The Latest Information on Skin Care Products Online
Ongoing Discussion and Controversies about Skin Care Products:
Can Sunscreen Chemicals harm the Environment or damage the Coral Reefs?
Discussion of Sunscreen Chemicals Do sunscreen chemicals accumulate in the environment? Skin cancer is a real threat to both the quality and length of human life. Excessive sun exposure has been strongly correlated with rising skin cancer rates. [...]
Sunscreen Skin Care Products
What’s all the controversy about?
The search for a skin care product which protects all skin types from damaging ultraviolet radiation, yet is non-allergenic, long lasting, waterproof or at least water resistant, cosmetically acceptable, affordable and completely safe to use over a lifetime is ongoing.
Tremendous strides have been made toward production of
sunscreen products [...]
How much sunscreen should you apply?
Dermatologists usually suggest it takes about 2 tablespoons of your sunscreen skin care product to be effective.
Most of us have sunscreen leftover from previous seasons in our medicine cabinet.
If we are using the sunscreen appropriately, the bottle should be used up fairly quickly.
Editor’s note: A famous dermatologist once said [...]
FDA Announces New Requirements for Sunscreen Labels
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that it plans to instruct manufacturers of sunscreens to make three important changes to sunscreen labeling.
The first change requires labels to contain a warning about the dangers of ultraviolet radiation exposure and to suggest other ways that the skin can be [...]
Why use Sun Protective Clothing?
Although sunscreens help reduce the amount of ultraviolet induced skin damage, skin can still burn and tan with sunscreen use. As a practical matter, sunscreens are wiped off or come off with swimming and sweating. Clothing adds a layer of protection from damaging sun rays, but most regular clothing is limited [...]
Sun Guard -Adding Ultraviolet Protection to Fabrics and Clothing Sun Guard washes in a Sun Shield to clothing. SunGuard washes in an invisible chemical shield, called Tinosorb, into fabrics and clothing.
(from Sun Guard website):
SunGuard can boost the UPF protection of a white cotton T-shirt from UPF 5 to UPF 30.
Add one package of SunGuard to [...]
What is Strivectin?
What do they mean by ‘Better than Botox’ ?
Actually, its quite hard to find studies that independently confirm the effectiveness of Strivectin, although there are numerous anectodal reports online.
The ingredient, called 5% Striadil Complex, is proprietary, and studies are primarily by Drs. Klein and Becker (see Klein/Becker site).
Their website states that Striadil contains [...]
Soybeans extracts may have a beneficial effect on photodamage. What are the components of soybeans that may be helpful in skin care?
Among the many biological agents in soybeans are antioxidants and proeinase inhibitors. Soybean trypsin inhibitor and protease inhibitor play a role in the regulation of pigmentation. These inhibitors are inactivated by heat. In a [...]
Smoking and Premature Aging and Wrinkles of the Skin
Smoking wrinkles your skin In 1991 dermatologists in Utah linked tobacco smoking with facial skin wrinkling.
If you look around when you are seated in a restaurant or auditorium, you might be able to verify this for yourself.
See if you can pick out the smokers by the lines [...]
Skin Types have been classified since 1975 based on the tendency of the skin to burn and the ability of skin to tan.
This type of scale is called the Fitzpatrick Scale and includes points ranging from lighter to darker skin. The classification is useful to both dermatologists and patients and in helping to determine a [...]