How to Wash Your Face: America's Leading Dermatologist Reveals the Essential Secrets for Youthful, Radiant Skin [Paperback]

Barney Kenet (Author), Patricia Lawler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 10, 1999

Bring out the best in your skin! Dr. Barney Kenet, the dermatologist of choice for Academy Award-winning actresses, television anchors and society doyennes, now brings his easy and effective methods for healthy and beautiful skin to you.

In How to Wash Your Face, Dr. Kenet provides readers with the last word on great looking skin at any age -- including the basics you thought you knew, like the proper way to wash your face. In a dramatic departure from other approaches, he emphasizes smart skin maintenance instead of drastic, expensive techniques such as plastic surgery. His sensible and medically proven skin care system will help you to improve and enhance your looks and achieve long-lasting results.

Dry? Oily? Combination? Dr. Kenet debunks conventional skin typing and helps consumers understand the "why" of their skin. He introduces five entirely new skin type categories: Hormonally Reactive, Stress-Reactive, Environmentally Sensitive, Overexposed and Hearty. These new skin profiles were designed to help you work with your skin, instead of against it, to make it radiant, youthful and gorgeous. Once you recognize your unique profile, you will never think about your skin in the same way again.

In How to Wash Your Face you will learn:

The three most effective treatments for aging skin

Who should never get a facial and why

The hidden dangers of makeup

How to protect your skin from the sun

The most common causes of itchy skin and how to alleviate them

How foods and fragrances can trigger allergies that cause your skin to become upset and how to avoid these allergies

How to give yourself a home manicure and other nail care tips

The best remedies for oily hair, dandruff and other hair problems

The only three types of medical specialists who should be caring for your skin

Dr. Kenet tells you everything you need to know when you visit the drugstore, the makeup counter, the beauty salon and the doctor's office. Each step of the way you will be given accurate, authoritative and up-to-date information about the safety and effectiveness of hundreds of beauty and treatment products. Dr. Kenet's information will not only turn you into a smart consumer -- it is guaranteed to make people notice a change for the better in your skin.

With questionnaires, brand-name product evaluations and patients' intimate and inspiring stories, How to Wash Your Face is a radical and timely antidote to high-priced miracle creams and plastic-surgery hype. Here is a highly individualized and comprehensive guide to healthy skin, a healthy mind and a healthy body. How to Wash Your Face is an office visit in a book and so much more.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

A whole book about washing your face? Actually, it isn't. This book should have been titled How to Understand Your Skin and Make It Look Better, Whatever Your Skin Type or Age, because it covers so much more than how to cleanse your face. Barney Kenet, a leading dermatologist and author of Saving Your Skin, explains how skin works (it's more than "wrapping paper") and changes, and what you can do to look and feel better. Some tips are very simple--stop washing so much. (The average woman showers for 12 minutes--cut that to 5.) Others take more effort. You answer some questions to develop your personal skin profile, then get an array of practical tips for your profile. Kenet isn't timid about telling you which brand-name cleansers, moisturizers, makeup, and other products work best for different types of skin, and which are not recommended. The book also gives tips for hair. Frequent stories of Kenet's patients lend human interest. This is a fine resource for women and men who want to improve their skin, not just wash it. --Joan Price

From Library Journal

Kenet, a dermatological surgeon at New York/Cornell Medical Center and author of Saving Your Skin: Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment of Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers, now offers a readable, wise, and well-informed approach to basic skin care. Here, the traditional skin types (dry, oily, normal) are expanded into five Skin Profile classifications: Hormonally Reactive, Stress Reactive, Environmentally Sensitive, Overexposed, and Hearty. Cost-effective and conservative treatment regimens as well as basic skin and cosmetic facts are supplied for each Skin Profile as well as for numerous common skin conditions. Especially worthwhile is information on herbal regimens, evaluations of various professional beauty treatments, and cosmetic recommendations for overall hygiene and disease management. Kenet does much to advance the consumer's basic skin care knowledge. A valuable contribution to all consumer health and public library collections.AGail Hendler, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr., New York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 10, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684852829
• ISBN-13: 978-0684852829
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,475,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cheeper than a Face Lift, June 15, 2001

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How to wash your face is a favorite book of mine as well as my frineds. Any woman who is getting to the point where she is unhappy with her face because her age is beginning to show due to the apperance of her skin should buy this book. If you read the book and actually follow the instructions for your skin type you WILL see a difference in your apperance within 30 days. The best part of the book is the fact that Dr. Kenet gives you the choice of expensive or "cheap" products so that you can fit the skin care products you need into your budget. This book makes a wonderful gift but keep one for yourself because you'll be amazed at the results if you follow Dr. Kenet's advice!

5.0 out of 5 stars book teaches healthy ways to keep clean, March 22, 2011

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Great book! Americans tend to over-wash, and the author warns against that habit, which tends to harm our skin. Nice reference, or to pass on to a friend. I bought it because I had first read it in a library. Easy to skim, well-organized. I liked the point about maintaining cleanliness without ruining our skin. The book makes product recommendations, but I had some difficulty finding some of the products.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing & Enlightening, February 18, 2002

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This review is from: How to Wash Your Face: America's Leading Dermatologist Reveals the Essential Secrets for Youthful, Radiant Skin (Paperback)

I enjoyed this book very much. It was informitative and enlightening. It gave me a new prosective on taking care of my skin and keeping it youthful. Within one monthes time my face has inproved greatly. I have less brakeouts and just more beautiful skin. For the last six years I never that my face could look this good.