News | DEALSTR

Stop Stressing Over Your Tresses

October 11, 2021 Comments Off

8 out of 10 women have damaged hair- me being one of them. I have every oil/conditioner/leave in conditioner & treatment imaginable in my shower to keep my hair healthy. I have even used the Superfood Acai, egg whites & mayonnaise. Sounds a bit off the wall, I know. Not everyone is born with beautiful hair, but by learning a few hair care facts, you can make your hair look its best. Healthy, attractive hair should shine. Whether your hair is long or short, light or dark, it should look smooth, silky and shiny. Hair that is dull, dry, brittle or frizzy is unhealthy and unattractive. Everyday events such as shampooing, brushing and blow drying can do great damage to your hair, causing the dry, brittle, frizzy appearance.
Your hair must meet its match when it comes to shampoo. Always use a shampoo for your exact hair type. If you have a perm or color treated your hair, you should use a shampoo for chemically treated hair. If your hair is dry, opt for a moisturizing shampoo. If your hair is curly or unmanageable, frizz control would be best. If you are not sure what your hair type is or what type of shampoo to use, ask your hairstylist. Your hairstylist can recommend the right shampoo and conditioner so you maintain a healthy and shiny head of hair. Another recommendation; go to your local beauty supply or a store like Sephora that offers a wide selection. The girls at the counters can be highly knowledgeable.
I remember when I was a little girl. I had a fascination with brushing my hair. Brushing your hair can actually help improve the shine. Brushing evenly distributes the oils from the scalp throughout the hair shaft. If you have long hair that tends to tangle on the ends, you should start brushing on the ends to remove any tangles, and work your way up to the scalp. This also applies to hair extensions. You should never brush wet hair.
I bet you didn’t know that wet hair is much weaker than dry hair. Wet hair will break very easily if it is not combed very gently. If you have long hair, you should squeeze the excess water from your hair with a towel. I love wrapping my hair in a towel for about an hour after shampooing. Never rub your hair between the towels to dry it, this can cause severe breakage. Before combing, a leave-in conditioner should be sprayed on the hair to help restore shine and help remove tangles. Using a wide tooth comb, comb hair from the ends and work your way up. Make time to visit your hairstylist for deep conditioning treatments & cranial massages which stimulate the hair follicles.
If you are armed with a blow dryer (set on high heat) it could be damaging, to your hair. Blow dryers are very convenient and many of us use them daily. If they are used incorrectly, they can cause severe heat damage to your hair. Blow drying is the culprit of dry ends, brittle & frizzy hair. Please allow your hair to air dry until it is about half way dry. Set your blow dryer on low or medium heat, and keep the blow dryer about six to eight inches away from your hair. I used a blow dryer to straighten my hair until I noticed it was leading to split ends. A rule of thumb, moderation-moderation-moderation. Excessive brushing especially when you still have product in your hair (gel or spray), mistreatment of wet hair and blow drying don’t make for head to toe beauty.
If you would like to improve the condition of your hair, these are the steps that will ensure you never have to say “I have a bad hair day”. In fact you should notice an improvement in the condition of your hair in as early as 2-4 weeks, depending on how damaged your hair is. Remember, no matter what your hair ailment is, there’s a product that will cure the condition of your hair. Ask your hairstylist or visit your local beauty supply & if you’re not sure, ask for samples of a few different lines until you find the one that works best for you. Until next time, make it a good hair day!.
©2009 Ungenita Beauty International, LLC.
WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Actress/Author/Beauty Expert Ungenita Prevost publishes the award-winning ‘Strategies for Inner/Outer Beauty’ weekly ezine for women all over the world. If you’re ready to Go Beyond The MakeoverTM, get your FREE BEAUTY GIFTS now at…

Mesothelioma Prognosis: Know Your Chances

October 4, 2021 Comments Off

While some patients don’t want to know their chances of survival, there are also others who get an honest mesothelioma prognosis from their doctors. Of course, they may have different reasons for wanting to know. If you are a mesothelioma patient interested in the same thing, then you have the right to know. Do keep in mind though that there are various prognosis sources. Here are some important points you should consider when reading about asbestos cancer prognosis.

Prognosis Data

The Sources of Data – The first thing you should understand is where prognosis data comes from. Real prognosis information is based form statistical data. Researchers look into different mesothelioma cases through clinical studies to get average figures. This may mean that genuine prognosis information may be true for a large number of patients. This does not mean though that the information is always true.

