Skin Care Blog

The vast majority of people with allergic skin have very dry skin, especially in certain areas of the body, besides being very sensitive to a variety of allergic or external physical stimuli (internal or external). For this reason it is necessary to create the habit of taking care of your skin forever. The following are some tips that will help your care. The stringency of these measures must be adapted to the severity and frequency of skin discomfort and whether it has active lesions at a given time.

Avoid skin damage:

1) Avoid excessive moisture: Use short baths, the least frequent activities are permitted (in children every 2-5 days), using the coldest water possible.

Avoid long baths in swimming pools, tubs or sea, unless previously lubricate your skin well.

Dry skin uncut. Towels must not contain residues of detergent or fabric softener. (more…)

What do you say? What the brown skin does not permeate both the sun or simply covered with a light cloth and made it? Well look no.

Experts say that a large majority of the fabrics do not protect against ultraviolet rays and even if you have dark skin to these rays can affect the end of developing cancer of the skin.

Although this disease is one of the less frequent, there is a potential risk of contracting it at some stage of life. According to statistics, almost half of people who reach age 65 are affected by the disease. (more…)

At least two types of skin cancer have increased among women younger than 40 years in the U.S., due to sun exposure and use sunscreen, according to a study released today.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said that the increasing number of patients with this cancer shows that young people ignored the warnings of the risks of tanning leather.

The number of cases has been detected in the types of the disease known as squamous cell carcinoma (SCC, for its acronym in English) and elementary cell carcinoma (BCC), they said.

The evil may emerge throughout the body, although the most common areas of infection are exposed to sunlight.

In 2000, diagnosed in the U.S. were approximately 800,000 new cases of BCC and 200,000 SCC. (more…)

Summer’s coming and prepare to go to take the sun and get tanned. This must be done with caution because our skin is jeopardized not only burn but skin cancer.

To make your stay perfect skin, it is essential that whenever you are exposed to the sun do it with a minimum sun protection factor 15. Which uses a factor of lower denomination does not mean that you will put more brown but the exposure time is going to protect will be smaller. Words, if your unprotected skin takes 5 minutes to burn and you get a protection factor 10, multiply these by 10 five minutes you could be 50 minutes, as going to be darker. That initial time of five minutes is increasing, because the dark is the way to protect your skin from the sun. For this reason, lie always high protection factors to be protected longer.

The cream must aplicártela half hour before exposure to dry skin and extending well. Enjoy the summer, protect your skin from the sun. (more…)