Andalou Naturals Pumpkin Honey Glycolic Mask ~ Cupid's Arrow Hop (2/5)

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Andalou Naturals Is a Perfect Gift

Join Us In Cupid's Arrow Event Today!

Welcome to the Cupid's Arrow Giveaway Hop hosted by One Busy Moma and Miki's Hope!
These 2 great hosts have teamed up with 12 other bloggers to bring you an amazing event full of great prizes!! This giveaway hop will run from 12:01 AM on 01/25/2012 until 11:59 PM on 02/05/2012. The idea is to get you some really great gifts for Valentines Day!!

Don't forget to go enter the Grand Prize Giveaway after entering our giveaway too. And be sure to check out the other amazing blogs in the linky at the bottom of the post for even more great giveaways! 

Happy Hopping!!!

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Oh, What a Bliss To Dive Into Andalou Naturals!

 I am so about effective, skin-friendly, body-friendly cosmetic products! I am exceptionally excited to test and then incorporate into my life the products that give me energy, starting on the cellular level.

Oh, what I have discovered for myself and would love to share with you is Andalou Naturals skin care products.

First distinctive thing is that Andalou Naturals bases their cosmetic products on Solar Vitis Fruit Stem Cells. Why? Because the fruit stem cells from this rare Gamay Teinturier Freaux grape contain high levels of anthocyanins which are free radical scavengers. Very effective scavengers, might I say!

What could be more life energizing in your daily beauty routine than using living, breathing, making a noticeable change skin care product?

Andalou Naturals Pumpkin Glycolic Mask

I’ve been testing the Andalou Naturals Pumpkin Honey Glycolic Mask. Having super sensitive skin, this mask has been working wonders for me. Actually, I am wearing this mask as I am typing away these words. It only takes 10 minutes per one application, 1 to 3 times a week. I’ve been doing it 3 times a week, just to push the limits and really discover the effects and any irritation levels, if any, for my skin type.

The product, when applied on face, has a cooling effect without any tightening. That means I can talk, if I need to, without any skin being unnaturally stretched.

Knowing that this renews my dormant cells and repairs damaged cells really makes my soul sing.

By using liposomal encapsulation process, Andalou Naturals Fruit Stem Cells preserve their maximum stability in the product, thus maximum efficacy on the skin. Liposomes allow the actives to be released within a time frame. That’s way we need to wear this mask for at least 10 minutes to allow the powerful anthocyanins work magic on skin. I love it!

Why Celebrate Woman Is Wild About Andalou Naturals And Their Stellar Products

• Effectiveness reached by Innovative Stem Cell Science
• Increase skin’s UV tolerance
• Defend against free radicals, i.e., premature aging and skin cancers
• Contribute to maintaining healthy cells in our skin
• Use sustainable resources
• Support 4 Charities with generous donations

Would you like to have a jar of Andalou Naturals Pumpkin Honey Mask on your vanity table? Then enter this super easy Rafflecopter with your chance to renew skin at the cellular level.

Reducing Obesity and Lowering Inflammation

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Inflammation – Your Friend. And a Deadly Enemy.

By guest blogger Boyd Jentzsch

Inflammation is an important defense of your bodyʼs immune system to infections,  injured or damaged cells, and irritants. Inflammation is your bodyʼs attempt to remove damaging stimuli and start the healing process.

Inflammation is Your Bodyʼs Friend
Without inflammation, wounds and infections would never heal. Over time the progression of destroyed tissue would threaten your survival. In this very real sense, inflammation is a very important friend to your body.

Chronic inflammation (basically, prolonged inflammation), over time, changes the type of cells at the site of inflammation. This leads to the simultaneous destruction of both your injured tissue, and the tissues that are being repaired by the inflammation process.

Chronic Inflammation is Your Deadly Enemy
This over-expression, or lack of control, of the normal protective mechanism of inflammation caused by the continuing (or chronic) inflammation, has been linked to a large number of highly destructive health conditions, including:
• Alzheimerʼs disease
• Arthritis (rheumatoid)
• Atherosclerosis
• Several forms of cancer
• Cognitive decline
• Digestive system diseases
• Hay fever
• Heart disease
• Insulin resistance
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis
• Type-2 diabetes.

Even low levels of inflammation, over many months and years, can cause these diseases to be unleashed, and progress.

The regular American diet, and increasingly the diet of those all over the modern world, is known to foster low chronic inflammation in most people. This is why it is very important for you to control, reduce, and eliminate chronic inflammation.

Chronic Inflammation Kills Healthy Tissue
It is thought this wide range of seemingly unrelated diseases is caused by the dominating presence of macrophages in the injured tissue. These macrophage cells, called into action by the inflammation process, are powerful defensive agents of your body.

But the toxins macrophages release to protect your body from infections (including reactive oxygen species – free radicals which cause oxidative damage) are injurious to your bodyʼs healthy tissues as well as to invading pathogens. Consequently, chronic inflammation is almost always accompanied by healthy tissue destruction.

Recent studies show that the oxidative effect of the free radicals (from macrophages) on lipids (blood fats), normally present in cellular membranes, contributes to disruption of the balance of your immune tolerance, and ultimately provokes chronic inflammation.

Over time, chronic inflammation causes the disruption of the tightly controlled balance between immune responses and healthy tissue destruction. More and more healthy tissues are destroyed, leading to the many different forms of the highly deadly diseases noted above.

Reducing Obesity and Lowering Inflammation
It is now known that high levels of several inflammation-related markers are associated with obesity. In clinical studies, inflammatory-related molecule levels were reduced and increased levels of anti-inflammatory molecules were seen within weeks after subjects began a proper diet full of anti-inflammatory foods or supplements, and they reduced their weight. The association of systemic inflammation with obesity and insulin resistance is the subject of intense clinical research.

