Beauty Myths That Deserve to Die
Myth: Vaseline on Your Face Every Night Will Prevent Wrinkles
Petroleum can make wrinkles less apparent by softening lines, but it can’t prevent aging.
Myth: Never Pluck a Gray Hair; Ten More Will Grow in Its Place
Answer me this: if you grow some carrots, and pull them up out of the ground, will a bunch more pop up in their place? It’s just not possible.
Myth: Alcohol-Free Is Better
Not all alcohols are drying alcohols. There are also fatty alcohols. Fatty = emollient. Emollient = softer skin. (Examples of fatty alcohols would be cetyl-alcohol, benzyl-alcohol, and oleyl-alcohol.)
Myth: Cutting Your Hair and Eyelashes Once a Week Will Make Them Grow Longer
We’ll believe just about anything, won’t we? Try this one out and you’ll just end up bald.
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I too have been carded; I am 48 years old. My mother has been carded as well, in her 30's. Unfortunately, she had used a lot of commercially advertised junk that just piles up as they don't really work. The "Facial Flex", staying out of the sun, and using glycerin soap (locks in moisture; just use lots of cool water after you soap--the bottom part of your hands), as well as good old "aha" exfoliation regularly...
Just for example..I am 39 and still get carded for drinks! I look like I am 24 to most people and yet growing up, always looked WAY older than I was. From 15 on, I could pass for early 20's and then it seemed like I stopped aging. Most of the women in my family have been the same way. I look like i did in my high school pictures! Seriously! And I work outside in the sun virtually every day and have most of my life. I am an Eng and have worked construction in some form since my teens working for my father.
The worst thing we do to our skin is wear makeup! it is horrid for us. My family are big sun worshipers and we never wear sun screen! yet, all of the women make it into their 80's or beyond with beautiful skin and few wrinkles! We do have dry skin, from birth and use lots of moisturizers. None of us wear make up or if we do, it is ONLY on special occasions and minimal. I am now also only using Bare Essentials and have for 8 yrs. It is all natural. Oatmeal lotions are great and I try to avoid ones with any kind of stuff I can not pronounce. lol
I have uber-dry skin. What works for me is Eucerin Cream at night, slathered on my face, and a lovely moisturizer called Irma Shorell's Sheer Moisture, which I started using in the '70's and still do. It doesn't get rid of lines, but does minimize their appearance. I only wash my face once a day; used to be twice, but that made my skin dry. The enemy of skin: the sun without sunscreen.
All soaps that are true soap have caustic soda, sodium hydroxide, lye, whatever you want to call it, as a basic ingredient. You cannot make true soap without it. Soap is made through a saponification process whereby the oil, liquids and lye combine and change, thereby forming soap. The lye is not what is drying, rather it is both the types of oils used and the amount of fats that are actually leftover after the saponification is complete. I make my family's soap and have done so for many years. I use high quality oils that are good for your skin, like olive, almond, hemp, grapeseed, and castor. I also use goat's milk and frequently use botanical additions as well. Sorry, some soaps are bad for your skin because of how they are made, but not all soaps are. And remember, all real soap has lye in it.
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