Please check out the Yves Rocher link on my site and view all the beautiful makeup, skin care, and body care from plants and botanical sources. The product is wonderful and the prices are really great too. I used this product when I was single; oh, a while ago. It’s so much fun to look at everything. Please check out Yves Rocher! and read about the reasons to choose this make up line!
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I had a light bulb moment the other day at Whole Foods. I have small red lines around my lips; especially the top lip and I had no idea what from? Even after listening to someone else’s woes about how they always bit their upper lip while concentrating, it did not occur to me what my problem is! It seems it has caused broken capillaries around her lips!
I sit in front of my computer and purse my lips; habitually hold my mouth in that ‘putting the lipstick from your top lip to your bottom lip mode’ while I am writing, researching, cleaning my desk; thinking. Apparently all the time. It never occurred to me that I could be harming my skin by constantly putting it into an unusual position. I pull and clamp down so hard my nose moves. (after I realized what I was doing..I had to show myself).
SO! Let that be an anti-aging natural skin tip for the day. Try to relax your mouth!
Not so sure of a solution to this dilemma…the only one I know of would be the Capillary Calming Serum from MyChelle.
….Capillary Calming Serum soothes and calms skin with Canadian willowherb, gotu kola and arnica, while totarol, spin trap, tocotrienols, and blue algae provide ultimate antioxidant protection. This skin calming formula soothes and relieves inflammation while strengthening the capillary walls to improve circulation and toxin removal. Relieves redness and irritability.
Take some old skin (around your mouth) and make it better!
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Don’t laugh at my title….I get searches on this all the time. And with good reason. As we get older the loss of collagen in our bodies…plus the hormone estrogen helps to cause this look of ‘chicken skin’ on arms, legs, necks…wherever. Alas; I work out, lift weights, eat pretty well, despite the butter pecan ice cream frenzies every once in a while and suffer from this lovely thing on my arms myself.
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Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, and bok choy are members of the cruciferous, or cabbage, family of vegetables. They all contain phytochemicals, minerals, vitamins and fiber that are important to your health. Various components in cruciferous vegetables have been linked to lower cancer risks. It may behoove those with problematic skin to supplement with DIM – and I am speaking of adult women and men here; as men can take the supplement as well. Read below for some very interesting news on both the vegetables and the compounds in them. You can decide which method (eating them or supplementing with DIM) is something you want to do. DIM is said to protect the female organs; and to also regulate estrogen levels in both men and women – and hormones are a huge cause of breakouts in adult women.
Information on DIM and cruciferous vegetables
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It’s national heart health month and I would be remiss to not address it here. My youngest son has a rare disease that affects his heart. Marfan Syndrom affected people can experience aortic dissections that in most cases are fatal. When he was diagnosed at age 3; his life span was around 40. In the 14 years since, with more technology, medications and knowledge; most can live a fairly normal life span – however most individuals I know and know of only live extended lives with aortic repairs and other surgeries that need to be done based on it being a connective tissue disease. They have multitudes of issues to deal with and take multiple medications.
Doctors at Johns Hopkins told me that no vitamin therapy will do any good; maybe they won’t. They will though and I would be wrong in not making sure my son had all the ammunition possible to help his condition. Some of the very things that are good for our skin – are so because they are good for the connective tissues in our body (the glue that holds us together) and the collagen; etc. So; the nutrients that I have him on are really good for all and especially aging skin.
Vitamin C is involved in hundreds of vital biological processes in the body. Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin which means it is not stored in the body & needs to be continually replaced. It helps in maintaining collagen levels, healing wounds, fighting infections & coping with stress.
Signs of a deficiency in Vitamin C are:
Vitamin C has beneficial effects on:
Sources for Vitamin C: Botanic Choice Vitamin C Life Extension Vitamin C
Vitamin C for your facial skin has benefits well known – much of the Vitamin C you ingest won’t make it to your skin on the outside; so applying a Vitamin C product works as an essential factor for the normal formation, maintenance and structural stability of collagen as well as pigmentation and texture and pore refining. CellexC Perfect C Super C Vitamix I have tried Cellex C, Perfect C, but have only heard great things about Super C Vitamix.
Essentail Fatty Acids – Good for the Body/Heart/Skin
Life Extension Omega 3 Product
Signs of EFA deficiency: So you can see where they would be good for the skin! Click on the link above for a lot more information and a place to buy a very high quality EFA.
CoQ10
Sources for CoQ10 Life Extension’s Super Ubiquinol Botanic Choice CoQ10
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I have discussed this subject before, but I have found another product for my arsenal to help with my older skin and hormonal breakout problems.
I still break out around my mouth, on both sides and near the nasolabial folds. UGH! Not just one or two; they come to party, so there is usually 3-5 on one side or sprinkled around on the other side. Almost every woman I talk to who is peri-menopausal has this problem. I’m working on getting my hormones balanced; but I still have breakouts.
I use MyChelle Skin Care, the Dry/Mature line. My youngest son uses their Teen Anthology Line. I purchased the Clear Skin Serum a while back; even wrote a glowing post about it. But even with the serum I was still having issues. So; I do the wrong thing, I pick. Even after I put my son’s MyChelle Spot Treatment on each and every little one. But you know what happens when you use spot treatment….even with best intentions; sometimes it dries out the other skin a little too much surrounding it.
You know; most women my age are flaking or chapping because of Retina A use. Not me; it’s because I’m still using a spot treatment for acne flare ups!
I found a very helpful product, right on my bathroom counter though. After my clear skin serum on the entire problem area, I mist with the pumpkin hydrating mist to calm down the red, patchy, flaky skin you get when you have bothered your poor breakouts too much. It does wonders. Then if I need to; I put the spot treatment on top of the ’spots’. It’s worth every penny. Two problems solved! Take some old skin…and make it better!
Read About the Benefits of Pumpkin Here
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