Rose Water for your skin

Rosewater 6oz liquid by Caswell-Massey

Rose Water is becoming more popular in skincare especially for dry or sensitive skin types.  Rose water is a wonderful astringent and smells delicious! Due to its nourishing properties rose water hydrates skin and can help treat acne prone skin.  Eva Mendes is a fan of Caswell-Massey Floral Rose Water-only $18! Rose water can also be used as a fragrance so next time you are in your local pharmacy/apothecary look for rose water and drop a little into your lotion to!

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This review will blow your mind to what’s possible when it comes to cosmetic revolution!

Imagine cosmetics made with hemp seed oil!

I’m a huge fan of hemp seeds and hemp seed oil for my own consumption, but I would have imagined that you could add hemp seed oil to cosmetics.

That’s exactly what Verde Cosmetics is all about. It’s no surprise that as Canadians, we’d produce a line of cosmetics made of hemp since Canada is the top producer of hemp!

And just in case you were wondering, hemp is not marijuana. Hemp and marijuana are very different varieties from the same plant species Cannabis Sativa. The major difference between the two varieties is in the level of THC, the psychoactive ingredient found at levels between 5-20% in marijuana while at trace levels of 0.00030% in hemp (maximum allowable limit).

Over the last few months I’ve been testing a number of these products and my reviewers have as well and we’ve all been blown away by these products! I’ll admit this review is a long time in the making, but you’ll be so happy we took our time to test out the product.

Those fine lines, wrinkles and gray hairs are battle scars. You could carry them proudly. But most of us want to look younger, not flaunt our advanced age. It’s a sad fact that looking older can hurt your chances if you’re seeking a mate, job hunting or even if you’re involved in negotiations of any kind.

Robin Ryan, author of “Over 40 & You’re Hired!” conducted all sorts of research for the book and discovered that, in essence, employers prefer to hire people under 40.

Here are two videos on acne products that I’ve been using and that are working at diminishing my scars.

If you’ve been looking for new skincare products to help you deal with either adult acne or hyperpigmentation … you’ll want to check out these videos:

1) Biophora acne skincare glycolic review

By our Editorial Assistant Colleen

The New Year comes with more youthful looking eyes?

That’s certainly what Lancôme wants with their launch of their Génifique Eye Cream coming out in the New Year.

What you should probably look out for first is the Génifique Eye Youth Activating Eye Concentrate because it might be the first one coming out from their collection.

This is going to be an exciting product because it’s supposed to target those proteins that produce a younger-looking skin and it will help slow down the aging process to your skin at the same time.

Feature presented by Fran from The Clearest Skin Ever

When I first got struck with acne at eighteen I thought I could chuck a few antibiotics down and I’d be magically cured for life. Then when it came back when I was 21 I thought the birth control pill would be the next miracle cure.

That was until I hit 27 and my acne went quickly from mild to severe over a period of just a couple of months. For the first time in my life I experienced deep cysts along my jawline which were quite painful and stuck around for weeks.

Being 27 and newly single, I started to freak out so much about my skin. I figured I was too ugly to date and spent all my spare time in front of the Internet researching my next miracle cure. Antibiotics weren’t working anymore, the birth control pill didn’t sit well with me, I took Roaccutane for a whole six days before I couldn’t handle the side effects, and I’m not even going to go into how many topicals I tried.

A friend of mine, Fran, has been coaching people for the last few
years on how to cure their acne. She has just opened the doors to
her new holistic acne treatment program and it looks awesome.
>>> You can access the program here: Clear your acne!
The program is a 10 step QuickStart guide to clearing your skin.

I must say that Biophora skincare might be the most incredible discovery of this year in terms of controlling my adult acne.

My video review will explain why I feel this way!

***If you like this video, please rate it!***

>>>> Here are some other reviews on Biophora skincare:

1) Review: Biophora Skincare to help control adult acne breakouts

2) I’ve started doing lactic peels to get rid of my acne scars

When a PR company representing approached me about the CTRL Acne line, I almost dismissed it because I was so busy at the time.

Since adult acne is my #1 skincare concern and the idea of drying out my skin with topical products that might give place to wrinkles are not all that interesting to me, I’m always on the hunt for anything that can help control my acne without remove all the natural oils from my skin.

