The journey to better ourselves in the new year is one we all take, 5 or 6 months until Summer and we all want to look spectacular, we buy all the latest skincare products, we spend hours in the gym and we pretend we are eating well…
Well, I can almost guarantee you’re missing something. Hair and nail vitamins. It is a ‘looking good’ cheat code. VITL skin and beauty vitamins are the number one product you didn’t know you needed.
Everyone is complimented when their hair looks good and apparently it is an ‘ick’ to have dirty nails. So let’s sort this out!
Let’s start with what our hair and nails need, what exactly is VITL…see what I did there?
4 Important Ingredients in Hair and Nail Vitamins
Protein
Your body needs protein and your hair and nails are no different, protein supplies the body with the amino acids it needs to produce keratin, which is the main building block for your hair skin, and nails. So eat your protein-rich foods and see more than just muscle-building benefits.
Antioxidants
Many foods contain important antioxidants, mainly fruit, and veg like berries, avocados, peppers, and so on. Antioxidants can help repair hair follicles, promote hair growth, and improve hair strength. Very important!
Hydration
As always, hydration is key, water is the life force to pretty much all living things on earth and even if you’re reading this on a hungover Sunday morning, you are a living thing! Looking past the obvious things water does for us, it keeps your hair, skin, and nails moisturized, which makes everything look healthy!
Vitamins
I’ll get to this shortly…
The 5 Key Components and Benefits of Hair and Nail Vitamins
I’ll say this just before we get into this list because I truly believe it, VITL skin and beauty vitamins are top of my list of products, everything I mention here, they cover.
1 – Vitamins
When people have asked me if they should be taking extra vitamins, my answer is always, “Well, it can’t hurt!”. Each vitamin aids your body in a specific way and here are a few that help our hair and nails.
Vitamin C – is crucial for collagen production and contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress, what does this even mean?
Well, collagen is a protein found in our body, particularly in the skin, bones, connective tissues, etc. And oxidative stress is too scientific for me to put properly but basically, it means there’s an imbalance between the production and accumulation of oxygen in cells and tissues, essentially breaking them down.
We don’t want this!!
Vitamin K – This works in tandem with Vitamin D to help maintain normal blood calcium levels, this is important as low calcium levels can obviously affect your bones negatively but can also detrimentally affect the hair, skin, and nails.
Vitamin D – Studies have shown that low Vit D levels can lead to skin conditions such as psoriasis and dermatitis. We need to bump those levels up!
Vitamin E – This has been shown to protect skin and hair from UV damage so don’t forget this when you go on holiday!
Vitamin B12 – Contributes to normal red blood cell production to help distribute oxygen around the body and keep things like skin, hair, and nails healthy.
So that’s quite a few vitamins and quite a lot to take in, don’t worry, VITL explains it much better than I do and also knows just a tiny bit more than me. But what I’m trying to say is that VITL skin and beauty vitamins contain everything you need for healthy hair, skin, and nails.
2 – Plant Extracts
What are they and why do we need them?
So, plant extracts, as they say on the tin are substances extracted from a plant…these are important as they are natural, no chemicals up in my body thank you!!
Plant extracts are used for a number of things these days; food, medicine, cosmetics, processing aids, drugs, and so on.
So, what do we have here?
Grape seed extract – has a variety of benefits, specifically, it has been shown to reduce oxidative stress, protect against UV and reduce inflammation.
Curcumin extract – this is the active element in turmeric, it has antioxidant properties and is also an anti-inflammatory!
Black pepper – just me who has never thought about the fact that black pepper comes from a plant…ok, I’ll shut up! Black pepper increases the bioavailability of multiple nutrients!
So, we have learned, plants are good. Who knew? The crazy folk at VITL did, it’s all well and good me telling you all this. You can find all this in their VITL skin and beauty vitamins for your convenience.
3 – Amino Acids
Ready for some more science?
Amino acids are molecules that combine to form proteins when proteins are digested, amino acids are what’s left so whenever I’ve spoken about protein in this article, if you take the process slightly further I’m really talking about amino acids.
We will focus on L-cysteine for now as it’s probably the most important amino acid for our hair, skin, and nails. It’s essential for the production of Keratin, which in turn is essential for hair skin, and nails. Studies also show it can reduce hair loss and help to strengthen hair.
4 – Minerals
Have you got the minerals? Doesn’t matter if you don’t, we’ve got them in here!
Zinc, selenium, iodine, iron, and copper are all minerals you’ve probably heard of and potentially used in your life. They bring various positive attributes into our body…
Iodine and Zinc contribute to the maintenance of normal skin, hair, and nails.
Selenium aids in the protection against oxidative stress.
Iron contributes to normal energy levels and fights fatigue.
Copper helps in the maintenance of connective tissue.
Like I’ve said before, there is no harm in adding these into your life, VITL has put it all into one capsule with their skin and beauty vitamins to make things so much easier!
5 – Convenience
This is a different take on the above 4 points, which are heavily backed by actual science.
This will always make my top 5 benefits of hair, skin, and nail vitamins because I don’t actually know…many…things, if you know what I mean, yet by having a quick look at a product made by people much, much smarter than me, I know that it’s the right thing to do.
VITL has done the hard work, the research, the product design, etc. All I need to do is trust them and give them a small amount of money. I’ve used many of their products before and have never been let down.
Popping a tablet in my mouth once a day is not a difficult task at all and if you’re telling me it will help me have healthy hair, skin, and nails, then yeah I’m definitely going to do it.
And do you know what, to make your life eevveeeennnnn easier…here is the link to VITL Skin and Beauty vitamins.
You are so welcome my friend, oh, by the way, your hair looks nice xoxo
