Live a Healthier Life

July-03-2020

This month, we want to celebrate the things that people love most about Forever, including our top selling products - or ‘Forever favourites’ as we like to call them.
Aloe vera has powerful benefits that help you to look better and feel better both inside and out – in fact, it’s been known and used for centuries for its health, beauty, medicinal and skincare properties: it was even Cleopatra’s favourite beauty product, used to keep her skin and hair looking radiant!
From aiding in digestion to soothing and conditioning the skin, pure inner leaf aloe vera gel is at the heart of everything we do at Forever, and it’s no surprise that our Forever favourites feature the ingredient in abundance!
We’ll kick off with our incredible flagship product: the amazing Forever Aloe Vera Gel! Certified by the International Aloe Science Council for its purity, this drinking gel is as close to the real thing as you can get, boasting 99.7% inner leaf aloe gel, lovingly extracted by hand so that you can experience the true power of nature. We’ve also added vitamin C which contributes to the normal function of the immune system and to a normal energy-yielding metabolism, so that you can kick your day off with a brilliant burst of sunshine and goodness, even if it’s gloomy outside!
And we don’t stop there: we have three more fantastic aloe vera gels waiting to tickle your taste buds.
Forever Aloe Berry Nectar provides a sweet yet tangy flavour with its burst of cranberry and sweet apple, while still containing vitamin C and a whopping 90.7% pure inner leaf aloe vera gel.
Forever Aloe Peaches is the sweetest of them all, with natural peach puree to give it a real taste of summer! Popular with kids and those with a sweet tooth, Forever Aloe Peaches contains 84.3% pure inner leaf aloe vera gel and vitamin C.
Finally, Forever Freedom is the aloe gel most popular with those who lead an active lifestyle. It comes with all the benefits of our plain gel, but with added glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM – and a refreshing orange flavour, too. Stock up with the brand-new Forever Freedom tripack to be sure you never run out!
But let’s take a look at some of the benefits our topical Forever favourite products have, and why so many people love them!
Forever Bright Toothgel
Created for the entire family – as well as your pets – this gentle, non-fluoride formula contains only the highest quality ingredients including aloe vera and bee propolis. Its natural mint flavour will leave your mouth refreshed and your teeth clean!
Aloe Ever-Shield Deodorant
The aloe vera formula in this gentle deodorant contains no alcohol or harsh aluminium salts usually found in antiperspirant deodorants and can even be used to soothe after underarm shaving and waxing.
Aloe Lips
This loaded lip product contains aloe, jojoba and three types of wax to smooth and soothe chapped, dry lips all-year round!
Aloe Scrub
Unlike some scrubs that use plastic microbeads, we use microspheres of jojoba which roll over your skin gently. As they roll, they pick up the dead skin cells that clog up pores and cause skin to look dull. Gentle enough for everyday use for your face or body, the natural ingredients exfoliate and reveal healthy-looking skin.
Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo and Conditioning Rinse
It’s easy to get beautifully shiny and easy-to-manage hair with this aloe vera and jojoba oil-infused shampoo and conditioner combo. The ingredients in the shampoo remove oils while simultaneously soothing your scalp, while the conditioning rinse contains jojoba and vitamin B to help nourish, protect and strengthen hair. The gentle pH-balanced formula in both products makes them suitable for all hair types and can be used to help replenish your hair’s natural moisture, give your hair extra shine and help to eliminate split ends.
Aloe Hand Soap
Formulated from pure 100% stabilised aloe vera gel and natural cleansers, this gentle formula with fruit extracts leaves your skin feeling clean, soft and hydrated.
Aloe Propolis Creme
A rich, creamy blend of aloe vera, bee propolis and camomile that helps maintain healthy, beautiful skin tone and texture. The Aloe Propolis Creme’s moisturising and conditioning properties make for an excellent everyday moisturiser and helps to soothe irritation.
Aloe Vera Gelly
If there was an award for ‘most versatile product’ this one might just be the winner: essentially identical to the aloe vera’s inner leaf, this topical thick gel soothes and calms irritation and is great anywhere from the first aid kit to the after sun skincare bag!
Aloe Heat Lotion
Containing warming agents and aloe, this rich emollient lotion provides blissful relief from everyday stresses and strains and can be great when applied before exercise or for soothing aches after a workout!
What is your ‘Forever favourite’? We’d love to know in the comments why you love it so much!

