Joanna in our Kingston store loves the Revive Active Joint Complex. She says: “For the last 2 years I have suffered from lack of mobility in my knees and hips. I often had a very bad pain in the joints after just lying down or exercising. 4 months ago I decided to take care of my joints internally although I thought that my healthy diet was enough. I decided to try Review Active Joint Complex because I have heard that the active ingredients which we can find in this product are scientifically proven to restore damaged joints.
The key active components are: Marine Collagen, Glucosamine, Hyaluronic Acid and MSM.
That was enough for me to understand that this should help me! One month supply of R A Joint Complex turned my flexibility back to normal and being left without pain and stiffness is an amazing feeling. What’s more – my problematic skin condition has also improved.”
Revive Active Joint Complex contains the following ingredients:
Collagen – building blocks of bone, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and skin.
MSM – anti-inflammatory
Glucosamine – cartilage and collagen repair
Hyaluronic Acid – lubricant and shock absorber
Copper – maintenance of normal connective tissues
Vitamin D3 – stimulates the absorption of calcium
Vitamin C – normal collagen formation
Boron – cartilage growth
Maria in our Putney store says: “My favourite product in Panacea at the moment is Apostle Skin-Brightening and Tone Correcting Serum from Antipodes. It is a water-based serum to help target pigmentation, brighten your skin and restore even tone. I think it is a brilliant product. I have been using it for pigmentation caused by sun damage, and have only used it for few weeks and already have noticed some great improvements on my skin. The Apostle Serum is made with a great combination of extracts from pinot noir grapes and kiwi fruit skin grown in sustainable managed New Zealand orchards.”
Antipodes write that the Apostle Serum is a water-based serum to help target pigmentation, brighten your skin and restore even tone.
Waiwera mineral-blessed water – The water comes from deep within the earth and is blessed with a variety of beneficial minerals. Magnesium and calcium in particular are a valuable way to deliver beneficial nutrients and antioxidants to the skin’s epidermal layer. We use it to address the drying signs of ageing because it makes for a powerful boost to your skin’s own hydration levels, and it’s perfect for even sensitive or sensitised skin conditions.
Vinanza Performance Plus® combines extracts from kiwifruit seeds and antioxidant-packed grape seeds scientifically shown to decrease trans-epidermal water loss, leaving your skin moist and hydrated. It’s also shown to decrease the melanin production that causes freckling and pigmentation, and decrease undesirable redness or facial flushing.
Vinanza Oxifend® is a revolutionary antioxidant-packed extract from the skins of sustainably harvested New Zealand pinot noir red grapes defends skin cells from oxidative stress helping reduce skin redness. It’s scientifically proven to completely inhibit inflammatory activity in skin cells, helping reduce the redness in skin that comes from an inflammatory response to a product or environmental assault. Its potent antioxidant action helps keep cells healthy.
Living culture symbiotics offers a more natural wholefood option than standard probiotics in providing full spectrum support for your natural digestive flora. Most of us are used to taking large doses of individual strains of microflora such as Acidophilus lactobacillus but Living nutrition’s support goes further. The Your Flora Symbiotic range involves all the nutrients and factors involved in seeding, colonising and thriving within a complex and dynamic ecosystem that is your gut.
You are unique, so is your flora
We each have our own unique and dynamic eco-system within our digestive tract, rich in a vast and diverse array of microorganisms. This ecosystem influences both your physical and emotional health and is essential for optimal digestion. Living Nutrition recognise the need to support your individual flora and the complex requirements of a balanced, healthy ecosystem.
The symbiotic approach
Symbiosis – the intimate relationship of different organisms living and evolving in harmony, within an ecosystem for the benefit of each other.
Kefi-soya™ – the living culture symbiotic
Living Nutrition have developed an exceptional whole-food living culture symbiotic using a traditional month long kefir style fermentation.
Kefi-soya™ is a selection of 35 microorganisms fermented in organic soymilk. This fermented living culture provides a synergy of healthy microorganisms within their natural ecosystem.
Kefi-soya™ is so more than a capsule of bacteria. It is a living food matrix rich in nutrients, enzymes and naturally evolved microorganisms.
Fermented soymilk – the symbiotic of our ancestors
Research has proven that fermented soya milk is by far the best source of nutrition for supporting the gut flora. Recently soya has a mixed reputation, but this is due to how it is processed and consumed. Soya in its fermented forms such as miso, tempeh and natto are highly nutritious and extremely beneficial for the gut ecology.
