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Beauty hors d’oeuvres: How hot baths helped inspire the Cle de Peau Beaute Masterpiece – the new and improved La Creme

February 7, 2020 Paris B 1 Comment

When Kentaro Kajiya, Group Manager at the Shiseido Global Innovation Center, sat enjoying his hot bath at home, he noticed an interesting phenomenon.

After enjoying a warm bath soak, as so many Japanese do, he noticed that his skin felt smoother. It even felt and looked firmer, albeit temporary. He checked this phenomenon with people he knew, and they told him the same.

This piqued his interest to research further into how our capillaries work in boosting skin elasticity, and how they could be made to work harder and more efficiently.

Incidentally, after he mentioned it during the interview I had with him, on his visit to Malaysia recently, I did realize that a rejuvenating soak in a hot tub not only rejuvenates my soul, but my skin does feel nicer and smoother too! 😀

His discovery eventually led to the 8th generation of the iconic Cle de Peau Beaute La Creme – the jewel in the Cle de Peau Beaute crown.

Happy I took a chance with the Trilogy Vitamin C Moisturising Lotion

December 2, 2019 Paris B 4 Comments

A while ago, I shared with you my thoughts on the highly raved Trilogy Vitamin C Booster Treatment, and I wasn’t terribly sold on it, unfortunately. So, I wasn’t half as keen to try its sister product, the Trilogy Vitamin C Moisturising Lotion.

But then, I ran out of my regular moisturizer, and when fishing around in my cupboard, my eye fell on this.

I thought to give it a chance.

And I’m glad I did! 😀

4 products I turn to, to calm and repair irritated skin

November 21, 2019 Paris B 10 Comments

In the last 2 months I’ve found myself battling temperamental and irritated skin. It has been rather unusual, as I’d gotten my routine to a level where I was comfortable with how my skin was faring.

And it was faring very well indeed!

And yet, there I was, facing inexplicable breakouts and dry, irritated and bumpy skin on my cheeks. My skin was dull and I’d lost any healthy glow I’d worked so hard to achieve. It’s frustrating when you have your skin just where you want it, and then have it go bonkers without knowing why.

It reinforces my belief that achieving and maintaining good skin is not a goal. It is work in progress. So I went back to square one, and thought I’d share some of the products that helped my skin along the way.

Do you use an eye cream? I didn’t but I’ve been using the Dr. Dennis Gross Ferulic + Retinol Eye Cream for a while

September 17, 2019 Paris B 15 Comments

If there’s one question I’m asked A. LOT. it’s this “Can you recommend a good eye cream?” or “What eye cream do you use?”

My answer is usually this : “I don’t use an eye cream”

It’s a fact. I don’t!

dr. dennis gross ferulic + retinol eye cream

But I recently met the people from Dr. Dennis Gross, during a Sephora press event that I attended, and they told me that the Dr. Dennis Gross Ferulic + Retinol Eye Cream was one that you could use around and even ON your eye lids. The fact it contains retinol piqued my interest as well.

And I recalled that I had one tub in my stash 😀 I have a tendency to forget what I buy over time 😛

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