Mesothelioma is different from other forms of cancer. This is because a lot of different factors can affect mesothelioma. Some of these include your overall health, treatments taken, time when treatment began, mesothelioma type and severity of the condition. It is therefore important not to view prognosis information as absolutely true in your case.

Difficulties with Prognosis

It may be difficult to arrive at statistical or personal mesothelioma prognosis. This is because mesothelioma itself is not like many other forms of cancer. The condition is rare. Asbestos exposure, which is the primary risk factor linked to this condition is not always experienced by a lot of people. Those who also have the condition may not immediately seek doctors’ assistance for diagnosis and treatment. The symptoms do not obviously point to the condition and may even mimic the symptoms of other diseases.

Statistical Information

What do statistics say? Since patients are often diagnosed late, the prognosis for many patients is not good. A lot of patients are told that they can expect to live for only less than a year. Again, there are exceptions to this prognosis. There have been personal accounts of patients who have survived for more than five years. Some even live up to ten years after diagnosis.

Diagnosis

The common thing about mesothelioma and other forms of cancer is that its early detection if crucial. Early diagnosis means early treatment and higher chances of survival. Since early diagnosis is not often made due to the lack of unique symptoms, you may not even think that a doctor’s visit is necessary. Your only clue that may suggest that you may need medical monitoring is asbestos exposure. This is only true however for individuals who work closely with asbestos. Patients who do not handle asbestos on a regular basis may not even remember or know that they have been exposed to asbestos.

Treatment

The individual’s treatment option can also affect the prognosis. Depending on your overall health, the stage of your disease and your doctor’s evaluation, you may have to undergo one or two cancer treatment methods. Like other forms of cancer, mesothelioma may be treated through chemotherapy, surgery or radiation therapy.

Keep in mind that mesothelioma prognosis may not be definite and accurate. Although prognosis information can provide you with valuable insight about the disease, there is no reason to believe that you absolutely have no hope of surviving beyond a year.…

Burn the Fat – How to ‘Trick’ Your Body Into Losing Fat Quickly

September 29, 2021 Comments Off

Does a diet have to mean starvation?
Most seem to require you either starve yourself, to eat strange tasting foods or to spend exhausting hours sweating in the gym. How can you burn the fat off without these weird unnatural diet regimes?
Would you like to be able to eat normal, every-day foods you like and still lose weight?
Have you noticed that some people seem to eat what they want when they want and never put on weight, what is their secret? It seems to come naturally to them, the lucky few who can always look slim and trim and feel great no matter what.
Here is the good news – we now know why.
People who stay skinny eat in a way that creates a high metabolism, that means that they burn the fat off by eating really efficiently and so they don’t have excess fat to store around their body.
It comes naturally to them but you too can learn their secret ‘trick”. When you eat the right foods at the right time your metabolism will click into high gear without pills or jitters you will not only find easy to shed unwanted pounds but to keep it off forever.
Yes! It really is possible to lose weight without starving yourself or avoiding your favourite foods altogether.
Eating the right foods at the right time will kick your body’s natural fat-melting factory into high gear.
You can….
• Stay motivated by getting fast results without feeling hungry
• Have more energy
• Enjoy a higher sex drive and a healthier attitude.
You will…..
• Save hundreds on trainers and gym memberships so you can finally get slim without getting all sweaty and sore.
• Burn the fat safely, using your body’s natural ability to increase your metabolism
You won’t have to….
• Spend hours on a treadmill.
• Take pills or potions
• Eat tasteless chemical laden low fat foods
• Drink gross ‘smoothies’
• Go to embarrassing group meeting to be publicly ‘weighed’
• Need a degree in math to count calories or ‘points’
• Have to wade through hundreds of pages of e-books trying to figure out how to make it all work
And most importantly you can enjoy….
• a diet based on REALITY where one slip-up doesn’t mean you have to throw in the towel and start over.
• a diet where everything is literally done for you so you can start to burn the fat from your belly today with complete confidence.…

