If you haven’t heard of glutathione, you are missing out on a valuable addition to your beauty routine. Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant produced naturally by the body, found in every cell. By supplementing your body’s glutathione production, you can support many vital functions in the body, thus supporting your natural beauty and overall health.
Here at Colair Beauty Lounge & Med Spa in Gilbert, AZ, we recognize the many capabilities of glutathione and strive to share them with our clients. With all the health and beauty benefits of glutathione, it is an excellent addition to your beauty routine.
Benefits of Glutathione for Your Skin
Among the many benefits of glutathione is its positive impact on your skin. Many people include this antioxidant in their beauty routine because of its ability to support clearer and younger-looking skin. Glutathione promotes healthier skin in a few key ways, offering several advantages.
1. Skin Brightening Effects
One of the most popular benefits of glutathione on the skin is that it promotes a brighter and more even skin tone. Glutathione lowers your body’s melanin production, which can lead to multiple benefits.
By reducing your body’s melanin levels, glutathione reduces hyperpigmentation and the appearance of dark spots. If you are unhappy with discoloration on your skin, then glutathione can be a great option to support you.
2. Anti-Aging Properties
Because it is an antioxidant, glutathione has several beneficial functions in the body. In general, antioxidants are essential for neutralizing and controlling the presence of harmful molecules in the body called free radicals. These molecules build up over time through a process called oxidation, and they can speed up cell aging and cause pre-mature cell damage.
By neutralizing free radicals, antioxidants support healthy cell function and slow cell aging. This leads to a range of benefits for your skin, reducing the signs of aging by:
- Reducing wrinkles
- Smoothing lines
- Improving skin complexion
- Evening skin tone
3. Improvement of Skin Texture and Elasticity
Glutathione also improves the structure of your skin. This benefit is a result of the fact that glutathione supports the production of collagen. Collagen is an important protein that makes up several parts of your body.
Collagen plays an integral part in the structure of your skin, so supporting your body’s collagen levels offers several advantages. Some of the benefits of enhanced collagen production include:
- More moisture
- Fewer wrinkles
- Improved elasticity
- Less roughness
More moisturized skin with increased elasticity is more resilient to damage, fuller, and looks healthier. As a result, you enjoy softer, smoother, and stronger skin, along with a more vibrant, younger appearance.
4. Reduction of Acne and Blemishes
Acne and skin blemishes can be some of the most challenging skin conditions to address. Fortunately, glutathione can provide some answers. The antioxidant can help reduce the appearance of blemishes and minimize the presence of acne. With the help of glutathione, you can enjoy clearer skin with fewer blemishes, all with less frustration.
5. Detoxification and Skin Health
Glutathione supports not only the appearance of your skin but also its health. Glutathione is responsible for the process of removing oxidative chemicals from your cells. In doing so, this antioxidant has an important role in detoxification and transporting these toxins out of the body.
Glutathione also promotes a healthy immune system. By supporting healthy immune function, glutathione helps protect your body against disease and maintain your overall health and wellness. This can be especially helpful for people with certain skin conditions that result from bacteria or infection.
Benefits of Glutathione for Hair and Nails
Glutathione helps highlight your natural beauty all-around, not just in your skin. Here at Colair, we offer glutathione treatments because they promote beautiful hair and nails as well.
6. Strengthening and Nourishment of Hair
With healthy glutathione levels, you’ll love the appearance of your hair. Antioxidants can support healthy circulation in the scalp, promoting hair growth, stronger hair, and less discoloration. Meanwhile, collagen helps provide your body with the building blocks and proteins for growing hair, which can also lead to stronger and healthier hair.
Since glutathione is an antioxidant and promotes collagen production, it is great for your hair and offers the best of both worlds.
7. Enhanced Nail Health
Thanks to glutathione, you will also feel more confident showing off your nails. As mentioned above, glutathione promotes healthy collagen production. Among the other functions of collagen, this protein also has a strong role in growing strong nails.
Collagen production contributes to the health and appearance of your nails, making them stronger and denser. As a result, collagen leads to less brittle nails, which makes them appear healthier, look better, and become more resistant to breakage.
Incorporating Glutathione into Your Beauty Routine
With all the benefits of glutathione, there are many reasons to include it in your beauty routine. There are a few ways that you can incorporate glutathione into your regular routine—some are more effective than others.
Dietary Sources
Like many nutrients, you can encourage healthy glutathione levels by eating the right foods. There are both foods that encourage the body’s production of glutathione and dietary sources of glutathione directly. To support your body’s natural production of glutathione, you can add the following foods to your diet:
- Foods high in vitamin C
- Foods with selenium
- Whey protein with amino acids
- Foods high in sulfur
- Foods that contain glutathione
Only a few foods actually contain glutathione—others only encourage your body to produce more glutathione. Although these foods can be helpful, you shouldn’t rely on food as the number one way to include the nutrient in your routine.
Unfortunately, your body does not absorb glutathione well through your diet. Therefore, you should try other methods for obtaining it too.
Glutathione Supplements
If you want a more direct method for obtaining glutathione, you can try supplements. These supplements typically come in the form of a capsule and have a recommended intake of 1-2 per day. However, one study showed that oral supplements had little impact on the body’s glutathione levels, so these supplements may not be the best option for adding glutathione into your beauty routine.
Topical Glutathione Products
Topical products are another option for adding glutathione into your routine. If you are looking specifically for support in lightening areas of your skin and reducing melanin production, then topical products can be a good choice. Studies have shown topical methods to be effective in skin lightening.
Although topical products are helpful, they are limited in how much they will increase your body’s overall glutathione levels and promote your overall health the way other methods can.
Glutathione IV Therapy
The most effective way to supplement your body’s glutathione levels is through glutathione IV therapy. This treatment injects the antioxidant straight into your bloodstream via an intramuscular injection, or IV drip, instead of your body having to digest it. With this more direct method, your body can use the antioxidant better and more quickly to support your systems.
According to the experts, you can safely receive glutathione vitamin therapy as often as once a week. Glutathione therapy is most effective when you receive multiple treatments over the course of four to eight weeks.
To determine whether glutathione therapy is a good idea for you, you should always discuss it with an experienced provider. Here at Colair, our team is happy to discuss your options and ensure you feel comfortable with the process.
Schedule Glutathione Therapy at Colair Beauty Lounge & Med Spa
Glutathione is an important antioxidant in your body, and supplementing it can offer many great benefits for a more youthful appearance and improved overall health. The best way to enhance your body’s glutathione levels is through IV vitamin therapy, which injects the nutrient directly into your bloodstream.
We offer glutathione therapy here at Colair Beauty Lounge & Med Spa in Gilbert, AZ to support our clients in highlighting their natural beauty and promoting their overall health wellness. Contact us today to learn more about whether glutathione therapy could be a good option for you. Call us at (480) 923-6138 to schedule an appointment.
Dallas Sloan and Rich Ganley
Dallas Sloan and Rich Ganley are the co-owners of Colair Beauty Lounge & Med Spa. They are both passionate entrepreneurs and have extensive experience in the beauty, medical and service industries. They are blessed to lead a team of amazing professionals who are “obsessed with service” and love to “Pamper, Inspire, and Educate”! Colair was honored to be voted best mid-size business by the Gilbert Arizona Chamber of Commerce.
