It is not uncommon to confuse between fashion and personal hygiene. Many people are very resistant to fashion, I never understood why and even you ask them they even don't know. But, it is partly concerned with culture, morality and has deep roots. But, my point is that there is a clear distinction between fashion and personal hygiene. And, fashion is not a bad word or a taboo, it just takes little common sense to understand the purpose.
1. Sunscreen: Sunscreens are like medicines to protect us from the harmful effects of Ultra Violet (UV) rays and we should ensure to apply sunscreen before leaving the house.
2. SunGlasses: Many times we are totally biased and do the most illogical things. This is very true in the case of Sun Glasses. In a country like India, where sunglasses are either part of style and fashion or designate you as a blind. Wearing a sunglass does not make a person stylish, in fact not doing the right thing at the right time makes you foolish. It is equally important to use the sunglasses to protect our eyes from the harmful effects of UV rays as it is to protect our skin from the sun by applying sunscreens.
3. Hat, turban, scarf or headgears: Same goes for the headgears like hat or turban. They protect us from the harmful effects of sun rays. In fact, using an umbrella in sunshine serves the same purpose to protect us from the direct contact of harmful sun rays.
4. Scrubbers: Especially in our late twenties, we should make it routine to apply face and body scrubbers before bath. The logic is scrubber helps to remove the dead skin cells and thus increase the breathe-ability of our skin.
5. Toner: Scrubbers open our skin pores so that our skin can breathe properly. So, we should always apply a toner after scrubbing.
6. Moisturizer(Body lotions and/or day/night creams): Our body is over 60% water. We have to keep it hydrated to keep it working properly. And we take efforts to keep our body hydrated by drinking water, but when it comes to buying moisturizers, we find it as a waste of money. Scrubbing or washing the skin takes away the natural oils that keep our skin soft and moisturized. Wind, cold temperatures, and heated houses also take the moisture away from the skin. Therefore, it is very important to apply the external moisturizer to keep it soft and supple. We have different moisturizers for different purposes. Face moisturizers are only meant for the face as our face is more prone to acne than other body parts as well as get more exposure to the sun, and wind and gets drier than other body parts. Depending on the type of work, hands and foot also get drier, so we have a special hand and foot creams to moisturize them. For lips, we have a lip balm to make them moisturize. Again, moisturizers usually come in two forms: lotion and cream. lotions are light and creams are relatively substantial, so depending on the body type(dry, sensitive) and season, we come to choose between cream or lotion. Always invest some time to read the labels of the product before buying them, like if someone has oily or acne-prone skin, they should ensure that their moisturizer is oil-free and non-comedogenic (i.e. not tending to cause blackheads by blocking the pores of the skin). Also, depending upon the age and condition of your skin, some ingredients might be helpful like these CoQ 10 i.e. coenzyme 10 is very popular as it acts as an antioxidant.
7. Hair Conditioner: Same goes for the hair conditioners. People have no problem with using shampoos to clean their hair. But, due to ignorance avoid using conditioner. The shampoo has some chemicals that assist in taking dirt and grime away, at the same time it unbalances the pH of our hair, so to keep the pH of our hair balanced, we should apply conditioner on hair after washing.
8. Facial: We have no problem in doing oil massage to increase the blood circulation. But, when it comes to facials, you will hear this comment quite often that they don't have time and money to waste on these stupid things. Facial is nothing but the face massage that proceeds with face scrub and face mask. Facials helps to increase the blood circulation and keeps the skin smooth and tight.
For deep cleaning and massage purposes, we do employ some machines during facial procedure like Galvanic Machine, Ultrasonic machine etc.
9. Manicure and pedicure: These are also closely related to the personal hygiene and treat to ourselves. Manicures and pedicures are the names of the procedures that include cutting and filing the nails, removing the cuticles or dead skin, scrubbing, massaging and moisturizing the hands and foot, following by the nail color and accessories in case of females.
10. Face Serum: Their molecule size is so small that they can easily penetrate into the skin. There are two types of serums: water-based and oil based. Water-based serums go under the cream, while oil-based serums go above the cream.
So caring about your body is about loving you. A visit to the beauty salon or mail parlor every now and then is not all about wastage of time and money. It is an effort we put to keep our machinery, which is our body in this case, running smoothly and beautifully. It should not always be mistaken with indulgence.
Dot indicates the temperature i.e. one dot=30 degree Celsius; two dots = 40-degree Celcius etc. up to 95-degree Celsius(usually for kitchen clothes). If there is no bar: cotton wash; a single bar underneath the bucket: synthetic wash(mild detergent) and permanent press setting; if double bar: wool wash/very mild detergent i.e. delicate setting.