(UPLIFTING MUSIC) I'm Rachel Hunter, and this time I'm on a journey through the Americas, to discover more secrets to health, well-being and long-lasting beauty. Natural make-up. That is so crazy great! Beautiful. Oh my God. That's somebody's face. (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS RAPIDLY) This time on Tour of Beauty, I'm in Hawaii, where everybody seems to have this beautiful healthy glow. Is it the climate? It's a beautiful environment. The food? MAN: Super quick, healthy. Oh my God. The natural beauty products? The coffee gives you this pretty amazing glow. What is it about Hawaii that makes people look and feel so good? I think I might have found the Hawaiian secret for anti-aging. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2017 (UPBEAT MUSIC) I don't know what it is about Hawaii, but your stress levels drop really fast. Look at this place. It's the perfect holiday destination, but I'm not just here in search of sun and surf. I wanna find out where they get their glow. What is the secret to Hawaiian beauty? Hawaiian beauty. I would say it comes from your soul ` like, the aloha spirit and everything. The aloha spirit and just kind of a mentality of everybody helps each other. Definitely the aloha spirit. You can always show kindness, no matter where you are, and I feel like that is natural beauty. Maybe it's from the simplicity of life here. It's not like you feel like you have to keep up with your neighbours and who has the best stuff here or there. So the Hawaiian glow is incredible, so what are some of your top suggestions for that? Lots of sunshine, lots of ocean time and Heinekens. Heinekens?! Yeah, that's the... That is not Hawaiian. Yep, they write songs about it. (LAUGHS) That is amazing. OK, I'm gonna go get a beer. So, I'm not sure about the beer, but I do wish I could bottle up some of this aloha spirit I keep hearing about. Maybe the secret can be found in Hawaii's favourite sport, surfing. Look, we have glowing, walking along the beach. Now, I know there's been lots of research done on the health benefits of surfing, and I could watch this all day. As for getting out there,... I would love to do this. I would love to be riding on the wave, going forward, but I am terrible at surfing. The last time I tried to surf, I lost my top and ended up in emergency room cos I stubbed my toe on a rock that looked like sand. So I'm a little bit sceptical, but tomorrow I'm going to get to learn from someone who's professional, and we'll see how that goes and see if I can get up on the board and ride a wave in Hawaii. Oh my God, look at that. (WAVE ROARS) Oh my God! I'm heading to Launiupoko Beach on the island of Maui to meet former pro surfer Kula Barbieto. Lovely to meet you. Thank you. So, I brought you a lei po'o ` like a regular lei that you put around your head. So beautiful, the colours. This one is in celebration to take you surfing. Oh, thank you. I know I'm excited. I haven't surfed in a long time, and last time I did, it was kinda tragic. (LAUGHS) If anybody embodies the aloha glow, it's Kula. Aside from surfing, she's passionate about Hawaiian natural health and beauty, something I'm keen to sidetrack her with before I have to get in the water. So... The specimen bottle. (BOTH LAUGH) I have kukui nut. I have heard so much about this. I mean, you see it in hair products now. Yes. So this is it. Wow, it's nutty. And this is kukui nut oil ` taking care of your skin. Wow. I also have this one, which is lavender, coconut oil and pa'akai, which is Hawaiian salt. The Hawaiian salt's very different. It's very grainy and big, yes. Rough. Rough, but at the same time it disappears fast and is quite soft. Yes. It's like the perfect scrub. Yes, so anyone can make it. (LAUGHS) My iodine for the day. You probably heard of this before. We call it olena. It's otherwise known as turmeric. This is olena and liliko'i, which is passion fruit, mixed with a little bit of fermented tea. Oh wow! So have you heard of kombucha? Yeah. Is this alcoholic? No. OK, good. It's a little early. So do you make this? I did. Oh my God. That smells amazing. Cheers. Mmm! Yeah? Oh my god! That's amazing. The passion fruit in it and the turmeric ` why don't you sell this? LAUGHS: No, it's to share. I know it's to share. We're talking about Hawaiian culture. You share; you don't sell. OK. That's right. This is a bottle of gold. (LAUGHS) Literally. This is the best thing I've tasted drink-wise on Tour of Beauty. This is pretty amazing. So, to connect it back olena and the actual meaning of sun rays and yellow,... let's go get some sun... Yeah. That's amazing. ...(LAUGHS) and have a surf. Yeah. I wanna come live with you. (LAUGHS) Now, I don't like sharks. (LAUGHS) You'll be OK. OK. You watch ` one time you'll see a shark is with me. (LAUGHS) Let's go jump in the ocean. OK. Somehow, being with Kula, I feel more confident about surfing than I ever have before. See ` I fit in here. Look. Look ` we're glowing. The waves, thankfully, are small. I'm feeling good. (CHUCKLES) Hell, if those little kids can do it, surely I can. OK. 