Your Best Skin: A Citrus Cocktail.

A Citrus Cocktail that improves skin tone? Yes, please!

By combining concentrated extracts of orange, lemon, lime and pomegranate, this powerful, yet gentle, exfoliation treatment is applied daily as a serum. Yes. As a serum.

Beverly Hills Skincare Decade Peel Exfoliating Serum is a gentle slow peel, if you will, that exfoliates over time, as you apply it every day.

This serum utilizes naturally occurring AHAs in fruits like oranges and lemon to increase the rate of cell renewal, while the natural exfoliation power of Wild Lime helps lifts dull, dry skin. The Pomegranate, a key component in the bright skin complex, is potent antioxidant that soothes and calms skin inflammation and irritation.

After using this serum every day for the past two weeks, I can see an improvement already. My skin feels more smooth than normal, just after applying, as if I just did a more intensive treatment. I also notice a bit more lightening of my dark spots that I am constantly working on. I am sure these fruit acids are boosting my natural exfoliation as process, as it should and is aiding in their lightening.

Decade Peel Exfoliating Serum can be purchased online through the Beverly Hills Skincare site for $119.95.

The BEST Serum I Have Ever Used: Orlane Super-Moisturizing Serum.

Really, this is the most amazing serum I have ever used. Yes, really. My title is not to be taken lightly. This is the best serum I have ever used. Orlane Super-Moisturizing Serum has earned holy grail status in my life, and I have only just begun to use it.

The serum is more like a lightweight lotion, that absorbs into my skin, immediately making it more plump. My lines appear less as they soak in the hydration. My skin immediately feels soft and full of moisture. I cannot tell you the difference it makes. I use it right after I apply my eye cream and before my daily moisturizer, though it almost feels like I do not even need it.

The wonder of this serum is in how it works with hyaluronic acid and in three ways, as it works into each layer of the skin.

Based on the latest research on hyaluronic acid, this serum activates the key moisture receptor, CD44, for the very first time. To trap water like a sponge, hyaluronic acid must bind this membrane receptor, which is located on the surface of keratinocytes.

Super Moisturizing Serum provides intense hydration in three synergistic steps:
• Increases the number of CD44 receptors necessary for capturing and redistributing water—skin is replenished and its natural self-moisturizing mechanisms are restored.
• Fosters natural hyaluronic acid productions, which slows down as we age—skin becomes smoother.
• Optimizes the availability of water by encouraging aquaporins, which are channels that conduct water to the epidermis—skin is immersed in a moisture bath.

Super-Moisturzing Serum* is not cheap. 1 oz. is $190, but oh so well worth it. Seeing as one pump dispenses enough to cover my entire face, neck and part of my decolletage, I am guessing it will last a good while. If you are concerned about the price, use it just for daytime, which is what I am doing, so I can make the bottle last as long as it can.

To see for yourself just how amazing this serum is, visit an Orlane counter and rub a small amount into one hand and not the other. Wait a minute or two and you will notice the difference and be sold.

You can shop for Orlane Super-Moisturizing Serum at fine department stores such as Saks, Bloomingdales and Neiman Marcus.

*I received a press sample of this product.

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Advanced Night Repair Fun Facts.

Since mentioning the launch of Estee Lauder's latest addition to their Advanced Night Repair line up with the Synchronized Recovery Complex, I have had a lot of questions.

In searching for many of the answers I did not have on my own, Estee Lauder helped me answer them all. Thank you to EL! While sending over some answers, they also sent me some great fun facts about this product, which makes the evolution of the entire line and the little brown bottle even more fascinating to me. 

This world-renowned and highly coveted little brown bottle of Advanced Night Repair (ANR) is a
product that can boast many firsts:

• FIRST REPAIR PRODUCT:

The launch of Night Repair created the night time "Repair" skin care category in 1982. The original patent was purchased for $10.

• FIRST SERUM CREATED:

A light-weight product such as this "serum" was not typical for its time.

• FIRST TO USE A BROWN BOTTLE:

The bottle was designed to look similar to the shape of old-fashioned pharmacy bottles to reinforce the product's serious skin care sentiment. The brown bottle coloring was used to help protect ingredients from light.

• FIRST TO USE HYALURONIC ACID:

Mrs. Estée Lauder was a pioneer with the use of this ingredient. The Estée Lauder brand was the first to discover the ingredient's benefits and was also the only beauty company that could afford to purchase it at that time.

More Fun Facts:

In one year, Estée Lauder sold 1,629,199 bottles of ANR serum globally. This equals approximately:

• 4,464 bottles per day
• 186 bottles per hour
• 3 bottles per minute

Someone, somewhere around the world is always buying one of the Advanced Night Repair line of
products. If sales of Estée Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair Eye Recovery Complex, Advanced Night
Repair Concentrate Recovery Boosting Treatment, and Advanced Night Repair Whitening Recovery
Complex are added to the number of bottles of ANR serum sold each year, the total number of ANR
products sold each year climbs to a massive 3,006,095 million products!

This equals approximately:

• 8,236 bottles per day
• 343 bottles per hour
• 5.7 bottles every minute!

How fun! Make you want to buy now even more, doesn't it?