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Category Archives: Skin Care

Sun, Smoke, Weight Add Years To Your Skin

When it comes to looking older your skin is the feature that most reliably tells your age. A study by experts at Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland using twin subjects finds that lifestyle choices, including smoking, being overweight, not using sunscreen, all take a toll on already sun damaged skin.
Twins were used because [...]

Hearing Through The Skin

Evidence that we use both eyes and ears to hear has been around since the mid 1970s, now a new Canadian study out of the University of British Columbia finds that inaudible puffs of air delivered along with certain sounds has an influence on what subjects thought they were hearing.
According to associate professor of linguistics [...]

What you Should Know about Sunscreen Effectiveness

More and more of us are using sunscreens to protect skin from sunburn, signs of early aging and some kinds of skin cancer.  But what do we know about sunscreen effectiveness?
When you’re shopping for that sun protection product this summer, look beyond the package and the claims on the label… make sure you know exactly [...]

Ten Of The Least Suspected Sources Of UV Skin Damage

While we all know time spent baking on a beach without sunscreen is not a good idea, there are other, more routine things we all do that can be just as damaging to our skin and lead to UV skin damage.
Since skin cancers account for just about half of all cancers in the U.S. according [...]

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