World's Most Amazing Skin Care!

The only skin care enhanced by Tensa Water

Visibly reduces the age of your skin in 3 short minutes!

Clinically proven to reduce wrinkles & lines by 32% within only 60 days

World's 1st and only government certified preservative free skin care system

Clinically shown to increase skin hydration by 80% after the 1st application

Uniquely created for all skin types; both male & female

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Test Results

• In independent test results it was shown that the products actually made people look visibly younger. Other results were equally outstanding:
  

• After just one use consumers had an 80% increase in skin moisture!
  
  
• After just eight weeks…
  • 100% increase in skin moisture
  • 96% decrease in roughness
  • 73% increase in radiance
  • 32% decrease in lines and wrinkles
  • 31% increase in skin tone
  • 21% increase in firmness

Skin care Formulator

• Haru Naito, a renowned Japanese physiologist, was advised by his mentor, the Dali Lama, to study the water in places where people enjoyed extraordinary longevity and optimum health…the dream we all share. The Dali Lama guided him to the Hunza Valley where the water was pristine and contained rare properties…and most significantly, where the people lived the longest on Earth.

• Haru Naito, a world-class swimmer from Japan, began his experience in the United States as a Rotary exchange student in his teens. After competing at the collegiate level, where he became the 1973 NCAA breast stroke champion representing Oneonta College in upstate New York, Haru enrolled at the University of Indiana to pursue a PhD in Sports Physiology. Through his studies both as a scholar and an athlete, Haru discovered that water could have a significant impact on human health and performance. He began to focus all of his efforts on understanding that not all water is the same and that the unique properties of some water provide enhanced health benefits.

• He was a Distinguished Professor at Tokyo University (comparable to Harvard), and also became the Science Coach for the Japanese Olympic Swimming Team. He experimented with special filtered water and its positive affect on swimmers and was the Coach the year the Japanese won the GOLD medal at the Olympics. They had not won the gold since 1924!
  
  
• In his continued search of the world’s best water, he believed that some natural spring waters had therapeutic and anti-aging properties. Haru was advised by his mentor, the Dali Lama, to study the water in places where people enjoyed extraordinary longevity and optimum health…the dream we all share. The Dali Lama guided him to the Hunza Valley where the water was pristine and contained rare properties…and most significantly, where the people lived the longest on Earth.
  
  
• The water of the Hunza Valley contained rare volcanic minerals, increased the hydration of the skin and body, and had a natural antioxidant quality to it. This water is also washed through limestone, which strips the water of harmful toxins and provides mineral enrichment as well as natural preservative qualities.
  
  
• After careful evaluation, Haru also noted that the water in the Hunza Valley had three unique properties:
  
  
  • The water hydrates and detoxifies the body faster than other water.
  • The water contains a high concentration of negative ions, which act as a natural antioxidant.
  • The water contains elevated levels of soluble minerals.
    
    
• Haru replicated this remarkable water by developing a unique filter using the best purification technology and many types of rare Japanese volcanic stones. One such stone was Bakuhan, which was certified by the Ministry of Health as the first and only therapeutic stone in Japanese history!
  
  
• For over 15 years, Haru has provided enhanced water technologies for industries as diverse as health care and agriculture, and even adapted its use for home systems. In 2005, Haru developed a new process of enhancement to create “Tensa” water, or “Heavenly” water, a super-enhanced water designed specifically for skin care products.
  
  
• Research shows that “Tensa” water hydrates skin cells more effectively than other filtered waters, and actually drives the water and all it carries with it, deep into the cellular layers of the skin. This enhanced water technology is completely bacteriostatic. In other words, it creates an environment in which no bacteria can grow, making this water the ideal foundation for a preservative-free skin care system.
  
• Haru Naito is a partner on the Board of Wellness Enterprises, an international water technology company, and he and his wife Chica, reside in upstate New York.

