2 posts tagged “solutions”

Is your skin less than flawless? Hey, join th club - nobody's perfect, not even celebrities (they have air-brushing, duh). You can still put your best face forward with these quick fixes for problem skin.

For greasy skin -  Wash your face twice a day, morning -and- evening, with a salicylic acid cleanser. This will help control oil, will lightly exfoliate skin and prevent clogged pores.  Antibacterial soap also helps remove oil and kill acne- causing bacteria.

For that dry, flaky skin - The eternal teaching of drinking 8 glasses a day is the main trick to get your skin all quenched up.  Wash your face one a day with a creamy, moisturizing cleanser.  Choose a non-comedegenic  formula so you don't get clogged pores.  If you tend to get breakouts, a cleanser with glycolic or lactic acid is best.

For that big, honking pimple - In order to deal with a monster pimple, never squeeze or pick at it! You'll just spread the infection and make the zit angry.  Instead, hold a hot warmcloth on the blemish for about 5 minutes,twice a day, to help open the pore and drain the pimple.  You can camouflage it by using a concealer that contains benzoyl peroxide,salicylic acid, or tea-tree oil.

For those blackheads on the nose and chin -  They form when oil and dead skin cells clog your pores. Wash your face twice a day with a grainy scrub.  Be very gentle..or you may cause irritation.  Then use a daytime, oil-free moisturizer - or a night-time treatment with salicylic acid.  Don't use strips right after exfoliating your face, or you could damage your skin.

I remember I had ALL of these during my teen years, and back then it was the biggest deal for me. But now, I can live with these but then again, we have to take care of our skin not because of what others will say, but because it is our skin and we don't want to have the nastiest skin and we are the ones who will reap the consequences a few years from now.

Had a deep, socio-political conversation over coffee with a good friend since college and whom I only got to see now after 3 years. It was one of those conversations were it didn't end up with bitterness  because we didn't argued over the presidential nominees.

Case 1 :
When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million.

They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.

Case 2 :
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty.

Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly! Line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty.

Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.

Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution.

He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line.

He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Morals

Always look for simple solutions.

Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.

Always Focus on solutions & not on problems.