Dark Circles Under the Eyes – How To Kill Them Fast

September 1, 2021 Comments Off

Dark circles under eyes and lines around mouths are often signs of stress, and they can age a person’s face by decades. Nothing says “I haven’t had any sleep last night and I’m having a bad week, so stay the **** out of my way!” like undereye circles and a mean look.
But stress and fatigue aren’t the only causes of undereye darkness.
There are a lot of different reasons why people get dark circles under their eyes.
If you’re one of those people who still have eye bags or what some might call “raccoon attacks” even after a relatively relaxing work week and lots of good sleep for example, your undereye circles problem might actually be hereditary.
For almost everybody, the skin is thinnest on and around the eyelids. This skin is called periorbital skin, and for some people the skin is so thin, it’s almost translucent. This means that blood passing through the veins near the surface of the skin in this area will usually give it a slightly darker -even bluish- tint.
Eye-rubbing, a habit that a person can develop especially if they have asthma, allergies, or any kind of condition that might make their eyes itch, can also create undereye circles. When you rub or scratch the skin around your eyes, more blood rushes to that area, and because the skin there is so thin, it can look pretty obvious.
If you have hay fever for example, you might get undereye darkness that comes and goes with the hay fever season. So if you want to look fresh, even through the allergy season, keep your antihistamines handy, and keep your hands off your eyes!
Certain medications that make blood vessels dilate and increase the flow of blood under the skin can make undereye darkness quite evident, especially if you’re one of those people who have naturally pale skin.
Other medical conditions, like anemia, can also cause dark circles under eyes. Iron deficiency, a very common kind of anemia, can make skin look much paler. This often makes the veins and discolored skin under a person’s eyes stand out even more.
Aside from being an indicator for a possible iron deficiency, dark circles under a person’s eyes can be a sign of other kinds of medical problems, like vitamin B6 deficiency, dehydration, bad circulation, or simply age.
Still, even though this is a fairly common problem that a lot of people have to deal with permanently, not everybody has to worry about undereye darkness all the time. Some get them only when they’re really tired.
Fatigue can make a person’s skin grow pale, which makes the blood under the thin skin of the area around the eyes really visible.
Whatever the cause of discoloration under a person’s eyes though, unless you’re trying to go for a very specific kind of look, it’s not really something desirable to have.
I had a long night last night, and I have to deal with unsightly undereye darkness right now. After coming home late from work last night, I got call from one of my friends asking if I could meet up with her for a few drinks and a little commiseration. She had broken up with her boyfriend, and she wanted someone to talk to.
As a friend, I knew that I couldn’t refuse, even after a having worked overtime that night. Five hours and half a bottle of tequila later, I finally staggered into bed. Two hours later, I oozed out of bed so that I could drag myself back to work. When I looked at myself in the mirror that morning, I was horrified by what I saw.
I looked like death warmed over. My skin was pale, my eyes were bloodshot, and I had undereye circles so dark, it looked as if I’d painted them on. I looked like I had aged at least ten years! I still had a long commute ahead of me, and if I wanted to look presentable, I knew that I had to get rid of my “raccoon attack” first, at least.
One of the best ways to get rid of dark circles under eyes in a pinch is to cover them up with makeup. Try using concealer with yellow or warm peach tones. Usually, the undereye circles are blue, purple or brownish in color, and using a warm-colored concealer will cancel out those colors, regardless of your skin tone. For a more seamless effect that will also ensure that your concealer won’t rub off or fade too quickly, lightly dust the area with translucent powder.
If you have a little more time to get rid of your undereye darkness though, you can try and soothe the skin and reduce the discoloration by regularly placing slices of cucumber or damp, refrigerated tea …

Some Hair Care Tips You Must Know About

August 24, 2021 Comments Off

Everyone wants to have that nice and smooth hair. Yet at times there are many factors that get in the way, keeping people from having beautiful hair. If you want to improve your hair then you want to start paying attention. The tips presented here in this article can help you understand what you should do in order to transform your hair into something beautiful and how to manage it.
Your hair should be as healthy as it can be. Therefore you want to prevent your hair from becoming damaged at any point, this includes not adding hairstyles that can pull your hair. Make sure that your hair is free and breathing, when you pull on your hair it can just damage it which can prevent it from being smooth and beautiful.
How you take care of your health plays a direct effect on how your hair comes out. So make sure that you are eating right and that you take all of your multivitamins and prenatal vitamins on a regular basis. When you neglect to take care of your body there is no way that your hair can grow naturally and healthily. Consider rethinking your diet and add in as many healthy different foods as you can.
Conditioner can harm your hair long term. So use conditioner sparingly to avoid long term damage for your hair. When you only apply a certain amount of conditioner in a given week then you ensure that your hair maintains a healthy feel.
A lot of different styling products have a lot of chemicals that can harm your hair. Do not mix and match a bunch of different hair products because you then are mixing up a bunch of chemicals into your scalp which can cause a lot of long term damage effects.
The best way to make sure that your hair is as beautiful as it can be is to massage your scalp. This is a good way to increase the blood flow on your scalp and increase the likelihood that you hair will grow healthy.
The one thing you are going to want to do is consult with a stylist. A stylist has a lot of insider advice they can tell you about on how to manage your hair. They also have a good eye about what kind of hair styles you should be practicing. Since they are a professional in the field of making people look good the stylist can make your hair look beautiful and help you learn how to manage that beautiful hair. Ask your friends and family for advice on where to find a reliable stylist and see what they have to offer you.
Since you now have a better idea about what you should be doing to make your hair look good, you should now have an idea about what you are going to do to make your hair look stunning. Apply all of the tips you learned today about hair styling and management and before you know it you’ll be getting those second glances from people who are stunned by your hair.…

