- Smooth Sailing for the Best Shave
If not done carefully, shaving can irritate the skin, the hair follicle, and the oil gland, which causes a rash...
- Skin Care Advice for Your Big Event
What if there is a dermatological emergency like a flare-up of acne or an allergic reaction on the face in the days before a wedding, graduation or other important day...
- Ingrown Hairs? You Do Not Have to Put Up With It!
People with curly hair are at greater risk for ingrown hairs, because the hairs curl around and sometimes loop back into the skin. Ingrown hairs are more common in people who shave very closely...
- A Resolution That Helps Your Skin
Cigarette smoking, known to cause lung cancer and encourages heart disease, also has significant aging effects on your skin and hair...
- Skin Tags and Seborrheic Keratoses
While skin tags are benign they can be annoying if they become irritating or rub on sporting equipment, and skin tags can interfere with shaving and can detract from one's appearance and self-image...
- Skin Rashes - Where Do They Come From?
So many rashes appear because the skin is an active player in the immune system. Antigens are things, like viruses or proteins, that we react to. These antigens need to be presented to our immune system in a very controlled way; otherwise we would react to too many things...
- Spreading the Flu, Colds and Germs
According to Health Canada, 10-25% of us will get the flu this year, and 500-1500 will die from the flu or flu complications. With the flu season upon us and the newspapers full of stories of pandemics, more and more attention is being put on the simple act of washing your hands...
- Getting Your Ears Pierced?
Having the procedure done in a hygienic environment, with sterilized equipment and caring for your ears properly afterwards, are important factors in ensuring that you do not get a complication...
- New and Effective Treatments for Warts
Warts on the hands can be a problem for those who work closely with the public, for example servers, nurses, doctors and dentists. Warts on the feet can hobble letter carriers, and interfere with sports like golf and hockey...
- Stretch Marks - There is Hope
Stretch marks are a common skin abnormality that is of significant cosmetic concern. They occur mostly in women (up to 90% of pregnant women and 70% of adolescent women) than men (up to 40% of adolescent men)...
- Common Bacterial Infections of the Skin
Skin infections can occur on the skin surface or deeper within the skin tissue. The most common bacteria that infect the skin are Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes...
- Ugh, I Have a Hangnail - Tips to Keep Them Away
Prevent hangnails from appearing. Hangnails are often the result of dry skin. Regularly applying a moisturizer to your nails and fingers can help you nip hangnails in the bud...
- Treating Lip Conditions
They can be on or surrounding the lips and be anything from a lesion to an excess hair problem. For most people these conditions are not trivial and although sometimes treating these conditions can be challenging, new effective therapies are emerging...
- The Largest Organ in Your Body - Your Skin! - Some interesting tips and facts you should know
Your skin is actually the largest organ in your body and weighs probably more than you think. Below are some interesting facts and tips that may surprise you about your skin...
- Avoiding Colds and the Flu - What you can do to protect yourself
According to Health Canada, the best way to avoid the flu, or at least reduce the symptoms, is to get a flu shot in the fall. ..
- What Do You Really Know About Your Skin?
Your skin is the latest organ in your body, so there's a lot to know about it! Here are some interesting facts and tips about your skin and how to look after it ...
- Cosmetics and Their Ingredients: Some facts to know
Skin products are either classified as drugs or cosmetics. A drug can alter the function and structures of the skin while a cosmetic just changes the appearance ...
- Don't sweat it! Learn about excess sweating and how to treat it
If you have hyperhidrosis, it means that you sweat more than you need to in order to maintain a stable temperature. There is no formal definition, but for practical purposes, any degree of sweating that interferes with activities of daily living can be viewed as hyperhidrosis ...
- It's Smooth Shaving from Here
Do you get nicks and in-grown hairs from shaving your legs? You are not alone; these are common complaints from women shaving their legs. Below are a few tips to help you get that smooth, clean shave that you want. ...
