Beauty through the ages

While we can’t reverse the ravages of time, we can retard the impact time has on our skin through optimal nutrition. When it comes to optimal skin condition, ensuring healthy collagen is essential. This versatile protein forms the connective tissue which essentially holds the body and skin together. Healthy collagen is supple, flexible and miraculously strong, giving skin suppleness, strength and a beautiful line free appearance.

Unfortunately as we age there is a steady decline in collagen production and an increase in collagen breakdown. This heralds the appearance of sagging skin, larger pores, wrinkles and perhaps even being mistaken for your mother!! Free radical damage, UV exposure and nutrient deficiencies contribute greatly to this process. A silver bullet comes in the form of supplemental marine collagen providing the raw ingredients to support healthy collagen production and promoting the appearance of glowing, toned, plump skin.

Radiance® Ageless Beauty provides 250mg of New Zealand Marine Collagen Complex (significantly higher than other brands in the New Zealand market), alongside the ultimate skin supporting nutrients – vitamin A, C, E, silica and selenium. These super skin nutrients provide the body with the goods to support the production of strong, healthy skin.

But supporting collagen synthesis is only part of the journey to beauty from within. Our modern lives bombard us with free radicals from our environment, the sun and from foods we eat. These nasty little molecules damage cells within the skin, accelerating aging and diminishing skin quality. Antioxidants are essential for preventing this damage and that’s why Radiance® Ageless Beauty incorporates Vinanza® and Enzogenol® into the formula. These kiwi antioxidants help protect the skin from further damage, support skin elasticity and even out skin tone.

Radiantly beautiful, blemish-free skin is also dependant on healthy hormone balance. Radiance® Ageless Beauty promotes hormonal harmony with the help of the Chinese herb schizandra and vitamin B6. This perfect combo supports the efforts of the liver to balance hormones, whilst reducing the skin damaging effects of stress.

Beautiful skin is moisturised skin – did you know that one specific oil promotes beautiful moisturised skin more than any other? Evening primrose oil (EPO), and its main constituent gamma linoleic acid (GLA), have been rigorously studied for the benefits it provides skin. These studies show that Efamol® Evening Primrose Oil supports the structure and function of the skin whilst promoting optimal moisture content, elasticity, firmness and smoothness. In fact statistical data suggests that taking EPO can support the skin to look as good as it did 3.5 years ago!!

But be wary, not all evening primrose oil products are created equal. Efamol® Evening Primrose Oil uses patented Rigel® seeds, a special variety of EPO which yields 33% more GLA than other varieties. Efamol® then uses a unique extraction method producing a high quality oil, unaffected by heat (which ironically is a factor in the rancidity of many “cold pressed” oils). You can also be rest assured you are getting an effective product as Efamol® has spent millions on scientific studies, in fact 90% of all published studies on Evening Primrose Oil were conducted using Efamol® Evening Primrose Oil!

Another wonderful botanical oil, praised around the world for its nourishing and rejuvenating actions is rosehip oil. This nutritive oil provides a high concentration of unsaturated fatty acids, which when applied topically feeds skin tissues and supports elasticity. Absolute Essential® Rosehip Oil provides beautiful organic therapeutic oil perfect as a daily regenerative beauty regime for mature, sensitive or scarred skin.

Having lovely skin is only part of the beauty picture; shiny tresses and “hard as” nails are also part of the package. Despite paying a small fortune for salon shampoos and manicures, sometimes hair and nails can lack quality. In fact thinning, falling and greying hair alongside brittle, peeling or ridged nails are common concerns in both men and women!

One mineral which helps to support the health and vitality of hair and nails is silica. This micro-mineral concentrates in hair and nails where it acts in synergy with other minerals to support optimal strength and condition. Without it our skin, hair and nails become dry and lack tone, flexibility and stability.

Nature provides us with silica in the form of horsetail; this little herb has been used since ancient times to support the health and vitality of all connective tissue. Oat straw is also an excellent source of silica and other standout connective tissue support nutrients including vitamins A and C. Oat straw is used extensively for not only promoting hair growth and supple vital skin, but also for promoting a calm outlook.

Of course silica is not the only mineral that is a member of the beauty club. In fact, low levels of zinc have also been linked with hair loss and may be responsible for those telltale white spots which appear on your fingernails. As zinc is easily depleted by caffeine and various medications (including the oral contraceptive pill), it is a common modern day deficiency.

Radiance® Silica Beauty combines horsetail extract fortified with the rejuvenating time honoured properties of oat straw and zinc all in a mineral rich base of bentonite mineral powder, calcium, boron and manganese to help provide you with skin, hair and nails and you can wear with aplomb.

So heed the warnings of Coco Chanel and give your body the herbs and nutrients it needs so you can be proud of the face, hair and nails you have now, at 50 and beyond.