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March 15, 2010
Posted by marta
I don’t think of Neutrogena as a company at the technological frontier of cosmetics. Truth be told, I don’t think of Neutrogena much at all. This month, however, the drugstore giant caught my attention with the newly launched Neutrogena Clinical range that uses bioelectricity to spark (pun intended) “targeted cell-to-cell communication”. Now what on earth could that mean?
The Neutrogena blurb doesn’t shed much light on the matter. The company has invented something called Cytomimic technology, designed to mimic the body’s electrical signals. This Cytomimic thing turns out to be mineral particles, specifically copper or zinc and Neutrogena calls them ‘miniaturized batteries’. It all sounded a bit far-fetched to me, but I had to take note that Neutrogena recently went to the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology to present its research. Read more...
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March 15, 2010
Posted by marta
100% Pure is one of those brands that I want to like, but have always felt that it was a little bit too gentle – well, if I’m honest, namby pamby. Nice botanicals, nothing nasty, but not much of an antiaging oomph. Although I recently started using and like the Cranberry Cleanser and Kim raves about their fruit pigment-based makeup, I had mentally tagged them as a nice range for 30-somethings. The only way I was going to put my prejudice to the test would be try out the self-proclaimed heavy hitter, 100% Pure’s 100% Potent Mushroom & Peptide Antioxidant Concentrate ($39).
For the first couple of weeks, I was patting my prejudice on the back for yet another prescient insight. 100% Potent Mushroom was nice, but there was no indication that much was happening. Thankfully, I stuck with it and I must say that this is a lovely skin conditioner. It moisturizers, firms the skin and plays very nicely with other products. Read more...
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March 15, 2010
Posted by marta
Ken Paves, not content with being a celebrity snipper, Jessica Simpson’s walker, co-reality show host and unwilling dance partner, has launched his own range of skincare. I poked around his website and was disappointed not to find the ingredients list for his lip plumper, Lip Surge. I had better luck with his Wrinkle Reversal Treatment featuring goji berry and apricot antioxidants. At $41 and on sale for $21, you can’t accuse it of being overpriced, but is it likely to be any good?
Ken’s website kicks off the ingredients for Wrinkle Reversal Treatment with “Dermaxyl and SYN-COLL”. I can piece together Dermaxyl. This is palmitoyl oligopeptide combined with C12-15 alkyl benoate, tribehenin, ceramide 2 and PEG 10 rapeseed sterol. The peptide is supposed to be able to mediate cellular activity. Incidentally, the only research to back up Dermxyl has been conducted by the makers, French company Sederma. Read more...
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March 14, 2010
Posted by marta
We have two new products from Dermophisiologique: the Xomega body cream ($79.29) and Optyma Lip ($19.89).
The first thing to love about Xomega is the texture. It is really silky, thick enough to imply that it is going to be deeply moisturizing and absorbs quickly. As the name might imply, omegas 3 and 6 (olive and soy oils) feature strongly in Xomega. There are also a few of my newly found favorite ingredients, especially hydrolyzed glycosaminoglycans, which bind with water efficiently and increase depth hydration, improving the elasticity and firmness of the skin. The handful of botanicals include black currant seed oil, which promotes healthy cell respiration and stimulates microcirculation, and borage oil, with proven antaging effects. Borage is one of the richest known source of the essential fatty acid gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). Fatty acids such as GLA serve as essential components to the structure, elasticity and lipid barrier of the epidermis, and borage oil is believed to help retain moisture and revitalize the skin. Read more...
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March 14, 2010
Posted by marta
There are so many eyelash and brow growth products on the market that they are beginning to merge together. In some cases, quite literally: Cilea and Nutra-Lift Lash Renue are identical. Now Fusion Beauty’s StimuLashFusion Intensive Night Conditioning Lash Enhancer ($89) has arrived and it took me an hour or so, but eventually I discovered that it is more or less the same as Skin Blends Lashes LTD.
Actually, it is – apart from a teensy reordering at the end of the ingredients list – the same thing and will be added to our list of product twins (identical formulas marketed by different brands and with widely differing price points). And, it turns out to be my first product triplet. Yep, it is also identical to NutraLuxe Lash ($79). In this case, you will save yourself nearly $20 by buying LTD rather than StimuLashFusion. Personally, I don’t care for any of them since the active ingredient is a prostaglandin, methylamido dihydro noralfaprostal, derivative with potentially unpleasant side effects. Read more...
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