Moisturizer with Built-in Sunscreen

Aveeno—you know you can count on it for soothing moisturizing for your skin and now you get a sunscreen in every bottle of Aveeno Daily Moisturizing lotion with SPF 15 to get you started protecting your skin from harmful UVA and UVB rays. 

This lotion is part of their Active Naturals line and contains Colloidol Oatmeal and is non-greasy so it is a pleasure to smooth on your skin. Available in a tube or pump bottle. It does what it promises and smells nice, as well.

http://www.aveeno.com/bodycare

Facing A New Decade

Since we try to take care of ourselves while we are awake-- eating healthy, drinking lots of water, getting plenty of exercise and trying not to let stress break down any benefits—we really appreciate a cream that promises to “restore and repair the signs of aging while [we] sleep.”

Clinique’s New  Youth Surge Night Age Decelerating Night Moisturizer, out this month, helps us make this new decade count---count backwards to more youthful looking skin.

This potent gem—packed in an unbreakable jar, which we like since there is less chance of  it shattering or breaking a floor tile should it be dropped—is a cocktail of  powerful antioxidants, including Japanese Knotweed, Mulberry Root Extract, Vitamins E and C and  Sirtuins—a precious class of proteins important to helping to extend the life of cells. This complex is unique to Clinique and feels really amooth gliding on your face and is quickly absorbed.

Clinique promises that the“youth-extending agents  create a nightly moisturizer that helps intensify the nightly cycle of natural repair. Plumped with natural collagen, lines and wrinkles appear to evaporate. Skin gains that energized "8-hour effect" come morning.”

Sounds promising to us.

www.clinique.com

Definity Possibilities

Olay has been in the business of skincare long enough to know what they are doing. Born more than fifty years ago, as Oil of Olay, the skincare company has evolved into one of the best performing anti-aging skin care lines.

Color Recapture, by Olay Definity, one of several categories of skincare that Olay offers, at first seemed like it would be like many often marketed, oft tried combinations of moisturizer and coverage. Too many times products that make this dual promise turn out to be, somewhat duplicitous, if unintentionally. Something just misses—either the color is streaky or the moisturizer is either too greasy or not there. Olay’s Definity Color Recapture, however, really does what it says it will do. And isn’t that what any of us wants from any product?

The slim, clear container is easy on the eye and shows off the ribbons of coverage amid the moisturizer. Just the right amount of the mixture comes out of the pump if you are careful not to press too hard--a little goes a long way. The solution goes on very smoothly and feels like satin against the skin. And the result was a surprising excellent. The color blends in perfectly with the anti-aging moisturizer and provides the right amount of coverage for most days. Imperfections and discolorations are diffused by the sheer illuminating color and the skin has a more supple feel. And even while it is making your complexion more luminous, Color Recapture is working as an anti-aging skin care elixir.

Available in three shades: Fair to Light; Light to Medium; Medium to Deep