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You may have finally decided or are still thinking whether to grow a beard, or, maybe have one and are having a difficult time managing it, and, perhaps, looking for a replacement for a well-loved grooming tool. When it comes to options for the best trimmer for men, the list may be endless. Before you decided which tool to go with, consider this buying guide for the best bear trimming kit that you can find for me.

Choosing the best beard trimmer

It could be quite time confusing and time-consuming when deciding which trimmer to look for, especially when you have several options to choose from. This guide will make it easier for you to find the right trimmer that can do the job right.

Brand

Most of the time the brand name says everything about the product. Though there are several brands available, there is just a few that stand out from the pack. When looking for the best brand to go with, it all boils down to the features that the brand offers to accomplish what it was designed for. Today, whenever beard trimmers are discussed, brands like Braun, Panasonic, Philips, Andis, and Wahl, are always mentioned. Some are noted to be real all-rounders, while the rest are more specialized. What matters most are the number of features that the brand offers.

To find out which of the brands will address your needs, it is always best to check out review sites or the seller’s sites for related reviews from previous customers. For a starter, you can check out this link for some of the best trimmers for men available in the market today. (more…)

Unless if you are making use of future nano-technology to protect your body against any form of irritation or pathogen attack both internally or externally, your skin at one point in life will have to itch. It’s very common as long as someone is alive. However, there are that red scaly or even dark patches that feel like your whole skin is coming off your bones. This relentless itching is mostly associated with eczema. Thanks to technology, there are various skin creams for eczema relief that are at your disposal.

The condition is largely prevalent on the skins on infants. Many of them are able to outgrow this form of the condition before they become adults. Eczema is a condition in the skin that characterized by blisters, inflammation, itchy, red, and cracked or rough skin. It is a very disturbing condition whose solution needs to be sought for immediately it is discovered. Otherwise, your skin becomes far more destroyed than you can imagine. At times, the condition becomes worse while at other times, it becomes less intense. You might be having blisters just like those of impetigo that are cured by the best treatment for impetigo only that those for eczema do not develop around the mouth but on the other skin parts. The similarity between eczema and impetigo is that there will be itching in both cases and that both of them mostly occur in infants. However, adults can suffer from both conditions too.

Types Of Eczema

There are different types of eczema. You can be suffering from atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, dyshidrotic dermatitis, nummular dermatitis, neurodermatitis, and seborrheic dermatitis and stasis dermatitis. These conditions arise from, stress, hormones, cold and hot temperatures foods, microbes, irritants and allergies. The most known cause for eczema is Staphylococcus aureus. This is more similar to impetigo caused by Staphylococcus aureus only that impetigo at times can arise from Streptococcus pyogenes. (more…)

Ferrets will never get tired while it is awake. They will entertain you (or itself) with its antics. These furry pets need to be physically and mentally stimulated. If you leave your pet to itself without anything to keep itself busy, you might just find your ferry digging, chewing whatever it can chew on, or just messing around anything within its reach. Give your furry friend endless hours of joy with some of the best ferret toys it will love to play with. Read on for some tips in choosing the best toys you can offer to your ferry.

When looking for toys to add in your pet’s housing, make sure to choose some that won’t pose any danger to your ferry’s health. It should also be durable enough so your pet will get to enjoy those toys you offered to your pet ferry.

The right toys will keep your pet mentally active and satisfied. If you can keep your pet enjoying its environment and everything in it, it will remain healthy. This can keep your pet free from stress, boredom, and even depression. If you can keep your ferry playing with its toys, you can also keep him out of those things that you don’t want your pet to play with.

Toys For Your Ferret

Ferrets love toys that stimulate their natural behaviors like digging, hunting, and tunneling. Thinking of what to give your pet for a toy? Here are some of the best options that you may consider. (more…)

Your dog is special. If a pet food company has a food tailored specifically for your dog, you want it, right? Well that is exactly what pet food companies are hoping with their breed specific dog food product lines. But what is special about these diets? How do they target the specific needs of your dog’s breed? Or maybe they don’t. A careful reading of the ingredient list of a popular company’s breed specific diets would suggest that indeed, they aren’t so breed specific.

Ingredient List of Breed Specific Foods

The following is a list of breeds and the first 11 ingredients in foods specifically formulated for those breeds offered by a major dog food maker.

