Foam Cleanser for Dry Skin with Wheat Germ Oil

A gentle and highly effective wheat germ oil derived soap for use on dry and dehydrated skin.

The all natural soap for skin care.

Wheat Germ Oil Foam Cleanser promotes skin cell regeneration, and is great for nourishing and rejuvenating dry, mature, dehydrated skin. It also helps to reduce scars, stretch marks, sunburns, and damaged skin. It is also an effective anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant.

Directions
Dispense two pumps to the palms of the hand. Gently cleanse the skin. Rinse with water.

Ingredients: Natural Wheat Germ Oil Castile, Coconut Oil Castile, Seaweed Extract, Vegetable Glycerin, Citrus Seed Extract, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin.
4oz = 120 grams

Wheat Germ

Wheat germ is the embryo (the little baby wheat plant) of the wheat kernel. Small amounts of a fatty liquid — wheat germ oil — are naturally present in wheat germ.

Wheat germ oil contains both linoleic and linolenic acids, the precursors for the omega-6 and omega-3 essential fatty acids, respectively.

Ultra rich, unrefined Wheat Germ oil is a great antioxidant with more Vitamin E than any other natural oil making it more resistant to light and heat than other vegetable oils. It is also a natural source of Vitamin A, Vitamin B (B1, B2, B3 and B6), proteins, Lecithin, and Squalene which makes it exceptional for treating dry and aging skin.

Wheat germ has been applied externally for numerous irritations including roughness of the skin, cracking, chaffing and many crafters of cosmetics use it successfully to help reverse the effects of wrinkling.

Fatty Acids
Oleic- 15.7%
Palmitic- 15.0%
Linoleic- 46.9%
Linolenic- 5.9%


Benefits of Wheat Germ Oil

1. Treats dry and aging skin
2. Promotes regeneration of cells
3. Aids muscle and lymph function
4. Relieves dermatitis symptoms
5. Prevents and reduces scarring
   

For thousands of years our ancestors used oils for improving the health of their skin. But around 1920, the cosmetic industry begun to advertise the idea that oils were bad for skin and promoted the use of oil in water mixed with detergent as moisturizing creams. This was similar to fallacious campaigns to get women to replace breast feeding their babies and instead feed them synthetic infant formulas that could be sold for a profit. In Asian countries, oils are still preferred to improve skin healthy.

Cosmetic cream or serum moisturizers are formulated from a variety of low-cost oils and water-soluble chemicals that wet and loosen the skin's layer of outer protective proteins and also cover the skin with fats that occlude the skin for a while and thus impede water loss. They provide moisturizing of your skin for a short period of time but degrade the skin's defensive properties against bacteria and viruses. Such moisturizing creams are a mixture of oil and water plus emulsifiers, stabilizers, preservatives and other chemicals.

Most of them delay the healing of irritated and damaged skin and make the situation worse by inhibiting natural skin repair and increasing skin inflammation and thus damage in ways similar to skin irritants.

What really works is to protect the skin surface and to heal the skin from within, by providing the skin the nutrients an environment in which normal skin repair can occur.

Virtually all moisturizers and emollients sold by the large skin care companies marketing them contain high concentrations of detergents and detergent-like chemicals, despite 40 years of scientific evidence that these detergents damage the skin and degrade the skin's natural defensive and protective functions. Also are very damaging to the skin many of the dyes and optical diffusers that are used in cosmetics to give the appearance of healthy skin.

Another mistake is to add to skin creams certain lipids that occur naturally in the skin such as ceramides (special amine fatty acid structures), free fatty acids (fatty acids not in triglyceride or phospholipid form), and cholesterol, hoping that this replenishes skin lipids and improves skin health. However, recent research has found that adding natural skin fats and lipids to skin creams causes a reduction in the skin's natural biosynthesis of skin fats and lipids so that, in a few weeks, the skin is in worse condition than before.

Dry skin is caused by two problems:

1. Damage to the skin's protective barrier which produces excessive water loss through the skin, and
   
   Reduction in the concentrations of the skin's water-holding sugars and proteins: the proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs).

2. Proteoglycans (PGs) are proteins linked to glucose chains called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and are vital components of connective tissues. They play an important role in modulating the structure and regulating the functions of the skin.

The timely turnover of proteoglycans influences the development and differentiation of cells. Wound healing also depends on the level of PGs which if not adequate leads to abnormal scars, and thus play an important role in preventing keloid and hypertrophic scars.

When the skin losses glycosaminoglycans the supportive inter-cellular matrix weakens and results in loose, flaccid skin, both on the face and body. GAGs have a large water holding capacity, occupy a large space in the extra-cellular matrix and fill most of the intercellular space between collagen & elastin proteins. They perform a critical role as shock absorbents and provide binding, hydrating and swelling pressure to cell tissues. In doing so, they enable skin to withstand compression forces and thus prevent tearing and scarring of the deep layers during pregnancy, puberty growth spurts, overstretching when practicing body building (in association with steroids) or by more than average weight gain.

BIOSKINCARE™ acts by helping to repair the skin barrier and promotes the synthesis of proteoglycans and GAGs, while waxes and oils seal the skin's surface and prevent excessive water loss. Cosmetic moisturizers loosen the skin's protective barrier and hydrate (wet) the skin proteins but have the long-term effect of damaging your skin.

BIOSKINCARE™ CREAM
Mimics natural skin repair
Repairs skin barrier and increases the skin's proteoglycans and GAGs.
Results: within 2-3 weeks of continued use.

Waxes and Greases
Heavy oils such as petrolatum seal skin surface to water loss
Results: Immediate
Problems: Greasy

Light Oils
Squalane covers skin surface to reduce water loss.
Results: Immediate
Problems: Not as durable as waxes and greases, but still provides strong skin protection - not greasy.

Biological Oils
RoseHip Oil - Wheat Germ Oil
Results: Immediate
Problems: Not as durable as waxes and greases, but stimulate skin repair

Cosmetic Moisturizers - NOT RECOMMENDED.
Designed to rapidly swell the skin at the cosmetic counter.
Mixtures of oils, water, and surface active chemicals used to open skin barrier and hydrate skin proteins.
Results: in Minutes
Problems: Irritates skin. Loosens protective skin barrier. Skin more susceptible to infection.

 

Last modified: November 25, 2007

Get This All Natural Foam Cleanser to Hydrate Dry Skin (Also Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory)

A highly effective wheat germ oil derived soap for use on dry and dehydrated skin. Wheat Germ Oil Soap promotes skin cell formation, and is great for nourishing and rejuvenating dry, mature, dehydrated skin. It also helps to reduce scars, stretch marks, sunburns, and damaged skin. And it is an effective anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant. The all natural soap for skin care.

Directions : Dispense two pumps to the palms of the hand. Gently cleanse the skin. Rinse with water.

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