If you want more information, just send me a DM on Instagram or if you want to try it out go to bit.ly/tft10 off, if you’re new to Crunchi you’ll get $10 off your first order.

I love that Crunchi is now offering a money back guarantee! Try for 30 days and if you're not completely satisfied they’ll refund your money! How incredible is that?

Ingredients to look for:

Peptides

Organic Sea Buckthorn

Niacinamide

Tamarindus Indica Seed

Organic Green Tea

Hyaluronic Acid

Sweet Almond Oil

Squalane

Prickly Pear Seed Oil

Turmeric Root Extract

More on free radicals: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249911/

If you want more information, just send me a DM on Instagram or if you want to try it out go to bit.ly/tft10 off, if you’re new to Crunchi you’ll get $10 off your first order.

I love that Crunchi is now offering a money back guarantee! Try for 30 days and if you're not completely satisfied they’ll refund your money! How incredible is that?

So often on Toxin-Free Talk I'm telling you about the ingredients that you need to watch out for like parabens, endocrine disruptors, things like that. I have plenty of episodes about those. But today I wanted to talk about ingredients you actually want and your skin really needs them, in my opinion. If you're looking for anti-aging skincare, or even just skincare to make your skin look healthy and vibrant, then these are the ingredients you need. 

You know I love my Crunchi skincare products. It's been a love affair since the moment I tried them. One of my dear friends is the product developer for their products and so I know that I can trust what they're putting in there. 

Why I love this company so much is that they take typical conventional skincare and makeup, and they make it safe. So they take out the unhealthy ingredients and then they add in these incredible skin benefiting ingredients. A lot of conventional companies just don't do that. They may even claim that they are doing that by saying oh we have peptides in this on the front of the bottle. But what you don't know is that you actually need quite a bit of an ingredient to make it do what it does. That's the easiest non-scientific explanation to explain that, but truly, you know, it's just not enough to have a little tiny bit of a peptide in an anti-aging treatment. You need it to be pretty strongly packed with peptides to see the results that you're going to want in an anti-aging product. That's really why I love Crunchi because again safe ingredients but also these incredible skin benefiting ingredients and the before and afters are pretty incredible. 

I am 44 Next week, happy birthday to me, and people are always shocked to hear that I am that age. I get late 20s sometimes. I do not use any retinal cells. I have never had Botox. This is simply just really good skincare and wearing SPF every day to protect my skin from the sun. Okay, so let's get into those top 10 ingredients. 

The first one I've already mentioned is peptides. So what do peptides do? Well they firm and they plump your skin to give a youthful radiant look. It is important to think about peptides not just for your face, but to check for them in body products. I mean who wants their face to be looking nice and youthful and their body to be looking like that woman from Something About Mary. If you are too young to know Something About Mary then maybe you need to go watch it. We don't want our body to look older than our face right? So there are some new exciting products coming out that are going to have these age defying ingredients in them and they’re for the body and this is kind of unheard of. Crunchi is coming out with something very soon that I'm super excited about. So make sure that you follow along and you can DM me on Instagram and I'll make sure that you know about this incredible product that's coming out soon. 

Okay, the second ingredient that you want to look for is organic sea buckthorn. This ingredient is packed with phytonutrients and antioxidants.  If you're not familiar with antioxidants and what they do, they actually protect against UV and environmental damage and free radicals. Free radicals are molecules that can damage your body's cells, they can cause illness and lead to accelerated aging. The toxins in our environment can create these unstable molecules and we also can get free radicals from exposure to X-rays, ozone, cigarette smoking, air pollutants, and industrial chemicals. And again, the organic sea buckthorn helps protect us from those free radicals. How cool is that? Not only do the antioxidants in organic sea buckthorn protect us from environmental damage and free radicals, it also helps plump the skin for an ageless appearance. I don't know about you, but I definitely want that ageless appearance.

The next ingredient you want to look for is niacinamide and niacinamide improves the appearance of pores and skin blemishes and it visibly brightens your skin. So personally, I have always had very large pores. It's something I have not liked about my face. And I can attest that with daily use of Goldenlight which has niacinamide in it, has definitely helped with the size of my pores, I barely even notice my pores anymore. Whereas before, it was something that really bothered me. Not only is Goldenlight amazing for the pores, but also I've noticed that my rosacea has really been minimized. 

You want to look for Tamarindus indica seed, which reduces the appearance of dullness and it smoothes the skin. 

Organic green tea is a potent antioxidant that protects against environmental stressors and smooths the skin. 

This one you've likely heard of, hyaluronic acid. And if you're not familiar with it, what it does is it restores skin hydration, and visibly plumps fine lines and wrinkles. 

Now these last five ingredients that I've just been mentioning are in Goldenlight, my very favorite serum, and you can see why I love it so much. And it's why people are so amazed by these results. It's not just safe ingredients. It also has all of these amazing skin loving ingredients as well. I mean, who doesn't want these from a simple serum that does not have any harmful ingredients. It firms, it plumps, it protects against environmental damage, it reduces dullness, smooths the skin, restores hydration, plumps fine lines and wrinkles. I don't know about you, but these are all things I definitely want in my skincare. 

Not to mention my favorite serum with all those ingredients, Crunchi Goldenlight packs them in, it's not like they just include the minimum amount to list the ingredient on the label. Yes, as I said earlier, some companies actually do that; they only put like a little dash of that ingredient in it so that they can market it as having that ingredient in it. 

For example, Goldenlight has 13 peptides. Yes 13! So they're maximizing that benefit of the peptides. Plus all the other ingredients that are in the product are totally safe, unlike conventional products, which are going to have some fillers in there, or they're going to have some harmful preservatives in there. 

When you think about it, the crazy thing here is that you're putting this skincare on your face because you want to improve your skin right? And in some cases, if you're just using conventional products, you're potentially damaging your skin and your overall health at the same time. That's why it's so important to switch out your skincare. You use it every day. At least I use my skincare every day. I'm almost 44. I got to do the best I can to get this face looking as youthful as possible. So I'm definitely using it every day, in many cases twice a day. So it's really important to switch out your skincare because you're using it so often. . 

For an exfoliant for your face, you're gonna want to look for both a physical and a chemical exfoliant. So the physical exfoliant immediately removes those dead skin cells on the surface and then the chemical exfoliant, if you leave it on for a few minutes, it serves as a treatment mask further removing the dead skin cells. A safe chemical exfoliant is based on glycolic, lactic and fruit acids. They're safe and they gently remove the dead skin cells, making it smooth and brightening the appearance. 

The next ingredient you want to look for is sweet almond oil, which is rich in vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and antioxidants, which helps keep your skin healthy. 

Another ingredient to look for is squalene which mimics the skin's lipid barrier and helps healthy skin barrier function. It further protects from environmental stressors, and it keeps your skin hydrated. 

Then we are on to prickly pear seed oil, which is rich in linoleic acid which protects the skin barrier and helps keep the skin functioning and keeping it hydrated. 

Then the last one we have is turmeric root extract. And I'm sure you've heard of all the benefits of turmeric. Why not put it in your skincare too? It is an antioxidant it soothes the skin and leaves the skin glowing and radiant. Love that. So those are the ingredients that you want to look for in your skincare.

One last thing to think about is I know we're talking about skincare here, but what if your makeup had incredible ingredients like this too? It wouldn't just be covering your blemishes or evening out that uneven skin tone. What if it actually had skin benefiting ingredients as well? Well of course with Crunchi the makeup also has some of these incredible ingredients in them.