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Your Lips and Menopause: Why Hydration Is Key to Staving off Signs of Aging

Posted by: Laura Chow


Find out how the lips are an often overlooked aspect of skin aging affected by menopause in women. Learn how certain conditions can make matters worse, and some tips and methods (such as using a hydrating lip balm) to reclaim your lips.

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7 Helpful Facts About Building Muscle That You Probably Didn’t Know

Posted by: Jessica King


If you’re an athlete, building muscle is most likely one of your top priorities. At RIPT, the top priority is keeping your hands healthy, or healing them quickly when you do get a rip, so that you can stay in the gym and continue to work toward your goals. Of course, another major factor that helps you reach your fitness goals is strength, AKA building muscle. From CrossFit to gymnastics, and across all sports, strength is a common denominator for success. Building muscle doesn’t happen overnight, though, and it’s important to arm yourself with knowledge that will help you train smarter. Are you doing everything you can to help yourself? Here are some important facts that will help you understand more...

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The Ultimate Guide to Treating Hand Rips for CrossFit Athletes

Posted by: Jessica King


If you’re a CrossFit athlete, you’ve inevitably been in the gym and gotten a hand rip. As anyone who works out knows, this is the last thing you want and can be super frustrating on a number of levels. First of all, rips slow down your progress -- you know you won’t be able to get as good of a workout in. They can also be quite painful. The length of time it takes a rip to heal will also affect your future workouts and overall fitness regimen or goals you’re working toward. Obviously, preventing hand rips from the outset is always a priority, and there are several things you can do to protect yourself. It’s also important, though, to...

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4 ways to leverage the CrossFit Games Open to strengthen your community and add new members

Posted by: Devin Glage


The CrossFit Games Open season is right around the corner. Check out these 4 tips to leverage your members to strengthen you gym's community and add new clients in the process.

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10 Myths About Hand Care - Busted

Posted by: Jessica King


As an athlete, you know the importance of practice and maintaining a consistent schedule of training. Whether you are competing or simply working on your overall fitness, anything that gets in the way of you being able to work out at full capacity is more than just a small nuisance. Getting a rip (when skin is removed from the palm of the hands or around the wrists) inhibits you from being able to train or practice as you normally would. So prevention and treatment of rips should be taken seriously. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation out there on the subject. Below is RIPT's roundup of some popular myths concerning hand care and rip treatment. Use this information to take...

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RIPT Holiday Giveaway - Win $160+ Of FREE Products

Posted by: Kelvin Mangaroo


As the holidays are approaching we thought we'd celebrate by giving away a huge RIPT prize pack.  It includes over $160+ of RIPT products:

  • RIPT 3 Phase Kit
  • Refill Kit 2.0
  • Daily Dose Mega Tin
  • Quick Fix Mega Tin
  • PowerFingers
  • Lip Balm (Pomegranate & Mint)
  • Sore Muscle Rub
  • 3-Pack Grindstone
  • Athletic Tape x 2

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RIPT’s Christmas Gift Guide 2017

Posted by: Emily Beers


If Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren’t jolting you into full blown shopping-mode, December is just around the corner preparing to get you there in a big way. Don’t stress: If you get going on your gift-buying now, you’ll be done all your stocking stuffer shopping before the anxiety kicks in. For your health and fitness-loving loved ones, we have compiled a list of practical, healthy, performance-enhancing stocking stuffer products for 2017. And it begins right here at Ript Skin Systems: RIPT’s Hydrating Lip Balm: Tis the season for chapped lips! RIPT’s hydrating lip balm—minty fresh and pomegranate flavors—is the most effective chapstick you’ll find. And like all our products, it’s made from 100 % natural ingredients. RIPT’s Sore Muscle...

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Say No To A Stressful December This Year…

Posted by: Emily Beers


Year after year, you tell yourself you’re not going to leave holiday cooking, baking, shopping, and damn stocking stuffers to the last minute. But then December 20th rolls around and you find yourself in the same old position: Stressed to the nines waiting in line-ups and not enjoying what’s supposed to be an enjoyable season. If you’re reading this, it’s not too late this year. But you can’t wait any longer. You need to start today. December will thank you if you do. 5 Tips to Avoid A Stressful December This Year: 5. Order online, and do it NOW It’s always appealing to order online to avoid the malls closer to Christmas, but there’s nothing worse than ordering a gift...

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How To Prevent Hand Tears During The CrossFit Games Open

Posted by: Devin Glage


Ah, the CrossFit Game Open Season is once again upon us. 

The haze of chalk dust is in the air, sweat drops glisten on the rugged rubber floors. The nervous adrenaline flows so thick innocent bystanders can almost taste it. Dave Castro's cryptic social media vagaries haunt the dreams of top contenders who have been practicing their inverted, underwater, target shooting for months... blindfolded and holding a dumbbell in one hand no less. 

The average Joe's among us have been diligently working on getting our first muscle-up, toes-to-bar and even kipping pull-up in anticipation of moving just a few thousand places up the leaderboard this year. 

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Gym Owners - Are you offering a hand care solution to your members?

Posted by: Devin Glage


Kipping pull-ups, toes-to-bar, kettlebell work… how many times has a client come to you, opened their hands, and revealed bloody, chalk filled rips that will leave them in agony, and potentially out of your gym for days? Ripped hands are like a flat tire. They limit your client’s performance and fun at your gym. Why not have an immediate solution close at hand (no pun intended)? RIPT Skin Systems’ hand care kit was created to solve a problem that many clients will encounter at some point: torn hands. While many hand care products exist on the market, RIPT is not your average department store hand lotion. It has a bunch of high-potency ingredients to promote skin repair. If the ingredient...

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