There is an extremely good website which shows you how to examine your own skin for irregular or malignant moles. The site is www.myskincheck.nl. I recommend everyone with an increased risk of skin cancer to look at this website.
With our busy lifestyles an all-in-one product seems like a good option. Why shouldn’t you buy a moisturiser which contains a UV filter? Or a cleanser and toner in one? I, myself, am in favour of using different products.
You only have to look at the reactions on my blog about “the dangers of the sun” to see that this is a controversial subject (see this blog for example). In general I receive only good, positive and happy reactions. Having said that, the “sunbed industry” have responded less enthusiastically to my comments! No more than expected, of course…. The argument that is always raised by “sun worshipers” is that exposure to the sun is healthy as it is necessary for the formation of Vitamin D. Indeed, it is important for us, but luckily we can also gain it in a more sensible way. Below are the latest findings about the sun and this vitamin, compiled by the American Academy of Dermatology (“Don’t Seek the Sun: Top Reasons to Get Vitamin D From Your Diet”). You can also find the references via the link.
You know that summer is here by the amount of people coming in to have examinations for moles. Obviously we have another good look at our skin when we put on our swimming shorts or bikini and it is then that we notice them.
Skin cancer is becoming increasingly common. It is the fastest growing cancer and each year there are tens of thousands of new cases. Sunlight is the biggest factor. I will explain below how a failure in cell growth can initiate early skin cancer: suspicious areas on the skin.
Yes, the sun cream. Which ones shouldn’t and which ones should you use? Trying to find a good sun cream is even difficult for me! And unfortunately, I still haven’t found the perfect sun cream. This is actually quite bizarre with all the products on the market.
“There are many things that we know we know. There are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also things that we don’t know that we don’t know. And this last category grows each year.” This statement applies to many things in life, but also especially to do with the safety of cosmetics. How can we be sure and guarantee that ingredients in cosmetics are safe if we don’t ask ourselves what effect daily use has, on children, pregnant women and from long term use. Safety is a relative term that has been demonstrated many times throughout history. Remember a certain type of phthalates which were once safe but are now no longer permitted to be used in cosmetics. “At that time we didn’t know that we didn’t know it, but now we do know it”. Therefore today more information about Oxybenzone.
Tropical temperatures and packed beaches; summer is here! The sun creams should be selling like hot cakes. But with all the attention in the media about “dangerous” ingredients in sun cream you’re almost afraid to use it!
A lily white skin. You can find many stories in history books about this ‘ideal’. It was not only in the Georgian times, when wigs and white faces were fashionable, that people strived for a pale smooth face, but even long before this.
Whilst the icicles were still hanging from the roofs and the open fire was still crackling away, I was, together with a journalist from the Dutch magazine Mama, busy putting together a list of all the facts about the sun.