Is There a Connection Between Vitamin D and Breast Cancer?

August 16, 2021 Comments Off

Breast cancer is the most common cancer of women in the Western world. Many factors contribute to cause a malignant tumor of the breast (it is multifactorial), although heredity is an important issue. Some diets help prevent it, such as diets rich in fruits and vegetables and low in fat. Adequate calcium intake is very important. The role of vitamin D in the deterrence and management of breast cancer are extensively explored by researchers and the results have been promising so far.
No matter what cancer you have, or are trying to prevent, the question is: is cancer left to vitamin D deficiency? Current research shows that a solution to this question is no, women with breast cancer should not meet the expense of to vitamin D deficiency, nor their doctors.
Vitamin D and Breast Cancer: Not a Panacea
If you have breast cancer, please remember that vitamin D is not a panacea and should never be used as the main treatment for cancer. Your oncologist will prescribe a treatment that has proved effective and should carefully follow their advice as the mainstay of treatment. At the same time, you should know that the evidence suggests that adequate vitamin D can help in the fight against the cancer.
Vitamin D and Breast Cancer: Fight against Breast Cancer
Contemporary research indicates that most if not all, women have their vitamin D receptor, except if they were deficient in vitamin D, ie, they have these receptors if they were full of vitamin D. It appears that the receptor is present in breast tissue, where the most active form of vitamin D were present, and this is only true if vitamin D in the form of less-active, calcidiol, were present. In other words, if you are testing vitamin D in breast cancer patients for vitamin D receptors, they will not have much if you treat their disability, they will probably develop these receptors.
Not only calcitriol (a form from the optimal amounts of your body when your vitamin D in blood is ideal) inhibits breast cancer cells to grow, making these cells grow and die as natural cells. In addition, vitamin D inhibits the formation of the large blood vessel growth around the tumor, a progression called anti-angiogenesis.
The first modern connection with cancer and vitamin D is due to an interesting observation was made during the 1930’s. The observation was that people who have spent years in the sun (and later developed a relatively mild form of skin cancer called squamous cell cancer of the skin) were less likely to develop deadly internal cancers such as colon cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer. This led to early modern theories of cancer, namely that squamous cell skin confers immunity against the most deadly forms of cancer.…

What Is Keratin And How Does It Help Our Hair?

July 29, 2021 Comments Off

Keratin is one of the numerous proteins that may be found in the human body. This particularly strong substance is specific for hair, skin, nails and teeth. You can imagine keratin as a foil which lies on top of our capillaries, skin or nails in order to protect them from noxious agents. The most amazing thing about keratin is the fact that the foil is entirely made out of dead cells which are eliminated by our organism through sweat.
Although keratin lies at the surface of the skin, it is however the result of our internal cells. For that matter, it is important that we pay attention to our everyday diet in order to stimulate the formation of keratin. Gelatin based food is said to increase the keratin secretion of the body and consequently, improve the condition of our hair, skin and nails.
Your hair is the one that truly needs keratin as it is often subject to numerous destructive habits. Every time you straighten or curl your hair the natural stratum of keratin is destroyed, hence the dull aspect of the capillaries. If these actions continue, the hair will become even frailer and eventually start to break; therefore, it is important that you offer your hair proteins from food or professional hair care products.
If your hair runs out of this protein, the heat or the dye you apply to the capillaries will directly affect the living cells lying at the core of the hair and thus, cause it to break. Luckily, there are numerous professional hair care treatments that contain keratin, so you can always recreate the natural layer of protein. Besides the usual masks, there are salons where hairdressers will apply keratin to your tresses with the help of a hot iron.
No matter how much healthy food you may eat, you still need the help of professional products which are most of the times rich in this protein. The hairdressers in Covent Garden use only such products, so you should consider paying them a visit if you need a helping hand to cure your tresses.…