[ What Vanilla does for your Senses ]
The soft vanilla cream scent of SkinMilk is more than pleasurable -
it actually helps relax and calm your senses.
Annette Green, the president of the Fragrance Foundation,
and one of the world's foremost experts on scent, calls vanilla,
"Part of the olfactory 'security blanket.'"
Sure, vanilla's ability to comfort and calm is linked to our childhood memories of
sweet treats, but there is scientific proof that there's more to the story.
Research at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York showed that of
all the scents tested, one called "heliotropin"--the essence of vanilla -
actually relaxed patients and reduced their anxiety during difficult medical procedures.
Many hospitals now administer the scent during MRI's to help reduce claustrophobia.
Even better? A hospital in London used vanilla to help dieters reduce their intake of sweets.
The overweight subjects who were given vanilla-scented skin
patches found that their sweet food intake was significantly reduced,
leading to greater weight loss than those given dietary advice alone.
We'll try it! Maybe a little SkinMilk will trick us into thinking we've already had dessert!