June-19-2020

Forever's Beauty and Skincare Trainer, Jeannie McGinnis, has been with Forever Living UK since May 2017 and is our dedicated Skincare Advocate. She has been involved with the health and beauty industry in some capacity since the late 1980s and promotes holistic, healthy living in her lifestyle.
Below, Jeannie gives us an insight into the ingredients in Forever’s Targeted skincare range and gives advice on how you can implement these brilliant products into your existing skincare routine to help you look and feel better.
One of the biggest global skincare trends in the last few years is moving to unique products that meet the bespoke needs of an individual.
Several years ago, Forever made a forward-thinking move to revitalise and reinvent many of its skin care products.  The result was the Sonya Daily Skincare Kit for oily and combination skin and the Infinite by Forever Advanced Skincare System for dry and mature skin.  With our flagship ingredient aloe vera as the top ingredient in many of our skincare products, these products can be mixed and matched depending on your skin type.
But instead of creating too many products within those two systems, Forever established a range that sat in between the two that would provide a compliment to each skincare line.  The Targeted range purposed to hold products that customers could pick and choose depending on their needs, concerns and preferences offering ‘extra’s that can be used on a daily or as needed basis.
Here is a current look at this fantastic line of complementary products.

Awaking Eye Cream

Thanks to peptide technology, collagen and other powerful ingredients, this advanced eye cream smooths and firms delicate under-eye skin to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness. Peptides promote the production of collagen, which reduces as we age, and we can apply this topically to combat signs of premature ageing.  The ingredients include the cutting-edge albizia julibrissin bark extract with darutoside, otherwise known as the Persian silk tree, which nourishes and replenishes.  This non-greasy formula can be applied as needed and targets the upper eyelid and the delicate skin around the eye to brighten and lift. Thanks to hydrating properties that reduce water loss, eyes appear rested, alert and renewed.
How I use Awakening Eye Cream: I love this product on my hooded eyelids after a short night’s sleep.

Balancing Toner

Combination skin fluctuates between dry and oily when the skin is out of balance due to Ph levels, or when the acid mantle - the delicate top layer of the skin - is damaged.  Balancing Toner addresses both by bringing skin into balance to refresh and rehydrate. It’s designed to be applied after cleansing to remove excess dirt, minimise the appearance of pores and hydrate the skin before moisturising. It also contains a unique blend of seaweed extract and a form of hyaluronic acid, dubbed the ‘molecular sponge’, thanks to its water attracting properties. When combined, these powerful ingredients moisturise and soften skin to reveal a youthful-looking complexion. Cucumber extract soothes the skin and provides additional hydration before it’s moisturised, while white tea extract, high in antioxidants, works with the ample concentration of aloe to balance the skin.
How I use Balancing Toner: I tend to use this toner several times a week after my night-time cleanser, especially if I have been wearing a lot of makeup or sunscreen, or if I just need extra hydration. 

Smoothing Exfoliator

This product helps your skin look brighter by removing debris and dead skin cells. Although the body naturally gets rid of 30,000 to 40,000 old skin cells every single day, sometimes it needs a little assistance as old skin can look flaky, tired and dull. Instead of artificial microbeads, Jojoba beads gently roll across the skin to remove debris while sustainably sourced Korean bamboo powder, a large granule that doesn’t scratch the skin, sweeps the skin to remove dead skin cells. Enzymatic extracts resurface the skin from bromelain (from pineapple), papain (unripe papaya) and moisturising lemon essential oil. Papain, from papaya, is a rich source of vitamins C, A, E and pantothenic acid to help the skin appear renewed. Regular exfoliation paves the way for other products to perform, as it removes the barrier of dead skin cells allowing key ingredients from other topical products to be better absorbed. Exfoliation is recommended 2-3 times a week in a skincare routine, though with men it can be used daily to help promote a closer shave.
How I use Smoothing Exfoliator: As well as being great for the face, I really enjoy using this as a foot scrub when I do a pamper night.

