The popular belief is full of prescriptions and histories on the most varied subjects. One of the preferred ones is the hair. Who already didn’t hear somebody saying that the use of contraceptive in shampoo makes the hair to grow faster?

Take a look in some myths:

• To cut the tips of damaged wires makes the hair to grow faster.

The hair grows of the root for the tips, what the cut can make is to improve the aspect of the fine and bipartite tips.

• Curly hair grows less than the smooth.

Don’t think like that, this impression is caused by the rolling up of wires. In general, the hair grows, in average, 1,25cm per month.

• To wash the head everyday is bad.

For oily hair it’s the worse prescription. Already for the dry ones, an interval of one day between the washes facilitates the fat produced by the body to arrive in the tips.

• The feeding affects the hair.

The health of the hair is connected to the health as a whole. But there’s not a specific food that act directly on them.

• It’s harmful to pull out White hair.

Not if there’s only a few of them. But to pull out hair, whites or not, can harm the process of wire growth.

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SPRING / SUMMER

The sun makes well to the soul! We must take off of its energy and vigor without causing damages to the skin. The sun excess can take to skin cancer and photo-aging with formation of spots and rugs.

The great tip is the exposition to the sun until the 10:00 and after the 15:00. The use of the solar filter with great photo-protection enters this schedule (high number of filter, for example, 30) is obligator.

Even in the adequate schedule to the sun you have to use proper solar filter for each type of skin; initiate with high filters and try to diminish gradually when you get tan; therefore the same it functions as a filter and it goes to protect more to the subsequent expositions. The great tip is the sun protection.

After the sun your bath must be warm, fast and using soaps only in the close parts; arms and legs do not need soap. It’s recommended to use bath-oils and moisturizing creams, to prevent the scaling off of the skin and to prolong your tan. The great tip is correct bath, like this procedures is carried through 1 or 2 times a day and if you use it inadequate can lead to the drying and itch of the skin.

AUTUMN / WINTER

Bath

Even on winter the bath must be warm and not hot (the people have the trend of getting hot during baths, it’s an error!).

Use soap only in the close parts, neck and feet. In the rest of the body use a good bath-oil contend cherries or grapes in its formularization.

Wash to remove the excess. And dry with a good towel.

Sun Filter

Another important tip is to continue the daily use of sun filters even on winter, because there still some amount of ultraviolet rays A, B and C that continue to act on the skin being able to lead the skin cancer and the coetaneous aging.

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Bath

The ideal temperature of the water in the bath must be between warm to cold, which must be perceived by the proper sensation in the skin. If you want to measure the temperature with the thermometer it must be in the mark of 25ºC till 30ºC. In a simple way, you can’t feel the heat when you shower.

The biggest problems generated by the hot baths are those happened of the skin drying that the hot water produces: itch, infection of skin beyond the aesthetic aspect of harshness of the skin.

The cold water is good to the skin, but as the bath must also produce a pleasure sensation the ideal is not to take a very cold bath.

A cold shower to finish the bath has the intention to produce a stimulation of awaking the body of the hot bath, this would not be necessary if the person took warm baths.

The preference in the type of soap is individual and the important is not the type of soap but where it’s used.

The soaps can be used during all the baths, since the baths are adjusted: warm, fast and using soaps only in the cited places.

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Sun Spots

The main factors that can influence in the appearance of spots in the skin are the sun, the hereditary succession (clear skin), contraceptive, antibiotic or diabetes.

The main prevention must be made with use of daily and especially powerful Muriel Solar Filters during more intense solar exposition.

The sexual hormones of the pregnancy make the skin of the pregnant woman most sensible to solar light, with more possibility to the appearance of “melasma” (pregnancy spot).

Pregnant women must use solar blockers in the face daily and always in contact to the sun.

If the spots appeared during the pregnancy were superficial they can disappear spontaneously.

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Is it true that chocolate gives spine? Why?

In the reality that is a myth, there’s no scientific work that proves the association between acne and chocolate. In the reality some people relate an allergic mechanism leading to an increase of the oily secretion.

Is it true that light soft drinks gives cellulite? For real, which is the difference between common and light soft drinks? Which are the damages that both bring to the heath?

Light soft drinks have little calories than the common one. In the reality the cellulite can be aggravated by increase of consumption of calories, not only for the use of soft drinks.

To take water helps to lose weight?

To take water helps to lose weight only if you ingest it alone instead of the food.

Does the sun help to dry spines? (A lot of people believe in this, but seems that, it stimulates the production of the glands. Is that right?)

Sun in small amount has anti-inflammatory characteristics and improves the acne. In great amount it stimulates the oily secretion of the gland causing the acne.

Why is necessary to redouble the cares with the moisturizing of the skin on winters? What happens with our skin on the cold days?

Beyond the humidity of air being modified in the cold days, there’s the problem of hot baths, long and with much more soap than necessary, all that dries the skin. Therefore to moisturize the skin: fast bath, not cold or too hot, using soap only in the close parts and where you sweat more.

How moisturizing creams cam minimize the effects of cold in the skin?

Holding back the layer of water in the skin, that occurs when you use, for example, creams with urea, or waterproofing the skin with creams formulated with silica or glycerin.

How we must treat each part of the body during winter?

Each part of the body must have a special care:

Lips: lipsticks with glycerin e with solar filter.

Legs: bath-oil and moisturized cream.

Hands: silicone creams with vegetal oils and solar filters.

Nails: enamel with formol.

Face: moisturized cream and with solar filter.

Elbow: creams with urea.

Knee: creams with glycolic acid and urea.

Heel: creams with urea or with marine components.

Some spots had appeared in my face after the pregnancy. What is this? Does it have treatment?

The appearance of dark spots in the face skin may occur during the pregnancy. This phenomenon occurs probably due to hormones of the pregnancy in a person with trend to the spots. The ideal way to prevent the appearance of the spots is the daily use of Muriel Solar Filters in the face and its re-application in the extreme perspiration or to wash the face. If exactly thus the spots to occur there are some treatments that must be preferential used after the pregnancy and the period of breast-feeding.

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