April special offers

Winter is fast approaching and it’s a great time to stock up on your Vitamin C to ward off those nasty cold and flu bugs. This month we have 30% off the Nutralife Ester C range.

Weleda Arnica cream is a big seller in the pharmacy and we have managed to get a special deal going with them saving you 20%.

…and last but not least, Trilogy have launched a brand new product – Rosehip oil antioxidant+. Trilogy Rosehip Oil Antioxidant + is the latest addition to Trilogy’s award winning skincare range. Certified organic and 100% natural, Rosehip Oil Antioxidant + combines nature’s most powerful skin restoring and skin protecting properties in a unique and advanced formulation, Rosapene.

Rosapene is a red berry seed oil blend which provides daily antioxidant protection and intensive nourishment to replenish softness and elasticity for healthier, younger looking skin.

Potent super antioxidants lycopene from Tomato and phytosterol from Acai help protect skin from premature ageing caused by environmental free radical damage.  Nourishing essential fatty acids (Omegas 3 and 6) from Cranberry and Rosehip moisturise and renew.  Mineral and vitamin rich Oat extract provides a soothing and luxurious feel that glides on the skin.

Trilogy Helping Hand wash

Celebrate 10 beautiful years of Trilogy with their limited-edition Helping Hand Wash. 100 percent of profits from your purchase will go to Child’s i Foundation to help end the tragedy of baby abandonment in Uganda.

Helping Hand Wash combines the natural antibacterial properties of Elderberry and Burdock with natural vegetable oils to create a luxurious lightly foaming cream soap that is perfect for daily use.

Delicately scented with Trilogy’s signature floral fragrance of frankincense, rose geranium and lavender, your skin will feel deliciously soft, clean and silky smooth.

Support the cause – purchase here

Process unveiled for synthesis of artemisinin

The ever-growing demand for low cost artemisinin could be met using a new synthetic process, according to the authors of an article published online in the international edition of Angewandte Chemie (16th January 2012).

Researchers have developed a ‘technically simple, efficient and inexpensive’ chemical process involving light and oxygen to produce the antimalarial drug.

Currently the most effective treatment against multi-drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum, artemisinin combination treatments are recommended by the World Health Organisation as first line therapy. However, because artemisinin is extracted from a plant, Artemesia annua, its supply is limited and costs are often high.

Artemisinic acid, which can be extracted from A.annua in higher quantities than artemisinin and produced in engineered yeast, is an ‘ideal starting point’ for synthesising artemisinin, according to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam and the Free University Berlin. They can currently synthesise around 800g of artemisinin a day, and estimate that around 800 photoreactors would be needed to meet annual demand for the drug – at a cost of $US 10000 per reactor.

EMA to undertake four-year herbal medicines review

A four year programme that is intended to ensure the safety of herbal medicines has been announced by the European Medicines Agency.

Herbal monographs will be reviewed every five years as part of the work, undertaken by the EMA’s Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products, an a Europe-wide survey of how monographs are used and what their benefits are will also take place.

Professional guidance around assessing the safety of herbal remedies from outside the European Union, such as traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicines, is promised.

Patient information about the uses, benefits and risks associated with herbal medicines is also going to be produced as part of the initiative,

An international workshop focusing on the regulation of herbal medicines will take place in 2013, the EMA has also announced.

Green Juice Detox Challenge!

Beginning this week, jump start 2012 with the Green Juice Inc Detox challenge.

Progress through the levels each week as your body gets used to the alkalinising effects of these amazing green juice.

The challenge includes:

14 x 500ml bottles of daily fresh blends of green juice

Over $100 worth of discount vouchers for detox treatments

Daily detox tips from the detox divas

Optional free pre detox analysis from a naturopath.

To sign up, go the the Green Juice Inc website http://www.greenjuiceinc.co.nz/index.shtml

These juices are a fantastic way add extra greens into your diet. They are really delicious!

Give it a go today.