Your Flora’s 6 New Synbiotics include:
Your Flora Coolmint
Kefi-soya™ plus organic peppermint and lemon balm – Suitable for those with digestive sensitivity, including IBS.
Your Flora – Family
Kefi-soya™ plus organic banana and baobab – Suitable for the whole family as an ongoing support for the digestive microflora
Your Flora – Gold Spice
Kefi-soya™ plus organic ginger and lemon balm- Suitable for those with digestive inflammation, including colitis and Crohn’s disease.
Your Flora – Regenesis
Kefi-soya™ plus organic artichoke and chicory – Suitable for the repopulation of the digestive microflora, including post antibiotics and post infection.
Your Flora – Terrain
Kefi-soya™ plus organic aloe vera and slippery elm – Suitable for those with digestive conditions including ulcers, excess acidity, constipation and diarrhoea.
Your Flora – Tranquil
Kefi-soya™ plus organic fennel and chamomile – Suitable for those suffering from bloating and flatulence.
Ana in our Watford store Loves Naturtint Permanent Hair colours. She says: “I have found in Naturtint everything I need to colour, nourish, strengthen and protect my hair! Naturtint Permanent Hair colours are enriched with natural and organic plant and seed oils extracts delivering 100% grey coverage, long lasting naturally radiant colour and shine.”
These colours have recently been reformulated and is now enriched with even more natural ingredients to actively and gently care for the health of both your hair and scalp, whilst delivering the best cosmetic results.
Naturtint hair colours are:
Free From Ammonia, Resorcinol, Parabens, SLS, Mineral Oils.
Enriched with ingredients of natural origin to provide optimum colour and care for healthy hair.
36 Shades can be mixed to create an endless spectrum of colours.
All shades offer 100% GREY COVERAGE and can lighten hair by up to two shades.
Watch the video to see how to apply Naturtint colour to your hair.
As with all permanent hair dye, Naturtint permanent hair colours do contain PPD and therefore it is recommended that you carry out a skin test 48 hours prior to use and should you be sensitive to this ingredient the Naturtint Reflex range is available in store offering a less permanent, but as much nourishment for beautiful colour and care for your hair.
Stock up on your favourite skincare items for less! We have a sale on all Skincare items For 4 Days only!
From 2-5 July all skincare is
Buy One, Get One Half Price!
Offer applies to 2 of the same skincare item. Make Up,Face & Body Care, Bath & Shower products, Kids and Baby Skincare, Hair Care, Deodorant, and Oral Care.
This is on all your favourite natural brands available in store!
Are You Tired All The Time? If you are, you’re not alone. Far from it, in fact. It’s one of the common most reasons people go and see their doctor. The trouble is, most doctors can’t do much to help. That’s hardly surprising given they don’t learn much about non-specific conditions like fatigue during their medical training.
When someone suffers from persistent fatigue, many aspects of their life suffer. The quality of their work, the nature of their relationships or family life, their ability to go out, have fun, holiday, exercise – or even party – are often affected dramatically. Depression and anxiety may be triggers for fatigue, or they may be causes. The bottom line is that all kinds of events in life – ones that any healthy person would find manageable or even enjoyable – become a matter of trepidation. A doctor confronted with someone who exhibits symptoms of depression or anxiety often prescribes SSRI drugs (antidepressants). In the US, up to 10% of the population is taking an antidepressant at any one time. Things aren’t much different in most other industrialised countries.
You may also experience fatigue at certain times, and not others. OK, if you haven’t managed to get enough sleep, you’ve got good reason. But if you’re sleeping, or trying to sleep, and you just can’t seem to recover and feel energised, or you lose all your energy at particular times of day, such as after you’ve eaten, or when you’ve taken a limited amount of exercise, you’re starting to feel your fatigue and malaise a real problem.
There are always underlying reasons for fatigue-related conditions, but these can’t always be identified. In some cases, fatigue can be related to serious underlying diseases, which yet have been diagnosed, such as heart disease, thyroid diseases, type 2 diabetes, kidney or liver disease, or various infectious diseases, such as upper respiratory tract infections, gastric or duodenal ulcers, Lyme disease, pneumonia or periodontal disease. That’s why it’s always important to see a doctor or other qualified or experienced health professional to check for any possible, serious underlying causes.
