VITAMIN A AND YOUR SKIN How is the essential nutrient — Vitamin A — related to your skin’s overall health and well-being? Maintaining a healthy body certainly includes maintaining healthy skin. (Skin […]

Neuropeptides have been the recent focus of many anti-aging researchers and scientists, but what exactly are they? How can you benefit from neuropeptides? First of all, peptides are short protein chains made […]

Parabens are synthetic chemical compounds used in most cosmetics in order to preserve the product. Parabens give the product a longer shelf life. Examples include shampoos, make-up, moisturizers, shaving creams, deoderants, and toothpastes. Parabens […]

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. Most of these are not malignant, or in other words, aggressive and invasive. The prognosis for nonmalignant skin cancer is […]

Brown spots, age spots, liver spots, melasma, chloasma…no matter how you identify these darkened areas on your skin, they remain just as unappealing as the names they are given. These darkened spots or […]

Is it a coincidence that your skin seems to go haywire at the worst possible times? Weddings, reunions, interviews, first dates, holidays, and deadlines appear to usher in the havoc. It is […]

Your skin is not only your body’s covering, but an actual organ that serves many purposes.  Your skin serves as the first line of defense against outside dangers: bacteria and viruses, sun […]

Are these lines at the outside corners of my eyes smile lines or crow’s feet?”.  To answer that question, ask yourself another question.  Are you currently smiling? If those lines remain after […]