Cash your paycheck and go to the Ocean to erase your facial lines
If you're spending this Summer weekend near the ocean, I'm jealous. Seattle is beautiful, but it just doesn't compare to a day on the beach in Cape Cod reading a trashy novel (slathered, of course, in sun protection creams like the Peter Thomas Roth SPF 20 gel!).
As I browsed my latest copy of New Beauty magazine, the latest trend for prestige anti-aging product lines popped from the glossy pages. Product after product contains unique compounds and collagen-stimulating ingredients that are derived from the ocean: seaweed, microorganisms and deep ocean water.
Here's just a sampling of products illustrate this trend (they're also the most intiguing to me!):
- Elemis Pro-Collagen Eye Renewal is based on an organic brown algae with proven anti-aging attributes. {See Elemis official website if you want more info about the company). Sold at Nordstrom for $99.
- Estee Lauder has a prestige line called Re-Nutriv which includes the pair of creams called Re-Creation Day Creme SPF 15 and Re-Creation Night Creme. The company calls it "the most comprehensive anti-aging system Estee Lauder Research has ever created." One of the main ingredients is Padina--a sea plant that grows a protective, calcified shell. Another set of compounds are 74 trace minerals that come from a Japanese island.
Additionally, the cream has sea water taken from at 2,000 feet below the surface of the waters off of Hawaii. I think I should apply to be a scientist for Estee Lauder! Downside of such an exotic product? The price. Both creams can be had for $600. Ouch.
- Babor Sea Creation Cream taps into an ocean microorganism (thermophilus), sea silk algae, and mother-of-pearl to firm, smooth, and tighten facial skin.
The pearl protein is "the source of the protective protein found in mother-of-pearl. It fills skin cells with free, regenerating amino acids." The official company website is here. Again, prepare yourself to spend to get these exotic ingredients. $400 for the Sea Creation product.
Are you using an ocean-derived product that I should know about? Please leave a comment!
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25 Apr 2007
sea flora is a new, local and innovative product that is literally in your backyard. the seaweed is harvested off the outer coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia.