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Get rid of body odor!

18 Wednesday Nov 2020

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I have tips to tame body odor from dermatologist Lauren Eckert Ploch, from the American Academy of Dermatology:

Tip #1: If you tend to stink, wash your armpits with facial acne wash. Because sweat won’t smell until it mixes with the bacteria on your skin. But washing your underarms with products containing benzoyl peroxide will reduce skin bacteria and improve body odor. 

Then: Out of deodorant? In a pinch, hand sanitizer or alcohol will kill the bacteria that cause B.O., and stave off any potential stink for awhile. But if you’ve just shaved or waxed, skip it. It’ll sting like crazy. 

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Don’t put hand sanitizer on pimples!

14 Tuesday Jul 2020

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You may have heard putting hand sanitizer on a zit will get rid of the bacteria and dry it up. NOT TRUE! Dermatologists at Stony Brook University say using hand sanitizer on a pimple will only make things worse. First, your skin will produce even more oil to compensate for the drying effect. And the active ingredients in the gel can irritate the thinner, more delicate skin on your face. As a result, you can get more pimples and redness, as a rebound effect. Instead, use a product made to fight pimples that contains benzoyl peroxide.

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Ladies, how healthy is your HANDBAG?

22 Wednesday Apr 2020

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According to Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Karin Michels, a lot of women don’t realize they’re lugging around health hazards in their handbags. For example:

Do you carry hand sanitizer in your purse? Dr. Michels says it’s great to kill germs on the go. But a lot of sanitizers contain triclosan – a chemical linked to tumor growth in animals. So, only use alcohol-based sanitizers, and ditch the ones made with triclosan.

Then, is your handbag stuffed with old receipts? Researchers say most printed receipts are coated with a chemical called “BPA”. And it rubs off on our hands and is absorbed through our skin. We can tell you that BPA has been linked to a higher risk of diabetes, cancer, and infertility. So, handle receipts as little as necessary… and see if the cashiers can email or text your receipts, instead.

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Traveling and no hand-sanitizer?

01 Tuesday May 2018

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If you’re traveling and don’t have any hand-sanitizer – an antiseptic mouthwash can sub for it in a pinch. So if you have one of those mini-travel-size bottles, just put a few drops on your hands and rub them together. The alcohol in the mouthwash will kill bacteria just like hand sanitizer.

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Hand sanitizer and acne

26 Monday Mar 2018

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You may have heard that putting hand sanitizer on a pimple will get rid of the bacteria and dry it up? NOT TRUE!
Dermatologists at Stony Brook University say putting hand sanitizer on acne will only make things worse. First, your skin will produce even more oil to compensate for the drying effect. And the active ingredients in the gel can irritate the skin on your face. As a result, you can get more pimples and redness as a rebound effect. So, don’t do it. Instead, use a product that’s made to fight pimples on your face that contains benzoyl peroxide.

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If you feel queasy – give this a try!

14 Wednesday Mar 2018

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This might sound weird, but it comes from the Annals of Emergency Medicine… They say, if you’re nauseous, smell some hand sanitizer. In studies, when people who were queasy smelled cotton pads soaked in isopropyl alcohol, they felt HALF as sick 10 minutes later. And isopropyl alcohol is a main ingredient in most hand sanitizing gels. It’s not the germ killing properties that do the trick – it’s simply the strong smell! Because peppermint oil and ginger oil worked just as well. But you’re more likely to have a tube of hand sanitizer nearby.

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Skip the antibacterial hand sanitizer!

28 Friday Jul 2017

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The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy found you’d have to soak your hands in antibacterial gel for 9 hours to kill more germs than you would simply by washing with regular soap and water. And the FDA says antibacterial soaps and gels don’t prevent illnesses any better than regular soap. Plus, the active ingredient in many antibacterial products – triclosan – can lead to antibacterial resistance. That’s why the FDA recently banned it… and  companies have a year to take it out of their products. So, skip the antibacterial gel – and wash with plain old soap and water.

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Can you get DRUNK from rubbing alcohol?

01 Friday Jul 2016

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After all, it’s got “alcohol” in the name. So, are the effects similar to drinking beer, wine or hard liquor? According to Dr. Ryan Welter, from Tristan Medical Center in Massachusetts, the short answer is “Yes, but don’t.” He says most of the alcohol consumed in bars contains yeast-based ethanol – which is what makes us drunk. But products like rubbing alcohol and hand sanitizer contain isopropyl – which is extremely toxic. In fact, Dr. Welter says drinking it may make you feel drunk at first…But the most common side effects include permanent blindness, brain damage, and kidney and liver damage. Not to mention the fact that you can DIE from drinking rubbing alcohol. Bottom line: Just because it has the word “alcohol” in the name, doesn’t mean its safe for consumption.

Wash your hands!

14 Thursday Apr 2016

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Every time you touch cash or a credit card, you should wash your hands or pull out the hand sanitizer. That’s the recommendation of researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The scientists found that more than 1-in-4 credit cards and $20 bills were contaminated with high levels of staph, strep, E. coli, and bathroom germs – levels high enough to make you really sick.

If you plan on hitting the beach, beware of the sand! 

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Researchers at the University of North Carolina found that digging in the sand raises the risk of diarrhea by 27%. For kids under age 11, that number jumps to 44%.

Other studies have found high levels of E. coli bacteria in the top 8 inches of sand. In fact, levels can be almost 40 times those found in the water at the same beaches.

The contamination may come from storm sewer runoff, or from the feces left by birds or other animals. And once the germs are there, the sand provides a moist environment for the bacteria to rapidly reproduce.

To stay safe, use hand sanitizer after playing in the sand or water, until you can get to a bathroom to wash your hands with soap and fresh water.