Top 5 Ways to Summer Proof Your Hair

Sun-tan lotion with SPF, skimpy bikini, oversized hat, lip balm, Ray Ban aviator glasses, hmmmm.. What else are you forgetting on your summer shopping list girl? How about some hair care products! Most people's main concern during this season is how they would flaunt their bodies and how they avoid getting too much sun on their skin. They forgot that their hair needs caring too! If you notice, your hair becomes dryer after an out of town or a vacation that involves too much sun exposure and water activities. You end up getting back on your office with a bad tan and a bad hair.

So is there a way to summer proof hair?

1. Follow the proper way in shampooing your hair. We tend to be obsessed in washing our hair on a daily basis in order to keep it clean and grease free. But did you know that frequent shampooing can lead your hair to dryness? Making it more prone to damage such as split ends and frizzing. So it's more advisable to wash your hair every other day with a mild shampoo. Do not use hot water. Apply shampoo only on the scalp by gently massaging it. Never apply shampoo directly on the hair and rinse it completely.

2. Choose the best conditioner. There are two conditioners that you need: the washable and the leave-in. Applying conditioner is not the same as shampoo. You have to avoid too much conditioner on the area of scalp for it can cause hair fall. Be generous in applying conditioner on your hair in order to coat each strands. Remember to rinse it thoroughly to avoid the sticky feeling due to residues. Don't forget to use leave-in conditioner after your hair is completely dry. Squeeze a pea sized amount of leave-in conditioner and spread it on your hair.

3. Refrain from using blow dryers, flat irons, and curlers. The temperature of summer is already intense enough for your hair, using blow dryers will make the situation more redundant. Let your hair dry naturally during this season most especially if you don't have a special event to attend to. Although it can be tough to style hair without the magic help of flat irons and curlers, you'll do your hair a great favor. Since it's summer, au naturale look suits best. A neat pony tail or bed head look is totally acceptable.

4. Get rid of split ends. Trim your hair regularly to remove those nasty split ends before they become worse. It's not necessary to cut it short but just enough to prevent the split from going up. Regular trimming can make your hair grow faster as well.

5. Prep your hair before swimming. What's summer without hitting the beach or diving into the swimming pool right? However, here's a quick to do list before you submerge yourself into chlorine infested waters. Put an oil or a leave in conditioner and apply it thoroughly to the strands of your hair. This will protect your hair against the damaging chemicals found in sea waters and public pools. Aside from that, it will also prevent irritating tangles and frizzing. After swimming, wash your hair immediately to remove residues.

About the Author:
Sarah del Rosario is a beauty and lifestyle blogger from The Thrifty Senyorita. Aside from writing, she is also fond of painting and DIY crafts. She juggles all of these hobbies and never forgets that she is a wife to her husband and a mother to her little Blake. Currently. She is collaborating with Hair Booth, one the trusted online shops of Muk products in sharing tips about hair care and trends.

USANA HEALTH SCIENCES RECEIVES 4 BEST OF STATE HONORS FOR NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS, PERSONAL CARE AND ENERGY PRODUCTS

USANA Health Sciences Inc. (NYSE: USNA), a global nutritional supplements company, was presented four Best of State Awards for its dietary supplements, nutrition beverage and personal care line. To date, USANA has received 25 Best of State awards since 2003, (including the Best of State Statue in 2008 and 2012) and sells its award-winning products in 18 international markets.

"Year after year, our products are recognized for their outstanding quality and improving the lives of individuals not only in this state but around the world," said USANA Chief Communications Officer Dan Macuga. "It is a privilege to be honored with the best of the best in the state of Utah."

This is the tenth consecutive year USANA has been recognized as having the best dietary supplements and the third year it has been acknowledged for its extensive line of health and nutrition products. Additionally, USANA's Rev3 Energy drink earned its fifth straight title since its 2009 launch, while the company's skin-care line, Sense, was honored with its fifth medal for its patented self-preserving technology.

The Best of State Awards were created in 2003 to recognize outstanding individuals, organizations and businesses in Utah. Best of State candidates are evaluated by a panel of 100 judges based on three criteria: achievement in the field of endeavor; innovation or creativity in approaches, techniques, methods or processes; and contribution to improving the quality of life in Utah.

