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Fortheageless, the supplement and skincare collections have also been selected for their efficacy and safety: they are free from artificial additives, flavours, and fillers. We only choose products that comply with GMP standards and that we have used ourselves.

We know manufacturers by their names and can offer you first-hand insight into the best use of every supplement. We believe in ethical marketing that complies with UK advertising regulations.

Fast, personalised service

Our priority is to provide a fast, reliable service with personalised customer interactions.

By tracking the feedback of over 20,000 customers, we have developed unrivalled expertise and you can benefit from this through a free one-to-one consultation.

This is why for the Ageless is rated highly across all third-party review platforms like Trustpilot and Google.

Lab-tested CBD products

At for the Ageless, we retail a curated range of CBD products, tried, and tested by the team and our family. They must have independent lab results to prove their CBD content and the absence of toxins.

As Cannabis Trades Association (CTA) members, we are committed to not making unsubstantiated health claims and list only cannabinoids that are legal to buy in the UK.

Valuable expertise

You’ll find plenty of practical tips and useful insight written clearly, with minimal jargon, all based on our own experiences.

We feature two blogs dedicated to CBD and healthy ageing written and fact-checked by experts. The for the Ageless team and founder Daniel Perez Vidal are regularly featured in print and online publications.

The benefits of turmeric & curcumin

Turmeric was once merely an underused curry ingredient, now it’s a food supplement and health hero. However, it’s not all been golden lattes and tropical turmeric cleansers, there have been critics too. Turmeric occasionally comes under fire for having little benefit and not living up to the hype.

This is because the turmeric in your kitchen cupboard contains very little of the active ingredient curcumin. Choking down powdery spoonfuls from the jar at the bottom of your spice rack just won’t cut it.

Turmeric can be a root of immense power, but it needs to be prepared correctly. When taken the right way or paired with other valuable substances, it can provide a powerful boost to your health and wellbeing.

Turmeric and curcumin – Fast facts

• Turmeric has been a vital part of Ayurveda for centuries.
• Curcumin is the primary beneficial component of turmeric.
• Turmeric contains between 2 and 8% curcumin.
• Fermenting turmeric or taking it with black pepper, can increase its bioavailability by up to 2000%.
• Curcumin is a potent antioxidant and has anti-inflammatory properties.

What is turmeric?

Turmeric is the vibrant orange root of the Curcuma longa plant, a member of the ginger family. It can be chopped up, used fresh or dried and pulverised to create a fragrant powder.

While there is a long history of use in food, turmeric also plays a role in religious ceremonies. In paste form, it’s smeared on the face and hands of the bride and groom at Indian wedding celebrations as a blessing.

It’s also a crucial component in the Hindu medicinal system of Ayurveda. Ayurveda seeks to keep balance in all body systems to restore and maintain health. Turmeric is used in this way to support the blood, joints, immune system, liver function and the digestive tract.

The difference between turmeric & curcumin?

Curcumin is the primary active ingredient in turmeric. Most turmeric powders contain between 2% and 8% curcumin alongside other curcuminoids and turmerone. 

Pepper increases bioavailability

The major drawback of turmeric is that only a tiny percentage of the curcumin will reach your bloodstream. To improve this, pair turmeric with black pepper. Pepper contains a substance called piperine, which can increase the bioavailability by up to 2000%.

Practical detox guide: Intensive and maintenance

After 8 weeks of calming the gut (step 1 in weeks 1-4), balancing the liver (step 2 in weeks 5-6), and cleansing your kidneys (step 3 in weeks 7-8), the intensive detox of week 9 (step 4) is a short, focused push to mobilise and remove stubborn, fat-stored toxins without overwhelming your system.

From week 10 onward, a simple maintenance (step 5) keeps you feeling lighter, steadier and more resilient.

Warning:

• Don’t start here! These final steps only work when your exit routes are open: calm gut, flowing bile and well-filtering kidneys.
• If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, underweight, living with advanced liver or kidney disease, taking multiple prescription medicines, or have a history of eating disorders, skip the intensive week and work with your clinician on a personalised maintenance plan.
• Binders, such as activated charcoal and clays, can reduce drug absorption. Leave a clear gap of at least 2-3 hours between binders and any medicines.

