Nutricosmetics – Linking Healthy Skin With Nutrition
Dear Friends,
Do you ever feel this way?
Healthy skin…how can I achieve it? I always have something on my skin. Is it age-related? If it’s not acne – acne as an adult? It’s rashes, bumps and just brownish looking skin… It used to be so beautiful…
As consumers, we become more demanding about cosmetics and toiletries we use on our skin and hair – thus the expanding demand of mineral makeup and an alternative market that strives for a healthy body and preservation of a green environment.
Why is it important to have healthy skin?
It protects us from the external environment, prevents germs from invading our body and aesthetically, it feels smooth, has even coloration, while emotionally, makes us feel secure and confident.
Harm on our skin – Do we realize how much?
A third of the outer layer of skin is made of lipids or fats. Our skin can get flaky or irritated when we wash them with soaps or solvents – some people with eroded skin are more likely to get secondary infections. What to do? Use a mild bar soap and a night cream containing copper peptide (increased the thickness of the dermal layer), squalene, cholesterol, lecithin or shea butter for healthy, smooth skin.
The sun’s rays, ultraviolet A and B rays (UVA and UVB rays) damage our skin, leading to early wrinkles, skin problems or even worst, cancer. Use an ultrahigh SPF sunscreen daily.
Nutricosmetics is here to stay
The new era has begun – and it’s called nutricosmetics, linking beauty with a healthy body. The products are taken orally as pills or liquids. The nutricosmetic products have several active ingredients – some may sound familiar, such as soy isoflavone proteins, lutein, lycopene, vitamins (A, B6, E), omega 3 fatty acids, sterol esters, coenzyme Q10. Acting as antioxidants, they control free radicals, these byproducts of biochemical reactions from our bodies that can produce damage, such as premature aging or wrinkles. Another benefit? Nutricosmetics have anti-inflammatory action that protects our skin against the strong sun rays.
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Egyptians were also vain
Although this concept is relatively new for us, it dates back to the ancient Egyptians, when natural foods were used to cure acne or rashes. Currently, the key concept to a beautiful, glowing face is a healthy body.
Drink our nutricosmetics?
Think about the two types of nutricosmetics, the drinkable ones (fluid type) and the oral ones (as pills). Drinkable nutricosmetics include yogurt, its active live cultures and vitamin enhanced properties can help look after your skin from within. Some well-known food brands have partnered with the cosmetics industry to produce beauty beverages, including a tea based skin care drink, yogurt sources and the inclusion of GABA, an ingredient used extensively in skin care products for its anti-wrinkle properties.
Oral nutricosmetics?
Ingested as pills for purposes as antiaging and skin care.
Ahhh…the wonders of herbs. Not only are they tasty in foods, but such is the case of the herb Glycyrrihiza, commonly known as licorice, is appearing frequently in skin care products, as a lightning and smoothing ingredient in skin care.
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What are you doing to care for your skin?
