Advice by Concern Blog

The Connection Between Skin and the Immune System

With illness in the air, I’m sure you’ve heard the same precautionary measures over and over: wash and sanitize your hands, cover your mouth with your arm when you cough or sneeze, and don’t rub y...

Skincare Tips For Men

Skincare shelves are stacked high with pink, floral-scented cleansers and moisturizers galore that are clearly marketed towards women. The skincare market tends to neglect men, so it’s not surprisi...

How Cosmetics and Skin Care are Harming the Environment

Most of us have a regimen of beauty products we reach for daily that keep our skin dewy, our hair shiny, our teeth white, and give us an overall healthy glow. It’s easy to care about the products w...

Home Remedies for Sunburns

Summer’s around the corner, and lots of us are already planning our beach days, pool parties, hiking trips, and other weekend activities to soak up the sun. But if you’re not careful, and you soak ...

Sensitive Skin vs Sensitized Skin

Along with terms like anti-aging, clean, non-comedogenic, pH balanced and a slew of other skin care buzzwords, the words “sensitive skin” are printed across skin care products everywhere.  About 60...

Guide to Reef Safe Sunscreen

It’s no secret that wearing sunscreen is one of the most important protective measures we can take against sunburns, skin cancer, discoloration, and signs of aging. The sun’s UV rays can cause extr...

Eczema on Dark Skin

If you image search “eczema symptoms” you will see primarily light skin tones with patches of inflamed red skin, but the examples of eczema symptoms on darker skin are few and far between. This is ...

Benefits of Shea Butter for Your Hair and Skin

Sometimes an ingredient comes along that takes the personal care world by storm. Rose water, aloe vera, retinol, watermelon, and tea tree oil (be careful with this one though) have all had their ti...

Benefits of Oats for the Skin

Nothing quite beats waking up to a warm bowl of oatmeal. It’s hearty, inexpensive, filling, and can be topped with all of your favorite fruits and nuts. Not to mention it’s full of healthy carbs, f...

Different Types of Cleansers

Cleansing is the first step of your skin care routine, and is a necessity for removing dirt, oil, and makeup that can buildup can cause skin problems down the line. It provides the priming that cle...