Serves four 500gm soba noodles 500gm large all purpose shrimp Spring onions, sliced Fresh coriander Dressing 80ml Japanese Soy sauce 1 lime…. Juice and zest 10ml Fish sauce 40gm palm sugar 20ml Bestow Beauty Oil Cook noodles till soft, cool. Add dressing ingredients to saucepan except for the Bestow Beauty Oil, heat to dissolve palm sugar. Cool, add Bestow Beauty Oil and combine with noodles and sliced spring onions. Quickly panfry shrimp in very hot pan, add to noodles, toss together, season[...]
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Janine Tait
One of the most important minerals for skin health and anti-ageing is zinc, but unfortunately it is the one mineral most people are deficient in. Many medications including the contraceptive pill deplete our levels of zinc, and on top of that, our soils are Zinc-deficient and so is processed food. Zinc helps us produce healthy collagen, aids skin healing, helps to prevent scaring and makes the skin strong and resilient. To test for zinc you can do a simple ‘taste test’ at most pharmacies or health[...]
Most people assume that perspiration causes body odour, but the truth is that we have specialized glands found under our arms and in the genital area that are responsible for body odour. These glands are called apocrine glands and they secrete a sticky, milky fluid that on breakdown by skin bacteria results in the characteristic smell of body odour. These glands don’t start production until a person goes through puberty. This is why children never smell of body odour no matter how sweaty they get. I[...]
Your skin is your first layer of defense, so your body has cleverly ensured it is protected with a very important barrier, the acid mantle, which keeps it supple, smooth and intact. This protective film is also quite acidic hence the name, Acid Mantle, meaning an acidic cloak or cover. The acidity of the skin ensures that only friendly, helpful bacteria are encouraged to live on our skin, whereas harmful, disease-producing bacteria prefer a more alkaline environment. Unfortunately, in a misguided attem[...]
Many of the ageing signs we see on our skin are caused through the loss of good quality collagen fibres. One of the most damaging things that can occur to the fibres is the process of ‘glycation’, which is basically when sugar (glucose) combines with the proteins on our collagen fibres making them ‘sticky’. This essentially makes our collagen fibres stick to each other rather than flowing smoothly over one another. Glycation can be caused by two things: when there is too much sugar circulating in[...]