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Mid-Summer Ice Dream - Give Your Skin an Icy Treat

July 26, 2009 – 8:41 pm

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Quick Summary of Beneficial Skin Rejeuvenating Ingredients and new web findings

July 14, 2009 – 6:17 pm

I just found a new site full of enticing anti-aging skin care ingredients and recipes that are fairly up to state-of-the-art, including penetration enhancers that help deliver active ingredients to deep levels of the skin where they are most needed and best utilized.
Here is the URL: http://www.bulkactives.com/
While I haven’t yet purchased anything from this site, […]

By Skin Geek | Also posted in At Home Beauty DIY Formulas, Anti-Aging | Comments (0)

Mineral Makeup Frenzy - Do Mineral Makeup Really Last Forever?

April 30, 2009 – 1:17 pm

Mineral makeup has been the rage in cosmetics for quite a while now, touting brand new skin benefits that leave traditional powders and foundations “in the dust”.  The “true” mineral makeup is 100% dry (no liquids, moisture, oils, fats, emulsifiers) and of 100% inert composition (minerals only, no organic compounds), making it “unable to harbor […]

By Skin Geek | Also posted in Organic Skin Care, Allergies Irritations Sensitive Skin, Adult Acne | Comments (0)

Niacinamide vs. Niacin?

March 31, 2009 – 3:19 pm

 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 […]

By Skin Geek | Also posted in Anti Wrinkle, Brightening Lightening Skin Whitening, Anti-Aging, Adult Acne | Comments (1)

Database List of Niacinamide Research Abstracts for Skin Health

March 31, 2009 – 3:05 pm

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 […]

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

March 29, 2009 – 12:15 am

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 […]

By Skin Geek | Also posted in Current Formulations, Anti Wrinkle, Brightening Lightening Skin Whitening, Anti-Aging, Adult Acne | Comments (0)

Sleeping Beauty: Maximize the Rejeuvenating Power of Sleep

March 26, 2009 – 3:02 pm

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, […]

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

March 25, 2009 – 2:10 pm

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 […]

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Valentine’s Day Skin Trauma - Scalding Burn and Mandatory Self-Treatment Day 2 & 3

February 17, 2009 – 3:03 pm

Thanks to valued SkinGeek.com readers and their sound advice distilled from professional experience, I have more confidence in handling my fresh burn wound before I go in (FINALLY!) to a doctor’s office today.
There are essentially two main “schools” of instructions being catered to me.  One adamant of keeping the wound DRY, and the other in […]

By Skin Geek | Also posted in Active Ingredients as Supplements + Foods, Wound Healing, Post Surgical Care | Comments (1)

Generic Niacinamide Recipe for At Home Masks

February 9, 2009 – 2:08 pm

Depending on what kind of skin you have (oily/sensitive/dry), decide what base you want to use for the niacinamide to go into.
You can use contact solution or purified water to start.
Most commercial serums and light lotions will do, however try to avoid products with high concentrations of vitamin C or AHA in it as it […]

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