derma e® Gets Best Facial Skin Care Award

derma e® Natural Bodycare, a pioneer in formulating cutting-edge effective natural skincare products,is honored by Delicious Living magazine, with the Best Facial Skin Care Award for their Hyaluronic Acid Rehydrating Serum.The award-winning product was highlighted on "Good Day Colorado" on Feb. 7 by Jessica Rubino, Beauty Editor of Delicious Living, and announced to their 405,000 readers in the February issue.

To educate and inspire the increasingly interested health-conscious consumer, Delicious Living's 2012 Beauty & Body Awards honored18 high performance natural personal care products that are the result of innovation and sustainable business practices.

derma e® Gets Best Facial Skin Care Award  

Receiving the Best Facial Skin Care Award, derma e®'s Hyaluronic Acid Rehydrating Serum rich in Hyaluronic Acid, Vitamin C, Allantoin and Panthenol deeply hydrates and nourishes skin while helping to reduce the visible signs of aging. This intensive serum may be used alone on oily skin or as a treatment layer underneath a moisturizing crème to promote a rehydrated, healthy, younger-looking complexion.

"For the facial skin care category, I search for brands and products that not only focus on pure ingredients but also prioritize high performance. derma e® accomplishes just that with its Hyaluronic Acid Rehydrating Serum, featuring standout skin care ingredient hyaluronic acid. derma e® does an excellent job of capturing the benefits of this gel-like molecule, which holds up a thousand times its weight in water, in a deeply nourishing and reparative product," says Jessica Rubino, Beauty Editor of Delicious Living.

Additionally, Dr. Linda Miles, L. Ac., D.O.M., Vice President of derma e® Natural Bodycare states, "This product has gained great exposure recently with national coverage on NBC's "The TODAY Show" and now, "Good Day Colorado" and this award. We have also seen an increase in sales across our entire Hyaluronic Acid line and are so pleased because we feel that this really speaks to the effectiveness of Hyaluronic Acid as a topical anti-aging and moisturizing ingredient."

Homemade Beauty Products

Homemade Beauty Products for fresh feeling: You don't have to spend big bucks on expensive beauty products. Just make them yourself, with stuff from the kitchen.

"There are some crazy things that you read in magazines and there are some things that really work," PrettyCity.com CEO Carolyn Brundage said.

Like using Vaseline to shape your brows or applying it to the ends of your lashes to keep them from breaking.

Brundage also recommends diaper rash cream for acne breakouts.

"You've already got this at home. A lot of moms do," she said. "This is actually really effective for treating blemishes or pimples because its chock full of zinc oxide."

Brundage also said if your elbows, knees and feet are dry, head to the kitchen, slice a lemon and then sweeten it up.

"You just apply a little bit of brown sugar to the top of the lemon and then apply it to your elbows," she said.

And find new life for your old bits of lipstick by melting them together in a microwave-safe container for 15 seconds. Mix and voila, a brand-new color.

But if you want to make your own, Brundage said beware of bad beauty ideas like Preparation H for eyes or Monistat 7 and Pepto Bismol for your face.

And if you get tired of doing it all by yourself at home alone and you want to splurge at the spa and have someone do it for you, there are plenty of places in Chicago that will do it for you.

To know more about beauty product: Nourishing face cream

Bonne Foi Beauty declares addition to anti-aging product line-up: Nourishing Face Cream

Bonne Foi Beauty Products, an anti-aging skin care line, today, releases its Nourishing Face Cream which will further enhance the Bonne Foi line. Created primarily for night time use, the Nourishing Face Cream will nourish, rejuvenate and moisturize your face, firming your skin and improving its overall appearance. Those with particularly dry skin or those who live in very cold climates may wish to use it as a day cream as well.

Its main ingredients include white shea butter, beeswax and seaweed extract. In clinical trials, shea butter was found to moisturize the outer layer of skin, protect against climate and UV aggressions, and prevent wrinkle formations. The seaweed extract, found in many of our products, is what helps firm skin, restore elasticity, and improves the complexion providing a more youthful skin tone.

Bonne Foi's Nourishing Face Cream does not contain any petroleum by-products or mineral oil as these ingredients can clog pores, suffocate skin, and cause premature aging.

The chemist that formulated the Nourishing Face Cream had been developing anti-aging products for more than a decade when he began developing the Bonne Foi line of products. The formula is based on the theory developed by Dr. Peter Agre, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 for his ground-breaking discovery of aquaporins which is used in the Bonne Foi product line. Aquaporins allow anti-aging and nourishing ingredients to penetrate skin down to the cell level.

