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• Sponges sold at cosmetics counters in department stores are typically overpriced.
Your local drug store will sell replacement sponges in larger quantities for less
money.

Overall Things You'll Need

• Cosmetic Bags
• Antibacterial Soaps
• Sponge Containers

How to Decipher the Ingredients in Your

Beauty Creams

Difficulty: Easy

Our beauty creams are purported to do everything from diminish wrinkles to clear up
acne, but all of those polysyllabic ingredients are enough to leave a glamour girl's head
spinning. Some are derived from nature and others a chemist's test tube, but what exactly
do they do to make us more beautiful? Inquiring minds would like to know'

Instructions

• STEP 1: Remember that although many countries mandate that cosmetic
companies disclose their ingredients, the claims they make regarding results go
largely unregulated. Companies include ingredients that have been proven to
promote a certain action, but they do not always include them in the amount, or in
conjunction with the compounds that render them most effective.
• STEP 2: Read the labels of zit zapping lotions and you're likely to find
ingredients like salicylic acid (or beta hydroxy acid), benzoyl peroxide, tea tree
oil, triclosan, sulfur or zinc. The acid promotes cellular exfoliation, which inhibits
pore clogging debris, while the other ingredients act to combat bacteria or ease
inflammation.
• STEP 3: Know that vitamin A, and its derivatives, retinol or retinoids, encourage
deep cellular turnover and are believed to reveal new, unwrinkled skin. Vitamin
C, as well as CO Q-10, are thought to promote collagen and elastin production,
thereby giving skin the ability to defy wrinkles.
• STEP 4: Consider that some acids, including alpha hydroxy (or AHA) and lactic,
as well as papaya are included in products to promote exfoliation, or removal the
most superficial layers of your skin. Any oil, butter or lipid, as well as glycerin
and petrolatum will moisturize your skin.
• STEP 5: Check labels for titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, oxybenzone, avobenzone
or padimate-O (PABA) to confirm that your chosen product has a good sunscreen.