THE VINE® Facial Antioxidant

Tell me a little about The Vine® facial antioxidant.
The Vine® facial antioxidant is an effective twice daily cosmeceutical formulation. The active ingredient is muscadine grape seed extract.

The Vine’s® light, non-greasy antioxidant formula provides your skin with the nutrients it needs to stay younger looking and more beautiful. It is a facial rejuvenating treatment!
 
How should the facial antioxidant be used?
Dermatologists agree that skin health and maintenance should be addressed twice daily. The Vine® provides an excellent, but simple treatment regimen that can be once in the morning and once at bedtime.

The Vine® may also be used as a foundation, to be applied before makeup.

Tell me a little about The VineR body antioxidant.
The Vine® body antioxidant helps the body heal itself by recapturingskin’s natural moisture and rejuvenating it with the special antioxidant formula.

TheVine’s® light, non-greasy moisturizer helps protect your skin from age inducing free radicals. It will help your skin feel softer and smoother.

How should the body antioxidant be used?
Daily, apply liberally; especially after bathing.

What are cosmeceuticals?
Cosmeceuticals are cosmetic products that have healthful benefits. Examples of products typically labeled as cosmeceuticals include anti-aging creams and moisturizers. The term cosmeceutical only applies only to products applied topically.

What are the advantages versus other anti-aging creams?
The Vine® facial antioxidant:

• Reduces skin dryness from sun exposure
• Reduces skin aging due to loss of collagen and capillary damage
• Slows the advancement of wrinkles
• Helps retain natural color and tone
• The antioxidant cream nourishes your skin, making you feel better and look rejuvenate

How does it work?
Your body utilizes antioxidants to battle the damaging effects of free radicals. As you age, your body produces fewer antioxidants and your skin begins to show the cumulative damage. Damage to collagen and microcapillaries in your skin causes a decrease in nutrients that get to your skin, which leads to the loss of your youthful looks. Resveratrol, the active ingredient in The Vine®, is found in high concentration in muscadine grape seeds.

What is muscadine grape seed extract and why is it useful?  
Muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia) are a grapevine species native to the southeastern United States.   They have adapted to the warm, humid climate by producing antioxidants. The same antioxidant power that protects the plant also protects your collagen and skin cells.

What are antioxidants and why are they important?
An antioxidant is a molecule capable of slowing or preventing oxidative stress by free-radicals. Left unchecked, free-radicals start chain reactions that damage cells. Antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by being oxidized themselves. Antioxidants are a family of antioxidants, but the most potent and best recognized is Resveratrol.

What is resveratrol?
Resveratrol is a polyphenol antioxidant, which is produced naturally by several plants. It is sold as a nutritional supplement (NutraGrape™) as well as a cosmeceutical (The Vine®).

What are free radicals and why are they a concern?
Free radicals are unstable oxygen atoms. They have an unpaired electron and seek to scavenge an electron from a stable atom, by a process called oxidation. Free radicals can damage important cellular molecules may be responsible for numerous age-related diseases.

Our skin is constantly assaulted daily by sunlight, pollution and other environmental free radicals. They degrade the collagen in the skin, which reduces elasticity and causes the skin to wrinkle or sag. Free radicals also damage the microcapillaries that carry nutrients to the skin. Studies show that 80% of skin aging is directly related to the damaging effects of free radicals.

What is collagen and what does it do?
Collagen is a long structural protein which supports most tissues and gives cells structure from the outside. It is responsible for skin strength and elasticity, and its degradation leads to wrinkles that accompany aging.

What are microcapillaries and how do antioxidants help?
Microcapillaries are the smallest of a body's blood vessels, and enable the interchange of nutrients between blood and the surrounding tissues. Antioxidants strengthen capillary walls and keep them flexible and unobstructed.

Are there side effects if I take too much NutraGrape™?
There have been no reports of adverse effects of taking more than two NutraGrape™  capsules. Since it is a natural muscadine grape seed, our assumption is that any adverse effects from taking much higher dosages would be the same as eating too many grapes (i.e. diarrhea). 

What is the difference between NutraGrape™ and competitive products?
NutraGrape™ contains 325 mg per capsule of the muscadine grape seed, which has the highest ORAC value of any food tested.

Competitive products from other grapes (i.e. vitis vinifera or vitis lambrusca) may contain less of the beneficial antioxidants.

The NutraGrape™ manufacturing process involves freeze drying the grape seed. In our studies, competitive products that are air dried have lost some of their potency through that process. You’d have to take more to have the same health effects.