After years of Epsom, Dead Sea Salts and Oil, I am rethinking the bath.
I love baths, yet I didn’t understand that the frequency and exposure to salty hot water could actually be harming my skin. Here’s why:
Water alone, due to its alkaline pH, disrupts the delicate and protective acid mantle of the skin, and when you add in a chloride like Sea Salts or a sulfate like Epsom, you raise the ion concentration as well. This “charged”, water osmotically attracts and pulls water from the outer layers of skin cells, called corneocytes — resulting in dehydration on a cellular level. Hot water also loosens the flat-lying structure of these protective outer corneocyte cells, “fraying the edges” — and disrupting the intercellular supporting matrix of lipids and ceramides. Skin that is frayed and dehydrated has less of a chance of responding well to UV damage, and grows depleted over time and repeated exposure, predisposing skin to form sunspots and lose firmness and glow.
However those of us that love baths are not about to give them up. Baths have enormous benefit to our overall health and wellbeing— like enhancing blood flow, circulation, reducing blood pressure, calming and centering — What if the water that we are submerged in can replenish instead of stressing the skin? What if a bath is not something skin had to recover from, but benefited by?
I realized that heat and water offer a unique time for skin to receive nourishment, and remarkably, I’ve learned many valuable nutrients for skin are water-soluble.
After years of formulating, I created a luxurious powdered bath milk that contains no salts or sulfates, no oils or clays… just pure and gentle bioavailable actives to support skin’s hydration and antioxidant systems. I took the opportunity to sneak past the frayed corneocytes with NAG for example, a tiny, water-soluble, heat-stable amino sugar that the skin uses to produce its own Hyaluronic Acid. If Hyaluronic Acid was a Hummingbird, NAG would be the nectar. NAG also blocks the enzyme that causes sunspots. Win/win.
Every single ingredient of SUNBATH Serum Powder has been intelligently chosen and meticulously sourced — to support healthy skin, which is beautiful skin. Just 5 scoops in a bath forms a rich, aqueous solution that saturates and infuses the stratum corneum, and bathes each interacting cell in healthy, glowy nutrition.