Your Hands

Frequent contact with water,chemicals,cold weather,sun,gardening, will put your hands and skin under stress that will result in mature looking hands. Skin on the hands are thin and are prone to premature aging if you do not take care of them.
What can you do one may ask?
Make sure you dry your hands,moisturize,wear gloves when gardening/washing dishes,touching chemicals,use sun screen and try these home made recipes for the hands once a week...
1 egg yolk
2 tbsp of olive oil or almond oil.If you donot have that you can use vegetable oil
Warm cup of water
1 tbsp of chamomile or sage herb
Mix ingredients
Soak hands in it for 15 minutes
When finished, dry hands. Apply a SPF rich hand moisturizer during the day and a regular hand cream before bed.
Do this hand treatment once a week. Lotion twice a day as stated above.
Another tip!
Rubbing your hands with lemon will give the skin more firmness/tone. Rinsing your hands with a vinegar and water solution will help restore ph balance of the skin.
Honey and Milk is another GREAT Hand mask.
Many people use hand sanitizer, which is necessary because of germs, but don't forget to let your hands air dry after you apply sanitizer and then apply hand cream. Even if the sanitizer says that it has moisturizer in it.


Many people want to start taking care of their skin when they start to notice the problems. Such as, blackheads, wrinkles, dark circles, acne, etc.

Preventing those things before they appear will be the smart thing to do. When you try to take care of an existing problem on your skin, it will take longer to fix or minimize.

Heredity plays a big part. I use this as an example...If you know that your mother or father had dark circles, then you need to make sure you use eye cream that will help to keep dark circles away. Take a multi vitamin and eat a well balanced diet as well and include 6-8 glasses of Alkaline Water. The skin under the eyes are very thin, so the veins can show underneath the eyes. Your eyes can get puffy if you do not sleep enough, heredity, health, poor blood circulation, nutrition and allergies. When applying the eye cream and handling your eyes, make sure you are using your pinky or ring finger to apply creams. Why? Those two fingers are the lightest fingers and it won't stretch or tug on your eye. Gravity takes place fast in that area.Remember, that area is thinner than the other parts of your face. Be gentle.

Make-up can help the vein problem:
If you have veins that show under the eye area it is because that area is thin. What can you do? Apply a pink or yellow perfector/concealer. See which one works the best in minimizing those veins. Blend it, don't rub in. Be gentle.Then apply a concealer that is your skin shade or a foundation and finish it off with a mineral translucent powder to set or you can use a setting spray.

Make sure you cleanse, tone, moisturize, exfoliate, use an eye cream, use a facial mask at least once a week, eat healthy and drink plenty of water. Make sure all of your facial products are for your skin type. Their are eye creams for puffiness,dark circles, sensitive skin,wrinkles and firming. If you do not have any of those eye problems, then just buy an eye cream for normal skin so that it can just hydrate that area. Moisturizer will not absorb on the eye area. Eye cream is made especially to absorb under the thin eye area. Make sure you apply the eye cream on your temples. Home remedies such as, tea bags under the eyes do work. Make sure the tea bags are cool before applying under your eyes. You can refrigerate the tea bags after you put it inside water. Leave on eyes for 15 minutes.The caffeine in the tea gets under your skin and this minimizes puffiness. Egg Whites on your skin for 15 minutes then rinse off helps make skin firmer and less sagging.

More tips:
Put the eye cream inside the refrigerator and use with your morning and nightly skin regimen. The coolness will help with those that have puffy eyes. Stay away from steam showers. The steam can inflame the puffiness and it can become worst. I like using cold spoons for a quick puffy treatment. I put 2 spoons in the refrigerator nightly so I can use them in the morning. I apply the back of the cold spoons under my eyes until the spoons are no longer cool.

If your over 20 years old and you have not used an eye cream or if you have not had a consistent skin regimen, please start as soon as possible. Don't forget your sun screen.
The sun has an aging effect on the skin and on tattoos. You can buy a day time and night time eye cream, as you should with your face moisturizer.

You feel better about yourself when everything is taken care of and your looking and feeling good.

It may sound like a lot to do, but your worth Looking Good!

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