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Skin treatment for face?

I've been noticing that my pores are very numerous lately and my skin is red and just doesn't look all that great. I want to try something different to fix it. I''ve used benzoyl peroxide, st. Ives apricot scrub, and various other store bought supplements. My skin gets oily, but all of these face cleansers dry it out so much, so I use lotion and I feel it's a never ending cycle.

I heard that witch hazel was really good for your skin? And I know that vitamin C, E and A are great for your skin. I've been trying to change my diet and exercise more because I find that it helps, but would taking supplements help in the transition? Also, are there any other products or natural remedies that can help? I really would just like to concentrate on minimizing my pores and reducing the redness for now I suppose. I do have acne but it's very subtle bumps.

Any help would be amazing, thank you in advance.

P.S. Anything that could help hair that's been damaged from years of competitive swimming and basketball would be great advice too. It's very dry underneath and I don't know how to fix it. It just gets knotty very easily and frustrates me.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Swimmers:

    Natalie Coughlin, California Olympian, trains outdoors year-round, and she's in the water up to four hours a day. But she's not a fan of chlorine-removing shampoos, saying, "I really recommend against those because they strip your hair of all its natural moisture and then that makes hair more susceptible to the chlorine damage, so it creates a vicious cycle."

    Instead, she says it's important to use a gentle shampoo and a really moisturizing conditioner after every pool session, & a deep conditioner at least once a week.

    "The sun definitely has bleaching effects on your hair … and over time also makes hair more susceptible to damage," says Coughlin, who advocates a swim cap for laps and wearing a hat outside the pool for general sun protection. "As a teenager my hair was pretty frizzy and more damaged," says Natalie Coughlin, a 11-time Olympic medalist for USA Swimming (3 Gold, 4 Silver, and 4 Bronze), who's one-quarter Filipino. She credits a healthful diet, good hair-care products and working with instead of against her hair type for her healthy mane. "It's important that hairstylists shape my layers so that when I do wear it wavy and play up my natural curls it looks good," Coughlin says, adding that leave-in conditioner makes her frizz more manageable.

    "But as I've gotten older I've learned to really embrace my hair's natural waves and natural texture rather than constantly straightening it," she says. Use gel like Samy when your hair is damp, scrunch your hair and let air dry, or blow dry using a diffuser concentrating @ the roots. Finger comb, tousle or shake your hair and you're good to go. In the morning, instead of washing them again, spray with water & conditioner, scrunch with your fingers and you're done.

    Check out Keri Russell's hair!

    One method to make it look fuller, add body, tame the curls, bouncier, thicker, SEXIER, softer & shinier hair is to set your hair with plastic curlers (not Velcro) after you towel dry, you'll end up with uniform balance of curls. Blow dry briefly while curling them in curlers. Take them out, and finger comb to style. When you're finished, use your fingers to shake your hair allowing it to fall naturally into place. Used by the best hair color models, and the fashion industry, like Victoria Secret Fashion Show Dec. 2009, 2010, & 2011, America's Next Top Models, EXPRESS, Toddlers & Tiaras, Dance Moms, Dancing with the Stars, Kris Jenner (was shown with curlers before a meeting while in her office - then took the curlers out and tousle with her fingers ready to go), and continued to be used today where salons care about pampering your hair. When you see hair on TV a hair color commercial, they're not done by curling or straightening tools. Hair that shines like that and feels like hair, not hay, has to be done by the best hair tools available w/out damaging to the hair. When you take the curlers out, finger comb to style or lightly brush. Tousle the hair up. or shake your hair. You can use large, medium or small curlers, that depends on the length of your hair. Think of JLo's hair, she was voted as the Sexiest Woman by People magazine and Glamour's Woman of the Year 2011.

    Google: "Foods for Healthy Hair" http://www.foodforhealthyhair.com/ http://sg.news.yahoo.com/food-for-healthy-hair.htm... - or 10 Best Foods for Your Hair.

    http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/03/10-best-...

    Don't expect to look like you've stepped out of a hair commercial the day after you've changed your diet. It is likely to take at least three months before you actually see tangible results. Hair is dead, but hair also has electrical energy; the negative charge of damaged hair can lead to flyways and unruly hair.

    Everything you NEED for healthier skin: Google: FIVE FOODS TO EAT FOR BEAUTIFUL SKIN

    Any kind of facial wash, you're leaving something toxic behind, it's not a matter of convenience, it's a billion dollar business that can do more harm than good to your acne. And sometimes we feel entirely virtuous about our skin-care regimen because it's full of SPF-- all year round!-- and cleansers and such. But the truth is, we may not realize that we're overdoing (or underdoing) something that can lead to the very thing we're trying to avoid: dryness, breakouts, accelerated aging, New York dermatologist Dr. Jeannette Graf. (I've been giving this same advice for decades, but she's proof enough!).

    Take a shower everyday, use washcloth to exfoliate and bath & body wash. Hydrogen peroxide does wonders for acne. Visit their website for more tips & other uses. ONLY $1.

    Acne medication could worsen what ever allergies you have, so instead of trying out one product after another, you're actually spreading it around.

    Source(s): 5 decades of great skin & hair know-how.
  • 5 years ago

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    Source(s): 7 Days Acne Cure : http://acneaway.raiwi.com/?XocL
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