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Naweko San-Joyz is the pen Name for Nicole Dial. Dial founded Noixia, a San Diego based research firm dedicated to helping people intelligently, safely and affordably enhance their image by offering natural acne scar removal solutions to persons with acne scarring on the face and body.
Nicole Dial is a graduate of Stanford University. She has received grants from various foundations and has conducted research for the National Academy of Sciences. She published two ... [More]
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- A Cure for Severe Acne Possible With Isotretinoin Alternative
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Because facial oil is such a multi-tasker, some developing acne drugs are now focusing on pinpointing and downplaying facial oil's inflammatory properties while still allowing this natural protectant to coat the skin. One such drug is Zileuton, a 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor (targeted inflammation reducer). According to a study published in Dermatology, Zileuton reduces the number of inflammatory acne lesions and prevents the creation of facial oils.
- One Step Acne Solution That You Don't Use on Your Face
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Once upon a time, an observant physician loosely mused, "If there is more than one cure for a disease, then there is no real cure for the disease." That could certainly be said for acne - a skin condition that has as many remedies as it does sufferers.
- Does Toothpaste Help Get Rid of Acne?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Home remedies for acne come in all flavors of weird. There's the egg yolk mask, handyman soap scrub, lidocaine rub and even a urine toner. And like any trial treatment, homemade treatments may work sheerly because of the placebo effect. But, does toothpaste posses any properties that support its usage as an acne treatment?
- What to Expect From Laser Acne Scar Removal Treatments
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Have you decided to invest in laser therapy to correct acne scarring? What do you expect to get for your money - a completely new look? You should because these services aren't cheap. No matter what your aims for laser skin corrections are, by using medical reviews of leading laser treatments for acne scarring, you can have a clearer idea of what to expect after your laser treatment.
- How Often Should You Use Microdermabrasion Treatments
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] So how often should you perform microdermabrasion treatments on yourself? The answer depends on you. And by implementing the following four-step plan, you can become your own microdermabrasion expert.
- 3 Overlooked Exercises That Really Kick Cellulite's Butt
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] If the chance of sudden-boob inflation doesn't make liposuction anymore enticing to you, and you're utterly convinced that exercising only makes cellulite spread faster, please at least consider that you may have been performing the wrong exercises to paralyze that Jello on your backside.
- Cure Acne in Nature This Summer Without Cancer Fears
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] For years, sunbathing has served as an anecdotal cure for acne. But who wants to treat acne with sunshine if this therapy could cause skin cancer years later? Now that medical insights reveal sunbathing with an 45 SFP sunscreen significantly reduces cancer risk, acne sufferers can enjoy a free solar acne treatment, minus the cancer threat.
- Cheap Plastic Surgery - 5 Ways to Save A Fortune on Face Lifts, Nose Jobs, & Liposuction
[Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] Needing a career change, divorcing a spouse, looking older than you feel: These are just a few of the primary reasons men and women opt for plastic surgery. Yet sometimes, the old bank account is not luxurious enough to cover the cost of getting a new look. No worries though. We live in an expanding and creative world that allows almost anyone with an imagination and desperate drive access to cosmetic enhancements once only reserved for McMansion residents.
- Deep Acne Scars - How To Find The Best Dermal Filler To Correct Depressed Acne Scarring
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Softening deep acne scars resulting from severe bouts of cystic or nodular lesions requires a well thought out cosmetic corrective plan. And according to reports in Dermatologic Surgery, popularized scar removal options like laser resurfacing may not satisfactorily smooth away deep acne scars. Yet, patients can readily witness scar depth reductions in indented acne scaring using aesthetic therapies such as dermal fillers.
- New Acne Treatments - The Acne Drugs, Creams and Therapies that Could be Coming to a Shelf Near You
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Many people tormented by pimples find no reprieve with trusted pustule terminators like benzoyl peroxide or antibiotics. And so researchers toil away in labs and challenge the stamina of pimple prone skin with yet another acne preventative. However, this summer, the entourage of novel acne therapies could make blemishes retreat from the skin.
- Breast Firming Exercises : 3 Simple Moves to Enhance the Look and Feel of Your Bosom
[Womens-Interests:Cosmetic-Surgery] Breasts should be curvy. Along with fatty tissue, muscles serve as your natural source of sexy, busty curves. And, without morphing into a female version of the Incredible Hulk, you can add a tad of voluptuous, breast lifting muscle to your décolletage using three at-home exercises.
