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Ginseng Root – Science Behind The Wonder

 

Rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and photonutrients – Ginseng Root is prized for its host of skincare benefits. Its substances and vitamins help to maintain the skins elasticity, vitality and regenerates the capacity of skin cells.

Ginseng Root is considered to be one of the most precious plants in Asia and is traditionally used as an herbal medicine in Korea, Japan, India and China for thousands of years.

There are many benefits of using the healing ingredient for skincare:

Induces Collagen and Diminishes Signs of Aging

  • Ginseng Root is praised to be an effective anti-aging skincare treatment due to its natural ability to promote Type l collagen production which helps to make the skin more toned and elastic thus giving it a firmer, brighter, plumper and more youthful appearance. The phytonutrients packed in Ginseng Root work to stimulate the metabolism of the skin resulting in the removal of ‘free radicals’ which damage the skin and speeds along skin aging.

Complexion Booster

  • Ginseng Root is packed with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants which work to slough away dead skin cells and in turn, produce healthy skin and boost the skins complexion. Its properties also work to rehydrate, regenerate and detox the skin by increasing oxygeneration which help to promote a healthy, radiant and glowing appearance.

Wound Healing and Calming

  • Ginseng Root is widely used as an herbal medicine to aid skin regeneration. Its natural healing properties makes the ingredient useful to heal sunburn and skin irritations such as razor burns. It is found that wounds are known to react to even low doses of Ginseng Root as it contains powerful repairing functions. Ginseng Root is a healing ingredient which will leave your skin feeling renewed as it hydrates, brightens, plumps and tones your skin.

 

Kathleen Natural only uses high-grade Ginseng root extract in our Caviar Enrich Eye Cream. Whether you want to find the best eye cream for dark circles, wrinkles or puffiness, this advance formula will refresh and restore your peepers.  This little pot has been packed with 23 actives ingredients including caviar, marine collagen, algae, ginseng, silk peptides, barley, horsetail, sandalwood, green coffee, black willow back and phellodendron, hyaluronic acid and sea buckthorn etc. It promotes the firming and lifting of the skin surrounding the eyes, reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.  Over time, you will notice the under eye area looking more lifted and brighter.

Yes, it is expensive because it works.

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Tamanu Seed Oil – A Healing Hero

Renowned for its skin healing abilities, it comes to no surprise that the exotic and precious oil is known as a “healing hero”.

 

Rich and deep green coloured, Tamanu Oil is extracted by cold pressing and filtrating the Tamanu Nut, grown on a Tamanu Tree. Natives believed the Tamanu Tree was a sacred gift of nature and often used the oil for skincare, haircare and to aid their wellbeing.

“Did you know? It takes 100 kilograms of Tamanu Seed Oil
to produce less than 5 kilograms of cold pressed oil!”

 

Filled with antioxidants and fatty acids, Tamanu Oil is known to be a natural skin solution – there are many benefits of using the super ingredient for skincare.

Here are just a few benefits of Tamanu Seed Oil for our skin:

 

  • Anti-Aging

Tamanu Seed Oil helps to stimulate the growth of new tissues and therefore accelerate the healing and growth of healthy skin. The fatty acids found in the oil help to promote collagen and thus works to reduce the appearance of fine-lines and wrinkles, whilst improving the skin’s elasticity.

  • Treats Acne

Tamanu Seed Oil includes anti-bacterial phytochemicals which actions against and destroys the bacteria build-up in the pores which causes acne breakouts and blemishes. The phytochemicals stimulate ‘phagocytic cells’ to take antibiotic action against the bacteria which manifests as acne.

  • Treats Dry Skin

Tamanu Seed Oil quickly absorbs and penetrates into deep layers of the skin ensuring the facial skin is deeply nourished, hydrated and moisturised, as opposed to merely coating the top layer of the facial skin. The fatty acids found in Tamanu Seed Oil helps to restore dry skin without leaving a greasy residue on the skin’s surface.

  • Natural Sunscreen Protection

The anti-oxidant property of Tamanu Seed Oil means the healing hero can be used as natural sunscreen to protect the skin against harsh UV rays of the sun. The xanthones and coumarin components of Tamanu Oil hinder ‘lip peroxidation’ which means it’s suitable for soothing and treating sunburns.

