Skin Care

FACTS ON YOUR SKIN AND SKIN CARE PRODUCTS

We have been manufacturing skin care products for well over ten years now we have been heartened at the level of discernment people have been demonstrating over the risks of some of the skin care products on the market. To be fair to other large manufacturers we also understand that due to the volumes processed and costly overheads, they will find it very difficult to maintain their profit margins and keep cost down if they are to use ‘natural’ preservatives and phyto-ingredients. Further to that our skin care products are locally manufactured and only a few ingredients are sourced overseas thereby keeping our moral obligation to keep our carbon foot print to the barest minimum.

 

Some interesting facts.

Just skim past the bullet points with the scientific facts to the skin care if that is not your thing

 

Did you know:

Our bodies (1%)  are composed of 110 basic constituents

• Main elements Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, calcium and nitrogen plus fractional amounts of phosphorous, chlorine, sulphur, sodium, potassium, magnesium, iron and traces of the rest, (selenium, boron, chromium etc.)
• In other words we are roughly 50 parts water (compound), 19 parts lipids(fat compound)18 parts protein (compound) ,5 parts ash( compound), 1 part each carbohydrate (compound), calcium and phosphorous.
• 99% of this composition is just ‘space’ (quantum soup) filled out with a few trillion protons, neutrons, electrons and other subatomic particles.
• We can only ‘see, feel’1%  matter as solids because we are limited by consciousness and sensory organs. The rest, well, that is another “matter’ altogether.
• The elements and compounds, mentioned under constituents, are floating around in that space form new compounds and depending on what you eat and put on your skin can form either good compounds or bad. More on that later.
• That our brain consists of around 55-60% lipids(fats) and these if they pre -oxidize can destroy brain cells.
• That our skin sheds cells at a rate of a million an hour
• That it takes one month to completely regenerate itself.
• Our skin is the body’s largest absorptive organ so:

 

Would you eat these chemicals if it was given to you on a plate to eat?

Therefore you really need to regard all skin products as food.

If you were offered a meal made with, iodopropyl butyl-carbamate, sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, disodium EDTA, BHT, cetyl alcohol, ethylene glycol,ethanolamine etc would you really want to eat it?

The skin ingests nutrients but unlike food we eat and digest, it completely bypasses the digestive process to go full strength directly into the blood stream.

Our philosophy is that if you cannot eat it then it should not be put onto your skin.

 

A bit on sunscreens:

Some of the worst culprits on the market are sunscreens in particular those that contain chemical absorbers. Many of these chemicals are regarded as estrogenic and carcinogenic.

Note: there is a body of scientific research that questions that just sun exposure as being the cause of melanomas. Overwhelmingly the medical fraternity is coming to the conclusion that the skin needs small regular doses of sun to ‘protect’ the skin from sun damage and the body from deep organ cancers. It also recognises the fact that the body’s immune system is able ‘fight’ cancers and is doing so all the time.

Benzophenone  One of the main ingredients in sunscreens is used in industrial processes as a free radical generator to initiate chemical reactions. Benzophenone is activated by ultraviolet light energy that breaks benzophenone’s double bond to produce two free radical sites. The free radicals then react with other molecules and produce damage to the fats, proteins, and DNA of the cells – the types of damage that produce skin aging and the development of cancer. (Never ever apply this to children’s skin)

PABA and PABA esters  Cinnamates (cinoxate, ethylhexyl p-methoxycinnamate, octocrylene, octyl methoxycinnamate) Salicylates (ethylhexyl salicylate, homosalate, octyl salicylate) Digalloyl trioleate Menthyl anthranilate

Avobenzone [butyl-methyoxydibenzoylmethane; Parsol 1789] – This is the only chemical sunscreen currently allowed by the European Community. However, its safety is still questionable since it easily penetrates the skin and is a strong free radical generator. (note: Oil soluble vitamin C is a powerful free radical scavenger so will help reduce oxidation)

Of concern to us was that the sunscreens that claimed to have a completely natural physical sunscreen (usually micronised zinc oxide) still had chemical preservatives like Phenoxyethanol. (Suspected reproductive and developmental toxicity. Petroleum based and restricted in Japan.)

 

 

We have been asked on numerous occasions if we make a sunscreen (as yet we haven’t but will if we think the sales will warrant a small batch initially) and if not which sunscreen do we recommend?

 I have found one sunscreen that seems to be the safest to use and one I used successfully this summer on myself and family members on a tramping trip through Central Otago with its unforgiving UV levels.

It is Soleo Organics All Natural Sunscreen manufactured by Skin Elements Pty Ltd Australia. I did find it a bit heavy and difficult to apply due to levels of Zinc oxide but overall I am impressed.

 

 

All our products are small batch runs and contain vitamins E and C as preservatives along with plant preservatives and essential oils.

 

Our skin care range is manufactured in New Zealand in small batches and guarantees:

• Only chemical free cold pressed oils or plastic residues
• No fillers or harmful chemicals or artificial fragrances
• No wheat based products or petroleum-based additives
• No artificial preservatives (we use only vitamin C and E and plant ingredients.
• Not tested on animals
• Filled in glass to preserve oils

 

Our Skin Care Special with a few changes has been extended to the end of June 2012

 

Buy all three products Cell-Vit C, Cell Vit Mist and Nutrient Complex Cream

Normally  $121.00 now  $87.91  plus 100ml of Echinacea extract valued at $28.75  FREE. Add 2ml daily to your smoothie to strengthen your immune system.