Skin Rejuvenation and Micro Needling:Collagen Induction Therapy

It is known that sun, skin disorders, aging and in some cases heredity can all contribute to skin irregularities on the face and elsewhere on the body. Some of the irregularities one may notice are things  like wrinkles and acne scars, pigmentation changes like freckles and sunspots, or visible blood vessels.

Some other conditions the skin may experience are things like the skin losing tonicity, firmness, and in other cases notice certain areas of the body that may develop cellulite conditions.

The following are some conditions that can be treated with Micro Needling ( also known as Collagen Induction Therapy) include:

• Fixed wrinkles: These wrinkles are evident at all times and do not change in appearance with facial movements
• Changing wrinkles: These are expression lines that may appear as folds when the skin is not moving, and deepen with facial movements or expressions
• Pigmentation: These are dark patches on the skin as result of sun exposure, medications, freckles, sun spots.
• Scars: The blisters are the result of acne or injury to the skin, scars may be rolling (a wavy appearance to the skin), pitted, discolored, or have raised borders.
• Cutaneous vascular disorders: Blood vessels visible on the surface of the skin, vascular lesions that appear as tiny blood-filled blisters or even a constant flush of facial redness
• Skin elasticy: This is the weakening of the supportive skin structures (collagen and elastin fibers) that result in a loss of skin firmness or the development of cellulite

Consider a non-invasive procedure that can improve and rejuvenate your visual skin and at the same time feel beautiful too!  For more information on the procedure please visit, Collagen Induction Therapy.

Do You Put Mercury In Your Eyes?

• by s.e. smith

What’s in your cosmetics? Historically, women suffered for beauty with makeup additives like lead, arsenic, belladonna, antimony and more. But all that is a thing of the past, right? Cosmetics are tested for safety (often unfortunately on animals) and consumers can apply them without needing to be worried about their health. The social and political ramifications of wearing makeup are another matter entirely, but at least makeup wearers aren’t killing themselves for fashion.

Not so fast, I’m afraid. The recent worldwide Minamata Convention, a UN treaty with roughly 140 signers, banned the use of mercury in a number of consumer products…but mascara wasn’t one of them.

Mercury is a known neurotoxin with potentially serious effects including the development of severe cognitive disabilities like poor coordination, memory loss and difficulty learning and retaining information. Especially in children and developing teens, it can hamper development and cause life-long health problems. And the eye, with its fragile mucus membrane, is one of the worst places to apply a product that contains mercury, because the delicate tissues of the eye can rapidly absorb it and feed it directly into the bloodstream.

Why on Earth is mercury even in mascara in the first place? Thanks to its toxicity, it kills bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms. That means it keeps mascara free of contaminants, extending its working life and incidentally reducing the risk of eye infections by ensuring that when the brush is applied, it’s not carrying a bacterial load right into the eye. For that reason, the Food and Drug Administration permits the use of mercury in eye makeup as long as the concentration is less than 65 parts per million, claiming that a safer and more effective alternative hasn’t been found.

Since mercury makes up less than 1% of the total product, companies are not required to label it on their cosmetics, which means consumers have no way of knowing if a mascara contains mercury or not. This is bad news for consumers worried about the health risk and those trying to limit their exposure to mercury and other toxic compounds, as they have to rely on companies to disclose information about cosmetics ingredients, and few companies will voluntarily discuss toxins in their cosmetics if they can possibly avoid it.

Are there alternatives available? Yes, actually. Parabens and formaldehyde can provide the same preservative and infection-prevention effects as mercury. You can see why the FDA has essentially thrown up its hands and admitted that mercury may be the best of an array of bad options: parabens may be linked with cancer, and formaldehyde is definitely a carcinogen.

Will cosmetics companies start developing healthier options for consumers who prefer to skip the poison with their makeup? We can only hope so, especially with growing awareness of the health risks of many common cosmetics ingredients. Wearing mascara shouldn’t have to be deadly, and while we’re excited about the Minamata Convention and the overall reduction of mercury in the environment that will result, we’d love to see makeup included too!

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/do-you-put-mercury-in-your-eyes.html#ixzz2iZYVfSMs

This is the reason Margie's Organic Skin Care has taken the approach to use organic bitanical products for their facials

Is Psoriasis just a rash? Is it Contagious?

Psoriasis is a condition that has to do with the immune system, it impacts other vital organs, and the potential consequence of major illnesses.  Hardly just a rash.  Psoriasis is not contagious.  In each person it may show up in different parts of the body.

Findings from their study have found that:

Overall, the risk for any other type of serious illness was 11 percent higher for people with mild psoriasis than for their counterparts in the comparison group, 15 percent higher for patients with moderate psoriasis and 35 percent higher for those with severe psoriasis.

Patients with moderate psoriasis were 22 percent more likely to have diabetes than people without the skin condition, for example, while those with severe psoriasis had a 32 percent increased risk of diabetes.

Moderate psoriasis also conferred a 36 percent increased risk of diabetes with complications such as eye disease, while severe psoriasis conferred an 87 percent higher risk.

Moderate and severe psoriasis increased the risk of cardiovascular disease by 39 percent and 81 percent, respectively.

The source article from JAMA Dermatology “Psoriasis Severity and the Prevalence of Major Medical Comorbity” concludes, “Physicians should be aware of these comorbid disease associations to provide comprehensive medical care to patients with psoriasis, especially those presenting with more severe disease.”