Fall Beauty – a Cornucopia of Beautiful Colors

Our blog almost exclusively covers either skin health care, or how to safely enhance your skin’s appearance. Every once in a while though, we like to step outside of the norm with a post such as this one we’ve written today. Fall Beauty. We all have hectic lives these days. Commitments, jobs, responsibilities and electronic … Read more

Smoking vs. Tanning Beds: What’s Worse?

smoking and tanning beds

By now almost everyone is very aware of how bad smoking is; that it’s a major cause of cancer. But by the numbers, as awful as tobacco is; there’s something even more proficient at triggering the disease. Indoor tanning beds are directly linked to skin cancer. In fact, per the cited Foxnews.com article: “In 2009, … Read more

Cultures of Sunless Pale Skin

Cultures of Sunless Pale Skin

While we in the West have unfortunately embraced tanning and bronzed skin over the past century, there are cultures, particularly Asian cultures, within which pale skin is still both King and Queen. For instance, the porcelain look is still very much treasured in countries such as China, Korea and India. Today we discuss Cultures of … Read more

Melanoma of the Scalp: Overview, Diagnosis, Treatment

Melanoma of the scalp skin cancer

As we’ve mentioned numerous times before, Melanoma can show up anywhere it wants on your body. Even those areas which rarely, or never, see the sunlight of day; so to speak. Over the past week or so, we’ve been concentrating our posts on specific areas of the body to help our readers gain a better … Read more

Let’s Continue to Spread Melanoma Awareness

Melanoma Awareness 365 days a year

When you share or retweet a joke or meme, you often bring a smile to someone’s face for a few seconds. When you forward on one of our skin cancer and Melanoma Awareness blog posts, there is always a chance that you might have just put someone on the path to saving his or her … Read more

Moles: Good, Bad or Just Ugly?

Moles: are they all cancerous

Okay, so there’s technically nothing “good” about moles per se; unless you are Cindy Crawford, Sherilyn Fenn or Eva Mendez. As far as the ‘typical’ Moles go, there is really bad about them either. So the title of this post is, theoretically, justifiable. At any rate, today we’d like to talk about moles. And maybe, with some assistance from … Read more

What Time of Day Should You Avoid the Sun?

avoid the sun during peak times

The sun’s harmful UV rays are ever-present. They never take a vacation, nor do they head south for the winter. They’re there on cloudy and overcast days. They’re there in the winter, and they reflect off of snow onto people to cause sun skin damage. However, they’re even more potent during the sun’s peak times … Read more