EquiDerm to Even Skin Texture of People with Cellulite

Application of EquiDerm™ will improve the appearance of uneven skin texture such as cellulite; some of the ingredients in this product are linked to lipid metabolism. Use twice daily and in a few weeks your skin will look significantly more even. Even scars will appear somewhat less bulging.

Uneven skin texture is a very common aspect of different metabolic rates in different regions of the skin. Cellulite is an example of uneven skin texture which is reflected by different thicknesses of fatty layers under the skin. In scalp, such problems are not as visible as with cellulite on the thighs or other body parts. However, many skin disorders including pattern balding reflect different metabolic expressions which are also linked to different activity rates in lipid metabolism in various scalp regions. However, correlations between patterns of lipid metabolism and patterns of balding are not established at this time.

Ingredients in EquiDerm™’s highly-concentrated formulation include:

• Nanosomes™
• U-Fucoidan [U-Fn]
• raspberry ketone
• ascorbyl palmitate
• mowrah butter [Madhuca latifolia]
• benzoin extract [Styrax benzoin]
• pink grapefruit oil [Citrus paradisi]

With EquiDerm™, our Skincare of the Month project approaches completion; the September product will be our grand finale for this challenging one-year project.

For the year that the Skincare of the Month project has been underway, our policy has been to provide each new month’s free skincare to shoppers who made qualifying purchases in the two preceding months; for example, this August Skincare of the Month is on its way to those who made purchases in June and July. As a special offer, celebrating the completion of our twelve-month commitment, we will include September shoppers in this free program: we will of course ship the September Skincare of the Month to those who made qualifying purchases in July and August (the two preceding months); we will also ship it to every customer who makes a qualifying purchase anytime during the month of September.

Because this is our grand finale we urge all consumer who did not make qualifying purchases during the months of July and August to take advantage of this special offer and make a qualifying purchase from our cosmeceuticals store or our custom micro-batch formulator this month! Whatever you are going to purchase, the September SkincareOfTheMonth is most likely going to outvalue it so that your free gift will probably be of higher value than your paid purchase. For now we hope that you will enjoy EquiDerm™, our August SkincareOfTheMonth, which is now shipping to all qualified customers.

EquiDerm for Even Skin Texture

LipoRestore with Olive Squalane: for the Skin Barrier

The skin acts as a protective barrier against environmental insults on the body. However, the skin itself is not exempt from such environmental insults and its barrier activity is diminished as it is constantly exposed to the elements. Detergents and pollution work on the same side when it comes to undermining the skin’s ability to act as a barrier. One of the most important molecules which improves and can replenish the skin barrier is cholesterol, a molecule which is usually of bad reputation when it comes to general health. In many cases, this reputation is unjustified, especially in the case of protecting the skin barrier. Squalene, an important precursor in cholesterol biosynthesis,  has been noted for its usefulness in improving the skin barrier; in its saturated form as squalane, it is more stable and very fluid as compared with cholesterol; it is also extremely mosturizing. The problem with squalane is that it is commonly extracted from shark oil, which is not something most people will want to apply to their skins on a daily basis. In LipoRestore™, our Skincare of the Month for July 2009, we use squalane which is extracted from olive oil, a more appealing source although it is also more expensive.  While olive oil itself has a strong aroma, the squalene extract is odorless, making it a very pleasant ingredient in skincare.

With our LipoRestore™ cream, rich in olive squalane, the restoration of skin lipids is quite rapid and can be noticed on first application. The long-term effects are great-looking moisturized skin with dimished appearance of pores and lines and a healthy-feeling texture and appearance.  LipoRestore™ is designed to leave a light texture on top of the skin and makes overworked, hard, and scaly skin smooth and flexible again.  LipoRestore™ can be applied to the face or to any area of the body. If you put it on your hands you will notice immedietly that fingers which were stiff and almost “frozen” due to the pulling of their dry skin become flexible and you can suddenly bend them with relative ease.

LipoRestore: for the Skin Barrier

Terminal 2 Scalp Care for People with Vellus Hair

Terminal 2 is now available!

Among the ingredients in Terminal 2 are:

• jojoba oil [Simmondsia chinensis]
• ascorbyl palmitate
• monolaurin
• L-glutamine
• L-taurine
• ethyl creatine
• L-glutamic acid
• L-arginine
• ethyl pyruvate
• L-glycine
• essential oils of frankincense [Boswellia carteri] and petitgrain [Citrus aurantium].

Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 are meant to be used together as follows:

Use Terminal 1 for 2-4 weeks on a daily basis.

After this initial period, you can start alternating with Terminal 2.

Apply Terminal 2 every third day;  the other two days, use Terminal 1.

It is very important to wash hair and scalp before use of Terminal 2 and before switching back to Terminal 1.

For both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, leave on scalp for 12-24 hours to maximize results.

We have combined Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 into a Vellus Hair Kit which includes 55gr (2oz) of each product for a special price, a savings of $15 compared to the price of buying both items separately.

For customers who purchased Terminal 1 by July 2, 2009, before Terminal 2 was available, we have a special offer:

Buy Terminal 2 by July 31, 2009 and we will refund $15 of the purchase price, as well as shipping charges. This will provide you with both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 at the same cost as the Vellus Hair Kit.

Save $15 when you buy both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2

Scalp Care for Vellus Hair, Part 1

Scalp Care for Vellus Hair, Part 2

Facial Cleanser with Emollient Technology

NanoSoft™ Emollient Facial Cleanser, our Skincare of the Month for June 2009,  is a gentle and effective low-foaming cleanser featuring:

• active Nanosomes™
• monoglycerides [stearyl glycerol]
• potassium lactate [pH-balanced lactic acid]
• essential oil of frankincense [Boswellia carteri].

Shoppers have asked for it for years. We’ve been working on it, but making something special rather than just an ordinary face wash has taken some time. NanoSoft™ is at last a high-technology daily cleanser that is worthy of membership in our New Equilibrium line of cosmeceuticals.

Buy NanoSoft Emollient Facial Cleanser at new-equilibrium-cosmeceuticals.com!

Two New Scalp and Hair Formulations

We are happy to announce two long-awaited additions to our collection of scalp and hair formulations! These products are designed to support scalp and hair facing two kinds of problems generally associated with aging: loss of hair (balding), and loss of hair color (greying).

• Many seemingly-balding scalps are not actually hairless but are covered with tiny, delicate, fragile hair (vellus hairs) rather than long, thick, robust hair (terminal hairs). Our new Terminal 1 scalp serum provides special support for vellus hair. Terminal 1 is formulated to improve the appearance of  vellus hair so, in time,  it looks thicker and longer. After being used daily for at least a month, Terminal 1 should be alternated with Terminal 2, which will be announced here when it is available in about two weeks; alternating these formulations provides  dynamic synergy and more pronounced results.

  Ingredients in Terminal 1 include: panthenol, MCT oil [medium-chain triglycerides], gamma amino butyric acid [GABA], ascorbyl palmitate, betaine, L-glycine, conjugated linoleic acid [CLA], climbazole, lauryl gallate, isonicotinate-N-oxide, grapefruit oil [Citrus grandis]. More about ingredients composition will follow.

  

• Hair can lose its color due to aging, stress, and other factors: “grey hair” is actually colorless hair, having lost or failed to develop its natural color; it is often also fragile as compared to the non-grey hair on the same person’s scalp due to structural degeneration at the core of the hair. Our new Micellarin Hue shampoo features our especially-formulated extract of bhringraj [Eclipta alba], traditionally used to prevent greying and maintain the youthful appearance of hair, together with other natural ingredients. This shampoo will increase the hue of faded hair and improve other physical properties of hair.

  Ingredients in Micellarin Hue include: bhringraj extract [Eclipta alba], jojoba oil [Simmondsia chinensis], gamma amino butyric acid [GABA], L-tyrosine, salicylic acid, cupric chloride. More about ingredients composition will follow.

  

Watch this blog for continuing announcements and expanded details about these and all our formulations for care of skin, scalp, and hair.

Cooling Cream Features Aloe and Cucumber

Aloe-AHH™, our Skincare of the Month for May 2009, is a cooling cream for minor burns, scratches, insect bites, and other irritations. The botanicals in Aloe-AHH™, including several traditionally used to soothe minor distress from sunburn and cooking burns, are:

• aloe vera [Aloe barbadensis]
• sesame oil [Sesamum indicum]
• extracts of potato [Solanum tuberosum], cucumber [Cucumis sativus], and lettuce [Lactuca scariola sativa],
• essential oils of petitgrain [Citrus aurantium] and lavender [Lavandula angustifolia]

Aloe-AHH™ is part of our lotion-potion family of simple skincare and, like other lotion-potion formulations, is rich in Vitamin C. For a full list of ingredients, plus a short poem, please visit the Aloe-AHH™ product information page at http://www.lotion-potion.com/lotion/aloe-cool.htm.

