SKIN CARE
Tools for revitalizing your skin

 

LeQuadrillage Family Health & Wellness Center
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 Most of our visitors are pretty sophisticated and don't really need basic "kindergarten" type information.  So were going to ask you to cut us a little  slack and bear with us as we try to reinforce some basic information that you probably know but fail to take particularly seriously.  But this stuff is serious. It's important!  Believe it!

HABITS AND PRACTICES TO AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE

  • Smoking: Diminishes the skin's ability to get the oxygen it needs.  Skin cells need this oxygen to renew themselves and without it, they can't. Smoking accelerates the wrinkling process, damages the skin, and impedes its repair.  You begin to look old before your time.
  • The Tanning Bed: This contraption is nothing but bad news.  A great way to get  melanoma. Ten minutes in a tanning bed is equal to a full day out in the blinding sun!
  • Makeup in Bed: Skin rejuvenation happens at night.  Same as smoking, makeup prevents your skin from getting the oxygen it needs.  When skin is suffocated, its natural collagen building process is compromised.  Makeup clogs pores and acts as food for bacteria. This will cause breakouts and make pores more visible.Washing your face at night with cold water helps fight aging, combats pimples, and helps exfoliation.
  • Stress: It goes a long way toward promoting breakouts and making your skin look dull and sallow. Stress robs the skin of its blood supply and can elevate blood sugar.  When your body is stressed, it pours out  stress hormone called cortisol.  This causes a whole mess of problems.You age quickly if you allow yourself to remain stressed for any extended periods.
  • Abbreviated Sleep Patterns:  A whole bunch of complex biochemical things go on during sleep.  They need time to work their magic.  When your body is fighting to stay awake, muscle tone relaxes and you begin to look saggy, your skin looks lifeless and puffy, due to impaired cirulation.  Get enough sleep.
  • Avoiding the Dermatologist:  An annual skin exam can avoid a lot of problems.  Getting any moles checked by a doctor is vitally important.  It can literally save your life!  It's important not to wait if you discover a new mole or growth.  These need to be checked immediately. 
BETTY'S RECOMMENDATIONS


Beautiful skin is healthy skin for men as well as for women.  The largest organ in the body, the skin is our first line of defense against the diseases, infections, environmental pollutants, and other enemies of good health.  Your skin regulates your body temperature, stores water, fat, vitamins, and other nutrients.

Your skin works hard in the heat, the cold, and the wind; in all kinds of weather and in all seasons.  The elements and environmental pollutants all conspire to age your skin..  And in spite of this, we all expect our skin to look radiant and beautiful no matter what. We don't ask this of any of our other organs. 

Proper diet, including supplements (you can't get good, optimum nutrition in these times through food intake alone) provide the basics for beautiful skin.  Excellent skin care products help protect the skin's beauty from the ravages of time and environment. And the right cosmetics reinforce and emphasize the skin's health and beauty.

There is a supplement producer we never hesitate to recommend, provides superior skin care formulas along with highly beneficial supplement formulations like their Total Balance for your general health, an important factor in reaching the peak of your skin health.  As with all of its products,  this manufacturer makes no outrageous claims or promises of "miracle" results.  Their products do what the company says they will do!

Skin Care Range Image Creams were formulated to  your skin's youthful appearance.  These skin care formulations were made to restore the skin's aging due to the damaging effects of free radicals and inflammation.  Separate formulations had to be devised for men and women since hormonal activity is always a major consideration in skin function.  The formulations themselves are ingenious and carefully thought out; definitely a cut above anything else available.

Cynergy TK®  is an ingredient containing Functional Keratin®  extracted from the wool of organically raised New Zealand sheep.  This form of Keratin is made soluble by a method that leaves the biological polymers fully available for your skin, a property available in no other product on the market today.  Keratin is a protein found throughout the body. Functional Keratin®  is skin similar, which means it works with your skin in several ways:

  • Works like "liquid skin."
  • Fills in fine lines and wrinkles. 
  • Provides an invisible protective film for your skin.
  • Refracts light, making your skin appear mmuch younger, much like "youthening" lights used on TV and movie sets.
  • Stimulates regrowth of skin cells.
  • Stimulates regrowth of collagen and elastin in your skin.
  • Regenerates new tissue.

Cynergy TK®  contains antioxidants which stimulate your own body's antioxidants, glutathione and superoxide dismutase (SOD).  These antioxidants help reverse the brown pigmentation (age spots) caused by lipofucsin.  Cynergy TK® also reduces skin inflammation and the resulting redness often attributed to rosacea.

Skin Range Image products also contain a unique form of Coenzyme Q10 called Nanobelle CoQ10, especially formulated for skin.  Nanobelle penetrates through to the deeper skin layers.  This unique emulsion form of CoQ10 absorbs free radicals in the skin, eliminating their damaging effects.

Another important ingredient is Phytessence Wakame, a variety of kelp, a sea vegetable noted for its high nutrient content.  Wakame contains essential minerals such as potassium and calcium and a whole array of B Vitamins.  Phytessence Wakame inhibits the activity of hyaluronidase, an enzyme that breaks down hyaluronic acid in the skin.  Without hyaluronic acid, elastin and collagen lose their "glue," leading to dark eye circles and other skin defects.Wakame also contains active sulfated polyfucose which protects the skin against damage caused by environmental pollutants and damaging UV rays

All of these properties of Skin Care Image Creams are unique to these products and are not available elswhere.  This is true health food for your skin, produced by a company that insists on maintaining the highest standards in the industry.  These products contain no parabens (chemical preservatives), fragrances or other chemical irritants.  All ingredients contained in these creams are natural and entirely safe to ingest.

