Suki Tinted Active Moisturizer

by Paige Donner

White Willow Salicins and Natural Retinol Liposomes are just a couple of the ingredients in this latest evolution of Suki Tinted Active Moisturizer. If there's one thing that Suki does, it's that she listens... she listens to her skin's needs, she listens to her clients' skin needs and then she develops and formulates her synthetic-free advanced technology pure makeup accordingly.

Suki Tinted Active Moisturizer

DIY Winter Skin Spa

By: Suki Kramer

Winter's stale indoor heat, low humidity, cold temperatures and windy
conditions all take a toll on your skin. Dry, dead skin cells build up, oil
imbalances cause an increase of clogged pores and wrinkles seem all the more
pronounced.

Beat the winter beauty blues with these easy skin care recipes that use
common kitchen ingredients. Of course, try to buy organic and local whenever
possible!
Soup to Nuts Facial Scrub
* 1Ž2 cup chopped cucumber (do not peel)--soothing, natural exfoliant
* 1 teaspoon pineapple juice--toning, exfoliating
* 1 tablespoon baking soda--ph balancer, gentle cleanser
* 2 whole eggs--clears blemishes, tightens skin, helps with wrinkles
* 2 tablespoons yogurt--hydrating, probiotic treatment
* 2/3 cup ground almonds--natural exfoliant

Puree the cucumber until smooth. Add remaining ingredients and blend on
medium-low speed for 1 minute. Apply to moistened face in a gentle, circular
motion. Rinse thoroughly.

Nourishing Hydration Masque
* 1Ž2 avocado (peeled & pitted)--moisturizing. vitamin-rich
* 3 seedless grapes--tightening, toning, antioxidant
* 1 egg--tightening, hydrating and adds protein value
* 1 teaspoon mayonnaise--nourishing
* 1 teaspoon honey--anti-blemishes & anti-wrinkle
* 1 tablespoon baking soda--ph balancer, gentle cleanser
* 2 teaspoons apple juice--exfoliating

Puree the avocado and grapes until smooth. Add remaining ingredients and
blend on medium speed for 45 seconds. Apply evenly to face & leave on for
10-15 minutes.

Intense Hydrating Face/Body Lotion
* 1 teaspoon olive oil--great natural hydrator
* 1/3 teaspoon shea butter (found in natural food stores)--moisturizer
* 1 teaspoon apple juice--exfoliating
* 1 teaspoon lemon juice--tonic
* 1/3 teaspoon coconut oil--source of vitamins and rich nourishers

In a small saucepan, slowly heat ingredients together until warm. Remove
from heat and let cool. Note: oils and juices will separate. Pour into small
bottle and shake prior to use. Apply to face in circular massaging motion
until thoroughly absorbed.

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DIY Winter Skin Spa

Meryl Streep: a True Inspiration

By: Suki Kramer
I recently read an interview with Meryl Streep in Vanity Fair…OMG she is always such an incredible inspiration to me. When I see her give a speech, with that super comfortable, witty, vulnerable, wise presence & the remarkably intelligent, evolved things she always manages to say, she is who I hope to become…& I better get going!
Streep has never gone under the knife & in fact refuses. Someone in the article said what I’ve been saying too, that as you grow older, if you hang on to certain parts of yourself to look younger, you miss out on other stages of life, trying to stop time is detrimental to your emotional growth & a futile way to look at life in general.
Streep says of plastic surgery, “it’s like an interruption in communication with them, like a flag in front of the view & that for an actor, it’s like wearing a veil, it’s not a good thing.”
On the same day I came across an interview with Julia Roberts & hope I don’t someday have to eat my words if I find out she’s ever had plastic surgery or was addicted to the needle…but they asked her some questions I’d like to repeat cause her answer was cool:
they asked, how do you define beauty?
“…to see a person who is present in their joy is the most beautiful thing. I think that’s why our children are all so luminescent – they just exist in the moment of joy.”
Unfortunately, Julia is representing Lancome…so guys, we need to educate her a bit  !
anyway, back to Meryl…
As it said in the article, Streep knows all too well the pressure females feel to dim their light, & it makes me so sad. Seeing young girls play, confident & strong…something happens as they hit puberty, suddenly self-conscious or conscious of what guys think of them. They seem to start to want to do exactly that, dim their light, acquiesce, & reduce themselves (opinions, weight, talent, etc.) & their accomplishments. I think all of us are trying to get “it back” from then on…chasing the light to “find ourselves” again.
As Streep said, “as girls grow up, as soon as boys come into the picture, you figure out that you have to modify that assertiveness thing in order to even be acceptable, let alone appealing, within the cohort of girls as well as boys.” she found enormous relief outgrowing those constraints. The sad realization for me, is that most of us don’t or struggle SO hard day after day. & something she said struck me as something I do personally all the time, accommodate, accommodate, accommodate. I don’t know about you gals.
“I remember Albert Brooks saying to me in Defending Your Life, ‘could you just make it a little sweeter?’ Streep said, “& that’s been repeated by other people in the years since then…but I don’t listen to it.” hmmm at 43, I’m still listening & reacting…
How did Streep free herself? “I think you have to get sick of hearing the accommodation in your approach to things…the way people have to get sick of drinking or drugs before they stop. As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else. I’m not sure I ever was really comfortable waning around as a girl, anyway.”
I recently pinned up a picture of Streep at my desk for inspiration.
Best,
Suki

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Vitamin C ­ It's Not Just Ascorbic Acid Anymore

By: Suki Kramer

As you know, there’s always a new ingredient being introduced to the market…& right now we’re going to talk about the new antioxidants! Well…OK – they’re not exactly new, but current advances in science are helping good old vitamin C work far better topically & you should know what to look for when choosing skin care products that tout vitamin C as the key ingredient! 

Of course you already know that vitamin C is one of the most powerful antioxidants in skin care & an important factor in collagen production. Nothing new. Anti-aging products have been featuring it for years. Bad news is that the topical ester in primitive ascorbic acid form, once exposed to air or light, or simply over time in a formulation, oxidizes, looses electrons & the product becomes unstable & useless.

Scientists in Japan have developed an oil-soluble version of vitamin C ester called tetrahexyldecyl asorbate (BV-OSC). Unlike some the other forms of vitamin C, which are solid at room temperature & harder to emulsify during the formulation period, Tetrahexyldecyl asorbate is a liquid. Along with reducing the browning & oxidization that occurs in the bottle, oil-soluble esters (like ascorbyl palmitate, which has been around for awhile as well) penetrate fat cells instead of water cells. Although the fatty bonds in the tetrahexyldecyl asorbate keep the antioxidant stable in the bottle, they break down faster on the skin. The components are non-acidic too, so they do not irritate the skin! Vitamin C (ascorbyl acid) Glucoside is also a relatively new form of the vitamin & although in powder form, this vitamin has shown remarkable results at the clinical level for everything from wrinkles to brightening the skin! Now, ascorbic acid in liposome or polypeptide form is the only ascorbic acid I would ever let near my skin! Why? Because a liposome or peptide makes the vitamin, the acid, safe, trapped inside a water cell. A formulator can then use a far higher percentage of the vitamin than you ever could if it were on its own. It is then very stable within the product, when exposed to the environment & on your skin! The liposome delivery system is also what really forces the vitamin to penetrate the skin cells.
Because of the stability factor of these new classes of vitamin C, we get far more benefits. We’ll have to wait and see how many more companies keep up with the times & update their formulations to apply all these new vitamin C’s. 

I’ll be sure update YOU on new advances science is making in the skin care industry!
know your beauty®,

Suki

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