Alpha Hudroxy Acid (AHA) for Your Skin

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Quick Sources of Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA) for Your Skin

My dear women, thank you for your incredible response to the 4-week Skin Regimen. It is great to hear incredible stories how little steps have changed many of your lives. Keep it happening! Daily!

A lot of your feedback contained questions about Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA): the best sources of AHA, why your skin needs it, if it is safe to use.

Here are some answers to your inquiries.

Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA) is found in fruit and vegetables. There are several kinds of AHA, and here's a short list of its sources.
Malic Acid: Apples, vinegar, applesauce, cider
Lactic Acid: Buttermilk, yogurt, tomatoes, sour scream, blackberries, powdered skim milk
Tartaric Acid: Grapes, grape juice, wine, cream of tartar
Citric Acid: Citrus fruits such as orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime
Glycolic Acid: Sugar cane

Fruit acids are beneficial for your skin because they loosen the glue between dead skin cells. That allows the dead cells to fall away, revealing new, smooth, younger and softer skin surface.

Using natural sources of Alpha Hydroxy acid will produce the effects that you could imagine only from the most expensive and sophisticated products. Remember Cleopatra who submersed herself in the milk baths daily? Her skin was gorgeous! And so shall be yours!

Just a bit of quick efforts in the morning or evening: Mask made of fresh blackberries, or yogurt, or grapes. No mixing bowls. No chemicals. Just use the flesh of fresh fruit straight on your face, neck, and decolte.

Natural Facial Scrub Recipe – Morning Skin Routine

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Week Two to A Younger, Healthier, Radiant Skin

          Week 1 – Food for Your Skin
       Week 2 – Skin Tone Transformation               You Are Here
          Week 3 – Skin Care Products for Daily Use
          Week 4 – Minimizing Your Wrinkles

Gentle Facial Scrub Recipe – Morning Skin Routine

 (you could experiment with the ingredients, especially with essential oils, to add the aroma of your choice to this daily routine.)

This cleansing routine will help you to slough off dead skin cells to reveal, step-by-step, your new, healthier skin.

Scrub gently, without pressing too much against your skin. Protect your eyes and the skin around them!

All you Need:

2 oz granulated sugar (or brown sugar)
1 tsp. vegetable glycerin
1/4 cup carrier oil (avocado or peach or jojoba or extra virgin olive)
4 drops essential oil (your choice of lavender, lemon, geranium, spearmint)

Preparation

Step 1
Place sugar in a small mixing bowl. Add glycerin to the sugar. Mix these two ingredients well.
Step 2
Pour carrier oil of your choice into a small cup and add 4-6 drops of the essential oil of choice (be careful not to overdo.) Mix the oils well and then slowly pour them into the sugar mixture.
Step 3
Mix the ingredients well with a spoon. Add more carrier oil if necessary to create a scrub with the proper consistency. It should be thick enough to hold together (as a paste in your hand.)
Step 4
Place the scrub in a jar and cover to store.
 
 

VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Skin Tone Transformation – Radiant Skin in Four Weeks

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Week Two to A Younger, Healthier, Radiant Skin

                Week 1 – Food for Your Skin

                Week 2 – Skin Tone Transformation               You Are Here

                Week 3 – Skin Care Products for Daily Use

                Week 4 – Minimizing Your Wrinkles

Your Goals This Week:

1. Minimize splotchiness in your facial skin
2. Minimize brown spots in your facial skin
3. Protect skin around your eyes as a sensitive area in your face
4. Boost radiance and reveal more youthful, healthier skin
5. Continue with your nutrition and healthy skin and weight loss routine from Week One (that’s a MUST, as you step-by-step progress towards the end of the month.)


How To Achieve the Goals of Week Two:

This is for Your Morning (AM) Routine
1. Use gentle exfoliating formulas (granular scrubs or glycolic acid (AHA) lotions) to:
• Slough off dead skin cells
• Expose new, healthier skin
• Exfoliate and moisturize skin

This is for Your Evening (PM) Routine
2. Use Retinol products that:
• Stimulate cell turnover
• Address acne
• Give skin a healthier appearance

Morning Routine – Examples of granular scrubs and glycolic acids (AHAs)
(You might experiment what works for you. I’ve tried personally the listed below formulas. My favorite products are the ones I make myself: It’s easy and quick, and potent. See the next post with the Scrub Recipe.)

Glycolic acid is a group of chemicals called Fruit Acids or Alpha-Hydroxy Acids (AHA).
Fruit acids are beneficial for your skin because they loosen the dead skin, slough it off, and reveal new layer of new cells, leaving the face smooth and soft.

You would be amazed how easy it is to produce the results for your skin without using the most expensive cosmetic products on the markets! Fruit Acids are found in fruit and vegetables you already keep in your fridge or even grow in your garden.

Here’s a quick list of AHAs that will do wonders for your skin.

Glycolic Acid: Found in Sugar Cane
Citric Acid: Found in Citrus fruits – lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruit
Lactic Acid: Found in yogurt, sour cream, blackberries, tomatoes, buttermilk, powdered skim milk
Tartaric Acid: Found in grapes, grape juice, wine, cream of tartar
Malic Acid: Found in apples, applesauce, cider, vinegar

All You Need:
1/2 tsp. of liquid per face cleansing

Preparation:
Squeeze the juice of lemon or grapfruit, for example, and dab the face with it. Leave on for 5-10 mins, then rinse.
OR
Use halves of strawberry or blueberry or apple on your face. Let the juice set for a few minutes, then rinse. And you are ready for the day!

Important!

Do not expose your skin to the sun before or after the use of Alpha-Hydroxy (AHA) cleansers and masks.

Evening Routine – Examples of Retinol-based products
(You might experiment what works for you. I’ve tried personally the listed below formulas. My favorite is Afirm 1X.)

Afirm 1X ($32-38/Internet stores)
• Perfect for sensitive skin
• Reduces brown spots, rough skin, fine lines
• Treats sun-damaged skin
• Based on Microsponge technology that maximizes efficasy but minimizes the potential for irritation

RoC Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle Serum ($22 at drugstores/Internet stores)
• Contains retinol, zinc, copper, and Magnesium, DMAE (to tighten and tone your skin.)
• This is a light formula that easily absorbed by skin, stimulating its renewal and rejuvenation.

SkinCeuticals Retinol 1.0 ($46-50/Internet stores)
• Advanced Formula
• Reduces fine lines, age spots, pores
• Treats blotchiness and blemishes
• Contains 1% retinol (the highest concentration available over the counter)

Neutrogena 14 Day Skin Rescue ($26-29 at drugstores/$10 at Amazon store)
• Gentle formula
• Contains retinol and Vitamin C
• Easy to use and get results


Conclusion

1. Start Week 2 Routine right away
2. Continue with Week 1 routine (foods that feed your skin and contribute to your weight loss.)

As you progress from one week into another, you’ll be adding new steps to your daily life that become part of your lifestyle.

There is only Do and Not Do.

To Your Daily Health!

Disclosure: If and when my references fall onto mentioning any Product and/or Brand in this and further blog entries, they come from my personal recommendation and experience. I do not receive any products from any mentioned companies and/or brands for promotion and/or giveaway.

VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.