What are Antioxidants?

Antioxidants help fight Free Radical Damage.  Free Radicals are a normal occurrence, every time you breathe in oxygen there are Free Radicals created.

Free Radicals are cells that have one electron attached. To be stable, they require two electrons, and will steal the second from a healthy cell.  Once the Free Radical is satisfied, this leads to the death and putrefication of the once healthy cell. 

           The meaning of the SPF rating is a little confusing. Let me see if I can clear up some of the mystery.

Let’s use an analogy to make it easier to understand.

You go out in the sun, and in 10 minutes your skin gets red . If you use a sunscreen rating of SPF 10, it will take 100 minutes to receive the same damage. Using a sunscreen rating of SPF 50 will give you 500 minutes before your skin becomes red.  Does that make more sense?

There are two distinct types of Sun Screen, Chemical Sunscreens and Physical Sunscreens. Since sunscreens are labeled with 'Active' and 'Inactive' Ingredients, they are easy to identify. Of course, it is the 'Active Ingredients that we will be talking about.

I believe it is important to explain why I recommend something to my clients, and not just dictate that it should be used.

So here is why sunscreen is a very important step in everyone's skin care routine, men and women alike.

Even just a quick trip to the mailbox and back or taking the kids back and forth to their multiple activities gives you enough exposure to cause a breakdown of Collagen and Elastin in your skin. Let's look at the different rays we live with and the kind of damage they do to the skin.

Hello again!

My last Blog answered the questions of why to exfoliate, and what are the different kinds of exfoliation. 

Now let’s look at how to choose the best exfoliator for your skin type.

Let me introduce myself!  I am Catherine Sir, sole owner and operator of Believable Skin Care.  I have been an Esthetician for 11 years, and have become a SKIN GEEK in those years, and love to talk about skin.  I am starting this blog to feed my knowledge out into the web.  My hope is to share the accumulated knowledge I have built through these years with all of you.  I want to help navigate you through the world of product choices, and how to decide what would be right for you.  Lets get started!!!

What is skin? 

Why Exfoliate?

We have all heard the word exfoliation, but what exactly does it mean, why do we need to do it, what are the different choices.

Let me address all of these for you. 

What is exfoliation?

Exfoliation is removing the dead cells from the layers of your skin to reveal the live cells beneath.

Why do you need to do it?

There are several benefits to exfoliation.