The Miracle of Skin

My show yesterday could have been a nightmare but ended up being one of the best. At a little after 8AM I received a call from the PR agency of my original guests canceling, with no explanation. Because I know this happens in radio-land I have a list of former guests that have said if they are available they will fill in at a moment’s notice.  Using my list I called Caroline Sutherland she agreed to be a last minute guest. www.carolinesutherland.com Caroline is a true professional with over 25 years in what she does. She really knows and can explain her field. We decided to talk about  How to Stay Young.

This long explanation gets around to… it must have been fate working for me. I launched my own (name on the bottle) skin care line 3 days earlier. To me Looking Younger is what skin care is all about.

Caroline and I talked about what happens within the body. The chemical processes of all the different foods that we eat and what they do to the body. The body is actually a very efficient chemical processing plant. Each item of food that we eat gets processed in a different manner to be used by the body. Did you know that your stomach hydrochloric acid is where almost everything starts in your own personal walking talking chemical processing plant?

The skin is the largest organ in the body. Yes it is considered an organ. Can you just imagine what we would look like without it? Although the molecule structure is the same skin can be different all over the body from thick to think areas. For women the skin on our face is the most important skin we take the most care with.  Actually that should be for men also but the gentlemen haven’t completely come around yet.

Skin and its seven layers is designed to shield our muscles and organs in a very compact and pliable manner. Many products that are used today that are called natural only work on the top layer of skin. That layer is the easiest for almost any product to “plump up” to look and feel soft. Easy because the product can be made of the simplest of ingredients and methods…think of stories of the mixtures during the Egyptian times or the 1800’s in America. Simple mixtures of natural household ingredients were used to “Make a woman beautiful”.  Applied to the first layer of skin to make it softer or lighten it up

Today we have much better technology…technology to get through the many layers of skin. Ingredients that are also harder to pronounce…specialty ingredients that come from extraction and separation processes.   An example is Vitamin C.  Most women know that Vitamin C is good for the skin.  However rubbing your face with an orange or lemon does nothing but make your face sticky. But if a chemist extracts Vitamin C from a lemon and you rub that on your skin it will rehydrate the collagen in your skin. And that rehydration is what we all need.  Then that same biochemist takes that Vitamin C (that could be called something else by now) and mixes it in a particular way to get a wonderful serum type product that  softens the skin, clears up “cruddy spots”,  works on wrinkles and helps smooth and rebuilds the texture of the skin.  That is the miracle of today’s technology… and a very smart biochemist. Because it’s more than just Vitamin C…it is the many ingredients including  the special proteins, extracts, enzymes and more that make up a product that goes down all seven layers and gets into the fibers of the skin to rebuild and regenerate.   www.ssskincare.com