While any of these conditions may be a cause of the fatigue, they may not be the sole cause and they may not have been the trigger that led to the disease in the first place. It may also be that the body struggles to resume normal, healthy function because of on-going mediators or perpetuators such as stressful life events (e.g. relationship or work-related challenges, financial difficulties, loss of a loved one), a poor diet or a particular nutrient deficiency, insufficient physical activity or relaxation, poor sleep quality, smoking, too much drink or other unhealthy habits.
Oftentimes however, the reasons for someone’s fatigue are complex, unclear and non-specific. Doctors and health professionals increasingly refer to this as ‘tired all the time’ syndrome, or TATT. Not for a lack of trying, the fatigue simply can’t be traced to a particular underlying disease. This is the case for over half the people who present to their doctors with fatigue — and the millions who don’t. Knowing there are some key things we can all do to help our bodies can be a lifesaver. We’ll give you more detail in upcoming blogs, but three key processes stand out as among the most important.
The first involves supporting the energy-producing ‘factories’ in our cells, the mitochondria. The second is about managing the amount of oxidative stress within the body. Both of these are strongly dependent on eating pattern and the quality of the nutrients you eat and absorb. It’s also about how you move, rest and sleep. The third key process is about providing the best possible environment for your body, one that nurtures it and allows it to function optimally. This means learning to be good to yourself, including eating as well as you can, taking particular supplementary nutrients, resting right and sleeping well, through to finding appropriate ways of being physically active and finding the best ways of transforming stress.
Misha in our Muswell Hill Store loves Lavera Liquid Foundation. She says it is one of the best natural, organic foundations I have come across. It leaves my skin naturally glowing, moisturised and gives a good coverage as well.
This foundation blends easily on the skin and offers up to 10 hours of moderate coverage. It treats and rejuvenates your skin with age-defying certified organic argan oil, jojoba, vitamins A, C and E, and flower extracts.
Its creamy texture reduces the look of fine lines too, creating a flawless look. As with all Lavera make-up, it’s an added bonus knowing that your make-up is beneficial for your skin since it nourishes and rejuvenates your skin.
Varicose veins are enlarged or swollen veins, visible through the skin as blue or purple swellings. Although they may be found anywhere in the body, varicose veins are most common in the calves and thighs. They may also have a bulging, lumpy or twisted appearance. The thickened or swollen parts of veins are known by doctors as varicosities. The word ‘varicose’ comes from Latin and means ‘dilated’ or ‘larger’.
This happens when veins lose their elasticity, become stretched or swollen. This leads to leakage of valves found inside veins, responsible for regulating the normal flow of blood towards the heart.
Who develops varicose veins?
Some people are more prone to the condition than others. Those who spend much of their day sitting, and in particular standing, are more likely to develop the condition. In addition, varicose veins can run in families, especially in the female line.
It is said that over 3 in 10 adults will develop varicosities at some point in their lives. Other estimates are even higher, suggesting that 40% of men and 32% of women aged 18 to 64 years suffer from varicose veins.
The most common cause of varicose veins in young women is pregnancy. It is thought that about 40% of pregnant women experience this, although these usually disappear after birth of the child.
What are the symptoms?
A feeling of aching, heaviness or tiredness may develop in the calves or thighs. Other symptoms of varicose veins include swollen ankles, burning sensation in the legs, muscle cramp or itching of the skin.
The symptoms of varicose veins vary from person to person. Usually the first signs are that affected veins becoming more noticeable through the skin. With time, they appear swollen, and may become itchy or slightly tender to touch.
Although the symptoms of varicose veins are unsightly and irritating, the condition tends not to be serious. However, serious complications can develop and these include varicose eczema, skin ulcers, thrombosis (abnormal clotting) and bleeding. If this is the case, you should seek medical attention.
Varicose veins in other parts of the body
Although varicose veins are most commonly found in the legs, they may appear elsewhere in the body.
