February Favorites ~ Facial Sprays, Acne Treatment, Illamasqua & OPI

It's vital that you never forget that the health of your skin actually starts on the inside of your body, not on the outside. Making sure you provide your body with ample nutrition can go a long way to stopping outbreaks before they start. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Avoid eating too many greasy foods. 

Walking and other day-to-day exercises burn around 15 calories per pound of body weight. For each mile walked, the body burns around 100 calories so 5 or 6 miles would need to be walked every day in order to lose that weight, a rather daunting prospect. Good weight loss advice often concludes by suggesting that people should exercise for around half an hour every day. 

Without exercise, the number of calories you can eat goes down. That severely limits the type of food you can eat. Most people couldn't maintain that level of dieting for very long. So while you can lose weight without exercising, why would you want to? Only in the most extreme situations where exercise isn't possible, would this even be advisable. 

One of the most common mistake made by people with sensitive skin is to grab for that store bought bottle of moisturizer when their skin starts to feel tight, and dry. That can be the wrong thing to do because more often than not these products contain harmful chemicals that are actually worse for your skin and will dry your skin out even more. 

Skin care is no different. Many manufacturers are jumping on the 'green' bandwagon and that can make it very hard for the average consumer to know which organic skin care product is truly organic and which is not. There is very little regulation when it comes to labeling of cosmetics. Food, alcohol, even household cleaners have more labeling regulations than the products you put on your skin like lotions, in your hair such as shampoos, conditioners and even in your mouth, like toothpaste and mouthwashe. 

Next, sit on the Pilates ball with calves at 90 degrees to hips: use the ball to bounce up and down, flexing the leg muscles; repeat about 20 times. Then, lay on the ball face down; keeping the balance by having your feet on the floor, and arms behind head; push the head downwards and raise back up. Do this about twenty times in total.