Five Beauty Products to get you Bikini Season Ready!

That’s right ladies, it’s National Bikini Day! And that means summer is officially in full swing. Are you feeling ready to flaunt the hard work you’ve been putting in at the gym in that hot bikini you’ve been eyeing since winter? If not, you are not alone! It seems like no matter how drop dead gorgeous one may be may be, all women have their insecurities rocking a bathing suit nevermind a TWO PIECE! And no matter how much time you spent doing an extra set of squats are if you followed our TLS 21 Day challenge to the T, there are still natural blemishes that may have you feeling a little bikini shy. Well lucky for you, our beauty product developers source only the highest quality formulas with powerful ingredients from all over the globe! Read on to see which beauty products will have you Bikini  Day ready in not time!

If you suffer from stretch marks and wrinkles, you’ll want to get your hands on one of our most popular beauty products with amazing results, Pentaxyl! Pentaxyl is a proprietary blend of herbal extracts and the breakthrough formulas of the Matrixyl® Complex and Argireline, which reduce the appearance of wrinkles and furrows, help skin look thicker and firmer, and gives the skin a youthful glow. We’ve seen some of the most dramatic transformations with this revolutionary product! Learn all about Pentaxyl here.

Lumière de Vie Intensive Hand & Body Crème is an intensive rich crème that saturates skin for long-lasting hydration. With nutrient-rich ingredients like shea butter, coconut oil and sunflower seed oil, this powerful crème helps break the cycle of dryness and dehydration to give skin a new softness and suppleness perfect for beach days!

We’re obsessed with Motives Liquid Gold Shimmer this season! It’s a lightweight, liquid shimmer that adds a touch of radiance and a sheer glow to your skin. With the easy-to-use, roll-on applicator, you can create accentuate your eyes, cheeks, shoulders and even down the center of your thighs for slimmer looking legs.

Of course we always recommend using an SPF anytime you plan to be out in the sun. We recommend an SPF of 50 or higher for optimal protection from harmful sun exposure. Try Cellular Laboratories® De-Aging Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 50+and apply on your face and body on your bikini days!

Last but certainly not least, if you’re looking for a little more chisel in your physique, particularly in the abdomen area, you can always Contour! Use Motives Color Perfection Quads in a shade slightly darker than the skin where you want to look more toned. Follow this helpful guide by @MakeupMeri on where to contour and highlight to get instant abs! And remember to stay out of the water if you plan to try this technique.

 

Are you planning on spending time this summer showing off some skin? If so, share with us in the comments below which products you use to get yourself bikini ready!

Supplements beat sun for vitamin D boost: Study

Supplements beat sun for vitamin D boost: Study:

"Adequate vitamin D levels are best achieved by supplements because of the side-effects of UV exposure, says the results of a new computer simulation model from the US."


Supplements beat sun for vitamin D boost:

Study By Stephen Daniells, 18-Jun-2010

Related topics: Research, Vitamins & premixes

Adequate vitamin D levels are best achieved by supplements because of the side-effects of UV exposure, says the results of a new computer simulation model from the US.

We can produce vitamin D in our skin on exposure to sunlight, but the merits of getting the supplement via sunlight or supplements is a source of ongoing debate.

In the US, where over 1.5 million people are diagnosed with skin cancer every year, experts are pushing supplements, claiming recommendations for sun exposure are "highly irresponsible".

Computer science

Scientists from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research in Tromsø used a computer model to determine optimal sun exposure times to produce blood levels of vitamin D3 equivalent to 400 or 1000 IU of vitamin D.

The researcher chose two geographical sites – Miami, FL, and Boston, MA – for their simulation and selected four months – January, April, July, and October.

Data showed that in summer in Boston, people would need between three and eight minutes of sunlight exposure to about 25 per cent of their body surface to synthesise 400 IU of vitamin D. In winter, the simulation indicated that it would be difficult to produce any vitamin D in Boston. No such problems were calculated in Miami, however, with between three and six minutes needed to produce 400 IU at all times of the year.

“There are many limitations to these models, and clearly the estimates are only rough approximations,” said the researchers. “Although it may be tempting to recommend intentional sun exposure for a few minutes several times a week, cutaneous vitamin D synthesis is an intricate process and depends on numerous variables.

“Even in a simplified model such as the one used here, it can be seen to vary considerably by geography, season, and skin type. Furthermore, even if a more accurate and practical model were developed, titrating one’s own exposure to sunlight is difficult, if not impossible.

“Because of these practical difficulties combined with the detrimental side effects of UV exposure, we endorse the IARC assessment that even if it is ultimately demonstrated that increasing vitamin D levels impacts cancer and chronic disease, oral supplements of vitamin D would probably represent the safest way to increase vitamin D status,” concluded the researchers.

D details

Vitamin D refers to two biologically inactive precursors - D3, also known as cholecalciferol, and D2, also known as ergocalciferol. Both D3 and D2 precursors are hydroxylated in the liver and kidneys to form 25- hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), the non-active 'storage' form, and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)2D), the biologically active form that is tightly controlled by the body.

An ever growing body of science supports the benefits of maintaining healthy vitamin D levels. In adults, it is said vitamin D deficiency may precipitate or exacerbate osteopenia, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, fractures, common cancers, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases and cardiovascular diseases. There is also some evidence that the vitamin may reduce the incidence of several types of cancer and type-1 diabetes.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
June 2010, Volume 62, Issue 6, Pages 929.e1-929.e9
“Estimated equivalency of vitamin D production from natural sun exposure versus oral vitamin D supplementation across seasons at two US latitudes”
Authors: V. Terushkin, A. Bender, E.L. Psaty, O. Engelsen, S.Q. Wang, A.C. Halpern

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