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Pixi by Petra Rose Lustre Duo

Lucie Larancuent-Domenech — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:32:52 +0000

Pixi is a makeup line developed by world-renowned makeup artist Petra Strand. Swedish-born Petra Strand founded makeup brand Pixi Beauty a decade ago. She launched Pixi with her two sisters and they have since opened several stores in cities such as London and Dubai.

Petra Strand believes in fuss-free products that incorporate nourishing skin care ingredients. Pixi by Petra makeup leaves you looking fresh and natural. This makeup line hydrates, plumps the skin and has light diffusing properties.

Image: Pixi

Pixi by Petra Rose Lustre Duo features a face balm and lip balm in one convenient compact. The face balm offers a translucent formula that plays with light in order to create flawless looking skin. It fills in fine lines, instantly plumping and refreshing dry skin and lips. This Rose Lustre Duo hides imperfections, hydrating the skin and lips and leaving them silky soft. The slightly pink lip balm gives your lips a sheer touch of color and shine. Wear it alone, or on top of your favorite lipstick to keep your lips soft, shiny and healthy.

Wear the face balm under your makeup as a line filling primer or wear it on top of your makeup, reviving your look throughout the day. Wearing it alone also works, adding a lustrous glow to naked skin and lips. Makeup trends may change, but a fresh looking face is always in style.

Petra Strand has partnered with Target to bring the Pixi line to the masses. Pixi by Petra Rose Lustre Duo Face & Lip Balm is priced at just $22.00.

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SkinGlow Pillow Covers by London Luxury

Lucie Larancuent-Domenech — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:04:32 +0000

Who knew that your pillows could be good for your skin?!

Dr. Gadi Borkow, Chief Medical Scientist for Cupron had the following statement:

“Copper found in the human body is an essential nutrient for the skin. Scientific testing has demonstrated a dramatically significant reduction of the appearance of facial wrinkles, crow’s feet, fine lines and overall appearance of facial skin when sleeping on Cupron pillows every night for 4 weeks.”

Image: Bed, Bath & Beyond

Cupron works because copper is an all natural, non-sensitizing element required by the human body. In order for SkinGlow Pillow Covers and Comforters by London Luxury to be effective, they must be used in direct contact with the skin.

Cupron fabric is made with unique patented copper infused fibers, with the copper embedded deep in to the fabric. It is clinically proven that copper’s natural properties penetrate the skin, leaving its appearance glowing, healthier and looking more beautiful. The all natural copper oxide plated fibers are woven into the fabric and are effective for the life of the product.

The SkinGlow product line is infused with copper technology, tested by dermatologist and clinically proven to reduce and smooth the appearance of your skin in just 4 weeks. The natural appearance of your skin improves when coming in to contact with the copper ions in the fibers.

The copper ions woven into the fabric are activated by moisture released from your body during sleep, while nourishing stressed and aging skin. The ions last for the lifetime of the product, without losing its effectiveness even after repeated washings. It is recommended that you do not use fabric softeners.

London Luxury redefines the concept of beauty sleep with SkinGlow pillows, pillow covers and comforters. London Luxury LLC is one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of premium textile products. The company is based in New Rochelle, New York and has a showroom in New York City.

London Luxury is quality obsessed, guided by a passionate commitment to produce only the best products on the market.

For the latest information and to read Cupron clinical studies, visit cupronresults.com.

These innovative pillow covers and comforters, ranging in price from $19.99 to $249.99, are available at select Bed, Bath & Beyond stores and online at bedbathandbeyond.com

Bedding that renews the appearance of your skin while you sleep.

Now that’s a really great concept!

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Clinique Even Better Moisturizer SPF 20

Lianne Farbes — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:05:53 +0000

How would you like to erase past damage? We all would right?? Clinique’s latest, Even Better Skin Correcting Moisturizer SPF 20 can help you do just that. This wonder cream helps to create a more even skin tone while protecting skin from future darkening with high-level UVA/UVB defense. It delivers soothing hydration as specialized ingredients break apart surface darkening and exfoliate it away. Instantly brightens, clarifies….who doesn’t want that?

Clinique uses a multi-targeted formula that handles the multiple causes of discoloration.

