The skin is the pathway into the body. The cells in our skin receive their nourishment from the food we place within our bodies as well as the products we place on the skin itself. The skin is also connected with our nervous system and it’s ‘fed’ by our emotions. Skin problems are multifactorial, like everything else, with genetic predispositions, nutrition factors, hormonal influences, medication side effects, stress factors, inflammatory pathology all playing a role. Gut health, or lack thereof, also plays a big role. According to the current research, our skin is a highly active biological factory for protein synthesis and metabolism, signaling molecules and lipids, and an integral part of the immune, nervous, and endocrine systems.
During the aging process:
- Collagen fibers decrease in number & stiffen
- Fibroblasts decrease in number
- Langerhans cells (present in all skin layers) and macrophages (cells involved in the detection, phagocytosis and destruction of bacteria and other harmful organisms) decrease in number and become less efficient
- Oil glands shrink and the skin becomes dry
- Elastin fibers become less elastic
- Walls of blood vessels in dermis thicken resulting in decreased nutrient availability, which leads to thinner skin as subcutaneous fat is lost
These processes greatly support the need to maintain and support the health of the skin through the application of organic, whole skincare products, consumption of whole foods, good nutrition, clean air, and a healthy emotional environment.
Step 1: Cleansing
Cleansing should not compromise the skin. Harsh soaps that strip stratum corneum lipids and proteins can be avoided by using products with milder surfactants and more phospholipids. Skin cleansers combined with moisturizers help replace and repair the barrier disrupted by cleaning. Using liquid and foam soaps rather than bar soaps, and using a soft cloth and cooler water are some strategies to reduce skin disruption. The goal of a mild moisturizing cleanser is to provide cleansing benefits without negatively altering the hydration and viscoelastic properties of skin. Products used on the skin should be evaluated because of their potential damaging effect on compromised and aged skin. Honest & Pure Cleansing Milk combines a mild surfactant and phospholipids to gently cleanse the skin without any disruption.
Step 2: Toning
Toners are designed to:
- Remove soapy film or traces of cleanser
- Remove make-up residue (after cleansing)
- Remove dirt and grime
- Stimulate surface circulation thereby supporting healthy blood flow
- Restore the skins acid (pH) balance
- Infuse the skin with actives to support the health of the skin
Honest & Pure spray toner purifies pores while refreshing and hydrating your complexion, made with Cornflower, Rose and Wild Lavender.
Step 3: Facial Skin Exfoliation
The therapeutic benefits of facial exfoliants include:
- Removing dead skin cells
- Rejuvenating the facial skin (cellular regeneration)
- Stimulating blood/lymph circulation
- And reducing the appearance of wrinkles
Place a teaspoon of dry facial exfoliant into a small bowl. Add 1/2 tsp. of warmed honey and a 1/4 tsp. of rose hydrosol. Stir with a small spoon or glass stirring rod. Moisten face lightly with warm water. Dry hands then scoop a small amount of scrub with fingers and gently apply to face using circular motions. Be careful around eye areas and avoid exfoliating the delicate skin just under the eyes. Massage into facial skin then rinse with warm/cool water. Pat the skin dry with a face cloth or towel.
Uncover clearer, smoother skin with this Honest & Pure Face Polish. Jojoba micro-beads dissolve rough skin cells to diminish dullness, minimize the appearance of pores, to reveal a radiant complexion.
Step 4: Facial Steams
A facial steam is like a sauna for the body. It draws fresh blood to the surface of the skin, opens the pores, and draws impurities from the deeper levels to the surface of the skin, where they are released. Because of the heat and steam herbs or essential oils (Lavender, Chamomile, Sacred Frankincense) add their healing properties and absorb deep into the skin.
Step 5: Facial Serum
🥀Hyaluronic acid is naturally produced by our body and roughly half of it is in our skin where it binds to water to retain moisture. Natural aging process, exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, pollution and other factors can decrease hyaluronic acid in the skin. Honest & Pure potent serum may be helpful in replenishing moisture in the skin, reducing wrinkles, redness and dermatitis, wound healing by regulating inflammation levels and signaling the body to build more blood vessels in the damaged area. Hyaluronic acid also has antibacterial properties so it can help to reduce the risk of infection when applied directly to open wounds.
