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Brodie Skin Care (BSc) all set to make a splash! 

Taking to the water for sports or exercise challenges your skin as well as your stamina.

In the pool, chlorine dries out your body and face and can leave you with tight, itchy, sore skin all over. Open water sports and exercise can cause even more damage to your complexion, with salt water attacking your natural oils and sapping the moisture from your skin.

North Yorkshire-based business Brodie Skin care (BSc) has launched its Recovery Phase skincare products specifically designed and developed for sports and exercise enthusiasts across the UK.  Recovery Phase Swim has been designed for use before and after swimming.

Brodie Skin care is probably one of the most scenic laboratories in the country. Alison, a former Forensic Scientist has converted her spare room into a lab with views towards Studley Roger and across Galphay Woods.

Our friends who swim for fun and professionally asked us to develop a product specifically designed to meet their skincare needs. With our highly effective Recovery Phase formula already in place, we decided to adapt the ingredients to be even more beneficial for them.

We specifically designed Recovery Phase Swim Rehydration Cream for use before and after hitting the water. Apply any time during the day before swimming, the Zinc Oxide and Panthenol Pro Vitamin B5 in the cream, effectively help waterproof your skin and form a soothing barrier. Then, when you’ve showered and dried off, apply another layer of our rapidly absorbed super nourishing cream. Helps repair your skins natural pH balance after swimming. Vitamin E, Avocado and Rosehip oils all hydrate and lock the moisture in. Aloe Vera extract is Nature’s antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral ingredient, excellent for counteracting any ‘nasties’ in the water! And, of course, Recovery Phase Swim also contains our high levels of active vitamins and antioxidants essential for skin renewal and regeneration.

Recovery Phase Swim comes highly recommended!

“Recovery Phase Swim is fantastic for anyone who swims for sport or exercise. It protects against the effects of chlorine and soothes your dried-out skin straight afterwards. I use the Recovery Phase moisturiser every day to protect my skin from the chlorine in the pool!”

Whether you’re in the water for serious sport or as part of your health and fitness regime, you’ll feel the difference Recovery Phase Swim makes. So why not let your skin achieve its personal best too

Founded by husband and wife team Peter and Alison Brodie, BSc aims to corner the market in sports skincare with two new products they have developed after extensive research into the effects of exercise on the skin. Both Peter and Alison are keen sportspeople, regularly taking part in events and Pete is a keen triathlete. But neither could find a skincare product that was suitable to repair the damage that exercising outdoors causes to the skin. The answer? Make it themselves!

“I love running and cycling and swimming, but was really struggling with the effects it was having on my skin” says Alison “and I couldn’t find any face cream products that were suitable for me. So with my background in Biology and Forensic Science I thought, why not make my own?” So after 20 years in the Forensic Science Service, Alison found herself in a very different laboratory –in her own home!

Putting her background to best use, Alison first extensively researched the damaging effects things like wind and rain have on the skin, not to mention what happens as the body brings acidic sweat and toxins to the surface. Then, with qualifications in Making Natural Skin Care and Cosmetic Legislation under her belt, Alison turned her home into a manufacturing facility to perfect the formula for the Recovery Phase products.

“Keeping things natural is very important to me, and my research really opened my eyes about what many products contain and what we put on our skin. So it was vital for me to make Recovery Phase as effective but as natural as possible.”

The result is two new products from BSc which are already gaining a dedicated following. Team GB diver Jack Laugher is one fan – he took pumps of Recovery Phase Swim with him to Australia, where he won Gold, claiming his fourth junior world championship title.

Finally- a skin care product that works as hard as you do!

We’ve developed Recovery Phase Swim Rehydration Cream to repair the damage caused by anything the weather, the swimming environment and your body’s natural detox process can throw at your skin during swimming and exercise.

Its pH balanced, ultra-moisturising, non-greasy formula sinks into skin rapidly to deliver intense hydration with nourishing Shea butter, Rosehip, Avocado and Olivem. We’ve packed in powerful levels of antioxidants and vitamins to tackle free radical damage and promote skin cell renewal. For an immediate soothing and calming effect, we’ve added skin saviours in the form of Aloe Vera and Cucumber extracts.

Recovery Phase Swim Rehydration Cream allows your skin to achieve its personal best while you strive to do the same.

Brodie Skin care products could soon be an essential for every swim kit! Now available to buy on line at www.brodieskincare.co.uk

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Notes for Editors:

• Brodie Skin care (BSc) is based in Ripon and launched on 10 November 2012.
• Available to buy now on line from www.brodieskincare.co.uk
• Uses Harrogate Spring Water. All Natural products. No animal extracts. Not tested on animals. Fragrance free.
• No parabens, SLS, alcohol or petroleum products.
• Currently offering two products – Recovery Phase Rehydration Cream and Recovery Phase Swim Rehydration Cream.
• Alison Brodie was a Forensic Scientist for 20 years working with DNA profiling, Sexual Offences and Drugs prior to its closure in 2012.
• Career change- post redundancy
• Recovery Phase Swim is used by Jack Laugher, Team GB Diver, London 2012
• Photographs and interviews available

Contact:

Alison Brodie:

Tel: 07934  113939

Email: alison@brodieskincare.co.uk