KORRES: The Wild Rose Collection Featuring Vitamin C

I love this brand as it always hydrates and brightens my skin. This collection is delightful and feels weightless on the skin not clogging pores nor leaving your skin looking shiny. Only radiance abounds!

The Wild Rose collection from KORRES features Vitamin C as a key ingredient in creating a brighter and more radiant complexion. This collection focuses on the power of wild rose oil, a natural source of Vitamin C, delivering a boost of nutrients to even, tone and revitalize skin. 

Made with natural ingredients and free from parabens, petrochemicals, synthetic dyes and GMOs, this collection restores your skin’s luminosity for a perfectly radiant look. The Wild Rose collection is available for purchase online at Sephora.com.

Wild Rose 24-Hour Moisturising & Brightening Cream ($39): Best-seller deep hydrating cream inclusive of imperata-cylindrica extract to repair skin through the regulation of moisture equilibrium. The cream helps to reduce fine lines and discoloration resulting in a brighter complexion.

Wild Rose Smoothie Brightening Priming Moisturiser ($45): Weightless moisturizer providing hydration, brightening and priming effects as well as the elimination of excess shine and decongestion of pores. Skin preparation product for makeup application and all day wear.

Wild Rose Advanced Brightening Sleeping Facial ($48): More than just a mask and more than just a night cream. Overnight facial-in-a-jar delivering brighter skin by the morning. With each use, the appearance of skin discoloration and dark spots continue to improve.

Wild Rose Vitamin C Active Brightening Oil ($54): Award winning brightening oil boosted with super C providing antioxidant action in addition to repairing fine lines and wrinkles, while also improving the skin’s overall tone and texture.

April: Rosacea Awareness Month with Jurlique

Jurlique is a brand that is wonderfully effective and the entire month of April is Rosacea Awareness Month and April 22nd is Earth Day.

If you’re struggling with Rosacea, Jurlique’s Calendula Redness Rescue Soothing Moisturising Cream is here to help. This cream contains Redness Rescue Complex which helps calm visible redness with Jurlique’s organic blend of calming ingredients.

Jurlique doesn’t only celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd; their promise to the earth is to minimizing their environmental footprint every day while creating your favorite Jurlique products. 

See below on how they are constantly pitching in to save our environment:

· Saved over 2,000 kilo liters of water every year by transporting it from their factory to their farm just down the road to help their plants grow
· Saved 1,102 trees by reducing their carbon emissions by 20%
· Implemented 260 solar panels on their farm and warehouse
· Transitioned some of their old aluminum tubes to plastic packaging eliminating 70% of waste during production

To celebrate further, Jurlique is having an Earth Day promotion where you can receive a FREE 7 piece gift set + an eco-tote bag with any purchase over $60 with the promo code “EARTHDAY” at checkout. 

Jurlique Calendula Redness Rescue Soothing Moisturising Cream ($46 at Jurlique.com)

This high performance soothing cream features our proprietary Comfort Complex including Calendula, to help comfort sensitivity, while essential fatty acids provide optimum hydration and skin barrier protection benefits with antioxidants to help protect against environmental aggressors. Skin feels restored, comforted and hydrated.

· Redness Rescue Complex: Super-potent, organically grown Calendula is the star ingredient in our proprietary Comfort Complex. This new organic blend brings together enhanced levels of Chamomile, Echinacea, Self-Heal, Spilanthes and Marshmallow extracts to provide an effective defense in soothing red, sensitized skin.

Jurlique Rosewater Balancing Mist ($24 at Jurlique.com)

A daily hydrating mist featuring the relaxing scent of rose that restores, tones, and hydrates the complexion in one simple spritz. With its rich infusion of rose and marshmallow living energy, this formula provides the skin with balancing, moisturizing refreshment. Ideal for normal/combination skin types.

Jurlique Skin Balancing Face Oil ($50 at Jurlique.com)

This luxurious, lightweight facial treatment keeps skin hydrated and in perfect balance—during the day or night. It deeply moisturizes, helps to improve skin’s suppleness and elasticity, and addresses signs of uneven texture. It re-balances natural oil production to calm oily areas and hydrate dry skin areas. A great way to protect from moisture loss and environmental aggressors, this formula replenishes the complexion and brings a soft youthful glow to dull, dry skin.