Step  4 – Intensive detox (week 9)

Think of it as the final tidy-up after the deep prep work of weeks 1-8. You’ve reduced gut permeability, supported liver conjugation and encouraged kidney drainage. Now a short, plant-forward phase, supported by binders and fibre, helps what’s been loosened to leave the body cleanly, not to be reabsorbed.

The strategy is to mobilise, move, bind and eliminate toxins:

1. Mobilise by sweating and nourishing

You can sweat with the gentle heat of a sauna or a hot bath. Large studies link regular sauna use with better heart health, and reviews show sweat can carry small but measurable amounts of metals like arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury, especially when one stays well-hydrated.

Practical detox guide: The kidneys

Following our gentle gut cleanse and targeted liver detox, weeks 7-8 turn to your kidneys: the body’s silent, tireless, calm-restoring filters. They work constantly to keep you in balance, so let’s give them the care and nourishment they deserve.

Step  3 – Kidney cleanse (weeks 7-8)

Your kidneys filter around 150-180 litres of fluid per day, your entire blood volume many times over, while balancing electrolytes and blood pressure.

Heavy metals like cadmium and lead preferentially accumulate in kidney tissue. A focused two weeks lowers the circulating toxin load, protects cardiovascular function, and prevents reabsorption via the gut-kidney loop.

A focused, two-week kidney cleanse supports optimal filtration, ensuring water-soluble wastes and bound toxins are efficiently excreted, reducing their return to circulation and easing the load on every other detox pathway.

5 practical ways to support your kidneys

1.  Keep your meals light on protein

Keep total protein to around 1 g per kg body weight (about 60 g/day for a 60 kg adult). This eases nitrogen waste processing and gives your kidneys breathing space while still keeping you satisfied.

2. Hydrate generously and wisely

Sip water steadily through the day, aiming for 3–4 L. On beet-juice mornings, lean towards the higher end to dilute oxalates and support smooth urine flow.

3. Flavour with herbs, not salt

Dill, caraway, turmeric and other fresh herbs bring flavour, colour, and protective flavonoids, all without the extra salt load that can strain kidney function. Avoid processed foods and sauces that contain salt.

4. Keep circulation moving

Stand, stretch, or walk for a couple of minutes every 45 minutes. Light movement keeps blood and lymph flowing, helping your kidneys filter efficiently.

5. A refreshing splash 

Finish your shower with a 60-second cool blast. This boosts micro-circulation, improving nutrient and oxygen delivery to your kidneys, refreshing the body and gifting them a gentle tonic.

Practical detox guide: The liver

Continuing our practical detox series, this second part focuses on one of your hardest-working organs: the liver. When the gut has been gently cleansed and resealed, the liver is ready to take centre stage.

Step  2 – Liver cleanse (weeks 5-6)

Your liver filters around 2,000 litres of blood daily, while simultaneously converting hormones, storing essential vitamins, and regulating glucose levels.

High-resolution biomonitoring has confirmed the presence of almost 700 different synthetic chemicals in adult human plasma and liver samples, and population surveys routinely detect several hundred at once.

A focused, two-week liver cleanse ensures that toxins broken down by Phase I detoxification pathways are safely packaged by Phase II enzymes and eliminated, preventing them from recirculating and causing further stress.

5 practical ways to support your liver

1. Balance detox pathways

Include brassica vegetables (broccoli, kale, cabbage) and citrus zest (excluding grapefruit) alongside a moderate protein intake. These nutrients balance detox enzyme activity to prevent overload.

2. Boost liver function

Enhance liver detoxification with eggs, garlic, onions, broccoli sprouts, and artichokes (shown to boost bile flow by 127%). These foods help safely package and remove toxins.

3. Antioxidant protection

Vitamin C, curcumin, selenium, and NAC (N-acetylcysteine) provide strong antioxidant support, protecting liver cells during the detoxification process.

4. Improve toxin elimination

Before meals, take a teaspoon of apple-cider vinegar and consume 5g of soluble fibre three times daily. This supports bile flow and helps remove toxins effectively.

5. Support circadian rhythms

Reduce blue-light exposure after sunset and aim for bedtime by 10pm. This helps double melatonin production, which in turn enhances glutathione, your body’s primary antioxidant and detoxifier.