Prevents and reduces appearance if excess pigment in skin
Deters the surfacing of new spots
Breaks up and scatters existing dark spots into less visible particles at the skin’s surface leaving you more even toned
Assists in removing melanin “dust” through exfoliation
Broad spectrum UVA/UVB SPF 20 to keep your skin protected

In regular “non-dermatologist” speak that just means that it helps to get rid of those dark uneven patches in every way possible. I have been using it for the past 2 weeks and the darker areas around my mouth have lightened up noticeably….worth every penny if you have that issue. Especially since laser re-surfacing treatments are SO expensive….a brightening prodict is the way to go.

Clinique Even Better Skin Correcting Moisturizer SPF 20 will be available beginning October 1, 2009 at major department store retailers and Clinique.com.

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Juara Tamarind Tea Toner

Lianne Farbes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:20:40 +0000

A few weeks back, I had to opportunity to meet with the founder of Juara Skincare. The line is 100% vegetarian and the products fuse the active botanicals of Indonesian herbal recipes with Western science. The whole line is fantastic but I am especially partial to the Tamarind Tea Toner. This toner contains botanicals, including tamarind, tea, and rice. Tamarind is widely used in Indonesia to treat various ailments due to its medicinal and revitalizing properties. In this toner, tamarind works to increase the skin’s hydration level and enhance skin smoothness and suppleness. This is no ordinary toner tough….it will surprise you.

The first thing you will notice is the consistency…it’s different. It feels thick like a serum….and keeps your skin hydrated. Well suited for all skin types (including sensitive skin), you apply it directly to your skin (no cotton balls needed), and pat it into your skin smoothing upwards. The ingredient list reads like a supermarket list white, green, and black teas, rice bran all good for you ingredients that help aid in relieving stress, minimizing redness, delivering vitamins and antioxidants to tired dull skin. It also contains moisture binding hyaluronic acid.

Combination/oily skin benefits: Provides vital hydration without adding any oil or clogging pores. Can be used in place of a moisturizer.

Dry skin benefits: Delivers an extra boost of long-lasting hydration and improves the performance of any moisturizer.

Tamarind Tea Toner retails for $27.00 for 4.75 oz and is available at fine spas and select e-tailers.

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5th Annual Natural Health Beauty Awards

Lianne Farbes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:06:03 +0000

Thousands of readers and a panel of dermatologists helped to select the 25 winners of the 5th Annual Beauty Awards. At Natural Health they have been testing beauty products for 5 years now and are thrilled to see an even bigger selection of lotions and potions with natural ingredients on the already crowded beauty playing field. With the help of 2,008 readers, who voted at www.naturalhealthmag.com for their favorite products and a group of esteemed dermatologist, they selected 25 of the year’s best.

FACIAL EXFOLIATOR
Skin 2 Skin Oatmeal & Pomegranate Scrub
EYE CREAM
Yes to Cucumbers Eye Love Cucumbers Soothing Eye Gel
FACIAL MOISTURIZER
AVEENO Positively Radiant Tinted Moisturizer
FACIAL NIGHT CREAM
Dr. Andrew Weil for Origins Night Health Bedtime Face Cream
ANTI-AGING FACIAL TREATMENT
Aveda Green Science Firming Face Creme
LIP BALM
Burt’s Bees Sun Protecting Lip Balm SPF 8 with Passionfruit
HAND CREAM
The Healing Seed Virgin Organic Hempseed Oil Hand Cream
BODY MOISTURIZER
Avalon Organics Grapefruit & Geranium Hand & Body Lotion
BODY SCRUB
Aura Cacia Nourishing Body Polishes Fair Trade Certified
SELF-TANNER
Pur Minerals Get a Little
BAR SOAP
Dove Go Fresh Burst Beauty Bar
BODY WASH
Nature’s Gate Pomegranate Sunflower Velvet Moisture Body Wash
SUN CARE
John Masters Organics SPF 30 Natural Mineral Sunscreen
SHAMPOO
Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Lavender Mint Moisturizing Shampoo
CONDITIONER
L’Oréal Paris EverPure Sulfate-Free Color Care Moisture Conditioner
HAIR COLOR
Natural Instincts Champagne Indulgence Collection
HAIR STYLING PRODUCT
Pantene Pro-V Nature Fusion Smooth Vitality Smoothing Crème
BLUSH
The Body Shop Nature’s Minerals Cheek Color
CONCEALER
Jane Iredale Zap & Hide
EYE SHADOW
Almay Pure Blends Eyeshadow
FOUNDATION
Physicians Formula Organic Wear 100% Natural Origin Liquid Foundation SPF 15
LIP COLOR
Aubrey Organics Natural Lips Sheer Tint
MASCARA
Kiehl’s Marvelous Mineral Mascara
NAIL POLISH
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Nail Color

