Hair breakage has many different causes. Healthy hair depends on an inner cuticle with overlapping scales that keep your strands together. When these scales fall apart, your hair can get dry and eventually separate, leading to damage. This causes breakage, along with other symptoms, such as frizz and dryness. Learn more about some of the [...]
You may recall “curds and whey” from your childhood, but there’s more to curd than old nursery rhymes. Curd itself is made from curdled milk and combined with plant acids, which is in turn more acidic than other milk products like yogurt. Nutritionally speaking, curd is a good source of protein and calcium, while also providing [...]
Pigmentation refers to the coloring of the skin. Skin pigmentation disorders cause changes to the color of your skin. Melanin is made by cells in the skin and is the pigment responsible for your skin’s color. Hyperpigmentation is a condition that causes your skin to darken. This can affect patches of your skin or your entire [...]
Covering an average of 20 square feet, the skin is the body's largest and heaviest organ. Its most obvious job is to protect our insides from the outside, but there is much more to the skin than that. Alongside its role as a protective barrier, the skin helps us maintain the right internal temperature and [...]
What is the Tear Trough? The tear troughs are the depressions between the eye and nose where your tears naturally flow down. Their appearance often becomes more pronounced over time, as fat around the eyes shifts and creates a hollow look and/or under-eye bags. This combination of age-related changes lends a fatigued look to the [...]
Alopecia areata - an autoimmune skin disease that causes patchy hair loss on the scalp, face, and body - affects as many as 6.8 million people in the United States. Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center have identified a promising therapy for the disease that stimulated hair regrowth by 92 percent. Researchers have found that [...]
An itchy breast or nipple can seem like an embarrassing problem, but it happens to many people in their lifetime. There are several causes of an itchy breast or nipple, from skin irritation to rarer and more alarming causes, such as breast cancer. What causes an itchy breast or nipple? Atopic dermatitis is a common cause [...]
Laser hair removal and electrolysis are two popular types of long-term hair removal methods. Both work by targeting hair follicles located under the skin’s surface. According to the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, laser hair removal is on the rise, with an increase of nearly 30 percent from 2013. Though electrolysis is also increasing in popularity, it’s not [...]
