This Contour Cream formula has been scientifically designed to help facilitate diet and exercise the smoothing and reduction of fatty areas.

Dieting and exercise is not usually enough by itself to achieve the body contouring a person desires.

Best applied in evening immediately after a warm shower to Crépe and crinkled thick skin area, or flabby areas needing tightening.

NATURAL KEY INGREDIENTS – AZ BODY CONTOUR CREAM 

Aloe Vera:  For centuries, Aloe has been used as an intensely soothing, moisturizing, and restorative skin beauty treatment with a powerhouse of antioxidants, (vitamins A, C, E), anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, protective (from UV damage), and soothing skin-calming anti-ageing effects. The amino acids, and active enzymes also help to deliver a visibly smoother, brighter, more youthful complexion.

Butyrospermum Parkll Butter ( Shea Butter): Is a source of vitamin A, & E, and provides some minimal sun protection.  It boosts skin moisture and has soothing anti-inflammatory properties that help calm, soften skin, and ease swelling, redness, and itching Eczema type conditions, and softens stretch marks, fine-lines and wrinkles.  It contains an anti-fungal property, that can help with skin break-out issues.  The Antioxidants support anti-aging benefits for smoother and more youthful looking skin. Shea Butter is hypoallergenic, so is good an ideal ingredient for sensitive skin.

Caffeine: Is a natural ingredient found in the leaves, seeds, or fruit of many plants.  It contains vitamin B2, B3, magnesium, potassium, and various phenolic compounds or antioxidants. It has anti-inflammatory properties, can reduce hydration from fatty cells deposited in different places on the body creating a smoother less crinkled appearing skin.  It can help a person appear less tired, reduce puffiness and swelling, and dark circles for a younger looking face. 

Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract(Green Tea): Is a natural extract known as green tea with many anti-ageing properties. It contains antioxidant polyphenols, vitamin B, lipids such as linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids, and healthy natural catechins, L-theanine, caffeine, and minerals including magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, and selenium, and with soothing properties for helping improve the appearance of sun-damaged skin for a healthier and more youthful glow.

Centella Asiatica Extract(Gotu Kola): A plant native to Southeast Asian tropics, used for hundreds of years. It contains many natural bioactive substances like, amino acids, phenolic acids, flavonoids, and phytonutrients, proteins, minerals like iron and calcium, oils, tannins, and vitamins B and C.  This anti-ageing, anti-inflammatory ingredient helps improve the skin’s natural barrier with hydration and the moisturizing to smoothing of dry and sensitive skin, and the production of collagen, which can help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

CITRIC ACID : Is a natural compound found in citrus fruits, oranges, lemons, tomatoes, pineapples, etc.,  that has been known since late 18th century.  Not be confused with vitamin C, Citric acid is an acidic antioxidant, and vitamin C is ascorbic acid. In skin care Citric acid can help in exfoliation of dead skin cells, balance the pH, work as a protective antioxidant, brighten dull skin and dark spots, help unclog pores, remove excess oil, enhance collagen synthesis production, improving the quality of elastic fibers, and density of water-binding glycosaminoglycans, protect the skin from oxidative damage and help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.  Though Citric acid is not an essential vitamin or mineral, it can help body absorb certain minerals, like calcium and phosphorus, and acts as a preservative helping slow formation of bacteria, mold, yeast and fungus. 

Cocos Nucifera Fruit Extract: Like Coconut oil, this ingredient is derived from the Coconut. This ingredient is rich in fatty acids, proteins, contains minerals and amino acids, vitamins B, C, E, and Omega-6 fatty acids to help retain moisture. It has many properties including antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antiparasitic, antidermatophytic, antioxidant, hypoglycemic, hepatoprotective, and immunostimulant. It is soothing to the skin, helps retain moisture, reduce dry, oily acne prone skin, is quickly absorbed and helps keep the skin layer strong, and intact, and looking smooth, and younger.

Coleus Forskohlii Root Extract: Is a natural anti-microbial, acne type agent that helps with inflammatory type found in eczema and psoriasis type skin conditions. Is also used to smooth crinkled thick fatty skin. 

Hippophae Rhamnoides Extract ( Natural Seaberry/Sea Buckthorn:  Since the days of Cleopatra, this powerful super berry rich in essential fatty acids, and natural flavonoids, antioxidants, minerals, nutrients and phytonutrients—including folic acid, vitamins C and E, and omegas 3, 6, 7 & 9, has been a royal beauty treatment.  This powerful beauty promoting berry, is most notable for helping to nourish, smooth, and maintain-restore your body's normal youthful, glowing skin by also offering your skin nutrition support against conditions that cause, dryness, flaky, or irritated red, inflamed skin, or related  fine-lines and wrinkles.  Seaberry (Hippophae rhamnoides the national fruit of Northwestern mongolia),  and was rumored to be the closely guarded beauty secret of Cleopatra. (the queen of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC).

Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment: It is a lactic acid bacteria derived from fermented radishes.  It helps moisturize and condition skin or scalp.  Has antimicrobial and antioxidant properties to help enhance the stability and longevity of formulas. Contains vitamin C, and other phytonutrients, contains potassium, it supports generation of collagen, and it is an isolated peptide with antimicrobial benefits, and helps to protect the body’s cells from damaging effects of ageing. . It is known for its anti-inflammatory properties which can help reduce redness and swelling, in acne type conditions.  Typically used in 0.5% to help preserve cosmetics.

Limonene:   This is a natural ingredient found in essential oils, and a major constituent of citrus fruit peel oils, and also found in lower levels of many fruits and vegetables, and plant oils like mint, dill, caraway, and celery seed oil, rosemary, eucalyptus, lavender, lemongrass, and peppermint. It has many effects/uses as an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antinociceptive, antidiabetic, antiviral, and helpful to reduce stress and mood disorders. It can be used as a cleanser and to help calm the skin, making skin feel and appear smoother, and younger.

Natural Organic Peptide Matrix (from ESM): Helps to form an invisible biopeptide nourishing (cell feeding) matrix mask to help tighten-tone-lift-firm, smooth pores, improve trans-epidermal water loss for increased retention of moisture, and support the skin’s natural barrier. Provides proven elemental skin building blocks of natural collagen, elastin and Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) that in clinical trials has shown to increase cellular activity and collagen to reduce UV damage, inflammation, skin ageing, i.e. to create clearer, smoother, healthier and more youthful looking AgeLess skin.

Menthol:  Is a naturally found in peppermint and other mint plants. Rich in antioxidants vitamins A, B-complex, B-6, B-carotene, C, and E & K.  Also, niacin, phosphorus, zinc, and fibers, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, copper and manganese. A counterirritant, by causing the skin to feel cool and then warm, can help relieve itching, pain and other irritations.  It provides temporary inflammation relief, and is cleansing, will help tighten pores and restore more radiant youthful appearing complexions.

Naringenin: Is a natural flavonoid often found with other vitamins and minerals, including vitamin C, sucrose, and apigenin.  It is found in the skin of citrus fruits like oranges, and grapefruit, also sweet oranges, pomelos, satsuma mandarins, yuzu and lemons. It has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, skin-brightening properties.  Its photoprotective effects can help protect the skin from UV rays, helps skin retain moisture, support skin elasticity, and healthier younger appearing skin.

Niacinamide (B3): is a water-soluble form of vitamin B3 in nature it is found in grains, (nuts, seeds) green vegetables, fish and other foods. Helps stimulate the skin to boost collagen production to improve troubled broken out skin, texture, smoothness, brightness and help prevent/reduce enlarged pores, age-spots, improve skin tone, diminish dullness, and soften the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, for a smoother, healthier, younger looking skin.

Salix Alba Bark Extract: Is a natural plant extract derived from the bark of the willow tree containing salicin, (from which salicylic acid is derived), and has both anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties which contributes to gentle exfoliation, promoting cell turnover, helping in clearing pores and soothing  acne-prone skin, irritation, rashes and inflammation, of psoriasis type conditions.

Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil (Jojoba Seed Oil/Butter): It is a natural ingredient derived from the seeds of the desert shrub.  It is a great moisturizer, and deeply hydrating.  It contains complex vitamins E and B, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids that nourish, soothe and protect the skin, and long chain fatty acids similar to those found in natural collagen of the skin, adding skin elasticity and vitality.  Jojoba has antibacterial, antiseptic, antifungal, and antiviral properties, and is ideal for hydrating dry or acne-prone skin while soothing irritation, rashes and inflammation, psoriasis type conditions..  It's an antioxidant, It's noncomedogenic, It's hypoallergenic, It helps control sebum production, It may help promote collagen synthesis, It may help to speed skin repair and healing.  There is a good article from National Institutes of Health on Jojoba Oil Chemistry ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8197201/) .

Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter (Coco butter): Is a natural fat roasted from cocoa seeds during the process of making chocolate and cocoa powder.  It is high in vitamin D2, E, K, Choline, Potassium, Phosphorus, Iron, Copper and Magnesium, and healthy polyphenols.  Works better on body areas that are dry and less oily to hydrate, smooth, and nourish the skin, improving elasticity and tone, acts as a soothing barrier to the skin, easing itching from dry, sensitive, irritated skin conditions.  It also helps the product be more stable and soft. 

Tocopherol ( vitamin E):  Is a natural ingredient found in many vegetable oils, nuts, seeds, green leafy vegetables.  It is a powerful antioxidant, helps retain moisture, is a natural anti-inflammatory, that helps soothe skin. It is a skin lightener, and has been used for helping to reduce visible signs of pimples and scarring. It also plays an important role in helping to neutralize free radicals, from UV and environmental pollutants.  It improves skin’s water-binding capacity to help skin feel and look youthful.  

Vaccinium Macrocarpon Fruit Extract (Cranberry): Is a natural ingredient high in vitamin C, it has anti-ageing, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, collagen, and elastin properties, good absorption, and known to help boost immunity, and help with skin soothing, (good for sensitive skin) to support the skin’s healthy, radiant, velvety-soft more youthful appearance.