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What is the 7 DAYS OF ME Cleanse?

7 DAYS OF ME is a gentle, one-week clean-eating detox, which results in a renewed you! It offers a myriad of benefits such as clearer skin and eyes, increased energy and concentration, a feeling of lightness and well-being and weight loss just to name a few. It is a beautiful rebalancing ritual to do each autumn and spring, but can be done any time throughout the year. If you want to move towards creating a healthier lifestyle, this gentle yet powerful cleanse is the perfect first step.

Detox Without Deprivation

The 7 DAYS OF ME cleanse involves eliminating foods and drinks such as refined sugar, coffee and alcohol that overload the body. Instead you eat foods that are packed full of nutrients that support your body’s natural detoxification processes. Predominantly raw, organic foods feature in the cleanse because of their ease of digestion and the cleansing effect they have on your body. This is not a starvation detox – you will eat nourishing food regularly and will be able to continue on with your normal routines.

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Renewed Energy & Well-Being

Nature has cleverly provided our bodies with a very efficient detoxification system; namely the liver, bowel, kidneys and skin. These are the primary eliminators of toxins and metabolic waste. If we eat healthy food and drink enough water, our bodies are designed to ‘detox’ naturally everyday. However, with our busy, stress-filled lives this isn’t always possible! That’s why an ‘inner cleanse’ gives your body a chance to detoxify and renew itself, and to channel its energy into revitalising your skin, body and well-being. You’ll feel the difference!

Treating Skin Disorders From Within

circle-janine“Over the years I have mentored hundreds of people through the Vital Cleanse to help heal their skin. The cleanse assists skin by removing the irritating foods that are helping fuel the skin problem and replacing them with foods that are rich in nutrients the skin needs to strengthen and heal. It ensures that the two main filters (kidneys and liver) and the four exits (bowels, bladder, lungs and skin) are well supported. This ‘clearing of the slate’ makes your body much more receptive to both internal and external skin treatment and the results more effective.” ~ Janine Tait

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A Beautiful 40 Year History…

circle-janThe Janesce Vital Cleanse principles were developed 40 years ago by Adelaide naturopath Janice Sarre Smith for the purpose of preparing her client’s bodies to heal their skin. Janice firmly believed that wellness and beauty are interconnected and her Janesce Skincare range and dermo-nutrition menus are centred on this philosophy.

Reimagined for Busy Women

circle-twoDermo-nutritionist and skincare therapist educator, Janine Tait, and cancer survivor and culinary creative, Sheryl Nicholson have co-created the 7 DAYS OF ME Janesce Vital Cleanse book and value-pack with the busy, modern woman in mind. If you are not blessed with a good culinary imagination, don’t worry! Sheryl has taken the cleanse principles and created a series of cleanse-friendly recipes which are easy to make and delicious to eat. A shopping guide and meal planner set you up for success while the book includes just the right blend of information and inspiration to support you on your cleanse.

What Does The 7 Days of Me Pack Include?

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The 7 DAYS OF ME Vital Cleanse Pack sets you up with everything you need for a flawless cleanse.  It contains the 7 DAYS OF ME Vital Cleanse Book, Janesce Aperitif (100ml), Bestow Beauty Oil (500ml), Bestow Body Brush, Detox Bath Salts and Bestow Blessings Journal.

7 Days of Delicious and Nutritious Recipes
People rave about how easy, tasty and filling the 7 DAYS OF ME recipes are. With stunning photography and easy to follow instructions you’ll soon be making Overnight Oats, Salmon Parcels, Baked Falafels and Roast Pumpkin Fritatta like a pro!

7 DAY Meal Planner & Shopping Guide
If you are not organised with a cleanse like this you are more likely to allow unhealthy food choices to sneak in. Preparation is the key and this book is designed to help you be as organised as possible. Our strategic meal planner and detailed shopping guide do all the ‘thinking’ for you – you just need to follow the instructions.

Janesce Aperitif (100mls)
The Aperitif is a natural blood cleanser and liver tonic that helps the body to gently detoxify. It is prepared from the extracts of 14 different plants, which have been used for centuries to enhance the functioning of the main elimination organs.

Bestow Beauty Oil (500mls) This uniquely formulated blend of seed oils helps to nourish and decongest the skin. It also supports detoxification on a cellular level.

Bestow Dry Bristle Brush for Dry Brushing
Your skin is your body’s largest eliminative organ and is responsible for one quarter of the body’s detoxification each day. Dry brushing enhances this process and is a wonderful detoxification aid.

