Live a Healthier Life

April-16-2021

Ever struggled with your skin even though you have a skincare routine in place already? Sometimes you need to figure out the exact concerns your skin has and target them with specific products to really see a difference.
Forever’s Targeted skincare range does just that – it supplements the rest of your skincare routine by targeting specific concerns and working to make your skin looks and feels better! You might not necessarily need the entire range, but a select few products depending on the issues you’re trying to address. Here are some ways you can incorporate the products from the range into your own routine.

Smoothing Exfoliator

Do you find that your skin is often dull looking, or a little rough or flaky in patches? Even with the right cleansers in place, sometimes your skin needs a little extra help!
Smoothing Exfoliator removes dead skin cells to reveal brighter skin and a smooth tone and texture. It’s gentle enough to use regularly (though we recommend 1-2 times per week) as it uses jojoba beads to gently remove dirt and debris, and bamboo powder to sweep the skin and remove the dead skin cells. Use it after your cleanser in the evening for best results!

Balancing Toner

If you have uneven skin tone, large-looking pores, or your skin needs more hydration, Forever’s Balancing Toner could be the solution for you!
Balancing Toner uses the freshest, purest aloe from our own aloe field to ensure the most potent ingredients refresh and nourish your skin. This, blended with seaweed extract and sodium hyaluronate helps to moisturise and soften your skin while supporting a youthful appearance, balancing your skin tone and minimising the appearance of pores! You should use it after cleansing and exfoliating, but before any serums!

Hydrating Serum

If your skin could use a drink, why not give your moisturiser a helping hand with a serum that’ll boost hydration? Forever’s Hydrating Serum is just the one!
The power behind this formula comes from four types of hyaluronic acid that each play a key role in retaining hydration. Essentially, it helps to replenish water on the surface of your skin and retain moisture from the inside, and it boosts the efficacy of your moisturiser! Apply it after cleansing and before your eye cream and moisturiser to help shield against environmental stressors and minimise the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles!

Awakening Eye Cream

Tired eyes? We know the feeling! Nothing helps to target that under-eye area like a good eye cream.
Forever’s Awakening Eye Cream combines powerful ingredients with collagen, aloe vera and peptide technology to improve and smooth the area. The delicate eye area can be prone to dark circles, puffiness and wrinkles, and though it comes in a small tube, this cream packs a huge punch, helping to reduce the appearance of all of them in as little as 15 days! We recommend applying it with your ring finger and tapping – rather than rubbing – it into skin. Apply after cleansing and any serums, but before your final moisturiser.

Aloe Bio-Cellulose Mask

Finally, it’s always worth giving your skin a real pamper every week or so, and there’s nothing that fits the bill quite like the Aloe Bio-Cellulose Mask!
This mask deeply replenishes skin with powerful hydration, as the bio-cellulose fibres of the mask easily fits every contour of your face, penetrating deep into fine lines and wrinkles that traditional sheet masks fail to reach. Every skin type can use it, but it will especially benefit those with dry skin, as your skin will drink up the incredible hydration this mask has to offer. Use one sheet once a week after cleansing and toning, leave it on for 20 minutes to really soak up the benefits (in the meantime have a bath, read a good book and sip on your favourite Forever Aloe Vera Gel flavour!), then follow with your serums, eye creams and moisturisers for a complete routine!

April-12-2021

Meet the new look Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo and Conditioner.

Our new look Aloe Jojoba Shampoo and Conditioner are now available to purchase! Give your hair the very best with Forever’s Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo and Conditioner. Our reformulated shampoo and conditioner are the perfect pairing for deep cleansing and nourishing power for all hair types.
Start your hair care routine off right with the cleansing power of Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo, and lock in moisture, control and shine with Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner. Made with pure inner leaf aloe vera and jojoba oil, this powerful pairing is perfect for everyday use for soft, manageable hair with a stunning shine.

Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo 

Item# 640
296ml
Forever’s Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo is perfect for everyday use to easily rinse away dirt and oil and leave your hair feeling soft and manageable. Perfect for your whole family, experience the feeling of a deep clean that leaves your hair looking and feeling its absolute best.
Deep cleansing and nourishing power for all hair types.

• All-purpose shampoo for every hair type 
• Gentle on scalp 
• Natural lather to easily rinse away dirt and oil 
• Helps promote soft, manageable hair 

Made with pure inner leaf aloe vera and jojoba oil, Forever’s Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo is perfect for everyday use to bring out the best in your hair. Enjoy the refreshing fragrance of a tropical fruit medley with hints of sweet cream as the rich natural lather helps easily rinse away dirt and oil. 
With no added sulphates, Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo helps maintain your scalp’s moisture balance while keeping it soft and manageable. Forever’s own stabilised aloe vera gel not only helps your hair retain moisture but works as a natural emulsifying agent that leaves hair feeling clean and renewed with a beautiful shine. 
In addition to cleansing your hair, we’ve added jojoba oil, which is rich in natural fats to promote strength and thickness. This lightweight oil is nourishing, soothing and gentle on the scalp. Forever boosted the fortifying power of this shampoo even further with argan oil, vitamin B5 and rose hip oil. Together, these potent ingredients provide nutrients, unsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants to support healthy hair and help keep it moisturised and soft. 
Forever’s Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo is perfect for your whole family. Experience the feeling of deep clean that leaves your hair looking and feeling its absolute best. To achieve optimal results, follow your shampoo with Forever’s Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner!

