Oily skin, mixed skin, dry skin, normal, finding your real skin type can be a real puzzle. It is possible to believe that you have dry and oily skin (mixed), and also have normal skin with a dry tendency, combinations are numerous. We have established for your all the main characteristics for each skin type as well as beauty products that fit for each of them

Oily Skin

• Your skin shines due to sebum excess.
• Your skin is thicker.
• Your pores are dilated and visible.
• Your skin has imperfections like blackheads and zits.

Our recommendations : Purifying Cleansing Gel – Hydro-Matifying Fluid – Restorative Exfoliating Night Cream

Dry Skin

• Your skin is tanned and dried out.
• Your skin is fine and transparent.
• Your skin doesn’t have imperfections and your pores are not visible.
• Your skin pulls, has redness and is sensitive.

Our recommendations : Micellar Cleansing Water – Multivitamin Mask – Rich Cream

Mixed Skin

• A mixed skin is a combination of oily skin (in the T zone: forehead, nose, chin) and of dry skin (cheeks and temples)

Our recommendations: Hypo-Sensible Skin Cleanser – Gentle Re-Hydrating Cream-Mask – Phyto Peeling with Seaweed

Normal Skin

• Your skin is well-balanced, without imperfections, without visible pores, without uncomfortable sensation and with a normal sebum level

Our recommendations : Cleansing Foam – Velvety Cream – Oxygenating & Stimulating Program

 



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Since you are cleansing your face everyday, day and night, it is important to find the right cleanser for your face that will perfectly fit you. Here are great tips on how to choose the right facial cleanser, that will not only, deeply cleanse your skin from all its impurities, but will also give it an healthy and radiant glow on a daily basis.

 

Why should I get a cleanser specifically for my face?

You need to know that the skin on your face is a lot finer, and more prone to dryness and imperfections, than the rest of your body; your facial skin grain is fine, has more pores and sebaceous glands than the rest of your body.

 

Choose your facial cleanser according to your skin type

As we have mentioned it before, choosing a cleansing product that fits with your skin type is more likely to result in an healthy, smoother skin that is less prone to dehydration. You most certainly turned to an “all-in-one” product recommended by friends, that will moisturize, exfoliate and cleanse your skin. You could not be more mistaken. Find a product that is adapted to your skin type will limit the damage and will improve your skin’s appearance in no time. Here are the products that you should look into:

 

Normal/mixed skin:Soap-Free micellar water or cleansing foam

Our recommendation : Cleansing Foam

 

Oily Skin :Foaming gels without oil or soap or micellar water

Our recommendation : Purifying Cleansing Gel

 

Dry Skin :Cleanser in the form of a moisturising make-up remover.

Our recommendation : Hypo-Sensible Skin Cleanser

 

Sensitive Skin : Over-oily hypoallergenic cleanser with moisturizing agents.

Our recommendation: Dermo-Cleanser Intolerant Skin

Another recommendation, take a look at the ingredients’ list below, to make sure you avoid them; your skin will only be grateful.

• Mineral Oils :Generally coming from oil (paraffinum, petrolatum), these substances put a water-repellent film on the skin and prevent it from breathing properly.

• Sulphated Detergents (everything that has sulphate in the ingredients)These foaming agents get rid of the “good oil” and take off the barrier that retains the hydration of your skin.

An important detail to remember: even if your cleanser does not foam, it does not mean that it doesn’t clear your skin. Make sure you always apply your moisturizer after your cleanse your skin.

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Whether it is to pull, push, write, caress or type, your hands are the parts of your body that you use the most. Their epidermis has little sebaceous glands, so they are naturally less hydrated than the rest of your body. In order to avoid having chapped and dry hands, here are beauty care tips to the softest hands you have ever had.

Your hands’ worst enemy is water. Be sure to carefully dry your hands after putting them in water. One little trick : put gloves on when you garden, repair or do the dishes.