'No pressure.' No, hang on. (LAUGHS) We're nearly there. Oh no! Oh no! (LAUGHS) 'OK, this is it, I can feel it.' Hang on, I'm dyslexic; I don't know how to do this! 'Oh, great, now I'm attracting an audience ` just what I need (!)' OK, hang on. Let's go. Stand up! Stand up! 'I'm starting to really dislike those kids. 'Look ` now he's just showing off!' Who invited you guys? Sorry. I'm pissed off with them right now. 'Knee surfing? That's a thing, right?' Yeah! I did! I did it! I got it! OK, so I don't think I'm never gonna be a surfing goddess like Kula, but just being in the ocean, I feel energised, and maybe, just maybe, I'm starting to get a tiny bit of a Hawaiian glow of my own. It's a beautiful environment. You know, I got up on my knees. Kula, she's just amazing. She has a beautiful outlook on life. I was like, 'Oh my God, you can get a really hard workout with your abs,' and she's like, 'Your cheeks also get really, really sore, because you're smiling so much,' and you do ` you're smiling a lot out there. I have this feeling of euphoria. If you go in the ocean with a bad mood, you come out in a good mood. I go in search of Hawaii's fountain of youth. I think I might have found the Hawaiian secret for anti-aging. (LAID-BACK MUSIC) My Tour of Beauty has brought me to the Big Island of Hawai'i in my search for the secrets behind that Hawaiian glow,... and the answer might just lie in their diet. There's not only an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables here, but the ocean provides the key ingredient for possibly the healthiest fast food you'll get anywhere in the world. Tuna poke is one of my favourite dishes. Now, it's a very simple dish, but it bursts with flavour and incredible health benefits. I don't feel bloated afterward. It fills me up. It's just one of the most tastiest meals, and I have it in LA all the time. Now, today I get to meet somebody who has set the standard of making poke. He is known as the Prince of Poke. Hi, Rachel. I'm Nakoa. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. Welcome to Umekes. I'm such a big fan of poke. I mean, it's something I've kinda just started learning about, but you're the Prince of Poke. So they say. I know you're gonna be humble about that. So, do you have a fish back there? Yeah, I just got a fish came in now. Let's go check it out ` OK. just fresh off the boat. You just get right in there, don't you? CHUCKLES: Yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry. (LAUGHS) You OK? Yeah, we just need to get rid of the head. What I think ` why poke is really popular is because, you know, it's really healthy and it's fast. You can make a poke bowl faster than you can go through a drive-through at McDonald's, and it's way healthier. (LAUGHS) Raw fish was a huge part of the Hawaiian diet, with all the good health benefits ` your omega-3s, your protein, low saturated fat ` you know, reduced your risk of a heart attack, and it's nice, clean protein. Yeah. Hey, Rach, you wanna go mix up a poke bowl? I would love to. Sure, let's go. Do we take this with us? I got something else on this side; the guys will finish off in there. (LAUGHS) I feel really bad for the fish, though. I'm sorry, but thank you. I'm very, very sorry. OK, Rach, we got our cubes here. OK. What we do is we'll take our Hawaiian salt, season it. Take a kukui nut next. Yeah, so the kukui nut ` I tried the oil in Maui. It's becoming a famous nut for hair and skin. Yeah, the oils are really good for you. It's a really good moisturiser that the Hawaiians used for centuries, yeah. We've got our green onions here, our Maui onions. And then we'll take our limu kohu. What's a limu kohu? Limu kohu, it's a Hawaiian seaweed. Is that cold? Yeah. Can I eat it like that? Yeah, sure. The flavour on the limu kohu ` just, like, fresh ocean taste, you know. Oh my God! Wow! Last ingredient is the Hawaiian chilli pepper ` just give it a little kick. So, we have a brown rice, and then we add our protein, and then our salad. Some fern leaves as well. Yeah, the fiddlehead. And then here at Umekes, we like to top off our rice with some furikake, which is another seaweed as well, in sesame base. So here's our poke bowl. That's amazing. The healthiest fast food you'll ever come across ` fast being 'that did not take a long time.' Super quick, healthy. Oh my God. Good? (LAUGHS) That is amazing. I can see why you're called the Prince of Poke. And do you know what? You can eat a meal and not be going, 'Oh, I wonder how many calories that is.' Like, you shouldn't be eating food that you're calorie-counting, and this? I mean, everything is nutritious. You don't have to worry. Yeah, for sure. Amazing. (UPBEAT MUSIC) Now, while I search for the health and beauty secrets of Hawaii, I'm gonna come clean with a secret of my own. I'm a coffee junkie. You wouldn't wanna meet me before I have my morning fix ` or my second one, for that matter. So