The people here maintain complete control over their products because the company develops, formulates, manufactures and ships their products directly from their own factory in New Zealand (by International Air), assuring their customers peak quality and freshness.  Nothing is permitted to sit around on store shelves or in warehouses.  We also like their packaging; opaque tubes that resist product deterioration are a big plus. Pay attention to your skin!  You'll be rewarded with both skin health and skin beauty, provided only that other aspects of your health are under control.  A really significant component of good skin health is to be receiving adequate amounts of Vitamin B Complex in your diet.  Personally, I take Extension B Plex, which I get from Vitamin Research Products.  In addition, Total Balance  gives me the entire spectrum of B Vitamins.

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The practice of YOGA is both physically exhillerating and pleasing to the senses.
And a recent article in MSN MONEY  tells how and why the practice of YOGA can work to enhance your financial picture.

Brent Kessel, a certified financial planner tells how you can decidedly improve your financial picture by keeping your emotions under control.  Through the practice of YOGA you can create balance, mental and physical.  You can discover your blind spots and fix them.  By proper breathing you can eliminate the tension responsible for rash decisions and relieve financial stresses.

YOGA will teach you to concentrate on the moment and bring your life into focus.  For infomation on where to find Yoga Instruction, go to Discover Yoga 

  

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  SKIN CAP!  UNPARALLELED EFFECTIVENESS FOR PSORIASIS CONTROL

Skin Cap is a very controversial product!  We cannot recommend it, but it works!  If you're desperate, try it, but use with caution.  The supplier here is good and reliable with a very controversial product line.  It's up to you to decide whether or not you want to try their products, many of which are very good, but bear in mind, none of them come with our recommendation.  Click on the banner left of here to visit them.  Have fun.   Oh, one thing, it would be best to type SKIN CAP into the search bar when you get there.  Betty...

   

 

 GOT PSORIASIS?  MOVE TO HAWAII

SERIOUSLY - YOU CAN BEAT IT!

An attack of psoriasis is like an attack of angry wasp stings, except that the wasp stings eventually heal.  A psoriasis breakout does not and if you can't move to Hawaii then your doctor, anxious to get you out of the office, will write you a script for prednisone or refer you to a dermatologist.  And the dermatologist, unable to effectively cure you, will fry you in a light box and put you through a course of chemo.  You will at best, get temporary relief.

One woman I know, after months of ineffectual, uncomfortable, and expensive treatment, threw up her hands and decided to take charge of her own health.  With bulldog determination and relentless questioning, she found a doctor who actually took the time to think about and do an in depth evaluation of her problem.  He ordered a battery of tests and discovered that she was hypothyroid.  Correcting this condition with the appropriate medication eliminated her psoriasis. Her skin cleared up.  The doctor did not stop there.  He ordered her to take a group of supplements and back this up with fumeric acid against the occasional flareups that occured.  (Fumeric Acid is a non-prescription product; available from Vitamin Research Products.)

Today she is free of psoriasis and following the guidelines set out in the book Living Well With Hypothyroidism, reviewed here in Book Reviews.

The supplements that are adding greatly to her enjoyment of life are XTEND-LIFE Total Balance Women's Plus and Omega3/DHA Esters, Vitamin D3 from Puritan's Pride and of course, Fumeric Acid as a backup against the occasional flareup, available from Vitamin Research. 

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A note about Fumeric Acid:  You need to be warm when you take it.  It works best when you're warm before taking it and stay warm enough to sweat for a while.  This gets rid of toxins that are causing the outbreaks.

THERE IS NO NEED TO TAKE FUMERIC ACID IF YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING A FLAREUP!

         Some folks I know control their flareups by using Skin Cap.  Check out the box above.  I know that it works very well and as a last resort I don't think it can hurt.  I don't think I'd want to use it on an on going basis though. Skin Cap is manufactured in Spain and contains Clobetasol, a prescription medication.  Many doctors prescribe it and I haven't heard of any adverse side effects.  By the way, if you need a doctor who actually listens and can't find one, CONTACT US.  All services we provide on  Le Quadrillage are entirely free of any charges, hidden inducements, or lead-ons of any kind. We do however, appreciate your support of the utterly reliable suppliers we reference here. Betty... oh, check out the banner right underneath here; this stuff is GOOD!   

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TOXIC SUBSTANCES YOU DON'T REALLY WANT ON YOUR SKIN

Eight Common Ingredients That You Have Probably Used Many Times Over

 


  1. Mineral Oil - causes to build up in the skin and accelerates aging.
  2. Vaseline (Petroleum Jelly, Petrolatum) Keeps skin from breathing and traps toxins inside the skin's layers.
  3. Sodium laurel - an industrial detergent that strips the skin of its moisture and has been linked to eye damage.
  4. Propylene glycol - is just plain old anti-freeze or brake fluid.  This stuff breaks down cell structure and causes all manner of probems in kidneys, liver, and brain.
  5. Parabens - Highly toxic preservatives used to extend shelf life of many cosmetic products.  Watch for this!
  6. Talcum Powder - Creates acute respiratory distress if inhaled and has been linked to ovarian cancer.  No question that it has caused cancer in lab rats.
  7. Fragrance - The most common cause of allergies and reactions to skin care products.  These can contain a frightening number of potentially toxic ingredients.
  8. FD & C Colors - Often used in skin care products, these coal tar products are all too often, carcinogenic.

When purchasing your skin care products, watch for these ingredients.  You really don't want them on your skin.  In fact, if you wouldn't eat it, don't put it on your skin.

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