To have soft and smooth hands at any time, avoid very hot water and choose a milder cleanser, that has little or no chemical ingredients. Since the skin on your hands is very delicate, you can as well use the same cleanser you use on your face, in small quantities.

Our recommendation: Gentle Soap-Free Foaming Gel pH 5

Like the rest of your body, your hands will need to be exfoliated once in a while, to get rid of dead skin and impurities. Opt for a mild exfoliating gel, that you can use once or twice a week, in the shower, for example.

Our recommendation : Exfoliating Shower Gel

If you really wish to pamper your hands, you can massage them with a moisturizing oil. Apply a few drops in your palms, warm it up and massage your hands in little circular movements, by pressing gently on your thumbs and palms.

Our recommendation : Marvelous Oil

As we have said in previous articles, the secret for a good-looking and healthy skin is in the moisturizing. Try to find a cream that is specially made for moisturizing hands and apply it as often as possible. For a maximal effect, apply your cream before going to bed and put on cotton gloves to preserve the hydration and wake up with the softest hands you have ever touched.

Our recommendation : Nourishing Hand Cream

By following these beauty  tips, your hands will be well-hydrated, they will feel like silk and will be healthy.

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If you want to give to your complexion, the tan and glow that it need to be luminous, here are some tips on how to choose the best tanning lotion, cream or gel.

After the long winter season, your complexion may seem a little dull, even though you have taken care of it, and your legs may seem a little pale. Why not picking up a tanning beauty product that will bring a little colour to your skin, while remaining healthy?

It is important to take your time to choose the right tanning lotion so you do not end up with a carrot complexion or any other dreadful color.

Define the colour you want

The colour you want is a key element in the choice of your tanning product. If you clearly define your primary need ( light tan, integral tan, facial tan, one-evening or permanent tan), all tanning products do not give the same results. Coming from the chestnut tree, DHA is the active ingredient in your tanning product, the one that react when it comes in contact with the skin.

If you have the opportunity to do so, test the product on your skin, you can also test its use of apply and its malleability.

To each its own !

It is essential that you DO NOT use the same tanning product on your face and on your body.

For the delicate skin of your face, choose a tanning that will moisturize and protect your skin at the same time. For the rest of your body, opt for a tanning lotion that will make your tanning more even.

Texture and scent

Once again, find a tanning product’s texture that will fit your skin type, but also according to your preferences. Gel, cream, lotion, moisturizing care product, the choice is yours. Avoid any tanning products with heavy scents, they are most likely to cause an allergic reaction.

Make sure your read the labels.

Concerning the products you apply on your skin, we are never too careful : take the time to read the labels carefully to quickly find the active ingredients, or on the contrary, the unwanted chemical components. A good tanning care product will contain moisturizing care products, DHA, and antioxidants. They must not contain any trace of alcohol, essential oils or photosensitive substances ( that render the skin more sensitive to the sun and “promotes” the apparition of brown stains. Avoid tanning products that contains emulsive products like lecithin and glyceril.

By following these few tips, you will be able to find the best tanning care product that will make you look like a goddess before the holidays.

Take a look at the tanning products’ selection !

• Bronz’Express Tinted Lotion
• Bronz’Express Tinted Gel
• Bronz’express Hydrating Milk
• Bronz’Express Hydrating Cream

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During the cold season, your skin often goes from hot to cold. In order to prevent disgraceful and unpleasant skin reactions : dry skin, irritation, breakouts, here are tips on how to take care of your skin during winter and colder weather.

Apply a serum prior to your moisturizing care product.

Generally speaking, your skin will appear dryer in winter. Unfortunately, aging signs will speed up and your complexion will sallow. To strengthen your skin against outdoor aggressions, but also to stimulate it, apply a serum (moisturizing for mixed and normal skin and nourishing for dry skin). Because of its concentrated active ingredients, a serum will immediately bring the wanted correction, that your skin needs. Thus, when you will apply your moisturizer, your skin will be protected and ready to receive moisturizing.

