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.

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Serious Skin Care Made Simple

           
      We do like the idea of three basic facial care products. But they have to be serious.    This one, as you might expect from RoC, is. Multi Correxion is one of their newer, breakthrough line of products diminishes the appearance of multiple signs for aging with the exclusive fusion of pure RoC®RETINOL and antioxidants. The new box of the three essentials—Daily Perfecting Cleanser, Daily Perfecting crème for the day (with important SPF 30) and Intensive Night Concentrate.

You can use these three products as a base for others or, conceivably, just use the three and consider that you’ve done very good things, on the outside, for your complexion.

                                                       http://www.rocskincare.com/index_roc.jsp

An Eyeful of Practical Beauty

Here’s a handy idea from Avon: Anew Rejuvenate 24-hour Eye Moisturizer –two formulas, one for day and one for night, in one jar. One side is a night time treatment that softens the appearance of fine lines and minimizes under-eye puffiness. You wake up and your eyes seem more rested and somehow more youthful looking. The PM formula is designed to help repair cellular damage and to help prevent fluid retention.

The other chamber in the jar is a Day Revitalization Cream with SPF 25 UVA/UVB protection, which, the company states, can even be used on the sensitive eye lid area, which really is something new. The day formula makes eyes look revitalized and awake while softening the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This cream is formulated to help inhibit enzyme oxidation that can lead to dark shadows.

According to Avon, “in just 24 hours more than 70% of women saw the look of fine lines softened, shadows brightened and puffiness reduced “ and “in just two weeks, 77% saw a dramatic improvement in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.”

Having both AM and PM formulas in one jar saves space, time and a bit of money. There are generous amounts of both creams in the 0.33 fl.oz. jar and both feel very light and soothing when applied. For $30. you really are getting two creams specially formulated for the delicate eye area, one for the night and one for day.