Skin loves a unique, disruptive health drink

Our all-in-one skin solution protects your fibroblasts (your collagen and elastin producing cells) from UV damage and even repairs previous damage, smoothing fine lines and wrinkles. Skin barrier-loving ceramides and lipids protect your outer skin cells (keratinocytes) from free radical damage and premature ageing. Not to mention Hyaluronic Acid, which plumps up the top layer of skin (the epidermis) with moisture and soothes skin conditions such as eczema and acne. Over time, pores are minimised, hyperpigmentation fades, and oil production is balanced.

Your body loves a unique, disruptive health drink too. Our unique formulation has proven health benefits, including joint health, bone health, immunity, heart health, gut health, sports performance and recovery. Most importantly, Skin+Beyond provides real energy, not a fake caffeine or sugar high.

Skin+Beyond’s proven ingredients repair and protect your skin and health at both dermal and epidermal levels.

Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory

Antioxidants mop up cell-damaging toxins (free radicals) before they damage the DNA in your collagen-producing cells (fibroblasts). Antioxidant-rich pomegranate extract (POMx) and glycine (an amino acid) synthesise glutathione, our body’s master antioxidant and number one toxin scavenger.

Prebiotic

Have you heard about the connection between a healthy gut and clear, glowing skin? (Otherwise known as the gut-skin-axis). Our skin health reflects our gut health – if our gut microbes are happy, our skin microbes are happy.

Prebiotic Pomella Pomegranate extract feeds the good bacteria in your gut and releases key ingredient Urolithin A, which is loaded with skin benefits.

Collagen boosting/protection

Our synergistic blend boosts elastin and collagen synthesis by 200%, far higher than collagen supplements or skincare. It also repairs existing damage to these precious anti-ageing proteins, which are the building blocks of healthy skin, muscle, bones and joints.

NAD+ boosting

Niacin and its cousin, niacinamide, are forms of vitamin B3 that boost our NAD+ levels, which decrease by 50% every 20 years, and our body lacks enough fuel to run smoothly. These precursors slow cellular ageing, repairing our skin and improving our lifespan.

Mitophagy

It’s not enough to slow cellular ageing with precursor ingredients; you also have to clear out and recycle damaged mitochondria (the energy batteries of the cell) in a process called mitophagy, which slows down with age. (Ageing mitochondria release toxins that lead to premature ageing, so they need to go!). Our key ingredient, Urolithin A, is the only known ingredient proven to trigger mitophagy for better skin health and vitality.

Antioxidant & Anti-Inflammatory

Protects the mitochondrial DNA of dermal fibroblasts from UV induced damage; A study conducted by Professor Birch-Machin, Prof of molecular dermatology at Newcastle University showed that POMx reduced damage inflicted by free radicals on these collagen and elastin producing cells by 47%, comparable to MitoQ, an artificially engineered antioxidant costing £60 per month, plus POMx has many other therapeutic properties.

See various blogs on the site for more detail on these mechanisms of action.

Prebiotic

Based on the demonstrated efficacy of POMx as an effective prebiotic and the growing importance of the gut-skin axis, POMx offers a chemical free, viable proposition as a skin and beauty ingredient from within in part due to the prebiotic action. The health of the gut directly influences skin health.

Collagen

Although collagen is comprised of 3 amino acids; glycine, proline and lysine, researchers in Spain headed by Particia de Paz-Lugo identified in their 2018 study that glycine is the deficient amino acid (or rate limiting factor) in humans for collagen synthesis and recommends 10g per day supplementation.

NAD+

Niacin and niacinamide synthesise NAD+, in turn boosting cellular protection from environmental damage.

Niacinamide is a boon for skin and general health, and is revered by French women; little wonder when you look at the skin promoting attributes of this humble vitamin.

Mitophagy

Pomegranate induces mitophagy (the clearance and recycling of damaged cellular energy producers) directly and indirectly via the gut metabolite urolithin A. Further niacinamide also performs this role in boosting cellular health not only in ageing skin individuals, but younger subjects.

Why Skin+Beyond is better than putting a pomegranate in a blender?

You can’t find the therapeutic levels of bioactive ellagitannins in pomegranate fruit regardless of whether you eat it, blend it or drink the juice. The only reason a producer is granted patented status for a natural product is if they take that product and enhance its characteristics, and this is exactly what has been done in terms of improving concentration levels of the active ingredients that are not found in the natural fruit. 

Why Skin+Beyond is better than pomegranate capsules?

Very few capsules hold patented status and therefore do not contain effective levels of the bioactive ingredients, and the very few patented products available do not contain Skin+Beyond dosages. 

Skin+Beyond also contains the amino acid glycine and both vitamin B3 forms, niacin and niacinamide (French women adore this form of B3) that offer unique benefits from POMx and complimentary attributes to POMx making Skin+Beyond a truly hybrid product that can be used for multiple applications and not just skin. 

Prevents…

• Prevents or ameliorates fine lines and wrinkles or delays their onset aka premature ageing
• Prevents loss of skin elasticity
• Prevents loss of firmness
• Prevents loss of skin barrier integrity
• Prevents loss of gut barrier integrity; this is important as it influences the skin through complex two way communication via the gut-skin axis
• Prevents loss of brightness or skin tone
• Prevents loss of moisture

Protects against…

• UV light induced DNA damage of dermal fibroblasts that produce collagen and elastin
• Collagen and elastin degradation and loss
• Keratinocyte damage; these are the keratin producing cells that make up most of the epidermis including the skin barrier
• Hyperpigmentation or dark spots by reducing melanin synthesis
• Excess oil production
• Free radical and inflammation damage from environmental stressors

Boosts / improves…

• Improves the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
• Boosts Collagen and elastin synthesis
• Improves skin hydration via hyaluronic acid production
• Boosts Keratin production
• Boosts detoxification; toxins are central to the damage of all cellular systems
• Boosts growth of the fat based ceramide barrier on the skin, helping to retain moisture and skin barrier integrity
• Boosts glutathione production; glutathione is the body’s master antioxidant and protector of all cellular systems from damage, not just skin
• Boosts The production of human growth hormone a.k.a “The youth hormone” or “The anti-ageing hormone”; in turn boosting collagen 
and elastin synthesis and associated improvements skin elasticity and thickness

Other benefits…

• Protects the brain
• Helps with weight loss or maintenance
• Demonstrates anti-cancer action in skin, breast, colon, prostate and lungs
• Increases lifespan via multiple mechanisms
• Functions as a REAL energy drink and not FAKE energy from caffeine and sugar
• Prevents and ameliorates Type 2 diabetes
• Prevents and alleviates osteoarthritis
• Prevents stroke and heart disease; pomegranate is often referred to as ‘the heart fruit’
• Prevents and alleviates autoimmune conditions e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s and irritable bowel disease
• Prevents and reverses sarcopenia (the loss of muscle mass and strength); the direct cause of frailty and associated degenerative decline. The more muscle you have, the longer you live!
• Boosts immunity
• Boosts sports performance and recovery
• Improves oestrogen status in postmenopausal women improving lifespan
• Improves joint health
• Boosts Mitophagy, a process that removes damaged mitochondria (the energy batteries or power plants) from the cells. All ageing processes including skin results from impaired cellular energy output