We’ve all heard of the wonderful benefits of drinking POM Pomegranate juice and how the naturally occurring polyphenols in pomegranates have tremendous health and rejuvenation benefits. Such benefits include fighting off free radicals and promoting a healthy heart and prostate.  

POM has made staying healthy even easier now with the POMx pill,  a 100% pomegranate, highly concentrated and powerful version of the POM juice.  It’s the first and only pomegranate supplement to be reviewed for safety by the FDA.  So if you don’t feel like drinking your POM, no problem.. just pop a POMx.

Any kind of traveling can be stressful at one time or another and unfortunately this stress does have an effect on our skin.  To the rescue! Babor Anti-Stress, Anti-Jetlag Cream.  This soft textured cream was formulated to not only protect the skin from stress and fatigue but to calm down any hypersensitivity and restore the skin’s biorhythms keeping away any potential inflammations or irritations.  Perfect for the jet set traveller and anyone who just needs their skin to de-stress. Available in male and female versions.

Drinking a nice tall glass of green tea can have alot more benefits then we realize.  Not only is green tea an excellent antioxidant but according to RealAge when you drink green tea prior to working out you will burn 17% more tummy fat. Green tea is a natural metabolism booster and when you drink it before hitting the gym it uses your fat as fuel.  Now that’s cool!  For the full article click here: http://www.realage.com/ct/eat-smart/food-and-nutrition/tip/6651

When I was in Esthetician school Biolements was the product line we used and I basically got a chance to learn about and test out alot of their product line on other esthetician students and clients we saw at the school.  I also had the opportunity to receive a facial almost everyday.. ahh…yes the perks of getting your esthetician license.  Anyhow, one of the Biolements products I absolutely loved was their oxygen-rich moisturizer.  It gives your skin a boost of fresh air that helps to stimulate skin cell renewal and it really worked. 

I was excited to see their Power of Oxygen Kit which contains an Oxygen Cocktail and Oxygenation, two high performing products that keeps skin looking young, fresh and glowing. Now anyone can get the oxygen their skin needs and deserves.

Here’s some good news for anyone looking to flight off their wrinkles - start eating the papaya fruit.  I received a newsletter from Realage.com today and they mentioned that papaya has loads of Vitamin C that helps to keep skin smooth, supple and best of all wrinkle free. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant and essential in collagen production which keeps our skin elastic. The high concentrations of Vitamin C in Papaya make it a great snack choice - it tastes great and won’t be difficult to incorporate into our daily eating routine. So stock up on this amazing anti-aging food and see those wrinkles fade away!

Skin discoloration such as hyperpigmentation, freckles and age spots can occur from many reasons such as years of spending time in the sun, hormones, pollution, stress and free radicals. Any one of these can cause an excessive amount of melanin to be produced which then causes those dreaded brown spots to show up. To reverse the appearance of these brown spots and reveal your healthier, younger skin DDF has created the Discoloration Reversal-POD. Their sponge like applicator exfoliates and hydrates your skin on the area where hyperpigmentation occurs and allows for deep skin penetration of the new Micro-Radiance Complex so maximum results for a more even-toned skin are achieved.  Available at SkinStore.com

Ok, this woman holding the bottle of esente above is not only the founder of the company but can you believe she is a 50 year old grandmother! Her name is Victoria Nash and if her youthful look is the result of using the esente line of skin care products we all need to give them a try.  

The esente line was created to be both preventative as well as restorative, offering many benefits that are referred to as the “e” factor - eliminating imperfections, enhancing cell function, extracting impurity, exfoliating and many others. 

Science, of course is behind the Physioceutical collection.  Pharmaceutical grade ingredients combined with ocean derived Oligo elements, peptides and other natural ingredients offer tremendous long term benefits to keeping skin beautiful, youthful and radiant. For more information visit esente.com and for your chance to win a free esente sampler just click here to enter. 

One of my most favorite skin cleansers around is the Arcona Toner Tea Bar. Packed full of antioxidants, the Toner Tea Bar includes green and black tea to protect your skin against any free radical damage. It also keeps skin tight and toned while minimizing the appearance of pores. It really makes you skin feel amazing with consistent daily use. 

Looking for some serious skin care try out the Euoko line of radiance enhancing products to combat major skin issues likes wrinkles, age spots, hyperpigmentation and sagging.  Packed with super concentrated ingredients that have been scientifically studied, this line of products even though pricey with their Extreme White Concentrate Ampoules costing over $700 may hold the key to youthful, radiant skin.  

For some reason a couple of weeks ago I gave up my morning coffee and swapped it for a cup of green tea instead.  I’m not sure how or why this transition took place, I’ve always loved a cup of joe first thing in the morning.  The smell of coffee brewing can make it more addicting then the actual caffeine but for some reason i just didn’t like the taste anymore. This is not to say i will never have a cup again but i find it strange that after years of being an avid coffee drinker the switch to tea happened so easily. 

I am happy to hear however, that switching to drinking green tea has many health benefits such reducing the risk of many cancers.  Antioxidants such as various polyphenols that are high in green tea make this possible.  Green tea also keeps your heart strong and your blood pressure normal and it can takes years off your life by keeping your arteries healthy which will prevent heart disease and stroke.  For those of you who need a metabolism boost drinking 2-3 cups of green tea a day will help to increase calorie burning so you lose weight.  So even if you still want to drink your coffee maybe throw in a couple of cups of green tea.  My favorite - Jasmine Green Tea.  It can only do your body good.

Yes, there is a fountain of youth and it arrived at my front door today in a canister with big black letters that read TOKI.  A japenese product developed by Lanelabs, TOKI means porcelain-like skin and all the women in Japan have it and the women in america want it. 

Toki is unlike other anti-aging products we use since most are a topical cream or serum and cannot penetrate deep into the dermal or lower layers of the skin. 

TOKI is rather a powdered lemon flavored collagen drink that you mix into a hot or cold beverage and drink up to 3 times per day.  It contains Active collagen, Calcium and Mucopolysaccharides that include hyaluronic acid which is produced by the body naturally and gives our skin it’s volume and elasticity, but as we age we do not produce as much.  By taking internally in the form of a drink, essential nutrients are able to travel through the blood stream and into the dermis layer improving your skin’s texture and appearance.  Clinical studies have shown that TOKI can actually diminish fine lines, wrinkles and age spots.  It can also improve overall elasticity of the skin resulting in a more youthful appearance and of course porcelain skin. Sounds good to me - well here I go my first TOKI experience added to my morning green tea… tastes good.  I will keep you posted on my results.  In the meantime click here for before and after pictures as well as additional information.