Our Top 10 Healthy Greens for Great Skin
The Skinsmith | 10th April, 2023
How Greens Are Good for Your Skin - The Power of Botanical Ingredients
As an innovative leader in global skincare, Eminence has long been an advocate for botanical ingredients. Powerful, effective, and healthy, it’s not just a great idea to eat your greens but they have significant benefits to the skin when formulated into skincare products too.
Let’s look at our Top 10 Healthy Greens and How They Help Your Skin!
One of Eminences favourite “green” ingredient is Stone Crop, you will find this little gem in many of our products and we love it so much we actually have a Stone Crop line of products where Stone Crop is the hero ingredient.
Stone Crop is a succulent plant, it has thick rubbery leaves and comes from the same family as Aloe! It is versatile, smells fresh and offers benefits to every skin type and concern. It is uber healing and hydrating, it brightens and balances and repairs and rejuvenates, to name but a few of the many benefits of this fabulous plant. It will soothe sensitivity, brighten and even out skin tone, heal and calm breakouts, as well as smooth and repair ageing. It truly has something for everyone… If you look you’ll find stone crops everywhere right now, from the supermarket to the garden centre!
Aloe and Aloe Vera, Have you ever asked what is the difference between the two? Aloe is the name given to the 420 different species of aloe whereas Aloe Vera is an actual plant, one of those 420 it is the Aloe Barbadensis Miller plant. The aloe species are all great healing plants helping the skin to repair and rejuvenate quickly speeding up the healing process. They are also great anti-inflammatory plants soothing and calming, irritated, damaged skins. You will often find this green healing hero in products that you use after injury, sunburn and some invasive treatments such as laser, peels or medical procedures. As they are so good at repairing and healing, they are also widely used in skincare… plus just like their sister plant the Stone Cro,p they are super hydrators too!
Marine Flowers as we like to call them are the superfood gems of the sea, from the dark green Spirulina to Blue Green Algae these wonderful sea flowers are overflowing with benefits to the skin. They are high in vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and antioxidants which are all vital for a healthy skin. Helping to increase firmness whilst intensely hydrating the skin they also contain compounds to boost and protect our skins natural barrier function. They help to prevent dryness and visible signs of ageing which helps to keep your skin vibrant, youthful, and protected. They have another great benefit as they help the absorption of other ingredients, meaning your products absorb deeper into the epidermal and dermal layers improving the effectiveness of those products.
Spinach, do you remember Popeye and his love for Spinach, we share that love as this green superhero not only strengthens muscle mass as it did for Popeye, it also promotes collagen production as it is high in Vitamin C, it is full to the brim with antioxidants, and nutrient dense helping the skin to appear more youthful, brighter and firmer.
Broccoli, another green gem with anti-ageing, healing and soothing benefits, it is full of Vitamins A and C and Zinc. Broccoli also contains Lutein which is very important to the health of our skin and bodies as it helps protect us from what we call oxidative stress. This is where too many free radicals have affected the skin and/or the body! The imbalance between Free Radicals and Antioxidants results in cell damage and possibly cellular death. This can manifest itself as ageing, dull, fatigued skin and in the body as various diseases. As a protective ingredient Broccoli also helps to protect the skin from UV damage specifically, as it contains the compound sulforaphane.
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Microgreens maybe micro but they pack a hefty punch for their size! Eminence uses microgreens from Broccoli, Radish, Kale, Swiss Cress Sprouts and Clover Sprouts, we even have our own Detoxifying Microgreens Complex, it is high in Vitamin C, E and K. The Swiss Cress Sprout also contains a compound called detoxophane, this is very important in skincare as it helps to turn on and stimulate our own detoxification processes. By increasing the skins ability to detoxify impurities and toxins it helps to balance the skin and help prevent, dullness, dryness and breakouts. A detoxified skin will look healthier and more youthful in appearance and you should see a glowing complexion as a result.
Dandelion is the “weed” you want to keep around when it comes to skincare! It has so many benefits to the skin including anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-aging, helps pigmentation issues and has a heap of vitamins and minerals to nourish the skin. Dandelion is great for all skin types including compromised skin barrier conditions such as rosacea, psoriasis, eczema and it evens helps cystic acne. It has the A.C.E Vitamins which helps to target line and wrinkles and boosts collagen, as well as helping to lighten and brighten the skin, evening out areas of darker pigmentation… dandelion truly is the all-round superweed!
Avocado, not only great on toast but a superfood for the skin. They are high in the regenerative Vitamins A and E, both essential for cellular repair, thus helping to reduce and prevent signs of ageing. They are also full of essential fatty acids bringing moisture and hydration to skin cells. Vitamin C also plays a key part in the benefits of an avocado, soothing and calming the skin as well as boosting collagen production. There are antimicrobial properties in these yummy greens helping to keep a clearer skin with fewer breakouts. So “avocado” at looking for this key ingredient in your skin care products!!
Cucumber, oh so cool! Did you know that a cucumber is actually cool, it is naturally about 10 degrees cooler than its surrounding temperature, so when you bite into a cucumber and it feels cooler on your tongue, it is!!! Cucumber is also 96% water; therefore, it has natural hydrating benefits for our skin plus some rather unusual ones. Cucumbers help to balance sebum production so are great for oily, breakout prone skins, it contains antioxidants to help prevent ageing, they are a key ingredient for the delicate eye area helping with puffiness and fatigue. The refreshing feel of cucumber as an ingredient is also invigorating to the skin, helping to stimulate a healthier blood flow and cool inflammation. How cool is that!
Herbs such as; Sage, Thyme, Rosemary, Parsley, Marjoram, Peppermint, Dill and Basil, are just some of the healing “green” herbs you can find in Eminence products. Most herbs contain antioxidants and are rejuvenating to your skin, but there’s a wealth of other benefits from these fragrant, tasty plants too and they include properties such as being antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, hormone balancing, brightening, toning, stimulating, healing and protecting to the skin. Herb blends are very popular in Eminence products because they are so beneficial and truly are superhero green ingredients.
Greens Really Are Good For You!
All in all, there are so many benefits of incorporating greens into your lifestyle, not just in your diet but in your skincare routine too. So go ahead and dive into those greens!!
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