Friday, November 5, 2010

Side effects of cosmetics and beauty products?

There is a large number of beauty products available in market that take care, nourish and enhance your looks and body personality. Most of these products consist of chemical compounds, alcohol based and petroleum based compounds. Different people have different skin texture and hence same product is not suitable to everyone. So, a person must take suggestions of a skin specialist before using such doubtful products. It is better to use natural beauty products. Natural products have no side effects and hence are relatively safe. Though, there are various natural products available to enhance your beauty and looks but if you want to save money, you can also prepare these medicines at your homes. Let's see home made treatments for some ailments.
Treatment of dark circles under eyes: This is one of the most common ailments that make us look stressed. Here are some tips that provide you freedom from these zombie-like effects under eyes. Wrap a grated raw potato in cheesecloth and place to eyelids for 15-20 minutes. Wipe off the residue and use the eye cream.

Carrot Facial Mask: You need 2 to 3 large carrots and 41/2 tablespoons honey. The procedure of preparing the cream is cook carrots, then mash. Mix it with honey and apply it gently to the skin. Wait for 10 minutes and rinse off with cool water.

Glowing Facial Mask: The following recipe can be prepared to make your skin radiant. The ingredients are:
1 tbsp fuller's earth, 1 tbsp honey, 1 tbsp mashed papaya. Mix them and put on your face for 20 minutes and then rinse off.

Honey Facial Mask: You can prepare the best facial mask by using the pure and simple honey. Place a cloth in warm water and apply to your face to open the pores. Smear on honey, and leave on for 15 to 30 minutes. Rinse off with warm water, then use cold water to close the pores. Use once a week.
Natural beauty products go through this kind of preparation and are ready for use. You will find many products selling themselves as natural products. Don't get deceived by the labels they have on their packages. It is advised to read the ingredient labels very carefully as much as possible. Balanced diet along with the natural beauty products enhance your beauty and complete looks. 
Whatever economic status you fall in, there are chances that you may require beauty care either to enhance your beauty or to repair the missing assets. So, is the beauty care industry being affected? Here the question is how they are being affected by the economy? The answer lies although people tie belts and their budgets, can they afford the ever increasing prices of the beauty products?

How they have been affected by the economy will depend upon, how hard the times were and did it make them put off their beauty treatments? As per a survey done, expensive salons saw a dip of about 25% in their clientele, and celebrity perfumes for example, saw a dip of about 20% in their sales during the recession. People still bought perfumes, but settled for the less-expensive ones.

 

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