Something For The Weekend 13

Friday 11th December 2009

Yet another weekend is looming which also means Christmas is almost upon us and once again I have found you another extraordinarily fabulous gift with a price tag to match.

The Thermal Mud Gift Pack is the ultimate luxury gift that every woman who likes to look after her skin will just love.

This product contains the absolute maximum content of Rotorua Thermal Mud in its purest form. With a creamy velvety smoothness and full of highly concentrated natural minerals. Thermal Mud will rejuvenate the skin leaving a healthy radiant complexion. Thermal Mud is extremely therapeutic, as well as detoxifying, purifying, healing, remineralising, antiseptic and antibacterial. Suitable for body as well as the face. Ideal for use on damaged hands or feet or as an all over body treatment.

This gift pack contains a 100g thermal mud face mask, a hand cream and soap.

Thermal Mud Hand Cream:
A conditioning and hydrating hand cream containing the beneficial properties of thermal mud combined with chamomile extract and pure orange oil. Chamomile is a soothing plant extract that helps calm irritated and inflamed skin and reduces redness. Orange oil contains fruit acids that have a gentle exfoliating effect to smooth away roughness. Absorbs easily into the skin leaving hands soft and hydrated.

Thermal Mud Soap:
A gentle soap containing a very high percentage of Thermal Mud. This soap lathers beautifully even in the hardest waters. It is ideal for use on both the face and body. Regular use deeply cleanses and enriches the skin with all the therapeutic properties of Thermal Mud. This soap is an ideal cleanser suitable for all skin conditions as it helps combat unwanted bacteria on the skin.

Thermal Mud consists of a suspension of thermal mud in mineral spa water. The contact the mud has had with volcanic gases and minerals from deep within the earths service is the reason it is particularly rich in minerals.

Major minerals present in Rotorua Thermal Mud include Silica, Magnesium, Calcium, Titanium, Iron, Sulphur, Phosphorus, Sodium and Potassium. In addition there are also trace elements such as Copper, Zinc, Selenium, Cobalt, Manganese and Molybdenum.

Parrs Thermal Mud is excellent for use in regenerative skin care as the clays have a very strong affinity for moisture. Thermal mud on drying will generate heat, increasing the blood circulation and perspiration which helps eliminate toxins and other wastes. The clay services are highly active and will easily absorb excess oils and fatty secretions from within the skin pores. Detoxifying and purifying the mud drys on the skin promoting regeneration of new cells. The sulphur acts as an antibacterial agent assisting in the prevention and elimination of acne.

If you like the idea of a thermal mud gift pack, then you can visit The Beauty Shop who have a whole host of unique gift ideas to suit all budgets.

Website Of The Week

Have you ever wondered how you would look with a face lift? Well now is your chance to find out without having to even see a surgeon.

I stumbled upon a little website recently that allows you to have what they call a '5 second simulated makeover'. All you have to do is upload a photograph of yourself, choose a cosmetic procedure and click for you instant makeover.

Want to try it? visit www.newbeauty.com and let me know what you think.

Once again I cannot thank you all enough for stopping by this week. The band of regular readers I have is making keeping this blog alive an incredible pleasure.

I hope you all enjoy your weekends. Stay safe, keep smiling and I will see you again on Monday Morning.

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Is Liposuction For Me

Tuesday 8th December 2009

Today we welcome our guest blogger Julia Eves who helps us take a closer look at the Liposuction procedure.


It sounds like some sort of a magic cure: Just make a small incision and suck out unwanted fat through a tube - a spiffy piece of body contouring that leaves you svelte and shapely. The good news is that this is pretty much what liposuction does, and its laser form, SmartLipo, is even called the 'lunch-time lipo'. Sneak out for a quick snack and some liposuction! But there may be serious, sometimes fatal, complications with liposuction; so you need to seriously consider whether it is worth it.

What areas does it work in?
Liposuction isn't an alternative to the gym: it's not a good idea if you're looking for extreme weight loss but does work well if you have some specific problem areas. A kind of body contouring, it can be performed under the chin, neck, cheeks, upper arms, breasts, abdomen, buttocks, hips, thighs, calves, and ankle areas. Liposuction works best for people who don't lose or gain weight too quickly or have any eating disorders. Men usually opt for liposuction to remove double chins and abdominal fat; women for thighs, hips, lower abdomen and around the neck region. If you're opting for liposuction or SmartLipo you should ideally be healthy and have roughly normal body weight.

How is it done?
Liposuction is getting easier. The big cut that surgeons used to make has now been replaced by a tiny incision in a natural skin crease through which a hollow tube is inserted to suck out fat. The newer laser-based SmartLipo is even simpler. It involves inserting a tiny tube into the skin which then moves back and forth distributing the laser's energy to surrounding fat cells, which rupture and drain away. SmartLipo is a simple enough procedure to be performed under local anesthesia and is sometimes used along with regular liposuction to supplement it.

Is there a flip side?
Of course, now that you've been hearing about what a safe procedure it is, you'll probably be tempted to head out and ask for a helping of body contouring right away, please. But although liposuction is one of the safest cosmetic surgical procedures available today and may be advertised as something you can undergo when you have an hour free, you should make sure you speak to a realistic surgeon who doesn't overdo the amounts of liposuction performed on you in a single day. The amount that is considered "safe" varies, so it is important to check how much your surgeon prioritizes safety over results.

There are side-effects that may put you off liposuction and it's best to know these beforehand rather than discover them the hard way later. They include infections, skin necrosis (can be fatal) above the regions where liposuction was done; a change in the sensations in the operated region; swelling, and fluid imbalance.

Also if all that your surgeon has been discussing is the miracle body contouring that you will go home with post-surgery, you need to know that there are certain vulnerabilities you might have that increase risk during or after liposuction. For instance, what's your history with cardiac problems; pulmonary problems; hypertension; diabetes; allergies? After a surgery, are you okay with the chance that there might be some shock (if enough fluid wasn't pumped back into you after fat was sucked out); fluid overload, scarring, drug reactions or possibility of infection.

Liposuction: when not to
It's not a good idea to consider liposuction for general obesity or to treat skin that is uneven or dimpled. Your surgeon should warn you that certain parts of your body shouldn't undergo liposuction such as the fat on the sides of breasts - a common site for cancer. There are alternatives to liposuction and SmartLipo that you can consider: for instance, a tummy tuck procedure; reduction mammoplasty or even a combination of plastic surgery procedures.

Julia Eves works in health industry. Staying Young is the website were Julia publishes her articles on health, diet and cosmetic procedures

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