Raw Gaia's Revitalising Eye Oil with Sea Buckthorn Fruit is great for nourishing, conditioning and repairing the delicate skin around the eyes, thanks to its high content of vitamins, EFAs, carotenes and antioxidants.
About Raw Gaia
How It All Started
For many years, Raw Gaia searched for a really good moisturiser, that would be made with ingredients as fresh and as close to nature as possible and that would be free from any chemical or toxic ingredients.
Unable to find anything suitable, they started experimenting in the kitchen and making their own creams. Eventually they came up with what is one of the purest range of skin care products available.
What distinguishes Raw Gaia is that they use only 100% organic, raw and vegan ingredients such as raw cocoa (cacao) butter and cold-pressed oils as well as various essential oils. Importantly, their products are made following a process that avoids temperatures beyond 40°, C. In this way, the life force of the ingredients and all their antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, etc., are retained. All these nutrients are then available to nourish your skin, without leaving any surface residues.
The Importance of Raw
Simply put, the main benefit of a raw, living skin care product is that your body nourishes from the existing life force of the ingredients. In contrast, subjecting to high temperatures destroy most of this living energy.
Raw ingredients provide additional benefits to the skin through their Antioxidants:
Antioxidants help to keep the skin supple and beautiful by neutralizing free radicals. Free radical exposure eventually leads to hidden inflammation and eventually, wrinkles and ageing skin.
Minerals: These occur naturally in our bodies and are found in our most common foods. Sulphur for example is essential to make the skin soft and elastic since it is an essential component of all connective tissues.
Vitamins: They are beneficial to damaged and distressed skin. Vitamin C for example, is especially useful as an anti-wrinkle remedy for under-eyes skin.
Omega 6 Fatty Acids: Present in oils such as primrose and borage seed oils, they have been shown to gradually improve eczema and moisturize dry, cracking and/or scaling skin.
MSM (Methyl sulphonyl methane):
MSM is a sulphur compound that is naturally found in all body cells and some of our most common foods. Sulphur is an essential component for the formation of collagen, which is the fibrous substance in connective tissue. It is especially concentrated in the skin, hair and nails. Adequate levels of sulphur in the body promotes a radiant complexion, glowing skin and mineralised hair. Therefore sulphur is called The beauty mineral. As part of a skin care product, MSM promotes skin elasticity, healing and repair. It also allows greater cell permeability, therefore allowing waste products to be flushed out of the cells.
What Purity Really Means
Raw Gaia's products do not contain any nasty petrochemicals, artificial colourants and parfums, glycols, lauryl sulphates, parabens, preservatives, synthetic additives, bulking agents or hidden ingredients.
Moreover, by following a special process that carefully avoids temperatures above 40°, C, they ensure that none of their products contain heated oils and fats. When these are used in skin care products - even in the so-called most natural ones-, they are actually one of the worst offenders to skin beauty. Heated oils and fats contain highly toxic transfatty acids, which may be absorbed into the cell membranes, causing them to become porous and weak. They also lead to the creation of free radicals, which are unstable oxygen molecules that have lost an electron. Collagen, a protein molecule that constitutes 80% of the dermis, is particularly susceptible to free radical damage, which includes wrinkles, lingering scars and stiff collagen.
In contrast, Raw Gaia's cold-pressed fats and oils, kept at low temperatures, help to beautify the skin, strengthen the cell membranes and restore nutrients to the tissues.
Raw Gaia's Ethical and Fairtrade Principles
All Raw Gaia's products are certified vegan by The Vegan Society. Their products have not been tested on animals. In addition, they have carefully screened their suppliers to ensure they do not carry out tests on animals either.
As much as possible, they source their raw materials through fairtrade, to ensure that growers receive a fair price for their work. Raw Gaia's raw cacao butter and the Living Herbal Face Pack are examples of fairtrade ingredients.