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When you order the Forever Young Face Oil sample; it is the 30s formula. You will find it superior to anything you are using now.
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I had been using Dermalogica products...then I found out about all the chemicals in them. Your products have made my facial skin so much better than their products did; with no toxins....AND your products are much more affordable! Thank you.
Just thank you note., 7/9/2011
Hi Kathleen, just wanted to say thank you for your products. Acne gel and face wash are amazing on my skin. sugar scrub is sooooo good. I was skeptical at first but now I will be buying for all my family. Everyone wants your products now after they see that they do actually work.
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Can you eat your cosmetics?
A great rule of thumb is: if you can't pronounce it; don't eat it. If you would be afraid to eat it; don't put it on your skin. Barb and I have tasted every product....some taste surprisingly good!
Your skin is what you put on it. Use chemicals and it will absorb those chemicals. Pure plant oils are what your skin craves. Keep it happy and it will keep you happy!
Love being outdoors? Not too good at using a mineral-based sunscreen?
You skin needs to be replenished the pure, toxin-free way. Think of beef jerky. This is what happens to our skin with constant heat and sun exposure. Beef jerky doesn't take high heat, just low heat and air circulation. Do you know someone who "worshipped" the sun and now has dry leathery, wrinkled skin?
Our mineral-based sunscreen is perfect for helping you protect your skin.
Don't let leathery, wrinkled skin happen to you. Use one of our wonderful skin balms especially after sun: Ultimate Lotion, Whipped Body Butter. For faces: use the Forever Young Face Oil at night and the Face Cream with sunscreen every day. The Live Long Sunscreen can be used on your face as well as the rest of your body. I prefer the Face Cream, for my face; it is fantastic!
Cleanse skin with a toxin-free castile cleanser. If you have dry skin, castile soaps may be too drying especially on the face and neck. We have special cleansers for delicate facial skin.
Your skin will respond. It will become more resilent, soft and "plumped".
Are you tired of alway being told you need more and more products in a "Face Care Regimen?"
Using toxin-free products that care for your skin gently, you can create your own regimen.
If you have oily skin and don't wear makeup -- rinse your face with water, then use a Facial Toner on a cotton pad or ball, even a cotton cloth. Then use Acne Healing Gel to control oil and the blemishes in the areas that break out.
The Facial Scrub is great to use 1 or 2 times a week, especially easy to use in the shower! You can use the Forever Young Face Cream or Oil on the areas that do not break out...especially great around the eyes (whole eye area, lids included); bracket area between nose and mouth corners; neck and cheek areas. Leathery skin is not attractive.
If you have Normal skin -- You have several options. If you wear makeup, you should use the Daily Cleanser to remove the makeup. The Eye Makeup Remover is fantastic at removing eye makeup while helping to reduce the puffiness under the eyes. Without makeup, you can use a Facial Toner, then the Forever Young Face Cream or Forever Young Face Oil.
If you have areas that occationally break out; use the Acne Gel or Blemish Stick on those area--not the Oil or Cream.
With normal skin, using the Facial Scrub once or twice per week can help remove dead skin cells.
Should I use the Forever Young Face Cream or Forever Young Face Oil?
These formulas are both anti-aging. These also bring skin smoothness and reduces visible wrinkles--all without toxic ingredients!
Dry or older, more mature skin will definately benefit from using the Forever Young Face Oil. I recommend using the Face Oil twice a day with these skin types.
Normal skin can really benefit from using the Forever Young Face Oil around the eye and mouth area that ages faster. Here I recommend using the Forever Young Face Oil at night. Then use the Forever Young Face Cream in the morning. Be sure to apply to the neck and upper chest area.
Dry skin will definately need the Forever Young Face Oil. Dry skin may not need to be cleansed or toned except with plain water, unless you wear makeup.
EXFOLIATING FACE PEEL
This formula is for a more extensive "face restructuring." It can be used to deal with Acne. This formula also can help us more "matured" to take control of the "aging" process. Please use it carefully and limit the amount of time you leave it on...especially at first until you learn how you skin will react. There can be stinging. Wash off when it hurts. Will leave skin red for one or two hours. We recommend using the Forever Young Face Oil after a treatment.
Hope this helps you negotiate the sometimes murky waters of Face Care.
This is an item we have been testing and playing around with for a long time. -- Tinted sunscreen for the face --Use as liquid foundation also.
It is too difficult for us to try to get the perfect shade....so that is what the kit is for!
Kit includes: 2 oz. Live Long Sunscreen; 2 oz. labeled empty jar; 1 oz. Mineral Foundation Powder.
You will need to decide which 1 oz. color of the Mineral Makeup Foundation would be best for you.
I used a Light Cappuccino for myself--much darker than my normal shade of Fair/Fawn blend.
