Did you know that our products contain some of the best natural ingredients available?

In this blog article, we will be sharing the benefits of the following active ingredients. These active ingredients are found in our products and they aid in giving your skin that healthy nourished glow it deserves.  

Jojoba Oil

It is known for centuries and used by many different civilizations to help prevent sores and wounds from becoming infected. Research recognises that Jojoba oil have the following effect on the following:

• Dry skin: acts as a moisturiser and assist in protecting the skin through its natural protective layer of oil. Also helps to regulate the skin’s natural oil production and bring stability through texture
• Oily skin: Helps in cleaning grime and dirt from the pores within the skin, prevent clogging and possess the great ability as an anti-microbial which allows it to kill bacteria trying to infect your skin
• Sunscreen: Natural protection against the sun as it forms a layer to block low level sun’s harmful UV rays. However, this should not be substituted for sunscreen as the SPF level is low against other sunscreens. For minimal activity for working in the sun it will help to protect your skin and provide healing properties.
• Ageing of Skin: Anti-oxidant properties of high value are contained within Jojoba Oil, which reduces the effect free radicals have on the body and assist in delaying the ageing process 

Avocado Virgin Oil

Research performed by Dr Surbhi, MD skin has revealed fascinating health benefits for Avocado. Some of these additional benefits for the skin are:

• Moisturiser: Rich source of Vitamin E and Vitamin A, allowing for excellent moisturising capability.
• Wound Healing: Research has shown that avocado oil promotes healing in wounds due to the richness in Vitamin E to repair the skin.
• Psoriasis: Studies have shown that use of Avocado oil, assists in delaying potential flare up of psoriasis during cold periods. Creams such Cool Moisture lotion, with Avocado oil and the B12 Vitamins, have sustained improvement compared to common anti-psoriatic drug calcipotriol.
• Collagen and Anti-aging: Since it is rapidly absorbed into the skin, Avocado oil seeks to alter the body’s collagen structure with anti-oxidants like Vitamin E and Vitamin A which reduced the effects of aging. Also contains a property called Sterolin, studies have shown this allows for the skin to be softer and reduce appearances of aging

Macadamia Oil

Derived from the delicious macadamia nuts, this oil is becoming increasingly popular for its health benefits throughout the world and especially in Asian countries. Some of the health benefits contained within are:

• Anti-oxidant: High levels of anti-oxidants which include substance called Tocotrienols that neutralises free radicals within your body. These free radicals have potential to cause wide range of disease including cancer.
• Immune System: ability to strengthen your immune system as it is absorbed easily into your skin.
• Skin health: Macadamia oil contains a rare substance called ‘squalene’, which naturally occurs in Macadamia oil and helps the body to reduce stress and assists in the regulation of production of the body’s natural oil which provides a natural protection. This will assist in preventing wrinkles, aging and promote healing.

Vitamin E

Scientific research performed by various people has identified the benefits and the ability of Vitamin E to assist in caring for the skin. As with Macadamia Oil, popularity is increasing with more people becoming aware of the benefits, such as:

• Pollution: Protects the skin from the environmental pollution with the rich anti-oxidants it has to reduce the free radicals causing premature aging.
• Sun damage: UV rays from the sun cause damage to the skin, the damage begins with changes in the individual cells leading to age spots, dryness and loss of elasticity. Further through the years, it leads to wrinkles, lines and coarse skin. While Vitamin E does not act like sunscreen with level of protection, it works by repairing and reversing damage to skin cells. When Vitamin E, combined with other active ingredients, helps promote every day activities in sun as your skin will rejuvenate and heal.
• Aging: UV radiation, also affects the skin with cross linking of protein deficiencies, occurring within the skin cells. This causes the degeneration of DNA resulting in skin problems such as premature aging. Vitamin E is able to effectively reduce this issue.

Australian Honey

Honey has been around for millenniums, passed down through generations from the ancient Greeks and Spartans to present day. Not only is it good for your body when digested but it has amazing benefits for your skin. Bees do a lot of work to collect the nectar from flowers, turning it into honeycomb for our specialty crafting. So before you try to flick away the bee next time you are outside, just remember the benefits it provides such as:

• Exfoliates: Honey in creams or by itself has excellent cleansing conditions to alleviate the skin from dirt, grim and blockages within the pores. It also acts as an excellent wound healer with its anti-bacterial properties.
• Anti-bacterial: Honey from Australia, has great healing properties by reducing infections and pain and also cleaning of wounds or breakages in your skin. Research conducted by University of Sydney with Associate Professor Dee Carter noted, “Honey based products could replace anti-biotic creams on wounds”.
• Anti-microbial: Honey has added benefits of being able to exterminate bacteria, the little micro-organisms that are everywhere. Australian honey, releases its own natural Hydrogen Peroxide killing microbes that otherwise would infect your skin.