🥀Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5) is a skin protectant, anti-inflammatory, it can help improve skin’s hydration, elasticity and smooth appearance.
🥀Rose Hydrosol is anti-inflammatory, soothing eczema and rosacea, has anti-septic and antibacterial properties, healing to cuts, wounds and even scars. Rose hydrosol helps to reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
🥀Matrixyl:
Powerful peptide for anti-aging that synergistically restores and maintains the skin's youthful appearance.
🥀Leucidal Liquid:Fermented natural peptide for antibacterial benefits as well as moisturizing and conditioning benefits.
🥀Argireline:
Peptides are short chains of amino acids, the foundation for proteins including collagen and elastin, making them essential for healthy, youthful skin. Argireline prevents the muscle movement that leads to wrinkle formation, promotes collagen production and optimizes the function of collagen, which both fight fine lines and improve moisture levels in the skin.
🥀Niacinamide (Vitamin B3):
Keeps the skin firm and healthy
Can help your skin grow a lipid barrier that helps to retain moisture
Reduces inflammation
Reduces pore size
Regulates the amount of oil the sebaceous glands produce
Protects from sun damage
Brightens the skin, reduces dark spots
Boosts collagen production
Minimizes wrinkles
Protects skin cells from sun damage, environmental stress and toxins
May help in treating acne
Step 6: Facial Cream
Topical and systemic supplements. Modern approaches to active skin therapy and enhancement include topical and oral vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, alpha-hydroxy acids, glycerol, antioxidants, melatonin, creatine, amino acids, peptides, and more.
These are all topically absorbed through the intact stratum corneum and can enhance and repair skin. When the skin barrier is not intact, even larger molecules may pass through into the lower levels of the epidermis and even outer dermis. Physiologic lipids like fatty acids, cholesterol sphingolipids and phospholipids, and omega-3 fatty acids enhance the development of the skin barrier. Implementing corrective and therapeutic treatments for the skin can help restore function, not just temporarily reduce the loss of transepidermal water. Topical therapy also can affect degenerative dermal changes and scientific evidence supporting topical therapy of skin is extensive. Topical products, oral dietary supplements, and appropriate treatment have a significant impact on the skin and should all be implemented.
Why choose Honest & Pure Facial treatment cream?
We create a special type of emulsion based on phospholipids – molecules that, like ceramides, are capable of forming ordered structures in the skin. It turned out that with the help of phospholipids it is possible to create multilayer lipid sheets, very similar to those found in the skin, in its stratum corneum, and almost identical to lipid cement.
Our cream is ideal for dry, flaky skin as well as sensitive skin with eczema and a disturbed lipid barrier.
• have the highest level of transportation of biologically active substances into the deep layers of the skin
• strengthen the stratum corneum and serve as a source of nutrients for living cells
• free from chemicals
• does not cause allergic reactions
• restore the barrier functions of the skin
• reduce skin looseness, regulate moisture loss
• supports the functions of the skin (protection, regulation and sensation)
Ingredients:
What's in Honest & Pure Facial Cream?
🥀Organic Bulgarian Rose Hydrosol
Balancing, rejuvenating, calming, nourishing to the skin.
🥀Organic Argan Oil:
Protects dry, wrinkled, devitalized and dehydrated skin, restoring the elasticity and suppleness. Protects against the effects of external aggressions (sun, wind, cold). It contains vitamin E and several essential fatty acids including omegas 3 and 9.
🥀Cetearyl Olivate & Sorbitan Olivate:
Emulsifier that moisturizes and softens the skin.
🥀Squalane:
Detoxifier, boosts collagen production, which makes skin firmer.
- Hydrating
- Antioxidants that fight skin damage
- Non comedogenic (doesn’t clog the pores)
- Safe for acne prone skin
- Anti-inflammatory
- Brightens the skin
🥀Organic Avocado oil:
Rich in vitamin E, potassium, lecithin and other nutrients that nourish and moisturize the skin. Oleic acid boosts collagen production in the skin.