Suggested use

Apply to wet hair and massage to stimulate scalp and create a rich lather. Rinse thoroughly. For best results follow with Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner. 

Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner 

Item# 641296mlA good conditioner can make all the difference when it comes to getting the most out of your hair care routine. Forever’s Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner softens, smooths and makes hair more manageable, whilst also nourishing deeply and boosting hair and scalp hydration without added sulphates.
Incredible strength and perfect shine.

• Lightweight conditioner for every hair type 
• Softens and smooths hair 
• Supports hair and scalp hydration 
• Locks in moisture with three different oils
• Gentle on the scalp 

A good conditioner can make all the difference when it comes to getting the most out of your hair care routine. It softens, smooths and makes hair more manageable. Forever’s Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner does all this while nourishing deeply and boosting hair and scalp hydration without added sulphates.
Our lightweight formula is perfect for daily use and includes three different oils to lock in moisture without weighing hair down. Jojoba oil is rich in natural fats to strengthen hair and promote thickness. Argan oil, dubbed “liquid gold of Morocco,” nourishes hair with the antioxidant power of vitamin E. We also added rosehip oil to keep hair soft and moisturised while fortifying with vitamins C, E and B. 
The backbone of Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner is stabilised aloe vera gel from our own fields. Our inner leaf aloe vera contains 75 active components that help this conditioner soften the scalp and bring out your hair’s natural shine. 
Forever Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner pairs perfectly with Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo to improve combability of hair while smoothing the strands for easy styling. This soothing conditioner features the same invigorating fragrance as our Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo: tropical fruit, sugared sweet cream and melon. Our formula is gender and age neutral, making it perfect for the entire family. Give your hair the very best of what nature has to offer with Forever Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner.

Suggested use

After shampooing with Aloe-Jojoba Shampoo, massage Aloe-Jojoba Conditioner into hair and leave on for 2 to 3 minutes. Rinse completely and dry.

March-29-2021

Part 2 of Essential Oils

Depending on the scent we choose to breathe in, they can transport, calm, or energise, which makes them a powerful tool for engaging the mind and body. Using Forever Essential Oils for aromatherapy; the practice of using essential oils for therapeutic benefit, to relax or invigorate the mind and body is a great way to both reduce stress and anxiety, and promote calm for your overall wellbeing.
Forever Essential Oils are natural and made from 100% pure essential oils with no fillers or synthetic oils.
Forever Essential Oils Lemon is uplifting and energising.
Forever Essential Oils Peppermint is refreshing, stimulating and cooling.
Forever Essential Oils Lavender is soothing, calming and relaxing. While
Forever Essential Oils Defense is a fragrance blend based on oils from orange, clove, cinnamon, rosemary, frankincense, eucalyptus and juniper. This oil is warming, powerful and invigorating and often captures the scents of the winter holidays.
Forever Essential Oils can be used as a room fragrance through either a store bought or homemade diffuser, and we talked about various ways to diffuse a room or area with a store bought or DIY diffuser in part one in the blog on Forever’s Essential Oils.   
Forever Essential Oils are also considered general consumer goods in Europe, which allows their promotion and use in many ways, some of which may also include direct or indirect contact with skin (bath/jacuzzi water, sauna steam, Hamman salts, etc.). So, another way to experience the benefit of aromatherapy is also by using a neutral carrier oil alongside your favourite Forever Essential Oil.   

What Are Carrier Oils?

A carrier oil is a vegetable oil made from the fatty portion of a plant, usually from the seeds, nuts, or kernels. These oils are used as a base to dilute concentrated essential oils, which makes the essential oil safe for topical use. The carrier oil is used to help “carry” the essential oil onto the skin or diffuse it more evenly into a bath.
If essential oils are applied to the skin directly, they can cause irritation, burning, or redness, which is why we use carrier oils.
Carrier oils in themselves can also have amazing benefits on the skin. Different carrier oils bring their own amazing therapeutic properties based on the essential fatty acids and natural nutrients they contain, that might often get overlooked as most of the focus is on the essential oils being paired with them. These characteristics of each carrier oil influence their unique application and their shelf-life. Pairing your essential oils with the right carrier oils can be extremely beneficial in realising the full benefits of what you are trying to achieve.
That said, it’s important to note that just any oil from your kitchen might not serve as a good carrier oil, like butter and margarine which are best left in the fridge.   
Carrier oils have a comedogenic rating, which indicates how likely any given oil is to clog your pores:

• Comedogenic Rating of 0:​ No risk; Will not clog your pores.
• Comedogenic Rating of 1:​ Low risk; Slight chance of clogging pores.
• Comedogenic Rating of 2:​ Moderately low risk; Will not clog pores for MOST people.

