Category Archives: Skin Care

Enjoy the Sun and Healthier Skin with Isagenix

This May practice safe sun in honor of Skin Cancer Awareness Month.

In honor of Skin Cancer Awareness Month, pay mind to your health by maintaining your skin. With more than two million Americans diagnosed with skin cancer every year, and numbers on the rise in youth, now is not the time to feel the burn. Seeking shade and wearing wide-brimmed hats and protective clothing are the first lines of defense against a scorching summer.

Welcoming the summer sun is no small feat; along with the warmer weather comes beach vacations, bikinis and an elevated pressure to get in shape. Beyond just the body, the skin must get ready to make some waves too. Fortunately, the summer sunshine doesn’t have to take a toll on your complexion.

Diving into skin protection early may keep elasticity and ensure your skin is always looking radiant. Along with protective sunscreen, diet can be a pre-emptive measure to promote your skin’s elastic tone and offset ultraviolet (UV) exposure. In line with the current research and in celebration of this month of May, here are five Isagenix do’s to avoid summer-skin don’ts: Continue reading →

Ageless Skin: Renewing Beauty through Science

Changing the way skin ages is possible, thanks to advances in science.

As the skin ages (largely from accumulated harm from sun exposure, environmental aggressors, eating a poor diet, and time), the rate of skin cell turnover begins to slow down. That means less creation of new, healthy skin. With a greater understanding of how the skin ages, scientists are continuing to develop better technologies to stimulate its self-renewal.

Medical-esthetician Marilyn Territo, CE, CM, a member of the Isagenix Scientific Advisory Board, explains that scientists have now developed conditioned media rich in epidermal growth factors, matrix proteins, and cell-signaling proteins called cytokines. When combined in a special serum, Territo says these can provide the “raw constituents” that  “skin cells need to thrive.” Continue reading →

Advancements in Skin Aging: Ageless Renewal Serum

Trainer: Skin Health Expert Kathy McGowan

Want to have “ageless skin”? Designed by scientists in the field of tissue regeneration, Ageless Renewal Serum supplies Repair-Plex™, the proprietary blend of skin bioactives. The serum promotes greater production of matrix protein, collagen, and elastin to create thicker, younger-looking skin. Learn from Kathy McGowan how to best apply the product to work with your skin to “remember” what it has “forgotten” with age.

 

Nourishing Healthy Skin from Within

Skin requires essential vitamins and minerals to maintain its youth and vibrance.

The best way to ensure that you will enjoy healthy, youthful-appearing skin as you age is to combine a healthy diet and supplement choices with a daily skin care regimen using high-quality skin care products. This inside-out and outside-in whole body approach encourages a vibrantly healthy body and radiantly healthy skin.

While there are some basic characteristics that establish the foundation for a person’s skin health, such as genetic and hereditary factors and sebaceous oil gland functioning, we also need to consider the wholeness of the individual. The body, in its own wisdom, maintains a vigilant role in assessing, responding, adjusting, and adapting to changes in its intrinsic (internal) and extrinsic (external) environments. All systems of the body are part of this dynamic communication network, which includes the skin, the largest organ of the human body. The skin is influenced second-by-second by these internal/external changes, and it will reflect these changes through how it functions, regenerates, degenerates, and ages.

The good news is that the skin is constantly renewing itself. The outermost layer of the skin, the epidermis, sheds old lackluster skin cells and replaces them with new plump and healthy cells. In general, the body gets a new outer skin approximately every 28 days. This renewal process may take longer based on influences, such as your specific aging factors, general health, daily stresses, the foods you eat, lifestyle choices, alcohol consumption, smoking, and environmental aggressors. These aggressors include toxins, chemicals, and pollutants in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the foods we eat. Too much UV exposure from the sun and changes in the seasons can also be stressful to the skin. Continue reading →

Green Tea May Add to Protection Against UV Rays

Antioxidants in green tea can help fight harmful UV rays, a new study finds.

Antioxidants in green tea can help fight harmful UV rays, a new study finds.

Just in time to battle the scorching summer sun, new research shows that drinking or supplementing with green tea may help protect your skin from harmful UV rays.

Green tea is rich in antioxidants that scavenge harmful free radicals in the body and, as new research reports, on the skin. Researchers from the University of Witten-Herdecke in Germany found that “consumption of dietary flavonoids from tea may confer photoprotection and improve skin quality.”

Published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Nutrition, the researchers found that, in addition to topical application, drinking large amounts of green tea conferred similar protective benefits against UV radiation and visible signs of aging.

The researchers randomly assigned 60 female volunteers between a green tea and a placebo group. Each woman drank one liter of either green tea or a control beverage designed with a tart flavoring daily for 12 weeks. The researchers measured serum flavonoid content and performed skin assessments at baseline, week 6, and again after 12 weeks.

After 12 weeks of tea consumption, the researchers found that in addition to decreases in the volume, roughness and scaling of skin, women’s skin density and skin hydration increased. Beyond aesthetics, the researchers confirmed that drinking green tea rich in antioxidant polyphenols protects against harmful UV radiation. Continue reading →