As a dancer, I’ve noticed that the skin on my arms and legs doesn’t stay soft for long. I even have to apply lotion before I go out dancing, because my skin is so dry. This can make me feel self-conscious about how I look when I dance.
One night, while reading WebMD, I came across a list of ingredients that might help reduce the amount of moisture lost from your skin when you are dancing all night. The list included some common moisturizing ingredients such as glycerin, plant oils and added vitamins.
The next day, I decided to put some of these ingredients together in my own homemade moisturizing lotion recipe. This stuff is amazing! Although it feels like a lotion after applying it to my skin, it doesn’t leave an oily sheen or feel heavy or greasy. It feels light and cool against my skin but absorbs quickly into my skin and keeps it moisturized all day long!
What’s even better is that now I don’t have to worry about sweating too much while dancing! Now that’s a real breakthrough! I’ve danced all night several times since then and have not had to reapply moisturizing lotion once.”
Hip hop is a multi-million dollar industry, but it also has a downside. Dancing on stage for hours at a time can make your skin dry and wrinkled. Here’s how to prevent this from happening!
If you have read my previous articles on the importance of moisturizing your skin then you will know that I recommend using Jojoba oil when you are sweaty. It is natural and it is a byproduct of the plant that is used to make animal feed. Google it if you want more information!
When you are dancing for any length of time, your skin will not be able to hold as much water as it normally does, so you will need to add water back into your skin. This can be done by blending some essential oils into your moisturizer or by adding lotion. Here are some oils that are known to work well.
Eucalyptus (cooling effect)
Rosemary (anti-inflammatory)
Cinnamon (anti-bacterial)
Tea tree (antiseptic)
Lemongrass (a little goes a long way)
Lavender (sleep inducing)
Mint (refreshing)
Rosemary
The secret of the hip hop dancer’s success is in the sweat. And it has nothing to do with how tired he is from dancing all night. He works out for a month, sweats profusely, and then stops. And yet he’s still able to dance at full speed. How can this be?
The secret lies in the way he sweats. As anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle knows, your sweat evaporates quickly when it’s cold outside. In other words, as you cool off, you sweat less and less. But if you’re dancing, your body temperature is rising. The sweat isn’t evaporating because it’s cold outside; it’s evaporating because your body temperature is rising!
That increases the water in your sweat, which makes it heavier and sticks to your skin better. The result? Almost no sweating at high temperatures and great control over the amount of sweating that does occur at lower temperatures.
This was a blog by a dancer, not a scientist. But it contained some interesting stuff about sweat.
Dancers used to get sweaty in public places: bars, dance halls, and other venues. At the time, people used antiperspirants to keep their armpits dry; the first brand was introduced in 1913 by an English company called Drysol. But dancing was still very popular in the United States in the 1930s. At that time deodorant wasn’t used much; people thought it was dirty and ineffective, and it was expensive compared to ordinary soap or powder. (Deodorant is now so cheap that you can buy a stick of it if you want.)
Then in the 1940s came a new kind of choreographer who made dancers use moisturizer on their faces and necks. Now dancers could stay out as long as they liked without getting too sweaty, and they could even dance at night without fear of being arrested for indecent exposure.
This led to another development: lip-balm became popular for dancers, and balms for athletes in general. Balms are said to be more effective than ordinary antiperspirants because they contain non-metal salts, like zinc chloride and magnesium chloride. Zinc promotes sweating in the ar
You can make a living as a street dancer if you are good enough. But you don’t need to. There are lots of other things you can do with your time and energy, like reading this blog, for example.
Street dancing can be a lot of fun. You can also make some money doing it. But you need to be good to make a living at it.
The dancers I’ve seen in the movies and on TV were not all that good. The best ones were probably better than the average dancer, but after a while, it doesn’t matter much who’s better than whom.
A street dancer needs, then, just enough talent to get through the preliminaries–to get eyeballed by a club owner or dance promoter and invited in for an audition when he or she is still fresh and eager–and then just enough practice to stay reasonably good enough to get some decent footwork down before someone else beats him or her to the punch.
This is harder than you might guess. The problem is that most people don’t have time for practice and aren’t willing to pay for it, so it’s hard to find partners who are willing and able to spend days at a stretch on dancing alone in their bedrooms; two people who can spend
A former Olympic figure skater, Allie Zempel was plagued by a chronic skin condition that left her skin dry and flaky. Her doctor recommended she use a moisturizer with oil, which would help her skin absorb moisture. But Zempel wasn’t a fan of the idea of putting oil on her face.
She decided to try making her own moisturizer from an ingredient found in the garden: watermelon seeds. Zempel soaked the seeds in water overnight and then ground them into a paste before applying it to her face. The next day she found that her skin felt soft and supple.
“I was blown away. I didn’t know anything about watermelon seeds,” said Zempel, who now teaches a course on how to use essential oils in cooking and is working on a book about natural remedies for women’s health. “I knew they were edible, but I had never heard of them being used for anything else.”