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Medication to treat Acne can cause a number of side effects including over dry and flaky skin, photo sensitivity and mood swings. If you have a teenager with acne it's a hard call - you don't want your child to go around with painful infected boils or long term scarring. Acne medication often works by stopping sebum production. This is often effective in clearing up spots but usually there are often side effects and some struggle more than others with these as above.  The general impression is that oil based products will block pores and make things worse, this is rarely...

It's our view at Zing that most cleansers and moisturisers can't provide effective Healing or Anti Ageing function. One reason for this is that most are water based. Check the ingredients on your product - if the first word is 'aqua' - the main ingredient is water. Water based creams, lotions and serums we feel don't work in harmony with the natural composition of the skin. We feel they slither around the top of the skin and have difficulty doing much more than providing superficial and temporary hydration. They also require a preservative which can easily cause dryness or irritation...

  For clarity at Zing Organics we use Pure Essential Oil of Hemp which is extracted via low pressure steam distillation from the ancient wild crafted (no agrichemicals) unadulterated Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) crop. There are no new plant hybrids or new style extraction methods involved.   The Pure Essential Oil we use is very low in CBD (so is not classed as a CBD Oil) but instead exceptionally high in the potentially beneficial terpenes such as myrcene and b caryophyllene. We use this ingredient in skincare products and home fragrancing products. Anectodal benefits from our customers include deep relaxation and...

Zing Strengths   We were excited to be chosen in 2018 by the Marketing Department at Strathclyde University in Glasgow to have a team of their international marketing undergraduates devise a comprehensive new marketing strategy for us. We'd been introduced to the Marketing Department by the Chemistry Clinic at Strathclyde University who carry out extensive purity testing on our behalf.   In their audit the Marketing Works team headed by Dr Anthea Mendes highlighted one of the key Zing Organics' strengths as product quality. They noted a complete absence of negative comments or bad reactions or allergies to the products,...

Based on the Idyllic Pristine West Coast of Scotland, you might expect us to use local seaweed extracts in our products. However there are few reasons why at Zing Organics we use non indigenous seaweed extracts in our Eco Marine Algae Facial Cleansing Masque. Just because you use seaweed in a skincare product doesn't mean it necessarily offers any particular skincare benefits. We wanted to use an extract with significant PROVEN collagen boosting function. Developing a ingredient like this is a specialist field which is highly regulated, and way beyond the capabilities and the budget of a small artisan skincare brand....