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Soothing Skin for Better Sleep

Dry itchy skin can have a major impact on a person's quality of sleep, but often times people don't associate skin health with quality of sleep.  However, if you have...

Heart Disease and Skin Health: What is your ski...

Your skin is an amazing organ that gives insights into your overall health. The skin is responsive to factors like nutrition status, hydration, circulation, inflammation, toxin accumulation, and more –...

Vitamin C and Skin Health

Vitamin C is an essential nutrient for skin as well as the rest of the body.  It’s absolutely necessary for normal skin and bodily functions, cannot be naturally synthesized in...

Protecting Skin from Stress

Most people realize that stress affects critical organs like the heart and the brain, but what’s not as well known is how stress affects other important organs including skin. In...

Taking Care of Sunburns

1 out of 3 adults in the United States report being sunburned, and 1 in 8 Americans tan indoors.  Sunburn results in skin redness (erythema) that develops during exposure to...

Increasing the Immune Defense of Skin

The skin barrier, composed of lipids and essentially dead cells (corneocytes) in the upper layer of the epidermis (stratum corneum), plays a major role in protecting the body from numerous...