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Beauty tips - Seven Myths to Beautiful Skin

By ebazaar ⋅ July 10, 2010 ⋅

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Well, it is not much but they are so me little advice about small things that we might have overseen sometimes. Skin care is just as important to me just as it is to other women out there, I believe. Women and matters regarding beauty cannot be separated since long. Thus, it is not a surprise to find women willingly spending lots of cash just for the sake to appear beautiful and lovely.

Evidently, not all women have the same skin condition. The common types are dry skin, oily skin or normal skin. For that reason, not all treatment would serve to be suitable for all. It will largely depend on a person’s skin condition. Therefore, you should not be excited to try any kind of products that claimed could erode your skin problems away and just because it did wonders to your friend’s skin, does not mean it could do the same to yours.

Myth 1: Cold water is good to reduce the skin’s pore size.

It is true that by using cold water to wash your face would automatically make the size of the pores to reduce and on the contrary, washing the face using lukewarm water would make the pores to open up. Nevertheless, this condition does not maintain for long. It does not last long because the skin depends on the dynamic change of its surrounding, as much as the temperature of the water does. It is better to have a better and organize routine of skin care to help cleanse of dirt and dead skin cells for a fresh and softer skin.

Dig This Tip - Use lukewarm water to wash your face and use a scrub right after to scrap of dirt and dead skin cell. Use a mask and a moisturizer that suits your skin type. Clay mask is best to reduce opened-pores skin problem, but it should not be used too often because it could over-dry your skin.

Myth 2: Frequent change of beauty product is good for the skin.

If you happens to constantly use the same product, soon the effect of the product would seem to trim down. This is because the skin and body naturally would absorb and neutralize the effect of the product after a long run of usage. However, if you had no problem whatsoever by using the product you should not bother to change it at all and there is no need of frequent change of products to have beautiful skin. Somehow, the statement proves to be incoherent.

Dig This Tip - It is best to identify the skin problems that you are having and use a product that can rectify the problems one by one. Using multiple products at once sometimes could cause other kinds of problems to arise. This is because the effect of the products’ ingredients may collide and cause hazards to the skin.

Myth 3: Consumption of chocolates and nuts will cause breakouts/acne problems.

Actually, acne and breakouts are products of hormonal changes, unhealthy diet and lifestyle of an individual as well as failure in choosing the correct and suitable product for their skin. In direct connection, eating chocolates and nuts does not promote acne and breakouts BUT eating them excessively, which means not having proper eating habits, could cause acne and breakouts to happen and this situation became a myth in people’s thoughts. An improper eating polar, of any kind of food, together with stress are the actual reasons that could cause acne and breakouts. Therefore, it is a No! Do not blame it on chocolates and nuts!

Dig This Tip - Have a healthy and proper diet by organizing your daily meal and avoid being a mood eater. For those who tends to eat according to their mood would most likely to be stressful about something, therefore, it is recommended that you find ways on how to manage your stress. Remember not all stresses are bad.

Myth 4: Sleeping 8 hours or more promotes better skin condition

Resting time that a person needs may differ from one another. Some needed 8 hours, and some may need merely 6, and there are also cases when an individual may only need 4 hours of sleep and can still be fresh when he wakes up. Sleep is not only essential to a healthier skin but the body itself as a whole. In this matter, you have to think of not only the quantity of hours that the person sleeps, but how sufficient rest a person can get.

Dig This Tip - What a person really needs is quality sleep. Only sleep when you are tired and avoid sleeping with your mind full of wish list and invincible “to-do” notes. You are your thoughts written down instead. People who sleep with lots of things in mind would have his or her sleep often interrupted. Moreover, a regular and relaxing exercise such as yoga, Pilates and meditation might help to promote better sleeping habit and quality and be very watchful of what you eat few hours before sleeping. A cup of hot chocolate would help, but then again, strictly no heavy caffeine.

Myth 5: Lemon extract can reduce blackheads on the face.

There are many face products in the form of scrub or mask that contains fruit extracts as its ingredients. Acids in certain fruits do help in scraping off the dead-skin cells away to the result of a brighter complexion. This can happen because blackheads (dead-skin cells) are often located on the surface of the skin rather than whiteheads, which are inside the skin and may require a much more intensive care and treatment. These whiteheads after time combines with dirt, dust and all other pollutions in the air will produce blackheads on the surface of the skin, and some may cause blockage of the pores and bacteria will starts to dwell and zap! Breakout happens. Therefore, lemon extract alone is not enough to cover the whole regime of facial care and treatment because the treatment is utterly on the outside.

Dig This Tip - Lemon extract is great in order to gain brighter and more refresh complexion. Instead of depending on products ingredient, have a lemon cut and mix the extract with a lukewarm water and use this as facial splash early in the morning and before going off to bed and the followed by your normal face regime routine. This will helps to clear out the excess sebum and dirt while sleeping and throughout the day.

Myth 6: It is not good to wash the hair everyday

If you were the active and outdoor type of person, automatically your hair would get dirty easily and needed washing more often than those who works in the office or stays at home. In some case, you hair might get very dirty and may need to be washed twice a day. Moreover, there are many shampoos in the market can be use daily, so there is nothing that you should worry about.

Dig This Tip - You might want to consider Organic or Herbal Shampoo. Many hair care products nowadays contain too much complex ingredients that might be of a little too risky in the end.

Myth 7: Oily hair does not need conditioner

Beautiful hair starts from a healthy scalp and to obtain healthy scalp, a proper and right techniques of hair treatment and care are needed. One third of oil would be around the near of the hair roots. This is because the scalp is the part of the head that becomes oily and produces natural moisturizer, not the ends. That is why conditioner is still needed to cater the moisturizing need of the hair strands up to its’ ends in order to ensure there will not be any split ends especially for those with long hair. Thus, it is recommended to apply some conditioner to the other two third of the hair after rinsing and while the hair is still wet

Dig This Tip - Apply the conditioner while the hair is still wet for better results, and so that you would not have to use much of it for a large volume of hair. Do not splatter the conditioner like butter on bread. There are many kinds of conditioner in the market recently that you can choose from; the rinse-off type as well as the leave-on type.

This same article is being published on Triond under beauty tips. Authored by me, ebazaar. Full article can be read here, 7 Myths on Secrets to Beautiful Skin

Hope that helps a little! Expect more articles up soon~

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