Site Changes on the Way

We're redesigning our site to better suit the needs of our consumers. We're splitting it into two - Aiken Hair and Aiken Skin Care. While it'll be the same company, and the same shipping location, the splitting of the site will hopefully provide some convenience for our customers looking for hair-specific products as opposed to skin-specific products.

The Skin care side of things will get a much-needed face lift, making things smoother and nicer looking while updating product write ups and making things easier to access. Feel free to email us, or comment us, and let us know what you'd like to see happen to our website to change it for the better. We're always looking for ways to improve it for you.

New Products on the Site - Cell Youth Actif

We've been super excited about these products, and wanted to share them with you.

First off, we have a conditioner (finally!) for the Revita Shampoos!

We also have a lovely product from DS Labs to grow your eyelashes.

But the real star of the show is our newest product: Cell Youth Actif.

We just got our hands on some of this stuff, and it's already on back-order from the manufacturer days after its release! There is SO much information on this product we couldn't possibly fit it all in one simple page, so we wanted to take the time to put all the information you could ever want on it here.

First: It's for Mature, aging skin. Skin lacking firmness, sun-damaged skin, dull, tired, stressed and devitalized skin, dehydrated and flaking skin, sensitive red, rosacea-prone and basically any skin that is in need of repair.

We wrote on the main description a list of actions, and I wanted to go into more detail with those.

The product works in 14 ways, described in a convenient list:

1. Lines and wrinkles are minimized

2. Firmness is repaired

3. Contours are refined

4. Clarity revealed

5. Tone is evened

6. Hydration intensifies

7. Smoothness refined

8. Radiance awakened

9. Redness calmed

10. Puffiness eliminated

11. Sun damaged diminished

12. Fragile skin strengthened

13. Vitality recharged

14. Repair enhanced In a nutshell, it's a multi-tasking punch to your skin routine. It creates a wonderful base-line we-got-you-covered technique to your routine, and is well complimented with any of your existing powerplexes and skin care ingredients. It slides right into your skin-care regime easily.

We also wrote about the "5 key processes" known by reparative and regenerative biologists to have the most impact on cellular aging. These are the processes we were talking about, and how the Actif works on them:

1. Problem: Activation-resistant stem cells. As you age, skin cells die, those proteins that made your skin look so youthful decline as moisture-holding lipids decrease. Waiting to receive the molecular message to take the place of dying cells are reservoirs of adult stem cells hidden in microscopic niches within your skin. Recently, scientists discovered messengers in a North Atlantic alga reactivate dormant stem cells found in mature skin. The Actif containing these messengers wakes up the stem cells and stimulates them into doing their job properly.

2. Loss of cellular water. Vital for life-giving hydration, aquaporins are newly discovered cell membrane proteins that channel water into your cells. These proteins, declining with age, are necessary for hydration. Without them, you can put as much moisture as you want on your skin, but not all of it will actually be delivered to the cells. Molecules found in the Brazilian tree Piptadenia colubrina increases the presense of aquaporins up to 11 times!

3. Damaged DNA. Your cellular blueprint and source code for youthful proteins increases dramatically after the age of 30. Purified enzymes from the Mediterranean Arabidopsis plant repair the most common form of DNA damage within hours of exposure to these corrective enzymes. Skin begins to act younger as a result.

4. Too little anti-aging cellular enzymes. Cellular enzymes called sirtuins are thought to protect against DNA damage and cell death, boost cellular antioxidant defenses and increase the lifespan of cells. The whole purpose of enzymes is to be catalists for protein productions. Your skin creates free radicals on its own, making antioxidants necessary to fight those naturally occuring free radicals. Resveratrol, a powerful antioxidant and sirtuin-booster famously found in red wine, is even more potent in Japanese Knotweed. Within weeks, skin sensitivity is reduced, elasticity improves, and deeper signs of aging begin to disappear.

5. Downturn of energy within the cells. Age also slows down the amount of energy one has, and this is no different with the skin. Your cells at the age of 60 have 50% less fuel to operate on than at 30. Ergothioneine, the cell's principle energizing antioxidant, restores power to the cells and quenches age-producing radicals and supports cellular activities such as detoxification and production of proteins. Repair, damage, and tone evens out and diminishes.

In summary, ingredients from around the world are collected and put into this product. Cell Youth Actif has had over a decade of research put into it, and multiple patents are pending on the serum.

The performance ingredients list is below:

Hydrolyzed Algin: Creates revitalizing environment to awaken skin's dormant stem cells. Activates youthful firmness and smoother, healthier-looking skin.

Piptadenia colubrina Peel Extract: Molecules from this Brazilian tree increase the presence of aquaporins, resulting in hydrated cells and more youthful looking and acting skin.

Arabidopsis Extract: Contains enzymes that repair the most common form of DNA damage.

Peumus Boldus Leaf Extract: A rich source of Resveratrol which acts as an antioxidant as well as a sirtuin booster.

Ergothioneine: The cell's main energizing antioxidant, restores power to cells while fighting free radicals so the cell has the energy it needs to naturally detoxify and produce the proteins it needs to operate and repair itself properly.

This water-based creme-gel has a pH oh 5.4, no fragrances, and works on the cellular and molecular level to correct problems with the skin at the source. This product is awesome, and not enough could be said on it to be honest.

Finally, I wrote about helping with Lymphatic drainage. Here is an awesome technique to help with drainage movements with pressure points:

Step One - The Forehead: Using the fingers and the palms of your hand simultaneously, apply undulating movements from the middle of the forehead to the hairline. Repeat 3 times.

Step Two - The Eyes: Move to the eyes, place your fingers in a cupping motion over the eyelids, apply a gentle undulating movement across the eyes to the temples. Repeat 3 times.

Step Three - The Eyes: Using the pad of your thumb gently rock and pump under the eyes working from the inner to the outer corners. Repeat 3 times.

Step Four - The Cheeks: Using the fingers and the palms of your hand simultaneously, apply undulating movements from the side of the nose, across the cheeks to the ears. Repeat 3 times.

Step Five - The Chin and Jaw Line: Using the fingers and the palms of your hand simultaneously, apply undulating movements across the chin and jaw line area. Repeat 3 times.

Step Six - The Jaw Line: Using the fingers, apply undulating movements under the jawlline. Repeat 3 times.

Step Seven - The Neck: Using the fingers, apply pumping movements downward on the neck toward the terminus.

Step Eight - The Neck and Shoulders: With stroking movements, alternate stroking on the neck, followed by the same movements onto the shoulders.

Step Nine - Decollete: Apply effleurage movements to the decollete, finish with a pumping movement toward the armpit.