A recent
discovery on skin care was found last Tuesday, when I was invited in an
intimate and relaxing night at Blue Water Day Spa in Greenhills as I, along
with a few bloggers, was introduced to a product called Nourishing Night Oil or
NNO, a skin oil with each dosage enclosed in softgel capsules to help replenish
moisture and rejuvenate skin. As we all know, our skin needs moisture to
maintain that supple and smooth look we all want, and achieving the perfect
balance of moisture in the skin. During the cold months, it’s a natural reflex
to slather moisturizer as our skin parches and chaps but we also need
moisturizer too during the hot and humid summer season when our skin is exposed
to heat, sun (i.e. burning and wrinkle-causing factors), and not to mention the
pollutants and environmental factors that harm, parch, and dehydrate the skin. It’s impossible to
live life in a super close and controlled environment so we need reinforcements
like skin care to maintain its soft and supple condition.
Hello spa
theater! Such a pretty and relaxing environment. It’s so tempting to doze off
in those huge and comfy seats. My injured knee loved the footrest too.
Here’s
proof that the environment affects our skin. We opted to take a skin test using
a machine that determines the real age of our skin. We may be in our 20s or
30s, but depending on our lifestyle and daily habits, our skin may be a
different age.
First, it
captures an image (macro setting, eek!)
of the skin in your inner arm, which is the skin that’s relatively less exposed.
That would be the control subject, or
basis of comparison. Then, an image capture of the skin on the cheek would be taken,
and that would determine the skin’s age.
Just to
let you know, Nourishing Night Oil is
brought by the company Mega Lifesciences Ltd. They’re the company behind Gloww
capsules. They use the best quality ingredients and ensure the best quality for
their customers. This is exemplified in NNO’s softgel capsule form. Each dosage
is fresh and uncontaminated unlike if it’s kept in bottles where unused
portions have risk of being exposed to the elements as the bottle or pot is
opened.
NNO’s
ingredients are simple: Natural Vitamin E and Jojoba oil. Jojoba oil isn’t
actually oil (yay!) but a wax ester and we all are aware of vitamin E’s
benefits on the skin, which stems from how our moms, aunts, or older sisters
would break a vitamin E capsule and put the oil on the skin and encourage us to
do the same. These ingredients resemble the skin’s natural oils chemically and
structurally so basically, it’s like putting or replenishing stuff that’s there
already instead of putting other chemicals that may cause an allergic reaction.
This characteristic makes it safe to use on any skin type, whether it be oily,
dry, combination, or sensitive. I was also told that pregnant and breastfeeding
women who are quite scared to use skincare need not worry that they have to
sacrifice their beauty regimen for this new role in life – they can use this
too! Yay! (Of course, they should consult their doctors on what products to use
first).
Being in
softgel capsule form, we are ensured that we get the right dosage each time we
apply it to our faces. The capsules, the capsules are really tiny when I saw
them, almost like pearls, or in this case, golden pearls.
Yay!
Tiny! If you’re travelling, you don’t need to transfer bottles if you love this
so much that you have to use it everyday. As that evening’s host, Divine Lee
suggested, just bring a few capsules with you during travel. These capsules
could be kept in a pill box, the same one you keep vitamins in, so it doesn’t
get squashed and the contents spilled out during transport.
We were
also given a demonstration on how to use NNO. We should start with a clean face
first. As suggested by the name, it is best to use the product at night, before
going to bed. During nighttime, the skin’s more receptive to treatments when
we’re more relaxed plus there’s little chance of encountering pollution, sun,
antioxidants, and dirt since we’re in a relatively closed environment, like our
house or bedroom.
To
release the product, break the softgel capsule by pulling that little tag.
Apply the oil on your face and neck, gently massaging the skin around the eyes
and nose in about 4 minutes, until the oil is absorbed. Too long? Think of it
as a relaxing treat after a hard day’s work as our body gets to rest.
I told
you that this is a nongreasy oil right? Well, you can see that the skin has a
sort of sheen after being applied. I asked our model if I could touch her skin
with my (clean, of course) hands to see or feel for myself how this oil feels.
It didn’t
feel slick and oily, and she said it felt okay on the face. I then tried the
oil myself by breaking one capsule. Since I had makeup on that event, I tried
the NNO on the back of my hand. I was surprised at one teeny tiny capsule had
enough product for both of my forearms and half of one leg. The parts where I
had it applied had a sheen, but it didn’t feel like I submerged myself in a vat
of cooking oil or I had hot bricks on my face. It has no annoying smell as well
so if you’re going to use this at night, you have a good night’s sleep with no
smell bothering you.
NNO could
be purchased at Mercury Drug Stores and South Star drug stores. At Php450 for a
box of 30 capsules (good for approximately 1 month), this is quite affordable.
Come to think of it, it’s just Php15 per day, and as I told you, one capsule
has a lot of product already. We took samples home and when I did use this on
the face when I got home, half a capsule went to my face and neck. The other
half to my décolletage and a shoulder. Why up to the chest and bust area? Well,
think of wearing low-cut or plunging necklines. It can be used on the delicate
undereye area, if you guys are asking. No need for extra eye cream or neck
cream too, since this can be used on the delicate skin around the eyes. It’s a
bit richer though than the usual day cream, so although some of my friends
might use this during the day, on a personal choice, I’d use this at night. It’s
recommended that a person use 1-2 capsules daily, but I think from the amount
of product inside the capsule, one per night would be enough.
The night
ended with us bloggers being treated to Swedish massages to relax us after a
long day’s work. By the time our treatments were done, we were Zen and relaxed
and ready to rest and reset our systems, but not forgetting to remove all our
makeup and sleep with a clean face (with NNO of course!).
And yes,
I did have a good night’s sleep! J
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