Green Beaver Daily Facial Cleanser with purifying grapefruit & soothing aloe
July 30, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
A wonderful, clean product worth tracking down. Discover the virtues of aloe vera. Aloe vera has long been recognized as a herbal remedy for various skin problems such as eczema and psoriasis. Green Beaver’s soothing aloe vera based facial care products were specifically formulated for the most sensitive skin. They are extremely gentle, soothing and 100% natural!
Their facial products contain an air-dried 200X aloe concentrate. Air-drying does not denature the skin soothing ingredients found in the aloe. Each 120 ml product contains the equivalent of 1.0 Litre aloe gel actives! Ideal for sensitive or troubled skin.
Purifying grapefruit enzymes gently dissolve and remove impurities. Their unique foaming aloe gel will soothe and leave your skin hydrated. Enriched with chamomile to help calm irritated skin. Suitable for sensitive or troubled skin including eczema and psoriasis prone skin, as the citrus extract makes is a natural antibacterial solution and the aloe has anti-inflammatory properties. Light-textured, non-greasy and fragrance-free.
100% NATURAL, BIODEGRADABLE, VEGAN AND GLUTEN-FREE
Tracie Martyn Enzyme Exfoliant® by Tracie Martyn
June 11, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
This is a lovely product with clean but powerful ingredients.
Product Description
This complexion savior comes closest to a “Facial in a Jar”™. Known as the “Red Carpet Secret” for brightening the faces, décolletés and arms of Oscar nominees, winners and presenters, this multiple benefit product targets wrinkles, large pores and brown spots with dermatological strength ingredients. While it delivers amazing results this natural product feels luxurious, cooling and calming. Editorial reviews: “It leaves my skin glowing” says Susan Sarandon. ‘There are amazing ingredients in this very effective mask-every exfoliant from salicylic acid to pineapple enzymes to malic, tartaric and lactic acids! This is the equivalent of a doctors microdermabrasion…’” Voted 50 Best Anti-aging Beauty Finds.
Indications
Powerful enzymes, botanical skin lighteners and balanced fruit acids combine in a synergistic formula aimed at gently, yet efficiently resurfacing the skin: softening fine lines and wrinkles, minimizing large pores and safely lightening the complexion. This unique facial treatment while deeply cleansing and exfoliating is also designed to actually calm the skin, reducing redness and sensitivity. Recommended for all skin types including customers trying to avoid glycolic and/or retinol products due to their potential of causing redness, burning and stinging in certain sensitive individuals.
Ingredients
Gently exfoliating and anti-inflammatory Pineapple Enzymes (activate a gentle, yet thorough exfoliation without the risk of irritation), Botanical Skin Lighteners (provide a safe alternative to harmful chemical skin lighteners with maximum efficacy), re-texturizing Alpha-Beta Hydroxy Acids (exfoliate without the irritation often caused by glycolic products), Botanical Oxygen (discourages bacterial growth and improves skin’s metabolism), a stimulating and refreshing blend of exotic essential oils (calm the mind and soothe the skin while naturally preserving the product).
Skin Care Products For Men
March 25, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Back when I was young, a long time ago, mens skin care products generally consisted of shaving cream. Skin care for men wasn’t heard of, and men couldn’t have cared less.
Now mens skincare products are hot, and selling extremely well, and for good reason. Mens fashion/grooming is part of the new paradigm for men.
All those years ago things were different. Men were men. They ate a lot of steak, went camping and shooting a lot and only visited the doctor if they were about to die. Mens skin care? What was that? I use shaving cream don’t I?
Mens fashion was a new pair of jeans. And maybe a new pair of boots every now and then, when their toes were showing through the old ones. To go with the new pair of jeans.
Men’s grooming, and mens fashion, and for that matter mens health, have come a long way. I, for one, now visit the doctor regularly for checkups, keep fit, and take care of my skin with good quality mens skincare products. My father has had skin cancer and I need to take care of my skin as much as anyone.
That’s not because I want to keep up with the latest mens fashion, I’m way too old for fashion. It’s because I recognise that taking care of our skin, for a man, is a health issue. For my part, after being burned many times before anyone even knew how bad sunburn was for the skin, taking care of my skin now may prevent fatal skin cancer.
It’s never too late.
Mens skin care is also about looks though for many modern men. Mens fashion in the 21st century is also about anti aging and youthful looks, like it is for women.
It’s not good enough now for men to use a good shaving cream, buy themselves a new pair of jeans every other year, and eat steak every second night.
There’s now available a wide range of high quality mens grooming and anti aging and skin care products. Men can take care of their hair with good hair care products, nail care products help take care of their nails, and good skin care products help men take care of their skin. Mens grooming products are slowly catching up to womens grooming products with increasing sales and increased quality.
However note that I said “high quality” skin care products for men.
