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Safe Sunscreen Guide
Are you putting safe sunscreen on your skin? Sunscreen is supposed to protect us from the sun, but as more and more people use it, the incidence of skin cancer rises 4% every year. More sunscreen use, more skin cancer. Something’s not right. Petrochemicals in common sunscreens are damaging our...
What are Free Radicals?
What are Free Radicals? They’re atoms with unpaired (free) electrons. Produced by oxygen metabolizing in the body, they steal electrons from other atoms that make up cell membranes, cellular proteins, lipids and DNA. Each theft creates the need for another, i.e. a chain reaction. This free radical process is a...
What do Antioxidants do?
What do Antioxidants do? Antioxidants do two things: they decrease free radical production, and they neutralize those already created. An antioxidant works by seeking out free electrons and pairing one of its own with the free radical electron, stabilizing it so it can’t do damage. You might ask, “Why don’t...
CoQ10 Benefits for Skin
What is CoQ10? CoQ10, also known as CoEnzyme Q10 or Ubiquinone, is officially recognized as Ubidecarenone by the US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP). CoQ10 is a compound that provides energy to the body and is stored in cell mitochondria (the “engine” of cells). Found throughout the body, especially in the heart...
Rosehip Oil Benefits
What is Rosehip Oil? Rosehip oil, also known as rosehip seed oil, has been used for centuries, including by ancient Mayans, for its remarkable skin-enhancing properties. It is extracted by cold-pressing the seeds of wild rose bushes (Rosa moschata or Rosa rubiginosa) native to the southern Andes in Chile. The...
What is Oxybenzone?
Oxybenzone is the current bad guy in recent sunscreen news articles, daytime TV, and research studies and you may be asking, “But what is Oxybenzone?” Most common sunscreens are full of chemicals, which are not healthy for our skin, our bodies or the environment. Oxybenzone is a widely used ingredient...
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