- Summer Sun Protection Gone Bad - Don't Make These Common Mistakes That Cause Skin Sagging & Burning
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Spotted, saggy skin. That's not exactly the image that a soothing day at the beach congers up. Yet that's precisely how ill-protected skin ends up after years of fun in the sun gone wrong. You can fend off unwanted solar lentigines (those pigmented spots and freckles resulting from sun exposure) and lose, wrinkled skin by avoiding the four most common suncare bloopers.
- Acne Scar Treatments: Discover the Best Way to Remove Your Acne Scars in 5 Simple Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] You can customize your hair color, manicure type, vehicle, health care plan and most certainly, your acne scar removal regime. But before you take one step in customizing anything - you plan. When it comes to getting rid of acne marks, you can plan to delete traces of your previous acne affliction in five time and money saving steps.
- Home Microdermabrasion Kits - 4 Tips to Make This Acne Scar Removal Treatment More Effective
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Home microdermabrasion kits serve as an ideal way to approach do it yourself acne scar correction. And with four scientifically sound tweaks to your current dermabrasion regime, you can transform this skin treatment into a world-class spa experience with striking results.
- New Study Says, "Relax and Straighten Your Hair Without a Cancer Care"
[Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] Regardless of whether it is true or not, people may feel uneasy about using strong chemicals like relaxers on their hair due to unknown cancer risks. This week, a study in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention gave consumers a reason to not to fear hair relaxers. Researchers from Boston University and Howard University Cancer Center found that the type, frequency and duration of hair relaxer usage did not increase breast cancer risk.
- Stop Poor Sleeping Habits From Making You Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If numbers tell the story, troubled sleeping habits could be turning Americans into fatties. According to the Food and Drug Administration, right now about 40 million people in the U.S. suffer from sleep problems. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 63.3 % of the noninstitutionalized adult United States population as overweight or obese.
- New Study Finds Vegetables Can Prevent Bladder Cancer
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] At buffets, not everyone rushes to grab Brussels spouts, cauliflower and turnips. That could change since researchers at the Maryland Anderson Cancer Center report that cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, kale, collards, radish and watercress may offer protection against bladder cancer.
- Is the New Period Stopping Pill Safe Enough to Prevent Acne & Pregnancies?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] No tampons, no super-sized maxi pads, no cramps... Any Pamprin-pressed woman could rant off endless positives of a period-stopping birth control pill. But is this new menstruation vanishing drug safe and can it still provide acne protection?
- Do You Need to Take Probiotics After Antibiotic Acne Treatments & If So Why?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Dermatologists typically prescribe antibiotics like tetracycline, erythromycin and minocyclin to treat acne. Acne patients may rely on antibiotics for two to six months. But after a series of antibiotic therapy, do you need to take supplemental bacteria called "probiotics" to compensate for the antibiotic effect on the colon?
- Top 4 Lasers for Removing Acne Scars
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Since a substantial portion of laser devices attain FDA approval based on the effectiveness of previously approved devices, how is the consumer to discern which laser is best for removing acne scarring?
- 3 Delicious Ways to Treat Acne With Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] What's the best way to get rid of acne: Fill your body with bacteria destroying antibiotics or attempt to boost your body's anti-inflammatory response? Here's a hint. According to a groundbreaking review of the causes of acne by a group of seven dermatologists, much of the success of modern acne drugs like retinoids and isotretinoin may result from their anti-inflammatory properties- not necessarily bacterial eradication.
- 3 Ways to Prevent Deep Acne Scars
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] When it comes to acne, a pimple reduced, is a scar avoided. That is, preventing the arrival of deep acne scars is a simple matter of controlling the size of an arising acne lesion. You can do this in three steps.
- How Does Phototherapy for Acne Really Work?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Intense pulse light (ILP) therapy and lasers have garnered media attention as leading-edge acne treatments. Often times the effectiveness of phototherapy is credited to the destruction of a popular clear skin nemesis, the so-called "acne causing bacteria" Propionibacterium acnes (p. acnes). Yet ironically, closer examination of how phototherapy actually works paints p. acnes as a catalyst for improving acne plagued skin, not a pimple provoker.
- 5 Ways to Save $100 on Your Next Date While Having Way More Fun
[Relationships:Dating] One of the most common complaints I hear about the dating scene- next to misleading online photos- is the ridiculous costs of going out. Here in San Diego, courting soirees could come at $150-$200 an outing. But that's just because bachelors and bachelorettes lapse into mundane and expensive dating stand-bys instead of venturing into the offbeat and free venues located right in their own community.
