Janine Tait

So today I wanted to answer a question we sometimes get about our Bestow Gut Love + powder. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this product, it is our answer to having a happy, healthy gut. It contains a wide range of ingredients that help heal and rebalance your gut. The Bestow Gut Love + contains probiotics to help populate your gut with helpful microbes. These microbes have a protective coating to enable them to resist stomach acid and make their way down to the intestines where we want them to be.[...]

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Today I would like to answer a great question I was recently asked. The question was if both the Bestow Collagen Boost and the Bestow Beauty from Beneath are designed to provide the building blocks for our skin to produce collagen, do we need to take both? The answer is yes. This is because each product provides a different piece of the puzzle. Collagen is a very complex fibre made up of approximately 400 amino acids all joined together in a chain. Accompanying those amino acids are num[...]

Winter is the most challenging time of year for our skin. Dropping temperatures, indoor heating and low humidity all create potential problems but our skin’s not totally defenceless. As it senses conditions are changing it starts ramping up its production of certain substances that strengthen and increase its level of protection. Isn’t the skin so amazing!  We used to think that the outer layers of our skin were completely lifeless but we now know there is quite a bit of metabolic activity in these[...]

By Janine Tait Dermo-nutritionist and Holistic Skincare Educator In 2007, when I decided to produce a skin-friendly EFA supplement to support my clients’ skin healing programmes I had to make a choice. Would I create an EFA capsule or would I create an oil? As a dermo-nutritionist, the right choice was obvious to me. An EFA oil supplement is far superior to a capsule supplement for two key reasons. 1. An oil more easily provides the optimum quantity of EFA’s needed for skin health. 2. An emulsified oi[...]