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Kiehl’s Açaí Damage-Repairing Skincare

Lianne Farbes — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:51:43 +0000

This month, for the very first time, Kiehl’s enters the realm of all-natural, fully organic skincare with the Açaí Damage-Repairing Skincare Collection, which will be available on Kiehls.com on Monday. This four-product anti-aging skincare regimen uses the antioxidant-rich Açaí Berry Extract to protect and repair damaged skin, and is clinically proven to combat environmental aggressors, protect skin from the first signs of aging, and repair environmental damage that’s occurred over time.

IT’S A FULL ACAI REGIMEN. While other brands have utilized Açaí’s remarkable antioxidant properties in individual products, this is the first full skincare collection (cleanser, toning mist, serum, moisturizer) utilizing Açaí to help reduce fine lines and wrinkles, even skin tone, increase luminosity and renew skin vitality.

IT’S PERFORMANCE PROVEN. Clinical testing on this product (see details in attached release) showed that a significant percentage of testers using the products reported that their skin felt years younger. The formulas use antioxidant-rich Açaí Berry Extract (Açaí Berries have 15 x the antioxidants of the red grape) to combat environmental aggressors and stimulate skin’s natural renewal process to improve and maintain the look of healthy skin.

IT’S ALL NATURAL AND ORGANIC. This is Kiehl’s very first, fully 100% natural origin collection, and the first full collection by Kiehl’s that’s Ecocert Certified Organic 100% Natural Origin—all four products are certified as an organic product by Ecocert.

IT’S CRADLE TO CRADLE CERTIFIED. Cradle to Cradle measures the Eco-Intelligence of products, including ingredients, packaging, manufacturing, sourcing and labor. All packaging is recyclable, and three of the four products are packaged in post consumer recycled (PCR) packaging.

Açaí Damage-Repairing Skincare is the ideal reparative and preventative regimen for those experiencing the first signs of aging as a result of overexposure to environmental aggressors and free radicals. And, as it’s new mid-September, those coming off of a summer in the sun will especially want to use the range to help repair accumulated seasonal damage.

The collection includes Açaí Damage-Minimizing Cleanser, Açaí Damage-Protecting Toning Mist; Açaí Damage-Repairing Serum; and Açaí Damage-Correcting Moisturizer. The “star” of this collection is our Açaí Damage-Repairing Serum which contains the most concentrated amount of the Açaí ingredient, and can easily be incorporated into one’s present skincare regimen.

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Undo Summer Skin Sins with Neutrogena

Lianne Farbes — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:29:42 +0000

If you are like me, you have at one time or another used Neutrogena skin care. When I was 13, I used the soap and I still use the body oil!! They have since become more clinical and if you have issues with sun spots or sun damage, then their latest invention is for you. Neutrogena Ageless Restoratives is the latest from the innovative skin care company. With the end of summer upon us, there has never been a better time to rejuvenate your skin, and restore some of the damage caused by the intense summer sun.

While, wearing a broad spectrum SPF is the best way to protect your skin from wrinkles and brown spots, Neutrogena is offering you the opportunity for a “do-over,” and is helping you combat the damaged caused by too much sun and not enough sleep.

Repair – The first step to repairing past sun damage is to repair skin with a treatment that will not only improve the look of your skin, but will work deep within skin to reverse the signs of past sun damage

Neutrogena Total Skin Renewal Starter Kit from Ageless Restoratives, is a brand new, innovative anti-aging power treatment that is clinically proven to help undo the appearance of a year’s worth of aging with just three uses, truly giving you a second chance for a lifetime of beautiful, healthy skin.

Restore – Glycolic peals are a great way to remove dead-skin cells, and prepare your skin for fall. But professional glycolic peels can cost up to $250 for just one treatment, and at home two-step peels are sometimes confusing to use

Neutrogena 5 Minute Facial from Ageless Restoratives is a brand new at home peel that works in just easy 1-step, and flawlessly delivers the results of a 20-35% glycolic peel, for a fraction of the cost. Formulated with an exclusive enzyme and micro-exfoliants, 5 Minute Facial gently stimulates surface skin cell renewal and rapidly improves texture, tone and clarity, making summer skin damage less noticeable.