Detailed directions for mixing Face Screen: In a clean bowl; put about 1 1/4 oz. sunscreen. Add 1/2 Tablespoon of Foundation powder. Mix well using a wire whisk (best option); a fork works also. Test color. Slowly add powder and/or sunscreen to create your perfect color. It usually takes about 1 Tablespoon or more of Foundation powder to 1 1/2 to 2 oz. Sunscreen to tint it well. Carefully put in labeled jar.
I will use this as makeup--finish with just a brush of the mineral foundation powder; then rice powder over it.
Once you have practiced these directions; you can make your larger size sunscreen have more tint by adjusting the ratios.
$46.25
THE CHANGING FACE OF SKIN CARE
In a classic episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, Jerry dates a dermatologist, who says she's "saving lives" all day by treating skin diseases. Jerry is skeptical, and his sidekick George squawks: "Saving lives? She's one step away from working at the Clinique counter."
Think about that before you rush off to get your forehead smoothed or your skin freshened for the holidays. George's assessment may be a little harsh, but there's no denying that the line between dermatology -– the medical specialty devoted to skin disorders and diseases - and cosmetology -– the practice of improving a person's appearance–- is becoming increasingly blurred.
Indeed, the term "cosmeceutical" -– a product marketed as a cosmetic that purportedly has biologically active ingredients that affect the user -– has sprung up to define a broad gray area where the practice of medicine and the pursuit of vanity meet.
HEAVILY INVESTED. A variety of factors are behind the rise of cosmeceuticals: the aging of the baby boom generation; increasingly effective alternatives to plastic surgery, such as Allergan's (AGN ) Botox; and the financial disincentives of managed care. Add them all up, and cosmeceuticals comes to a booming business that has implications far beyond the promise of diminished crow's feet and less-visible laugh lines.
From 2003 to 2004, sales of skin-care cosmeceuticals in the U.S. are expected to grow by 7.3%, to $6.4 billion, according to consumer industry tracker Packaged Facts. Major cosmetic companies -– including Estee Lauder (EL ), Avon (AVP ), L'Oreal, and Revlon (REV ) -– are already heavily invested in such products and will continue to be.
So far, relatively few drugmakers, besides Allergan and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ ), with its Vitamin A-based drugs, are in the business. That may change, though. The success of Botox, which was a $564 million product in 2003, and the aging of youth-obsessed baby boomers haven't been lost on the drug industry. Pfizer (PFE ), for one, bought a company called Anaderm in 1996 to focus specifically on cosmeceuticals.
ELEVATED AESTHETICIANS. Certainly, the business of improving appearance by medical means is vast and is growing in many directions. Along with cosmeceuticals, a wide range of treatments are available in doctors' offices. Chemical peels, laser treatments, microdermabrasion, which were once primarily the purview of spas and beauty clinics, are now common offerings at many dermatologists' offices.
Doctors are opening their own spas, lending their names to various product lines, and writing books detailing methods that allegedly keep skin youthful. About half of all dermatologists sell cosmetic products in their offices, estimates Howard Maibach, professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco.
As a result, patients increasingly see dermatologists as having the skills and tools to reverse or halt the aging process -– and many doctors are more than happy to serve as elevated aestheticians. The reality is that doctors in the profession are "tour guides" to patients traversing a confusing world of products and services (Botox, collagen, lasers, and peels) promising youth, says Richard Glogau, clinical professor of dermatology at University of California, San Francisco. (Glogau consults for several cosmeceutical makers.)
Plenty of dermatologists view selling cosmeceuticals as good medical practice. "What we love about dispensing [these products] is we really know what patients are using," says Patricia Farris, a dermatologist based in New Orleans and clinical assistant professor at Tulane University.
A BLEMISHED REPUTATION? There's no denying that they're good business, too. She says such products are the beginning of a "step-up process" to prescription drugs or procedures like Botox injections and laser treatments, which is where the biggest dollars are. "You don't start with the big guns," says Farris. (Farris consults for a number of cosmetic companies.)
This emphasis on the aesthetic rather than the medical has some in the field concerned. "Cosmetic dermatology is really injuring the reputation of dermatology," says Eileen Ringel, a dermatologist in Maine who is also on the Food & Drug Administration's advisory committee for dermatology. "People come to me and think I'm a cosmetologist, and they don't know the difference. That's our fault as dermatologists." (Ringel doesn't perform cosmetic dermatology services of any kind.)
Dermatologists' reputation may not be all that's suffering. As these practitioners spend more time addressing cosmetic complaints, they have less time to treat patients with skin diseases, including potentially fatal skin cancers. The average wait time to see a dermatologist in major cities around the country is 24.3 days -- the longest among high-demand medical specialties including obstetrics and gynecology and cardiology -- according to a 2004 survey by physician staffing firm Merritt, Hawkins & Associates.
"ONE-DIMENSIONAL." According to data from the American Academy of Dermatology's 2002 practice profile survey, 90% of dermatologists interviewed reported a need for more medical or general dermatologists in their local area, while only 13% cited a need for more cosmetic dermatologists. "A severe shortage of dermatologists threatens patients' access to care and is likely to further increase the amount of medical and surgical skin care provided by nondermatologists," the study's authors wrote.
