Male Styling, Personal Care & Advanced Anti-Aging Techniques

Men's personal care involves a balance of practical styling, advanced anti-aging methodologies, and rigorous hygiene practices to maintain physical health and aesthetic appeal.

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4 Ways to Take a Detox Bath

Epsom salts cause you to sweat, which is the central purpose of a detox bath. Drugs, toxins and poisons in your body will escape through the pores in your skin. Pour one cup of Epsom salts under the tap as you draw a very hot bath. You want the water to be somewhere between 95 and 100 degrees F.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Doxycycline

Doxycycline has been around since the 1960s. It's called a broad spectrum antibiotic because it effectively treats many different bacterial infections. Once they enter your body, bacteria reproduce by manufacturing protein.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Ortho Tri-Cyclen And Acne

People with acne who've tried almost everything on the market to clear up the skin condition now have another weapon in the fight for clear skin. Ortho Tri-Cyclen is an FDA-approved birth control pill with the side benefit of acne control or prevention.

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REWORKED: 5 Things You Need to Know About Dissolving Scar Tissue

While they're unattractive and sometimes harmful or painful, the body manufactures scars to help the body heal. Scar tissue may be visible on the body or hidden inside, and the appearance and pattern of development help categorize scar tissue. Varieties of scars include keloid scars and hypertrophic scars.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Internal Scar Tissue

Internal scar tissue affects every part of your body including your organs, muscles and connective tissue. Scar tissue forms when the body undergoes trauma or inflammation of your cells and tissue. In some cases, scar tissues link to form an adhesion, which is a band of scar tissue.

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Piercing

<b>Overview</b> Body piercing can be done almost anywhere and in any style. It varies, with multiple hoops up, around and inside the ear, or studs and rings in the tongue, eyebrow, nostril, belly-button or lips. Here is a brief overview of the most popular kinds of piercings.

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3 Ways to Treat Knee Pain With Massage Therapy

As people age, their knees often fall victim to strains, sprains and resulting pain. As one of the body's primary weight-bearers, your knees often take the brunt of activity, and you feel it, especially as you age.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Hallucinations in the Elderly

A hallucination---sometimes called sensory hallucination---is the abnormal sensory perception, usually of auditory or visual nature, that happens when an individual is awake and conscious. There are no real triggers to these perceptions. In other words, a person is seeing and or hearing things that aren't there.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Sebaceous Glands

Sebaceous glands are found over the entire body, either under hair follicles or under pores, and secrete an oil called sebum, which helps to keep skin moisturized and healthy. Sebum itself is a mixture of fat and dead cells that produced fat and is essential to prevent dry, cracking, itchy skin and for healthy hair.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Checking A Wound For Infection

Any wound, whether a cut, abrasion, burn or puncture has the potential to become infected if you don't treat and care for it properly. Wound infection can lead to tissue and skin damage, which can then lead to serious complications, so you must deal with any infected wounds immediately.

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4 Ways to Tell if an Ankle is Wrapped too Tight

Circulation to the injured area is crucial to the healing process. There are a number of warning signs that you are cutting down the circulation to your ankle with a too tight compression wrap. Wiggle your toes and take a good look. A properly wrapped ankle will leave toes your regular skin tone color.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Mongolian Spots

Mongolian spots are hereditary and are a bluish, brown or gray mark on the skin. Usually located on the lower back, they have ragged edges and appear as either a large mark or a series of smaller spots. Greater than 90 percent of Native American babies are born with Mongolian Spots.

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Tattoos and Tattooing

<b>Overview</b> Tattooing has been around since ancient times. Today, the Mayo Clinic reports that as many as 20 million Americans are tattooed.

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