Burt's Bees: BB Cream

With Spring finally in the air and Summer around the corner, it’s time to ditch that heavy coverage foundation. Enter Burt’s Bees BB Cream ($15.00): light-weight, super hydrating and armed with SPF 15. 

Available in 3 mineral-rich shades, Burt’s Bees BB cream offers instant, light-weight coverage, as it firms and conceals to visibly reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Formulated with Noni Extract, a nourishing relative of the invigorating coffee bean, BB Cream offers a citrusy, multi-tasking pick-me-up for skin. Wake up to the true, natural you – perfected.

Burt’s Bees® has been offering distinctive earth-friendly, natural health and beauty care products for 30 years. From a beekeeper’s backyard in Maine to the leading edge of natural, Burt’s Bees knows natural body care solutions from head-to-toe and operates with The Greater Good™ top of mind. No parabens, phthalates, petrolatum or SLS and no animal testing.

Burt’s Bees® BB Cream is available now in national grocery, drug, and mass retailers and via burtsbees.com.

Dive into Spring: Waterproof Solutions for Both Skin + Hair

With the warmer weather outside, I start using more and more waterproof items to keep all in its proper place!  Here are a few tried and true waterproof products to keep makeup, skincare and your hair as glamorous as you'd like them to be!

Summer rays can add years to your skin and the time has come to Cosmedicine Even The Score. The Even The Score™ Perfected Very Water Resistant Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen for Face will keep up with your active lifestyle while providing a shield of budge-proof protection. Packed with anti-aging properties, SPF 30 and vitamins, you’ll be doing your skin a huge favor this summer by providing it with the nutrients and protection it needs. This high-tech formula has been rigorously tested in extreme conditions for water, heat and humidity resistance. Zero drip, zero irritation to skin and eyes. It’s a win-win.

Price/Availability: $95 (1.35oz) at Cosmedicine.com

 

Milani Stay Put Brow Color

This waterproof pomade features a dual-ended applicator which allows for easy outlining and taming – use the angled brush end to fill in sparse brows with lasting color, and flip to the brush end to effortlessly blend in color and groom for natural looking brows you just can’t achieve with a normal brow pencil.

Create a fierce look for fall – available in 5 shades including Soft Brown, Natural Taupe, Medium Brown, Brunette, and Dark Brown

Price/Availability: $6.99 at CVS Stores nationwide

Introducing the first Waterproof Mascara from Mineral Fusion – this durable formula outlasts a day in the pool, a sweaty workout, and even the most emotional moments. Its innovative hourglass-shaped brush evenly distributes the formula and leaves lashes coated until taken off with makeup remover. This mascara offers all of the benefits of waterproof mascara, but replaces harsh chemicals with lash-nourishing ingredients. Available in three richly-pigmented shades, these mascaras are “eye-deal” for every eye color, yielding flake-free lashes and next-level natural definition.
Price/Availability: $18.99 at MineralFusion.com and Whole Foods Markets nationwide

The originator of the cushion compact, AMOREPACIFIC unveils the Sun Protection Cushion, Broad Spectrum SPF 30+for sheer, weightless sun protection. This very water-resistant compact is the first ever colorless cushion, and is formulated with hydrating bamboo sap to strengthen skin and protect against environmental aggressors. Its fluid-capturing technology transforms the liquid sunscreen into a cushioned texture for a luxurious SPF application experience.
Price/Availability: $40 at Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Sephora and us.amorepacific.com

Invisibobble

Time to say goodbye to kinks, headaches split ends and soaking wet hair ties! This knight in spiral armor puts an end to all problems you`ve had tying up your hair. The magic trick to invisibobble’s® traceless outcome lies in its peculiar telephone cord shape. Wrapped around the hair, the invisibobble® places uneven pressure around the ponytail, allowing it to be held strongly without being too tight. This gives individual hairs more space within the ponytail and leads to a traceless result.

Created with artificial resin, invisibobble® is perfect for outdoor activities and poolside parties as it does not collect moisture. Take a dip and easily remove invisibobble from your wet hair with absolutely no pulling.
$7.95 for three hair rings at Sephora, Ulta, Nordstrom, Urban Outfitters, Top Shop & other fine retailers

Get the coverage lips need with COOLA SPF 30 Mineral Liplux. This Mineral Liplux is Water Resistant up to 40 minutes, and adds a hint of natural color while protecting, nourishing and conditioning your lips. Organic Cupacu Butter and Mongongo Oil offers incredible creaminess that promotes a special softness and smoothness to boost your lip’s natural moisture and help improve the appearance of aging and thinning skin.
Price: $18
Availability: coolasuncare.com

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.

Coola Suncare: Addresses New SPF Legislation

I truly hope you all know how much I care about you and your well being. With that being said, even with colder weather, we should still continue to wear SPF. New changes to sunscreen legislation have us resorting back to our SPF awareness which is crucial to our health. Just recently, the senate passed a bill that requires the FDA to respond to pending sunscreen ingredients within a shorter period of time (8 different ingredients have been in their backlog, some for over a decade). With skin cancer being the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the US, it’s more important than ever that we are conscious of the most up-to-date ways to protect their skin from the sun’s harmful rays.

COOLA Suncare never wants you to question your sun protection. Each of their SPF products incorporates natural plant phyto-protectors that have innate sun protection qualities –nature’s way of protecting itself from the sun!

Formulated with ingredients like plankton, red algae, and red raspberry seed oil, COOLA’s reformulated Classic line of sunscreens also incorporates a patented plant-derived ingredient that is both certified organic and eco-certified and enables the brand to cut their active levels by 80%! That’s just another way that COOLA is leading the charge to create the healthiest sunscreens on the market.

COOLA Suncare is available at ULTA Beauty, ULTA.com and coolasuncare.com, as well as the finest Resorts, Spas and Specialty Boutiques.