Adaptogens are becoming more and more fashionable in the skin care market but not too many individuals are knowledgeable what they actually do. There is plenty of stress in our world, whether it be personal or environmental and it all damages your skin.
Adaptogens are making advancements in an already stuffed skin care market because they smooth the stress response to help prevent adrenal exhaustion by bettering the functioning of the innate immune system. This may seem vague so let us investigate a little deeper.
The word adaptogen is used to designate a natural product that increases the body's capacity to cope with stresses such as trauma, fretfulness, fatigue and poor hygiene and nutritional habits. Adaptogens do not deter the real stress in your life, they just help your tangible organs, skin in this example, react to the stress suitably. Quite simply, adaptogens help our body generate a defensive response to stress, and have a normalizing influence on the skin.
Natural Adaptogens and Skin Care
Adaptogens have been a part of skin care dating back thousands of years to ancient India and China. Ancient Lakota Indian cultures as well used rejuvenating herbal tonics to address skin inflammations. While herbal tonics, poultices and other adaptogens have been used for years, in depth scientific scrutiny of their benefits did not begin until the mid 1900s.
After intense scrutiny and exhaustive research, a Russian research scientist recorded that each adaptogen has specific actions in regards to helping the body adapt. Dr. Israel I. Brekhman identified and noted the special features of many herbs and adaptogens. Dr. Brekhman found that adaptogens can be mixed to create a synergistic effect.
There is no question that environmental stress and even personal stress can negatively affect the appearance of your skin. The human body is continually making changes to maintain a constant balance inside the body and in relationship to external factors. The catch is that our bodies are having more difficulty adjusting themselves to modern stressors such as those of hypertension, smoking, diabetes, poor nutritional habits, pollution, heavy drinking, insufficient sleep, emotional exhaustion, etc., that can cause continual sympathetic nervous system activation with very little opportunity for the parasympathetic nervous system to activate and cope with the burdens we impose on our body or from demands from our environment.
An All Natural Skin Adaptogen from A Surprising Source
Drug makers are trying their hardest to make pills or concoctions for everything but they have not yet found one that can help us adapt effectively to every aspect of modern stressors. In this regard, Mother Nature has once again proven to be able to provide a more ingenious solution. One found by sharp observation and pure chance and not by some scientist posing the right questions.
Yes, Mother Nature has endowed a little creature that lives in places where an excess of stressors must be faced, in order to survive, with the ability to produce an adaptogen in the form of a fluid solution, serum or watery fluid, secreted through its own skin.
This serum is secreted not only as a protective guard but also as a compound that has all the elements necessary to support its own skin in the process of repair, rejuvenation or regeneration. The creature requires the secretion whenever its skin is hurt by stressors like UV rays, environmental pollution or even when damaged by predators. Most of us look down upon these little creatures as pests that eat our garden flowers but they generate the world's most complete and balanced skin adaptogen.
When this biological skin adaptogen is collected and used in a new all natural skin care line, it does the same for humans as it does for the creature. It helps skin adapt to stress and fight the battle against UV rays, skin allergies, sensitive skin issues, flaky skin, skin spots and injuries just to mention a few. This line of natural skin care balms took notice of the studies by Dr. Brekhman and has mixed the snail serum with the most beneficial botanical adaptogens and only natural ingredients to make products with a creamy-gel or serum like texture that soothes, heals, and restores skin's liveliness.
Natural Skin Care Balms
The unique feature of the new line of balms is that they improve your skin's natural ability to renew itself. Skin may be altered by a number of factors, both internal and external. What the snail adaptogen does is stimulate human skin to help naturally clear out flaws and give you that fresh, healthy appearance you can now easily achieve.
When applied to skin for a period of at least 2 months, the natural skin care balms with the biological adaptogen will fuse with cells and:
* halt free radical progression and protect healthy cells from being overrun. Cell mutations caused by free radicals can lead to cancer.
* stimulate glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans molecules, water holding molecules which deeply hydrate the skin and restore strength to skin. It renews the lipid barrier of the skin and promotes the renewal of damaged cells associated with acne scars, keratosis, age spots, and other skin marks.
* digest keratin and debris that blocks pores and dissolves damaged tissues while stimulating the development of new, healthy tissues. This is called skin rejuvenation and it is an important part of having clear skin.
* prompt skin renewal by promoting fibroblast reproduction in the skin. Skin is strengthened and appearance is rejuvenated by the influx of new collagen and elastin in a trauma site.
* boost the production of natural antimicrobial peptides on the skin. These peptides kill harmful bacteria and help prevent the evolution of acne by making the skin an unwelcome place for microbes if they tend to multiply too quickly.
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