What is water-soluble CBD?

CBD is incredibly versatile and comes in many different forms. Despite their individual pros and cons, most CBD products only deliver a fraction of the active ingredient to your bloodstream.

Several brands are now claiming that their water-soluble CBD is the answer to this problem and can increase the amount available for use in your body by up to ten times. Unfortunately, because it’s new, there is very little evidence publicly available to back up these claims.

What is water-soluble CBD?

Water-soluble CBD is a recently developed method for dissolving CBD extract in water. Cannabinoids are naturally fat-soluble, which means that the molecules dissolve easily into fatty substances like oils but don’t mix well with water.

That’s why the majority of CBD products are oil-based. The downside of oil-based CBD is that most fats are broken down by enzymes and take longer to pass through your gut into your bloodstream.

Now, CBD companies have discovered that if you expose CBD to a certain type of sound wave, it can vibrate the CBD apart into tiny, microscopic nanoparticles. They can also achieve the same effect by adding emulsifying substances at high pressure or encapsulating the cannabinoids in other microscopic materials.

Once the CBD is in tiny pieces, water molecules can fit in between them, allowing them to mix into water-based liquids.

How does it work?

For CBD oil to be used by your body tissues, it must first be broken down into smaller pieces. The processes that carry out this breakdown are collectively known as the first-pass effect and are responsible for the low bioavailability of orally ingested CBD oil.

The first-pass effect is a two-step process: the gut, then the liver. In the gut, bile and enzymes break fats into tiny pieces so fat-soluble CBD can be absorbed. Those absorbed pieces then travel to the liver, where they are further metabolised, so much of the original CBD is lost before it reaches the bloodstream.

Water-soluble CBD is formulated into much smaller, water-soluble particles that cross the gut lining (or mucous membranes) more easily and require less fat digestion. It still goes through the liver, but because less is lost in the gut stage, more of the original dose is likely to reach circulation.

Does water-soluble CBD absorb better under your tongue?

The main enzyme responsible for the breakdown of fats during the first-pass effect is lipase. It can be found in your gut, gallbladder, and, surprisingly, in your mouth. If you hold CBD oil under your tongue, lingual lipase breaks it down so it can pass into your sublingual blood vessels.

Love Hemp: the whole story

Here at for the Ageless we have carefully chosen a number of products that you can buy from the Love Hemp CBD collection. To provide our customers with the best information possible, we spoke with Tony Calamita, Co-founder and CEO of Love Hemp, to get the full lowdown on their products, learn more about the company ethos, and see what sets them apart from the rest of the UK CBD industry. Here’s what they had to say.

Who is Love Hemp

Why and when did Love Hemp begin?

Love Hemp was founded in 2015 in the bedrooms of two childhood friends, Tom Rowland and me, Tony Calamita, in Croydon, South London. It was here that we discovered the true potential of hemp when Tom’s father turned to CBD during a difficult battle with cancer.

Unhappy with the standards in the industry which was still in its infancy in the UK, we launched Love Hemp without any external funding, growing sales organically by word of mouth and customer reviews on Trustpilot.

Today, Love Hemp is the UK’s leading CBD brand with a multi-award-winning range of over 40 products which are now stocked in over 2000 stores across the UK.

What is the Love Hemp mission?

We exist to become a global leader for CBD products, helping millions of people to lead happier, healthier lives through the power of hemp.

Our mission is fuelled by a genuine desire to help people understand the benefits of CBD as a holistic approach to wellness and the positive effects it can have.

What makes your products different to others available in the UK?

At Love Hemp, we pride ourselves on our commitment to quality, safety and transparency and this is reflected in our products, all of which undergo rigorous testing practices at our ISO 9001 certified production facility before being verified by a third-party lab.

We only ever use natural, plant-based CBD with non-detectable levels of THC, and our supply chain partners have invested heavily in cutting-edge extraction and purification technologies so that we can produce apex quality products.

How are Love Hemp products made?

Where is the hemp grown, and is it organic?

We source our hemp from US-grown plants in Arizona (North America).

All our products are produced from 100% certified organic hemp, so our customers can rest assured that there are no pesticides, heavy metals, or other harmful toxins.

