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Beauty Matters: Natural or Conventional Skin Care Glowing, wrinkle-free and supple skin forever: the absolute dream for
anyone who cares about beauty! Ads everywhere are promising you to
make it happen, to turn back the clock if you use this or that
product. And today, most people think the higher the price of a
skincare product, the better the product; but truth is that price has
little to do with efficiency in the domain of Beauty. Discover the
real secret of beauty and how to use it in your everyday life ...
Beauty, dream or utopia?Unless you are an aficionado of Mrs Mim's from the Walt Disney cartoon "The Sword and the Stone" (Yewwww!), you know and feel that we live in a culture worshiping a totally stereotyped iconic image of Beauty, male or female. Think about it: we are all bombarded day after day with idealized, airbrushed and almost unattainable images of physical beauty in magazines, in commercials, in movies, on websites ... Everywhere you turn, you see this emblematic beauty. Everywhere, except when you look in the mirror. If you are a woman, from the time you are a little girl until your death, you will pursue this dream of beauty, greatly encouraged by all the industry that profits from you trying to achieve this impossible dream.
Chemical BeautyThe truth is that even though there is an amazing wealth of beauty care products available, some of them costing up to $660 per oz, perfect beauty rarely reached except for a few very lucky women and certain top models. Just have a look at people in full light when you walk on the street, in the mall or at your sports club; you will understand what I mean: acne, blemishes, hypersensitive skin, redness, eczema, rosacea and the like are so common, though to different degrees, that it's alarming. Why is it so? Because of people's lifestyle but also, and to a great degree, because of the skin care products they use. Unfortunately, they're mostly inefficient and toxic on the medium to long range.For ages, women have used natural ingredients to care for the beauty of their skin, hair and body. But last century, people started believing in the almighty power of chemicals to fix everything, from diseases to wrinkles. But what kind of job do chemicals really perform on your skin? The poor beauty performance of conventional skin careHere, I am going to share with you my personal experience and what I have observed from people asking me to help them as a beauty expert. At first, the conventional (chemical) skin care product feels good and smells good (for the most part) when you use it. Your skin feels moist and supple and even protected. Then, after some time, you sense that the cream does not feel that good anymore; you might even feel that your skin starts reacting and becoming more unbalanced (either drier or oilier or reactive) until it sometimes turns out to be totally unbearable. It is as if your skin was rejecting the product or at the very least, this product was not doing its job anymore. This rejection might be more pronounced in some people than others. It happens because chemicals are "foreign" to your skin. Then you're off to finding the next miraculous chemical moisturizer ...Spas: the beauty havens?What happens when you go to a conventional spa? After your facial, you feel great, relaxed, refreshed. Your skin looks gorgeous and you are all happy. You follow the recommendations of your expert beautician, who took such good care of you, and trustfully buy the skin care products she suggests. You come back home, use the recommended products until you sense they do not do a proper job on your skin anymore. Then you either change the products or change the spa, thinking that the next one will be better. Beside the fact that most chemicals in your cream will end up in your bloodstream and your body, their beneficial action on your skin is very limited and superficial (see our body burden article for more information). The benefits of conventional skin care can ONLY be superficial. This is because synthetic chemicals are unnatural while your skin is natural: they cannot really talk to each other.The unmatched power of natural beauty care Ultimately, the power of natural beauty care comes from nature
itself. It is a question of liveliness, diversity and richness. Let me
explain:
Home Spa for holistic beauty care A new section on our holistic selfcare page called Home Spa
is here for you to be able to perform spa-level do-it-yourself beauty
care from the comfort of your home and all holistically. The idea is
to give you beauty expert tips and recipes, simple or elaborated, to
take care of your skin, body and hair from home, naturally and
holistically. You can even submit your own successful recipes if you
wish!
The benefits of Home Spa treatments:
Our Home Spa section is meant for both women AND men, so men should definitely look at these recipes: they are not girlish! Any skin, whether masculine or feminine, needs some care to thrive and be beautiful. |
This Beautymania is not new and it has led many generations
of women to a road of perdition. This was the case of the Paris Belle
Epoque beauty idol, Mme X, whose scandalous portrait had been
painted by Sargent and who took arsenic pellets to make her skin look whiter
and more diaphanous (it was very fahionable at the time). Having a
perfect, wrinkle-free and forever-youthful skin is now an absolute
necessity and obligation for women, and now more and more men, to feel
self-confident, attractive and sexy; at home and at work. Nowadays,
how are you supposed to reach this ideal image of beauty?