Buy Aloe-AHH to cool over-exposed skin.

(PS: our webmaster seems to think that defending her dissertation last week meant it was OK to delay announcing Aloe-AHH™ until this week…how these bizarre ideas came to Dr. Rose, we will never know!)

Nano-Meláno Skin Cream for Dark Spots

Our April Skincare of the Month may have reached some of you by now: it’s Nano-Meláno™, our latest development for uneven skin coloration such as age spots and freckles. As usual, shoppers whose purchases in February and March qualified them for the April Skincare of the Month received this new cream free of charge; for everyone else, it is now available for sale in our cosmeceuticals shop in a 20gr (0.7oz) jar for $45.00.

Nano-Meláno™ is an extremely powerful formulation addressing issues of uneven skin coloration, reducing the appearance of dark spots on skin and improving the appearance of an even and bright skin tone.

Featured ingredients are:

• phosphatidylcholine (as Nanosomes™)
• kojic palmitate [melanin inhibitor, from mushrooms]
• MCT oil [medium chain triglycerides, from coconut oil]
• sodium potassium lactate [alpha hydroxy]
• ascorbyl palmitate [oil-soluble Vitamin C]

Nano-Meláno™ differs from its sister product, ChromaTone™, in two important ways:

• Nano-Meláno™ is formulated with a nanosomal base
• Nano-Meláno™ has a higher percentage of the active, kojic palmitate

We recommend ChromaTone™ for long-term maintenance. Nano-Meláno™ may prove most effective for the initial care phase for irregular skin coloration.

Click Here to Buy Nano-Meláno!

Does this look blue to you?

Blue-Shadow™, our Skincare of the Month for March 2009, is on its way to qualified shoppers. This light cream is designed to address puffiness and dark shadows around the eyes.

Visit Skincare of the Month to read more about the synergistic ingredients in Blue-Shadow™

Spring Cleaning Celebration: Shampoo for Everyone!

It may be snowy and grey where you live, but here in San Antonio spring is well underway. We like it: the flowers are back, the birds are noisy, the trees are green, the sky is blue, and the breeze is cool. To celebrate, we have a special gift for all our customers: for the rest of this spring, anyone who buys anything  from us will receive a free 2oz (55gr) sample bottle of our Micellarin Green Scalp-Stimulating Shampoo!

Spring ends when summer begins: June 21, 2009.  Between now and then, just buy any of our skincare or scalpcare formulations, from our inexpensive moisturizers to our high-technology anti-aging serums, and we will ship you a travel-size sample of our refreshing shampoo along with your order.  This offer applies to our in-stock retail formulations as well as to personalized custom micro-batches; anything you buy this spring will earn you a great gift of free shampoo.

This free shampoo offer has no effect on our ongoing Skincare of the Month project; every qualifying purchase will still receive free skincare according to the terms of that program.

It also has no effect on our long-established and completely unpredictable practice of sharing other samples with customers whenever we want to: if something extra is handy, if you’ve been a good customer, if we’ve heard from you that you’re interested in this sort of thing, if we’re hoping for some feedback, if we like you, if we’ve missed you, if the Sun is shining, if the Moon is bright, or for no reason at all, you might find other samples included with your order.

Happy Spring!

Continuous Improvement

Every day, we make a point of finding something to improve.  Some improvements are major innovations; others are just slow, steady progress on long-running projects. Some days we improve several things. Some improvements are only visible to us. Today, we have two good improvements to announce:

• We have updated the product information page for Micellarin Green Shampoo to list the ingredients in our latest and greatest scalp-stimulating, botanical-rich batch. We’ve added some essential oils, and rearranged some structural ingredients; we like the fabulously-aromatic result, and we think you will like it, too. For botanical ingredients (extracts and essential oils) in the shampoo, we now give both common English names (such as ginger root) and INCI names (such as Zingiber officinale), which we hope will make it easier for our shoppers world-wide to recognize their favorite ingredients; this is how we identify ingredients at The-Formulator, and our plan is to continue adding INCI names to product information pages for our stock retail formulations as we revise and improve them.
• By popular demand, we have published a photograph of the contents of our Scalp Renewal Regimen Kits. You can see the photograph at the product sales page for both the Men’s Scalp Renewal and Women’s Scalp Renewal Kits. We may change the packaging at any time, but this gives you the idea: it’s a great price on a six-month supply of high-technology scalpcare formulations designed to work synergistically together.

Watch this blog for future announcements about improvements, big and small!