Skincare

Common Ingredients in Skincare Products

By
Carrie
Published: February 22, 2010Posted in: Skincare

Edelweiss Extract

photo credit: http://www.guidozwicker.ch/Edelweiss.htm

What they do:
The anti-aging indus­try is tar­get­ing the extract for other pur­poses — to turn back the hands of time and elim­i­nate the signs of aging. Researchers have dis­cov­ered that Edelweiss extract con­tains huge amount of potent antiox­i­dants as well as anti-microbial (kills bac­te­ria and fungi) and anti-inflammatory prop­er­ties. Additionally, Edelweiss extract also has excel­lent cell pro­tec­tion prop­er­ties that allow it to pro­mote healthy skin cells and main­tain a fresh and youth­ful com­plex­ion while effec­tively destroy­ing harm­ful free radicals.

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Omega 3 for the healthy skin

By
Christina
Published: January 28, 2010Posted in: Skincare

from http://www.allotment.org.uk/

You’ve prob­a­bly read a lot about the ben­e­fits of Omega 3s—the essen­tial fatty acids are found in fish, like salmon or tuna, flaxseeds, and wal­nuts that your body can’t pro­duce on its own. Proponents of Omega 3s claim that they help with joint func­tion and help reduce cho­les­terol and fight depres­sion. While all this is great, we here at MyShimmer are most con­cerned with how Omega 3s ben­e­fit your skin— and, from our research, there’s no rea­son why you shouldn’t start incor­po­rat­ing more of Omega 3s in your diet today.

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Homemade Green Tea Toner

By
Carrie
Published: January 26, 2010Posted in: Skincare

Tea con­tains caf­feine and can help folks stay alert.  It is also used as a health food, espe­cially green tea, said to pre­vent heart dis­ease and can­cer, gum dis­ease, skin aging and weight loss. Studies have shown that tea polyphe­nols can pro­tect against the effects of many ill­nesses.   Tea comes in black, green and white and the dif­fer­ence comes in the har­vest­ing and pro­cess­ing.  In par­tic­u­lar, skin is said to ben­e­fit from top­i­cal appli­ca­tion of green tea as well.

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Latest Development in Skin Technology

By
Carrie
Published: December 21, 2009Posted in: Skincare

smoothskin

We found this amazing article on Bangkok Post that pro­vided us with a few options on how to remove the signs of age on the face. John Rogerson went to speak to Dr. Nantapat Supapannachart, founder of  Thailand’s pre­mier skin­care cen­tre, to find out what she rec­om­mends for us who want to turn back the clock a bit.We did a lit­tle bit more research on the method sug­gested, but as always, these only serve as guidelines. Check with your doc­tor what best suits you.

Thermage 

source: http://thermageedmonton.com/photos.htm

source: http://thermageedmonton.com/photos.htm

Thermage uses radiofre­quency energy to tighten the skin and give a lifted, tight­ened appear­ance.  The skin’s elas­tic­ity is improved and promi­nent veins become less vis­i­ble. Many peo­ple are look­ing for a lit­tle skin tight­en­ing but do not yet need surgery, for whom Thermage would be a good choice.

Pros - As a non-surgical treat­ment, it appeals to those who can­not afford the sev­eral weeks of recov­ery after a sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure or the expense or surgery, or do not want to assume the risks of a sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure.  There is no down­time after Thermage, and peo­ple can go right back to work and social engagements.

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IPL and Acne

By
Christina
Published: December 16, 2009Posted in: Skincare

As we have men­tioned before in this post, IPL Photo-Rejuvenation can help with sun-damaged skin, skin dis­col­orations and gen­eral improve­ment with skin tex­ture.  IPL tech­nol­ogy have suc­cess­fully treated brown spots (age spots, liver spots) and pig­men­ta­tion, photo aging (rough tex­ture, red and brown dis­col­orations), face veins (telang­iec­tasias), red­ness and brown mot­tled pig­men­ta­tion on the face, neck, chest, arms and hands, Rosacea and actinic ker­atoses (pre-cancers) and warts.  The recov­ery time is min­i­mal with­out the burns and blis­ters that go along with some other treatments. 

