hyaluronic acid - why it can't improve skin

Hyaluronic Acid (also known as Sodium Haluronate) is an ingredient which it seems every skin care brand (except Simplicite) uses.

(Just Google a brand along with 'Hyaluronic Acid' and see how often it comes up.)

The marketing blurb invariably says HA will 'plump up the skin' - but it will actually do the reverse!

In fact, Hyaluronic Acid/Sodium Hyuralonate has been shown to encourage flaky (keratotic) skin and research shows it can even encourage the growth of skin cancers.

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All Simplicite products are safe to use during pregnancy. Not only that - David Lyons, creator and formulator, also  actively recommends using aromatherapy essences at therapeutic levels  during pregnancy for their various benefits. David explains ...

The government department responsible for the safety of all medicines  and supplements in Australia supports our view and posts no warnings or  restrictions on the THERAPEUTIC use of herbal and aromatherapy products  during pregnancy - except the long-held view that repeated, high doses  of highly laxative herbs should be avoided.

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only half the rosehip story

Dedicated followers of Rosehip Oil, and its visible results have something in reserve they're yet to utilise from the extraordinary Rosehip.

The oil is extracted from the inner seeds and is rich in Trans-Retinoic Acids - these work to change the look of ageing caused by the sun.

Now consider what has been thrown away - and what this can also contribute to long-term skin improvement!

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botox? no, results lift gel.

Not a week passes without yet another Simplicite customer singing the praises of Results Lift Gel.

It's not just words, as they - and I - keep coming back for more and more of it.

This is NOT one of those 'flash in the pan', heavily promoted 'wonder products' that suddenly, after a few months you don't hear of anymore.

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genius at work

David Lyons, naturopath and herbalist, is a hands-on skincare manufacturer who describes his formulations as being made 'from plants, from the ground up'.

Pictured here (at right) at the Simplicite lab supervising the making of a fresh batch of Sundew Cleansing Milk with lab manager Steve, David personally adds his decoctions of between eight and 18 medicinal quality plant extracts to each hand-made product..

Sundew Cleansing Milk is a mix of nine plant extracts; chosen for their synergy - when the similar properties of each extract give a more powerful result when used together than when used alone. In this case that result is to gently and effectively improve the feel and appearance of normal, dry, mature, sensitive and reddened skin.

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why 'certified organic' skin care doesn't impress us

It makes no sense to us at all.

David Lyons, respected naturopath for more than 25 years, and formulator of Simplicité, is unimpressed about certified organic.

He believes the 'organic' certification of skin care is ineffectual and is just used for marketing purposes as it can be achieved with a mere 70% total content being classed as 'certified' organic ingredients. As it is, two 'organic' skin care companies in Queensland have already been prosecuted for 'leaving out'  non-organic ingredients.

David says, 'We won’t dumb-down our products to just to have a certificate which puts us in the same league as skin care ranges which we are way above in terms of quality, concentration and activity”.

"The plant extracts used in most products are invariably weak. This absolutely includes the 'certified organic' ones - because the term doesn't mean they're effective.

And the amounts used of these weak extracts can be so very tiny – to say a drop in a bucket would be being generous. This can't and won't give positive, lasting results for skin."

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what we'd never put in our face oils

So much!

Other face oils contain these ingredients - 'no-nos' in Simplicite products:

David won’t use - alcohol as it dries and hardens the upper layer of the skin. This reduces the absorption of nutrients and also reduces the rate of elimination of the skin’s own metabolic wastes.

He also won’t use hydrogenated oils, especially peanut oil and hydrogenated hazelnut oil (Clarins is one company which uses this type of hazelnut oil in its face oil products.)

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