Our recommendation : Moisturizing Serum

Abuse of beauty masks

When the weather drops, moisturizing beauty masks (for dry skin) and nourishing (in case of very dry and sensitive skin) will be your best allies. Don’t hesitate to apply them several times a week (not more than 3 times), to efficiently nourish your skin and counter the moisture loss caused by cold weather. For more damaged skins, touched by dehydration, or skin that pulls, choose a mask care about 3 times a week, leaving the mask on for about 10 minutes. If you are in a hurry, apply the mask while you are in the shower.

Our recommendations: Gentle-Re-Hydrating Cream-Mask – Multivitamin Mask

Apply a few drops of moisturizing oil on your face

In order to strengthen the skin barrier, apply 2-3 drops of oil on your skin at night, after the serum, but before your moisturizing product. You will find on the market many oils specialized for skin care, that contain active ingredients.

Our recommendations : Treatment Oil for Redness- Hydrating Treatment Oil

Choose repairing and healing creams you can apply locally

Peeling nose, flaking skin, these little skin damages require a localized care. Exfoliate your skin with a mild exfoliant, then apply a repairing, soothing cream. Pick soothing ingredients like shea butter, for example.

Our recommendations : Moisturizing Cream – Exfoliating Care

If you follow these few recommendations, you will be able to take care of your skin during winter, even during the coldest and harshest weather.

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Even with all the pampering you give to your face, it can happen that you wake up with a little puffiness around the eyes. This small area around the eyes is a lot more delicate than the rest of your face. It is very important to take good care of it with the appropriate products.

When you are sleeping, your lymphatic system slows down, this can cause water retention localized around your eyes. Thus, it is necessary to activate the microcirculation before going to bed to avoid the puffiness when you awake. Make sure you cleanse your skin thoroughly prior to sleep, to take out all the impurities (dust, pollution, make-up, etc.). This will make it easier to apply your beauty care product and will improve its efficiency. Then, apply a specialized product made for eye contour, with decongesting, age recovery and moisturizing properties.

Apply your eye contour cream by tapping inferior eyelids, crow’s foot and superior eyelids. Then, do circular movements is eight-shape, starting in your eye’s internal corner to out, then on the internal corner on the out of superior eyelid.

By following these little beauty tips, your look and eyes will shine all throughout the day.

Here are our recommendations for eye contour beauty care products:

• Eye Contour Cream Dynastiane

• Ultimate Eye Corrector

• Apricot Mask

 

 

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Regardless of our age, we all wish that our legs remain healthy, shapely and strong. Whether it is stretch marks, heavy legs or dry skin, there is a beauty care for all these little inconveniences that can affect your legs.Here are some beauty care tips to have beautiful legs at any time.

Exfoliating : Your legs’ skin is obviously thicker and more “tolerant” to outdoor aggressions that the skin of your face. Use a mild exfoliating shower gel, prior to shaving or hair removal on your legs. Thus, you will keep your legs smooth and soft.

Our recommendation : Exfoliating Shower Gel

Stretch mark War : First of all, let’s define what is a stretch mark : it is a tiny fissure that happens after the rupture of collagen fibers, under the skin’s dermal layer. Often visible, stretch marks can been smoothen, even masked by using a particular beauty care product, that treats the stretchmark deeply. Don’t hesitate to apply an anti-stretchmark beauty care so your legs remain shapely and smooth.

Our recommendation: Stretch Mark Fighter

Deep Moisturizing: If we haven’t said it once, we have said it a thousand times: the secret for a healthy skin a deep moisturizing. Whether it is after hair removal, shaving, or shower, your legs would have lost some of this natural moisturizing. Apply a rich cream that will moisturize and soothe your skin.

Our recommendation: Nourishing Body Butter

Stop to tired legs :A sensation of tired legs is due to a venous deficiency. The blood that goes up in your leg and a part of your chest to the heart, it can happen that after a certain time, the venous system deteriorates, therefore feeling tired legs. You can heal your heavy legs by using adapted beauty care, with mint, caffeine and camphor, that will improve your blood circulation.

