Gas Money! Earth Day.

Don't forget to bring the family out to Kiawah this Saturday for Earth Fest; lots of local vendors and artists. Let us pay for the Gas! Mention this post to receive $10 off your order of $50 or more. It's our way of saying Thank you and Happy Earth Day!
Visit http://www.kiawahresort.com/recreation/kiawah-earth-day.php for more details. 11am-3pm.

A new study shows that the soy lecithin in our # selling Wrinkle Repair Complex helps deliver the powerful antioxidant CoQ10 where in needs to go. What does that mean for you?

Katie Bird writes: "Using a nano-lipid carrier to deliver the antioxidant CoQ10 can significantly enhance its topical skin delivery and protective effect on the skin."

What is CoQ10?

Coenzyme Q10 – or CoQ10 – is known to have powerful antioxidant effects, and it is the coenzyme’s potential to protect the skin against the UVA-mediated oxidative stress that led researchers to investigate different delivery mechanisms of the ingredient. CoQ10 is synthesized in humans but our capacity to make it decreases with age, and rapidly drops after we pass the age of 40.

Scott Peters and Charles Brain report: “The pharmaceutical industry has embraced nanotechnology to improve drug solubility and increase drug uptake. A recent study has shown a seven-fold increase in intestinal cell uptake of CoQ10 in nanodispersions versus traditional powder formulations.”

According to research led by Yang Yue at Tsinghua University in Beijing, this same nanotechnology is becoming increasing popular in cosmetic delivery systems as they have high substance solubility, powerful skin penetration and low skin irritation.

The scientists in China looked at the ability of the coenzyme to protect fibroblasts from UVA damage, and compared the behavior of CoQ10 in an emulsion to that of CoQ10 that had been nanoencapsulated. The study found that the nanoencapsulated CoQ10 (CoQ10-NLC) had a stronger antioxidative capacity than the CoQ10 in the emulsion form. They also noted that after UVA radiation the fibroblasts that had been treated with CoQ10 NLC had a higher cell viability than those that had received the emulsion treatment.

Improved skin penetration

In addition, the team tested the penetration of the coenzyme in vivo using rat skin.

The skin penetration capability of the nanoencapsulated form of the coenzyme was significantly higher than the emulsion form, which the scientists put down to the soybean lecithin nano carrier.

Soybean lecithin’s ability to bind to lipid cell membranes and to enhance the permeability of these membranes, helped enhance the skin penetration of the ingredient, the researchers argued.

“Because the CoQ10 – NLC displayed such powerful antioxidative ability compared to the general CoQ10 emulsion…the NLC formulation is considered to be the key to the efficient delivery of CoQ10,” they concluded in the study.

Sources:

http://www.cosmeticsdesign.com

http://pubs.acs.org

Life's a Beach!

It's a tough job but someone has to do it! We have two great events coming up at wonderful locations.

On April17th - this Saturday - come on out to Folly Beach for the Sea and Sand festival. Center St is closed off and transformed into a street carnival, featuring musicians, artists and local vendors. It's a family friendly event with lots of fun for everyone! Get more details.

To celebrate Earth Day we will return to Kiawah Island on Saturday 24 April for their Earth Fest. Again lots of activities for the kids, a beautiful setting and a green-themed market. Get more details.

Find us at either of these 2 events, mention this blog and receive $10 off your $50 order!

Has this ever happened to you?

The other day, I was trying to place an order to replace raw materials that we use to create your wonderful Samantharoma products...but every website I went to, I couldn't get the forms too function properly. Wondering if this was some weird cyber coincidence, I checked our website...and sure enough couldn't place an order. In fact, the buy now buttons didn't even show up! After checking with Kendra, our super smart web-guru, she advised me to empty my cache. Now I didn't have a clue what a cache was but apparently it needs emptying periodically! It was very simple and fixed the problem right away.

Each time you access a file through your web browser, the browser caches (i.e., stores) it. In this way, the files (including any images on the page) do not have to be newly retrieved from the remote web site each time you click the Back or Forward buttons. You should periodically clear the cache to allow your browser to function more efficiently. Go here to get instructions on how to clear your browser's cache...and do it!