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Ingredient Spotlight: Retinol

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Ingredient Spotlight: Retinol

Vitamin A is an oil-soluble vitamin critical to healthy immune function, vision, reproduction, and cellular communication.  The human body is incapable of synthesizing Vitamin A, relying instead on dietary and/or supplemental replenishment. Applied topically, it speeds cellular turnover, inhibits collagen breakdown, and normalizes keratinization.  Multi-faceted skin benefits make it ideal over-the-counter solution for both aging and acne-prone skin.

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Ingredient Spotlight: Ascorbic Acid

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Ingredient Spotlight: Ascorbic Acid

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin essential for the synthesis/maintenance of collagen. The human body is incapable of synthesizing or storing Vitamin C, relying instead on dietary and/or supplemental replenishment. 

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Pretty Little Likes in a Bottle

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Pretty Little Likes in a Bottle

  Michelle and I have been friends for more than 14 years, spending many a lunch hour and Saturday afternoon at the local makeup counter evaluating the potential of the latest skincare. Drawn by the promises to soothe, treat, tighten, brighten, glow, and well make us our morning coffee, if we believed everything promised with the launch of a new product. More often than not, I bought the marketing hype, leaving happily with my pastel bag of dreams in hand. When Michelle developed her own skincare line and asked me for feedback, I was more than willing. As the first and...

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