I had documented my reasons for taking Genuine Health’s Perfect Skin because I refused to take antibiotics to control the acne, but still needed to find relief.

***This is a long post***

I’ve waited for this day for so long and when I woke up on April 2nd I could barely contain my excitement because I was finally going to see a cosmetic doctor for my acne scars!

If you’ve been following my daily beauty banters than you know that I hate having to deal with acne as an adult, considering I had it as a teenager, and I hate the sight of my acne scars even more.

When you are a dark skin beauty, acne scars leave dark spots on your skin … in my case, I have them on my cheeks, jaw line, chest, shoulders and a bit on the top of   my back. It got so bad that last summer I refused to show my arms and covered them because I was convinced the world could only see that.

I featured the acne control skincare line D-Zit a few months ago. If you remember, I got some great results from this line. Since trying the D-Zit acne system trial kit, I’ve discovered a few other products from Derma MD (they produce the D-Zit line) that help with inflammation (which is a by-product of having acne prone skin) and a product to help reduce the hyperpigmentation (aka dark spots left behind by your pimples).

You can read my original review here: Now you can control acne breakouts thanks to D-Zit: Acne System Trial Kit

This time around, I tried D-Zit’s key products along with two products from the Derma MD line for about 60 days (my test fell right in the middle of the holiday season when stress is at its high point and pimples are a fact of life).

Neither the D-Zit nor Derma MD products will deliver instant results. You’ll notice the results over time if you stick to this routine.

Last month Norah R., who is one of Beauty Match’s readers, gracefully shared her first session and first experience with fraxel laser to help her erase acne scars that have been bothering her for decades now.

I don’t have the type of scaring that Norah has because mine are all at the surface, but because my scars are dark, I have to say that they really bother me. It was so bad this past summer, that it affected the way I dressed because I wasn’t willing to expose my shoulders which were covered with dark hyperpigmentation spots.

I can surely sympathize with Norah and her quest for perfect skin and relief from acne scars.

If you didn’t have a chance to catch Norah’s first post, I’d recommend that you start reading that post first: Have you considered laser resurfacing to get rid of your severe acne scars?

Story submitted by reader Norah R.

New year, new me! Or, at least, that’s the idea.

After my first Fraxel treatment in November, 2008, I can’t honestly say I was looking forward to the next one. It’s painful! And for someone with a low pain threshold like me, the pain was almost unbearable the first time around … how would I react with a higher setting on the laser, as the technician mentioned the last time?

When I first talked about my experience with the Perfect Skin capsules (you can read more on this here: I’m testing Perfect Skin from Genuine Health to control my acne.), I had not yet started taking my daily scoop of Healthy Skin.

Not long ago, I started replacing my regular Greens+ with the Healthy Skin. With Genuine Health’s Healthy Skin you get your daily dosage of Greens+, but you also get the added benefits of all-natural supplements that restore, improve and protect your skin!

Not a word of a lie … I’ve finally found a way of controlling my acne and I can barely believe the results!!!

Now that my face is looking much clearer, smoother and I’m noticing that my dark pigments are starting to slowly fade, I’m hitting myself upside the head for not having tried Perfect Skin and Healthy Skin from Genuine Health earlier. I could have saved myself months of bad breakouts and the nasty dark pigmentation spots that follow.

I had seen the products at my favourite natural health food store, but I thought to myself this is “WAY too good to be true”.

If laser resurfacing was an option for my skin tone, I most likely would have done it a long time ago, but alas given the bad experience I had with laser hair removal, I know that I need to stay as far away from laser … especially on my face.

I’m so grateful to reader Norah that she will gracefully recount her first of many laser resurfacing treatments to deal with scars left behind on her face from teenage acne.

Norah will be documenting her many treatments, but this is the first account of her road to having a face that is free of any scars!

Story submitted by reader Norah R.

In this tight economy the last thing you want to do is buy a product just to realize that it’s not working all that well for you.

I had discovered the “D” Zit Acne System at a beauty trade show a while ago and I thought the whole concept was quite brilliant because it was a complete system to control acne and one of the ingredients used in the formulation is wasabi!

There have been a lot of unusual ingredients added to skincare products lately, but I don’t think that any of them have been as unusual to me as wasabi. D-Zit uses this condiment from the East because wasabi has anti-bacterial properties which helps prevent infection, resulting in acne.