Haemorrhoids (or piles) are varicose veins in the anus and rectum – the lowest part of the digestive tract where faeces leave. Although not often serious, they can be very painful. You may notice streaks of blood as you try to pass stool
Pregnant women may notice varicose veins in their legs but sometimes, varicose veins in the vulva or vagina, as the baby puts pressure on the pelvic region, restricting blood flow
They may also be found in the oesophagus(or gullet), the tube which connects your mouth to your stomach. This is known as liver cirrhosis and is usually caused by scarring in the liver resulting from hepatitis infection or excessive alcohol consumption
Up to 1 in 7 men develop varicose veins in the scrotum or testicles. They are not usually problematic and you may not notice any symptoms.
Prevention or treatment?
There are many measures you can take to help prevent varicose veins from developing or worsening. Most of these involve improving your circulation with regular exercise and eating healthily.
Treatment of varicose veins include conventional methods such as pressure stockings, lasers or, in severe cases, surgery. Additionally, many people find relief from using herbal remedies, in particular Horse Chestnut seed extracts, available in tablet form, or as a gel.
Should I go to the doctor?
A symptom of varicose veins you may experience is itchiness around the swollen vein. This occurs because blood leaks from the swollen vein, irritating surrounding tissues. If your varicose veins itch, you are more likely to develop complications. Many of these can, and should be treated, so it is worth making an appointment with your doctor.
The diagnosis is often clear as they are usually visible under the skin. However, there may be certain circumstances where you experience some of the symptoms of varicose veins, but are not sure if you have the problem. As with any unexplained symptoms, you should seek the advice of your doctor.
In addition, speak to your doctor if:
You have severe pain, discomfort or swelling in your legs
The skin over the vein becomes painful or irritated
You develop an ulcer (break in the skin)
Your varicose vein bleeds.
Supplements
Horse Chestnut
A.Vogel insist that only freshly picked horse chestnut seeds are used to make Venaforce®. This ensures that the extract obtained contains the active ingredients that help with the symptoms of varicose veins.
Venaforce® and Venagel® Remedies
Horse chestnut is probably the most popular herb used for treatment. It is the seeds of the horse chestnut tree which are used medicinally – and these are the same seeds gathered each autumn for the game of conkers. Venaforce is a traditional herbal medicinal product for the relief of symptoms associated with chronic venous insufficiency and varicose veins, such as tired, heavy legs, pain, cramps and swelling, exclusively based upon long-standing use as a traditional remedy
Venagel contains the extract of fresh Horse chestnut extracts and when used in gels is soothing, providing cooling relief to legs that feel weary, heavy and uncomfortable – fantastic after a night out or a day’s shopping. It is also useful for long journeys (especially by plane), during hot weather and can be used during pregnancy.
Full Time/Permanent Bookkeeper required, £10 – £12 per hour depending on experience.
We are seeking to recruit a Bookkeeper on a permanent basis.
The role will mainly involve:
Entering of supplier invoices.
Monthly bank reconciliations of 2 BANKS and 3 credit cards.
Monthly VAT Returns and liaising with external accountant for submission.
Accounts Receivable and Payable
Dealing with queries and allocations
Dealing with financial paperwork record keeping and filing
Producing monthly Management Accounts and forecasts
Cash flow planning & reporting
Dealing with Suppliers
Any other related admin tasks as needed
Candidates should have previous Sage 50 experience and excellent MS office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook) and should be able to work unsupervised and manage their own workload.
Please only apply if you have previous experience in Accounts, Sage 50 and the ability to work using your own initiative. This role can start immediately. Please send your CV and a cover letter to [email protected]
Mourad in our Kingston store has chosen Higher Nature Keep Sharp as his current favourite.
These tasty orange and lemon flavour jellies are formulated to nourish and support your brain. Containing emulsified omega 3 fish oil packed with DHA and containing slightly more than the recommended daily intake of at least 250mg of DHA. They also contain choline, CoQ10, zinc and B vitamins. The jelly like chews are easy to take and more readily absorbed by the body than tablets, and are an ideal choice if you are concerned about your brain as you age.
The nutrients include:
Zinc which contributes to normal cognitive function
DHA contributes to the maintenance of normal brain function
Choline is a component of the neurotransmitter (a chemical released by nerve cells to send signals to other cells) acetyl choline
Coenzyme Q10, produced by all the cells in the body but its production diminishes with age but is essential for energy production in the brain
Vitamins including Niacin, B6, B12 and Biotin known to help balance homocysteine levels.
The Jellies have also been sweetened using tooth friendly xylitol.
For more information pop into one of our stores and chat to one of our knowledgeable product advisers.
