Skin Tightening Face Lift Results Without Surgery

It doesn't take much convincing to persuade anyone to reduce lines and wrinkles and try to restore some of the smooth skin attractiveness of youth. Who could've imagined 40 years ago that you could turn on radio frequencies, just below your skin, and see the sort of skin tightening improvement that would seem like age in reverse.

Just Like A Face Lift Without The Scalpel. Getting face lift like skin smoothening results without surgery sounds too good to be true. However, such body image possibilities are quickly sprouting within the cosmetic enhancement industry due to the crushing demand for younger more attractive looks and body shape. Different kinds of light-energy devices have emerged which exploit the therapeutic potentials of modified energy devices as well as a respectable fear-of-surgery angst in the wider population.

Option: The Thermage Face Lift. When conventional electrical energy is modified into radio frequencies, all sorts of interesting targeting and body metabolism changes can be created. Radio frequency energy moves through the thermage transducer device to be targeted just below the skin on your face.

At this sub dermal depth, this sudden increase in energy causes your body to react in curious and beneficial ways. For one, even middle aged skin known for being slow growing, thin and wrinkled typically responds (like an inflammatory response) by triggering the production of more collagen. You ask so what? Well, this collagen increase is your skin's equivalent of filling-in-a-ditch. Only in this case a new supply of collagen results in a build-up which pushes up onto your face skin, filling in small lines and wrinkles.

What about deep furrows and wrinkles? Realistically, it would take a full radio spectrum of thermage like radio frequency therapy devices to treat the seriously deep facial crag and crevasses. For these extreme cases, traditional face lift or brow lift plus liposuction surgery might become the most practical aesthetic and economic solution.

Option: Cold Light Laser Skin Resurfacing. When your local skin care clinic doesn't invest in trend-setting equipment such as the thermage treatment, you'll want to look at equally useful technologies such as non surgical laser skin resurfacing, or even microdermabrasion.

In these skin rejuvenation treatments, the outer most layer of your face or forehead skin is lightly resurfaced, using light. Result? Rough dry patches can be smoothened, acne scars and age spots diminished, even broken blood vessels treated. New fresh glowing skin is released into the light of the day, meanwhile the finer lines, crows feet and wrinkles are markedly reduced. You'll get pain-free treatments, repeating weekly, without any significant down time, plus you'll avoid the discomfort and health risks of surgery.

Option: Peels, Astringents. Over 100 years of history supports the variety of astringent chemical peels now available as non surgical face lift enhancements. Think of sun damage, age spots, acne scars, fine lines as the target to these semi-corrosive skin lifting treatments. Basically, astringent chemical are lathered on you face, allowed to permeate the upper tissues areas. What happens next is that the outer facial skin tissue layer simply separates from the lower tissues. Treatment over and you're looking into the mirror at a decidedly wrinkle reduced face. And, all during your lunch time break.

Option: Grinding Down Skin Flaws With Dermabrasion. Healthy yet rough dry skin can take on the impact from the brush-and-burr diamond treatment and skin polishing impact of dermabrasion, and create fairly remarkable results in terms of skin smoothening and wrinkle reduction. Dermabrasion doesn't work for skin that is cut, unhealthy or infected with acne bacteria. Also, darker-skinned persons need to understand that the outer facial skin surface is being physically altered with dermabrasion, therefore may give rise to discoloring or uneven pigment patches.

More resources for non surgical face lift and skin rejuvenation results can be researched at:

Radio Frequency Face Lift: http://www.beauty2morrow.com/face/laser-thermage.htm

Dermabrasion: http://www.beauty2morrow.com/face/dermabrasion.htm

Author Robin Derry is publisher for http://www.beauty2morrow.com/, a specialty information site that gives solutions to body image and body shaping needs.

The Suntanning Association for Education

The SAE aims to instruct the people engage in indoor tanning so that they become trained professionals. It will educate tanning bed users so that they will use the indoor tanning technology responsibly and moderately. At the same time, the association will release scientifically-based information about indoor tanning so that it can equalize the biased negative view of using tanning beds.

Members of the SAE are well-informed about the FDA regulations, the potential benefits and risks of exposure to ultraviolet radiation, the importance of eye protection and other tanning accessories, the concept of photosensitivity, the proper maintenance of tanning beds and tanning booths, and the ethical management of a tanning center.

