Melissa Miller

Colostrum provides essential nutrients that are delivered in a very concentrated form to the skin.  The variety of colostrum we use has a unique delivery system that insures bioavailability.   Pursue’s colostrum is processed to protect its bioactivity and is perfectly balanced, richly preserving significant levels of at least 200 beneficial components found naturally in Colostrum.

Used topically this ingredient has a composition that contains:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin B12
• Many other vitamins
• Minerals
• Immunoglobulin’s
• Growth factors
• Protein peptides and
• Amino acids

This mask offers an enormous number of nutrients bundled into a single ingredient designed by mother nature to nourish the skin following a peel or during a facial. It will help to minimize inflammation and provides a particular benefit to dry or damaged tissue. To further enhance its effect the powdered Colostrum can be mixed for use as a soothing mask by hydrating it using Pursue’s Purifier, a product made with nutrient rich sea kelp.

The key to doing this effectively is the formulating chemist’s skill in understanding the skin’s barrier system and the interaction between the skin, the ingredients, and the pathways for penetration into and through the skin. Effective anti-aging skin care regimes require a layering process to approach both the water based portions of the cell and the lipid based cellular membrane. Restorative ingredients are often best received by the body in a water based products such as a serum or hydrogel. The body is in its reparative mode when you sleep so it is particularly important to use restorative serums as part of your evening skin care rituals, although they can generally be used also during the day.

Moisturization from a separate product, should be layered on top of the serum, as it benefits the lipid membranes of tissue. A final layer during the day should be a barrier product providing protection from the sun’s UVA rays (the rays that cause UVAging damage) and UVB rays (the rays that cause UVBurns, sun burns). Dr. Perricone in his book The Perricone Promise states

“in essence, a wrinkle can be considered a wound”

and when we approach skin care thoughtfully using pro-dermal synchronization, as Pursue has, to minimize the wrinkle wound, the use of cutting edge high performance products can begin to accelerate the skins own repair mechanisms and significantly restore our appearance.