Bonne Foi anti-aging skin care products are specially formulated to work for people of all ethnicities and on a wide variety of skin types and tones. This Nourishing Face Cream completes our night-time skin care regimen.

More information: www.bonne-foi.com .

About Bonne Foi Beauty:

Bonne Foi Beauty is based in Huntington Beach, California, and began formulating anti-aging skin care products in 2010. Based on Nobel Prize-winning chemistry, Bonne Foi produces a line of natural skin care products formulated to rejuvenate skin and greatly slow down the aging process. All Bonne Foi products are 90 percent natural and contain no harmful chemicals or toxins. Bonne Foi means "Good Faith" and with good faith its wish is for everyone to age gracefully.

A eco-design a beautycare product

The fragrance in Or Infini was created by Mane, using 100% natural ingredients in an infusion of floral notes, with mandarin top notes, vanilla and almond base notes. The delicate pearly formulation is by Strand Cosmetics Europe, manufactured according to Ecocert guidelines.

The 30ml Infini Glass bottle, by SGD, is 100% recycled and recyclable, made from recycled domestic cullet. Rexam supplied the Nea lotion pump, that combines protection with ease of use; and VPI provided the R’PET cap using 100% recycled PET from collected plastic bottles.

The box uses Carta Elega 280g/m² from Metsä Board, a lightweight, sustainable and PEFC certified cartonboard that reduces the weight of the box set by more than 10% compared to some other cartonboard materials. Printing is by Wauters under Imprim’vert environmental accreditation and FSC/PEFC certification. Finally, the concept was beautified by Sylvie de France Designer, a 3D and graphic design agency specialising in the beauty and luxury goods sector.

Mouvement Infini was formed to demonstrate that innovative beautycare and fragrance products can be developed sustainably, and indistinguishable in their environmental qualities unless desired. It has previously created Naya, an organic cosmetic skincare cream, and Emoi Inifini, a box set of three fragrances. As with the two earlier products, everything used in making Or Infini, the product and its packaging, are Ecocert certified.  

Coakley defending Obama health care law

President Obama's national health care reform bill is being challenged in the nation’s highest court, and now the controversial act is getting some support from state Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Coakley has filed a brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the constitutionality of the health care reform bill. She was one of a dozen attorneys general to file testimony in favor of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), often called “Obamacare” by opponents.

Last summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decided that parts of the health care reform bill were unconstitutional, while other parts were constitutional. The parties appealed to the highest court, which is currently considering whether Congress went beyond its authority by expanding Medicaid and by requiring states to implement that expansion.

The attorney general says the requirements are sound. “The imposition, for instance, of an individual mandate as we do here in Massachusetts, is clearly rational: related to getting everybody covered, making sure everybody's in the pool. For people who are involved in the national healthcare market, it's merely a regulation of that market,” Coakley said.

Democratic Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray says that Massachusetts’ system shows that the president’s plan will work. “I think what we've done here in Massachusetts shows that it works when you can bring together all the stake holders, public and private. You know we've got the highest level of health insurance for kids and for the public,” Murray said.

Health care law supporters say that states can implement expanded Medicaid however they wish. Opponents argue that the fact they have to expand Medicaid in the first place is unconstitutional in itself.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the health care reform bill this March.

New Beauty Exhibit Which Tells the History of the Health and Beauty Industry

Elixers, potions, blushes, and waxes are just a few of the items that you might have found on the vanity table throughout history; a new beauty exhibit takes a look at things just like these that people have bought and used to stay beautiful. The Center for History in South Bend, Indiana, has put together an exhibit that examines the lengths to which people will go to reach perfection, and according to the South Bend Tribune, the show features everything from beauty advertisements to health and beauty contraptions that look like torture devices.

Gizmos and Gadgets Galore

The beauty exhibit is called "Gizmos, Corsets & Concoctions: Our Obsession with Health & Beauty." It features items like 19th and 20th century ads for beauty items, contraptions such as a permanent styling wave machine that the news article calls Medusa-like in appearance. It also displays a replication of a doctor's office complete with elixirs and gadgets. All these items were designed for one thing--to sell beauty.

One of the points of the beauty exhibit is to show the lengths to which people will go to be lovely, including ingesting some pretty deadly items. While recent reports of lead in lipstick highlight this ongoing trend, it certainly isn't the first. An example from the show at the Center for History includes powders that contained lead and toothbrushes laced with mercury, and according to the center's website, some of the items such as corsets show just how uncomfortable people were willing to be in the pursuit of beauty.