Bestow Blessings Journal
This beautiful gratitude journal has been designed to help you establish a practice of making a daily record of the blessings in each day. Gratitude directs our entire being towards health by boosting our immune system and promoting healing.

Detoxification Bath Salts
Epsom Salts are made up of magnesium sulphate crystals. The sulphates help draw toxins out from your body, while the magnesium helps ease muscle pain and tension. Enjoy a lovely, long soak that lets you relax and detox at the same time!

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How Will I Feel During the Cleanse?

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The Vital Cleanse promotes energy by providing our bodies with nutrient-rich foods and removing all the crutches (coffee, alcohol, refined sugar and refined carbohydrates) that give us an initial burst of energy and then drop us down again. These substances can set up a roller coaster of energy fluctuations leaving us tired and craving stimulants.  The cleanse ensures you eat regularly and avoids the blood sugar levels becoming too low, which improves energy levels. You may feel yucky at some points of the cleanse because your digestive system is adjusting to the change of food and you are withdrawing from the stimulants your body has become reliant on. After about three to four days you feel much better because your body is regulating its own energy levels without the artificial highs stimulants give you. The energy boost that comes at the end of the cleanse can be due to improved digestion and elimination, a diet rich in nutrients and improved blood sugar stabilisation.

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7 Days Of Me Stories | Community Inspiration

circle-clemencyI have done many detox programs in the past and have struggled with the discipline and felt very depleted towards the end. 7 DAYS OF ME was surprisingly easy in comparison. It wasn’t a deprivation detox but more about nourishing my body and bringing it back into balance with wholesome, healthy foods.

My energy levels and appetite were well sustained between meals and I couldn’t get over how delicious and tasty the food was. My skin became significantly more radiant and clear. My energy levels increased and over the course of the seven days the quality of my sleep improved so that I woke up in the morning feeling lighter, refreshed and restored.

7 DAYS OF ME is a benchmark in rebooting my body when it is off balance.- Clemency Mutze, Christchurch
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circle-hannahI love 7 DAYS OF ME as an easy starting point to make long-term lifestyle changes. Before I did the cleanse I didn’t feel healthy and I knew my current diet was the cause.

Once I began, I loved that I could feel the difference in my energy, due to the quality of the food. Before 7 DAYS OF ME I would feel low in energy in the afternoon. During the cleanse I had enough energy to get through the whole day right until bedtime. My sleeping patterns improved too.

At the end I felt cleaner, lighter and reenergized. I have always had problems with my digestion but at the end of the seven days I felt really good. I have kept up many of my healthy new habits so I can keep feeling good. – Hannah Mereana, Auckland
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circle-sineadAfter doing a workshop with Janine Tait about feeding the skin from within I decided it was time to try and curb my sweet tooth. I was inspired to make some healthy changes and 7 DAYS OF ME was a great way to start this.

The book makes it so easy to follow with great, tasty recipes that don’t require purchasing too many ‘weird’ ingredients. Positive benefits for me included less bloating, more energy and weight-loss. The meals are all really enjoyable.

I was surprised at how quickly the week went and also how much better I felt. I didn’t want to stop eating this way once the week was up. I recommend 7 DAYS OF ME and all the other Bestow Food Journals to everyone. Such an easy and delicious way to get healthy! – Sinead Goodwin, New Plymouth
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The 7 DAYS OF ME Janesce Vital Cleanse books and packs are available at wellness focused skincare clinics around the country. Please email us at admin@janintetait.co.nz for a stockist near you.

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7 DAYS OF ME is a beautiful wellness cleanses which can revitalise your team, your clients and your business from the inside out. To read positive stories of salons who have embarked on the cleanse together as a team and brought their clients along for the journey, CLICK HERE. To enquire about becoming a Janesce stockist please CLICK HERE.

  • March 20, 2016

Meet the Visionaries Who Are Changing the Beauty Industry From The Inside Out

Janine Tait has become one of the most influential voices in the New Zealand beauty industry today. She is a respected leader within the emerging Slow Beauty movement, which champions a holistic approach to skincare with a focus on dermo-nutrition, health and total wellbeing. In this five part series, Janine shares her own journey from professional disillusionment to hope and introduces us to the Slow Beauty movement and some of the influential women who are emerging within it.

slow-beauty-jtWhen I first entered the New Zealand beauty industry in the mid 1980’s beauty therapy was still very much influenced by European traditions. The long and beautiful shadow cast from early visionaries encouraged a holistic, ‘inside out’ approach to skincare, which focused on total body health and wellness. The industry I entered as a young graduate combined this traditional emphasis with a focus on topical hydration and the protection of the stratum corneum. This was a long-term, sustainable approach to beauty, which worked in partnership with the body’s natural resources and defences.