Enhanced by Tensa Water

• Imagine that there was a special process that could enhance water’s already vital role in our lives and could produce a water that overcomes the skin’s resistance to hydration. Imagine that the same process also adds a natural antioxidant quality to the water which reduces the toxic effect of free radicals on our skin…thus slowing the aging process itself. Finally, imagine that this same process adds...

• Imagine that there was a special process that could enhance water’s already vital role in our lives and could produce a water that overcomes the skin’s resistance to hydration. Imagine that the same process also adds a natural antioxidant quality to the water which reduces the toxic effect of free radicals on our skin…thus slowing the aging process itself. Finally, imagine that this same process adds rare Japanese minerals to the water that prevent bacteria and fungus from growing in it. Now imagine taking the finest botanical ingredients and formulating a skin care system with this special water as its base. Imagine having your skin drink it in as it never did before and hydrate as much as 80% in just a few minutes. Imagine seeing the true effective age of your skin reverse itself before your eyes. This is not science fiction but is in fact a revolutionary process called Tensa™. Tensa™ water defies our normal understanding of water because of its unique properties. These properties can be summarized as follows:
  
  
  • Increased wetness – at first blush, this sounds impossible but take a moment and consider that we routinely add detergents to our water to improve its wetness for improved cleaning and penetration. While the Tensa™ process does not add any detergents or other substances to increase the wetness (or what some scientists refer to as transmissivity), it uses a patented process that makes water wetter and better able to penetrate cellular membranes. This allows water to move easily into cells…carrying vital nutrients with it… and to flush cellular wastes out of the cells thus keeping cells healthy and clean.
    
    
  • Free radical resistant – Tensa™ water is imbued with special ions that offer a mild antioxidant effect that helps protect cells against free radical attack…a principal cause of aging and cancer.
    
    
  • Antibacterial and anti fungal properties – Tensa™ water has certain rare volcanic minerals in it such as Bakuhan (the only mineral certified by the Japanese Ministry of Health as a natural medicinal), which imparts a natural resistance to bacteria and fungus without toxicity to humans. This allows skin care products that are made with it to be safe and efficacious without the need for artificial preservatives. By removing preservatives, you allow the skin to absorb the water and accompanying skin care nutrients without the harmful and aging effects of the preservatives.

Age of Skin = Hydration of Skin

• Water is the essence of life as we know it. The more our body has access to it…the more our cells can drink in fresh, clean water…the better our cells will function, reproduce and look. Water affects every major function in our body particularly the transportation of nutrients and oxygen into our cells, and the removal of the cell’s metabolic wastes. This is vitally important in the body’s largest organ…our skin.
  
  
• Water is the essence of life as we know it. The more our body has access to it…the more our cells can drink in fresh, clean water…the better our cells will function, reproduce and look. Water affects every major function in our body particularly the transportation of nutrients and oxygen into our cells, and the removal of the cell’s metabolic wastes. This is vitally important in the body’s largest organ…our skin.
  
• The healthier our cells will be and this health will be reflected back to us in the mirror as younger looking skin. The skin does not just appear younger because experts now report that the effective age of the skin is largely determined by its access to and retention of clean water. Skin specialists tell us that the secret to youthful and elastic skin is quite simple…just increase the skin moisture content and effective age of the skin will be reversed. Unfortunately as we grow older, because of constant exposure to chemicals, toxins, and the sun, our skin becomes more resistant to hydration and its aging accelerates. When we are young children our skin cells are round, plump, and fully hydrated. That is what gives babies such soft and supple skin. As we get older, our skin cells become resistant to the transmission of water and become flatter and less flexible. This ultimately produces cells that are less pliable, and wrinkles and lines appear. Skin care companies have tried for decades to get around the skin’s growing resistance to moisture by adding various essential oils that give the appearance of increased moisture, but really don’t. Instead, these oils can actually reduce moisture content further and adversely affect the health and age of the skin.

Dangers of Parabens and Other Preservatives

• There is substantial scientific evidence to suggest that increased exposure to substances that behave like estrogen in the body may elevate an individual’s risk of developing cancer. Parabens are among these substances.
  
