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March 30th, 2009 at 01:32pm
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How much does taking Propecia at precisely the same duration each day matter? I try to take it within 10 minutes or so, but occasionally I am 2 to 3 hours late. I know you have said that the half life of the medication is only fours. By the instance 24 hours passes, has essentially all the medication left the body so that whether you don’t take it again at precisely the same date you are going that additional date without Propecia? Will taking it a few hours late cause a decrease in … [visit site to read more]
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March 30th, 2009 at 11:36am
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Question re Propecia and Sperm Count. I take Flomax and Finasteride. Side effects are reduced libido and ejaculation. I noticed whether I discontinue taking the pills, I regain libido and ejaculation volume in 3 – 4 days, although I had only been on these pills for three weeks. My question is, can I periodically take a “prescription holiday” and soon after resume medication after, say a week without risk of return of BPH? I.E. will the faraway term benefits of that prescription program … [visit site to read more]
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March 30th, 2009 at 10:18am
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As part of its new “data marketing” effort, Redu, Inc. is posting 5 Free Tips To Heal and Avoid Dry Skin on its new website www.SmoothnSilky.com. SmoothnSilky is their new, women’s skin care product they have positioned as a “dry skin miracle”, and it is particularly formulated to heal chapped hands, cracked feet, rough elbows, and coarse knees overnight.
Michael Dugan, President of Redu, Inc., stated, “A marketing effort cannot be just sell, sell, sell anymore. What we want to do is supply data to women with dry skin, and let them manufacture an educated and informed decision about SmoothnSilky. Of course, we want to sell product, but it is increasingly fundamental to position ourselves as a make women can trust and believe in.”
At SmoothnSilky.com women can now find 5 tips that can help them repair their dry skin and keep it soft, healthy and touchable. that knowledge may sound like common sense, but some of the tips may be surprising.
1. Take Warm Baths Never Hot
Everyone likes the soothing, relaxing feel of a nice hot bath, but it’s not good for your skin. The intense heat of a super hot shower or bath actually breaks down the lipid barrier in the skin which leads to a loss of moisture.
2. Use Sunscreen All Year Round
Just considering it’s not hot does not mean the sun’s burning rays are not damaging your skin. Always apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen to your face and hands about 30-minutes before going external, and don’t forget to reapply all through the day.
3. Give Your Hands additional Help
Your hands are very vulnerable to dry skin and even chapping, cracking, and getting rough. The reason is that they are exposed most of the moment, and the skin on the hands is thinner than on most parts of the body and has fewer oil glands. The fact is, it is harder to keep the skin on your hands moist, and therefore, it is fundamental to help that skin with a hydrating, moisturizing lotion, like SmoothnSilky.
4. Treat Your Feet With Special Care
Your feet can be one of the prettiest, softest areas of your body, but they take a pounding everyday. It is critical to use a strong hydrating and moisturizing lotion on them in the dawn and at night. Those water based, minty foot lotions may smell nice, but they evaporate quickly and do not help the skin on your feet hold in the moisture they need.
5. Moisturize Moisturize Moisturize
Ultimately, the way to heal and avoid dry skin is to keep your skin hydrated, moisturized, nourished, and healthy. Find a lotion that you love and apply it regularly several times a day, particularly in troubled or at-risk areas like hands, feet, elbows, and knees.
For additional data on Redu, Inc., and SmoothnSilky contact, Michael Dugan, or visit: www.SmoothnSilky.com. Redu, Inc. is a research and development company created to seek, identify, and market high quality skin care products for men and women. It specializes in health and skin care products that specifically address difficult or different challenges. SmoothnSilky is the first womens product introduced by Redu, Inc., and it is so good at healing and preventing dry skin that Redu, Inc., has already exceeded its sales goals for the product introduction.
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March 30th, 2009 at 09:42am
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Belletaré, a natural and biological, high-performance skincare company, has launched its first three product lines, designed particularly for folks seeking purity and performance for their skin. In stark contrast to conventional cosmetics, each product is all-natural, cruelty-free and features superior certified biological ingredients from around the world. Belletaré products are now available for purchase online at www.Belletare.com, starting at just $3.
Inspired by her hobby-turned-passion for producing custom cosmetics for friends and family, entrepreneur Kim Nolan launched the company to create high-performance products made from only the purest ingredients. “Women nowadays should not have to choose within luxury, performance and biological,” said Nolan. “The Belletaré line features high-performance products that flawlessly target the effects of aging, sun, even pollution. They plus happen to be all-natural and biological.”
