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Eating for Healthy Skin

Just like exercise, your eating habits affect your skin's appearance. A healthy, balanced diet can improve your skin, just like any other organ of the body. A diet that lacks essential nutrients reduces blood flow and oxygen to the skin, becoming unable to protect you from infection, slow down healing and possibly change the texture and pigmentation of your skin.

There are a number of vitamins and minerals that contribute to the health of your skin. This is where a balanced diet comes in. Remember to take the following nutrients in sufficient quantity.

Water is always a priority. It nourishes the skin by moisturizing from within and removes cellular waste products. Lack of water will dehydrate your skin, which easily shows. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is recommended. Increase daily intake if you frequently exercise, or drink a lot of tea, coffee or alcohol.

• Antioxidants such as vitamin A, C and E and Beta-carotene are key to healthy skin. They help slow down the aging process by protecting the skin from free radicals, which occur in air pollution, cigarette smoke and UV radiation from the sun. Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables will give you the antioxidant nutrients you need.

• Zinc works with vitamin A to produce collagen and elastin and makes sebaceous glands function normally.

Source: Ostrov, Ricki. 1999. A Marshall Factfile: Solving Skin Problems. London: Marshall.

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Godiva products contain essential nutrients

A healthy diet, along with supplements will nourish your skin inside out. Using Godiva products will treat your skin from the outside. These Godiva products contain vitamins and antioxidants:

• LicoWhite Skin Brightening/Whitening Cream - Vitamin C

• LicoWhite Lip Gloss - Vitamin C

• Green Tea Transparent Soap - Green Tea contains epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG, a super-antioxidant which is 100x more effective than vitamin C & 25x more effective than vitamin E

• Green Tea Sun Protection Cream - Contains Zinc Oxide, which provides broad spectrum protection and EGCG found in Green Tea Extract

• Squalane Cool Anti-stress Lotion - Contains Squalane, an antioxidant that prevents damage to stressed skin and Allantoin, a natural skin protectant

• Squalane Plus After Sun Lotion - Contains Squalane, Allantoin, vitamins A, C and E

Godiva LicoWhite Skin Brightening Cream, LicoWhite Lip Gloss, Green Tea Transparent Soap, Green Tea Sun Protection Cream and Squalane Cool Anti-Stress Lotion are available online at www.godivaskincare.com. (Click here to view references)

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