Protecting Day Lotion

Protecting Day Lotion combines natural mineral sunscreens, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, in a unique dispersion system to help it blend well while protecting you from signs of premature ageing caused by UV rays. This sun protection product goes on top of your favourite moisturiser, contains over twenty skin-conditioning ingredients and shields your skin from harmful UV rays due to its SPF 20. The natural mineral sunscreen contains key ingredients, including aloe vera, watermelon extract and plant extracts, to help fight against oxidative processes, improve skin’s tone and texture and provide ultimate hydration.  The Crambe plant, native to the Mediterranean region, has an unusually high amount of fatty acids found in its oil, which improve skin’s tone and texture while being absorbed easily.  As a stable and long lasting seed oil full of nourishing omega-9 fatty acids, it rapidly penetrates the outer layers of the epidermis, deeply nourishing the skin while providing a smooth, soft layer of protection against dehydration.  Anastatica Hierochuntica, or the Jerusalem Resurrection Plant, has an astounding ability to survive lengthy periods of arid, dry climates, and within hours, resurrect itself with hydration. We captured this quality to finish off this formula. 
How I use Protecting Day Lotion: I love wearing this daily on top of my normal skincare routine to add protection from UVA rays that cause signs of premature ageing.   

Aloe Activator

Aloe Activator is a unique moisturiser in liquid form featuring over 98% aloe vera gel. This simple formula uses the power of aloe to leave skin feeling refreshed and soothed from the moment it touches your face. The high concentration of aloe makes Aloe Activator an ideal addition to any skincare routine.  Also, combined in a 50/50 ratio with the mask powder, it makes an excellent hydrating yet cleansing facial mask.
How I use Aloe Activator: I have this as a first aid ‘go-to’ and also as a nourishing treat in my skincare routine. 

Bio-cellulose Mask

As a premium level, science-created mask, its bio-cellulose fibres fit the contours of your face to deeply moisturise and to ensure every impressive botanical penetrates the fine lines and wrinkles traditional sheet masks fail to reach. Through a process unique to Forever, Aloe Bio-Cellulose Mask’s formula fuses pure aloe and seagrass with the bio-cellulose fabric to soothe, soften and condition skin. This environmentally friendly, biodegradable mask has also been enriched by a moisturising serum of green tea and horse chestnut that rejuvenates dull skin by combating the signs of ageing and reducing the appearance of redness. Serums are known to have high amounts of power-packed ingredients to complement the moisturisers in your routine, so this premium grade, serum-infused mask provides lasting hydration in concentrated levels.  And, as an added bonus, there are two cut out eye pieces which you can remove and place over the lips for extra hydration, as well as extra serum in the package for the ends of your hair or other dry places on your skin.
How I use Aloe Bio-Cellulose Mask: This is a family favourite with my teen daughter, and we love to use this after a stressful work or school week.
And drum roll please for the newest addition to our Targeted range...

Hydrating Serum

Aren’t we excited to see a beautiful new upgrade to the formerly classic Sonya Serum that so many FBOs loved in the past?  This serum exponentially boosts the efficacy of your favourite Forever moisturisers with its hydrating and moisturising botanicals and oils. It boasts of four different forms of hyaluronic acid to provide a protective dense film on the skin’s surface and rapid absorption into layers of the skin. Helping to replace and reduce essential water loss in the skin, this new formula also provides anti-pollution support.  Snow mushroom, white tea, mimosa bark and olive oils add powerful antioxidant protection while tamarind has been shown to improve hydration, reduce the appearance of rough, dry skin and promote skin elasticity. Layered under your moisturiser, the Hydrating Serum also uses coconut fatty acids and shea butter that gives a light, easily absorbed feel to help your skin feel plump and hydrated while combating environmental stressors and signs of premature ageing. I’m really looking forward to using this on my dry, tired skin when it comes out later this summer. 
Meeting our needs and preferences to complement the other fantastic Forever ranges, the Targeted line is a perfect addition to help create bespoke skin care routines for your customers. Do you have a particular favourite product from our Targeted range?

June-12-2020

Last month, as a Forever family we worked together on our fitness and health, with a strong focus on our incredible C9 which, after weeks of lockdown, was a chance for people to really push themselves back into gear with getting active. But physical health is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to looking and feeling better. With life slowly beginning to get back on track for being a bit more ‘normal’ (whatever our new normal looks like), we know that people are keen to get their skin health in tip-top shape, too!
Whether you’ve been spending more time on your skincare during lockdown, or have taken more of a “well, if nobody’s seeing me, does it really even matter?” approach, summer is finally here, and there’s never a better time to sort out your skincare than when the sun is shining!
We have three main skincare ranges at Forever, all of which can be mixed and matched into a personal skincare regime which suits you. This blog post takes a deep dive into how you can figure out your skincare needs and address them with a unique routine.
Dry and ageing skin
Dry skin can be a cause of genetics, environmental factors, or it can come later in life as your skin begins to age, and its moisture is lost. Typically, people with a dry skin type might find that they have:

• A dull, rough complexion

• Red, flaky or itchy patches of skin

• More visible lines and wrinkles

Our Infinite by Forever Advanced Skincare System has been designed specifically for dry and ageing skin. With three topical products and our first exclusive beauty supplement, you can target ageing from the inside out and the outside in.