These reasons are why the natives said the Tamanu nut is the sacred gift of nature.  The Tamanu seed oil is a natural skin solution, the healing hero that will leave your skin looking and feeling silky, soft and smooth.

 

Kathleen Natural has infused this healing hero inside our Refreshing & Lightening Cleansing Lotion that is both pure and organic and suitable for even the very sensitive skins. Our Cleansing Lotion helps to lift dirt, oil, makeup and impurities without drying or sensitizing the skin. Supplied with Kathleen pure cotton gauze muslin face cloth for an even gentler exfoliation, to reveal smoother, clearer and lighter-looking skin. Shop here

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Olive Oil: Taste & Health

Your Health Your Choice

We’ve often been puzzled why some recipes specifically call for vegetable oil while others call for olive oil.

Olive oil is simply extracted cold from the olives and has a reputation for being the “healthy oil” since its rich in:

  • Monounsaturated fats (can help reduce bad cholesterol levels in your blood which can lower your risk of heart disease and stroke. They also provide nutrients to help develop and maintain your body’s cells. Oils rich in monounsaturated fats also contribute vitamin E to the diet).
  • Antioxidants (powerful substances, which mostly come from the fresh fruits and vegetables we eat, prohibit (and in some cases even prevent), the oxidation of other molecules in the body. The benefits of antioxidants are very important to good health, because if free radicals are left unchallenged, they can cause a wide range of illnesses and chronic diseases.

Good olive oils also have a pleasant flavour and aroma that compliment many dishes. However, olive oil has a relatively low smoke point (325-375°F/165-190°C), making it less ideal for cooking methods requiring high heat like pan-searing and high-heat stir fries.

Vegetable oil is extracted from seeds like the rapeseed (canola oil) soybean (soybean oil), corn, sunflower, safflower, which requires chemical processes that will allow them to be extracted and so it can have a higher smoke point, better for high-temperature cooking.

OilSmoke Point
Safflower510°F/265°C
Rice Bran490°F/260°C
Soybean450°F/230°C
Peanut450°F/230°C
Corn450°F/230°C
Sunflower440°F/225°C
Canola400°F/205°C
Grapeseed390°F/195°C

These chemical processes are known for being bad for your health. It’s certainly nothing like the simple processes used to make other popular fats/oils, like butter, olive oil or coconut oil.

The mere fact that it is exposed to high heat should turn you away from this oil. It is high in polyunsaturated fats (Omega-3 and omega-6 can help reduce bad cholesterol levels in your blood which can lower your risk of heart disease and stroke), which are very sensitive to high heat and easily become oxidized (rancid).

A toxic solvent called hexane is used to extract the oil from the seeds. Trace amounts of hexane have sometimes been found in cooking oils.

During this highly unnatural manufacturing process, some of the oil becomes damaged. You just can’t tell because the oil is also deodorized, which removes the smell.

One study analysed canola and soybean oils found on store shelves in the U.S. They found that 0.56% to 4.2% of the fatty acids in them were toxic trans fats (raise your bad (LDL) cholesterol levels and lower your good (HDL) cholesterol levels. Eating trans fats increases your risk of developing heart disease and stroke. It’s also associated with a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes and can mainly be found in processed food, because oils with trans fats can be used many times in commercial fryers).

Till today, only three EU Member States adopted legislation to restrict industrially produced trans fats in the food chain, being Denmark the first one, followed afterwards by Austria and Hungary.

In summary: Even though they are both high in calories, olive oil has more natural ones then vegetable oil. And being healthier, means more price. As a tip to help you save money, you can always use any olive oil that comes in jar with olives, tomatoes, artichokes, etc. as a great salad dressing or storage it in jars for a short period of time.

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Aloe Vera – The Miracle Plant

The miracle plant contains a variety of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fibre which work benefit the skin in a variety of ways. Aloe Vera is a rich natural source of Vitamin C which to helps to promote production of collagen and treat acne, as well as helping to target fine lines & wrinkles. Its abilities to store huge amounts of water allows for the ingredient to replenish moisture into the skin, leaving it super hydrated. 

