Our skin is our largest organ, and our first line of defense! Taking care of the condition and appearance of our skin is not an act of vanity, it is a necessity!

Scott: Welcome everybody. This is the Life Enthusiast online radio and TV network, restoring vitality to you and the planet! I’m your co-host, Scott Paton, joining me, as usual, is Martin Pytela, health coach at Life Enthusiast. This is a very special episode because we’re going to be talking about the outside of the body: things that we put onto our skin as opposed to things that we put into our mouth and ingest, which oftentimes we cover on this show. But before we get to that, Martin, how are you doing today?

Martin: Well, my voice is a little hoarse but other than that, I’m doing great. Thank you for asking.

Scott: Good. All right. So one of my favorite products from Life Enthusiast is by a brand Skin Sorcery. And you wouldn’t know that I’m 94 years old based on the way my beautiful skin is. (laughing) Not quite 94, but one of the reasons that I have good skin is because of Skin Sorcery. I use it every day. When I get up, after I shave, and when I go to bed. And I have to say that I’m absolutely delighted with it. So there’s my unrequested testimonial for the brand. Martin, let’s talk a little bit about what these products are.

Martin: The material scientist behind this brand was actually working in the electronics and has a few patents to his name, but somehow his wife got him interested in making a decent skincare product. They wanted to find or make something that would not have any nasty ingredients, but that would still protect the oils from going rancid. So there he went and he settled on silver, colloidal silver. Colloidal silver is a strong antibacterial, anti-microbial agent. He ended up mixing his products in such a way that they actually are automatically self-preserving and they automatically also protect the skin itself from unwanted microbial invasions.

Scott: So he was able to make the product with no toxic ingredients?! I mean, it’s amazing to me how often we hear about this ingredient or that ingredient that is in skincare products that’s actually really toxic for you.

Martin: Yeah, they’re known as the parabens and they have all the names we can’t even pronounce, but this product has nothing in it that’s got that nasty chemical name whatsoever. He uses regular oils like Argan oil or beeswax… things that are of plant origin, natural origin, these are well known and well trusted in cosmetics. The part that’s different and novel and wonderful is that they are not poisoned with anything toxic. There might be only like 2% of the bad stuff in the ordinary department store cosmetics, but still, why would you want to put it on your skin?

Scott: And also Martin, if you are doing it for 60 years, a lot of this stuff accumulates in your body.

Martin: Yes, it will add up, that’s absolutely correct.

Scott: So let’s talk about Skin Sorcery products, the one I’d like to start off with is the Actif Protection Complex.

Martin: There are two moisturizers, one that we call Actif, and the other one that we call Chic. They complement one another; the Actif has an outdoor protection to it, so when you spend a lot of time in the elements like sun, wind, rain, if you’re going to the beach or golfing or that sort of thing, you would want to have that on hand. Whereas the chic is a little simpler, costs a little bit less and is great for indoor life. Either way, they have been enriched by an important ingredient, hyaluronic acid (HA). The hyaluronic acid is this magic tool that the department store cosmetics only contain a tiny amount of, and then proudly announce: “we have HA.” HA holds about 10 times its volume in water. So whenever there is a molecule of hyaluronic acid...