tomatoes. The soup is supposed to fat-burning as it has a high fiber content. In fact, the more soup that you take in each day, the more calories you will burn and the more pounds you will lose. The taste will be bland so it has to be taken in with other foods.
Unlike other diet programs, there are no restrictions in the food that you take in as long as you drink the cabbage soup with every meal. From low calorie vegetables to potatoes and beef, you can eat anything you want. Of course, dieters under the program are encouraged to take in fruits and vegetables as well as unsweetened fruit juices.
One guideline, however, that must be strictly met is the fact that all meals should be broiled, baked or boiled. No fried meals for the duration of the diet. Another guideline is to avoid alcohol, bread and other carbonated drinks that hastens weight gain.
One downside to the cabbage soup diet is the fact that it not for the long term. It can only be done for a period of seven days. By the end of the week, the person can lose as much as 15 pounds depending of course on the meal that he or she has eaten during the program and how much you have adhered to the guidelines. Beyond the prescribed week, continuing the program can be dangerous to one’s health as too much weight will already be lost.
Because of this, dieters often use the cabbage soup diet if they need to lose weight fast. In fact, most people use the program to get into shape before they enroll in a long term diet program. Some get into the cabbage soup diet program when they need to lose extra pounds for a special occasion.
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