ecLIPS is Our December Skincare of the Month: A Plumping and Moisturizing Winter Cream for Lips

Winter can be very hard on lips; our newest Skincare of the Month will help to keep lips soft!

ecLIPS™ is our new plumping and moisturizing winter cream for lips. It can be applied to lips by itself for extra skin moisturizing especially made to be compatible with outdoor activity in cold weather; it is suitable for use indoors as well, where temperatures are warm and air can be lip-crackingly dry. ecLIPS™ is a deep-penetrating formulation with ingredients that will please health-conscious consumers and will help in achieving plump, moist, healthy-looking lips.

ecLIPS™ features an exotic oil, botanical extract,  and the anti-oxidant vitamins C and E:

• Tea seed oil
• Oil/water extract of green tea
• Oil-soluble ascorbic ester (Vitamin C)
  
• D-alpha tocopherol (Vitamin E)
  
• Xylitol

Unlike many other lip creams, ecLIPS™ is free of perfumes, colors, and mineral oils.

For people who apply colored lipstick, please apply ecLIPS™ first; allow it a few minutes to absorb before applying colored lipstick.

We are launching ecLIPS™ at a special introductory value of $15 per 0.7 oz (20 gram) jar. This is another product we have released to benefit our customers. We are offering this special price so that more people can try the product and benefit from it, and get a glimpse of our capabilities, quality, and originality in every aspect of product formulation. It is also intended to act as a little light of new hope for customers who are now struggling with crushing financial pressures and tell them that that they count even when their shopping power is reduced, and that we made a wonderful and affordable new product for them.

(For more of our low-price, high-quality skincare, we invite you to visit Lotion-Potion.com)

Because we have priced ecLIPS™ so low, we must limit orders to a maximum of four 0.7 oz jars per person per month at this price. We will post an update in this blog if we change this policy.

We are accepting orders for ecLIPS™ now, and we have begun shipping it as free skincare of the month to our qualified customers.

Two New Formulations Feature Cactus Fruit

Our free Skincare of the Month for November has been mailed to shoppers who made qualifying purchases in October and September and we are very happy to make it available now for general sale.

DesertBloom™ Hydrating Cream is formulated in a soothing emollient base of mango butter, with extracts of cactus fruit and blackberry seeds and essential oil of balsam peru.

Like mango butter [Mangifera indica], both cactus fruit [prickly pear, Opuntia ficus-indica] and balsam peru [Myroxylon pereirae] have long histories of use as traditional remedies for skin irritations and other complaints. We’ve combined them with blackberry [Rubus fruticosus], rich in anti-oxidants, and extra Vitamin C for a new hydrating cream with a luxurious feel and a delicate aroma.

We also feature our favorite cactus fruit in our new Topical Bodybuilding serum for scalp: scalpXtreme™.

 Ingredients in scalpXtreme™ include:

• our proprietary Nanosomes™ (anti-aging, cell-membrane lipid modifiers and biochemical rejuvenators, and interactive intra-dermal vehicles when introduced via IV or to isolated cells and tissues)
• resveratrol (anabolic, anti-aging, arrestor of pre-mature cell appoptosis (programed cell death), and one of the most powerful anti-oxidants available when used orally)
• saw palmetto extract (contains ingredients which are very supportive of balding scalp to carry on healthy functions when used orally)
• caffeine (stimulant toner when used orally)
• arginine (possible nitric oxide accellerator when used orally)
• ethylcreatine-malate (a possible source of energy and endurance when used orally)
• ferulic acid (chemically related to curcumin but without the strong yellow color; added in large concentration. A powerful anti-oxidant and UV absorber.)
• gamma oryzanol (a natural oil-soluble form of ferulic acid-phytosterols congugate)
• adenosine-alpha-keto-glutarate (metabolic anchoring)
• Vitamin C (in an oil-soluble form)

in a concentrated cactus [Opuntia] fractionated extract formulation. Anabolic synergy among these ingredients enables them to work smoothly  together; synergistic design throughout our scalp-care line means that, while scalpXtreme™ is a powerful standalone product, it works especially well in partnership with our JuveLine^™ and NanoScalp^®

We invite you to visit the scalpXtreme™ product information page at http://www.elsomresearch.com/shopping/products/scalp-extreme.htm and buy it from our Cosmeceuticals Shop.