Revive – Sometimes an instant pick-me-up is the best way to help skin look more alive and bright. By applying a product that will instantly soothe and duff your eye area, you will effortless and instantly enhance to look of your skin

Neutrogena Instant Eye Reviver from Ageless Restoratives is the perfect product to help you look younger and more awake. After just one use, Instant Eye Reviver is clinically proved to instantly improve the overall appearance of skin around your eyes.

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Clinique Medical Probiotic Cleanser

Lianne Farbes — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:29:00 +0000

Looking for a cleanser (or better yet a skin care line) for acne prone or sensitive skin? Clinique Medical has the answer with a new Probiotic cleanser. Probiotic Cleanser is a soothing, gentle formula that removes debris and excess oil while reducing irritation. It dissolves all makeup to create a pure palette for cosmetic procedures to better penetrate while restoring the skin’s bacteria balance. It also boosts the skin’s barrier with lipids to protect against damage and promote calmness and comfort.

CLINIQUE MEDICAL Probiotic Cleanser

A mild cleanser ideal for acne-prone skin or plain-ol’ sensitive skin types. Probiotics protect against the daily effects of environmental stress by maintaining the skin’s barrier with natural lipids.

Allergy Tested and 100% Fragrance Free; Price: $27.50 for a 150ml. tube

Patent-pending Probiotic Technology – Lactobacillus Ferment

Skin Strengthening Lipid Barrier Repair Complex (Cholesterol/Murumuru Butter/Linoleic Acid/Glycerin/Vitamin E)

Blend of makeup-dissolving ingredients which target both hydrophobic and hydrophilic ingredients in makeup, helping to ensure complete removal.

I have heard on many fronts that this cleanser is genius for people that have cystic acne issues….The great thing about Clinique Medical is that it is carried only through a dermatologist so you know you are getting the top of the line dermatologist grade skin care (click here to find a doctor near you that carries the line).

Image: Clinique Medical

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Philosophy “Help Me” Retinol Treatment

Lianne Farbes — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:56:35 +0000

As we get older, it becomes more and more necessary to use additional aides when caring for our skin. One of those aides is a peeling agent. I told you last week about my experience with a chemical peel, now I want to focus on maintenance products. One product that I love is Philosophy’s Help Me (I love that name don’t you?)

This is an advanced skincare treatment that will minimize the appearance of large pores, fine lines, improves skin discoloration and clears congested pores. a patented time-release delivery system allows the retinol to be released into the skin gradually for less irritation.

Help Me is a retinol based product and is very good for refining/smoothing the surface of your skin and reducing any fine lines. I use it before I put on moisturizer day and night..I have noticed recently I have some congestion/enlarged pores near my nose, this has cleared it up beautifully and without any harshness, redness or burning.

The Rundown: This is for you if…

you have deeply clogged pores
you want the ultimate multi-tasking product that will clear pores, even pigment, and reduce fine lines
you want the benefits of a vitamin a product without the peeling
you seek something more gentle than retin-a
you want a deep cleansing facial while you sleep
pregnant women should consult their physician before using this product as it contains retinol

Image: Philosophy

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Smashbox “Try Me” Set

Lianne Farbes — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:37:33 +0000

Break out of your routine with this “Try Me” kit from Smashbox! “Try Me” is a set of their best selling products priced affordably and more importantly…travel friendly. Smashbox is one of my favorite brands, specifically because they focus on instruction. They always have these kits with DVD how to’s that are invaluable whether you are a novice or a professional (everyone can always learn something new, right?)

You Get..

Photo Finish Foundation Primer – Try Me Size (0.3 oz)
Cream eyeliner, and brow tech 10-well compact (0.5 oz – Brow Tech Wax in Blonde, Brunette, and Taupe, Cream Eye Liner in Caviar, Midnight Brown, Putty, Image, Picasso, Thunder)
Lip Enhancing Gloss in Crystal
Photo Op Under Eye Brightener – Mini Tube (0.13 oz)
Double-Ended Eye Liner & Brow Brush #9 and #12
Makeup artist instructional DVD packed with behind-the-scenes tips and tricks and a step-by-step product demonstration card.

All of that for $29!!??? Are you kidding? Phenomenal deal…

Image: Smashbox

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