I'm feeling excited to learn that coffee could actually be good for my skin. Hi, welcome. Thank you. How are you? I'm Rachel. Natasha. Natasha. Lovely to meet you. Natasha comes from a long line of coffee growers, and she's developed her own line of coffee-bean beauty products. That's a coffee bean. Very, very slimy and very much like a peanut. I had read ` and growing up, seen ` that caffeine has all these great benefits for you internally, and I decided to do a little bit more research externally ` what can it do for you? And because coffee is so high in antioxidants, to put it on your skin can actually help reduce redness. It helps revitalise your skin, and the coffee will constrict, so it's really good for, like, wrinkles. The coffee is a great exfoliant ` you know, take off all that dead skin cells. OK, so I've worked out I'm not actually gonna be drinking any coffee today. I'm gonna be rubbing it all over myself instead. This is the ingredients for your scrub. Everything is all natural. What you see here you could literally eat if you wanted to. OK. So let's start with our dry ingredients. We're gonna first take our brown sugar, which has natural glycolic acid, which helps cleanse out your pores. And then we've got Hawaiian sea salt. There you go. And then what we're gonna do is take our main ingredient ` coffee. This is freshly roasted too, and we're just gonna mix this whole thing into there. Perfect. It gets messy, but you have to get dirty before you can get clean. That's OK. I love that. (LAUGHS) It smells incredible as well. And imagine that smell all over your body. Yeah. No, it's amazing ` amazing. All right, and what you've got is coconut oil. Coconut, right. And I'm gonna go with the avo. OK. And then just put it in there and work it in. You sense the coffee in either or. I wonder if I can get a caffeine hit from this? And you can feel the exfoliation 'revitamising', with the oils, the sugars, the salts. It smells so delicious. How does it feel? Is it tingly at all? It feels incredible. It feels amazing. There is not one ingredient in here that is harmful, and you would use this on your face as well. It is a facial scrub. It feels really silky and smooth, and, I mean, the oil that's left there is really fine, and yet it has this amazing glow. Correct. I'm a complete mess right now. Hey, you're with nature. (LAUGHS) Yes! I don't care. Trust me, I would much rather be rolling round in the dirt than going down 5th Avenue. And that secret to the Hawaiian glow, I think I just found. (CHUCKLES) One of the reasons the coffee here is so good is the volcanic soil. The other thing you can't get away from in Hawaii is water. I'm about to go and do something that combines them both. It's called a lava Watsu. But what's a Watsu? I'm about to find out. This pool is set in ancient lava flows, making the water rich in volcanic minerals, said to alleviate aches and pains. (WHIMSICAL MUSIC) After my disastrous surfing attempt, I think I'm definitely more suited to this kind of water activity. And, no, (CHUCKLES GENTLY) it's not synchronised swimming. This is where the Watsu comes in. It's a form of shiatsu massage performed in water. It's said to relieve tension, promote tranquillity and be good for your nerves. Maybe it's the water, maybe it's the volcanic minerals, maybe it's the fact I am being cradled like a baby, but all I can say is I feel in a state of total bliss. Oh! Have the Hawaiian's already cracked an age-old quest? I think I might have found the Hawaiian secret for anti-aging. (UPBEAT MUSIC) On my Tour of Beauty in Hawaii I'm on the island of O'ahu. I'm starting to get to the bottom of where they get their gorgeous glow, and if there's one Hawaiian beauty secret I keep hearing about, it's the nut of the kukui tree. I've tried Kula's oil and eaten it in the poke, but I've yet to see a tree. I'm on my way to a soap factory here on the North Shore of Oahu, where apparently, they use the kukui nut in all their soaps. I'm very excited to learn a little bit more about this magical nut. Aloha. Hello! Welcome, Rachel. (GASPS) For you. Oh, thank you. Mahalo. Thank you. Yes, welcome to the North Shore Soap Factory. So in a lot of your soaps is the kukui nut. Yes, and I have a little tree over here if you wanna see it. Finally, a tree! Let's go take a look. (CHUCKLES GENTLY) This little kukui nut tree, it does well in upper elevations. This is the Hawaii state tree. Well, it's been very nice to meet you, tree. (LAUGHS) You can see there's some pods. Oh, can you reach that? So that's the pod, and inside is the nut. And this was ready to pick too, wasn't it? Just saying. (CHUCKLES) OK, so let's take this in. Let's go inside. OK, cool. Kukui nut oil is rich in vitamins C, D and E,... and Hawaiian people have been using it on their skin for centuries. We put kukui nut oil into all of our products. OK. So here we have a pod, and as they get older, they get a little softer, and then you can break it. It happens with age ` you get softer. (CHUCKLES GENTLY) It smells so nice and earthy. And when you press it, you get this very rich, beautiful kukui nut oil, and it's loaded with linoleic acid, which is an omega-6, and it's really wonderful for eczema; it helps sunburn; it helps scaring; it helps even soothe psoriasis. 