  
• NOTE: The information contained in this section is of a more critical nature than all the rest of the information on this web page. We strongly encourage you to read through this information to better understand the real dangers associated with products that contain parabens.
  
  
• Parabens have had an extensive history of use in a wide variety of consumer products, foods, and beverages for over 70 years. It’s true that these preservatives have played an important role in frontline defense for preventing disease and infection in humans by preventing fungal and bacterial contamination.
  
  
• However, parabens are preservatives that have been identified as estrogenic and disruptive of normal hormone functions.(1) Estrogenic substances are chemicals foreign to the body that mimic the function of the naturally occurring hormone, estrogen.(2) Estrogen has been shown to control the growth of breast cells,(3) and exposure to external estrogens has been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer.(4)
  
  
• There is substantial scientific evidence to suggest that increased exposure to substances that behave like estrogen in the body may elevate an individual’s risk of developing cancer.(5) Parabens are among these substances.(6)
  
  
• This information was obtained from a letter written by Breast Cancer Action® to Avon, petitioning them to remove parabens from their products.

Breast Cancer Action's communications with Avon

Competitive Skin care Companies Pursue What We Already Have

• As awareness is rising about the possible dangers of parabens (see papers below), many skin care companies are issuing statements to ”calm” the public, such as this one by Arbonne® International.

Arbonne® Letter

• The reality is that the Research and Development Departments of skin care companies are aggressively pursuing paraben-free solutions, but have yet to find the answer.
  
  
• In November of 2006, the CEO of the company that developed Tensa™ Water asked the Vice President of Research and Development for one of the foremost botanical-based skin care companies in the world, to comment on the use of parabens in skin care products (in front of about 500 spa owners at the I-Spa Conference). As the CEO described the unique anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties that Tensa™ Water offers skin care products, the VP stated that if that were true he “would have the Holy Grail...the thing we have all been seeking for a very long time.”

Read the brief, but extraordinary dialogue between the CEO and VP

Growing Awareness of the Dangers

• There is a growing number of scholarly papers being written on the possible connection between parabens and health challenges, such as breast cancer. We have provided just a few links to some of these papers, but we would encourage you to also do your own further investigation.

Significance of the detection of esters of p-hydroxybenzoic acid (parabens) in human breast tumors

Concentrations of parabens in human breast tumors

Oestrogenic activity of parabens in MCF7 human breast cancer cells

Five Types of Parabens Detected Intact in Human Breast Tumors

Effects of butyl paraben on the male reproductive system in mice

Environmental oestrogens, cosmetics and breast cancer

Comparison of the global gene expression profiles produced by methylparaben, n-butylparaben and 17beta-oestradiol in MCF7 human breast cancer cells

Advocacy Groups

• There are also advocacy groups that want to bring attention to this issue, such as…

Breast Cancer Fund

Organic Consumers Association

Townsend Letter

Foot Notes:

1 Pedersen, K.L. et al., ?The preservatives ethyl-, propyl-and butylparaben are oestrogenic in an in vivo fish assay,? Pharmacology & Toxicology (Vol. 86(3), pp 110-13, March 2000); Routledge, E.J., et al., ?Some alkyl hydroxy benzoate preservatives (parabens) are estrogenic?, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology (Vol. 153(1), pp. 12-19 (Nov. 1998) and Kang, K.S. et al, ?Decreased sperm number and motile activity on the F1 offspring maternally exposed to butyl p-hydroxybenzoic acid (butyl paraben)?, Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (Vol. 64(3), pp. 227-35 (March 2002).

2 National Research Council, ?Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment? (Washington DC, National Academy Press (1999) (?NRC Report?).

3 US Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program, ?10th Report on Carcinogens?, pp. 116-19 (2002).

4 NRC Report, cited above.

5 NRC Report, cited above.

6 See Pedersen at 110-13, Routledge at 12-19, and Kang at 227-35.

How does the skin care’s enhanced water compare to conventional skin care formulations?

What clinical tests have been performed on this skin care line?

What are the pH levels in each of the 7 products?