Specifically, a trained professional of the SAE will advocate the following practices:

1. Provide the clients of tanning salons a consent form before they use either the bed or the booth. These forms should be carefully read and then signed by each customer.

2. Deny any request made by clients to stay inside a tanning unit longer than what is suggested by the manufacturing unit. Overexposure to ultraviolet radiation can increase the potential risks of tanning.

3. Advise clients to always wear tanning goggles. Any person who insists on not using the protective eye wear will be refused by the trained professional and by the tanning salon.

4. Post on a clearly visible part of the salon all the necessary precautionary reminders and warning signage. The patrons of the salon should easily see and read the messages of these signage.

5. Display an accurate, complete, and updated chart of photosensitizing agents. The chart should be readily understandable. If a client has questions about the chart, the SAE professional should be on hand to answer the questions as best as he could.

6. Utilize tanning beds, tanning booths, accessories, and replacement bulbs that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Any equipment or accessory that does not comply with the standards of the FDA should not be used.

7. Purchase and use cleaning agents or sanitizing solutions that are specially manufactured for the tanning equipment. The us of inappropriate solutions, like a bleach, may damage the parts of the tanning bed or tanning booth.

The practices of SAE professionals are commendable and they contribute greatly in making indoor tanning a safe process.

Grace Palce is writing articles for her own site about home tanning beds and natural remedies articles for her other site.

7 Tips for Beautiful Skin

For most women, part of their morning and evening routines involve a skincare regimen of applying creams, moisturizers, tonics, lotions, and the like. Why do women put themselves through this? To combat the signs of aging, and to maintain youthful looks and beautiful skin! However, how many women consider what is in the products they are using?

Some women probably do not realize that what they are putting on their skin may actually be undermining what they are trying to prevent to begin with. In fact the average woman puts twelve products on her skin daily, most of which maintain harmful chemical preservatives. Dr. Myron Wentz, founder and chairperson of USANA Health Sciences has this to say about beauty in the June/July 2005 issue of the USANA Health Sciences magazine: Some say that beauty is only skin deep. Nonsense! I believe that true beauty is a reflection of true health, and true health begins deep inside each and every cell in the body. But true health and true beauty have an outer component, which is why we require protection from environmental insults such as solar radiation, pollutants in our environment and the drying effects of air. . . The fact is, you simply cannot contain a healthy body if your skin isn't healthy. And your skin can't be healthy if your are subjecting it to toxic substances that are ultimately absorbed into your body.

So, what can women do? How can they combat environmental pollutants, the affect of solar radiation, and the drying effects of air? How can they be sure they are using the very best products on their skin so they can be healthy inside and out? Here are 7 tips to assist in this process:

1. Be very aware of what is in skincare products. Use products that are all natural as much as possible.

2. Look for products that contain Dermal Surface Renewal Technology. DSR smoothes away existing signs of aging such as laugh lines, crows feet, and dullness.

3. Use products that have regenisomes. Regenisomes penetrate the skin to speed cell renewal after sun exposure. They also use the light of photosomes to undo sun damage, and have ultrasomes to renew skin while sleeping.

4. Find products with Proteo-C and Proflavonol-T. These two vitamins protect the skin from premature aging caused by the sun, pollution, and other environmental factors. They also provide advanced nutrition to the skin to keep it appearing smooth and firm.

5. If possible, use products that are paraben free. Parabens are synthetic chemical preservatives that are widely used in personal care products such as shampoos, conditioners, hair styling products, make-up, facial masks, skin lotions and creams, and deodorants. They also are typically found in baby lotions, shampoos, and other personal care products for infants and children. In addition, parabens are in many foods and pharmaceutical products. Researchers are beginning to find parabens in benign and malignant human breast tumors. While some studies have challenged their toxicity in many products and question their long term affect on humans, using products that are paraben free can eliminate the risk of exposure to this harmful chemical.

6. Drink plenty of water! Water hydrates skin and hair as well as flushes toxins out of the body.

7. Limit stress or learn to manage it effectively. Stress is harmful both emotionally and physically. Find that stress reliever activity that works best and use it on a daily basis!

Follow the above 7 tips to true beauty and health.

Monique Hawkins is an associate with USANA Health Sciences. One of her passions is supporting and encouraging others to maintain optimal health and wellness. She also has recently started an online store selling music boxes. Visit her USANA site http://www.whyusana.com/mhawkins and her music box site at http://www.my-music-box.com