- How to Avoid the 4 Most Common Problems with Applying Mineral Make-Up
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Is mineral make-up causing your more cosmetic problems that it seems to be solving? Well, relax. In just four easy steps, you can overcome the most common complaints associated with applying mineral make-up including itchiness, dryness, color imperfections and messiness.
- 5 Steps to Prevent Deep Wrinkles Before They Start
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Which ages your more- the sun or your emotions? If you chose the sun, you've obviously never heard of "emotional de-wrinkling" so read on.
- 6 Ways to Piss Off Oil Companies
[News-and-Society:Environmental] I don't know about you, but I can think of at least 20 ways to spend the growing portion of my monthly budget that goes to gas. Regardless of what side of the fence you're on in "The Reason Gas Prices Are So High" debate, I still think a huge part of the price tag boils down to how creative consumers are with pissing off oil companies.
- 3 Easy & Delicious Salad Recipes for Better Looking Skin
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] In addition to Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day, May hosts yet another spectacular celebratory occasion. It's officially salad month! But, if you've found salads just too boring to celebrate in the past, the Association for Dressings & Sauces (ADS) offers a number of ways to make this dish more tantalizing to your palate. Moreover, with the right combination, your salad can deliver a healthier more youthful skin.
- Are Pistachios a Great Acne-Preventing Snack?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Pistachios boast the skin enriching nutrients vitamins A, C and E plus, zinc and folic acid. Yet, new research from University of Toronto's Department of Nutritional Sciences could add pistachios to a growing list of acne treatments that already includes benzoyl peroxide and antibiotics.
- Does Mineral Make-up Help Treat Acne & If So How?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Since its advent almost a decade ago, mineral make-up has made a potpourri of promises tempting enough to make any woman at least give this image altering cosmetic a try. One of the benefits headlining mineral make-up is its proclaimed ability to help control acne and hide acne scars.
- Turn a Man On With 3 Simple Style Changes
[Relationships] It's Friday night. You've just downed your second post-work apple-tini and now you're scanning your Sex In the City wardrobe for a get-up destined to entrap Mr. Huck-A-Burning-Love later tonight. Hold it! While surveying your garbs, you might want to consider other subtle- not to mention cheap- ways to wile a man to your trove of feminine offerings.
- 3 Ways to Avoid Developing Acne After Microdermabrasion Treatments
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] With a little planning, you can select the right microdermabrasion therapy for your skin type and tremendously reduce your chances of experiencing post-microdermabrasion acne.
- What's New in Skin Whitening - Life After Hydroquinone
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Have you tried to lighten your skin with over-the-counter lightening agents like hydroquinone but grew exasperated with waiting? Are you wondering what your options for removing age spots and acne scars will be if and when the Food and Drug Administration takes hydroquinone off the shelves? In that case, you may want to know about another skin whitener called mequinol (4-hydroxyanisole).
- 3 Ways to Reduce Environmental Causes of Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Environmentalist has certainly made arguments for a direct link between a toxic environment and health diseases like cancer and asthma. We can also get motivated to preserve out planet's health in order to prevent pimples.
- Is Hormone Replacement Therapy Still Ideal for Anti-Aging Skin Care?
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] It appears the struggles over the safeness of hormone replacement therapy will endure ad infinitum. Meanwhile, should adults continue to use hormone replacement therapy to prevent wrinkles in the mist of possible cancer risks?
- 3 Ways to Save Money on Acne Scar Removal
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] How much will removing your acne scars cost? That depends on several factors like,
how severe is your scarring is; how deep on the scars are and will do you the scar correction yourself or pay a skin care professional. Regardless of how your get rid of your scars, you can save big money by using these three simple tips.
- Will Vitamin E Help Fade Acne Scars?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Options for removing acne scars include the Fraxel laser, microdermabrasion and chemical peels. But, should you also consider the readily available and affordable supplement vitamin E for removing acne marks? For decades, people have trusted vitamin E to speed wounds healing and counteract natural aging of the skin. Yet, is this extra slathering of vitamin E justified, or is your time and money better spent on proven scar removal technologies?
- How Does Vitamin E Prevent Acne Outbreaks?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] You might want to call it "one of the hardest working vitamins in your body". Vitamin E protects the nerves, lungs and heart from oxidative damage. Along with these vital tasks, vitamin E still manages to stave off acne lesions.
- How Does Vitamin A Prevent Acne Outbreaks?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Since the 1960s', vitamin A gained medical attention for its anti-acne traits. Because of this vitamin's versatility and efficacy at treating acne, there are now over three generations of vitamin A derived medicines used to combat acne. So what is the secret to vitamin A's pimple-preventing action?
