We know about useful qualities of carrot since ancient times. It contains a lot of glucose, salt of potassium, cobalt, iron, copper, iodine. Carrot is valued highly because of its provitamin A (carotene). But it also it has many other vitamins like C, D, K, E and vitamins of group B. Sure your skin will be grateful to you for the great vitamin support during winter avitaminotic period. Today I offer some masks from carrot for different kinds of skin. You can find any mask for your taste...

You know it's scabies and it will infect every person in the house as long as the host is living with you. But there arescabies home remedywhich you can do right now to reduce the symptoms and get rid of scabies from each person that you know is infected.

These scabies mites live, lay their eggs and spread on households and not just on an infected person's skin. They seek shelter in the less exposed areas of the body, where there is more heat and moist such as armpits, genitals...

Symptoms of a reaction to Mineral Oils:

• Watery spots develop under skin on hands or feet (for me).
• The area becomes puffy, hot and itchy.
• Three days later skin will become dry and start to flake.
• New skin is revealed as the area recovers.

Cause:

• Using products that contain Liquid Paraffin (mineral oil).  Such as shampoos, soaps, moisterizers, shaving foam, wax furniture polish, and ironically creams used...

You might disagree, but hear me out on this. If you have oily skin, you really are lucky. The tell-tale signs of aging won't show up on your face as early as they will on the rest of us dry and normal-skinned people. This is because the oil works to keep precious moisture locked in the outermost layer of your skin. However, oily skin care can be a frustrating problem. And using most oily skincare products oftentimes seem to make the shininess, blackheads, and pimples worse. But the good...

If you are thinking about getting your body pierced, especially for the first time, you should take the time to get informed before you get pierced. Because not knowing what to expect could be disastrous.

For example, did you know that:

1. You CAN get a serious infection including Hepatitis or even HIV if the piercing equipment hasn't been sterilized properly.




2. Infections caused by bacteria getting into the puncture of the piercing may also...

Basically, there are four common skin types: oily, dry, combination, and normal. The way your skin reacts and behaves classifies the type of skin you have. Skin types react in different ways to creams and/or lotions, environment, and weather. The skin on your face is the great point to categorize type of your skin.

Here are four skin types that you should know:

1.Oily Skin

Skin may look oily, sallow, and coarse; it has large pores and tends to have pimples, blackheads...

Preventive corneotherapy , a term coined in the 1990s by Albert Kligman, M.D., Ph.D., is becoming one of the most important principles of treatment in advanced skin care. The object of corneotherapy, topical delivery of active concentrates through the skin, is skin barrier homeostasis. The ultimate development in the quest for understanding the stratum corneum is corneotherapy, focusing therapy toward correcting the defective horny layers.

Dr. Kligman, a corneobiologist,...

Bleaching agents, the most conventional treatment for freckles, have limited success in masking the appearance of freckles. Bleaching agents attempt to fade the freckles to a color approximating that of the surrounding skin. However, they can sometimes lighten or darken the skin surrounding the freckles, calling even more attention to the spots. Occasionally, bleaching agents cause rashes or chemical burns. Some people have had success using alpha hydroxy acids on a regular basis,...

How to treat boil

Boils are a common problem in teenagers and adults these days. These days more and more people are getting affected by boils and wonder about how to treat boil.

There are many reasons for the increased incidences of boils:
Unhealthy lifestyle: The haphazard work hours coupled with irregular sleeping habits is one of the reasons why boils have increased. This causes a disruption in the regular functioning of the metabolism which manifests in...

Thevirus herpes simplex (HSV) is virus manifested under two forms, both as blisters with fluid, painful under the skin. The virus erupts around the mouth, lips or genital organs. The infection is contagious especially during eruption.

Out of those 8 types of herpes HSV, most common are:

• Herpes type 1 (HSV - 1);
• Herpes type 2 (HSV - 2).

HSV - 1 -is the most common type of herpes and is related with oral and facial infections( cold...