• Hydrating Cleanser is full of potent, naturally derived ingredients like apple extract, apple amino acid and cocoa fatty acids that increase skin hydration and gently wash away dirt and oil without drying. 

• Firming Serum targets the signs of ageing with a clinically proven three-amino acid peptide that complements the natural process of skin to increase firmness and to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

• With over fifteen skin conditioning ingredients, Restoring Crème absorbs fast to leave skin feeling moisturised and smooth.

• In our Firming Complex we’ve combined vitamin C to help with healthy collagen formation in the skin, biotin to maintain healthy hair and skin and we’ve even added extra marine collagen.

Want to go one step further and bring more hydration to your dry or ageing skin? Give some of these incredible Targeted skincare products a try.

• Thanks to peptide technology, collagen and other powerful ingredients, Awakening Eye Cream smooths and firms delicate under-eye skin to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness.

• Dry skin can sometimes be flaky. Buff away those dead skin cells once a week with Smoothing Exfoliator to reveal silky soft skin beneath. Lemon essential oil in this product also acts as a rich moisturiser to hydrate that newly revealed skin.

• The Aloe Bio-Cellulose Mask is a luxury treat that can rejuvenate dull skin, combat the signs of ageing and reduce the appearance of redness. Its bio-cellulose fibres fit the contours of your face to deeply moisturise and to ensure every impressive botanical penetrates the fine lines and wrinkles traditional sheet masks fail to reach. 

Combination and oily skin

Oily skin is common in teenagers as the body goes through a lot of hormonal changes and imbalances, but this skin type can continue into adulthood, characterised by shiny skin which feels wet to the touch. Combination skin is actually a very common skin type in people of all ages! This is characterised by being dry in some areas (such as the cheeks) and oily in others (usually the T-Zone, which is your forehead, nose and chin). Due to this imbalance, people can become frustrated with knowing how best to treat it, as what works for dry skin will leave your oilier patches feeling greasy, but what works for oily skin will strip your dry patches.
Our Sonya Daily Skincare Kit has been specifically designed for combination or oily skin, with a revolutionary gel-based system designed to deliver botanicals exactly where the skin needs them most.

• The Sonya Refreshing Gel Cleanser contains aloe gel and natural cleansers to help remove dead cells, dirt and makeup gently.

• Sonya Illuminating Gel restores skin’s natural brilliance and gives your skin a natural glow, thanks to the encapsulated peptides in the quick-absorbing gel.

• Leave the Sonya Refining Gel Mask on overnight to allow it to support balance by controlling oil and brightening the appearance of skin.

• Filled with lush botanicals and powerful ingredients, Sonya Soothing Gel Moisturizer breaks down into a hydra-infused carrier leaving behind a moist and dewy complexion.

Want to go one step further and bring more balance to your combination or oily skin? Give some of these incredible Targeted skincare products a try.

• Follow your cleanser with Balancing Toner, a refreshing toner designed to remove excess dirt, minimise the appearance of pores and hydrate the skin before moisturising.

• Try using our Mask Powder mixed with Aloe Activator on your oilier patches to cleanse your pores, absorb excess oil and leave your skin feeling refreshed. Remember that you can multi-mask if you need to, so if your dry patches need hydration you can apply Sonya Refining Gel Mask, or Forever Marine Mask and apply different products to the parts of your skin which need them most.

Suncare

Remember that all skin types need sun protection. Our Protecting Day Lotion has a light, everyday texture and SPF 20, so it works well as a daily moisturiser to protect your skin from harmful UV rays without feeling greasy on the skin. We also have our Aloe Sunscreen, which many of you have been expressing your love for on our Facebook page (see some of our favourite pictures below!). Aloe Sunscreen is water resistant, reef safe and contains SPF 30 to help keep you and your family protected.
Don’t forget, we’ve got a Sun Set Product Offer running until midnight 30^th June so that you can buy two bottles of Aloe Sunscreen and receive two sachets of Aloe Bio-Cellulose Mask to try absolutely free!
What are your favourite Forever skincare products to mix and match? Let us know in the comments!