The Enriching Eye Cream, Moisturizing Cream, Restoring Serum, Hydrating Balancer and Soothing Lotion have a pH of 5.0. The Cleansing Silk has a pH of 9.5.

Why are pH levels important?

Proper chemistry happens around our normal body’s pH or “temperature.” If you get too far off one direction or another, things start to act funny. Molecules change behavior and can even loose their activity altogether. A low pH (smaller number) means your skin is acidic and can more readily oxidize things.

What are negative ions? How are they beneficial?

It is now medically recognized that degenerative skin conditions, such as ageing, wrinkles, and skin discolorations are caused primarily by free-radical damage. Molecules attempting to repair themselves in this way trigger a cascading event called “free-radical damage.” The action of free-radical damage takes place in a fraction of a second. Theoretically, free-radical damage can cause deterioration of the skin’s support structures, decreasing elasticity and resilience. The negative ions in the skin care’s Tensa™ water minerals and anti microbial properties may act together to combat free-radical damage by the ageing process.

What is squalene oil and where is it derived from?

Squalene oil is derived from Spanish Olives. It is a natural component of the skin and it is considered to be a wonderful emollient (skin softener) that has antioxidant and immune-stimulating properties. This moisturizing oil may also help to reduce skin irritation and allergic responses. This ingredient is found in the Moisturizing Cream.

Are these products tested on animals? Do they contain any animal bi-products?

The manufacturer of our skin care system will not engage in or support animal testing. All formulas are tested on a panel of willing human beings. Furthermore, the products are considered vegetarian and most of them are even vegan friendly.

Do the North American products contain sesame seed or peanut oil?

No, our second generation U.S. formulas do not contain those ingredients. And all of our products are allergen-tested.

What are the differences between the alcohols found in our skin care and other alcohols?

The two alcohols found in the our skin care system are stearyl alcohol, which is found in the skin cream, and behenyl alcohol which is found in the eye cream. These alcohols are in the chemical class of fatty alcohols, whereas other alcohols such as isopropyl alcohol are in the chemical class of alcohols. These fatty alcohols are derived from the natural fats of plants such as coconut oil and palm kernel oil. Alcohols such as isopropyl alcohol can function as a solvent and are used in formulations to decrease the viscosity. Fatty alcohols such as the two found in our skin care, however, are used in formulations as emollients and emulsifiers which make skin smoother and prevent moisture loss. They also function to increase the viscosity of the formulation.

What are the differences between the glycol in our skin care and other glycols?

There is one glycol found in our skin care line called glycol distearate. This ingredient is found in the cleanser and is very different from other glycols such as butylene or propylene glycol. The glycol distearate is used to give the product a “milk-like” appearance and it contains wax that gives shine and smooth feeling to this cleanser. This ingredient also increases the viscosity of the formulation and it is not found in the chemical class alcohols. The other glycols, butylene and propylene, are found in the chemical class alcohols and can function as a solvent and are viscosity decreasing agents.

Is your skin care packaging recyclable?

Yes, we use only recyclable containers and cartons.

Are there special considerations that need to be taken into account for this preservative-free skin care line?

Keep skin care products at room temperature whenever possible and do not expose them to direct heat or sunlight for optimum utilization. Keep all caps on products when not in use. It is best to utilize products within the first 3-4 months after opening.

What is the current shelf life of the skin care system?

One year after opening and three years after manufacturer’s date.

Wash with warm, not hot, water

Handle with care

Remember that, because your facial skin consists of a very thin layer of cells, you never want to pull, tug or scrub it. Save the bath scrubs for the rest of your body. And when drying your face, pat—don’t rub—with a towel.

Defy gravity—work up!

Use short, firm strokes or pat in an upward motion when applying moisturizer, creams and makeup. Remember, gravity is always pulling the skin to create sagging, wrinkles and lines, which is why it’s important to give the skin a little lift whenever possible.

