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Lipids, Glorious Lipids: Learn About the Lipid Barrier and Keeping your Skin Healthy

I spend my Sundays from 4-7 talking to people at the Elephant Pharmacy in Berkeley about skin issues. I love doing this because it is the one day out of the week that I actually get to have face time with my many customers, and I am always enriched by the experience and gratified by how much I learn from them. Last Sunday I saw quite a range of skin problems; one young woman with severe adult acne, another young woman with combination skin (breakouts on her forehead and clear everywhere else), another young woman with congested skin (consisting of tiny blackheads that pretty much covered her face) a woman in her 30"s with intermittent eczema, an older woman with very dry skin, and finally someone who thought she had rosacea. I was struck by a common denominator in these varying skin concerns-the problem that I am coming to believe underlies most of the benign skin abnormalities I see. It has to do with what is called the "lipid barrier" of the skin, and what happens when it is compromised.


Do Collagen Pills Help Your Skin Or Not?

Collagen is a very important protein that gives your skin it the suppleness and elasticity associated with youthful looking and feeling skin. As we age, our skin produces less and less of this vital protein. Therefore, do collagen pills help your skin?


The good, the bad and the ugly of thinning hair scissors

Thinning hair scissors, also known as thinning shears, come in a variety of styles. Overall, they"re quite like usual hair scissors, but one blade features teeth that give it a comb like appearance. How large and how much space between the teeth decides how much (or little) hair is thinned and removed.

Wider teeth will remove less hair while narrow spaces will remove a lot of hair. Thinning shears work by removing bulk through cutting only some of the hair. As your hair falls between the teeth, it is safe from the cut. The rest of the hair receives that thinning chop that will turn your hair into a more manageable thickness.

This is a lot of back and forth in the professional hair world as to whether this style of hair scissors does more harm than good. The opponents to this process are primarily made of up people who have had a traumatic hair experience involved a snip happy stylist.

They say that thinning hair scissors remove too much hair and leave your locks looking stringy and can even cause a balding look in extreme cases. It"s true, if a stylist is too eager to remove thickness, he or she can end up cutting so much that your hair will suffer for months to come as it grows out properly.

Supporters, however, say that you just need to find an experienced hair stylist because thinning hair scissors can save you precious hours in hair styling time and precious dollars in hair styling products. Those people are big fans of this intriguing method and will share its success with any fellow poofy hair sufferer.

Regardless of whether you choose to take a strong stand, keep in mind that this is a cutting process and if not done well, you could suffer from split ends and other adverse effects. Under no circumstances should you request this thinning process more than every four months. That"s a good balance that will allow you to reduce thickness without looking stringy.

 






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