I love finding out about skin care lines that hail from foreign countries and cultures because they incorporate ideas and technologies that are probably commonplace in their country of origin, but in American they could be completely new.  French beauty line Cattier comes all the way from Paris, but is now available to U.S. customers exclusively from online natural and organic beauty store, Beautorium.

Cattier was established in 1968 as a line that valued alternative medicine and the use of clay-based products for medical and cosmetic use.  The Cattier Laboratory grew and developed over the years, but maintained priorities for the …read more

You would never know there was a recession happening just by looking at the pricetag on Guerlain’s ultra decadent (and ultra expensive!) Orchidee Imperiale creams, serums and incredible $1,500 four week intensive treatment.
The pricetag alone is enough to make even the biggest skeptic stop and read for a second. Sure, you might not be ready to part with a few hundred dollars for skin care…but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn a little more about it.
Guerlain has developed a skin care formula containing extract from Brassocattleya marcella orchids – a flower that happens to be particularly active when it comes …read more

I’m a barefoot girl, from way back. I’m barefoot indoors, always, and outside, I do my best to get away with flipflops all year. It doesn’t snow where I am from, but it does get frosty. If I’m wearing shoes, than chances are it’s my Asics running shoes.
All of these foot habits – barefootin’ it, constant flipflops, and running – they work together to give me some not so pretty feet. My toes, sure they look fine, I always have a fresh pedicure, but the calluses, well they are another story.
I was delighted to be given the opportunity to try …read more