Give the eye area a little extra TLC

The skin around the eyes is the most delicate part of your face, which is why lines and wrinkles show up there first. Professional makeup artists suggest using the ring or pinkie finger to apply lotion and makeup around that delicate area. When applying or removing makeup around the eye area, remember to be gentle: pat, don’t rub, and use upward strokes.

Often overlooked but always on display: the neck and décolletage

The skin on your face extends under the chin, down the neck and over the ears. This very visible area needs love too, so don’t forget to include it in your daily skin care regimen. Cleansing, balancing and moisturizing these areas will also help reduce the signs of aging. Remember, your neck frames your face and should be just as beautiful!

A handy application

Our skin care products should be applied with clean hands using the tips of the fingers. The natural heat from your hands helps the enhanced water and nutrients be absorbed more quickly into the skin.

Get your beauty rest

Just like the rest of your body, your skin needs time to rest and replenish itself after multitasking all day. There’s nothing like 7–9 hours of sleep to give skin the time it needs to carry off toxins, replenish lost nutrients and restore the proper level of oxygen in the blood, which consequently, helps quickly renew your body’s cells

Each ingredient in each of our skin care products has been carefully selected for its ability to nourish, protect, and enhance the health of the skin. The unique blends are designed using only the highest quality, most effective ingredients available. This glossary will help you to understand the ingredients we use and why we use them.

1,2-Hexanediol

A solvent used in moisturizing preparations.

Algae extract

Helps skin maintain its youthful appearance by inhibiting the formation of the enzyme collagenase, which causes the degradation of collagen.

Aloe barbadensis leaf juice (aloe)

This aloe-leaf extract is rich in amino acids, vitamins, enzymes and various mineral salts. Known for its moisture-binding effects, it is an excellent emollient that penetrates deeply to naturally balance the skin’s pH.

Alumina

Alumina is not added to our skin care, but is listed, because it is one of the constituents of Bakuhan® stone. Bakuhan® or “heavenly” stone is used in the Cleansing Silk and thus Alumina must be listed as an ingredient. Alumina is a non-soluble material (aluminum oxide) and even though it is GRAS rated, that is irrelevant in our skin care because it cannot be absorbed by the skin and is a natural ingredient of the one stone that has been certified by the Japanese Ministry of Health as a medicinal mineral.

Aminoethanesulfinic acid

An antioxidant.

Antioxidants

Ingredients employed in cosmetics to prevent or retard product spoilage due to rancidity (or deterioration from reaction with oxygen). Antioxidants play a vital role in maintaining the quality, integrity and safety of cosmetic products. Typical cosmetic antioxidants include reducing agents and free radical scavengers.

Arginine HCl

A skin-conditioning agent.

Artemia extract

A bioenergetic ingredient extracted from plankton. It activates cell functions and protects the DNA from UV-B. Photolyase is an enzyme obtained from sea plankton and is known to protect the skin from the drying effects of exposure to the sun’s rays. It also has calming properties and is considered a cell revitalizer that enhances the complexion.

Bakuhan®

Ground silica stone powder that gently polishes and cleanses the skin. Bakuhan® or “heavenly” stone is used in the Cleansing Silk and has been certified by the Japanese Ministry of Health as a medicinal mineral.

Beeswax

Helps lock in skin’s own natural moisture and creates a protective, long-lasting barrier against the elements, unlike petroleum waxes, which strip skin of its natural moisture.

Behenyl alcohol

Used as an emulsifying agent and viscosity builder.

Butyrospermum parkii (Shea Butter)

A moisturizing, soothing emollient fat with cellular renewal properties.

Caesalpinia spinosa gum

A thickening agent.

Calendula officinalis flower extract (Marigold)

An anti-inflammatory and antioxidant commonly used to treat problem skin and acne. This flavonoid-rich flower extract has natural calming and purifying properties. Calendula also works as a skin-conditioning agent.

Camellia oleifera leaf extract (Green Tea)

This leaf extract contains antioxidants to intercept free radicals and helps ward off signs of aging.

Carbomer

Thickening agents used primarily to create gel-like formulations.

Carpryloyl glycine

A complex of amino acid protein and fractionated vegetable oil that helps protect the skin from water loss.