USANA has also received recognition for its research and development department and was named Utah's best employer in 2010.

For more information about USANA's products and company, visit USANA.com.

Do's and Don'ts for Buying a New Car

Owning a new car is enjoyable, but the process of buying one can be quite overwhelming. When shopping for a new car you need to make sure you are getting the best deal possible.

If you are purchasing at the dealership, you need to do your homework first and make sure you are well prepared before you walk to any dealership. To help you have a better experience when you shop for a new car, below is compilations of some do's and don'ts you can follow as a guide.

Do know the kind of car you want to buy. Educating yourself about the car you want to buy helps you narrow down your search, which will help you shop faster. Know the model, the trim, and the color of the car you want before you go out shopping. Knowing the car you want to buy will also help you do researches on the particular to help you make an informed decision before you make the final purchase

Don't let the sales person tactics affect your decision. You may be dealing with a friendly sales staff but they have been trained on tactics and things to say to convince you as a buyer. Remember that they earn through commission and if you fall for their tactics the better for them. You need to know what you want and stick to your guns to avoid getting offers you hadn't planned for.

Do know how much you want to spend on the car and how much you can afford. Its everyone's dream to own a luxury car, but not everyone can afford one. Know your budget and prepare beforehand before you go buying a new car

Don't forget to factor in things like the car's annual maintenance and fuel costs. Cars have different maintenance and running costs, and you need to consider all the facts before you buy a new car. To avoid buying a car that you can barely afford, make sure you know everything about the car before you make the purchase.

Do a test drive and inspect the car to make sure it's in good working conditions and has all the features you want before you make the purchase.

Don't go shopping for a new car during special events. Highly trained sales people who are there to maximize the owner's profits often run the events.

Don't drive the car home before the final paperwork has been completed. Make sure you have finalized everything before you take the car home. Also, ensuring all the paperwork is complete will help you avoid taking a car that needs extra work to be performed. The salesperson may not tell you that the car needs extra work before they are sure you want the car and once you have taken it off from the dealer, returning it back will be hard if not impossible.

Don't buy extras that you hadn't planned for or don't really want. Things like fabric protection and paint sealant are all extras your car can do without.

Having the DVLA Phone Number is a good idea in case you want to make Vehicle enquiries or driving license enquiries.

Symptoms of Allergy in Babies and their prevention

When you see your baby sniffle and is unable to have sound sleep at night and remains irritated throughout the day, it could be because of allergy. Initially the symptoms of baby's allergy are not grave so it becomes difficult for us to identify them but with time the symptoms aggravate so much that in some case hospitalization become mandatory.

Food Allergy is very common

When the baby starts taking solid food parents are excited about it. When babies are fed with solid food, parents have lots many questions to ask. They are bothered to know which food would be best for them, how it is possible to avoid food allergies in babies or how to identify the symptoms of allergies in babies.

If the baby is given three new foods over the entire day and the baby develops allergy towards the food then it becomes difficult for the parents to identify which food has caused the allergy. The order of introduction of new foods is not important as long as they are healthy and offer the required nutrients to the body. After introducing a new food to the baby, the parents should wait for three-four days to check out if there is any allergic symptoms gets provoked by this food item or not.

The foods provoking allergy and the symptoms

The foods that provoke allergy in babies are milk, egg, peanuts, fish, soy, wheat, shellfish and tree nuts e.g. walnuts or almonds.

Generally the symptoms of food allergy appear immediately after the food is eaten. The symptoms may appear within few minutes of consuming the food or it could even come after hours of consuming the food. The general symptoms of allergy are:

• Rash on skin or skin getting red
• Swelling of face, tongue or lip
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Coughing
• Wheezing
• Difficulty in breathing
• Loss of consciousness
• Watery eyes
• sneezing

If the symptoms has got severe symptoms of allergy then the medical help must be taken immediately as in some cases, the allergy may become fatal.

Best Treatment

If the allergen is known then it is easy to prevent the allergy in children. Many babies get allergic if pets are kept at home. It is better to avoid keeping pets at home. For immediate relief from the allergic symptoms, medications are the immediate requirement. Doctors prescribe epinephrine if the child suffers with life threatening and severe allergy. If the child suffers with severe allergy then the caregivers must have knowledge about it and as and when required immediate medical help is to be asked for.

