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What Is Marine Collagen?

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What Is Marine Collagen? Marine collagen contains antioxidant properties that have been used in skin-care products to prevent or even repair the damage caused by environmental factors, such as UV rays and sun damage, as well as damage associated with the ageing process. Collagen protein is present in marine creatures, algae and fish. The collagen extracted from these marine organisms is called marine collagen protein. This marine collagen protein is full of Type III collagen which is the same collagen that is present in our skin.Marine collagen derived from seaweed has consumers everywhere talking about its natural and anti-ageing powers. ...

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Nutricosmetics - Supplements for Your Skin

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Experienced trend forecasters predict that global sales of edible skincare (treatments you swallow, rather than apply on the skin) will reach £5 billion by 2020, more than double the £2.3billion that was spent in 2013. The new buzzword in this area is ‘nutricosmetics’, these pills & capsules are set to drastically change our skincare routines. In a lot of ways, this really isn’t surprising.   The connection between what we eat and how we look is obvious and it is well documented that pills can have a huge effect on the way our skin looks – often proving way more...

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Alpha Arbutin Explained

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Alpha-Arbutin is a pure, water-soluble, biosynthetic active ingredient. It acts quickly, safely and extremely efficiently, and meets all the requirements of a modern, safe skin lightening and skin depigmentation product. Alpha Arbutin is a very expensive ingredient. Most other formulations use the cheaper & less effective Beta Arbutin. In clinical trials, Alpha Arbutin was found to be more effective than Kojic acid or Hydroquinone. It is a skin lightening active that acts faster and more efficiently than most other skin lightening ingredients.It diminishines liver (brown) spots and reduces the degree of skin tanning after sun exposure.   Alpha Arbutin Uses:...

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