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Every once in a while Caudalie offers 20% off all of their products! That’s great news since they are pretty expensive… one of these sales is coming up this week! Starting Thursday June 17 and going through Monday the 21st! Use code SUMMERSALE at caudalie-usa.com.
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Exfoliating is a must to keep your skin in top condition. Here are a few exfoliators that I’ve tried, and like. It’s always a treat to use a really expensive product, but it’s not a must – I find that the cheaper ones actually work just as well… although perhaps the ingredients aren’t as natural or special, but if you’re on a budget then I think it’s okay. Better to care for your skin than go without because you can’t afford a $60 exfoliator!
Fresh make this wonderful Appleseed Brightening Exfoliant, it’s the $60 one though (for 3.4 oz or $17.65/oz)! Eek! Expensive, but it’s loaded with great ingredients like: pomegranate seeds, bamboo, citrus fruit acids, apple seed oil, strawberry and plum seed oils, evening primrose butter and mulberry root. The product gently sweep away dry, dull skin, leaving the complexion glowing and renewed. The various ingredients nourish and protect, enhance cell turnover, help to brighten and even skin tone and revitalize and softening the skin.
Also in the luxury range is Caudalie’s Gentle Buffing Cream. It is $35 for 2 oz or $18.50/oz. (smaller bottle, but actually more expensive than the Fresh, double Eek!) It is also loaded with great natural ingredients: grape-seed oil, jojoba microbeads, honey, plant cellulose, liquorice, essential oils of sweet lime and sandal wood, extracts of coriander, limette, lemon, guaiac wood, sweet orange, vetiver, sandal wood and lavandin… etc. etc. This rich scrub eliminates impurities, dead skin cells and excess oil while stimulating cellular renewal. Your complexion’s radiance is gently restored and your skin is soft and clean.
Among the bargain options are St. Ives Daily Microdermabrasion and Neutrogena’s Healthy Skin Scrub.
The St. Ives Daily Microdermabrasion ($7.99 for 4 oz or $1.99/oz) contains key ingredients of minerals, chamomile, silica and vitamin E. It exfoliates to reveal younger-looking, refined skin and is an Allure Editor’s Choice Award Winner.
Neutrogena’s Healthy Skin Scrub is $7.99 for 4.2 oz or $1.90/oz. It’s key ingredients are salicylic acid, alpha hydroxy acid and hydrating microbeads. It is the first 2-in-1 scrub to fight blemishes and the signs of aging for clearer, younger-looking skin. After use, skin is clearer, softer and smoother. Fine lines and wrinkles are visibly reduced.
Exfoliating is even more important in the Summer if you use self tanning products. They will go on much better and look more even.
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Caudalie is offering their Friends and Family discount to everyone! Hurry though, the offer ends today. 20% off, use code BFF at checkout. Also, orders over $50 get free shipping and all orders get free samples. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Caudalie, it was created by the owners of Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte in Bordeaux focusing on using the beneficial grape seed polyphenols from their grapes in skin care products. They have a fabulous spa at the Chateau that makes visiting even better (as if the wine tasting wasn’t great enough…)
These are my favorites from Caudalie:
Gentle Cleanser, $26 (with discount $20.80). This is a velvety cleanser that smells wonderful and doesn’t leave your skin feeling stripped.
Beauty Elixir, $46 (with discount $36.80). They say this is inspired by Queen Isabella of Hungary’s “Elixir of Youth”. It basically looks like water with some essential oils floating on top, you shake it and spray it on your face. It is the most refreshing feeling and I love the smell.
Eye and Lip Cream, $49 (with discount $39.20). You can easily spend a small fortune on eye creams these days. I like this one because it’ s reasonably priced but works and is loaded with great natural ingredients.
Pulpe Vitaminée 1st Wrinkle Cream, $58 (with discount $46.40). I mix up my routine sometimes by using this instead of my old faithful Peter Thomas Roth Glycolic Acid Moisturizer. Like most Caudalie products, it smells so good – - and contains great things like royal jelly, ginseng and ginger.
Vinoperfect Night Correcting Cream, $68 (with discount 54.40). This is to help fade discolorations (you know, those dreaded “dark spots” a particular menace to the very fair skinned). I can’t say that it really makes them disappear, but I wake up with great looking skin (perhaps a bit more even), so I like it!
