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My skin is tanned, can you suggest to me some good home remedy to get rid of the tan?

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Question found in Fitness & Wellbeing
My skin if fair - I try everything to darken it. Isn't the world strange!

Since melanin is accumulated in the upper layer of the skin, you might want to consider skin lightening and peeling. There are different products that can be used for this purpose:


Hydroquinone has been a very popular treatment, however it can irritate the skin.
Kojic acid, discovered in Japan in 1989, is a natural product derived from fungi. It is gentle on the skin and very effective in treating skin discoloration. Penetrating upper skin layers, it inhibits the formation of the pigment.
Alpha hydroxy acids help to shed the old cells faster, therefore they will be helpful as well. By removing the outer skin cells, which are usually darker, you will make skin lighter.

If you decide to use any of the above products, extra sun protection is imperative. If necessary, apply an SPF cream several times a day. By using skin lighteners and peels, you affect the upper darker layer. Lower layers are lighter, with less melanin present. If you don't protect your skin, it will launch its own defense mechanism producing more melanin. This will result in darker and more intensive discoloration which can be even harder to get rid of.

Please remember that skin discoloration require consistent treatment. Once you stop using lighteners and protection, the dark patches will be back. But keeping up with your skin regiment is not difficult: all you need is a gentle yet effective lightener and a moisturizer with complete UV protection - against both UVB and UVA rays.

Natural Remedies

Wash your face with sour milk. Lactic acid will provide gentle peeling effect without irritating or drying your skin.
Lemon juice is a time-proven remedy. It is not necessary to rub your skin with a piece of lemon. Applying the juice with your fingers will do the job.
Fruit and vegetable masks (apricots, strawberries, cucumbers, red currant).
Sour cream mask. Do not rinse this mask completely, just remove gently with a facial tissue, then apply a moisturizer. For oily skin - use lemon juice before applying the mask.
Natural parsley juice (or parsley infusion) mixed with equal amounts of lemon juice, orange juice, and red currant juice under your favorite cream will help.
Increase your Vitamin C intake! It makes your skin less sensitive to the sun. Foods rich in vitamin C include citrus fruits, apples, green onions, black and red currant, rosehip tea.

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What is CIN1?

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Question found in Women's Health
An abnormal or positive smear result does not mean you have cancer. It means you have some changes in your cervical cells that may eventually develop into cancer and these need to be looked at more closely. Abnormal changes (also called dysplasia or dyskaryosis) may be mild, moderate or severe. Most mild changes will go back to normal on their own, but if your changes are moderate or severe, you may need treatment.

Abnormal changes may also be called CIN1, CIN2 or CIN3. This is just another way of expressing mild, moderate and severe. CIN stands for cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia, which means ‘new changes in the outer layer of the cervix.’ The numbers 1, 2 and 3 refer to the depth of skin cells affected: CIN1 means the outer 1/3 of the cervix is affected, CIN2 means up to 2/3 of the skin thickness is affected and CIN3 means the full thickness of the cervical skin is affected.

The amount of CIN can really only be measured following a colposcopy and biopsy, but it usually matches the initial smear rating and may therefore be used to describe results before the extent of changes has been confirmed.


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Why do we cry when we feel sad?

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Question found in Animals & Nature
Some of us cry when we are happy and some of us never cry at all. We cry when we are in pain. I think it's probably to draw attention to ourselves, a warning.

Wikipedia describes it pretty well....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crying

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How do you get a man to communicate his feelings?

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Question found in Intimate Relationships
Men don't like to verbalise their feelings, they prefer to demonstrate them - even if that is by not demonstrating them - ie I love you because I stay with you, not because I say I do.

If a man feels relaxed and isn't pressured you can get him to verbalise, by asking direct questions. But usually he'll still want to reply with yes or no answers.

There a simple bunch - men. You know when you ask "What are you thinking?" And they answer "Nothing" - well there's a good chance they were doing just that. Or they were thinking something they think they shouldn't repeat like "I've got an itch".

If there's a particular area you need to get him to open up, your best bet is the direct questions approach.

Good luck!!!!

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I have recently been passing small black stools by the dozen sometimes twice or three times a day?

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Question found in Personal Health Issues
You need to start have much more fibre in your diet, and drinking much more water.

If there is blood in the stools - and that's causing the black colour - see a doctor.

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Safety measures of sex during pregnancy.

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Question found in Pregnancy
If you mean safety of the baby - just don't be too vigorous. All sex should be fine - when she is heavily pregnant her being on top will be more comfortable, or 'spoons' where her back is to your front.

If you mean safety from disease - same as not pregnant.

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What is the longest penis in history?

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Question found in Anatomy
Human?

It seems that the largest recorded length was 14 inches in Dr. David
Reuben’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex”.
“Of all penis sizes quoted in the literature the largest is
unquestionably the 14 in. erect organ mentioned by Dr. David Reuben in
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex".”
SOURCE: http://www.quick.com.au/herbal/largest_human_penis.php

A good quote that summarizes the sources I kept finding is:

“So how Big is BIG? World Sex Records, quoting from Simons Illustrated
Book of Sexual Records, says that Kinsey co-worker Pomeroy stated that
the longest penis (they) encountered was ten inches. A 1970
unsubstantiated and unsourced survey stated the largest penis found
was 9½ inches (erect). Published in 1935, Dr. Jacobus's "L'Ethnologie
du Sens Genitale" recorded organs up to 12 inches. In "Everything You
Always Wanted to Know About Sex" Dr. David Reuben makes mention of a
14-inch erect organ, but no source was given. The largest reported
penises would seem to be between 10-12 inches in the erect state.”
SOURCE: http://www.sagazette.com/dh_penissize.html

Here are other quotes that you may be interested in:

“That is nothing compared to the 12" and 14" behemoths reported in
"L'Ethnologie du Sens Genitale", and in Dr. David Reuben's "Everything
You Always Wanted to Know About Sex", respectively.”
SOURCE: http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Penis-Enlargement---Fact-or-Fiction?&id=13234

“The largest well attested penises would seem to be between ten and
twelve inches in the erect state.”
SOURCE: http://www.world-sex-records.com/sex-001.htm

“In this careful and detailed survey, published in 1970, the largest
penis was found to be 9½ in. in erection, hardly able to compete with
the vast organs of pornographic fiction.”
SOURCE: http://www.world-sex-records.com/sex-001.htm

“According to Wardell B. Pomeroy, the Kinsey co-worker, the longest
penis encountered was 10 inches.”
SOURCE: http://www.quick.com.au/herbal/largest_human_penis.php

This study records the a length of 10.2” as their maximum:
SOURCE: http://www.sizesurvey.com/result.html


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What is the meaning of word shazneen?

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Question found in Miscellaneous
As a name, it's a girl's name, usually Muslim and means most beautiful flower. Rather pretty huh?

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What doese MRSH stand for?

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Question found in Health & Fitness In General
MRSA is a hospital acquired infection. Stands for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

This site might help http://www.link.med.ed.ac.uk/ridu/Mrsa.htm


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Which is an indirect method of protein estimation by Biuret?

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Question found in Science In General
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/methods/protein/biuret.html

describes the Biuret test - the principle being under alkaline conditions substances containing two or more peptide bonds form a purple complex with copper salts in the reagent.

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