Knowing Your Skin Face’s Type

There are five types of human skin face. They are normal, oiled, dry, combination and sensitive skin face. Here are some tips you can use to understand the type of your skin face.
Take a tissue or special make up paper to remove oil, then pay attention to the oil spots on your face. You can do this few hours after you clean your face in the normal room temperature (not too cold, or not too hot).

Press tissue paper around the T zone (nose and above the eyebrow area), then look at it carefully. Do it again on the other part of your face, and look the result of it. The next thing you need is understand the sign and what it means to your skin face. .

Find Out On Your Result
If you have already done the test, then it’s time for you to know the meaning of your test. Here they are:

1. Normal Skin: there not oil remains, or there is a little oil remains on your face at the T-zone. If your skin is normal, your face will feel smooth and completely elastic.

2. Dry Skin: just like the normal skin, the tissue paper will not contain much oil, but you can look your skin feel peel, tight, and dry.

3. oily skin: tissue paper and oil paper that you use will seen has oil remain, but this oil remain coma from whole part of face, T-Zone, cheek, chin, and forehead. Kind of this type is easy recognized because generally this type has the bigger pores than normal and acne.

4. Combination skin: the Combination skin means that you have two types of skin. They are oily skin and dry skin (not normal). If the tissue paper or oilpaper that you use contain oil from T zone, but you do not get the skin remain that peels, tight or dry, it exactly means that your skin face is the combination type.

5. Sensitive: the sensitive skin will not remain much oil on tissue paper, but you will tendency feel dry and tight. Your face skin often reddish, peels, and often feel itch when you use some skin treatment products, and weak against the acne growth.
After you know about what kind of your face skin, it will easier for you to take care and buy the right products for your skin face. If you still not believe it yet or want to know more about your skin dace type then you can consult with dermatologist to get the best treatment.

Health insurance exchange benefits will be decided at the state level; Kentucky can now proceed to set up its exchange

For months, Kentucky officials have said the state cannot move forward with setting up a health-insurance exchange under the new federal health law because there weren't enough details about which benefits they had to offer. On Friday, the Obama administration answered that question when it "let states, rather than the federal government, define which medical benefits insurance companies will have to offer consumers starting in 2014," reports Noam L. Levey of the Los Angeles Times. "This is significantly more state-flexible and friendly than many would have expected," Alan Weil, head of the National Academy for State Health Policy, told Levey.

The law says that by 2014, each state must offer an insurance exchange, an online insurance marketplace in which people can choose from a variety of plans from companies like Anthem or Bluecross/Blueshield and then, for the most part, be given federal subsidies to help pay their premiums. About 30 million individuals and employees of small businesses are expected to use the exchanges. The plans in an exchange must cover a basic set of benefits, including hospitalizations, emergency care, newborn and maternity care and pediatric services, but until now the federal government could have decided how generous the benefits had to be.

"Under the guidance issued Friday, state leaders can define their own set of benefits by using an existing major health plan in their state as a benchmark," Levey reports. "That means that some states may require insurers to cover services such as chiropractic therapy and in vitro fertilization, while others may not."

It's this variability between states that worries some. "In passing a good deal of the decision-making to states, the administration has guaranteed that Americans will continue to face a patchwork of state regulations that make coverage uneven and inefficient," report Gardiner Harris, Reed Abelson and Robert Pear in a news analysis for The New York Times.

Some consumer advocates also worry the move will allow states to make benefits too meager. Timothy Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University, said the policies "could restrict, for example, the number of covered visits a pregnant woman could make to her obstetrician or which prescription drugs to pay for."

However, by passing the responsibility on to the states, "President Obama will most likely make his plan for health care reform more politically palatable," the Times reporters write. "States will be allowed to set benefits at levels similar to what they are now, making coverage not much more expensive than it is today."

While some Republican state officials were happy with the decision, saying it makes it easier for states to comply with the law, others opposed to the law were critical. "All they're trying to do is avoid making tough calls before the election," said Ed Haislmaier, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. (Read more)

State health department starts new ad campaign against secondhand smoke, including three 15-second TV commercials

The Kentucky Department for Public Health is launching a new campaign to educate Kentuckians about the dangers of secondhand tobacco smoke and its potential effect. The campaign is funded by $281,000 from the economic stimulus package of 2009 and about $90,000 from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This week the department will start running television, billboard and radio advertisements to show the dangers of smoke that comes from the burning end of cigarette, cigar or pipe or the exhaled smoke from a smoker. The ads, which will run statewide, highlight the link between secondhand smoke and dangerous illnesses in both adults and children.



The ads, produced by Louisville-based Doe-Anderson, feature people being unwillingly exposed to secondhand smoke in places such as residences and cars. Each ad carries the tag line, “Secondhand smoke is 100 percent unsafe, 100 percent of the time.”

Kentucky’s smoking rate remains the second highest in the country, with 24.8 percent of the adult population identified as current smokers, and secondhand smoke exposure is equally high. The health department says 39.5 percent of Kentucky children live with someone who smokes – the highest percentage in the country. Secondhand smoke has become a major public health concern because it contains approximately 4,000 chemicals, many of which are known carcinogens, and is responsible for approximately 3,000 cases of lung cancer deaths among nonsmokers each year.



The campaign is another project of the Kentucky Tobacco Prevention and Cessation program. Community interventions for tobacco cessation are available through local health departments staffed with tobacco control specialists, and the program operates a toll-free telephone line, 1-800-QUIT NOW. It also provides technical assistance, with the Kentucky Center for Smoke Free Policy at the University of Kentucky, to assist communities in seeking smoke-free ordinances.