30 Skin Care Misconceptions

Skin care professionals and consumers alike are bombarded daily with a myriad of information about skin care, skin science and skin health from the media, manufacturers and an ever-increasing number of physicians, all attempting to justify that what they profess and advocate is the truth and nothing but the truth. Sometimes claims are accurate and sometimes they aren’t....

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Skin Rashes – Where Do They Come From?

By SkinCareGuide.ca A skin rash shows up as an area of inflammation or change in the texture, and/ or color of your skin. It can be caused by a number of different things including irritation, disease, or allergic/ non-allergic reactions to foods, chemicals, plants, animals, insects or other environmental factors. So many rashes appear because the skin is an active...

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Skin Tags and Seborrheic Keratoses

By Kevin C. Smith MD FACP FRCPC As time goes on, we all acquire tiny bits of extra skin called skin tags. These can range in size from 1-10 mm, and are flesh colored or brown. Skin tags can be found on any part of the body, but are most common on the eyelids and neck, and in the armpits and groin, and under the breasts.While skin tags are benign they can be annoying if...

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Halloween and Your Skin

By SkinCareGuide.ca Keep Your Skin from Becoming Ghoulish   With Halloween upon us, adults and children alike are planning costumes for parties, school events and trick or treating. For some adults, it is the one time of year that “the inner child” comes out to play. Costumes, make-up and funny shoes are all fun to put on, but there are some things to...

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For Shapely Brows, Put Down the Tweezers

By KAYLEEN SCHAEFER “TAKE your tweezers,” Maribeth Madron, a makeup artist and eyebrow specialist in New York, will say to about a quarter of her clients, “and put them in a glass jar and freeze them.” To women who obsess over and excessively pluck their brows, tough talk is sometimes necessary. Ms. Madron, 39, who charges $85 for a shaping done with...

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Anti-Aging Skin Care Tips

Learn to look after your skin By SkinCareGuide.ca Although there are different kinds of treatments, procedures and surgery that can assist in improving the look of your skin, it is important that you look after your skin to start with. If you are unhappy with how gravity, the sun and everything else seems to be changing your skin’s appearance, here are some tips and...

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