Ceramide G11, 3

A skin-conditioning agent.

Cetearyl olivate

An emulsifier.

Cetyl ethylhexanoate

An emollient, emulsifier, thickener and carrying agent for other ingredients.

Citric acid

Derived from citrus and used primarily to adjust the pH of products to prevent them from being too alkaline.

Cleansing agents

Used to clean skin and hair and as emulsifiers in cosmetics.

Cocamidopropyl betaine

Provides good foam and foam liquid stabilization with excellent wetting properties. Considered to be one of the more gentle surfactants used in skin care products.

Cocos nucifera oil (Coconut)

Plant kernel oil that is a source of emollient moisturization.

Coix lacryma-jobi seed extract (Job’s Tears)

A skin soother.

Cyclohexasiloxane

An emollient.

Cyclopentasiloxane

An emollient.

Dimer dilinoleyl dimer dilinoleate

A substantive skin-conditioning agent rich in essential fatty acids. Helps to provide long lasting hydration to the skin.

Dimethicone

Helps prevent moisture loss.

Dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline

A skin conditioner that rejuvenates the skin and helps combat the signs of aging.

Dipeptide-2

A skin conditioner.

Dipotassium glycyrrhizate

A skin-conditioning agent that helps reduce certain signs of inflammation such as swelling, tenderness, pain, itching and redness.

Elaeis guineensis oil (Palm)

An excellent emollient and moisturizer for the skin.

Emollient

Cosmetic ingredients that help to maintain the soft, smooth and pliable appearance of skin. Emollients remain on the skin surface or in the stratum corneum to act as lubricants, reduce flaking and improve the skin’s appearance.

Emulsifying agents

Employed in cosmetics to prepare emulsions. The efficacy of emulsifying agents depends on their ability to reduce surface tension, to form complex films on the surface of emulsified droplets, and to create a repulsive barrier on emulsified droplets to prevent their coalescence.

Emulsion stabilizers

Cosmetic ingredients that assist in the formation and stabilization of emulsions.

Enteromorpha compressa extract

A skin-conditioning agent.

Ethylhexyl palmitate

Used as an emollient and binding agent to help keep other ingredients intact in a formulation.

Europaea fruit oil (Olive)

A gentle oil rich in oleic acid and an excellent skin softener.

Farnesol

Natural ingredient found throughout the plant world that regulates developmental processes and is a natural bio activator in human skin.

Glycerin

A natural water-binding humectant that is nonirritating. Used in personal-care products as a softening or conditioning agent and moisturizer.

Glyceryl stearate

An emollient.

Glycine soja seed extract (Soybean)

Rich in specific antioxidants that cleanse and help purify the skin.

Glycol distearate

A skin-conditioning agent.

Glycyrrhiza glabra root extract (Licorice)

An herb shown to be a soothing yet powerful antioxidant and skin-conditioner.

Helianthus annuus seed oil (Sunflower)

An nonvolatile plant oil used as a skin-conditioning agent.

Hesperidin methyl chalcone

An antioxidant.

Homeostatine

An extract that prevents and reduces wrinkles.

Humectant

An ingredient used in cosmetic products to retard moisture loss from the product during use.

Hydrogenated lecithin

Phospholipids also found in egg yolks and the membranes of plant cells. It is widely used in cosmetics as an emollient and water-binding agent.

Hydrogenated polyisobutene

A synthetic polymer used as a skin-conditioning agent and emollient.

Hydrolyzed wheat protein and wheat starch

Film-forming agent that retains water, tightens skin and acts as a skin-conditioning agent.

Hydroxyproline

Derived from the amino acid proline, it is a fundamental component of collagen and other structural proteins. It has water-binding properties similar to those of collagen.

Iris florentina extract

A long-term firming extract that helps reduce wrinkles.

Iron oxides

Coloring agents.

Macadamia ternifolia seed oil

A skin-conditioning agent and moisturizer.