The “high quality” part is extremely important. There are many skin care and anti aging products on the market that are not “high quality”.
Unfortunately big brand name mens skin care products and mens anti aging products share many characteristics with popular womens anti aging products.
They don’t work very well, or at all, and are overpriced, often by necessity to pay for all that overhyped TV advertising using highly paid big name stars.
But worst of all, many of the ingredients used in skin care products in general can be suspect or downright harmful to our health, and skin. And that includes popular mens skin care products too.
Luckily there are companies that are producing highly effective and very cost competitive natural skin care products, including mens anti aging products.
And they are highly cost competitive too, primarily because these companies don’t spend up big on TV advertising, which is why you’ve probably never heard of them.
They produce natural skin care products using natural non toxic ingredients, and these include natural mens skin care products and mens anti aging products.
So if you’re a man, or for that matter a woman who knows a man who needs to take better care for his skin, rejoice.
There are excellent natural mens skincare products available, no toxic that work extremely well.
And modern men are using them more and more, and seeing the difference.
New Ingredients for Tougher Skin
February 17, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Young skin produces protein like collagen and elastin in sufficient quantities. These are the youth giving skin proteins in our body and are responsible for giving us a healthy, firm, soft and elastic skin.
As time passes the natural production of these two vital skin proteins starts to slow down. Thus, we start to see the signs of skin aging like wrinkles, sagging skin, age spots and dark uneven skin complexion emerge.
In order to make skin tougher we need to develop such products that will help the body build higher amount of its own collagen and elastin naturally.
There are many collagen based skin care products in the marketplace which claim that the collagen in them is the key to make aging skin tougher. But this is far from reality. The scientific truth is that collagen in skin creams cannot be absorbed by our body at all. The collagen molecule is too big to penetrate our skin. The key to how to make aging skin tougher is to help your body build more collagen and elastin naturally.
Advances in medical science reveal ingredients have been discovered which help in skin rejuvenation naturally by stimulating the natural production of these vital skin proteins. This is the natural and effective way on how to make aging skin tougher.
Thanks to the internet and a great deal of research, these breakthrough natural substances are available for anyone in any part of the world. Some of these natural skin rejuvenation ingredients are babassu, maracuja, Phytessence Wakame, and Cynergy.
Hyaluronic Acid for Smoother Skin
February 17, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Ageing gracefully means caring for ones body and health. Both women and men are actively seeking treatments that will reduce the signs of aging. Many aspects of how we age and how to ward of or erase the signs are still a mystery.
There are places in the world such as Yuzuri Hara, which is a village in Japan, where at least ten percent of the current popular hovers around 85 years or even older. Many of the conditions seen regularly in seniors in our part of the world such as cancer, diabetes, and even Alzheimer’s are just not present there.
The citizens of Yuzuri Hara lead lives that are active and incredibly healthy. Most of these people never even need to visit the doctor and their skin looks rather youthful.
ABC’s popular News show 20/20 did research and ran a showing that reported that researchers found what they believe is the key to the youthful appearance and healthy bodies of those living in Yuzuri Hara.
The component believed to be what everyone is after is known as Hyaluronic acid. This acid can be found in carbohydrate rich foods that are native to the terrain of hills surrounding this village.
This component lubricates a persons joints and is in the connective tissue of humans. One of the benefits of it is its ability to keep our flesh smooth and full. As we age, our bodies loose this naturally. Researchers are working hard to see that if taken orally if it will limit the look of aging on people.
The FDA has given their go ahead to use this product for injections located in the knee joints. This will provide the joint with new lubrication. Hyaluronic acid also works to reduce both heat and inflammation caused by arthritics.
Not to mention the fact that it can even decrease the speed in which arthritics develops and can thwart the constant pain associated with arthritics.
There are places in Europe that make use of this component for soft tissue filler, augmentation of lips, repairing acne scars and in ridding the face of lines and wrinkles.
It is used in a similar manner as collagen and provides practically the same results.
Working as a topical agent that hydrates the skin wonderfully and also as a powerful anti-inflammatory.
Soft, creamy skin that no longer feels irritated or itchy is found to result when using products with Hyaluronic acid in it.
Squalane is an incredible moisturizer that carries oxygen and provides your skin with renewed elasticity without leaving it feeling oily. Squalane’s main ingredient is sebum, which coincidently is the main oil, found naturally in your flesh.
It makes sense then to replace that oil with a product containing this ingredient. When taken internally, Squalane will strengthen your immune system and offer anti-inflammatory properties.
When you use Squalane topically, you will notice such benefits as softer lines on your face, relief from psoriasis, age spots becoming less noticeable, and wounds healing faster. In Japan, Squalane is even being used to aid in the treatment of both skin cancer and dermatitis.
Working with Squalane and Hyaluronic acid will offer you the best solution when it comes to the effects of fighting aging and the toll that it takes on your skin.





