I felt overwhelmed, different types of products,
so many fancy ingredients, which one do I want?
Can you please give me some advice?
Now this is something you know a lot about, yes?
I do, I founded a skincare line called Tula,
so I definitely know about this.
And basically, it is overwhelming when we talk
about anti-aging and the aging changes of our skin,
what are all those ingredients, what do they mean?
Well first let's talk about what's happening to your skin
when you age, you are getting dehydrated,
so you have less supple, hydrated skin.
You're also getting hyperpigmentation,
those dark spots, uneven spots on your skin.
You're also, of course, getting a loss of firmness
so it's a little saggier, unfortunately.
And then the wrinkles that we all know and hate.
All things that start up, sadly must come down.
(laughs) Exactly. (audience laughs)
So when you hear about, one of the most popular
ingredients you're gonna be reading on those labels,
so hylurunic acid, that is really good for hydration,
if you're targeting hydration,
that's what you want to look for.
Vitamin C, great for dark spots.
Collagen, this is what's really gonna firm up
that skin so it definitely attacks wrinkles.
Probiotics, this is what Tula, my skincare line,
is all about, good healthy bacteria,
that helps with hydration, it also has a soothing,
anti-inflammatory effect on your skin.
And then retinol, you're gonna hear this all the time
because retinol is one of those catch-all ingredients,
it does so much, it helps with firmness,
wrinkles, hydration, dark spots, even acne.
This is definitely one you wanna keep your eye out for.
But let's go into a little bit more detail--
'Kay.
So let's start with hylurunic acid.
Hylurunic acid, it naturally occurs in your body,
unfortunately, starting in our 20s,
we start to decrease in amount.
So you wanna get that back, you wanna get that
hydration back 'cause hylurunic acid draws in 10,000 times
the amount of water of it's own weight.
So you can imagine what that does for your skin,
it's wonderful, but as we lose it, we wanna supplement it.
So if you have a lotion and you imagine this sponge
is hylurunic acid sitting here on your skin,
the molecule itself, think of it as a sponge,
it's too big to actually sink into your skin,
but even sitting on the surface it's drawing in water
and you can imagine that that water will then sink
into your skin and your skin gets the hydration that way.
So it's drawing in water and then that water
is absorbed into your skin, you get more
plump, hydrated, dewy looking skin.
That's what's great about this ingredient.
Moving right along, vitamin C,
of course we all think about this in our oranges,
but it's a great topical ingredient as well.
It's great for hyperpigmentation, for dark spots,
for just brightening up your complexion.
As we get older, our complexion's a little bit duller,
we really wanna brighten it up.
So, we have an example here of apples, and we're gonna show
you what happens with vitamin C on your skin.
So imagine this is your skin, this is an apple that's been
sitting out for a bit and it gets that brown discoloration,
it's been oxidized, that's from free radicals--
Does a little sun damage also do this to your skin?
Totally, totally, and that's why you may notice
when you're in the sun, all those dark spots get darker.
Get much worse, right.
Yeah, so sunscreen, by the way, I didn't mention it,
sunscreen 100% the best thing you should do for your skin.
Yes.
Very anti-aging.
For every age and very strong, yes?
At least 30.
Yeah.
Yeah, I use even higher than that, but yes.
So, this is an example of oxidation here,
but this slice of apple was pre-treated with a vitamin C
serum, look what happened, it was out
the same period of time, no discoloration.
Which apple to you want on your cheeks ladies?
(laughs) Exactly. (audience laughs)
Right?
Exactly, and now I'm gonna show you something really cool.
So here, this is the one that was already oxidized,
we're gonna put a little bit of our serum of vitamin C--
How much can you repair your skin?
You can, you absolutely can.
This is the vitamin C serum and I'm gonna apply it
on one side of this apple, it takes a little while,
but we did this earlier this morning and we time lapsed it
for you so you can see that video, this is now actually--
Wow, look at that, shocked!
Look at that.
(audience applause)
It's reversing, so you can see vitamin C
not only can prevent the discoloration,
it can actually reverse it, which is why--
Which is exactly what I was, oh my god--
That's what you were asking.
It's already doing it.
Let's move on to collagen, you hear a lot about collagen
and collagen is actually the most abundant protein
in our entire body, it's in a lot of different structures
in our body and it serves as the scaffold
or the structure of your skin.
As we get older and collagen breaks down,
we're sagging, we're having issues, so we,
of course, would love to have collagen, right?
In our products, it's gonna get into our skin, problem is--
Can it be absorbed?
No.
No!
And that's what I'm showing you here, this is jello
representing collagen, it's not getting into your skin.
I will say there's some studies that suggest oral collagen,
right, the powders, whatever--
Right, the powder that you mix in.
That it may boost your body's natural collagen,
so that's something to try.
But we haven't proven that yet.
Not 100% proven so, but definitely don't think
that the ones in the lotions are gonna do all that much.
'Cause it's just jello.
It's just, but--
Sittin' on your face. (audience laughs)
But I will say, to end up skincare, retinol,
we said it's great for everything, retinol
actually will boost your own body's natural collagen.
That's cool.
It's good for anti-oxidant, for hylurunic acid production,
so retinol is something that really, women of any age
can benefit from, so look out for it.
And you can't be too young to moisturize, in my opinion.
True.
My mom started taking us when we were girls.
True, absolutely.
(audience cheers and claps)