Author's Bio:
Kathryn is the author for Chrisalexcorp. She also writes for a website suetables.com
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4 Health and Wellness Tips for Tattoo Artists

Tattoos are extremely popular these days. People are getting new tattoos all the time. But it can also mean more health issues and concerns if the tattoo artist fails to follow proper safety techniques. Not only do people need to learn the healthiest treatment for new tattoos, but so do tattoo artists. The tattoo artists need to make sure they engage in safe and proper techniques to prevent contamination and diseases.

Here are 4 Health and Wellness Tips for Tattoo Artists that provide safe and natural methods that can be used effectively and speed up the healing process.

Tattoo equipment
After you've opened your tattoo business and have everything in place, one of the most important things to remember and to do is to clean your tattoo machines thoroughly. To prevent contamination and diseases, tattoo equipment must be kept clean to prevent contamination and the spread of diseases. Infected machines or needles can cause serious, and even deadly, diseases such as Hepatitis.

Never reuse needles. It doesn't matter if you use an autoclave. The autoclave may not completely clean the needle each time, and you can never be certain that it will. It is illegal to reuse needles in most states across the country as this is the main way diseases and contamination is spread. Don't put the public, your customers or your business at risk by engaging in sloppy unclean tactics. When you throw away needles throw them away in a large container.

Use gloves when throwing away the needles. Disassemble the tube, tip and grip from the tattoo machine. Wash the tips and grips with warm water and soap. Separate the sterilizer bags, using one for needles and the other for the tubs and tips. Put one autoclave tray in one bag. Put the sterilizer bag on a tray and turn on the autoclave. The autoclave will then sterilize the tips and grips.

Biohazard materials
Because of all the waste products, including needles and tubes, tattoo artists are exposed to biohazardous materials often. Paper towels, ink, blood, water, and even the equipment itself is all considered biohazardous waste. Be sure to place all items in marked containers for proper disposal. Be sure never to lay these items down where somebody, including you, might be exposed to it or stuck with a needle.
Be sure to thoroughly clean tubes, tattoo equipment, and other materials used each day. Don't reuse needles; properly throw them away in specialized containers. Since these items are all biohazardous materials or waste, you will need to properly dispose of them. Find out where biohazardous waste is to be deposited in your city.

Keep everything secure
Don't let children linger around in your shop. Children should not be allowed in a tattoo shop since these materials can be easily found and obtained. Make sure containers with disposed items are securely closed and/or locked at all times.

Diseases
One of the most common risks to tattoo artist is the transmission of various blood diseases such as HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis. All three of these diseases can be fatal so you want to make sure to avoid contact with your customer's blood. That means you need to wear gloves at all times, and other coverings to protect your body from exposure of blood spattering. Be careful using needles and dispose of needles and other items that might contain blood on them.

Erika Cox has written several career-related articles for various websites for more than seven years. She has worked as an Administrative Assistant for more than 15 years. She loves to travel and write. For more information concerning safety issues for tattoo artists, read Tattools website for reference.

Comm100 Live Chat Review, service and communication

Customized Experience, Consolidated Management

For some businesses or organizations, different parts of their website may require different live chat experiences. For instance, the live chat style can vary a lot for the home page, the product pages, and the support center. With Comm100 Live Chat, users can set up as many live chat plans as they want and fully customize them to match different parts of their website or even multiple websites while managing all the visitors, chats and reports within one account.

Customizable items in each live chat plan include chat button, chat window, chat invitation, pre-chat survey, post-chat rating and some other chat settings. All of the items can be freely tailored to users' business needs. Take the pre-chat survey for example. Users can choose to either enable or disable it and if they have it enabled, they can give it a new title and branding image, change the greeting message and configure the fields to be displayed. By using multiple live chat plans, businesses or organizations can provide customized visitor experience and at the same time, enjoy the convenience of consolidated management.

Visitor Navigation History Tracking

The ability to identify potential customers and know their needs is critical for online businesses to make effective customer communication and increase website conversions. Comm100 Live Chat offers a full visitor navigation history allowing users to analyze the navigation behavior of their website visitors and identify those with great purchasing potential to engage actively.

