Is Botox For You?
There is no need to show your true age. Nobody should have to “grow old gracefully,” that’s really just a nice way of saying you look old. It doesn’t have to be this way—not when you have some terrific options that can keep you looking younger longer. One of the most popular ways of [...]
Stress may make you itch
Current research suggests that stress may activate immune cells in your skin, resulting in inflammatory skin disease. The related report by Joachim et al., “Stress-induced Neurogenic Inflammation in Murine Skin Skews Dendritic Cells towards Maturation and Migration: Key role of ICAM-1/LFA-1 interactions,” appears in the November issue of The American Journal of Pathology.
Skin provides the [...]
History’s 5 Most Terrifying Beauty Tips
You can say the world is shallow and vain these days, what with our fake tans and breast implants, but the truth is, we’ve always been that way.
In fact, when you see the lengths to which people used to go to make themselves look or smell a little better, it makes Botox look downright rational.
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In Wake of 16 Deaths, Advocates Urge FDA to Improve Botox Warnings
Public Citizen Health Research Group has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to increase the warnings on the popular cosmetic drug Botox.
Long parodied in popular culture, Botox and the similar drug Myobloc use botulinum toxin to block nerve impulses to muscles, causing them to relax (thereby giving the appearance of smoothed wrinkles). However, Public Citizen [...]
20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Skin
1 It’s your body’s largest organ, despite what the readers of Maxim think.
2 An average adult’s skin spans 21 square feet, weighs nine pounds, and contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels.
3 The skin releases as much as three gallons of sweat a day in hot weather. The areas that [...]
What are Wrinkles?
Definitions:
wrinkle - purse: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; “purse ones’s lips”
wrinkle - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; “The dress got wrinkled”; “crease the paper like this to make a crane”
wrinkle - a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; “his [...]