In the 1990’s, a new trend of fast-acting facial treatments appeared on the beauty scene, which all but buried this traditional wisdom and raised a generation of therapists to favour the quick fix over the tried and true.

Helena Rubinstein was one of the voices forgotten in the flurry of ‘progress’. The founder of the biggest skincare company in the world in the early 1900’s, Polish-born Helena was fascinated by the way food affected the skin. She developed and prescribed skincare products for her clients but believed that in order to achieve beautiful skin they also needed to exercise, practice proper breathing and eat a low-toxin diet of mostly fruits, vegetables and water.

She was not alone in this belief. Madame Micheline Arcier, a famous aromatherapist who became influential half a century later was quoted as saying, “Beauty of the face cannot be achieved without a feeling of well-being, a healthy body and inner harmony.”

Micheline would not have recognised the beauty therapy industry that emerged in the 1990’s. Glycolic acids entered the market promising a faster, easier way to get skincare results. As therapists collectively got caught up in the excitement of new trends the importance of preserving the lifetime integrity of the stratum corneum was forgotten. Thinking about the way food, water and exercise affect skin health suddenly seemed quaint and old-fashioned.

Both of these shifts proved to be damaging. Just as fast food is not good for us, fast beauty has its drawbacks too. The quick fix often treats skin symptoms rather than deep causes. Some treatments can even be quite aggressive to the skin, setting up chronic inflammation, which can be ageing in the long term. In addition, as an industry we collectively did our clients a serious disservice by neglecting to pay attention to the role that certain nutrients play in supporting skin health and repair.

I know I did. By the mid 1990’s, I was struggling to get good results for my clients and had become disillusioned with the beauty therapy industry as a whole. I would have given up at that point but for two things: firstly, having a tenacious personality, I was determined to figure out where I was going wrong and secondly, I was introduced to Janice Sarre Smith (ND) at just the right time.

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Janice is an Australian naturopath with a particular interest in treating skin disorders. She was a pioneering voice of the Slow Beauty movement when she first crossed my path. Janice was able to show me that it was the ‘internals’ that I had overlooked and this turned out to be the missing piece of the puzzle for my clients. I combined Jan’s holistic approach with her plant-based skincare range, Janesce, which proved to be incredibly healing and the perfect partner for my newfound knowledge.

As I put her programmes into practice, promoting wellness, clean eating and dermo-nutrition the results I got for my clients far exceeded my expectations. With renewed hope, I became convinced that this was the optimum way for therapists to treat skin. However, at the time, the industry as a whole was still pursuing the quick fix. Therapists interested in learning about dermo-nutrition had to be prepared to swim against the tide and often had a deep personal belief in the power of a holistic approach, which sustained them.

It has been my privilege and pleasure over the last decade to evolve as a skin health therapist for clients and skin health coach for therapists. As well as studying nutritional medicine I have developed the Bestow Beauty range, which provides dermo-nutrition products and recipes to empower therapists and clients alike to cultivate wellness from the inside out.

The tides of change are well underway and there is now a new generation of therapists leading the way in holistic, ‘slow’ beauty. It is exciting to see this movement growing and I predict that in the future the Slow Beauty approach will be in even greater demand from the public. The Slow Beauty movement is following a similar trajectory to the Slow Food movement and reflects a similar shift in values away from short-term convenience towards slower, deeper and truer ideals.

It is heartening to see other wellness professionals ushering in this holistic renaissance. Dr. Libby Weaver, Sarah Wilson and sisters Julia and Libby are just a few of the influential voices that our clients are listening to more and more. In fact, no health professional can afford to ignore this quiet revolution. From doctors to dermatologists, this movement is forcing us all to up our game and improve our knowledge of how diet and lifestyle impacts on our wellness and appearance.

We believe that nourishing your body with healthy food is important for so many aspects of your life.  It supports your wellness, energy, happiness and appearance. But so often a healthy diet is perceived as deprivation, we focus on what we can’t have rather than what we can. We would like to introduce some beautiful rituals into your daily life that nurture and support you. So we have created a selection of delicious recipes that bestow health and radiance to your being and your skin. The Bestow Within series are our collaborative project packaged in 4 beautiful recipe journals read more about these here.

janine-tait-circle01Janine Tait is an internationally qualified beauty therapist with over 30 years experience. She is a dermo-nutrition expert and beauty therapist educator who champions the emerging Slow Beauty movement and its focus on holistic skincare and wellness. She is the New Zealand distributor for Janesce Skincare and the founder of Bestow Beauty, which provides dermo-nutrition products, recipes and rituals to support inner health and outer beauty.