🥀Niacinamide (Vitamin B3):
- Keeps your skin firm and healthy
- Can help your skin grow a lipid barrier that helps to retain moisture
- Reduces inflammation
- Reduces pore size
- Regulates the amount of oil the sebaceous glands produce
- Protects from sun damage
- Brightens the skin, reduces dark spots
- Boosts collagen production
- Minimizes wrinkles
- Protects skin cells from sun damage, environmental stress and toxins
- May help in treating acne
🥀Matrixyl:
Powerful component for anti-aging that synergistically restores and maintains the skin's youthful appearance.
🥀Leucidal Liquid:
Fermented natural peptide for antibacterial benefits
🥀Vitamin E:
Antioxidant that may protect from skin damage caused by UV rays and protect from toxins.
🥀Sodium PCA:
Attracts moisture from the air and provides deep hydration.
🥀Organic Bulgarian Rose essential oil:
Hydrates the skin, may help to reduce signs of aging, may help to treat acne
🥀Bisabolol:
May help to soothe irritated skin, acts as a potent antioxidant, protecting the skin from free radical damage, and helping to improve the visible signs of aging
🥀Silver Dihydrogen Citrate:
Natural antibacterial component
🥀Organic Rosehip oil:
Helps to hydrate, moisturize, exfoliate and brighten the skin, boosts collagen formation, reduces inflammation, protects against sun damage, reduces hyperpigmentation, helps to reduce scars and fine lines.
Why use Eye Cream?
The skin around eyes is thinner and more delicate than the rest of the face. Eye cream is formulated to be extra mild. Since the first signs of ageing often become visible around the eyes good skincare for this area is very important.
What is in Honest & Pure Eye Cream?
🥀Organic Cornflower hydrosol:
Anti-aging, anti-wrinkle, plumping delicate skin cells, toning and tightening the skin, wonderful for healing scars and wounds.
🥀Cetearyl Olivate:
Emulsifier that moisturizes and softens the skin.
🥀Organic Jojoba Oil:
Moisturizing, antibacterial, promotes collagen production, soothing and healing wounds, eczema, acne, sunburn and other skin conditions. Jojoba oil reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
🥀Organic Almond oil:
Reduces puffiness, and under eye circles, improves skin complexion and tone, improves acne, reverses sun damage, reduces appearance of scars.
🥀Organic Avocado oil:
Rich in vitamin E, potassium, lecithin and other nutrients that nourish and moisturize the skin. Oleic acid boosts collagen production in the skin.
🥀 Organic Cactus oil:
Deeply moisturizing, rich in protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins A, E and K this precious, organic oil transforms the skin by refining and tightening pores, reducing redness and inflammation, brightening under the eyes, lightening dark spots, brightening skin tone and restoring skins elasticity.
🥀Organic Rosehip oil:
Helps to hydrate, moisturize, exfoliate and brighten the skin, boosts collagen formation, reduces inflammation, protects against sun damage, reduces hyperpigmentation, helps to reduce scars and fine lines.
🥀 Organic Pomegranate seed oil:
Rich in antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, protects from the sun and natural exfoliation of the skin, may have anti cancer potential, balances hydration. Pomegranate seed oil is known to contain high levels of vitamins, minerals, and omega fatty acids, high in the antioxidants vitamins C and K, and is packed with up to 65% fatty acids.
🥀 Horsechestnut extract:
Reduces swelling and puffiness, increases circulation (which may prevent rosacea), may have anticancer activity.
🥀 Plankton Extract:
Provides complete care of the eye contour area by reducing fluid extravasation and increasing the degradation of bilirubin, boosts collagen and elastin synthesis and decreases the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), for a brighter and younger look.
🥀Vitamin E:
Antioxidant that may protect from skin damage caused by UV rays and protect from toxins.
🥀Leucidal Liquid:
Fermented natural component for antibacterial action.
🥀Grapefruit Seed Extract:
Rich in antioxidants, antibacterial action
🥀Organic Rose essential oil:
Hydrates the skin, may help to reduce signs of aging, may help to treat acne.
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Written by Lena Isayev, B.A., C.A.
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