Skincare

Greetings, my friends! Bottom Line  - my husband loves this daytime moisturizer and will buy it again once he runs out. Dermalogica : Dermalogica is an American skincare company founded by Jane and Rey Wurwand in 1986. However, before the first Dermalogica products were made - in 1983, Jane, a U.K. trained skin therapist, opened "The International Dermal Institute" for licensed skin therapists to teach hands-on postgraduate level skincare training. Realizing there weren't products on the market which matched what she was teaching, Jane and Rey established Dermalogica. They decided they wanted a p roduct line free of common irritants and ingredients which they felt led to breakouts, such as lanolin, SD alcohol, mineral oil, artificial colors, and fragrances - and that's exactly what they ended up creating. Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF50: **Disclaimer - I do not use this moisturizer. This is one of my husband's moisturizers.**  My husband loves this...

Greetings, my friends! Bottom Line - I will happily repurchase this mask and my hubby loves it too! Skinfood: Per SokoGlam.com,  SKINFOOD's philosophy is to create beauty products formulated with the extracts of the highest quality fruits and vegetables. Healthier skin starts with food. Rice Mask Wash Off: I'm not going to lie. I didn't have high hopes for this mask because I thought it might be too harsh for my skin, but this is awesome! This is so amazing in fact that my hubby stole it from me and added it to his skincare toolkit. This makes your skin incredibly soft and smooth. It also has a lovely light scent which is not overpowering. For me, the biggest take away was that I noticed it made my skin glow afterwards, but my husband noticed that his skin "felt like a baby's butt" after he used it. My only word of caution would be that  this shouldn't be used more than once a week to avoid causing damage as it is a physical exfoliator. Stats: ...

Greetings, my friends! Bottom Line  - this is one of my favorite oil-based cleansers and will happily buy this again. Dermalogica : Dermalogica is an American skincare company founded by Jane and Rey Wurwand in 1986. However, before the first Dermalogica products were made - in 1983, Jane, a U.K. trained skin therapist, opened "The International Dermal Institute" for licensed skin therapists to teach hands-on postgraduate level skincare training. Realizing there weren't products on the market which matched what she was teaching, Jane and Rey established Dermalogica. They decided they wanted a p roduct line free of common irritants and ingredients which they felt led to breakouts, such as lanolin, SD alcohol, mineral oil, artificial colors, and fragrances - and that's exactly what they ended up creating. Dermalogica Precleanse: This is a great make-up remover - especially for people who wear stubborn eye and lip make-up! It has a great thick consistency, but it...

Greetings, my friends! Bottom Line -  use broadband sunscreen everyday (even on cloudy days), use at least SPF 30 (although I prefer SPF 50), and if you can, find a minimum PA+++ rated sunscreen. Note Bene:  I'd like to start by saying that to me the most important thing you can do for your skin and your body is to protect it from the sun. I'm going to go through a few terms you'll see when researching sunscreen (such as UVA, UVB, broadband, PA, sunscreen vs sunblock, etc), in order to help educate you on why certain qualities in sunscreens are so important. Also, the graphics I've used were not made by me - I found them on the internet - but they were really awesome and I wanted to use them to demonstrate the topics I'll discuss. Sunblock vs Sunscreen:  Wanna buy sunblock? You can't anymore. The term changed from when most of us were children from sunblock to sunscreen as people became confused by the name. People seemed to think that sunb...

Greetings, my friends! Bottom Line -  I would buy this again, but I think it's better for people with dry-to-normal skin. Tatcha : Tatcha is an American beauty company founded by CEO Victoria Tsai in 2009. Their skincare products are rooted in geisha beauty practices and focus on powerful natural ingredients, such as abaca leaf, green tea, seaweed, red algae, oatmeal, rice bran, and Japanese wild roses. Tatcha employs scientists in both the US and Japan to create products from scratch using these ingredients, which led to the foundation of their products - Hadasei-3™, a trinity of anti-aging superfoods born from the Japanese diet, and the basis for the original geisha beauty rituals: green tea, rice and algae. Every ingredient is carefully selected and minimally manipulated to be gentle and safe with maximum effectiveness.  In short - their principle is quality products that focus on less doing more. Tatcha's Pore Perfecting Su...

Greetings, my friends! Bottom Line - this is a great toner, but not my favorite. I will not repurchase it, but would recommend it to others. Son and Park: According to SokoGlam.com, t he creators of Son & Park are two celebrity makeup artists best known for popularizing the dewy no-makeup makeup look in Korea. With artistry at the heart of their brand, their line of cosmetics is high quality and reinforces simplicity. Beauty Water: This is a solid product! Beauty Water is both a toner and an exfoliator (yay twofers!) - and I founded that it cleansed, brightened, and hydrated my skin. I was also surprised to find that it was very gentle given its ability to exfoliate.  But as much as I liked this, I like other toners more, and while I felt it exfoliated a little bit - it didn't come close to the enzyme exfoliators that I use on an almost daily basis. So I do recommend this product, but I don't use it any longer. Stats: This costs $30 for 11.49 oz (which is pre...

Greetings, my friends! Bottom Line  - this is a great hydrating mask! I love using this on long-haul flights too. Dermalogica : Dermalogica is an American skincare company founded by Jane and Rey Wurwand in 1986. However, before the first Dermalogica products were made - in 1983, Jane, a U.K. trained skin therapist, opened "The International Dermal Institute" for licensed skin therapists to teach hands-on postgraduate level skincare training. Realizing there weren't products on the market which matched what she was teaching, Jane and Rey established Dermalogica. They decided they wanted a p roduct line free of common irritants and ingredients which they felt led to breakouts, such as lanolin, SD alcohol, mineral oil, artificial colors, and fragrances - and that's exactly what they ended up creating. Dermalogica Skin Hydrating Masque: I've used this mask for years and I always come back to it because of how well it works! It deeply hydrates your skin while ...