What extraction methods are used?

Predominantly CO2 extraction, but we’ve just recently launched a cold-pressed hemp oil.

Best CBD balms & creams

CBD is not just a great daily supplement; you can also use it topically to help alleviate various skin concerns. As with any purchase, knowing what makes a good product is vital so you can be confident you’re getting the real deal.

Countless companies use the term “CBD” when products contain little more than hemp seed oil. While hemp seed oil can be incredibly beneficial for skin and hair (packed with nourishing omega-3 fatty acids), it’s also significantly cheaper to produce, so it shouldn’t carry the same price tag.

We stock a range of CBD balms and creams aimed at different uses. From face creams to muscle balms, we’ve tried and tested them all to deliver expert advice. When you choose a CBD cream or balm from our selection, you know it’s there because our team loves the formulation and has found it to deliver tangible results.

CBD balms & creams table

Our selection criteria

With any trending product, you have to be aware of the desire to cash in on the increased interest. New CBD companies are always cropping up, and established brands are introducing new lines to meet customer demand.

We have strict selection criteria that all products must meet to protect our customers from spending money on things that don’t work. This is the same for all CBD products we offer, from CBD oil and gummies to hemp teas and CBD balms.

1. The packaging must clearly state the cannabinoids and in what amounts, either in mg or as a percentage.
2. The CBD must be extracted from organically grown hemp. 
3. The balm or cream has to come with an up-to-date certificate of analysis (CoA). This helps the customer to see that the product contains the advertised levels of CBD.
4. Before we’ll add it to the website, we try it ourselves. We also give it to friends and family to gather feedback.
5. And for the product to remain on the website, it needs to be popular with our customers! We take customer feedback very seriously, so if you think a product falls short of the mark, we’d love to hear your thoughts. 

The best CBD balms and creams in the UK

Best CBD balm: Organic CBD SOS Balm – BioBloom

How much is CBD oil?

Are you confident you know what you’re getting when you buy CBD oil? You’d be forgiven for thinking that high-priced CBD oil equates to superior quality, and bargain basement CBD oil means that someone is cutting corners.

Unfortunately, it isn’t always this simple. Many factors influence the price of CBD, and learning to tell the difference between quality and good advertising can save you a small fortune in the long term.

We’ve crunched the numbers and looked at the prices of the most popular CBD brands in the UK. We were confident we’d reach a consensus on the pricing of CBD oil, but that is far from the truth.

Our method

We limited our research to the most popular CBD brands in the UK, focusing on 26 of the UK’s bestselling CBD products. Some of these are stocked here at for the Ageless, some are only available directly from the brand websites, and others are available from high-street retailers like Holland & Barrett or Boots.

We focused on the two most popular strengths of CBD oil: 5% and 10% (some popular brands will only offer 4%, 6% or 8% strengths so on occasion we have included these so that major brands were not left out of our research). By focusing on the cost per mg of CBD, we can more easily compare oils, whether they are sold in 10ml or 30ml bottles and regardless of CBD content. We have also based our research on full prices, not sale prices.

So, what exactly did our research tell us?

How much is CBD: fast facts

• The price of CBD varies wildly, ranging from 1p per mg to 9p per mg.
• CBD isolate was typically the cheapest option, with the majority costing between 1p and 5p per mg.
• Broad-spectrum CBD oil had the widest price range, with brands costing between 1p and 9p per mg.
• Full-spectrum CBD oil is generally the highest priced, with most brands costing between 4p and 7p per mg.
• Deliberately opaque selling practices make it difficult for customers to make direct comparisons.
• In most cases, more expensive didn’t mean better safety testing or organic products.

What factors affect the price of CBD oil?

CBD might be growing in popularity in the UK, but the market is still very young. As a consumer, this can be daunting. No one wants to think they’re going to get ripped off. But the more you educate yourself about the factors that influence cost, the more likely you are to secure a high-quality oil at a competitive price.

With few rules and regulations, sellers are free to set their own pricing. Quality retailers set their prices to reflect their manufacturing and testing procedures, while inferior brands mimic those prices, hoping to capitalise on the trend. Some will even price their products much higher just to appeal to the luxury market, but rarely do they offer any additional quality to justify this.