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Jul. 11, 2008
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True Cosmetics's Essential line turns back the clock to create deceptively young skin. With ingredients like white tea, algae extract, aloe vera, perilla seed oil and vitamin C, the line counteracts the effects of sun and aging with intense firming and moisturizing properties. Keep Essential Moisture Eye Contour Cream handy during flights to avoid puffy eyes upon landing. Essential Moisture Enhancer replenishes skin after aggressive treatments like microdermabrasion and Essential Firming Tech Cream can be applied to any part of the body that needs a little lift. Eye cream, $57, moisture enhancer, $54 and firming tech cream, $90, all available at Ritz-Carlton Spa at Lake Las Vegas

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    Can't make it to the beach this summer? Bring beach-warm color to your eyes, cheeks and lips with the metallic sheen of Elizabeth Arden Bronze Look 2008. It's one of four complete looks inspired by Elizabeth Arden spokesperson Catherine Zeta-Jones. The assortment includes Sun Goddess Bronzing Powder- Medium, Bronzing Beauty Kit for Face and Eyes and Color Intrigue Gel Eyeliner in shades of bronze pearl and black pearl. Powder, $35, kit, $35.00, eyeliner $22.50 each, all available at Macy's at Fashion Show mall

    healthy hands

    If you took a moment to consider everything your hands touch throughout the day, you would want to spend the entire next day scrubbing them. Lucky for you, our friends down under have introduced Frais Hand Sanitizer. It contains a formula of 66 percent sugar cane alcohol which kills 99.9 percent of germs on contact. And the natural essential oils like ginger, tangerine, basil and grapefruit, leave hands luxuriously moisturized. So now you can indulge in your sanitation. Frais Hand Sanitizer, $7 for 1.7 fl. oz., fraisluxuryproducts.com and beautyhabit.com

    makeup match

    Cover Girl wants to spare you the embarrassing makeup mask that ill-matched foundations create. The cosmetic company's TruBlend foundation line consists of 15 different shades intended to "merge with your skin." Each of the 15 shades belongs to one of six skin tone categories. Once you've selected your match, complementary concealer, blush and powder are no-brainers. Cover Girl TruBlend liquid foundation, $7.99, Ulta



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    Ms Greer wrote on August 11, 2008 03:53 PM: Hi! I would like to respond to 'Dr Stu's' comment of Frais hand santizer.

    Research states...
    Benzalkonium chloride and 66% ethyl alcohol are both effective anti-bacterial hand washes but benzalkonium chloride (soapopular's main ingredient) has been implicated in creating dangerous strains of germs, esp MRSA. This is because benzalkonium chloride persists over a long period of time, and can promote germs resistant to benzalkonium chloride. Ethyl alcohol acts within a few seconds, and then evaporates, and has not been shown to promote resistant germs. Both facts are substantiated by the CDC. see links...
    http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no3_supp/levy.htm
    http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_mrsa_ca_public.html

    The CDC recommends consumers use alcohol based sanitizers and not benzalkonium chloride based. Health care and food service might need more comprehensive sanitizers.

    Ethyl alcohol from sugarcane or corn are equally effective at killing germs, but the sugarcane alcohol uses five to ten times less energy to produce, so it is easier on the environment.

    Alcohol is a proven source in killing germs saving many lives from life threatening wounds where medical assistance has NOT been immediately available - this has been happening throughout the ages!

    Therefore an ineffective hand santizer negates the 'value propostition' that Dr Stu talks about!


    Dr Stu wrote on July 12, 2008 09:41 AM: Respectfully suggest that you got suckered into profiling a product that is very misleading in terms of "ingredients" and is grotesquely expensive, simply because of its packaging.

    "Sugar cane alcohol" is the root of the active ingredient, but not the active ingredient. Commercial production of industrial ethyl alcohol is accomplished by fermentation of sugar cane. So this product is no different than Purell, although a variety of oils have been added to help mitigate (but not deter) the effect of destroying protective skin cells when alcohol is applied to the hand. You'd be doing a service to your readers that like fancy packaging to go with Soapopular's alcohol-free rinse free (and fragrance free) hand sanitizer. Its truly an antiseptic, and leaves hands feeling soft. A 3.4oz bottle is $3.49 at the company's website www.soapyusa.com. When compared to $7.99 for a 1.7 bottle of sugar cane product, I think even Ritz Carlton guests will appreciate the value proposition