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Reader's Digest Guide to Skin Care

Discover the secrets to a lifetime of beautiful, healthy skin. Caring for your skin - from your head to your toes - is the first step to a healthier you. But how do you sort through the barrage of information out there, with the myriad promises of finding the next fountain of youth? How do you go about evaluating the latest breakthroughs in skin care? How do you sort myth from fact?

With the Reader's Digest Guide to Skin Care, learn which products, treatments, and remedies work and which ones are just hype. Learn how to be a wise caretaker of your skin and a smart consumer of skin care products. (Great skin doesn't have to cost a lot!) learn that taking good care of your skin is the ultimate antiaging prescription.

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Brown Skin: Dr. Susan Taylor's Prescription for Flawless Skin, Hair and Nails

The only book exclusively devoted to the concerns of women of color written by a woman dermatologist of color! The book is an easily readable, stategy-packed guide to skin, hair and nail care which helps readers feel their best, recognize and prevent problems unique to black- and brown-skinned women and get the right treatment when needed. Dr. Taylor's advice is based on more that fourteen years experience in private practice and at the Skin of Color Center in New York City, which she directs. She explains the special characteristics that make brown skin and hair beautiful yet vulnerable.

Useful self-assessments, easy daily-care routines, product recommentdations and patient-tested solutions abound. Topics include: how to prevent dark marks and discolorations; how to avoid scarring by nipping breakouts and rashes in the bud; invaluable advice on how to safely style hair--from short naturals to relaxed hair, braids, weaves and locks to avoid hair damage or loss; and much, much more!

Hardcover - 288 Pages
ISBN: ISBN: 0060088710