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Beauty Tips & Tricks

Are you stuck in a beauty-rut, and not sure how to look the best you can? Or have you discovered something that makes you look great and want to share? This forum is the place to share your beauty tips, get advice or ask questions.

Switch from Retin A .025% to .05%?

I have been using .025% strength Retin A for a few years now, primarily for acne, but now that I am in my 40s, signs of age are showing up and I'm pretty sure the Retin A has helped with those some. I'm here asking this question because I still get acne, much less so than before, and the...

by User avatar Juanita

Scalp skin flaky and peeling off!!!

Answered by a doctor

This is crazy. For perhaps 2 months now I have terrible flaking on my scalp, under hair, and whole bits just peeling off. I know dandruff, but this is a whole new story, very severe and whole patches of skin come off, can see them underneath my hair when I lift it. It is also very obvious to anybody...

by User avatar Mili

Ceramides & Peptides - what's the deal?

So, these two things keep popping up on skincare discussions and in skincare blogs everywhere. Perhaps I'm slow or not well-read enough, but I don't really understand what these things do for your skin, other than that most people say they are great for your skin, though I have also heard some bad...

by User avatar Guest

Dry skin brushing technique for face - pros and cons

Dry brushing appears to have become a shareable buzzword recently. I came across the phenomenon on Pinterest and was quite interested in learning more. At first sight, the idea of brushing your skin with harsh looking brushes and no water sounds crazy. The benefits though... they say it makes for...

by User avatar Kimmy

Zinc oxide as a facial powder?

Some sunscreens are zinc oxide based, offering a more natural and possibly safer approach to protection from UV rays. Now, I was wondering, would it be possible to just dab some zinc oxide powder onto your face, perhaps over makeup while wearing it, to act as a sunscreen and perhaps also provide a...

by User avatar RosieRoe

Deep furrow on my forehead! Want to get rid of it!!

Hello there, I'm going to be 39 next week. I know that I am no spring chicken any more, but I have been developing a deep furrow on my forehead that has only gotten worse over the last year in particular. It makes me look quite unattractive, I think, and I would go to quite extreme lengths to get...

by User avatar MIPetra

Oils In Skincare: Throwing Down the Gauntlet

I really wanted to love oils as a skincare mainstay. When I was introduced to them about three years ago by a friend who is "crunchy granola", and whose skin looked absolutely fantastic, after she had started using oils on her skin, I really looked forward to experimenting myself and was sure I...

by User avatar Guest

Flour face mask.. does anybody know of this? + other DIY masks

Hey, As regular posters here know, I'm into natural skincare and browse the web for information on how to complement my current regime all the time. I stumbled on a mention of flour masks last night. Some people apparently use rice flour and others gram flour to benefit their skin. My curiosity...

by User avatar RosieRoe

Likas papaya soap vs kojie san soap

Hi Do any of you have experience with either likas papaya soap or kojie san soap? I am looking for a soap that mildly exfoliates and that will give me a more even looking skin tone. I have also heard that both these soaps lighten the skin a bit, which I am also interested in. I am not sure which...

by User avatar Guest

Please help me, thick, dry, scaly skin on hands and feet

Hey, Title says everything. I have thick, dry and even scaly skin on my hands and feet. It is really quite bad. I have never seen anything like this on anyone else, including relatives, and I am seriously beginning to think that I might have a freak skin condition that is causing me to have this...

by User avatar Guest