Our recommendation: Tired Legs Gel

By following these simple recommendations and beauty care products, you will beautiful healthy legs for many years.

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In order for your skin to be radiant and to glow all year long, certain gestures are essential. Regardless of your skin’s nature and age, here are the best reflexes that you must adopt to care of your skin on a daily basis.

Rule 1 : To each skin type, its adapted beauty care.

To take good care of your skin and respect its nature, choose beauty products that are fit for your skin type. A younger and oily skin will not have the same needs as a more mature and thinner skin.

Our recommendations : Cleansing Foam – Rich Cream – Purifying Cleansing Gel

Rule 2 : Pay special attention to delicate areas

Certain areas of your face (lips, eye contour, etc) need a more particular attention, since the skin there is finer and more fragile. Use products that are specially made to take care of these zones.

Our recommendation : Eye & Lip Contour Cream

Rule 3 : Gently cleanse your skin

Your skin care starts right at the make-up removal. In order to treat your skin gently and to respect it balance, use a make-up remover that fits with your skin type in order to gently take care of it.

Our recommendations: Micellar Cleansing Water – Cleansing Foam

Rule 4 –  The eyes : fragile area

The skin around your eyes is 10 times more fragile than the rest of your face. For its make-up removal, use a specific beauty product made for eye contour.

Our recommendation: Two-Phase Make-Up Remover for Eyes

Rule 5 : Essential Exfoliating

Once again, according to your skin type, think about using an exfoliant once or twice a week. This one has to be efficient while remaining gentle. A good exfoliant will deeply cleanse your skin, get it rid of impurities, smoothing and purifying your skin, while respecting its balance.

Our recommendations : Exfoliating Cream – Exfoliating Shower Gel

Rule 6  : Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize!

Your skin’s dermis is made of 70% of water and the epidermis at 15%. In order to maintain a good moisturizing level, pick adapted moisturizing daily-use products that balance the water level in your skin. Regularly use a moisturizing beauty mask and take of the excess with thermal water atomizer.

Our recommendations: Stimulating and Moisturizing Mask – Hydra-Protective Cream

Rule 7: Choose hypoallergenic make-up

In order to avoid any risk of allergic reactions after applying make-up that can be harmful for your skin, opt for an hypoallergenic make-up, specially created to fit with all skin types and all eye contour, even the most sensitive.

Our recommendation: Regenerating Treatment Foundation IVORY 01

Rule 8 : Beware of the sun!

Regardless of the season, choose daily beauty care products that have an UV protection. These special care products allow you to lower the harmful effects of the sun, that speeds up your skin aging process.

Our recommendation: Face Restorative Cream

Rule 9: Beware of outdoor agressions

Whether it is pollution, tobacco, stress, cold, all of these elements can harm your skin. Counter these outdoor agressions by protecting your skin with an appropriate beauty care products, before going out, and by perfectly cleansing it before going to bed.

Our recommendations: Cleansing Gel –  Daily Exfoliating Cleanser Glycolic Acid 6%

Rule 10 – Don’t forget your lips!

Whenever you feel the need for it, use a repair cream for your lips. Renew the application as often as possible, on this particularly fragile area.

Our recommendation : Eye & Lip Contour Lip Cream

Even if it seems like a lot of gestures, these best beauty reflexes will be more than useful and your skin will be grateful by being healthy and radiant.

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Whether you are 30 or 50 years old, it is important to find the best beauty routine for your face, that is adapted to your skin type and that will improve your skin’s appearance on a daily basis. Here are the steps you need to follow to develop an efficient beauty routine for your face.

