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For your breasts
The perfect sport to increase the tone and improve the appearance of your breasts is swimming, the second alternative — in case you don’t have access to a pool — is to see a fitness trainer or do some simple but effective exercises, which will help you strengthen the pectoral muscles yourself.
Exercising with free weights in your hands is a wonderful way to keep the muscle under your breast tissue toned. Your bosom tends to look fuller and perkier. A consistent exercise routine can actually lower your chance of developing breast cancer by as much as 33%. A study of more than 3,000 women from New York conducted in June, found that women who engaged in 10 to 19 hours of at least mild exercise per week from their reproductive years on had about a 30% lower risk of developing breast cancer.

How to Skip the Beauty Buzzwords, Plus 12 Ingredients Derms Swear By

When reading the label of a beauty product, you may feel like you need a translator to figure out the laundry list of ingredients.

Even products with few ingredients may still have words you’ve never heard of. You may be unable to pronounce them, let alone understand what they do.

Then there’s marketing copy and social media, which speak of newly-trending ingredients that you (apparently) can’t live without. Hyaluronic acid, plant-based ceramides, and CBD are just some of the must-have ingredients that have popped up on feeds recently.

Of course, you can live without any beauty product, but can some of these ingredients actually make a difference in the health of your skin?

Get the scoop on what buzzwords live up to the hype and which you can skip below.

The buzz vs. the facts
Morgana Colombo, MD, a board certified dermatologist and co-founder of Skintap says it’s important to know which ingredients really matter.

Social media “creates the idea that people need so much to achieve results, and a lot of time less is more,” she says.

“Many people feel compelled to use every ingredient shown to be helpful for the skin, but that’s not necessary,” says Elaine Kung, MD, a clinical assistant professor at Weill-Cornell Medical College and dermatologist with Future Bright Skin. “In fact, one or several ingredients has the ability to help many skin concerns.”

Plus, your skin is unique.

“What you need should be targeted toward your skin,” Colombo says. All the hype “is dangerous because [it] makes younger people overdo things that aren’t beneficial or necessary for them.”