Beauty Chef - how looking at Gut Health first can help Glowing Skin
Your skin keeps no secrets. As your largest—and most truthful—organ, it can reveal a lot about your inner health, hydration and stress levels, sleep quality, digestion, diet and your rate of cellular ageing.
If you treat yourself well, your skin will reward you with a radiant and glowy complexion, but by failing to nourish your mind and body, you’re more likely to experience a complexion that’s dull and lacklustre, with pronounced fine lines, wrinkles, breakouts and congestion.
To make matters worse, no matter what topical skincare products you're using, if you’re not getting enough nutrients from your diet, or you’re suffering from poor digestion or long-term stress, the side effect is that your body will divert any available nutrients to your vital organs, meaning that your skin health, hair and nails can suffer.
Nonetheless, your skin is in constant communication with you—so it pays to listen (and look) closely. Your skin will tell you loud and clear that it doesn’t like to be overfed with sugar, refined carbohydrates, alcohol, trans fats or processed foods (hello dryness and blemishes!). But it will certainly respond with radiance when you nourish yourself with beauty-boosting antioxidants and the best vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and probiotics, as these nutrients are all essential for cellular repair and rejuvenation.
Remember, building beautiful glowing skin begins deep below your dermis.
Why Are Antioxidants Important?
Essentially, these skin-loving superheroes scavenge for free radicals which are caused by UV radiation, environmental pollution, toxins and your body’s own internal metabolic processes. Because free radicals can wreak havoc on your complexion, it’s essential to get a daily dose of antioxidants to mop up them up, encourage cell turnover and prevent oxidative damage.
Brightly-coloured, nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables are an excellent source of antioxidants—as are avocados, green and black tea, onion, garlic, leeks, nuts, grains, seeds and legumes. The darker the colour, the higher the antioxidant value, or Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC). The more of these nutrient-dense wholefoods you eat, the happier and healthier your skin will be. Be sure to enjoy a wide variety of plant foods every day, as this also helps to cultivate a diverse microbiome and overall wellness.
The Beauty Chef’s GLOW® Inner Beauty Essential is a daily beauty powder for radiant skin and gut health, providing 5-star results. It contains 17 Certified Organic wholefoods, including bio-fermented maqui berries, queen garnet plum and pomegranate fruit peel extract, vitamin C to help boost collagen production and zinc to support healthy hair and nails. Plus, with provitamin A, broad-spectrum B vitamins and probiotics and postbiotics, our berry-flavoured blend is the perfect way to promote luminous skin from the inside, out.
Why not try some of Beauty Chef’s other amazing Gut Health products such as Deep Collage.
Avocado, Mint & Collagen Smoothie
Avocado and raspberries are two skin-loving superfoods—but this blend is made even better by the addition of our DEEP COLLAGEN™ marine collagen powder and bio-fermented elixir, COLLAGEN Inner Beauty Boost...
Formulated to help improve skin elasticity and reduce the appearance of fine lines, our marine collagen powder is certified sustainable, clean and pure—so you can be confident you’re feeding your skin with the best nourishment possible. Moisturising healthy fats from the avocado will also give your complexion an extra boost of hydration.
SERVES 1
INGREDIENTS:
● 1 cup (120g) frozen raspberries
● 1 cup (250mL) almond milk
● ¼ ripe avocado, flesh scooped out
● 4 ice cubes
● 1 small handful fresh mint leaves
● 1 tablespoon COLLAGEN Inner Beauty Boost
● 1 ½ teaspoons DEEP COLLAGEN Inner Beauty Support (Berry)
● Pinch Himalayan salt
METHOD:
Place all of the ingredients in a high-speed blender and blend until smooth. Taste.
Or the Marine Collagen
Blackberry & Marine Collagen Smoothie Bowl
This satiating smoothie contains a skin-plumping secret…
With antioxidant-packed blackberries and fibre-rich pear—as well as our nourishing DEEP COLLAGEN marine collagen powder—this nutrient-dense smoothie is the perfect start to the day. Derived from pure, clean and certified sustainable marine collagen peptides, DEEP COLLAGEN helps to improve skin elasticity, hydration and collagen density—for a firmer, more plump complexion.
SERVES 1
INGREDIENTS:
● 1 cup (120g) frozen blackberries
● ½ medium pear, cored and coarsely chopped
● 2 large handfuls baby spinach
● ½ cup (125mL) drinking coconut milk
● ¼ medium ripe avocado, flesh scooped out
● 1 ½ teaspoons DEEP COLLAGEN Inner Beauty Support (Berry)
● 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
● 2 teaspoons flaxseed oil
● ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
OPTIONAL TOPPINGS:
● Blueberries
● Walnuts
● Pistachios
● Finger limes
● Edible flowers
METHOD:
Place all of the ingredients in a high-speed blender and blitz until smooth.
Pour into a serving bowl and decorate with your toppings of choice.
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