- Can Constipation Really Cause Acne & If So How?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] How rich would you be if you had a nickel for every time you heard about some kooky acne cure? Was overcoming constipation included in that list? While, clinical studies of the relationship between acne and colon health are lacking, medical research does lend validity to the possible link. For example, regular bowel movements help maintain hormonal balances that are critical to clear skin.
- Does Onion Extract Help Treat Acne Scars
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Do you need to have onion extract in your acne scar treatment or will petroleum jelly do the trick?
- The Missing Link Between Acne, Insulin Resistance and Constipation
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Among homeopathic treatments for acne, we find alleviating constipation. Yet presently, no medical studies have made the direct link between bowel regularity and acne. Nevertheless, there is a clear relationship between a hormonal imbalance called "insulin resistance" and acne. Moreover, according to the American Dietetic Association, regularity is great for mitigating acne because regular bowel movements can reduce the chances of developing insulin resistance.
- Add Heat to Your Facial for Improved Skin Firming and Pore Tightening
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] For centuries woman have indulged in facials to hold back the signs of aging and to take a peaceful reprieve for the demands of daily life. Such acts of facial nurturing may include exfoliating the skin, extracting the pores and applying a mud mask. While such facials create undeniably softer, brighter and healthier skin, woman can amp up the aesthetic impact of their facials by taking a cue from radio frequency skin treatments.
- How to Plan Your Acne Facials So That You Prevent Unwanted Zits Using 4 Skin-Saving Tips
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] If you’re like most people, when you start a new acne facial regime to get your pimples under control, you’re optimistically awaiting the unveiling of your true, pristine and zit-free skin. Yet, something unexpected - be it new, larger acne lesions, or surprisingly unwanted skin rashes- can oftentimes accompany your new skin care program.
- Heal Acne Scars Faster in 4 Simple Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Whenever I have a problem, I want it solved as fast as possible. This is especially true when the problem is obvious like a saucer-size acne lesion that has left a scar. Kindly enough, Nature gave humankind ways to expedite the healing process. And so, in four simple steps, you can harness Nature's wisdom to rush your acne scars to a healthy mending.
- Popular Acne Drug Could Also Erase Wrinkles and Correct Hyperpigmentation
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] For more than two decades, acne sufferers have turned to the potent drug isotretinoin to control severe, unrelenting acne lesions. Even though reports of side effects like suicide and depression have plagued isotretinoin, this blockbuster drug still has appeal in the anti-aging market.
- Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Treatments Ideal for Removing Acne Scars?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Do you always get what you pay for when it comes to skin care? Let's hope not. While cutting-edge lasers have proven themselves effective at removing acne scars, the premium price for laser treatments may not appeal to everyone. Happily, another more economical option for correcting facial scarring includes intense pulsed light (IPL) treatments.
- New, Natural Acne Cure Balances the Skin's Ecosystem
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Respect for the environment has certainly gained acceptance around the world. Now, the concept of skin ecology, which involves consideration for the face's environment including oils, cells and bacteria, is finally influencing developmental acne treatments.
- The Latest Acne Scar Treatments Could Come from You
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Are you searching near and far for a way to say "adios" to your acne scars. You could literally be staring the solution in the face. That is because researchers are now investigating ways to use your own skin cells as a dermal filler to correct facial imperfections like acne scars, indentations and deep wrinkles.
- What to Do When Antibiotics Fail to Treat Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] But why is isotretinoin the final pharmaceutical answer for acne? It's probably because excessive or inappropriate usage of antibiotics could lead to gram-negative folliculitis.
- How Much Will Laser Acne Scar Removal Cost You?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Have you been eyeing a laser treatment to zap away those acne scars? Before you run over to your local medical spa, you way want to run over some numbers to make sure you can dish out the cash to get the unblemished skin you crave.
- Tighter Pores In Three Easy Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] "What a girl wants, what a girl needs..." Yes, that's right, girls want tighter pores. Tighter pores give you that youthful, flirty look that exudes health. So how do you get that coveted look? You simply create healthier skin using three easy-to-follow steps
- How To Get Body Acne Under Control In Two Weeks
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Are you dreading lockers rooms and pools because you loathe exposing your pimple-laden backside? Fret not. Millions of people encounter unwanted acne lesions on their chest, back and buttocks but are oblivious to their cause. Now, instead of resting baffled by body acne, you can control body acne by taking easy and affordable steps to restore your skin's health.
- New Research Links Stress and Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] For years, stress has had to hang out in the category of unfounded acne causes, but not any more.
