Ways To Soothe Dry Itchy Skin

The house is the most comfortable place you’d ever want to be after a stressful day at work. Unfortunately this cozy place harbors a lot of skin irritants like cleaning products, floor polishes, air fresheners, and laundry detergent. Household products that strip the skin of its essential water and oils, leading to dryness and irritation. 

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Household cleaners and dish detergents are proven skin irritants. When it’s time to scrub, cover your hands with non-latex rubber gloves to keep your dry skin soft and supple. You may also wear a pair of rubber gloves overtop a layer of thin, soft cotton ones. You may have heard that if you want to keep your age a secret, you should take care of your hands. 

When an irritating substance touches your skin, you’ll often get a reaction that resembles a burn with red, dry and chapped skin. People vary widely in their sensitivity to irritants. Some, when often exposed to cleaning products, ranging from detergents to waxes, can develop irritant dermatitis... Read more from:Ways To Soothe Dry Itchy Skin 

Body Wraps And Weight Loss

Body wraps are treatment usually offered at some spas where seaweed, clay, algae, mud, cream, lotion, rosemary, honey, butter, chocolate, or eucalyptus is slathered to your body then wrapped for 30 minutes to moisturize, detoxify, or slim down as some spa owners would say.

When body wraps were first offered, linen sheets were used and it wasn’t called body wraps yet, it was called “herbal wraps”. Later on, these linen sheets were replaced by plastic and thermal blankets.

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During body wraps, the massage table is layered with a thermal blanket and on top of that was plastic that would be used to wrap the client, then towels, and on the very top, sheets to keep the client warm. It usually starts with a scrub – a mud scrub, apple and pear scrub, or other options. Then the client is taken to the shower and rinsed before being wrapped with the products that’s of the same varieties as the scrub. The client will then stay wrapped for 30 minutes to allow the body to sweat, then will be unwrapped and taken to the shower to rinse again and apply lotion.

It’s a relaxing way to moisturize, detox, slim down, or to deal with cellulites... 
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Fixes for Under Eye Dark Circles

People often don't make the distinction between puffiness, bags, pouches, and shadows. They just know they don't like what they see because dark circles doesn't only make you look like you had a tough night or you're always stressed out and feeling tired, it also make you look several years older.

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Fatigue isn’t the only reason for having under eye dark circles, sometimes even if you get plenty of sleep you still get dark circles under your eyes. At times these are just shadows cast by puffy eyelids or hollows under your eyes that develop as a normal part of aging.

Some of the most common causes of true under-eye circles are the following:

1. Thinning skin and loss of fat and collagen which is common as you age. This can make the reddish-blue blood vessels under your eyes more obvious.
2. Pigmentation irregularities. These are a particular concern for people of color, especially blacks and Asians... Read more from: Fixes for Under EyeDark Circles

Facts About Nocturnal Asthma

A chronic disease of the airways that makes breathing difficult is called asthma. With it, there is inflammation of the air passages that result in a temporary narrowing of the airways that carry oxygen to the lungs. This condition can be controlled with medicines and by staying away from things that that may trigger it.

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Some people with asthma are not aware that even if their asthma is controlled during the day, it could still strike at night at any hour during sleep. This type of asthma is called nocturnal asthma or sleep related asthma. It can make sleep impossible and leaves you irritable during the day.

Symptoms include shortness of breath, chest tightness, cough and wheezing. Some possible reasons for this include temperature changes in the body, cooling of the airways; low adrenal gland hormones or gastroesophageal reflux disease. These are all biological changes that occur at night. It may also be because of medicines taken during the day that wear off, being in a reclining position; postnasal drip while sleeping, or other sleep conditions that may trigger symptoms... Read more from Facts About Nocturnal Asthma