Step 1 – Cleansing : Basic gestures to adopt

First of all, it is very important to find a facial cleanser that is adapted to your skin type and your age. If you are a young woman with oily skin with imperfections, your skin will differ from a woman in her mid-forties that has a more delicate and dry skin. Unfortunately, soluble cleansers can cause allergic reactions on sensitive skin. Do not hesitate to ask us questions about a cleanser that will fit with your skin type. In addition, a purifying cleanser that cleanse deeply will be advantageous for all skin types, if you do it 2-3 times a week. This type of cleanser allows your to clear off impurities deeper in the skin, to make it finer and clean.

Our recommendations: Purifying Cleansing Gel – Make-Up Remover Skincare

Step 2 – Tone up your skin

Most of women do not use tonifying lotion, since they do not know this product’s crucial role in the beauty routine. With a tonifying lotion, your cleansing will be perfect. The role of the tonifying lotion is to erase all trace of impurity and cleanser by re-balancing your skin’s pH, that is usually around 5.5. Depending on where you live and on water’s hardness, water’s pH can be around 9.5. After rinsing your skin, its pH is unbalanced and your skin has to work to bring back the balance. Once it is applied, the tonifying lotion restores the usual pH while soothing your skin.

Our recommendations  Tonifying Lotion– Brightening Toner

Step 3 – Moisturize!

We’ll never say it enough: moisturizing is the key to a healthy skin. Day and night, restore your skin’s moisturizing in order for it to be smooth, fresh and comfortable.  Once again, look for a moisturizer that is adapted to your skin type : a light fluid for oily skins, and rich and onctuous cream for dryer skin.

Our recommendations: Dermo-Hydrating Fluid – Moisturizing Care

Here is an overview of an efficient beauty routine, with all the appropriate gestures:

• Wash your hands
• Pour a small amount of cleanser in your palm, and rub your hands together to warm up the product to create a rich foam.
• Do small circling movements with your fingers to massage your face, while cleansing it. This mild massage will activate blood circulating, that will results in a purified complexion and an improved glow.
• Rinse your skin thoroughly with clear, warm water.
• Dry your skin by patting it gently with a clean towel.
• Finish off by applying your tonifying lotion with a clean cotton pad. Do not rinse: your skin is ready to receive all the benefits coming from your moisturizing products, day as well as night.

With the best beauty routine, your skin will be grateful that you pamper it, by remaining healthy and smooth.

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We can often hear that eyes are a reflection of the soul. However, the skin that contours them is very fragile and will be the first area where wrinkles first appear. Here are important tips to find the best eye contour cream. Enough with the tired look in the morning! Go with new textures and you will be amazed with the results. With the appropriate care, your eyes’ contour will be smooth, flat and soft, as if you were coming back from a week-long vacation.

Essential components of an high-quality eye contour cream

• Moisturizers :A strong player, hyaluronic acid, that allows the skin to be well moisturized and to fill surface wrinkles. For this reason, we add vitamin B5 (or panthenol), thermal water or glycerine.
• Antioxidants :Vitamins C and E, polyphenols, and green tea are opposing to free radicals’ actions, that are one of the first causes of eye contour’s aging
• Age Recovery Agents : These ingredients stimulate collagen and elastine production. Among the best known are peptides and anti-wrinkles and lifting agents, micro-seaweed extracts, vitamin C, plant extracts and much more.
• Draining Agents : Plants like arnica, witch hazel, escin, ginkgo biloba, and ruscus promote microcirculation, smooth over and and fade away eye pockets. In addition, cafeine reduces swelling and water accumulation.
• Soothing Plant Extracts :Blueberry or rose water, rose polyphenols, aloe vera and cucumber extract will calm irritations.

Choose an eye contour cream that fits your skin type and try to avoid creams that have the following components: exfoliating agents, over-perfumed products and galenic (that gives the final texture to your cream.)

Here are the best eye contour creams and care  selected by our team specially for you.

• Eye & Lip Contour Cream
• Active Eye Contour Gel Smoothing, Anti-Puffiness
• Eye Contour Cream Dynastiane
• Ultimate Eye Corrector

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