  • March 8, 2016

I would like you to imagine how you would feel walking into a social gathering on your own.

Do you feel comfortable?

What are you thinking?

Are you hoping to see someone you know or be acknowledged and greeted as you enter?

What if no one notices you?

Have you ever walked into a restaurant and been ignored by the waitress? Sometimes they are busy, but the least they could do is smile at you to let you know they will be over to seat you when they are free.

Greet a client quickly, it seems much longer when you a standing there.

Be ready for your clients. This is the role for the support staff.

Answer the phone with a smile. How many times have you felt like a pain for a business rather than a valued client?

Make a client feel welcome.

Make a client feel valued.

Make a client feel beautiful.

  • January 19, 2016

What you notice, grows.  Are you spending time noticing the big line of traffic you are stuck in, the way dinner didn’t turn out as you hoped or are you noticing the new spring blossoms on the trees or the warmth of a cup of tea in your hands?

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Research shows that the thoughts you think and what you focus your attention on have direct corelations with your physical body.

In fact, it has been suggested that there are four general levels of thought:

PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (rest and repair)
1. Pure thought – Joy compassion, love, peace, forgiveness, gratitude
2. Productive thought – solution orientated – creates opportunity

SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (fight and flight)
3. Non-productive thought – Reliving the bad stuff (The Victim)
4. Destructive thoughts – self-criticism

The two higher levels comprise of positive thinking and these types of thoughts calm and focus our body and mind. They also tip us into our parasympathetic or ‘rest and repair’ nervous system and promote the production of seratonin, our happy hormone.

The two lower levels of thought are negative, pushing our bodies and minds into the sympathetic nervous system or our ‘fight and flight’ mode. Unfortunately, once in this state, it is impossible for us to produce any ‘happy’ hormones until we change our thought patterns to a more positive outlook.

We have created this beautiful Blessings Journal to help spend more time focusing on the positive; those beautiful moments happening in your life right now. The process of recording these enables you to be genuinely mindful of the experiences throughout your day that you are grateful for. Somedays it might be something big and other days something as simple as feeling the sunshine on your face.

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The benefit of keeping a Blessings Journal is not just the joy it brings when you relive these moments and experiences you had during the day but also the myriad of physical changes that can occur as well. You may begin to enjoy greater energy levels, better sleep patterns, reduced blood pressure, improved attentiveness, a more positive mood and increased joy.

As time passes and writing in your Blessings journal becomes a ritual, you may have a greater sense of appreciation of your daily life and increased harmony in your relationships.

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  • November 2, 2015

Water is the most important nutrient for skin health and general wellbeing. Our bodies are made up of 45-55% by weight of water and this water needs to be continuously replenished.

Our bodies constantly lose water. On average one and a half large glasses per day are lost through our breath, while our bowel and kidneys excrete six glasses of water every day and, depending on the temperature, at least two glasses of water are lost through our skin.

Our bodies aim to maintain fluid balance. This means that fluid output must equal fluid intake. The main way the body can regulate this is to alter the amount of water excreted from the kidneys. So if you don’t drink enough water, your body will compensate by reducing the quantity of urine you produce, which impacts on the amount of waste able to leave your body. We need to ensure that we drink enough to enable our body to constantly replace and refresh the water it contains.

If our intake of water is too low, dehydration will occur. Despite every effort, our body cannot compensate for this imbalance, as some output (loss) of fluid will occur as long as life continues. Dehydration or lack of water causes the chemical reactions in our cells to become sluggish, cells can no longer rebuild tissue, toxic products accumulate in our bloodstream, enzyme action is inhibited and we can feel weak and tired.

On the other hand, it’s just as important not to drink too much water. This can overtax our kidneys and risk flushing out important water-soluble vitamins and minerals.

So other than promoting good health, what does water do for our skin?

Our dermis, the lower layer of our skin, is very reliant on water. It is made up of a jelly, which is made up of a large amount of water (80%) in which our collagen and elastin fibres are embedded. Correct water levels are crucial in maintaining the moisture and flexibility of these fibres.

Water is also crucial for the upper layers of our skin (epidermis). Enzymes naturally found within the epidermis are reliant on water in order for them to remain active. Without adequate water levels, enzyme action is inhibited and the skin begins to suffer.

Considering all of the health benefits of water, there is no doubt that this is one of our best beauty aids – taken both internally and externally. And it’s a relatively inexpensive way to have healthier, more radiant skin!

  • October 12, 2015