Beauty Essentials

Archive for April, 2010

Ok you promised yourself last year that you would come up with a totally creative gift for mom by planning ahead. Well, if planning ahead this year meant one week before the big I HEART YOU MOM day, then you better get a move-on if you still haven’t thought of anything yet. Stop stressing about out what she wants and think about what she actually needs. Why not give her the gift of quality one-on-one time with you? Pamper yourself AND your mom... 

I don’t know about you, but exfoliation is one of my favorite parts of skin care… but it took me a long time to understand that exfoliating can damage skin when not done right. We’ve been ‘trained’ to think that the scraping and stinging we feel after exfoliating is ‘normal.’ It’s not. We see redness after exfoliating and think we’ve done a good job getting the dead skin off. We have not. We think that if skin feels dry after exfoliating... 

Castor Oil. What do you think of?  I (wrongfully) think of cars.  Petroleum.  Thick, dark, gunky stuff.  Intuitively to me, castor oil and skin care shouldn’t even be said in the same sentence.  But oh oh oh it SHOULD….. Several clients had brought to my attention that our products contain castor oil. Some clients worried, some clients ecstatic.  Turns out the clients who were ecstatic knows their stuff!  For those who are a bit lost by...