Jurlique Herbal Recovery Advanced Serum ($56 at Jurlique.com)

This youth defense concentrate serum features a proprietary active complex: Naturadiance PB18+ to help reduce the appearance of fine lines, help increase elasticity, restore radiance and increase hydration, while antioxidants create a natural defense shield to help protect against environmental aggressors. Leaves skin visibly glowing, hydrated and younger-looking.

Jurlique Nutri-Define Collection:

· Essential Conditioning Lotion ($65 at Jurlique.com)

A deeply hydrating concentrated treatment essence infused with powerful botanicals to deeply replenish the skin and restore moisture to help maintain optimum skin balance and a youthful appearance. Essential Conditioning Lotion delivers the first active layer of Biosome5 nutrients to address the multiple signs of ageing, and is a foundational step in your skin care ritual.

· Eye Contour Balm ($90 at Sephora and Jurlique.com)

A total eye contour treatment. This concentrated balm with powerful botanicals helps visibly reduce the signs of wrinkles, slackened skin and treat dehydration around the delicate eye contour area. Helps the appearance of skin firmness, density and skin brightness in the eye area. The eye contour area appears more lifted, defined and with a smoother appearance.

· Refining Foaming Cleanser ($55 at Jurlique.com)

A smoothing, silky-soft creamy cleanser with natural polishing beads helps to gently refine skin texture while retaining skin’s essential moisture levels to restore a smooth and glowing complexion. Skin feels refined, refreshed and perfectly cleansed.

Jurlique Sun Specialist Range:

· SPF40 High Protection Cream PA+++ ($38 at Jurlique.com)

This rich cream combines UVA and UVB sunscreen ingredient technology with new Superberry Complex, a fruit extract blend that delivers essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids to condition and protect the skin from the effects of environmental aggressors. Inca Inchi Oil is rich in essential fatty acids and a special blend of natural emollients and Shea Butter help to maintain optimum skin moisturization during sun exposure for skin that looks and feels protected, hydrated and smooth.

· Sunless Tanner ($36 at Jurlique.com)

This lightweight, non-streaky formula is designed to provide multi-benefits of a natural, golden sunless tan, protection from environmental aggressors and intense hydration. Specially formulated with Sweet Orange fruit extract to help gently produce a natural, bronzed glow, and new Superberry Complex, a fruit extract blend that delivers essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids to protect and condition the skin from the effects of environmental aggressors. With a hint of color for an instant glow and Safflower Seed Oil to deeply hydrate, skin feels smooth, soft with healthy-looking color and luminosity.

· After Sun Replenishing Moisturising Lotion ($36 at Jurlique.com)

A deeply nourishing, post-sun hydrating lotion for face and body designed to help restore moisture to the skin and maintain a lasting, even tan. This creamy formula is enriched with deeply hydrating natural butters to deliver the ultimate in moisturisation to protect and condition the skin from the effects of the drying effects of sun exposure.

Jurlique: Perfect For Valentine's Day

How I love Jurlique. Years ago I was at New London Pharmacy being delightfully introduced to their collection and I fell hard....

Jurlique invites you to celebrate the spirit of reconnection this Chinese New Year by sharing the gift of Roses. Enriched with nourishing Rose Essential Oil and a unique blend of precious Rose extracts, this special edition of our worldwide #1 bestseller makes the perfect New Year gift for family and friends to celebrate the spirit of reconnection that lies at the heart of this very special time of year.

Jurlique Limited Edition Rosewater Balancing Mist Intense Deluxe Edition ($65; available at Jurlique.com)

Benefits:

· Restores and hydrates skin

· Skin is refreshed, balanced and soothed

· Possesses antioxidant properties

*This product is dermatologist tested and free from PEGs, silicones, and colorants. Formulated without parabens, sulfates, and phthalates. The fragrance is made from a 100 percent natural blend of rose extracts.

Jurlique Rose Love Balm ($12 at Jurlique.com)

A natural salve that moisturizes, softens and protects dry or chapped skin. Infused with the natural scent of roses.

Benefits:

-Superior skin treatment salve that moisturizes and soothes sensitive, dry or chapped skin on lips, cuticles, elbows or anywhere skin is chafed and irritated.

-Lightly scented with tangerine oil, it protects against moisture loss.

-Provides antioxidant protection.

Jurlique Essence of Rose Roll-On Fragrance Oil ($22 at Jurlique.com)

This signature Jurlique fragrance captures the essence of the world's finest Rose Oils, Shea Butter, and the purity of Jurlique's very own organically grown Rosa Gallica in a sleek, pop-in your purse sized bottle. Alluring, feminine, floral and modern.

More Valentine Ideas from Korres and Lavanila

Finding the perfect Valentine’s Day gift idea for friends is always a struggle. This year show someone how much you truly care with a gift that will leave them looking, smelling and feeling fresh.

While many get flowers or chocolate for Valentine’s Day, take a different route and gift them a rose in the form of beauty!

Korres The Brightest Skin Wild Rose Collection features three steps for your brightest skin. Formulated with wild rose oil, a powerful natural source of vitamin C, this regimen includes the iconic Wild Rose Brightening & Refining Buff Cleanser and Wild Rose 24-Hour Moisturizer paired with the best-selling Wild Rose Sleeping Facial.

Available for $48 from Sephora.com

Send them a scent that not only they will fall in love with, but also everyone around them. There is also No Aluminum or Parabens in their line making your gift a HEALTHY choice as well! Lavanila’s The Healthy Passion Fruit Collection. This fragrance is a crisp, tropical explosion of Passion Fruit, Guava and Peach Nectar steeped in a warm base of sandalwood and Madagascar vanilla. You're sure to fall in love with this romantic blend of powerful aphrodisiacs prized for their seductive properties (wink, wink).

This amazing scent comes in Lavanila’s Healthy Fragrance ($42), Deodorant ($14) and Roller-Ball Fragrance ($19).

Available at Lavanila.com

  

On a side note, the above deodorant came highly recommended by a friend who has a sister with breast cancer. In the hospital, Lavanila was recommended to her. I have been using it ever since. So, give it some thought as you are not only giving it as a gift, but you are also helping a loved one/friend opt for a healthier product/collection/brand.

Love + Roses: Beauty Mist

Right about this time of the year, I begin my Valentine's Day articles, yet most beautiful gifts could be given any day of the year. Love + Roses Beauty Mist is one of those items.

It is an intoxicating blend of natural antiaging beautifiers, essential oils, flower essences, and waters to soften skin and hair. It both silkens and tones the skin and can also be used to refresh weary hair and makeup. It's just that simple.

How to Use: Mist liberally on face, hair, and body for instant hydration and aromatherapy.

More about the the product....

Rare + Precious

Picked during only the morning dew, it takes tens of thousands of rose petals to make just one ounce of the precious rose oil we use in Love + Roses Beauty Mist.

Beautiful + Beneficial

Known for its unparalleled emollient, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory benefits, their mist is brimming with rose essential oil to refine and renew skin at a cellular level. Gentle enough for all skin types, this mist also helps to lower cortisol levels, ease depression and anxiety, and is a scientifically prove aphrodisiac (wink, wink).

Pretty + Powerful

Moreover, the delicate rose is powerful it takes only 20 minutes for one drop of rose oil to be absorbed in to skin and communicate its benefits to every cell in your body.

Love + Roses was created to be practical and luxurious. A convenient spray boasting the premiere antiaging ingredients often reserved for the most prestige night creams:

Cassia Augustifolia Seed Polysaccharide Mimics hyaluronic acid to retain water on the surface of the skin and hair.

Rhodiola Rosea Root Extract - A powerhouse adaptogenic herb that protects skin and hair from environmental damage, minimizes fine lines and wrinkles, and assists with stress and fatigue management.

Moringa Seed Extract - A potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that promotes collagen production, supports skin firmness, and boosts the immune system.

Where to Buy: $14 (2oz) $36 (8 oz) at Anthropologie, Shop Olivine, and Beauty Habit

* Creative Gift Alert: These Olivine pencils make a great gift, too! Available for $10 HERE