by Ms Manu

Created on: July 09, 2009

Who does not want to look beautiful? Guess no one, and a healthy skin is the best way to do so. Skin is the largest organ in the human body. It acts as a wall against the outside world, hence faces the maximum brunt of it. Hence skin care is essential for good health and beauty. Our skin is exposed to a repertoire of harshness, the savage sun, the pollution in our environment, the clothes we wear., the list is never ending, but caring for the skin is relatively easy in spite of this long list. The mandatory requirement for a healthy skin is a good lifestyle-eat well, sleep well and exercise. A good diet and plenty of water is a key to a radiant skin. Good grooming enhances the radiance of the skin.

Grooming the skin is simple; all it needs is a couple of tools, little time and a lot of will power. Time and will power is for us to make, as for tools the market has plenty. Here are some of the basic tools needed for some skin TLC. Let us start bottom up:

The feet are the most neglected part of the human body, they carry the whole burden of the body, but hardly get any care. What is interesting is that good looking feet can add a totally new aspect to beauty. All we need is a buffer/pumice stone/file to smoothen all the callus and corn, just remember to soak your feet in warm water before all the filing and after the filing apply moisturizer or a foot cream and gently massage them. Massage does wonders to any body part, it increases blood circulation and relieves stress and also helps apply the moisturizer to all the nooks and crannies. Clean the feet regularly especially between the toes, wear comfortable shoes and be sure to kick them off and relax.

As the feet the hands too, do a lot of hard work but rarely get the care they deserve, the best friend of good nails is a good manicure kit with a cuticle nipper, tweezers, a nail file and nail scissors, to keep those nails well filed and trim and those cuticles out. Also a generous application of moisturizer and some good hand exercises will keep them looking young and beautiful.

Skin anywhere on the body would be benefited by some good scrubbing and massage so having a skin roller/skin toner/massager/scrubber/body sponge/loofah sponge around in the bath is a great idea, a quick scrub on a busy day or an indulgent massage will rejuvenate skin and the mood. One of the important ingredient women of today need to add to their skin care kit is a good sun screen lotion, with the depletion of ozone and increase in UV radiation a sun screen is a must.

Last but not the least, the face, the market is brimming with ingredients for maintaining a lovely face. The minimum anyone needs is a pH balanced cleanser, a moisturizer, tweezers for all the black and white heads, plucker for those curvy brows.

Along with these throw in a couple of wash clothes, some cotton sponges for applying or removing makeup, scissors, and voila the skin care kit is ready and the lady is good to go.

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