Archive for September, 2009

Beauty Tips For Winter

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

This calls for important changes in your makeup and beauty product usage as well. Body care is important and there are so many different products out there. There are equally a large number of perfume products, hair products, makeup and more. When choosing beauty products, you don’t want to choose what is most popular at the time but what is best for you, your skin and beauty needs and your style. You also want to coordinate this with the time of the year for the best effects.

Take anti-oxidants to protect your skin. Buy them at a reputable health food store. Eat an Avocado once a week for the essential fatty acids it contains. Take flax seed oil pills or add it to food or drink and/or top your cereal or salad with fresh ground golden flax seeds. Flax seeds also have essential fatty acids. Eat wild salmon once a week for the Omega 3 and Omega 6 Fatty acids. This is the time to Layer your Sensitive Skin Essential Oil with Seawater and Marine Lotion, followed immediately with the Special Reserve cream.

Regular bath soaps clean well but are powerfully alkaline and irritating for both dry and sensitive skin. Clear soaps containing glycerin and alcohol may also be too drying. So, as an alternative of soap, dermatologists suggest a soap-free, sensitive skin cleansers. If your skin is very dry or sensitive, you may need to alternate a washable lotion with a sensitive-skin bar. After cleansing dry skin, apply a moisturizer that is light, hypoallergenic, preservative-free, all-purpose and water based. For extremely dry skin, moisturize with petroleum jelly or an oil-based lotion with 20 percent urea.

Searching An Eye Doctor in a New Area

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Some people want an eye doctor who is in their community so it is quick and easy to get to appointments. For example, it is relatively easy to find a Grand Blanc eye doctor because Grand Blanc vision care is available most readily in this community. Others do not care how far away their doctor is as long as he or she comes recommended by their family or friends. Finally, recent college graduates can check with their Alma Maters to see where doctors who graduated from their school are practicing since some patients like to go to a doctor who went to the same school as they did.

There are also plenty of people who like to select a doctor who comes recommended by family or friends. The advantage of taking recommendations from family and friends is that they will usually pick good doctors or at the very least they can tell you all about the doctor and you can decide for yourself whether the doctor will be good for you or not. The disadvantage of asking friends and family for doctor recommendations is that a doctor who works well for them, may not be best for you. When seeing a doctor that your friends or family suggested you may want to schedule an appointment and be prepared to select another if he or she is not right for you.

Finally, if you are recent college graduate, you can contact your school and request a list of eye doctors who are practicing in your current city. The advantage to finding a doctor from the same school you went to is that you know the kind of curriculum they went through to become a doctor, so you should have a pretty good idea of how skilled they are. The disadvantage of selecting a doctor from your school is that they may not be the best doctor available and just because they went to the same school as you did, does not mean he or she will be the best doctor to fulfill your needs.