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Fight Sleep Wrinkles with Hypoallergenic Silk Pillowcase!

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Have you ever heard about sleep wrinkles? I have to admit that, before turning 30, I’ve never heard about it! this happens because, when we are young, we don’t think about aging or wrinkles. We believe we will always be young and beautiful and wrinkles are just a faraway matter. I always took care of my skin since I was 25 but, after turning 30, I realized my skin was getting different, less elastic and I decided to learn more about how to face wrinkles. My skincare started to be more accurate and I chose specific products for my face and body but, every morning, I found some lines on my face: the infamous sleep wrinkles. Those fault lines may be due to skin distortion resulting from facial expression or maybe due to skin distortion from mechanical compression during sleep. Expression wrinkles and sleep wrinkles differ in etiology, location, and anatomical pattern. Compression, shear, and stress forces act on the face in lateral or prone sleep positions. So it seems that,

Silk: The Test of Fire!

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Many of you would have heard of some simple methods to immediately recognize if a material is actually what is presented and sold to us. For example, my uncle told me, in order to understand if we are buying a real or fake diamond, we can try to rub the stone with emery paper and see if the stone is chipped. In that case, we are purchasing a fake diamond! The same type of test can also be done with silk. But first, let's give some historical concerns about this fabric. You have certainly heard of Japanese kimonos, Indian saris and Korean hanbok. Everyone has something in common: silk! In ancient times, however, silk production was the exclusive preserve of China. No one else knew how to produce it and in China, whoever revealed the secret of silkworms risked being sentenced to death as a traitor. Of course, already at that time, it was a very expensive fabric, reserved exclusively for the richest families. Later, Persia had the control of all the silk from China