Though dermatology has become one of the most sought-after specialties among medical students, some fear that the field's dynamism is faltering. Funding from universities and industry alike for "basic science and research [on] important diseases is shunted to cosmetics," says Ringel. New York-based dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman agrees: "Instead of being multifaceted and fascinating, it is one-dimensional." (Ackerman doesn't perform cosmetic dermatology.)
Sheldon Pinnell, professor emeritus at Duke University, disagrees. "I'm bullish about the profession from a number of points of view," says Pinnell. "[We're researching] everything from conditions that are life-threatening to ways of protecting skin that improve the cosmetic nature of skin." Advances in technology could soon spur the FDA and professional societies like the American Academy of Dermatology to make more rigorous demands of skin science and its practitioners, critics say. Both are now largely absent from the debate. (Pinnell is a consultant to a line of products called SkinCeuticals.)
Among consumers, the popularity of cosmeceuticals will continue to rise as long as improving physical appearance remains a top social priority. The question is: What will be the medical and scientific community's role in shaping this fast-rising field?
Tsao is a reporter for BusinessWeek Online in New York
Edited by Patricia O'Connell
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Information about some of those popular commercial face products:
Oil of Olay Regenerist
Most of today’s anti-aging formulas boast sophisticated technology and unique ingredients. But at the most basic level there is very little difference between them. What is more, many contain ingredients that can accelerate skin damage and which may even have more serious health implications over the longer term.
Regenerist is Olay’s top brand. It’s costly but claims to harness the latest peptide technology in an exclusive amino-peptide complex. The product needs to be well absorbed, but that is not much of a challenge as facial skin is thinner than skin elsewhere and Regenerist contains penetration enhancers to help the process along. The effect is superficial and temporary, however, lasting only as long as you keep using the product.
WHAT'S IN IT?
Regenerist contains the usual range of skin irritants, strong perfumes and colours. Full safety data appear to be lacking for some of its ingredients. However, it does contain carcinogenic acrylamide, triethanolamine (which can form cancer-causing oily compounds called nitrosamines) and Teflon (recently dubbed by environmentalists as the new DDT).
Regenerist also contains a range of ultraviolet filters, enough to have a potential additive effect in the process of skin damage. Sun-screens have become popular in anti-wrinkle formulas, almost to the point of insanity: scan the label of some night creams, and you will find UV filters in these as well. Olay (owned by household products giant Proctor & Gamble) claims nearly 19 per cent of the market, more than double the share of its nearest competitor, LOreal.
Nivea
Nivea’s ingredients are, sadly, not very different from commercial hand and body lotions in all price ranges all over the world. But it does not yet use nanotechnology: the ultimate achievement in penetration enhancing ingredients that bypass the skin’s protective barrier and pass more deeply into the body and bloodstream. So it may be a relatively safe choice.
Nevertheless, given the trust that women have put into Nivea over the years, it is dismaying to see just what goes into the bottle. Along with semi-synthetic fatty acids and waxes, many of which do not have full safety data, nivea lotion contains the full complement of estrogenic parabens, contact allergens and penetration enhancers, five potential carcinogens, perfume, and even extra fragrance ingredients. In fact, one third of the listed ingredients are fragrances that are known irritants and sensitisers; chemicals that, with repeated exposure, can trigger allergic reactions. Once a person is sensitized even the smallest exposure can trigger a response.
Most acne treatments contain either a harsh anti-microbial like benzoyl peroxide or a chemical exfoliant like salicylic acid as their primary active ingredient. Clearsil's 3 in 1 face wash is no exception, making use of the skin-peeling effects of the latter. Like all acne skin washes, it is a somewhat schizophrenic mixture of heavy-duty detergents and solvents that remove the skin's natural oils, and synthetic skin conditioners designed to repair some of the damage the detergents and solvents inflict on the skin. In addition, it contains a range of well-known skin irritants, two potential carcinogens and five fragrance ingredients that are among the most commonly reported contact allergens in the EU. These fragrance ingredients so consistently produce skin problems that they must now be listed separately on the label.
Clearasil was first introduced to acne-troubled teenagers in the 1960s. Owned by Crookes Healthcare, the UK division of Boots Healthcare International, it is the global leader in anti-acne treatments. Boots purchased the brand from the Procter & Gamble in 2000.
While people all over the world continue to buy acne treatments, there is little evidence that they do much good. Generally speaking, acne begins when hormones stimulate oil production or a genetic predisposition produces excess shedding of skin cells. Both oil and skin cells can clog follicles, thus creating an ideal climate for the bacterium Propioni bacterium acnes to proliferate. The waste products of acnes are what eventually cause the inflammation we know as pimples.
Over-the-counter acne treatments are not cures. In fact, there is no known cure for acne. In teenagers the condition is usually transient, settling down with hormones. In adults, a more complex set of factors, including food allergies, stress and, in women, cyclical hormone changes and cosmetic use, are usually to blame.