Beagle

Corn, chicken by-product meal, brewers rice, wheat, corn gluten meal, chicken fat, natural flavors, pea fiber, dried plain beet pulp, wheat gluten, fish oil,

Bulldog

Brewers rice, chicken by-product meal, brown rice, wheat gluten, chicken fat, oat groats, natural flavors, pork meal, dried plain beet pulp, fish oil,

Chihuahua

Corn, chicken by-product meal, brewers rice, wheat gluten, oat groats, brown rice, chicken fat, natural flavors, dried plain beet pulp, fish oil,

Cocker Spaniel

Brewers rice, brown rice, chicken by-product meal, oat groats, chicken fat, corn gluten meal, wheat gluten, natural flavors, dried plain beet pulp, fish oil

Dachshund

Brewers rice, chicken by-product meal, brown rice, wheat gluten, oat groats, chicken fat, natural flavors, dried plain beet pulp, fish oil

German Shepherd

Brewers rice, chicken by-product meal, brown rice, oat groats, chicken fat, pork meal, natural flavors, powdered cellulose, wheat gluten, dried plain beet pulp, fish oil

Labrador Retriever

Chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, brown rice, oat groats, brewers rice, barley, natural flavors, chicken fat, dried plain beet pulp, pea fiber, wheat gluten, pork meal, fish oil

Miniature Schnauzer

Brewers rice, chicken by-product meal, brown rice, oat groats, wheat gluten, chicken fat, corn gluten meal, natural flavors, chicory, salt, fish oil

Shih T

Brewers rice, brown rice, chicken by-product meal, chicken fat, oat groats, wheat gluten, natural flavors, dried plain beet pulp, powdered cellulose, fish oil

Yorkshire Terrier

Brewers rice, brown rice, chicken by-product meal, chicken fat, wheat gluten, corn gluten meal, corn, natural flavors, powdered cellulose, dried plain beet pulp, fish oil

I don’t know about you, but I don’t find any major differences in these ingredients that would indicate breed specificity. And in fact, dog food makers know that there isn’t. We are in the infancy of understanding the dog genetic code and its implications for individual nutrition or nutrigenomics. We are not yet sure how we can feed specifically to turn on the right genes for optimum metabolism and health. As I hope you see, at this time it is more about marketing than about fact.

What Health Benefits Do Breed Specific Diets Have?

You notice all of the diets included fish oil. Fish oil contains the omega-3 fats called DHA and EPA. Research suggests that these to fats help regulate the immune response and reduce the inflammation. That means they help reduce itching for dogs with allergies and symptoms of internal inflammatory conditions like inflammatory bowel diseases. DHA and EPA are thought to also aid neurological development in puppies, reduce joint pain, and reduce dementia in aging dogs.

All of the diets also included vitamin E a powerful antioxidant to protect cells from metabolic damage. Research suggests that antioxidants are a great “brain food” for dogs and help prevent or slow dementia, hearing loss and other age related brain disorders. Vitamin C is also an excellent antioxidant, but was only included in a few of the diets.

If DHA, EPA and antioxidants are helpful for dogs, why aren’t they in all dog foods for all ages? What is so breed specific about that?

The only breed specific ingredients were those targeted for common conditions of certain diseases. For instance, for breeds predisposed to hip dysplasia and other arthritic causing conditions, the food maker adds chondroitin/ glucosamine to lubricate joints and reduce joint pain. However, they add mostly glucosamine, the lubricating chemical. The amount of chondroitin in these diets is 1/12 of that necessary to relive pain.

For those dogs with tendencies to become over weight or have heart disease, L-carnitine is added to the diet. L-carnitine is an amino acid that aids fat transport into the mitochondria of the cell to be burned to produce energy. Research has shown that the addition of L-carnitine to the diet does indeed aid failing hearts and animals on weight loss programs. But they only help if the animal has those problems. Healthy animals probably derive little extra benefit. And their addition to the diet won’t prevent the conditions form developing. But that is exactly what the company wants you to believe. That is what is behind their marketing concept of breed specific diets.

Homemade Dog Food

At this point in time, purchasing breed specific commercial dog food is a waste of money. There is no “breed benefit” worth the extra cost. The best dog food is homemade dog food. Homemade recipe ingredients can be manipulated to meet the specific needs of individual dogs with breed associated medical conditions. No food can prevent the eventuality of breed specific medical conditions at the present time. But homemade is a far better approach to treating existing conditions.