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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Niacinamide vs. Niacin?

 I have received many responses and inquiries regarding niacinamide and its relationship to niacin in topical skin care.  Without me even noticing, my favorite active skin care ingredient, NIACINAMIDE, has gone POPULAR!! WOW!!  Everywhere I look online there are products and research supporting the benefits of this supercharged skin care ingredient.
Chemical names are confusing, so […]

Database List of Niacinamide Research Abstracts for Skin Health

Below please find FUNDED (not as objective, but still valid research) AND neutral research abstracts regarding Niacinamide’s TOPICAL (skin care) use for improving skin conditions including yellowing, sallowing, aging, wrinkles, and acne.
Here is a great commercial link on niacinamide in commercially available skin care: http://futurederm.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/spotlight-on-niacinamide/
Also, I went into the medical databases and retrieved the […]

Bravo Olay: Regenerist Reversal Treatment Foam’s INCREDIBLE FOAMING TEXTURE

The Olay Regenerist line was the product line that introduced niacinamide into my beauty arsenal and I have been more in favor of niacinamide than any other active ingredient, even alpha lipoic acid and vitamin e.
Now, Olay has impressed me again with its incredible new technology: a FOAM that pampers the skin.
The reason why I […]

Sleeping Beauty: Maximize the Rejeuvenating Power of Sleep

A Good Night’s Sleep is certainly one of nature’s most powerful anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, and healing biological functions.  Try applying makeup or looking vibrant when you haven’t slept well for a week — results not so fabulous.  A great nap often cures (even if only temporarily) the discomfort that induced the sleepiness (for example food coma, […]

Lash-ing Eyelash Notes - Mascaras, Primers, Curlers, and Makeup Removal, a 2009 update

What’s the most instant, most effective, and most essential makeup procedure for an Asian girl?  EYE MAKEUP… in this case, MASCARA!  There’s a reason why Japanese magazine cover girls look like artisan-sculpted porcelain dolls and MASCARA is what gives that leap from blah-flat-meek features (a downside of having very refined Asian features) to Va-Va-Voom, cartoon […]

Botox for Jaw Line Reduction and Facial Slimming in Asian Cosmetic Surgery

On women particularly, wide and squarish jaws give the illusion that the face look wide, flat, even puffy, and less than exquisitely feminine — a fairly common genetic trait in particularly Asian ethnicities.   Wide and squarish jaws are also seen amongst other racial demographies but do not cause as much of a cosmetic concern.  For […]

Acne Product Review: Proactiv Provides Quick Fix with Consequences

Proactive has been a brand name in the acne treatment market for almost a decade, and as an “ex” acne sufferer I never  had an opportunity to use the line.  About a year ago I used Proactiv’s Green Tea EGCG serum and though I loved the consistency, the potency of active ingredients were lacking and thus I used […]

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