Oprah.com has a nice summary of cleansers, moisturizers, and nighttime treatments for women in their 20′s, 30′s, 40′s, and 50′s. It’s a straightforward guide to what your skin needs and doesn’t need through the decades.
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Want to Be Successful? First Be Beautiful.
Life is better if you are beautiful. Totally unfair but somewhat true. A recent article in The Economist explored the economics (fittingly) of this timeless truism. [W]hen all other things are taken into account, ugly people earn less than average incomes, while beautiful people earn more than the average. The ugliness “penalty” for men was [...]
Skin Care Myths: Drinking More Water Will Hydrate Your Skin
This is a popular one, perpetuated by fitness and fashion magazines. Only one study ever linked drinking water with skin hydration. That study used expensive mineral water, not plain bottled or tap water, and the study didn’t have a control group. No study has ever shown regular water has any impact on your skin and [...]
Bacteria Secretes Sticky Glue, Causing Acne
Propionibacterium acnes (P.acnes) is the bacteria found in acne. A new study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology has shed some light on how it wreaks its damage. P. acnes lives in a biofilm, an aggregation of bacterial organisms and sticky extracellular substance, that allows it to stick to the wall of [...]
Itchy Henna Tattoo
A patient of mine presented last week with an itchy tattoo. He had been on a cruise and had this temporary henna tattoo placed on his right arm. A few days later when everyone else’s tattoos were fading, his got darker and became itchy. The redness and itching became much worse over the next week. [...]