Anything over a rating of 3 will have a moderate to high risk of clogging the pores and should only be used on combination to dry skin. 
Though there are many types of oils you can use for a carrier oil, here are a few carrier oils that you can find online to order or even in your local grocery shop:

Safflower Oil–comedogenic rating 0
This highly moisturising oil will leave your skin silky, and is great for all skin types. Safflower oil has a high linoleic acid content, which makes it effective at banishing skin impurities with its light and gentle consistency. It absorbs easily and doesn’t leave a greasy residue.
Argan Oil–comedogenic rating 0
Restore and repair your skin without clogging your pores with this versatile oil, suitable for most skin types. Produced from the argan tree, which grows in Morocco, Argan oil is full of essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals that moisturise, soften, and protect your skin. Pure argan oil will last for at least two years stored at room temperature and absorbs quickly into skin.
Olive Oil–comedogenic rating 2
Hydrate, nourish, and moisturise your skin with antioxidant rich olive oil, which is suitable for most skin types and has a delicate consistency. Olive oil absorbs easily, and is a light oil with a fruity aroma that is not overpowering, so it works well for blending most essential oils.
When buying olive oil there are countless brands available - make sure not to buy the very cheap brands.  Unrefined extra virgin olive oil is the best as no heat or chemicals are used in the extraction process and it contains the highest concentration of oleic acid. Most people have this oil on hand.

Avocado Oil–comedogenic rating 2
Hydrate and renew your skin tone with this rich oil that is loaded with essential and trace minerals. This oil is best for drier and troubled skin. With a 6 to 8 months shelf-life, or 9 to 12 months in the refrigerator, it has a heavier, thick, and oily consistency but does absorb into skin.

Baobab Oil–comedogenic rating 2
 This oil comes from “The Tree of Life” and will leave you with a supple and radiant complexion. Best for combination skin types, it has a low chance of clogging as it absorbs quickly and doesn’t leave an oil surface on the skin. 
Coconut Oil–comedogenic rating 4
This oil leaves skin silky but also stimulates the production of collagen. It is also full of vitamin E, which protects the skin. Though it is great for dry skin types, it is not recommended for those with oily skin. When buying coconut oil look for unrefined coconut oil as that does not go through the process of chemical extraction. Also, you can buy coconut oil that is solid at room temperature and works well for making home-made balms, or fractionated coconut oil which is liquid at room temperature and has almost no aroma.
Apricot Kernel Oil–comedogenic rating 2
This oil is made from the seeds of apricots and is non-irritant and soothing to the skin. Best for combination to dry skin, it has a shelf life of 6 months to a year. Sensitive to heat and light, it needs to be stored in a cool and dark place (refrigerator).  It absorbs into the skin well and is very light and moisturising.
Sunflower Seed Oil–comedogenic rating 0-2
 Balance, moisturise, and fight the signs of ageing by using this oil on your skin. Known for its hydrating, softening, and skin regenerating properties, it will also prevent the loss of moisture. Most skin types respond great to this oil with a thin consistency, so it’s a great oil for beginners to use.

What to look for when buying a carrier oil

Always go for 100% pure, cold-pressed, unprocessed oils that are preferably labelled as ‘organic,’ ‘cold-pressed,’ and ‘Non-GMO’ - this will ensure you get the highest quality carrier oils that retain essential fatty acids, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Cold-pressed oils are not damaged by heat, whilst cheap carrier oils that may be treated with heat, could be highly refined and contain added additives which can do more harm than good. And if you see the word ‘fragrance’ it almost always means there are other additives plus a fragrance would also conflict with the aroma from your essential oil when added to the carrier oil.
 Since carrier oils have a high fat content, some have a limited shelf life, so store your carrier oils in a cool, dark area to extend the shelf life. As a general rule, use 10-15 drops of essential oil per ounce of carrier oil or 6 to 8 drops per 15ml of the carrier oil.Needing to destress with too much tension, especially on your forehead? Add 1-2 drops of Forever’s Lavender Essential Oil to 8ml of a carrier oil with a low comedogenic rating like argan or safflower and place on your temples to help sooth tight muscles.
Or is it time for an invigorating bath? Add 6 drops of Forever’s Peppermint Essential Oil to 15ml of your preferred carrier oil and then add to warm water. Maybe add Forever’s Aloe Bio-Cellulose mask to hydrate the skin as you let the scent envelop as you breathe deeply and allow your muscles to destress and recharge from the day.