According to researchers with Wake Forest University School of Medicine teens are 23 percent more likely to have increased acne severity during times of increased stress.
- How to Safely Select the Best Vitamins for Your Skin
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] While the latest nutritional gossip may have you emptying all your skin supplements in the toilet, you may still want to keep selenium and vitamins E and C around.
- Can You Get Rid of Wrinkles with Food?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Fending off the signs of aging sends humanity on a mad hunt for every plausible way to look younger. Beauty creams, face-lifts, chemical peels, Botox and dermal fillers all reverse the signs of aged skin. But could we have missed the kitchen in our crazed desire for agerasia?
- Weight-Loss Drug Approved Despite Cancer Concerns
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The Food and Drug administration has a plan to fight obesity. According to the FDA, this strategy includes "revising FDA guidance for developing drugs to treat obesity." That could be part of the reason why in early February the FDA approved orlistat capsules as an over-the-counter (OTC) weight loss drug.
- Twice the Collagen Plumping in Just One Dermal Filler Shot
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Researchers from University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor have noticed a way to get more out of your cosmetic makeover dollars. Frank Wang, M.D., and his colleagues found that injections of hyaluronic acid used to plump the skin could also increase collagen production.
- Boys, Breasts and Acne: Unexpected Breast Enhancement from Natural Skin Care Products
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Natural and organic skin care products are a thriving component of the cosmetic industry. Such products appeal to consumers because of the apparent lack of potentially toxic chemicals and absence of ill health effects. Yet, while natural products may seem harmless, three young men from Colorado recently found out how simple products harmless products like soap could turn into breast enhancing drugs.
- Ways Women Can Prevent Heart Damage During Deep Chemical Peels
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Deep chemicals peels have evolved as a cosmetic stable for correcting blemishes like wrinkles, sagging skin, malignant lesions, age spots and acne scars. While the results from most properly administered deeps peels are astounding, this routine medical treatment does carry the risk of heart damage. And because the Association of Women's Heart Programs reports that heart disease kills more women each year than any other disease, it is wise to take heart protective measures before getting a deep chemical peel.
- Is Sunbathing Good for Acne?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] While medical associations may relegate sunbathing to the list of acne myths, a recent report out of San Diego has lent credence to the healing power of the sun.
- How to Heal Scars Faster with Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] While creams and laser treatments for scars abound, there is still one simple yet overlooked way to hasten the healing process of wounds. It’s called "proper tissue repair nutrition."
- Sexier Valentine Skin: Smart Tips For Peels, Waxing & Facials
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Valentine's Day is about love, lingerie, chocolate and doing whatever is necessary to look absolutely drop-dead gorgeous on this national day of passion. But looking great is not about happenstance, it about taking calculated steps to look fabulous.
- How I Gave Up Chocolate Donuts & Lost 32 Ounces with Food Dating
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you addicted to fatty, greasy foods? Then you need to know about food dating.
- How to Screw Up Your Diet in One Second
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you on a diet, eating modification program, or just praying that cellulite will stop spreading to your knees? Before you start another fitness program get wise to the factors that can sap your health ambitions in a nano-second.
- Why Acne Treatments Don't Work
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Are you just about ready to give up your search for an acne treatment that actually works? Before you do, discover how to dramatically increase the chances that your acne products will work.
- Can Birth Control Pills Still Treat Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Besides using birth control as a contraceptive, women also use the pills to treat acne. Now the question arises, “Is the latest generation of birth control pills still reliable acne treatments?”
- Skin Whitening Done Right: It Is about Skin Ecology Not Just Fading Spots
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] A complete skin lightening regime to treat blemishes like age spots, acne scars or melasma should consider other factors, above and below the skin, that contribute to the skin’s overall tone. Read on to find out how to complete your skin lightening regime.
- Are Skin Care Products Safe
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] In 2007, the skin care industry will face by impeding safety regulations aimed at preventing cancer. But is the trend of new safety regulations necessary or is it the result of misconstruing of medical evidence by activist groups.
- Do You Really Need to Drink Water for Healthier Skin?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Should you add a bottle of mineral water to your skin care products list, or will a shot of espresso do the trick? Find out which liquid really does wonders for the skin.
- Skin Lightening with Lasers to Get Rid of Skin Discolorations and Tattoos
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Because several variables such as the initial condition of the skin, the type of laser used, the skill level of the physician and the number of treatments received all dictate the outcome of a laser treatment, preparing for a laser treatment involves more questions than answers. Regardless of these uncertainties, the results from medical reports do provide some estimation of what to realistically expect from laser treatments for skin lightening.