Royal Jelly Moisturizer is First Skincare of the Month

NanoRoyal^TM, our new moisturizer for skin and scalp, is our October 2008 Skincare of the Month!

NanoRoyal^TM features high concentrations of royal jelly and Vitamin C. Its ingredients include

• capric/caprylic glycerides
• ascorbyl palmitate
• royal jelly
• L-arginine
• essential oil of petitgrain
• phenonip

Free NanoRoyal^TM has been shipped to all who made qualifying purchases during September. We invite you to learn more about NanoRoyal^TM, which is now available for sale in our cosmeceuticals shop.

Free Skincare of the Month

Elsom Research is introducing a new and ambitious project. We will release a new skincare/scalpcare product every month for a period of one year. We call this project “Skincare of the Month“. Every month, our new “Skincare of the Month” product will be shipped free of charge to our qualifying customers.

Make a qualifying purchase at new-equilibrium-skincare or the-formulator and you will receive our “Skincare of the Month,” automatically and for free, for the next 2 months.

Shipments will begin in October 2008, based on qualifying purchases made in September 2008. We invite you to visit www.skincareofthemonth.com/FAQ.htm for many more details.

Simple Skincare

You’ve certainly noticed that the cost of almost everything has gone up in the past year. As manufacturers, we face this problem in many directions: prices have increased for the supplies and equipment we buy; transportation costs are higher, both for the raw ingredients we have shipped to us and for the finished products we send out to our customers; budgets are tighter, so shoppers who might have previously stocked up with the largest-available size are now buying just enough to get by; money is tight, and it seems as if this may be the situation for a while.

The easy thing for us to do about the current financial crunch would be to join the crowd and raise all our prices, passing along our increased expenses to consumers. It would be easy, but it would be pointless: higher prices won’t make it easier for shoppers with already-stretched budgets to buy our high-quality cosmeceuticals. We may have to increase our prices someday, but that day has not arrived: we haven’t run out of creative ideas yet!

Since we’ve chosen not to pass on higher costs to consumers, we are implementing better ideas in two categories. First, we’ve been implementing more cost-effective ways to work; you won’t be able to notice many of these but some, such as changing the way we process online sales and re-designing The Formulator, you’ve probably already noticed. Second, and most interesting, we have developed and are now offering for sale two kinds of reasonably-priced skincare, made with the same great care and attention to detail as our more costly cosmeceutical products.

• At the-formulator.com, you can select a simple emollient base for $9.99, optionally adding one essential oil or botanical ingredient to create a 2oz (55gr) custom lotion. Because you choose which ingredient to add, with the price of each ingredient clearly posted, you control both the content and the cost of your lotion.
• At lotion-potion.com, you can choose from our new retail product line of “simple skincare“, featuring lotions and creams rich in vitamins and botanicals. We are launching this line with eight new skincare products, ranging in price from $9.95 for4oz moisturizing milk with essential oil of grapefruit (for morning) or lavender (for evening) to $34.95 for 1oz cream with 15% Vitamins C, E, and A. In addition to great prices, important ingredients, and our special formulation techniques, our new Lotion-Potion products feature something extra: poetry! Please check out lotion-potion.com, and let us know what you think.

We continue to develop new retail cosmeceuticals and to expand the list of ingredients you can add to your custom micro-batch via The Formulator. Watch this blog for announcements!

The-Formulator is Back!

The new and improved Formulator is available at http://www.the-formulator.com. It includes some interesting new features and is easier to operate; its design is consistent with that of our store for stock cosmeceuticals. Many new ingredients have been added. We have also added an option for creation of low-cost single-herb extracts in emollient oil to allow customers to try an idea they have about a specific herb without a major expenditure. It’s fun to experiment with it and formulate your own product according to your own preferences and budget; please give it a try and let us know what you think.

The-Formulator Takes a Vacation

We are working on major changes to The-Formulator, our custom micro-batch formulation technology, and to its Web site, the-formulator.com. We expect that it may take several months for these changes to be completed. Meanwhile, our own line of retail cosmeceuticals remains available at new-equilibrium-skincare but we are not accepting micro-batch orders for customized individual retail-size products; the smallest custom batch we can produce is 2Kg (4.4Lbs). This is very much smaller than the minimum batch size of other custom formulators, so we expect that small startup businesses and individuals who wish to experiment with innovative cosmeceuticals will continue to find our flexible formulation services uniquely useful. Of course, when a new and improved The-Formulator is available we will announce that here, and you are always welcome to share your ideas about The-Formulator in the Topical Formulations forum.

BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE at new cosmeceuticals shopping site!

At Elsom Research, we are always looking for a better way to do what we do. To support our online shoppers, our latest step forward is a complete upgrade and redesign of our shopping site to use two state-of-the-art e-commerce tools: the osCommerce shopping cart for product selection and Google Checkout for credit purchases. Both tools are widely used; once you visit our new site, you may realize that you are familiar with its structure from your visits to other online retailers.

At its new location, www.new-equilibrium-skincare.com, our shopping site will use Google Checkout to provide all of us with excellent protection against fraud. Google Checkout will also enable us to offer some new flexibility, such as acceptance of American Express and Discover cards, which our credit-card shoppers have long requested. For shoppers who choose not to use credit cards, payments by check or money order will now be processed in a simpler and better-integrated way than we have been able to offer in the past. osCommerce is feature-rich and supports customizations and extensions to make our shopping cart system easy for you to use and for us to manage The feature set you see in our shopping site will be adjusted and optimized as we learn from your feedback; we are very happy to make this new system available.

Our old shopping site will remain active briefly while we process the first orders through www.new-equilibrium-skincare.com and confirm that it is working smoothly. After that, we will proceed with redirecting the shopping links from our informational sites to send surfers to the correct pages within the new shopping site.

To encourage you to try our new and improved shopping site, we have a special offer: until the end of 2007, all orders placed through www.new-equilibrium-skincare.com will be doubled! We understand that all change can be a little unnerving; this offer is our way of thanking you for being patient while we make this change, and for helping us by using the site and letting us know what you think of it.

To begin 2-for-1 shopping, visit http://www.new-equilibrium-skincare.com/cosmeceuticals/

To read our HELP information about the new shopping site, visit http://www.new-equilibrium-skincare.com/help.htm

PROJECT FORMULATOR IS ACTIVE

As announced at elsomresearch.com May 5, 2005 and re-announced here, after a long period of development and anticipation, The Formulator is available!To read a little bit about our process for enabling consumers to select their own ingredients from our large collection, visit http://www.elsomresearch.com/formulator/default.htm. To try it, visit The Formulator. You can experiment with ingredient selections, product sizes, and prices until you are comfortable with your selection; there is no need to provide your contact information until you are ready to place your order.

OLD NEWS from Elsom Research: archived from our homepage as of September 23, 2007

DECEMBER 1, 2005
We now accept MasterCard and Visa for online sales. Click here to go directly to the product list in our secure shopping site.

NOVEMBER 17, 2005
Our ZormaZor^™ Scalp Booster, featuring pomegranate extract and royal jelly, is now available for online sale.

AUGUST 21, 2004
Dr. Yechiel will be speaking at the Product Development Master class on “New Developments in Nanotechnology” at HBA‘s Personal Care Ingredients Technology Exposition in New York City September 28, 2005. The topic of his presentation will be “ANTI-AGING ACTIVES IN NANO-COSMECEUTICALS: The Theory of Bio-Structural Aging”.

MARCH 25, 2005
The March issue of the Journal of Topical Formulations is online, sponsored by Elsom Research.

FEBRUARY 25, 2005
Elsom Research is proud to sponsor the February 2005 issue of the Journal of Topical Formulations.

JANUARY 25, 2005
Elsom Research is proud to sponsor the January 2005 issue of the Journal of Topical Formulations.

NOVEMBER 2, 2004
Our EquiClear^™ Scalp Clarifying Serum is now available for online sale.

NOVEMBER 1, 2004
International shoppers: please check our new, more flexible, shipping policy.

AUGUST 10, 2004
Due to high demand, Equisomin^™, our hair root serum, is now available as a stock item for online retail.

JUNE 2, 2004
Starter size (7 gram) jars of all our retail products are now available.

APRIL 17, 2004
A special batch of Equisomin^™, our hair root serum, is now available for sale while the supply lasts.

MARCH 25, 2004
Dr. Yechiel will be speaking at HBA‘s Mid-Year Personal Care Ingredients Technology Exposition in New York City April 13-14, 2004 as part of both the High Performance Ingredients and High Function Naturals symposia.