Detecting the presence of lice in your head or in the head of your children is embarrassing. School going children often get lice from other children. These get transferred from the head of one child to the other through head contact or sharing of certain things like clips or ribbons. Once these get onto the…
The effects of aging on skin are a cosmetic concern for people who are facing them. They try all sorts of remedies to keep their skin firm. When skin starts sagging around the eyes, it causes more concern as drooping skin of the eyelids sometimes interferes with vision. The skin hangs in front of the…
Looking young or old depends upon a number of factors. The state of your mind plays an important role in this regard. If you are young mentally, age will not start to reflect that fast. Crossing forty does bring a big change in your life. It is essential to make some changes in your life…
Stretching of the earlobes means making the pierced holes larger in size. This is done by different people with different objects in mind. However stretching means infection, it is rare that one may stretch the ear without contacting infection. Infection may start due to the process being done using dirty hands or may also be…
Scars can be formed on the skin of the face due to a number of reasons. These could include injury which has healed leaving a mark, acne or blemishes do leave scars on the skin, or due to skin trauma. Our skin has a natural healing process and over a period of time scars tend…
Many vitamins and minerals are needed by the body, some more than others. Some are especially useful for a particular part and should form a part of your diet. For the health of your hair the minerals and vitamins most essential are vitamin C, biotin and copper. Hair is made up of mainly protein and…
Good health is reflected in your skin by making it glowing and radiant. Healthy skin shows that the person concerned is eating a well balanced diet containing all the food groups, thereby being supplied with essential vitamins in requisite measure. If for any reason these vitamins are insufficient, then they need to be supplemented. The…
Wrinkles are a part and parcel of the aging process. These start to appear earlier in some people as compared to the others. The primary cause of the wrinkles is breakdown of collagen and elastin in the skin. For toning up the skin various substitutes are given by the dermatologists. In addition healthy and balanced…
Wrinkles begin to appear on the face of a person when he is in the late forties or after he or she enters fifties. The primary cause of wrinkling of the skin is loss of elasticity, firmness and moisture. At this time of life, the fat layer under the skin also starts to decrease and…
Like all wrinkles which appear on the face of any person, wrinkles under the eye are also a result of the aging process. Whenever a person blinks the eyes or squints, there is a movement of muscles. Over a period of time due to continuous use, the wrinkling process sets in. If the facial skin…
Head lice are small insects which travel from one person to the other through contact. These are parasites and are of black or brown color. They live on the blood sucked from the scalp. They lay small yellow color eggs called nits which cling to the shaft of the hair. Being very small these eggs…
All people clean and wash their face every day but most of them do not know whether it is being done in the right way or not. We are living in the world full of pollution emitted by polluting vehicles and dust particles. Face is the part of the body which is always exposed to…