Ekstrak Mentimun @ Cucumis Sativus di dalam produk penjagaan kulit

Ekstrak Mentimun atau Cucumis Sativus digunakan untuk melegakan, menyegarkan dan memulihkan kulit. Mentimun kaya dengan vitamin terutamanya antioksida vitamin A, C dan E. Antioksida di dalam mentimun membantu mengurangkan kesan buruk dari radikal bebas. 

Vitamin C membantu membantu meningkatkan fiber kolagen pada lapisan dermis, mengurangkan garis halus, kedutan dan parut. Dengan peningkatan kolagen, keadaan hidrasi di dermis dipertingkatkan. 

Mentimun membantu melembapkan kulit.  Mentimun juga dapat menyegarkan, membantu melegakan dan merawat iritasi kulit.   

Cucurbitacin D dan 23, 24-dihydrocucurbitacin D yang terkandung di dalam ekstrak mentimun juga boleh menghalang tyrosinase dan pembentukan melanin.

Tocotrienol benefits in skin care

• excellent antioxidation properties of up to 60 times greater than of Tocopherol type of Vitamin E.
• improves efficacy in skin hydration by reducing water loss from the skin and strengthening the skin's barrier function
• helps to protect the skin from ageing and UV induced damage caused by constant and prolonged sun exposure.
• reduces free radical production in the skin
• potential role in skin repair and wound healing
• promotes skin depigmentation

The Goodness of Tocotrienols for the Skin

Tocotrienol improves efficacy  in skin hydration

By reducing water loss from the skin and strengthening the skin’s barrier function.

Tocotrienol protects the skin from damaging free radicals. 

UV radiation increases the production of free radicals and reactive oxygen in different layers of the skin causing cellular damage which accelerates the ageing process and increases the risk for skin cancer. Tocotrienol reduces free radical production in the skin.

Tocotrienols with excellent antioxidation properties of up to 60 times more potent than Tocopherol, has the ability to help protect the skin from ageing and UV-induced damage caused by constant and prolonged sun exposure. 

Tocotrienol as a radioprotective.

We are exposed to radiation every day. Radiation can cause cells to grow abnormally- a process that could lead to cancer. 

Tocotrienols improve survival and reduce radiation-induced injuries in tissues and organs.  In addition to its excellent antioxidant properties, Tocotrienols’ potent radioprotective effects arise from its ability to reduce highly reactive oxidants in the blood by inhibiting a protein called HMG-CoA reductase.

Tocotrienol reduces cellular aging.

Tocotrienol has the ability to prevent cellular ageing by reversing the effects of oxidative stress in human diploid fibroblasts (HDF). In addition, Tocotrienols increased the length of DNA structures called telomeres. (Telomeres progressively grow shorter each time a cell divides. In most cells, telomere length is closely associated with cellular ageing: the shorter the telomere, the older the cell.)

Tocotrienol helps in skin repair and promotes wound healing

Tocotrienol helps in skin repair and would healing as it triggers the movement of cells called fibroblasts.

Tocotrienol reduces melanin production or synthesis.

Tocotrienols’ ability to promote skin depigmentation through inhibition of the key protein tyrosinase in melanin synthesis. Tocotrienols reduce melanin production through tyrosinase inhibition.

Tocotrienol helps to prevent cancer cell growth

In addition to its ability to penetrate the skin’s deepest layers and neutralize the damaging effects of UV-induced free radicals, Tocotrienol acts on key proteins within skin cancer cells to induce cell death and to help prevent cancer cell growth. This mechanism suggests Tocotrienol’s potential role in supporting skin cancer prevention and treatment.

Natural Vitamin E (Tocotrienols)

What is Vitamin E?

Vitamin E consists of 8 naturally occuring isomers of:

4 tocopherols (alpha (α), beta (β), gamma (γ) and delta (δ)) and

4 tocotrienols (alpha (α), beta (β), gamma (γ) and delta (δ)). 



alpha (α) Tocotrienol:
R1=Me
R2=Me
R3=Me

beta (β) Tocotrienol
R1=Me
R2=H
R3=Me

gamma (γ)Tocotrienol
R1=H
R2=Me
R3=Me

delta (δ) Tocotrienol
R1=H
R2=H
R3=Me 

How Vitamin E acts as antioxidant?

Metabolism and exposure to environmental pollution, ultraviolet radiation, toxic chemicals causes free radicals to be formed. Free radicals can cause significant cellular damage. Free radical lacks an electron making it highly unstable molecule. An electron from molecules such as proteins and lipids in human body cells are taken by free radical. Once a stable molecule lacks an electron, it becomes a free radical.

