March 16, 2010
Posted by Mark
Skin care products seldom present a challenge. You try the product and pretty quickly find out if it works for you or not. It wasn’t quite so cut and dried this time with Idelt Majeur Light Emulsion. This light emulsion, recommended for all skin types, is unassumingly packaged in a squeeze tube in a plain white box.
The way the package insert describes Idelt: “is a balanced combination of borage oil, fish oil, walnut oil and wheat germ oil, rich in Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids that actively nourishes the skin.” If you look then to the bottom of the insert you see the following statement: “The characteristic smell of the oils rich in essential fatty acids contained in this product can increase in contact with the skin or the air. This is normal. It may be less evident if the tube is stored in the refrigerator.” Read more...
The nice people at Somme Institute are giving us a break on their best-selling product, the Serum. Until the end of the month, Somme Serum will be available to the Truth In Aging community $50, rather than the usual price of $82. You do the math – its a great deal.
This serum has a potent dollop of vitamin C for hyperpigmentation. Somme’s C is ascorbyl methysilanol, which is particularly (and unlike some other Cs) stable. Plus it features something called Molecular Dispersion Technology (MDT5). Developed over seven years and tested on 5000 participants, MDT5 is a combo of vitamins A, B3, B5, C and E. They have been attached to proteins that target skin cell receptors to ensure that the nutrients are deeply absorbed.
This is a multivitamin for the skin. Save yourself $30, but don’t forget that it ends on March 31 (not for nothing is the following day April Fool’s Day).
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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...
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...
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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