Chronic Inflammation Must Be Controlled
For these reasons, the control, lowering, and elimination of chronic inflammation is one of your most important goals for eating healthy, and taking dietary supplements. Without eliminating chronic inflammation, most of the other reasons individuals take supplements will ultimately prove to be of little value.

Making your body healthy must begin with understanding, and eliminating, chronic inflammation.

You can contact me via my LinkedIn profile

VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Antioxidant Skincare for Daily Use to A Younger, Radiant Skin

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Antioxidant Skincare Products for Your Daily Use to A Younger, Healthier, Radiant Skin

          Week 1 – Food for Your Skin
          Week 2 – Skin Tone Transformation             
          Week 3 – Skin Care Products for Daily Use          You Are Here
          Week 4 – Minimizing Your Wrinkles


Sun (ultraviolet radiation), free radicals, aging, poor diet – just to name a few causes of skin damage.

Numerous studies emphasize that foods and skincare products rich in antioxidants are vital to protect your precious skin from premature and severe damage = aging.

That is why look for the products that not only offer the sunscreen protection, but also contain antioxidants that could significantly reduce the generation of free radicals.

Vitamin E and vitamin C are some of the most potent free-radical-quenchers.

My best liked product – again – comes from the Ilike brand by Szep Elet –
Antioxidant Grapeseed Serum.

This formula:

• Slows aging process by fighting free radicals with powerful antioxidants
• Supplies vitamins to the skin
• Rejuvenates and tone the skin
• Decreases inflammation
• Increases skin’s elasticity by rebuilding collagen

Some of the Ingredients it contains that add to the antioxidant power of the product:

• Bioflavonoids
• Poliphenols
• Resveratrol
• Vitamins B, C, E
• Carotene (Provitamin A)

Disclosure: If and when my references fall onto mentioning any Product and/or Brand in this and further blog entries, they come from my personal recommendation and experience. I do not receive any products and/or compensation from any mentioned companies and/or brands for promotion, review and/or giveaway.

You can contact me via my LinkedIn profile

VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Aging Skin: Optimize Skin’s Health and Complexion

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As you improve your lifestyle and daily choices in your foods, you will definitely start thinking not only about how your body in general looks, but also how your face skin presents You in public. And when you are one-on-one with yourself.

That is why taking care of your skin health becomes an integral part of who you are.

This post is a short overview of what kind of discussions are out there on the topic of Skin's Youth and Condition.

First thing that comes to mind when we mention “aging skin” is “wrinkles.”

This overwhelming consensus on this subjects explains the multitude of products available on the market to “treat,” “eliminate”, “smooth” your wrinkles, thus “reversing” the aging process in your skin.

Let’s put the lie detector to this promise. It is possible that a topically applied product can eliminate wrinkles? Really eliminate them?

The answer is that only a limited number of ingredients address the signs of aging. And unfortunately, nothing short of cosmetic surgery can really eliminate a wrinkle.

Studies on retinol (Vitamin A), ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), and various peptides, all show positive effects in stimulating collagen to help smooth and retexture aging skin. As far as eliminating wrinkles, that’s more of a wishful thinking than hard-core science.

You want to give up? No, no, no. There is no reason why we should not take good care of our skin that shall boast of its healthy and, thus, younger appearance.

Skin can lose its young and vibrant looks even in the body that is in its twenties. The trick is maintenance and joy in taking your body and your skin to a new level of vibrant health.

The more realistic approach to the treatment of aging skin would be to optimize the skin’s health and condition by ensuring ample hydration of tissues while stimulating collagen formulation in the dermis and eliminating the triggers that lead to aging skin.

What are those triggers to aging skin? To mention a few:

• Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), or better known as free radicals.
• Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs), in which a sugar molecule bonds to either lipid molecule or protein without an enzyme to control the reaction. These by-products are dangerous and “impair the functioning of biomolecules.”
• Matrix Metalloproteinase Enzumes (MMPs), that break down collagen and elastin when the matrix is being stimulated.

What to do to avoid the triggers to aging skin?

We cannot avoid them completely. However, we can and should do at least a minimum effort to stimulate and maintain young cells production in our skin.

• Whole Foods and Water
Populate your daily diet with whole foods vs. processed, cooked, canned foods. Enjoy the foods that bring the maximum values to your skin’s hydration and feeding (vegetables, fruit, heritage grains like quinoa, teff, backwheat, chia.) Drink spring water!

• Massage

Massages are great to increase circulation in your skin, thus bringing more nutrients and oxygen to the cells. Spending 2-3 minutes a day for such massages will also release tension in the muscles and connective tissues. We’ll cover these simple techniques in videos, one by one. Stay tuned.

 
 • Masks

Home-concocted masks could really change the appearance of your complexion and firmness of your skin. They will provide a higher chance for the nutrients in lotions and cremes applied afterwards to penetrate the skin. We’ll give you a numerous number of simple, yet powerful masks you could mix up in the comfort of your home without an expensive trip to the spa.

 • Skin Products Choices

There is a plethora of skin products on the market. How to chose the best for your needs? How to choose something that works and produces results you are happy with? We’ll discuss these boiling points, so you could make quicker good choices when shopping for your skin care products.

Naturally, these are the basics that would boost your skin’s radiance and youthful looking. And you should take advantage of these simple techniques before the skin sags and you become regretful of not taking action earlier.

There is only Do or Not Do.

To Your Daily Health!

VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.