Nolan recognizes today’s consumers are trading their luxury beauty routines with increasingly affordable alternatives, and maintains that Belletaré provides affordable indulgences for even the most cost-conscious consumers.
“public may be giving up spa sessions and expensive salon treatments, but they can still afford to pamper themselves at domestic with quality products that will construct them feel great,” said Nolan. “Belletaré offers luxurious skincare products with all-natural, certified-organic ingredients from around the world without the hefty salon price tag.”
Consumer Demand For biological Beauty Grows Sharply
Belletaré enters the market at a day when skincare is quickly changing, and increasingly consumers are seeking biological, environmentally friendly products. According to researcher biological Monitor, consumer interest in biological products is rising as they become increasingly aware of the possible dangers of synthetic chemicals in cosmetics and toiletries. To serve the growing demand for high-performance biological products, Belletaré uses only the finest all-natural ingredients.
“Consumers are searching for products without fillers, synthetic fragrances, petro-chemicals or anything toxic, and Belletaré delivers on that promise,” said Nolan. “Instead, we fill our products with dominant antioxidants, botanical extracts and vitamins that are carefully selected to support skin health and counteract the negative effects of aging and environmental stressors like sun and pollution.”
In addition to its commitment to natural and biological purity, Belletaré adheres to environmentally and socially responsible commerce practices, including the use of recyclable, reusable packaging for all products.
Belletaré produces Pure Harmony For the Skin
The Belletaré make features three biological, high-performance lines to cleanse, revitalize and protect skin at any age, including:
Crescendo: the first phase designed to cleanse and refresh the skin. Features the Crescendo Bath and Shower Gel.
Intermezzo: designed to resume and nourish the skin. Features the Intermezzo Body Polish, an all-natural body scrub.
Brava: the third and final phase designed to hydrate and protect the skin. Features the Brava Body Lotion.
All products are available in two signature fundamental oil blends: Adagio, a warm, relaxing blend of scents designed to soothe and calm, and Vivace, a spirited blend of citrus and floral to energize and invigorate. The Brava Body Lotion is plus available in A Capella for a fresh, natural scent without added fundamental oils. For increasingly knowledge about Belletaré, visit www.Belletare.com.
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March 30th, 2009 at 08:32am
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Hair loss is never a fun thing to have. Rest assured your problem is shared by many.
Sometimes treatments for baldness can have side effects.
Prescription drugs and treatments for baldness can have an adverse effect when taken with other prescription drugs.
whether you are tired of products that offer very few results or [...]
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March 28th, 2009 at 08:30am
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Ask any dermatologist, and they will tell you the very best way to prevent wrinkles, age spots, and premature aging of the skin is with regular and proper sunscreen use. But what does that mean?
Most of us remember to wear sunscreen when we are going on vacation.
The tough truth is [...]
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March 27th, 2009 at 06:35pm
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An earlier question brought up an essay about a topical DHT inhibitor at HairLossTalk:
The doctor interviewed in the essay made some pretty impressive claims. Paraphrasing:
- His topical DHT blocker is as effective as Propecia as expanded as you could apply it to the affected area
- Downside of topical: It’s increasingly of a pain to apply. It would be really difficult to … [visit site to read more]
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March 27th, 2009 at 05:35pm
Under Hair Loss
I currently use the EXT product line from hair club. Are there any other products comparable to EXT?
You should dissect each element of their EXT approach:
March 27th, 2009 at 04:34pm
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Hi Dr Rassman
Big fan of your Blog. It has informed and guided my HT decisions in the past several years with excellent results. Now my question.
Tom Jones – he has stopped dyeing his hair and now is grey/white. His hair looks better than ever, I know white hair reflects light giving a fuller appearance to the hair but his hair looks so good now, he has definitely had further procedures. I assume FUT or FUE. He has already had fairly a lot of work done, but that latest procedure … [visit site to read more]
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March 27th, 2009 at 02:31pm
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Dear Dr. Rassman:
Thank you for a very comfortable and professional session yesterday. You and your competent staff made my day enjoyable; fairly different from my prior experience in the early 1990’s.
I experienced no pain final night before bed at 9 pm and took no medication, until I became a slight bit uncomfortable around 1:30am. I took one Vicodin and one Valium, and slept until 5:30am. that wee hours I took the Prednisone.
I used one half cup of hydrogen peroxide … [visit site to read more]
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March 27th, 2009 at 12:36pm
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Dear Dr.
whether i got 4 stitches approach mustache due to an accident. will hair grow at that area??? as i have a beard. waiting for your reply. whether they will not grow next what is the solution???