Maltodextrin

Produced from corn starch, it is used as a skin-tightner, foam stabilizer and diluting agent.

Mentha piperita oil (Peppermint)

A skin-conditioning agent.

Methylsilanol mannuronate

Seaweed derivative that firms, repairs and improves elasticity of skin. It also activates lipolysis and collagen synthesis.

Myristic acid

A cleansing agent that creates foam when used.

Nordihydroguaiaretic acid

An antioxidant.

Occlusives

Skin conditioners and cosmetic ingredients that retard the evaporation of water from the skin surface. By blocking the evaporative loss of water, occlusive materials increase the water content of skin.

Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3

A skin-conditioner.

p-Anisic acid

A masking agent/biological stabilizer.

Phytospingosine

A skin-conditioner.

Phytosteryl/octyldodecyl

A skin-conditioning agent and moisturizer.

Pimpinella anisum seed extract

Also known as aniseed, has potent antioxidant and tightening properties.

Polyacrylate-13

Tightens or firms skin.

Polyglyceryl-10 laurate

A skin-conditioning agent.

Polyglyceryl-3 diisostearate

Multitudinous fats and oils used in cosmetics as emollients and emulsifying agents.

Polyisobutene

A skin-conditioning agent and emollient.

Polysorbate 20 & 80

Water-soluble dispersing agent and emulsifier. It has a soothing effect on the skin.

Potassium hydroxide

An ingredient used in cosmetics to modulate the pH of a product.

Prunus amygdalus dulcis oil (Sweet Almond)

An excellent, naturally derived conditioner that contains many essential fatty acids to soften dry skin.

Retinyl palmitate (Vitamin A)

A nourishing vitamin shown to increase skin elasticity, thicken the epidermis and normalize dry, parched skin.

Simmondsia chinensis seed oil (Jojoba)

A moisturizer and emollient agent that improves the skin’s elasticity and suppleness.

Skin-conditioning agents

Cosmetic ingredients used to create special effects on skin. This group includes substances believed to enhance the appearance of dry or damaged skin and substantive materials that adhere to the skin to reduce flaking and restore suppleness.

Sodium citrate

A chemical compound used primarily to control the pH level of a product.

Sodium hyaluronate

A skin-conditioning agent.

Sodium lauroyl lactylate

A cleansing and emulsifying agent.

Solubilizing agents

Substances that aid in the dissolution of an ingredient (solute) in a medium in which it is not otherwise soluble.

Sorbitan olivate

An emulsifying agent.

Squalane

A moisturizing lubricant lipid similar to the body’s naturally produced moisturizer.

Steareth-2

An emulsifying agent.

Steareth-20

A solubilizing agent.

Steareth-21

A cleansing agent, emulsifying agent and solubilizing agent.

Stearic acid

Fatty acid used as an emulsifying agent.

Stearyl alcohol

A nondrying emollient and thickener that provides a protective barrier to the skin.

Sunflower seed oil

A moisturizer/conditioner.

Tannic acid

An astringent that tightens or firms the skin. Also an antioxidant.

Tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate

A highly effective, lipid-soluble form of vitamin C known for its free radical-fighting properties. It helps reverse mild wrinkles and age spots.

Tocopherol acetate (Vitamin E)

Tocopherol is the scientific name for vitamin E. Tocopherol acetate is a lipid-soluble version of vitamin E. Natural vitamin E is used as a powerful antioxidant and free radical scavenger. One of nature’s most dynamic moisturizers, it also aids cellular renewal.

Trehalose

A plant sugar that has water-binding properties for skin.

Tromethamine

A pH adjuster.

Vaccinium macrocarpon seed oil (Cranberry)

Derived from the seed of the cranberry, the oil (which is not red) has potent antioxidant ability due to its being a rich source of polyphenols as well as a skin-conditioner.

Xanthan gum

A thickener and emulsifier.

Yeast beta-glucan

A source of beta-glucan, which is considered a good antioxidant and is a strong anti-inflammatory agent.

Yeast extract

A skin-conditioning agent, which increases in viscosity during preparation.

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