“Did you know Aloe Vera was the “plant of immortality” during the ancient Egyptian period as early as 4,000 BC?”

Benefits of Aloe Vera

Can you believe that an Aloe Vera leaf contains more than 200 different bio-active components, including vitamins, minerals, polysaccharides, amino acids, anthraquinones, enzymes, lignin, saponins and salicylic acids. Scientist, Robert Davis, Ph. D., using the conductor-orchestra concept, explains the relationship that exists among these 200 bio-active components within Aloe Vera. One of these components, a polysaccharide acts as the conductor that leads a symphony composed of 200 active compounds working as the orchestra molecules to work synergistically

Here are the orchestra molecules.

  1. Vitamins: It contains vitamins A (beta-carotene), C, B4 (as choline), B9 (as folic acid), B12 and E, which are antioxidants and neutralize free radicals.
  2. Enzymes: It contains 8 enzymes: aliiase, alkaline phosphatase, amylase, bradykinase, carboxypeptidase, catalase, cellulase, lipase, and peroxidase. Bradykinase specially targets to reduce excessive inflammation.
  3. Minerals: It provides calcium, chromium, copper, selenium, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium and zinc. They are essential for the proper functioning of various enzyme in human metabolic systems. They also are antioxidants.
  4. Sugars: It provides monosaccharides (glucose and fructose) and polysaccharides: (glucomannans/polymannose). These are derived from the mucilage layer of the plant and are known as mucopolysaccharides. The most prominent monosaccharide is mannose-6-phosphate, and the most common polysaccharides are called glucomannans. Acemannan, a prominent glucomannan has also been found. Recently, a glycoprotein with antiallergic properties, called alprogen and novel anti-inflammatory compound, C-glucosyl chromone, has been isolated from Aloe Vera gel. They empower our skin and promote healthy glowing complexion.
  5. Anthraquinones: It provides 12 anthraquinones, which are phenolic compounds traditionally known as laxatives. Aloin and emodin act as analgesics, antibacterials and antivirals.
  6. Fatty acids: It provides 4 botanical steroids; cholesterol, campesterol, β-sisosterol and lupeol. All these have anti-inflammatory action and lupeol also possesses antiseptic and analgesic properties.
  7. Others: It provides 20 of the 22 human required amino acids and 8 essential amino acids.  They are Lysine, Valine, Methionine, Leucine, Isoleucine, Phenylaianine, Histidine and Glutamin acid which help the production of elastin, cell regeneration and metabolism.   Also Aloe Vera contains salicylic acid that possesses anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties.

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Production Process

Although Aloe Vera is rich in bio-active components, these active components are easily degraded during the production process, involving crushing, grinding, pressing, filtration and stabilization. Manufacturers have never stopped to advance the production process to assure the active components are perfectly and entirely preserved and maintained. It is only within the last decade, scientists have found the best production process – cold processed.

The best products should be cold processed using the whole leaf. The freshly removed leaves must go directly into production and prevent the extended heat sterilization which damages the active ingredients and reduces its efficacy. Cold processed Aloe Vera therefore has to be sterilized by ultraviolet light and micron filtration.

Various studies found that there are many benefits of using Aloe Vera, including minor sunburns, skin moisturizing, soft scarring, anti-inflammation, fighting aging and supply of nutrients. Nowadays, Aloe Vera may be one of the most commonly used herbs in the United States to produce pharmaceutical, cosmetic or food products.

Did you know? Kathleen Natural’s Silk Miracle Essence infused with Aloe Vera, Marine Collagen, Silk Amino acid and Marula oil which all work in synergy to boost the skin’s natural defence and promote a healthier, smoother and more glowing complexion. Kathleen Natural’s Tonifying Mist is also formulated with Aloe Vera, alongside Glycerin, Chamomile and Lemon Extracts which work together to help moisturise dry skin, heal and soothe skin irritation and leave the skin more tone, less redness and more radiant.

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Finally, readers must realize that Aloe Vera is not a panacea! You are encouraged to consult your physician or your local healthcare doctor if you have any suspect health or skin problem.

 

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