Health and Beauty Resource Page

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This is where you can find and add to lists of external links to important articles on the Web, blogs and other useful information that might help someone make a better buying decision. Please note that these listings are non-exhaustive.

Industry News

Information about Organics

Cruelty-Free Products

Ingredient FAQs

Cosmetics

  • About.com:Tips for doing prom makeup.
  • Beauty Addict Mag: Makeup tips, new products, freebies, products reviews, a blog and more.
  • Beauty Riot: Copy any celebrity style.
  • Cosmetics Diary: Tips and advice about beauty and cosmetics.
  • Five Star Reviews: Reviews and recommendations on lots of consumer products from beauty and fashion to lifestyle and gourmet foods.
  • MAC: Get great ideas for creating hot makeup looks.
  • Make You Cosmetics: A plethora of recipes and ideas for making everything from facial supplies to soaps, lotions, conditioners, and more.
  • Makeover Solutions: Hairstyle makeovers.
  • Makeup411 -- Learn how the stars do their makeup, step by step. Find the top products in each makeup category as well as the newest products on the cosmetics market.
  • MakeupAlley: This is a public site for reviewing products, swapping stories, and message boards about makeup, skincare, and more.
  • MakeupTalk: If you love having fun with makeup, then this site is a must-see.
  • Mary Kay: Virtual makeovers are a fun way of choosing some makeup shades.
  • Mess Makeup: Learn about application and makeup parties. For those living in or around New York City.
  • TeachSoap.com: Learn to make lipstick, lip balms and butters, facial scrubs, and masks with these fun recipes.

Beauty Blogs

Fragrances

  • Basenotes: Read reviews, chat on the discussion board, swap, learn about fragrance and more.
  • Fragrance.org: Want to give a fragrance as a gift? Check here first for some recommendations. It's broken into easy to read charts related to age, gender and style.
  • Pioneer Thinking: How to make your own perfume.
  • Wikipedia: Everything you could want to know about perfume and cologne.

Hair Care

  • About.com: A short, informative article about how to choose shampoo and conditioner as well as other hair links.
  • AskMen.com: These guys have got it covered: tips for men's hair products, how to wear them, and preferred products.
  • Cosmetics Cop: This is an amazing page of reviews categorized by brand with a little blurb about each product.
  • Hair Boutique: This site is slightly hard to read (because of the background color) but they have a lot of searchable articles about products, styling, hair color and more. Worth a look.
  • Ultimate Guide to Growing Healthy Long Hair - Twenty steps teach you how to grow long, healthy hair.
  • Hair Braiding Basics - Basic instructions for creating English, fishtail, French and Dutch braids.
  • Hair Care Recipe Cookbook - Simple hair care and product recipes you can make in your own kitchen.
  • Hair Styles for Long Hair Using Hair Sticks - Simple updos and hairstyles using hair sticks for women with long hair.
  • LongLocks Salon Message Boards - Styling, hair care advice and support for long-haired men and women.

Men's Grooming

  • Sharp Man: What's an exfoliator? Check out this site to get some answers to real questions.
  • Men's Health: Hey, these guys know what they're talking about when it comes to health and fitness, but also grooming.
  • Lance Arthur: Grooming 101 from start to finish with product information to boot.
  • About.com: They've got it all, from tanning to grooming to looking younger.
  • Style.com: If you want to know what's in and how to wear it, check out this Web site to stay on the cutting edge.
  • Men Essentials: Aging, grooming, health, skin care, and more.
  • Basenotes: Find out what others think about cologne.

Skin Care Resources

  • Acne
    • AcneNet: A comprehensive and easy to read guide that is great if you have severe acne and are looking to get professional treatment.
    • StopSpots.org: Great visual and interactive guide to acne and how to tend to it. Great for teens.
    • Acne.org: An acne sufferer gives suggestions, advice and tips.
    • BUPA: An acne factsheet that is short, sweet, and simple.
  • General
    • About.com: Product reviews.
    • Beauty Care: Recipes for making skin care products at home.
    • CosmeticsCop: Paula's Choice FAQ about skin types. Her Web site also has great reviews, skin care advice, and tips for makeup application.
    • Ladie's Home Journal: Some very basic articles related to skin care.
    • Pioneer Thinking: A lot of particular articles related to skin care, plus home made recipe ideas for skin products.
    • Skin Care Physicians: A great wealth of information is available at this Web site, including help for those with skin disorders, acne, and aging skin.
    • Smart Skin Care: Lots of articles, reviews, tips, and advice. Worth a look.

Dental Hygiene

  • Did you know that toothpaste used to be made of charcoal? Learn more about toothpaste history at Wikipedia.
  • ADA: A how-to on how to brush and floss correctly.
  • ADA: Tooth whitening treatment information from the official dental association.
  • Animated Teeth: Whitening information, in a large font.
  • Channel 4: Some British advice. I hear they're the experts.
  • The Dental Resource
  • Dentist.net: Whitening information.
  • The DIY Dentist: A part comedy, part remedy article at Men's Health.
  • A FAQ on mouthwash and its ingredients.
  • iEnhance: Comprehensive tooth whitening information.
  • Whiter Teeth: Information about whitening.

Nutrition Supplies

Miscellaneous

  • About.com: Check out their top 10 spa trends, plus, find links to other spa related topics.
  • Apollo Health: Information on SAD and light boxes.
  • Coolnurse.com: Information about acne lamps.
  • Epinions: Health & Beauty Reviews written by consumers.
  • Pedometers: a simple guide.
  • Polar: The manufacturer's comparison chart of their different heart rate monitor models.
  • Spa Finder : Search for a spa location throughout the US by zip code.
  • Spa Index: A resource for detailed information on many day spas and locations throughout the US including information about cuisine and products.
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