Mandarin Essential Oil

Extracted through cold compression from the outer peelings of the Mandarin fruit, Mandarin Oil provides many benefits such as balancing to the body, uplifting and calming to the senses and has an absolute beautiful unique aroma. It carries a natural component called ‘limonene’ which is proven to have powerful anti-oxidants within to protect the body from free radicals. The main benefits of the products are:

• Anti-septic: Protects wounds from becoming infected from bacteria and other fungal elements. This is achieved by promoting the platelets and white blood cells within your body to form at the infected place, blocking any possible intrusion and also killing any possible infection.
• Inflammation: Assists in providing relief from inflammation through calming the nervous system and also the anti-bodies in your blood
• Cytophylatic: Applying on the skin, Mandarin Oil promotes effective healing and growth of new cells and tissues which in turn decreases healing time for wounds and other skin conditions

Grapefruit Essential Oil

Since Grapefruit is a part of the citrus family, it too contains large dosages of substance ‘limonen’ as noted in Mandarin Essential Oil. Grapefruit oil is extracted in similar process to Mandarin using cold press of the rinds that you would eventually discard.

• Anti-microbial effects: Studies have shown that Grapefruit is very effective against different strains of bacteria. Rendering them ineffective to your body. See Mandarin above.
• Inflammation: : Assists in providing relief from inflammation through calming the nervous system and also the anti-bodies in your blood
• Cytophylatic: Applying on the skin, Mandarin Oil promotes effective healing and growth of new cells and tissues which in turn decreases healing time for wounds and other skin conditions

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

The term Extra Virgin, refers to the extraction process of the olive oil where it has been extracted from the first process only and it is of the utmost highest quality. Since it is from the first process, it contains a richness in aroma, high extensive benefits and also strong unique flavour. Some of the benefits for the skin are:

• Dry Skin: Olive oil is a great moisturiser, it acts as a ‘humectant’ which means it attracts moisture into your skin, however the process can be slow, therefore for better conditions, it is combined with other active ingredients.
• Itchy Skin: Olive oil assists in decreasing the effect of itchy skin by lathering it with oil to prevent that send of itchiness and providing some relief.
• Wrinkle/Signs of aging: Since it is rich in anti-oxidants, olive oil penetrates into your skin to prevent wrinkles and signs of aging appearing.
• Makeup Remover: By itself, Olive oil is exceptional at makeup remove by applying it on a cotton ball or tissue and wiping away the makeup. The oil is able to quickly break down the makeup compounds and cleanses your skin leaving it feeling refreshed and cleansed 

Grape Seed Oil

Known for over 6,000 years, Grapes have been a part of the diet and skin regime for all human beings. Numerous benefits abound about Grapes as they are rich in anti-oxidants to protect against free radicals and contain a natural occurring oligomeric proanthocyanidin complex (OPC), which from research reports to demonstrate many benefits for healing of your skin, such as anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory. These combine into the following benefits:

• Healing wounds and Skin conditions: Research conducted and published in Journal ‘Free Radical Biology and Medicine’ as well as studies from University of Maryland Medical Center show that Grape seed oil, has the benefits of treating Edema (swelling under the skin) and also for destroying free radicals within your body. Grape Seed Oil assists in treating your skin, preventing signs of aging, repairing your skin as well increasing the effect of healing.
• Preventing Skin Cancer: Grape Seed oil contains a natural compound called ‘Proanthocyanidins’ which assists in preventing skin cancer to develop. Research published in Journal ‘Molecular Nutrition and Food Research’ identified Grape Oil assisting in reducing the severity and cause of skin cancer

Did you know that your skin covers a total average of 20 square feet, protecting you from the elements, makes you look good, regulates body temperature and allows for the wonderful sensations we get to experience of heat, cold and most importantly touch?

We wear our skin for the rest of our lives and we want to protect it. Here’s 5 things you should know about why wrinkles, age spots and dry skin occur and how we can help to overcome them.

1. Normal Aging

The aging process your skin undergoes which causes age spots, wrinkles and eye bags occurs naturally as the body oil production slows down leaving the skin without a protective layer. This decreases the skin’s ability to retain moisture, becoming dry and function inefficiently in harsh conditions.

