Ren-Cheng Tang and Sha-Sha Sun, scientists at Soochow University, say clothes coated with honeysuckle extract could effectively protect people who are prone to skin cancer and premature aging of the skin due to UV exposure.
Discovery of natural UV protection
Not only will the extensions burn a hole in your pocket and wreck your natural hair, but you might also end up bald and ugly in the aftermath.
The latest fad of hair extensions is fuelled by fashion icons. They change their hair cuts so often, making extensions and their maintenance look so easy that women want to follow suit and get the same style instantly.
Botulinum toxin A or 'Botox', as it is popularly tagged in the beauty world, is being used for cosmetic and medical procedures for the past two decades. The drug has already earned quite a reputation for erasing wrinkles and making the facial skin appear fresh and youthful.
Botox has been touted as the wonder drug for a number of women looking to iron out the creases above the neck.
Mom injects her little daughter with Botox
To what extent parents can go for their children’s successful career in beauty/fashion world?
The United States regulator, Food and Drugs Administrator (FDA) has approved a robotic machine that has the capability of identifying and harvesting follicular units of a person’s remaining locks for hair transplant surgery.
Artas System holds answer to balding problems
The FDA has recently given clearance to the machine called the Artas System for use during hair transplant procedures, according to Restoration Robotics, Inc., the company that designed the system.
Though the anti-bacterial gel is a useful product that decontaminates hands and keeps them clean, they are not good enough to protect against germs transmitted by animals.
Soap and water best for hand hygiene
Issuing a warning to parents taking their kids on farm visits over the Easter break, experts advise that hand washing with plain soap and water is the best way to achieve healthy hand hygiene.
The study researchers are suggesting that prolonged pulling at the hair strands may cause inflammation of the hair follicle, which can cause scarring, and with repeated pulling, the scarring can turn into hair loss or central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA).
Hair grooming linked to baldness
Though cigarettes are outright bad, starting with bad breath and finishing with such serious conditions as cancer and emphysema, one major factor generally ignored is that nicotine ages the skin prematurely.
It is easy to pick out a regular smoker in a crowd not just by the stench of stale cigarettes but simply by skin quality as well. Smokers have pale, ashen skin and ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
According to experts, the constant exposure to lit cigarettes and being surrounded by the toxic smoke can bring early onset of wrinkles.
Little Maddox was born with a lymphatic malformation that encompassed the left side of his face that caused severe facial distortion and prevented many of his oral functions.
Flynn family's journey
Originally unable to find treatment options in Canada, his parents Mike Flynn and Nicole Champagne finally found a solution to the lymphatic cyst that had grown on their toddler son’s face and was still growing in New York.
The concerned parents then decided to travel to New York to fix the severe facial deformity of their son.
Tanning beds have been in use for many years, and there is quite a bit of controversy surrounding tanning beds these days, with some saying the device is alright for limited use, while others insisting they are not at all safe so they should be banned.
Tanning beds popular despite health concerns
In some trials, experts showed that tanning beds raise the risk of skin cancer beyond exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, while some others linked the machines to melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer.
As per study researchers, lavender oil possess anti-fungal properties that can be used against dermatophytes, a fungus known to cause nail infections, ring worm, and athletes foot.
While commenting on the new study findings, researchers’ Professor Lígia Salgueiro and Professor Eugénia Pinto, who jointly led the study, explained in their press release, "In the last few years there has been an increase in the incidence of fungal diseases, particularly among immune-compromised patients.
Dermatologists in the United States are now trying to educate sports athletes and their coaches about the common skin diseases that can occur due to bacteria, viruses and fungi and how they can prevent them.
In the annual meeting at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology, Brian B. Adams, associate professor of dermatology at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, spoke about the skin diseases that could arise owing to the to the skin-to-skin contact among athletes.
Skin diseases common among athletes
Winters are certainly not a good time for most skin types. Dry skin, rough patches, lost radiance, and dull complexion are just a few of the skin related problems that we all tend to cope up with while the frigid and frosty season does its bit.
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