Basically, there are four common skin types: oily, dry, combination, and normal. The way your skin reacts and behaves classifies the type of skin you have. Skin types react in different ways to creams and/or lotions, environment, and weather. The skin on your face is the great point to categorize type of your skin.

Here are four skin types that you should know:

1. Oily Skin Skin may look oily, sallow, and coarse; it has large pores and tends to have pimples, blackheads and whiteheads. The texture of skin is thick; the touch is often sticky. It is usually youthful-looking due to the presence of oil on the skin. Besides that, within hours of cleansing the oiliness will reappear and makeup is usually absorbed quickly. Often, individuals with this skin type have a propensity to develop acne in their teen and middle years.

2. Dry Skin This skin type has a transparent looking and fine texture. It may lack natural oils, may look rather flaky with small pores, blackheads and blemishes. It feels particularly dry after cleansing and may have whiteheads around the eyes and dry patches. Without sufficient moisture, this skin type can simply become chapped. It’s more likely to become wrinkly than other types.

Skin Care With Vinegar? It Could Be The Miracle You’ve Been Looking For?

One of the great things about a woman’s bathroom is the smell - soaps, shower gels, bubble bath, as long as you don’t go too heavy on the hair spray or perfume, everything smells clean and fresh. Why, then, would someone want to use vinegar as a skin care product? Believe it or not, vinegar deserves a place of honor on your natural skin care shelves. Find out what it can do for you, and how to make it smell good.

Vinegar - your best choice is unfiltered apple cider vinegar, also known simply as cider vinegar - contains beta-carotene, pectin, a wide range of vitamins and several minerals vital to good health and healthy skin.

It’s a powerful antioxidant that fights free radicals, stimulates circulation in small capillaries, helps eliminate waste, and protects against fungal and bacterial infection. It also irrigates the skin, dissolves excess fat deposits near or on the surface, balances oily skin and restores the skin’s natural pH.

Obviously, the appearance of your skin reflects your internal health. However if you’re like most women, you’re also trying to give your skin an external boost. You’ve probably been hearing a lot about skin care products containing ‘nourishment’ for the skin, and you’re very likely to be using one! This has become all the rage over the past ten or so years. Beauty goes hand in hand with health. Good women’s health, together with some topical boosters, can give you beautiful, strong and resilient skin.

It was rumored that Jennifer Lopez used to pay thousands of dollars per ‘placenta treatment’ for her skin. Nowadays, you don’t have to do that. Creams containing placenta, usually with collagen, are widely available at reasonable prices, that is, what you would expect to pay for a skin care supplement of decent quality.

How do creams containing placenta help the skin?