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The Advisory Board advises: on Skin Care

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Slowly but surely the MidLife-Beauty Advisory Board is getting into gear. Today we have tips on skin care from two members:

Laurie recommends a hand and body lotion called DermaDaily which she found on-line.  She says it’s a terrific skin moisturizer with aloe vera gel that is latex-free and gives long lasting protection. According to the company that makes it, DermaRite Industries LLC located in Patterson, New Jersey, the product replenishes and enriches the skin’s own natural oils and comes in sizes from 4 oz to 1 gallon.

Laurie also recommends Crabtree & Evelyn’s Nantucket Briar Hand Therapy.  This, according to some, is Crabtree & Evelyn’s most popular product line.  Laurie loves it not just for what it does for her hands–it’s got shea butter in it–but for how terrific it smells, thanks to the bergamont, ambergris, wild briar rose and vanilla notes.

 

Wendy decided she had to attack those things that when we were young and cute were called freckles; now, however, they’ve become the more dour age spots (which is better than my mother’s day when they were called “flowers of death”). These things–whatever you call them–are starting to show up on her arms.   She got an over-the-counter lightening cream from Ulta–Reviva Labs Brown Spot Night Cream–and says rubbing the hydroquinone-based formula  on the spots is definitely fading them.A  jar of the stuff, which incidentally neither contains nor is tested on animals, is made in the U.S. costs $10.99.

Are you interested in joining our Advisory Board?  Willing to share your happy tips and horror stories with the MidLife-Beauty community?  Email jane@midlifebloggers.com.

 

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Skin Care: An Update

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….or actually, a revision of parts of my post from last week.  Specifically, these parts:

I now have three different preparations which I apply religiously after I dry off: ((malin+goetz) Vitamin b6 body moisturizer, c.Booth Egyptian Argan Oil Body Butter, and Rite-Aid’s Renewal Dry-Touch Body Oil) . Do they help? Well, at the least they make me feel as if I’m taking some action. Does my skin look better? Than what? I suspect it looks better than someone who doesn’t slather themselves daily, but do my arms look as they did before they fell to the forces of intrinsic and extrinsic aging? Probably not.

The c.Booth Body Butter and Rite-Aid’s Renewal Dry-Touch Body Oil I have been using for three or four months now, so the verdict on them stands.  But the (Malin+Goetz) vitamin b6 body moisturizer–that was a brand-new to me product when I wrote the post.  Now, after just a week of using it, I must amend my verdict: I absolutely do notice a difference.  It’s not that my arms have returned to their former juicy smoothness.  What has disappeared, though, is a scaliness that, while not grotesque, is certainly not particularly appealing.  Perhaps scaliness might be the wrong word to use here; let’s say a unattractive dryness.

(Malin+Goetz) Apothecary and Lab is a New York-based business with the philosophy that “Less is more.”  Their natural-based formulas are aimed at resolving specific skincare problems by creating a perfect pH balance for women and men, head to toe.  Recently they opened a small shop on Larchmont in LA, and that’s where I found them.

The 7.5 oz tube of the vitamin b5 body moisturizer I bought gives a short treatise on its content, which, because I am an inveterate label reader, I am quoting here:

“Our oil-free, residue-free body moisturizer scientifically synthesizes natural vitamin B5 and soothing Bergamot extract with absorbent fatty acids and fatty alcohols.  Effectively hydrates and balances all skin types, unlike traditionally greasy, pore-clogging oils.  A nourishing treatment to reduce epidermal irritation.  Natural fragrance and color.”

Indeed.  And that natural fragrance–citrusy.  That’s the Bergamot, maybe?

I paid $38 for the tube, which is not cheap, but about average for boutique brands.  It’s quite concentrated and a little seems to go a long way.  In the end, though, the b5 body moisturizer does the job, which  the drugstore brands certainly do not.    If you’re not in NY or LA, (Malin+Goetz) has a thriving mail order business.  Check out their website for product details and an index of stores throughout North America that carry them.

What products do you use for body moisturizing?  Tell us what and why in the comments, please.

 

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