Food for Skin is made from quality ingredients obtained from nature: plants and vegetables. Huh vegetables on your face? Let me start by telling you that we did not use crushed tomatoes, but high-quality oils and extracts from vegetables, seeds, kernels, nuts and plants.
Vegetables are good for your skin
Why vegetables and not flowers or fruit? That comes from our passion for cooking with lots of vegetables. Cathy's vegetable drawer is always bulging with fresh products (mostly from the area in West Friesland) and Angela eats a lot of vegetables anyway because she follows a low-carb diet. That love for lots of vegetables already started in our youth. Our mother, also jokingly called Groene Tien, was already way ahead of her time in the 70s by gardening organically in our own vegetable garden. When we asked "what are we going to eat?" the standard answer we got was "just look in the vegetable garden to see what's ready!".
Improve facial skin
Vegetables are power food produced by nature for humans and animals to eat, to become strong, to stay healthy. We all know that fresh vegetables are good for you to eat, but that it is also very good for your skin - your largest organ - few know.
What is good for your facial skin?
When we started Food for Skin, we wanted the ingredients list to read like a delicious recipe: food for your skin. So we quickly settled on plants, nuts and vegetables!
Together with our professional formulator (she creates the final 'recipe' for the skin care products), we set out to find out which vegetables have which good properties.
Natural products for your skin
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Did you know that tomatoes are full of lycopene? Lycopene is a very powerful protector, against dirt from outside, but also against negative influences from the sun on the skin (note: it is not SPF!)
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Carrot is packed with a precursor to retinol (vitamin A from beta carotene) which helps restore the skin and gives it a beautiful, soft, shiny complexion.
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You've probably heard the tip to put cucumber slices on your skin after unfortunately sitting in the sun for a little too long. Cucumber heals, hydrates and softens the skin.
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Pumpkin contains a lot of zinc and selenium, which are essential for repairing and firming the skin.
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And avocado, that is a welcome guest in skin care. It gives the skin suppleness and helps to keep the skin hydrated.
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In addition to these 5 main ingredients, we use many other recognizable ingredients, such as broccoli seed oil, oat oil, elderflower oil, castor oil, shea butter (from the shea nut), etc.
Healthy skin
With all these raw materials you nourish the skin. Many chemically developed products combat skin problems in an aggressive way. We believe that you should not fight problems, but that you should tackle the cause: a skin flora that is out of balance. Help to restore the skin flora to a good balance and you will see that skin problems will also decrease. But take your time! To let your skin recover, it can sometimes take at least 4 weeks. Do not expect instant results from natural products. Because it will not do that. It nourishes the skin, tackles it mildly, which will restore the base, the skin barrier and you will get that soft, shiny, healthy skin! You can read more about our skin philosophy in this blog post .
Natural facial care
The natural facial care products from Food for Skin are not cheap. That is because we did not want to make concessions on ingredients. Food for Skin does not contain cheap fillers such as water (aqua) or microplastics, but every drop is full of active ingredients. That is why you do not need much. A little bit of cream or serum is enough to nourish your skin all day long.
Facial care with natural products
'Food for Skin' is 'Food for the skin' with only natural products . Your skin 'eats' everything that comes on it: pollution, but also the right nutrition. Therefore protect yourself against dirt from outside and feed your skin with materials that nature itself has given us.