- Skin Bleaching Alternatives to Hydroquinone: Medical Comparisons of Their Effectiveness
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] The anticipation of the FDA's ruling on the safety of this skin lightening agent provides an opportunity to compare the safety and effectiveness of alternative skin brightening ingredients to hydroquinone.
- Skin Lightening Options Threatened: Is Hydroquinone Really Too Dangerous for Consumer Use
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Has the United States just lagged behind an international trend of banning potentially dangerous cosmetics and is now starting to catch up? Or, is hydroquinone still a safe skin lightening agent when used properly?
- Can Peptide Creams Improve Acne Scarring & Wrinkles
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Peptides are one of the latest entrants into the world of cosmetic ingredients icons. But, do peptides work to correct skin imperfections like wrinkles and acne scars or do they just inflate the price of cosmeceuticals?
- White Scars & Hypopigmentation: Their Causes & Cures
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Are you looking for a way to undo hypopigmentation. You do have options, but they may surprise you.
- Is Botox The Right Choice for Deep Acne Scars?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] From microdermabrasion to chemical peels, the list of acne scar removal options keeps growing. But should you also add Botox to this list?
- 6 Home Remedies to Remove Acne Scars
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Do you have acne scarring but plastic surgery is out of the question? No need to worry. While you may not get Dr. 90210 like results, items available in your own kitchen can help improve acne scarring if done correctly.
- Is Pimple Popping Dangerous & Will It Really Make Your Acne Worse?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] You may have heard it as a never-ending cleanliness sermon from your mom, "Don't pop your pimples, you'll only make your acne worse. Blah, blah, blah. That's why your skin looks awful now. Stop that!" But really, will popping zits make your acne worse or is it just another acne myth?
- Phony Acne Causes Needless Scarring in Men
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Those bumpy, puss-filled, red, round things on your back…they are acne lesions right? Maybe not. You might call them “Pityrosporum folliculitis” instead.
- Makeup and Acne: 5 Ways Not to Make a Bad Situation Worse
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Do you have a clear strategy for concealing blemishes so that you are not making your acne worse? If not read on…
- New Ways Women Can Slow the Skin's Aging Process
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Wait, before you give in and call Dr. 90210, you might want to know what you can do in your own home to stave off wrinkles and sagging skin.
- 8 Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before Starting Acne Scar Removal Laser Treatments
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Are you just about ready to make and appointment for laser skin resurfacing to treat your acne scarring? Just make sure you ask your doctor these eight questions first.
- How Do Laser Treatments for Acne Work?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] When it comes to acne control, lasers may seem like a pimple erasing magic wand. But how do lasers actually affect acneic skin?
- Acne Scar Removal: Is It Worth a $2500 Laser Treatment
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Lasers treatments can ameliorate acne scarring, but is it worth the price?
- The Meditational Face-lift
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Need a natural way to look and feel younger? Try the meditational face-lift.
- 3 Ways to Prevent Neck Wrinkles
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Are neck wrinkles about to defeat your whole anti-aging plot. No worries. In three simple steps you can get those neck creases to look just as youthful as your face.
- 4 Ways to Look Younger Right Now
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Are you needlessly adding five years to your look right now? Get these four tips and never be a victim of subconscious age-revelation again.
- What Are the Chances That You’ll Stick With Your Acne Treatment?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Does your acne treatment involve a lot of wishful thinking coupled with endless trial and error? Check out these tips and you could reduce the amount of time and money you spend trying to locate the best acne cure.
- Will Lasers Replace Traditional Acne Treatments
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Lasers can correct the vision, tighten the skin and even sever microscopic vessels, but can a laser replace a $5 OTC acne treatment?
- 5 Steps to Find a Product That Will Actually Reduce the Size of Your Pores
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Size matters. And when it comes to your skin’s pore size, the smaller the better. So how can you minimize your pore size. Here’s five tips to get you started.
- What Causes Acne Scarring Anyway?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Ever wonder want you could do to prevent pitted and pigmented acne scars from taking up space on your face or body? You're about to find out.
- Prevent Acne Scars by Reducing Inflammation
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Do you have a potential acne scar looming in your future? Why not try these at-home tips to stop acne scarring before it starts.
- What Are These Ugly Dark Patches On My Face That Never Go Away?
[Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] A dark patch on the cheek, a brown square on your thigh, a black section on your neck... What are those swarthy badges and how do you get rid of them?
- Fastest Way to Burn Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Ready to kick your New Year resolution into overdrive. Why don't you use the tricks that professional models use to shed fat fast.