When your skin experience dryness, your body react to push more moisture to the surface of the skin to rehydrate. This process forgoes the deeper tissue (Dermis) and causes the skin cells to divide more slowly as the inner layer becomes thinner. Deeper layer (Hypodermis) of skin, which provides the framework for the exterior surface of the skin, loosens and unravels causing wrinkling and sagging to occur.

2. Burns, UV

Burns from heat and UV rays are also causes of aging skin. The surface skin, acts as the body armour but due to different skin types, it can only withstand so much depending on what level your skin type is. When the surface skin is no longer able to withstand the heat and UV rays, it begins to turn red, painful and sometimes blister occur.

This occurs as the moisture and the protective oil evaporates and turns to vapour from the heat, which leaves the skin exposed to the harsh environments. This is why sunscreen is so important, and we encourage you to apply them every day.

3. Cigarette Smoke

From smoking or simply an unfortunate passive smoker, what is inhaled becomes toxic to your body. Not only is it very harmful with links to cancer, but also dries the skin out accelerating aging, wrinkles, age spots and dry skin.

This is caused by the smoke entering the lungs which contain high amounts of free radicals (think back to chemical and physiology 101). Free radicals are essentially atomised aggressive molecules that have had their bonds split. These free radicals effectively go crazy, attaching themselves to Oxygen (O₂) molecules destroying and limiting oxygen supply. They also attach to living cells such as walls of your human body, lungs, & throat, causing damage.

On the bright side, our body functions can eliminate this threat through antioxidants from Vitamin E. However, our body has its limits and does not produce enough antioxidants and is focused on clearing the free radicals. As such, the skin starts to become dry and suffer the effects of aging.

4. Air Pollution

Every person in this day and age is surrounded by air pollution and more importantly so is our skin. As mentioned, what protects your skin is the thin layer of oil the body naturally produces. However, when the air pollution becomes too intense, the health of our skin is affected.

Air pollution reduces the body’s Vitamin E and Antioxidants level as your body has to work twice as hard against air pollution by producing the antioxidants and using up valuable Vitamin E. Your body reacts and start to age with the appearance of wrinkles, age spots and dryness.

This is why, when you go to the mountains or places with low level of pollution, you feel refreshed. This because is your body is not working as hard and expending excess energy on Vitamin E and antioxidants production.

5. Air-conditioning

Did you know that the air-conditioning systems works through a system called ‘Phase Conversion’. Effectively, this means that when a liquid converts to a gas it will absorb the heat. As hot air rises, it is sucked into the air-conditioning unit flowing over cold, low pressure evaporator coils with cool air being distributed around.

PROBLEM! When this occurs, it also sucks out any moisture in the air and blows out cold dry air. Effects on your body is similar to what has been mentioned, with the protective oil on your body drying up, the lack of moisture in your skin causes your skin to dry up. This increases the occurrence of wrinkles, age spots and dry itchy skin.

You want a solution to the long term problem.

How Can We Help Your Skin:

• Use natural products with active ingredients such as Emu oil, Macadamia oil, Aloe Vera and Vitamin E.
• Our Natural oils/products absorb deep into your skin’s tissue to provide moisture where it is needed to regenerate skin cells.
• As well as provide a thin protective layer of oil on the exterior surface to prevent moisture escaping.
• Our products and in particular, Emu Oil comes complete with Vitamin E and anti-oxidants for your beautiful skin. This will help repair and protect your skin from the pollution and smoke.
• Emu Oil is non-comedogenic, meaning it doesn’t clog the pores in the skin, unlike some creams.
• Our products will assist to prevent signs of aging, dryness and give your beautiful skin that natural shine and youthful look you deserve.
• Limit or stay away from any chemical based products as they may seem to work at the start, but overtime will do more harm than good. Your body recognises that it is not natural. Over time your body builds immunity towards a product and results are not as visible, that is why some companies will continually bring out new products as the old ones do not work anymore.

Our products are specially formulated to assist you and your beautiful skin. Regain & restore your skin’s moisture with our help. We are suitable for sensitive and eczema prone skin.

Studies and research have been conducted in regards to the healing abilities of Emu Oil with Double Blind studies, controlled studies and other research performed in the benefits that emu oil has on dry skin, burns, reducing inflammation reversing aging and even hair loss. Research performed on a global scale with most notable University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital.