Beauty.com, which is tied into Drugstore.com, has a selection of body firming, cellulite smoothing products that range in price from the bargain product to the luxury lotion. 

Bliss’s FatGirlSlim Firming Cream is one of the less expensive but effective firming creams at $29 for 6 ounces.

It features “QuSome-encapsulated caffeine molecules” which provide a quick, temporary firming action. Clinical studies show that 87% of users reported a firming effect, 85% saw a slimming effect, and 73% saw a reduction in cellulite.

Elizabeth Arden’s Prevage Body Total Transforming Anti-Aging Moisturizer is a pricier product with 6.8 ounces for $135. 

It receives the same amount of customer rated stars as the less expensive Bliss product. Some of the reported benefits include firmer skin, minimized lines, scare, stretch marks, dimpled skin, sun damage, and discolorations.

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1. Get Below The Surface: exfoliate, exfoliate, exfoliate. When you don’t take care of your skin, dead skin cells accumulate and make your skin appear dull, no matter how much lotion you slather on. Cleansers with glycolic acid help to stimulate resurfacing and Products with micro-resurfacing properties, like pumice, crushed almond, or even corn husk can make for a good all-over exfoliator.
2. Calming Cellulite: With itty-bitty bikinis in your future, you’ll want to smooth those bumpy patches. The appearance of cellulite can be reduced by using a body scrub with large exfoliators such as ground coffee beans, pumice or bamboo shoots to stimulate circulation. It’s also smart to use a scrub that incorporates caffeine to detoxify or release water from the surface layers of fat to make cellulite look smoother
3. Tan the Safe Way: Find a fragrance free self-tanner that incorporates AHA for a safe summer glow that doesn’t include the risks of tanning beds or lounging for hours in the sun. Skin Authority’s Knowledge Center has a great video on how to have a positive self-tanning experience.
4. Last Season’s Sunscreen is so Passé: don’t be so cheap that you miss out on the important stuff necessary to make sunscreen do the job. The active ingredients will inevitably deteriorate over time, so make sure you replace your sun screen every summer. Don’t just apply it once and forget either – reapply a new layer of sunscreen every 1-2 hours that you are in the sun. And make sure you have full UVA and UVB protection with a sunscreen that has more than just SPF 15.
5. Fancy Feet: For pretty toes you aren’t afraid to show off, apply a 20 percent concentrate of glycolic acid nightly to remove calluses and deep layers of dead skin. Scrub your feet with a pumice stone when you’re in the shower and pick up an at home pedicure kit for a little extra pampering.

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CelluScience is a clinical-strength, anti-cellulite pill made of all natural ingredients (Grape Seed, Ginkgo biloba, Olive extract, Fish Oil) that helps to prevent and reduce the appearance of cellulite. As we are getting ready for bikini weather, many women are concerned with the dimpled cellulite on their hips, thighs and buttocks.

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CelluScience works in three different ways.

First, it helps maintain a healthy blood flow in the arteries, veins, and micro arteries, fostering optimum activity of the lymphatic vessels.

Next, it helps keep a strong cell metabolism, helping to avoid “under cutaneous/trapped” fat.

Finally, it helps maintain strong connective fibers. All which help to reduce the look of cellulite in under 90 days.

CelluScience is also powerful free-radical scavenger. Studies show that it reduces the effects of free radicals in the blood lipids by 36%, meaning this is a powerful anti-aging product as well. These studies were especially promising for smokers.

You can find out more about the clinical trials and the product at santicatv.com. Right now, we are giving you an opportunity to win a 3-month supply (a $360 value) of CelluScience.

For your chance to win, all you need to do is leave a comment here on this post and share one beauty tip with our readers. Your comment will automatically enter you in the contest, which runs through Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 11:59pm ET. We will then select one random winner to win the CelluScience.

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Smooth Synergy

Lipomassage uses rollers and gentle suctioning to deep massage the affected areas and increasing circulation. Collagen function is restored, toxins and abnormal water buildup is expelled as the connective fibers are stretched, resulting in a smoother, more contoured body.  Unlike liposuction, this procedure does not involve breaking through the skin in any way. I understand that some people will try Lipomassage first to see if they achieve their desired results before choosing to have liposuction. 

I am going to have to try Lipomassage as my ‘love handles’ could definitely do with a roll or two.

Smooth Synergy
686 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Tel: 212.397.0111

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