Acne: It’s Not Just for Teens
October 30, 2007 by Kristen King
Filed under Women's Health
If there’s anything better than breakouts and fine lines at the same time, I don’t know what it is, man. I’m at that age where I’m starting to see where my first real wrinkles are going to be, yet I’m still dealing with zits. Not pimples, not blemishes, zits. ZITS. Seriously, are we not too old for this?
I’ve been using AcneFree once a day every day (following the itchy rash on my throat) and have gotten great results with it. This week, I started rotating it with the Mary Kay TimeWise skincare line, which promotes elasticity and prevents wrinkles, or …read more
Want to Slow Your Skin’s Aging Process? Quit Smoking
March 26, 2007 by Kristen King
Filed under Women's Health
The results aren’t conclusive, but a new study from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has associated smoking with fine wrinkles all over the body — not just on the face.
“We examined nonfacial skin that was protected from the sun, and found that the total number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day and the total years a person has smoked were linked with the amount of skin damage a person experienced,” [lead researcher Yolanda Helfrich, MD] says in a University of Michigan news release.
The study doesn’t prove that smoking caused or worsened wrinkles. But the results held when …read more




