Eat your way to a more beautiful you
Some people eat their feelings. Other people eat because they’re bored. And some people don’t eat anything at all! But one of the latest fads is to eat your way to beauty. Fill in wrinkles, turn back the clock and hydrate your skin by drowning your aging sorrows with a case of Nestle’s Glowelle. At least that’s what the chocolaty drink claimed it could do; when it was on store shelves. Let’s suspend our skepticism on whether Glowelle and other “functional foods” are actually effective and just window shop for nutricosmetics.
Health + Beauty = Nutricosmetics, Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals. There are three classes of health and beauty combination products. Nutricosmetics refers to products that focus on attaining beauty from the inside out. Nutraceuticals are primarily healthy products that happen to express beautiful results. Cosmeceuticals on the other hand are designed as beauty products that happen to have an overall health benefit. Each has different intentions, yet they all relate to sustaining health and beauty.
Nutraceutical and cosmeceutical products are all about function, used to protect and enhance fitness, skin and hair care, and so much more. Said to reveal enhanced beauty characteristics and overall better health, these edible products come in a variety of shapes, sizes and flavors. Here’s a quick look at what’s on the beauty menu.
Don’t expect to find these tasty treats in a cosmetic container. Chocolate bars enriched with nutrients and digestive system-clearing yogurts tend to be packaged in bright paper, foil or plastic varieties. These nutricosmetics are designed to improve your health and make you look better through the process.
Teas (green tea and black tea, among others) are classic and long standing nutraceuticals. Drinking them brings health benefits (said to reduce the chance of cardiovascular disease and improve metabolic rates) but the antioxidant-rich solution is also known to make your skin glow. Expanding the boundaries of helpful drinks, Borba Skin Balancing Water includes various flavored formulas, each specific to a given function; to clarify, firm, replenish or defy age.
Move over Flinstones. Even those sweet tutti-fruity vitamins can’t touch vitamin and nutrient-infused gummy bears. Health supplements may not be packed in cosmetic containers, but they reveal beautiful results including enhanced hair and nail growth.
So, do these health/beauty miracle products really work? Who knows? The good news is, whether or not you buy into the hype of nutricosmetics, we’re prepared to help you with your packaging needs. We stock cosmetic containers in a variety of shapes, styles and colors. If pharmaceuticals are more up your alley, we’ve got you covered there too.
So, don’t be shocked when you realize a pre-exfoliation chocolate bar is now packaged alongside your favorite body wash. Gorging on chocolate while bathing? What more could you ask for? Remember, chocolate not only does the body, but the beauty good too.
You can package more than face cream in cosmetic containers. Kayla Holman’s article explores the trend of packaging nutricosmetics in cosmetic containers.