'The words linoleic acid have really got my attention. 'It's known as a magic bullet to resurface skin and get rid of fine lines and wrinkles.' Used in some of the most expensive beauty products in the world, I can't quite believe it literally grows on trees here in Hawaii. ...that you can see... You can see the sheen. ...the sheen in the oil immediately just start coming on to the skin. I mean, that's pretty` I mean, look at that ` there's, like, shine there. I'm not a big make-up person, but kukui oil is my go-to. Yeah. Glow. I put it on ` just have a little bit of a glow. I put it on after every shower, head to toe. You just need a couple of drops. 'There's that "glow" word again, but it's not just the Hawaiian glow I think I've discovered.' I think I might have found the Hawaiian secret for anti-aging. Would you like to go and make your own soap? I would love to. 'I'm gonna make my own signature scent for a kukui nut soap.' OK, so we've got nutmeg. No. Orange. I don't know why I am obsessed by this rosewood right now. That's beautiful too. 'Now I kind of fancy myself as a bit of a perfume connoisseur.' That's a beautiful lavender too. I did make my own perfume in France, after all. So this is right up my alley. Chinese ginger smells unusual too, doesn't it? Patchouli, I love. I'm gonna give my nose a good dose of this stuff right now. Put 'em all together. Yeah, OK, we're going with that. That's it. So that's my signature scent. This is exciting. We've got patchouli, which is an antiseptic and an antifungal. We've got geranium rose, which is an antiseptic, and we've got lavender, which is a calming, also an antiseptic, so you'll have a very powerful but lovely... Scent` I mean, soap. ...scent and bar of soap, yeah. I'll be very clean, with all my antiseptic properties! Yeah. But, you know, with the kukui oil in there, you'll have a cleansing, moisturising, naturally antibacterial soap. So let's go make the soap. My essential oils are mixed with the kukui nut oil, along with flour and cornstarch. Oh my God, look at that. It starts to saponify. I just wanna jump in. My soap will take six weeks to harden. Then it will be cut and trademarked like this. Give it a whack. (BANG!) Like that, or harder? Yep, no that's good. Let's see. Give it a little wiggle. There you are. That's amazing. Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. That's pretty awesome, and I got to finally meet the kukui nut. Thank you. OK. Oh, mahalo. So, I really feel like I've discovered some pretty awesome natural beauty secrets in Hawaii, but there's one more ancient tradition I am keen to try before I leave, and I'm hoping hula teachers Keikilani and Debbie can help me out. When you see the hula, it makes you smile; it makes you happy. There's a lot of joy around it. It becomes part of your life. It is ` hula is life for us. I started when I was 6, and I was taken by my aunt and taken to a traditional hula school... and said, 'Here she is. She's yours. We'll be back in 18 years to pick her up.' It takes 18 years? I got no hope today. (LAUGHTER) I might suck at surfing, but dancing ` that is something I can do. So I'm about to do the hula. I'm scared but excited. WOMEN: Ae,... Kawika, ka heke a'o na pua. Eia... (LAID-BACK HULA MUSIC) How did I get involved in this? OK, so it's a bit more complex than it looks. If I just swing my hips and smile, maybe no one will notice I'm not in time. I just wanna look at you guys. LAUGHS: This is ridiculous. Maybe a practice first would have been a good idea. Wrong way. (WOMEN SPEAK HAWAIIAN) 'Clearly it takes 18 years.' I keep going left. This is absurd. I can't do what they're doing! (GENTLE MUSIC) You know, the health and well-being of Hawaii really is about this beautiful glow that they have. When they smile, their skin, their hair, just every part of their body has this beautiful, shiny, blossoming aura about it, and you can't help but be entranced in it and see the beauty and the well-being here. It's somewhere where, God, I'd pack up and leave and move here, to be honest. The kukui nut, I've gotta say, is definitely the most magical, most beautiful little nut that I've found along my way. So, Hawaii ` I would have to put it on one of my top lists of... accessible places to find beauty, well-being and health. Congratulations, Ruth G of Auckland. You're the lucky winner of a trip for two to Hawaii, thanks to Hawaiian Airlines and Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. (GEESE HONK) That is not my bottom, guys; that is a goose. (LAUGHS) Guys! (CLAPS) Do you know what's really weird? I was born in the year of '69, and in the Chinese New Year, I'm a rooster. (ROOSTER CROWS) Oh, really? I'm surrounded by my like-minded friends.