Monthly Archives: April 2008

Product Review: Skinceuticals Renew Overnight for Oily/Combination Skin

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If you’re looking to do an alpha hydroxy peel, now is the perfect time: the summer’s vicious rays are coming to a halt, and there is all of June and July’s sun damage to reverse. One great new product for reversing the sun damage is new Skinceuticals Renew Overnight for Oily/Combination Skin ($52.00, Amazon.com). Replete with gentle alpha hydroxy acids like orange and lemon fruit extracts and orange oil, Skinceuticals Renew Overnight for Oily/Combination Skin truly can gently — but effectively — refine the skin... read more

Product Review: New Jaqua Buttercream Frosting Hand Creme

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Americans have it after dinner, Italians have it before, but new Jaqua Raspberry Buttercream Frosting Hand Creme ($8.00, Jaqua.com) lets you have (calorie-free) dessert at any time of the day.  Reminiscent of a freshly baked raspberry cream cupcake, this stuff smells good. The ingredients are good for your hands, too.  Soybean oil is a skin-softening antioxidant that has been demonstrated to stimulate in vitro collagen production in fibroblasts.  Continued use of soybean oil has been published in the research journal Dermatology to... read more

Just Released: Even Better Undereye Time Capsules from Elizabeth Arden

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One of my favorite products of all time, Elizabeth Arden Time Capsules, has just got a makeover. This month the company released its new Ceramide Gold Ultra Lift and Strengthening Eye Capsules ($52.00, Amazon.com). What’s the difference from the original, you ask? The new formulation features more ceramides, ultra-hydrating shea butter, antioxidant softener olive oil, fatty acids, and a small concentration of vitamin C as ultra-stable tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate.  This means that the formulation is instantly more hydrating and... read more

Is Your Dry Cleaning Habit Bad For Your Skin?

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…It could be.  According to Dr. Brunilda Nazario, M.D., in this month’s Women’s Health magazine (on newsstands), dry cleaners sometimes use perchlorethylene (perc), which can cause the dry, rashy symptoms owed to contact dermatitis in some individuals.  Not sure if you’re one of them?  Wait until after you wear a dry cleaned article of clothing, and examine your skin.  If you have the dry, red, irritated skin characteristic of contact dermatitis, believe me, you’ll know. Luckily, you don’t have to... read more

Product Review: The Ped Egg

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As an aspiring dermatologist and beauty blogger, I absolutely thrive on the quest for soft, beautiful skin.  Unfortunately, I also have the dry, callused feet of an avid runner and a daily high-heel devotee, so when my friend Robin suggested that I try The Ped Egg ($17.90 and includes 3 replacement blades, Amazon.com), I jumped right on board.  And the results, to be honest, were nothing short of amazing!  The Ped Egg provides a cheap and effective way to gently slough off calluses and other dead skin.  Although it reportedly has 138... read more

A Great Moisturizer For Oily Skin: Dermelect Cosmeceuticals Pore Revolution and T-Zone Mattifier

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  Every once in a while, I stumble across a product that is ideal for people with a certain type of skin.  That’s the case with the new Dermelect Cosmeceuticals Pore Revolution and T-Zone Mattifier ($20.74 when bought through EBates.com [sign up and search for the product through the site, so this is the lowest price I could find]), which promises to relieve just about every annoying symptom there is about oily skin, from visible pores to shininess to acne production. How does the product work?  The main secrets are the salicyclic... read more

This Just In: FDA Delays Proposed Sunscreen Labels

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Thank you, everyone, for your patience, as I had to travel this week to New York City for an interview!  With that said, a reader recently passed along a great story in the New York Times to me.  Apparently, the new FDA-proposed sunscreen labeling system — which proposed to rank the strength of UVA protection on a scale from one to four stars, and to limit the number of UVB ratings to state a maximum of “50+” — has been put on the back burner, at least for now. The reason for the delay?  According to the New York... read more