- 4 Surefire Ways to Save Money and Time With Your Acne Treatment
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Got acne? Read this to save money on your acne treatments.
- New Study Questions Causes of Acne In Women
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Are you paranoid that an oily face is a surefire precursor for
acne- not so according to a new study.
- How To Avoid Holiday Overeating
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] You don't have to worry about "battling the buldge" this holiday season if you know all secrets for winning the holiday dieting mind games.
- Environmental Causes of Adult Onset Hormonal Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Have you resolved to blame adult acne on hormones alone? You might want to consider environmental causes of acne.
- Try the $12,000 Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you just not motivated anymore to lose weight? What if you could get an extra $12,000 just for dropping a few pounds?
- Natural Food Sources of Hyaluronic Acid and Collagen
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Want firmer skin but don't want to use collagen injections to get it? Try natural food sources of hyaluronic acid and collagen instead.
- How to Make a Dud Relationship More Sexually Fulfilling: A Guide for Women
[Relationships] You want more intimacy and caressing; he wants that porn-star he watched last night on HBO. How can you reconcile two distinct sexual desires in one bedroom?
- Why One Acne Treatment Does Not Cure All
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Why do you, out of the six billion people on this planet, have to deal with acne? More importantly, why is finding your acne cure so hard?
- Is This Why Your Vagina Smells?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] What's going on down there? Restoring your vagina to health involves to ruling out the possibility of having vaginal conditions like bacterial vaginosis, a yeast infection or trichomonas vaginitis.
- Is Spironolactone The Only Option for Women Over 35 With Acne?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Women with acne have numerous treatments options. Should spironolactone be one of them?
- Back to School With Clear Skin
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Summary: Almost everything is checked off your back to school to do list. But there’s one more thing to do- help you teen treat acne.
- How to Stop Bad Breath In 4 Refreshing Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] OK, no more excuses, here's how to stop making everyone laugh behind your back after getting a wiff of your noxious breath.
- Are Obese Women Getting Short-Changed By Chemotherapy Treatments?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] How does your doctor go about prescribing chemotherapy treatments for you? If you don't know, you could be getting less than you bargained for.
- How To Avoid Post Workout Binges And Lose Those Last 10 Pounds In 3 Easy Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Does huffing away at the gym only seem to turn you into a raving heifer after your workout? Don’t let post-workout binges keep you from losing those last 10 pounds.
- Warning: If You're a Woman Over 25, You Should Eat These Foods To Prevent Diseases
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Do you keep your health care plan in the fridge? You may want to start after you read this.
- Exposed: The 95% Dieting Lie That's Keeping You Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Still blaming your fat issues on quack diets? Better read this so that the truth can set your fat free.
- Body Acne Questions & Answers
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] A zit on the shoulder, three on your back, one's about to pop-up on your chest... What can you do about body acne?
- Top 5 Reasons Why Women Over 30 Don't Lose Weight And Keep It Off
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Summary: Don’t diet that diet just yet. Maybe your just making these five dieting mistakes.
- Acne Skin Savers Your Mom Never Told You About
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] You feel it beneath your skin. It’s starting to tingle. It’s red. What should you do now? Don’t play with potential zits, read about acne skin savers and stop those pimples before they start.
- Age Spot Erasing Made Easy And Right From Your Own Kitchen
[Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] If you intent about keeping your age top secret, keep you age spots under wraps using this easy, at-home methods.
- Stop, That Little White Bump May Not Be A Zit After All
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Not all bumps are created equal. Before you shell money for an acne treatment, make sure you’re actually dealing with acne first place and not milia.
- 5 Reasons Little White Bumps Are On Your Face and How to Get Rid Of Them
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Stop letting those little white bumps get the best of you. Keep reading and you’ll take your skin from bumpy to smooth in no time flat.
- War of the P Acnes
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Are you killing so-called "acne causing bacteria" or only making them smarter with anti-bacterial soaps. Before you lather up your face again hoping to drown away zits, take a look at how smart these tiny acne bacteria are. You'll totally reconsider how you "kill" zits.
- Here's Your Acne Cure Harry Potter
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Even with all his magic, Harry Potter is still fending off zits. Here's a sure way to turn your visions of clear skin into a reality without the special effects.
- Should You Douche
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Vaginas arouse numerous questions. One of the most pressing questions with profound implications for a woman's health is whether or not she should douche.
- Accutane Side Effects: Should Depression Be A Concern?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Considering using isotretinoin to treat severe acne? Several studies have examined the link between depression and isotretinoin, but no decisive conclusion remains. Decide whether or not depression must accompany your treatment.
