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Eat Your way to Glow your Skin

Eat Your Way to Glowing Skin While putting on a fantastic face cream or smoothing a hair serum works wonders, but for beauty that’s more than skin deep eating fruits and veggies rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals is the answer. There’s a direct connect to the condition of your skin to the kind of foods you eat. Skin is our largest organ and what you put in your mouth, shows up on your skin. Foods that hurt your skin If your diet has too much of salt, sugar or alcohol, you skin will look patchy, dry, puffy and old.These tend to constrict the blood vessels which in turn impact the cellular structure of the skin. Excess sugar in your diet can actually break down the elastin and collagen structure of your skin, leading to fine line and wrinkles. A that bag chips or extra sprinkling of salt on your salad might be tickle the taste buds, but they do something nasty to the skin – puffiness under the skin. Deep fried foods can aggravate excess sebum production in your sk

Mistakes you could make in treating your Skin: DR Chytra V Anand

It’s easy to make little mistakes, no matter how diligent you are with taking care of your skin. And that can lead to a flawed complexion. Over time, these add up, causing damage and leading to premature aging and other serious concerns. If your answer to any of the following  questions is  “NO” then you are not treating your skin right! Do you drink enough water ? When water is lost from the surface of the skin, it leaves the skin feeling tight, flaky & rough. This is superficial dehydration. This water loss from the skin can be mistaken for being dry when in fact it means dehydration. At first, this affects the surface of the skin & if it is left untreated it results in deeper water loss in dermis which in turn will start to cause aging (wrinkles, lines, folds). Make sure you drink plenty of water regularly. Apart from using a day moisturiser, use heavier night creams or serums for hydration, if your skin is too dry. Do you reapply your sunscreen? You protect your

Skin Protection in Summers with these food

Most of us lead lives where we are inconspicuously sucked into a food routine and are desperately trying to claw our way out of it. Sensible diet can make your summer more pleasant and cool. During summer, there is an abundance of fresh, delicious and healthy choices of food with secret health benefits!So this is the time to change your food habits for the better. 1. Corn Nothing says summer like fresh sweet corn. And did you know that two antioxidants—lutein and zeaxanthin —in corn may act like natural sunglasses, helping to form pigment that filters out some of the sun’s damaging rays. Yellow corn is a rich source of beta-carotene, which forms vitamin A that is vital for the maintenance of a healthy skin. Vitamin C and lycopene are potent antioxidants that prevent the UV generated free radicals from damaging the skin and increase the production of collagen that assists in the maintenance of smooth skin. Besides being eaten, corn can also be applied topically as corn oil, which

Beauty Myths and the Truth Behind Each

There’s beauty advice : the ones that defy logic or biological explanation. These beauty myths do more harm than good to your beauty ritual, preventing you from achieving real goals. Here are few that we have debunked: Myth: Fairness creams can completely change your complexion, making you very fair. Truth:  You cannot really fight your genes. If you are dusky to dark you cannot become fair, no matter what you try. So fairness creams cannot really make you fair — no matter what the product ad says. These potions just help in lightening your skin tone. These creams have sun protection and melanin blockers which work together to protect your skin from tanning and prevent extra pigment from forming. They help clear out your complexion so that your skin appears lighter in colour. While you cannot become fair, but these creams do smooth out the complexion and make your skin up to two shades lighter. Myth: All natural products are harmless and are good for you. Truth:  Not necessar