Category: Skincare

1. The Men's Ritual

   Posted on 2:58pm Friday 10th Jun 2016

    

    

    

    

   1. Wash your face with a very mild soap. Harsh soaps block the pores and strip the skin of its acid mantle. Mr Mint is a cream cleanser with enough foam to give the skin a good cleanse… it’s also very minty, perfect to waken up the skin and leave it super fresh. If you shave in the morning, Mr Mint is also a very good shaving lotion!

    

   2. Moisturise. This is something we should do daily as it fantastic for our skin. It will help your skin feel more elastic, whilst ensuring it stays hydrated. Ensure to moisture your neck as well, as this area often gets overlooked.  Formula X is non-greasy and full of vitamins.

    

   3. Use an eye gel. We often neglect our eyes, but it can transform us from looking overworked and tired by working later nights to being bright eyed and feeling fresh. Eye C is a brightening and rejuvenating easy gel.

    

   4. Stay hydrated throughout the day, 60% of our body is water, so drinking enough will help maintain the skin’s health and its appearance.

    

   5. Do a face mask once a week. Our multipurpose Bare Faced face polish and scrub deeply cleans away dirt, leaving tired skin feeling revived, it also has a probiotic to balance and keep breakouts away. 

    

2. Travel Beauty

   Posted on 5:54pm Thursday 26th May 2016

   

   Weekend breaks are perfect for anyone looking to relax, experience something a little different and to just get away. Sometimes when we travel, our skin can suffer from changes within climates. Alexandra has created 50ml bottles that are light and easily can go in your hand luggage. As with all our products they are hand blended from natural, essential ingrediants. If you have any questions about which combination of travel-sized products is best for your skincare routine, and how to use them please do contact us on support@alexandrasoveral.com or call +44 (0)207 266 3577

3. Immune System

   Posted on 10:13am Monday 25th Jan 2016

   We all know that the immune system is responsible for destroying pathogens that invade our bodies but what we sometimes forget is that the immune system also has the job to destroy our own cells when they become cancerous and attack healthy cells.  Maintaining a healthy immune system is imperative to good health and in the prevention of cancer. 

   Fortunately, at the moment there’s a lot in the media about the link between a healthy gut leading to a healthy immune system.  The healthy food revolution we are witnessing today is doing a very good job of informing us of it and I’m constantly reading new scientific articles proving that fact. 

   I would however like to remind you of another very important fact that the new fast paced world we live in today has forgotten. I’m referring to the last stage of the immune system’s response to infection.

   When we are sick our immune system is on high alert, producing millions of various kinds of fighter cells to recognise, engulf and destroy the invaders. When the number of invaders are at a number that no longer puts the body into danger the Suppressor T-Cell will come into action sending messages to the immune system to rest. 

   If the immune system is activated for longer periods of time than is necessary and this happens repeatedly it may damage healthy cells.  

   We must therefore learn to rest when we are sick to allow our immune system to also rest when the Suppressor T-Cells send the message out.  Suppressing our symptoms when we have a cold so that we may carry on normally is not helping our immune system.  Instead we should be looking for ways to support it by eating well, drinking lots of fluids to aid the lymph to flush out toxins and most of all to rest.  Allow our bodies to do the work... they know exactly what they are doing!

   

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