Antioxidants (eg tocotrienol and tocopherol) can inactivate free radicals by donating one of their electrons to the free radical. (Tocotrienols able to donate a hydrogen atom (a proton plus electron) from the hydroxyl group on the chromanol ring). Antioxidants are unique as they do not become a free radical themselves because they remain stable before and after donating the electron. This stops the domino effect of free radicals being created. Therefore, limits cells and tissues damage.

Alpha-tocotrienol is 40-60 times more potent than alpha-tocopherol as an antioxidant and highly protective of the body against free radical attacks.

Tocotrienols are forms of natural Vitamin E that can protect against brain cell damage, prevent cancer and reduce cholesterol. These characteristics, however, are not present in tocopherols. 

Since the 1980s, there have been more studies proving tocotrienols are more potent in their anti-oxidation and anti-cancer effect than the common forms of tocopherol due their chemical structure. The unsaturated side-chain in tocotrienols causes them to penetrate tissues with saturated fatty layers more efficiently, making them ideal for anti-aging oral supplements and the skincare range. Tocotrienols are better able than tocopherols at combating oxidative stress of skin that had been exposed to UV rays of the sunlight.
 
In vivo, tocotrienols are more powerful antioxidants, and lipid ORAC values are highest for δ-tocotrienol. Since 2000, scientists have suggested tocotrienols are better antioxidants than tocopherols at preventing cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
 
In a 2009 study at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, scientists found reduction in skin cancer cells when treated with gamma-tocotrienol with chemotherapy drugs. For the first time, researchers recorded the anti-invasion and chemonsensitization effect of gamma-tocotrienol against human malignant melanoma cells. In cell line and animal studies, δ- and γ- tocotrienols have been shown to suppress the growth of melanoma.

Where Tocotrienols can be found? 

Tocotrienols are naturally found in palm oil, wheat germ, barley and oat. Tocotrienols only occurs at very low levels in nature with the highest concentration found in palm oil.

Tocotrienol are commercially obtained from palm, rice bran and annatto.

It is impossible to obtain the amount of tocotrienols that show beneficial effects from the normal diet alone. We would have to consume unreasonably large quantities of these foods to achieve an effective level of tocotrienols in our body.

EezzyNour Aromatic Baths

"The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day."
~Hippocrates-The Father of Medicine.

How to prepare aromatic bath: 
1. Shut the bathroom door.
2. Fill up the bath tub with warm water.
3. Scatter 6 drops of essential oil (or refer essential oil recipes) into the bath water.
(Note: As they evaporate quickly, add them at last moment.)
4. Disperse the oils as much as possible.
Note:

• Essential oils are only partially soluble in water and can be diluted by adding them to a carrier oil (see below).
• You can mix 6 drops of essential oil in a tablespoon of a carrier oil (see below) for a moisturising bath.
• You may use milk, honey or a bath salt mixture as a carrier.
• You can also use unscented foam bath and luxurious bath oil bases (refer below) for easy dispersion of the essential oils.

5. Stay in the bath for about 20 minutes (or as long as you wish). You can burn some candles and play some soft music. Relax and enjoy your bath!

Carrier Oils.
1. Sweet almond oil.
2. Peach kernel oil.
3. Calendula oil.
4. Grapeseed oil.
5. Apricot kernel oil.
6. Jojoba oil.
7. Wheatgerm oil.
8. Evening primrose oil.
9. Palm Oil
10. Sunflower oil
11. Virgin olive oil
12. Virgin coconut oil

or you can use base oils..

General base oil recipes.
80 ml sweet almond oil.
5 ml wheatgerm oil.
5 ml jojoba oil.
5 ml peach kernel oil.
5 ml palm oil
5 ml sunflower oil
5 ml virgin olive oil
5 ml virgin coconut oil 

Mix well the oils. 
Store in tight amber glass bottle or HDPE bottle.

Luxurious base oil recipes.
50ml jojoba oil
20ml evening primrose oil
10ml calendula oil
5ml apricot kernel oil
5ml peach kernel oil
5ml wheatgerm oil 
5 ml palm oil
5 ml sunflower oil
5 ml virgin olive oil 
5 ml virgin coconut oil

Mix well the oils. 
Store in tight amber glass bottle or HDPE bottle.


Essential oil recipes
A. EezzyNour Detoxifying essential oils

4 teaspoons of Epsom salts (can get from Pharmacy)
2 teaspoons sea salts
1 teaspoon baking soda

1. Mix well all of these.
2. Add the essentials to the mixture.

2 drops Lemon
2 drops Juniper
2 drops Cypress

The mixture to be added into bath water.

B. EezzyNour Passion essential oils

2 drops Ylang Ylang
2 drops Sandalwood
1 drop Rose
1 drops Jasmine

The mixture to be added into bath water. 

Note:

Pure essential oils should always be treated with great care. Use sparingly. They are highly concentrated and should never be used undiluted.