Tag Archives: Skin

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Jojoba, The Powerful Little Skin Saviour

A plant originally native to Southwestern North America, jojoba is a golden liquid wax (often mistakenly called jojoba oil) that is made from the jojoba bean. As the key ingredient in The Jojoba Company’s impressive range of Australian made and owned skincare products, jojoba contains essential fatty acids, vitamins A, D and E as well… Read More »

Sunscreen: How to Help Protect Your Skin from the Sun

What’s New FDA regulates sunscreens to ensure they meet safety and effectiveness standards. To improve the quality, safety, and effectiveness of sunscreens, FDA issued a proposed rule on February 21, 2019 that describes updated proposed requirements for sunscreens. Given the recognized public health benefits of sunscreen use, Americans should continue to use sunscreen with other sun… Read More »

How to protect your skin over summer

Every year in Australia, skin cancers account for about 80 per cent of all newly diagnosed cancers, and most are caused by exposure to the sun. General practitioner and medical director at HealthShare Dr Jill Gamberg said ultraviolet rays (including UVA and UVB rays) from the sun can cause skin damage in as little as 15… Read More »

Eczema cream: Soothe the itchy skin condition with this sweet and natural food spread

Eczema is a common skin condition in children, but it can also occur in adults, causing itchy, red, dry, cracked and sore patches to develop on the skin. The condition is usually long term, but can improve greatly over time. In children it can sometimes clear up completely as they grow older. Doctors can prescribe… Read More »

How to Maintain Healthy-Looking Skin

Learn 4 ways to support healthy-looking skin this winter. Winter months are the perfect time to remind us to take better care of our body’s largest organ. The colder months are known to wreak havoc on our skin, but you don’t have to lie down and take it, nor should you! Putting in just a… Read More »

Nanoneedle Skin Patch to Inject Drugs Into Cells

November 12th, 2018 Editors Dermatology, Materials, Nanomedicine Delivering drugs directly into skin cells using microscopic nanoneedles may allow for highly effective treatment of skin conditions without injuring the cells that are treated. Silicon nanoneedles have been developed in the past that can do such a trick, but they’re stiff and can be painful, in addition… Read More »