I have not examined the wound, but assuming that there was no skin with hair loss, it should regrow in 3-6 months. whether whether does not, a transplant into the mustache area works nicely.
[tags]hairloss, hair loss, beard, mustache, moustache, injury, … [visit site to read more]
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March 27th, 2009 at 11:36am
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Can pheromone cologne/body products affect hair loss or the viability of medication like propecia?
Doubtful… but whether you attract too many women, you might lose increasingly hair with the stress that it induces. Yes, I’m kidding.
[tags]cologne, body spray, bodyspray, hairloss, hair … [visit site to read more]
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March 27th, 2009 at 10:47am
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America’s Beauty Show, March 28-30 in Chicago, is committed to safe and healthy beauty salons. By doing so, the Show raises serious and decades overdue concerns on the dangers of conventional nationwide salons.
Salon products are generally dispensed from bulk containers without labeled ingredients. Of specific concern is the cumulative contamination of air, particularly in poorly ventilated salons, with volatile ingredients and fine particles, particularly from hair sprays. Known as aerosols, these can penetrate deeply into the lungs of clients, and even increasingly so their stylists working a usual five-day week.
Products used in the great majority of nationwide salons contain a wide range of toxic ingredients, including carcinogens, hormonal ingredients, and allergens. Exposure to them poses hidden dangers to clients, and much increasingly so their stylists.
Stylists, particularly in small hair and beauty salons, tend to drift in and out of their jobs. So formal long-term studies to investigate dangers to their health, known as epidemiological, are not feasible. addition, there is substantial and faraway standing evidence on a wide range of toxic effects in salon workers, particularly hairdressers and beauty stylists. These include nausea, sleep disorders, fatigue, and numbness and pain in the fingers. They plus include allergic dermatitis, acute lung irritation, asthma, and chronic bronchitis.
An additional poorly recognized danger from salon and personal use relates to hair straighteners based on thioglycolic acid. Besides causing hair to become brittle and break, they can plus irritate the scalp and cause pustular and allergic reactions.
Of specific concern are hair dyes. about 35 percent of women and 10 percent of men are regularly exposed to these dyes in salons or by personal use. Black and dark brown permanent and semi-permanent dyes contain carcinogens, particularly those known as phenylenediamines. These have been shown to cause cancers, particularly non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and multiple myeloma, besides breast and bladder cancers. However, in spite of that distant standing evidence, stylists, let alone their clients, remain unaware of these avoidable risks of sometimes deadly cancers. In sharp contrast to the U.S., these dyes have been banned in Europe.
The continued use of these dangerous hair dyes is all the increasingly reckless. Safe certified biological dyes, particularly those marketed by Logona, a German company, are now available in the U.S. These dyes accomplish regular and long-lasting colors, ranging from brown to black.
A recently recognized concern relates to the potent carcinogen vinyl chloride, a propellant in some pressure sprays, which has been incriminated as a cause of fatal liver cancer. Another recent concern relates to hormonal phthalates in sprays to which pregnant women may be exposed, and have been incriminated as a cause of congenital abnormalities in their male infants.
Of critical importance is the protection of clients and, even increasingly so, their stylists by establishing efficient ventilation of salons, and their workstations. The efficiency of that ventilation should comply to certified national standards.
Information on all ingredients in all products used in salons, including their risks and recommended safety precautions, should be detailed and made readily available to all stylists in standard fabric Safety notes Sheets. that knowledge is legally needed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for all workplaces with ten or increasingly employees. However, that requirement is observed increasingly in the breach than the performance. that knowledge should plus be made readily available to clients.
Pressure sprays should be banned. They release very fine particles which are readily inhaled into the depths of the lungs and can irritate and cause toxic effects. Pump spray products are very much safer as their particles are at least tenfold larger, and large abundant to be filtered out through the nose. Polyvinyl pyrrolidine, a common ingredient in hair sprays, is designed to increase smoothness and flexibility of the hair. However, it can cause chronic lung damage and should be banned.
Finally, eyeliners, skin lightening creams, and some makes of mascara used in salons, besides being available for purchase in beauty supply stores, contain mercury as a preservative. However, even small doses of mercury build up and can cause neurological damage following distant term exposure.
Samuel S. Epstein, MD
Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition
Professor emeritus Environmental & Occupational Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
Chicago, Illinois
Author of Toxic Beauty, 2009, BenBella Books.
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