Discover Your Skin’s New Best Friend

Antioxidants have certainly generated a buzz in the media lately. And for good reason. These powerful defenders give your skin the protection it needs to fight against free radicals on a day-to-day basis.

And this protection is exactly what you need to keep your skin smooth and firm — no matter what your age. In fact, antioxidants could be the reason why one 50-year-old woman can have smooth skin and another can have wrinkles that make her look many years older.

Soft Skin All Year Round

Soft, younger-looking skin starts with moisture – and plenty of it.

But hydrating your skin can be difficult. Especially during the winter months when dry, chapped skin is accepted as just part of the season – even here in South Florida.

Most people will just stock up on moisturizers, lotions, creams and balms that promise to relieve and heal their dry skin.

But what you may not know is these “solutions” are most likely making your skin worse.

Would You Wash Your Face With Gasoline?

In spite of your best efforts, your skin gets a little drier every year. You can see lines and wrinkles forming. And your skin isn’t as soft and smooth as it used to be.
You do everything the experts say you should. You cleanse your skin… apply toner… moisturize. But it just isn’t enough to reduce the appearance of aging.

In my opinion, all that cleansing, toning and moisturizing may be accelerating the effects of aging. Because most “beauty products” aren’t good for your skin. They’re loaded with harsh chemicals.

Try This Face Test

“I’m not one who likes to play in the dirt, unless that “dirt” is Sierra by Pure Radiance! Well, Sierra isn’t really dirt – it’s actually a clay mask and I love that the clay in Sierra is naturally purer than most of the food you eat. In fact, it’s so rare, it’s found in only one tiny spot on Earth… deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Gorgeous Skin is Your Best Beauty Accessory

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that your skin is your “largest organ” because it just doesn’t seem like an “organ.” Typically we think of organs as heart, liver, kidneys, etc. Ninety five percent of the cells in the epidermis (top layer of skin) work to make new cells and five percent of the cells make melanin, which gives skin its color.

In fact, though you can’t see it happening, every minute of the day we lose about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells off the surface of our skin to make room for the new skin cells. As we age, dead skin cells don’t shed as quickly and turnover of new skin cells may decrease slightly.

So, what does this have to do with beautiful skin? Pretty much everything.

Stress Busting Skin Care Tips

Feeling stressed? Your skin may be feeling it, too. In fact, stress is one of the most common factors that cause your skin and body to age.

Chronic stress has been proven to affect your health negatively.1 It can also accelerate the aging of your cells because your telomeres shorten at the end of chromosomes in your DNA.

Telomeres are found on each DNA strand in your skin cells. These telomeres get shorter every time a cell divides. If you have shorter telomeres, that means you have older skin cells. This is usually when you’ll start seeing fine lines and wrinkles.

What’s Lurking in Your Moisturizer?

Some of the most common ingredients I see in “designer” cosmetics are actually chemicals – polysorbates, propylene glycol, sodium laurel, and parabens.

What you may not know is that these expensive ingredients are actually the same dangerous chemicals listed under “hazardous materials” on warning signs. Some of these chemicals even come from crude oil and petroleum! They definitely shouldn’t be used in cosmetics!

Ingredients like parabens have been linked with breast cancer1, polysorbates can cause cancer; propylene glycol can cause liver and kidney abnormalities; and sodium laurel (or lauryl sulfate) can increase the risk of cancer when used with other chemical ingredients. That’s hardly what you’d call “protective” skin care.

Secret “Tree of Life”

When I traveled to India and visited the home of Ayurvedic medicine, the world’s oldest health system, one of my favorite things I learned was their name for the coconut palm tree.

They call the coconut palm kalpa vriksha which means “the tree which provides all the necessities of life.” What a great name. The tree of life.

We have coconut palms here in South Florida, and seeing them always gives me the feeling of lazy afternoons at the beach, and warm tropical breezes.

I have coconut trees in my yard, too, and I love to eat coconut … but it takes a bit of skill to get the darned things open. When I went to Brazil and ordered a drink with fresh coconut milk in it, a guy puts the coconut down, takes a machete, and “whack!” opens it right up.

The Beauty of Vitamin C Revealed

Vitamin C skin-care products are all the rage today. These products are advertised to clarify the skin using protective antioxidants for an instant glow. The use of topical vitamin C is supposed to reduce fine lines, wrinkles and sunspots and support healthy skin regeneration.

Vitamin C applied topically has been proven to protect the skin from damaging free radicals as a result of sun exposure. Vitamin C will support the healthy structure of the skin to help your complexion age naturally and rejuvenate skin that has already been damaged by outside elements.1

While these are wonderful benefits that so many of us are looking for in anti-aging skin care, topical vitamin C products pose one little-known issue. Vitamin C as a product ingredient is highly unstable. That doesn’t mean that topical vitamin C can’t benefit your skin, but it can quickly oxidize when exposed to air over and over again.

Fashion Focus for Your Skin

Commercial products like nourishing coconut milk shampoo, Moroccan argan oil conditioner, and acai body lotion that advertise to be certified organic sound amazing. Until you turn most of the bottles over.

Instead of being 100% organic the real list of ingredients often reads: glycol sterate, glycerin, behentrimonium chloride and steric acid. The only thing “organic” about those ingredients is the petroleum that has been there since the dinosaurs.

What if you didn’t decide to take a closer look?

Organic ingredients have become the latest fashion in marketing. It has even crossed over into our pet supplies.

Shopping for organic products has become like going to the dollar store to buy a mop — which my husband did last weekend. And the first time he used it, it broke.

I’ve decided to help right this wrong and ease you into the highest fashion in organic skin care for the upcoming season.

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