Wealden Times | WT210 | August 2019 | Restoration & New Build supplement inside

Health & Wellbeing
Holiday skin
Nourishing our skin is always important, never more so than when
we return from a sunny holiday, to prevent dry skin and premature
ageing and to prolong your sun-kissed glow.
Henrietta Norton shares her top 5 tips for post-holiday skin care
A healthy diet will
nourish your skin
from the inside out
A healthy diet will show on the
outside wit h glowing radiant skin.
Eating seasonal food rich in vitamin
C, vitamin E, zinc, selenium and
essential fatty acids nurtures our skin
cells, provide antioxidant protection
and promotes skin healing after it
has been exposed to the elements.
Support your levels
of hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a gel-like
substance found abundantly in the skin.
HA has a unique ability to retain water
preventing loss of moisture. HA also
increases when the skin is healing and
helps to reduce inflammation on the
skin’s surface. It is therefore useful after
you have been in the sun and if you have
sunburn. Choose a naturally extra low
weight form of HA as this is much more
effective at reaching the skin surface.
Check the ingredients in
your beauty products
Always choose products with clean
ingredients for your beauty regime and
sun protection. Some of the more toxic
products containing synthetic colours
and fragrances, phthalates and sodium
lauryl sulfate (SLS), to name a few,
are best avoided. If you are unsure, a
great book is The Nature of Beauty by
Imelda Burke which provides excellent
information about ingredients and how
to make your own simple products.
Herbs for your skin
Gotu kola and ashwagandha are
wonderful anti-ageing herbs. Gotu
kola improves blood circulation and
supports the production of collagen
while ashwagandha helps to reduce
inflammation, helps to protect the skin
from oxidative stress and promotes
skin healing. The product I use is our
Wild Nutrition’s Food-Grown® KSM-
66 Ashwagandha Plus which provides
500mg of organic ashwagandha
root with Food-Grown® Magnesium
to support the body’s resilience.
Allow yourself time
We often need time to recover from our
travels, especially after long-haul flights.
Sleep is the best medicine for your skin
and you will notice the difference in
your appearance after a deep restful
night. Try not to go headlong back into
your normal routine, instead allow
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yourself time to
ease back into
your busy life.
Balance
your bacteria
Travelling can be tiring
and expose us to foods we’re
not used to or those we don’t usually
take in excess, such as sugar or alcohol.
This has an impact on the balance of
our bacteria in the gut, which in turn
has been clinically proven to affect
the quality of our skin. Eat plenty of
meals that include fermented foods,
such as sauerkraut (easily found in
health stores) and kimchi (Asian
fermented cabbage and spices). Also
try drinking coconut water kefir or
taking a Multiple Strain probiotic
(without FOS) to feed the growth of
good bugs in your digestive system.
you may also want to try
supplementing your diet with herbs,
such as oregano, garlic, grapefruit seed
extract and olive leaf as these ingredients
contain natural antibacterial and antimicrobial
compounds
to combat bad
bacteria.
“Beauty is the
illumination
of your soul”
John O’donohue