Users can easily see how many times a visitor has come to the site, which pages the visitor visited each time and how long the visitor stayed on each page. Together with about 30 real time visitor parameters, such as current page, search keyword, etc., the navigation history empowers online businesses to not only spot visitors ready for contact, but also fully understand their points of interest, which means more targeted sales pitching and higher possibility of sales conversion.

Auto Chat Invitation Rules Engine

When there are quite a few visitors on a site, analyzing each visitor's behavior manually can be time-consuming and sometimes, even impossible. To help businesses make use of each sales opportunity in a highly efficient way, Comm100 Live Chat offers an intelligent auto invitation engine to identify potential customers and send out chat invitations automatically based on the rules and settings users predefine.

Users can set up multiple auto invitation plans and configure the invitation rules, invitation style and message, and routing rule for each plan separately to fit into different business scenarios. There are currently 12 parameters that can be used to form the invitation rules, including time on website, time on current page, current page URL, referrer page URL, search keyword, visit times and more. By combining these parameters, users can set up invitation rules that echo to their unique needs and deliver a highly personalized chat invitation. The auto chat invitation makes it easy for businesses to take full advantage of the sales opportunities on their website

Integration with Comm100 Ticket

There are cases that cannot be closed right on the spot, be it sales or support. The ability to track and follow up on these cases, unavailable in most live chat products, is essential to an optimal business practice. On top of Comm100 Live Chat, Comm100 also offers a support ticket system Comm100 Ticket which can be seamlessly integrated with Comm100 Live Chat to easily convert live chats or offline messages to tickets for effective follow-up.

The integration enables users to either automatically or manually convert a live chat or an offline message to a ticket and the ticket can then have properties such as status, priority, assignee and more for clear responsibility and quick response. By requiring visitors to enter their ticket ID (if any) in the pre-chat survey, users can immediately get to know all the case details as the chat starts and provide a highly efficient and personalized chat experience. With the integration of Comm100 Ticket, businesses or organizations can keep track of all the customer communications and ensure that each case or sales lead is handled appropriately.

Integration with Salesforce CRM

Many businesses or organizations rely on the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system to manage their leads, contacts and customers. Thus it's important to link up customer communication channels with the CRM system for streamlined operation. Comm100 Live Chat can be easily integrated with Salesforce CRM, making it simple for users to manage leads or contacts from the website following their sales or support workflow.

With the Salesforce integration, leads, contacts or cases will be created or updated automatically in Salesforce CRM when users finish a live chat with their website visitors, with chat transcripts and other information collected through Comm100 Live Chat added. If a website visitor is already a lead or contact in Salesforce CRM, users are able to see that in their chat panel and retrieve his/her information with just one click to make more targeted and effective customer communication.

Apps for Major Mobile Platforms

According to an IDC forecast, web surfing on mobile devices is to surpass that on PCs by 2015. The whole world is going mobile. So is customer communication. Comm100 Live Chat's handy mobile apps free users from the desk and make live visitor engagement possible, literally, anywhere anytime. Users no longer need to cut their live chats when heading out of the office.

Comm100 Live Chat offers full functional apps for almost all major mobile platforms or devices, including iPhone, iPad, Android devices and Blackberry phones. It enables users to keep connected with their website visitors while on the go, increase their online time and ultimately, boost sales and customer satisfaction. The mobile apps, complemented by a cross-browser compatible web version and an Adobe Air based desktop app, give businesses maximum flexibility and convenience to use Comm100 Live Chat.

Getting started with Comm100 Live Chat is easy.

1. Register for a Comm100 Live Chat account.

2. Copy and paste the live chat code onto your web pages.

3. Get online and chat!

About Comm100

Founded in 2009, Comm100 is the leading global provider of enterprise-level customer service and communication solutions, including live chat, email marketing, ticket, forum, knowledge base and help desk. As business grows fast, Comm100 has been embraced by over 200,000 businesses around the globe.

Headquarters: Suite 238, 1027 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 4L2, Canada
Telephone: 1-778-785-0464
Website: www.comm100.com