Avoid products with ingredients like parabens, triclosan, mineral oil, sodium laurel, phthalates, or toluene. Many of these are made from petroleum. They can disrupt your endocrine system. Some have been linked to cancer, liver or kidney disease, and respiratory failure.
Instead, look for ingredients that sound like foods to nourish your skin.
Here are three foods that work beautifully as skincare both inside and outside.
Green Tea: Sip three cups of green tea a day for its antioxidant power and to help reduce skin cancer risks. To relieve puffy eyes, chill the damp tea bags in the refrigerator. Apply to closed eyes for 10-15 minutes.
Pumpkin: Carotenoids give pumpkin its distinctive orange color and wrinkle-fighting antioxidants. Pumpkin’s powerful enzymes also deep clean and hydrate skin. Combine two cups canned pumpkin, ¼ cup plain yogurt, four tablespoons honey and one tablespoon pumpkin pie spice in your blender. Smooth some on your face. Leave it for 10 minutes, then rinse. Eat the rest for dessert.
Pomegranate: This fruit can help you attain younger-looking skin, and it’s also loaded with antioxidants, vitamins K and C, potassium, copper, zinc and iron. Pomegranate can help to prevent premature skin aging and keep our complexions smooth and radiant.
And remember, organic ingredients are always better when you can find them.
Here is another thought!!
Could you eat your skin-care? It needs to be that safe.
Did you know your skin is just like a sponge? Whatever you put on the outside inevitably ends up inside. Our skin is a two-way street. What starts out on your plate eventually shows up on your face. Drinking plenty of water and eating lots of fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats will help your body build fresh, glowing skin.
On the flipside, whatever you put on your skin makes its way to the rest of your body. Just as your body absorbs food from your gut, it also absorbs whatever you put on your skin.
That’s why you shouldn’t put anything on your face or body that you wouldn’t eat.
Here’s to being more beautiful on the inside and outside!!
Most of us Australian and New Zealand women have some degree of dehydration. This is one of the primary reasons for tired looking skin and wrinkle because dehydration can quickly make you look years older than you really are. Now, when I talk about dehydration I’m not talking about dry skin. They’re two different things.
Your skin is made up of about 30% water. Most of that moisture is stored in the two lower layers of skin. The top layer – the epidermis – can’t draw down into those layers to take up moisture. The only way moisture travels up to the epidermis is when new cells pushing up into the top layer carry it there.
First, drink water to moisturize your skin from the inside out. It insures that the deep layers of your skin have the moisture needed to produce new cells that hydrate the epidermis.
Trans fats are the least healthy fats you can eat. These solid fats originated as healthier, liquid vegetable oils but were hydrogenated to form a solid fat. these can cause many health problems. Avoid these completely. Trans fats can raise your triglyceride level and low density lipoprotein level (LDL) (otherwise known as your bad cholesterol), increasing your risk for a heart attack. Trans fats are linked to prostate cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.
The Solution
You’re bombarded with toxins in today’s modern world… everywhere from the polluted air you breathe, the water you drink, the shampoos and other cosmetics that lather your body with chemicals, and of course, all of the chemical additives, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and other harmful compounds in the food that you eat.
Immediately upon waking each day, squeeze about 1/2 to 1 full lemon (depending on size of the lemon) into an glass of warm or room temperature purified water. This is gentler on your body first thing in the morning compared to ice cold water. I’ve found that slicing the lemon into quarters before squeezing by hand is easier than squeezing halves. Drink this at least 10 minutes before eating any food for the day.
1. Improves your digestion:
White tea also keeps skin looking younger by slowing the breakdown of collagen and elastin. Even when you’re young, collagen and elastin are breaking down all the time as a natural process. Enzymes known as “matrix metalloproteinases” (MMP) activate this breakdown. However, our young body naturally replaces collagen and elastin to repair the damage.
White Tea can come in several flavours and there are also unflavoured white teas. Just remember that white tea contains low amounts of caffeine so if you’re sensitive, go easy. You can also apply white tea directly to your skin.
Resveratrol is a 100% natural antioxidant found in red wine, with hundreds of studies indicating it may be one of the best things we can ever take for anti-aging.
Ubidecarenone, also known as Coenzyme Q10, CoQ10, and Ubiquinone, plays an essential role in the production
and even slow or reverse aging or disease. Most organs function better with optimum CoQ10 levels: brain, eye, heart, gums, immune system, and muscle.
become unbalanced. That happens when you’re stressed, or up against a harsh environment. Astragalus can restore your skin’s natural balance.
upon which the survival of 99% of all life forms on Earth depends. Scientists say it’s more powerful than chlorella, spirulina, acai berries, fish oil, resveratrol … and virtually any other “superfood” you’ve ever heard about.
New research shows that a diet rich in certain nutrients may prevent and reverse skin aging more effectively than expensive treatments. A study of more than 4,000 women found a strong correlation between aging skin and poor dietary habits, such as getting too few vitamins. Women with above-average intakes of vitamin C and linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid found in plant-based oils) who ate fewer fats and carbohydrates were more likely to have healthier, youthful skin.
