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A long known secret of home made facials is to combine traditional cooked oatmeal with a little bit of warm cream, milk or water and make it into a mask.

While the mask might be a bit on the gloopy side, the good news is that you can also eat the leftovers.  Besides offering softening benefits, the oatmeal can also produce skin tightening results after long term use.

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Aubrey Organics has their own version of cooked oatmeal in a bowl for your skin.  The difference between the real oats and Aubrey Organic’s Lumessence Lift skin product is that it can be used as a daytime or nighttime moisturer.  Or you can wear it around the clock if you wish.

It is not a face mask.  The product combines antioxidant CoQ10 with oat proteins and algae which has collagen boosting benefits. (more…)

The Acai ( ah-sigh-EE ) Berry has become a superstar in the skin world, in the past few years, due to the buzz generated when the famous skin doctor - Dr. Perricone - deemed it to be the #1 Skin Food in the world.

The Acai Berry received superstar status in the skin doctors book, “The Perricone Promise”.

It also made it to Oprah’s list, which of course sealed its reputation as a wonder food.

This little dark purple berry, which is about the size of a traditional blueberry (also great for skin and beauty) is not readily accessible in berry form, to anyone who doesn’t actually live in the The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, where the little fruit grows.

Although it is called a berry, the Acai is mostly seed with just a little bit of pulp.  The Acai is valued for both the pulp and the seed but the seed is never eaten or ground up.  (more…)

Since the movie Splash in 1984, the ocean’s appeal has gone from blah, to beautiful, to down right sexy. From animated motion pictures (Finding Nemo) to a slew of reality TV shows; the beach, the water, and the mysterious deep having been experiencing decades of revitalized interest. Although scientists have been studying this magical wonder for eons, La Prairie has been one of the first to successfully capture its beautifying properties on such a large scale.

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