One such device that allows you to do an IPL treat­ment at home is the CLARO SX IPL Skin Clarifying System. It is an effec­tive way to treat your acne with a com­bi­na­tion of both heat and light to give you a much younger, clearer and blemish-free look­ing skin.

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Thanksgiving! It’s All About Family and Keep Healthy to Stay Beautiful!

By
Carrie
Published: November 25, 2009Posted in: Skincare

We wanted to wish all our loyal fans and read­ers a Very Happy Thanksgiving! It is a time to be truly thank­ful for what you have, whether it be your beauty, health, good for­tune, friends or fam­ily. We all have some­thing and some­one to be thank­ful for in our lives.

Our Thanksgiving tip is to make sure to eat your veg­eta­bles and fruits to keep healthy, even when get­ting your fill of turkey and all those other yummies!

Here’s a video of some cute kids and their reminder to stay healthy (with Juice Plus)!  This is what we do at home on Thanksgiving with my cousins, make funny videos.

Happy Thanksgiving!

My Beauty Bunny’s Favorite Cruelty-free Products

By
Guest
Published: November 7, 2009Posted in: Face, Skincare

As the editor-in-chief of a cruelty-free beauty blog, peo­ple often ask me which prod­ucts are the best. Of course, that depends on your skin type, hair type and per­sonal pref­er­ences. And, it’s amaz­ing how one prod­uct will FAIL for me and then some­one else I know will LOVE it!

That being said, I would like to share with you a few of my favorite cruelty-free prod­ucts. I hope you’ll love them as much as I do.

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3 Overrated Products That Just Don’t Work

By
Amanda
Published: November 7, 2009Posted in: Body, Skincare

While it is nice to know that there are some won­der beauty prod­ucts out there that are chang­ing lives, it is even more use­ful to know what doesn’t. Here are the 3 prod­ucts we picked out that are way over­rated, over­priced, or sim­ply, do not work:

1. First Aid Beauty Detox Eye Roller

When you have puffy eyes and dark cir­cles in the morn­ing after a night of par­ty­ing, the very, very last thing you want is bomb­ing your eyes with burn­ing sen­sa­tions. Mona (smerfette) sent in her review of the First Aid Beauty Detox Eye Roller ($24 at Sephora) and com­plained about the intense tingly burn­ing sen­sa­tion under her eyes,  and that the roller ball of the tip of the tube makes it harder to the get prod­uct out. Mona tells us in her review that she still per­fers con­cealer to the First Aid Beauty Detox Eye Roller — the prod­uct feels dan­ger­ous, the pack­ag­ing is not user-friendly, and the prod­uct itself doesn’t do much. Well, our ver­dict? Overrated!

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“Wonderbra in a tube” — Mama Mio Boob Tube Bust Cream Review

By
Amanda
Published: October 18, 2009Posted in: Body, Skincare

elisabetta-canalis

Ealier FacePanda wrote about Elisabetta Canalis, George Clooney's new girlfriend, and her magifinicent chest, and here at MyShimmer we started research­ing on ways you can up your cup too with­out hav­ing to go under the knife. One of our read­ers Jessie emailed us ear­lier about a bust cream that has worked won­ders for her — “a won­der­bra in a tube”, as she called it, and so per­haps this is the per­fect time to talk a lit­tle bit about this won­der bust prod­uct: the Mama Mio Boob Tube bust cream.

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Recession and Budget Beauty? Not in Miami and the Hamptons!

By
Amanda
Published: October 12, 2009Posted in: Skincare

Thinking bud­get beauty in this dif­fi­cult econ­omy? Well appar­ently not for the ladies in Miami and the Hamptons! We talked to GERnetics International, a high-end French skin care and anti-aging line that has been sold all over Europe for more than 50 years, and they revealed some fas­ci­nat­ing facts about the ladies’ expen­sive beauty habits even in these finan­cially chal­leng­ing times for the rest of the world.

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