- The First Step To Curing Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] At a loss for how to cure acne. Get the facts, then get your cure.
- 8 Simple Steps for Treating Adult Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Ask yourself 8 simple questions, and find 8 easy ways to safely clear up your comlexion.
- Remedying the Silly Ways Women Get Acne When Applying Makeup and Moisturizers
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Women spend thousands of dollars to create a flawless face. Yet faulty or uninformed uses of moisturizers and makeup can lead to inexplicable breakouts for women.
- Save Money On Acne Cleansers
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] If you've been using an acne cleanser for months with no noticeable improvement in your skin try improving your skin from the inside out.
- The Hated Cellulite Cure That Works
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] How do women in the advertisements for cellulite creams get rid of their cellulite? Not by using a cream, of course. One may answer that Adobe Photoshop editing cleverly erases the smiling fat dimples. That’s not always the case. Women can and do shrink their cellulite bubbles, here's how...
- Slash Your Acne Supplement Expenses with Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] You don’t have to spend a fortune on supplements when food provides all the nutrients you need to have clear skin. Herbs and supplements that provide support for clean skin typically offer the following benefits:
- Deep Peels for Acne: What it feels like to get burned
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Considering a deep peel to remove your acne scars? Wonder what it feels like? Deep peel treatments are a fast way to remove acne scars. But ill-time your treatment and you could end up wasting your time and money.
- Are You Addicted To Your Acne Trigger?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] If a food or drink is the culprit behind your acne breakouts you may actually be addicted to your preferred culinary delight. The allergy addition could stem from the body’s response to frequently consumed allergens.
- Possible Acne Messages
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Acne formations act as messengers from the body, suggesting beneficial changes to your lifestyle and areas of your life to which you should pay more attention. You know when you have found an acne message because using the information from the message actually improves your health and deepens you level of self-awareness.
- Chronic Head, Facial, Or Neck Pain That Won't Go Away - Could It Be TMJ?
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Do you have a pain the the neck that won't leave? It could be TMJ...
- Busting Acne Myths Requires Individualized Treatment and More Research
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] If you have acne, you know the deal- everybody has a cream or suggestion to help you get clear skin. But how do you separate myth, medicine and folklore to find an acne treatment that works for you?
- 5 Steps to Clear Skin
[Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] Intensify the effectiveness of your acne treatment with 5 simple steps.
- Give Me Accutane or Give Me Death: The Politics of Prescriptions
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Any teenager will tell you that acne can drive you crazy, but is it dismal enough to drive you to kill yourself? Since its market debut in 1982, enraged parents and lawyers have implicated Accutane in the hospitalizations and suicide deaths of over 200 teenagers in the US.
- Is Milk Giving You the Zits?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] A study published in the February 2005 edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology re-ignites the acne diet controversy.
- Do these Zits Mean Anything? An Acne Treatment That Uses Modern Science and Ancient Wisdom
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Are your suffering with acne? An effective acne treatment has remained elusive because the deeper meanings behind the information-packed pimples are too often neglected or unexamined, until now.
- Shopping for Sensitive Skin: A Guide for the Acne and Rosacea Conscious
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] A quick sample of what to look for and what to avoid when you shop for acne and rosacea prone skin.
- Taking the Pimples Out of PMS
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] You know you hate it when it happens, so find out how to stop a PMS breakout before it starts.
- B Vitamin Hype: With Ambitions of Fighting Acne, Rosacea and Tumors, What Can This Vitamin Really Do
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Is vitamin B an acne, rosacea, and tumor fighter rolled into one?
- The Kill the Bacterial and Cure the Acne Myth
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] You've probably bought tens of acne soaps promising to annihilate every single “acne causing bacteria” on your face. Perhaps you’ve even taken antibiotics to destroy the clear skin enemy. But are really getting rid of acne or making your health and skin condition worse?
- An Acne Fetish is No Laughing Matter
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] While it may be easy to scoff off an acne fetish with remarks like, “I don’t have that problem,” this condition is more common than properly acknowledged. A fetish is an object of unreasonably obsessive attention or regard. Thus, extreme attention given to zits and pimples characterize an acne fetish. Two clinical forms of an acne fetish include excoriated acne and imagined acne.
- Acne & Wrinkles at My Age?
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Growing numbers of men and women are experiencing acne as adults. Unfortunately, too often traditional treatments such as antibiotics and the more recent use of hormone therapy fail to remedy acne for mature sufferers. Using self-examination, adults can overcome their acne without the use of drugs.
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